Valorant Agent Guide: How To Play With Yoru
Undoubtfully, Valorant has been one of the most successful games of this era, and players are still enjoying it. The Agents in Valorant have a unique and beautiful design, but some players face issues while playing with them.
It is completely normal to not be able to fully utilize an agent's potential, especially Yoru’s. If you cannot do that, do not worry; in this guide, we will explain everything related to Yoru that will help you understand how Yoru works.
Valorant Yoru Guide
Yoru is an excellent choice for a duelist if you enjoy flamboyant moves demanding excellent mobility, impeccable timing, and mental gymnastics. He is perhaps the most challenging Agent in that class, but do not worry, as we will explain everything related to Yoru.
Yoru’s Abilities
Decoy or Fakeout
This ability will cost you 100 credits, and to use it, you would need to equip an echo that, when engaged, becomes a mirror image. Fire to immediately activate and transmit the picture. To add an echo, press ALT fire. Using the dormant echo, transform it into a new mirror image, and transmit it. When adversaries destroy mirror copies, explosions and blinding flashes result. After activation, mirror images might last for up to 10 seconds.
The best use of his skills might be before entering the spike site. Most players typically kill the Yoru clone out of reflex, who then suffers severe flashbang damage. Now you might understand why this ability is known as Decoy/Fakeout.
Blindside
This ability will cost you 250 credits, and to activate it, you would need to equip to rip an unstable dimensional fragment from reality. Then, fire to throw the fragment, triggering a 1.5-second flash that winds up once it collides with a solid surface.
Gatecrash
Gatecrash is free to use. It does not cost you any credits. This ability has a 30-second cooldown and a 2-kill recharge. Gatecrash is also known as the signature ability of Yoru. To activate this ability, equip to harness a rift tether. Fire to send the tether out moving forward. ALT fire to place a tether in place. Activate to teleport to the tether’s location. Moreover, Yoru can reactivate Gatecrash while in Dimensional Drift
This ability is a fantastic approach tool for entering the Site, or at the very least, for fooling your adversary into believing you are doing so.
Dimension Drift
Dimension Drift will cost you 7 Ult points, and with this ability, you can play mind games with the enemy as you can quickly get behind them without them seeing you. However, they would be able to hear your footsteps, and if you get too close, they could see the blue aura.
To activate this ability, equip a mask that can see between dimensions. For example, fire drifts into Yoru's dimension, unable to be affected or seen by enemies from the outside. Dimension Drift is also known as the ultimate ability of Yoru as while using this, no one can see Yoru for 10 seconds.
How To Play with Yoru
Yoru is very skilled at lurking and flanking. He is the first Valorant Agent to have a kit specifically for the job. Cypher used to handle these tasks, but Yoru is more suited because of his physical makeup.
His mirror pictures can sell fakes quite successfully, and if your opponents catch on, you can even use the mirror pictures to reverse-fake them. Then, when the flashes start, you can walk silently behind your clones in the front and rapidly strike from around a corner with the help of your squad.
Yoru can still be a bother while he is at the location. However, he can obtain some highly creative angles with his flashes and his kit and compel his opponents' responses without endangering himself. To uncover some incredible, enter flashes using the bounce technique, and keep an eye out for lineup kings like Average Jonas.
Learning Your Lineups
Gatecrash is a signature but the most essential ability of Yoru. You must know the lineups for it. It would be best if you knew the lineups and outplays for your entire kit, as it will be helpful to you. As said earlier, Yoru is one of the hardest to play with because there are few universal lineups for his skills.
Because of that, it is said that Yoru’s methods go against the metagame. Still, if you master Yoru, he can be a great asset to the team.
Therefore, to play with Yoru, you must follow the latest developments to succeed. Additionally, it would be best if you used your free time to consider how your equipment can be used to counter the most common strategies. You can watch different videos on YouTube or the latest Valorant tournaments.
Use Yoru’s Ultimate
Yoru's ultimate is extremely useful in the game, as you will be invisible for 10s. The best thing is that you can use this ability against an enemy team that decides to push. The best time to activate the ultimate is when you are certain the enemy is approaching by listening to the footsteps.
Then when you have a good angle on the enemies, exit your ultimate and grab a couple of kills, if not a few. Even if you die afterward, it will give your team an advantage, and you might be able to win.
So, that is it for the guide. Hopefully, you will be able to perform well with this Agent and fakeout them.
Conclusion
Yoru is one of the nicest picks in Valoran after the rework, and the best maps for him would be Pearl and Icebox. Unfortunately, as the Agent is quite complicated, you would have to work some extra hours on him and make your own strategies.
You should use all the abilities of Yoru from time to time more effectively, but that will only happen if you are willing to spend some more time with this Agent. Nevertheless, Yoru can be a great asset to the team if used correctly, and you can grab some wins quickly.
