Why You HATE Playing Smokes (and how Pros do it)

as an omen main i find smokes very fun, i hide in my smokes with a judge and wait for enemies to rage

I main Reyna and play her any time I can, but if someone instant locks her, I’d happily play brim tbh

Smokes are kinda fun but if your team is dogsht then there's no denying it

Btw something I have noticed is if you play controller agents u autopilot less because u have to actively smoke every round

As a harbor main, yes we exist and have fun

Viper is one of the most fun and important characters in the game imo

Nope, smokes just aren't fun to play.

9 month left and this video still help me a lot ❤ ty for that ❤

I love playing smokes, my aim sucks and there's no expectation for me to top frag.

I love how they made omen so much fun whilst still covering the smoker role.

but like- i think its just me but the first agent i mained was omen only due to the smokes and one ways, and then i climbed up and mained some initiators and then went straight back to smokes because i feel like it is one of the most influential abilities in the game to the point where it can stop a team in its tracks.

I love playing smokes!

Maiming omen is so good cuz no one else picks him 😅😅

funny thing is i have better win rates as viper than as phoenix because i have bad aim and cant use his flash properly

Good video. I only play Brimstone and I still learned a few things from your insights.

I dislike most smoke agents other than astra, but astra is mad fun. Omen could make an exception but i heavily dislike his flash

it shocks me the amount of diamond and ascendant players who completely misunderstand lurking, map control, and high elo info gathering. my team could have all my viper util, another smoker, 2 initiators, a duelists (3 entry players + omen harbor or brim), and they all go 1 by 1 with trash util clearing and all die and then get mad at me for lurking as if i was going to stop all of them from dying or that i was supposed to entry. like waaay too many games i get blamed for lurking when it’s my team who just forces site every time instead of being aware of where i am or listening to my rotate calls. i could have the full site for free and the team will still blame me for all of them getting laid out on entry on the other site after we gave the other team full info we were there. so many people are really fucking dumb. play around ur lurking teammates, don’t blame a lurking character for being the reason y’all can’t entry, and recognize ur not in gold/plat, the other team is throwing util and taking map control so if you 5 stack every round and run in you will lose most of your games, but it seems that’s how all my lurking critiques want me to play. watch frank, create space, look for rotate opportunities, gather info, late flank the enemy team (need 4 players who don’t rely on you and can actually get spike down and stay alive for post plant), are all very important jobs of a lurking player. some people just don’t understand

i love playing smokes

Idk about y’all but I love playing controller

i love playing controler and sentinels, i feel like its so easy toget picks with them early on if you play around them properly especially with a shotgun, and well sentinals same thing you use ur abilities to get intel whether its traps affecting them to give u an easy pick or just in general to give you info and thats the best thing to have

I really suck at this role I don't mind to play but my teammates do then they talk shit to my skills. So that's why I don't play it til it really need to have smoke. ; - ;

I don't really hate smoking because I suck at it, maybe I suck but I'm not that bad.
Anyway, the thing is that I don't want to play a passive role at all time. I want to entry and kill them
or them killing me just not waiting there.

Tbh I rly enjoy playing smokers tho I'm not good at the game I love using smokes to try get an advantage over the enamy or just help my team

I mainly play omen with bits of skye and phoenix but i love the outplay potential. I ranked up from b3 to g2 in 2 acts.

As a smoke main (forced pick or by my choice). Its fun when your teammates knows the signs on when they should act. But on solo queue it is rare to have fun being smokes. Being a smoke main is also good for entry.

I AM NOT A SMOKER😡🤬🤬

I actually really love playing smokes :D i generally lock controller on every map except ascent, where I play sova

I just play smokes to use the bucky better

personally, i HATE playing duelist and i love playing smokes because my aim sucks and i always die as duelist and smokes make the game so much easier

omen main go br

I only play smokes, not because i need to but because i can. one ways, killing enemies when they peek out the smoke. I also feel very exposed when im on a diffrent role and smokes have a big outplay potetial.
Also i always play support because i feel like people enjoy playing with me alot more...
Support W

Why people don't play smokes in solo is bcs There's no Teamwork !

I love playing smokes and it's a vital part to a team composition. It forces you to think about yr team and the enemy team. Alot of out play potential.

It felt great being smoker when your contribution leads your teams winning even though you're on the bot frag.

Common Omen W

me, who likes playing smokes: clicks

Im a proud Omen/Viper insta locker

Omen is the best smoker in Valorant

the only thing that i dont like about smokes is when im placing smokes and because my Teammates dont push, the smokes just disappear, and then they ask me to put smokes again

Just saying 3 types of smokes walls, orbs and cages

i didnt know people felt like this about smoking, i thought it was pretty fun to sit in a corner using a shorty wait for all the enemies to come out while they are smoked

As cypher main the amount of smokes that block my good camera angles from my own team are infuriating.

I find smokes super fun! I just put down my smokes, and since i did my job i can get kills and entry

Nah i picked omen first before getting anyone else, having smokes is essential for entry and retake, i just learned smoking through playing with people who knows how to use smokes properly. But now i use it sometimes during a duel to block their sight and be on a unexpected place to shoot them. Playing smokes is fun you just need imagination to use it like every other abilities, like Molly's using it to damage but using it as a tool to hold the enemy from entering quickly

Smokes are 1 of the most important roles. I don't play smokes because I suck at it, but I'm also not a duelist player. I play Sentinel or Initiator.

Every role in Valorant is important, but let's be real. Duelist is the least important role. It's the role people pick who are all aim and no brain and most of them are actually no aim and no brain 😂😂😂

It comes down to this:

-Controller players have their smokes.
-Duelists have their abilities AND the controller's smokes.

A duelist can learn to play around smokes and be better than the controller, but the jett will die to someone walking into her smoke.
I have done this, a big fuck you from a controller player.

God I love smoking so much

I love playing smokes. I am a smoke. I hate sentinels

I actually love playing controller. It gives me the chance to play a laid-back game and REALLY annoy the enemies, especially Omen. But it’s really frustrating when my teammates don’t cooperate.

The worst role isn’t smokes it’s being the planter 😂