VALORANT followers have a little bit of a status for despising every new map that will get added to Riot’s in style FPS recreation.
Icebox, Fracture, Pearl, and now Lotus have all fallen sufferer to widespread hatred and relentless queue-dodging from gamers of all ranks. However fortunately, each map appears to have finally discovered its place within the aggressive cycle with out an excessive amount of bother. We’ve got even already seen Lotus performed on the VCT LOCK//IN match.
As the sport’s latest map turns into part of the common rotation, gamers are beginning to get the cling of what brokers work finest on the second Omega Earth map.
Coach Woohoojin has a couple of concepts of how your crew, both in ranked or as a five-person squad, can maximize Lotus’ geography and structure to take advantage of out of the convoluted map. The perfect capability to reap the benefits of? Flashes. Notably pop flashes. Heaps and plenty of them.
On his recent stream, Woohoojin gave gamers a free complete have a look at Lotus and the way he thinks the map must be performed for the most important likelihood of success. He went into supreme agent compositions, supplied an agent tier record, and likewise broke down a couple of fundamental methods for anybody struggling.
One of many first issues he highlighted from a defensive perspective is how vital these purple areas of the map are. Lotus is one in all solely two three-site maps within the recreation, which means each discovering information along with your flashes and retaking areas of the map with flashes are essential. Because the odds that you’ll have to rotate onto a website are greater the extra websites there are, coming into into that website turns into extra vital. Having an agent in your crew with a capability that helps you do that’s key to profitable pushes and retakes.
The areas in purple are what Woohoojin known as “flash zones,” areas the place if a flash is popped, each participant throughout the purple field will probably be blinded. The yellow packing containers are the place the flashing participant must stand to throw the flash into the purple space. The blue traces are the trajectory of the flash, the trail it ought to take whenever you throw it.
There are a couple of hidden spots, like a small gap within the wall to the B website, that appear designed for pop flashes to succeed. Although since every agent has a novel flash mechanic, not all of those blue trajectory traces work for each agent.
Woohoojin demonstrated tips on how to use a few of these flash zones on Skye, an agent with one of many strongest flashes within the recreation. You possibly can simply time and information her flashes, they usually additionally give info even in case you don’t wish to peek them. Yoru may also use a few of these unorthodox flash pathways since his flash bounces off of partitions.
Woohoojin even particularly talked about Phoenix as an S-tier agent for Lotus. Not like the flashes of Skye and Yoru, the place enemies can anticipate them and dodge them to be blinded for a shorter time frame, Phoenix flashes are extraordinarily troublesome, virtually inconceivable, to dodge. His flashes have a really quick delay from when the power is used to when the flash goes off, so utilizing these purple flash zones after which pushing in because the fiery duelist can cease enemies of their tracks.
Breach can be a powerful agent to make use of on Lotus due to his flashes, although most of those zones use pop flashes, which isn’t the kind of flash Breach has the place it goes by means of the wall.
KAY/O might be robust as properly, although the trajectory of his flashes is a bit more durable to manage since it’s important to throw the flashbang within the air and look forward to it to pop on the proper second. It’s tougher to get his flashes to land precisely the place you need them.
Regardless, each agent that has a conventional flash—Skye, Phoenix, Breach, Yoru, and KAY/O—is taken into account S or A-tier for Lotus, in response to Woohoojin. Omen and Reyna’s blinds should not as robust.
So take your shot at flashing your enemies on Lotus, simply do not forget that in case your teammates are standing in these zones, you would possibly flash them as properly.
