Agent Overview

Skye is a very powerful flash agent. Her Trailblazer and Guiding Light abilities are great ways to get her team onto bomb sites and create space for them. Skye’s ability Regrowth is also the best heal in the game, enabling her to heal multiple teammates simultaneously for more health than Sage’s Healing Orb offers. Finally, Skye’s Seekers are a very versatile tool that can be used for many purposes, including 1v1 information gathering, enabling team pushes, and so many more. Overall, Skye is a very versatile agent, but her abilities can be difficult to manage and deploy if the player piloting her isn’t comfortable with the mechanics.

Strengths

• Skye’s ultimate Seeker gives her team full information about the rough location of all living opponents.
• Her flashes are the strongest in the game and also have the furthest range.
• Skye’s Trailblazer enables her to gather information safely and concuss an opponent if contact is made.

Weaknesses

• Skye’s abilities are difficult to navigate, making her less approachable to newer players.
• Her Seekers can be easily destroyed and have limited range.
• Skye’s Trailblazer can also be easily destroyed, so players need to be creative and purposeful when using this ability.

Skill Breakdown

Ability 1 (C) – Regrowth

Equip a healing trinket. Hold Fire to channel, healing allies in range and line of sight. It can be reused until her healing pool is depleted. Skye cannot heal herself.

Ability 2 (Q) – Trailblazer

Equip a Tasmanian tiger trinket. Pressing Fire sends out and takes control of the predator. While in control, Fire leaps forward, exploding in a concussive blast and damaging directly hit enemies.

Signature Ability (E) – Guiding Light

Equip a hawk trinket. Fire to send it forward. Hold Fire to guide the hawk in the direction of your crosshair. Re-use while the hawk is in flight to transform it into a flash that plays a hit to confirm if an enemy is within range and line of sight.

Ultimate Ability (X) – Seeker

Equip a Seeker trinket. Fire to send out three Seekers to track down the three closest enemies. If a Seeker reaches its target, it near sights them.

Tips and Tricks

Tip #1 – Trailblaze an Entry Path

Skye’s Trailblazer ability can be used to scout for information on any position in the game. It’s important when piloting Skye’s Trailblazer that many angles are cleared for the maximum value from this ability. As seen in the video clip, the Skye player is rapidly panning multiple areas on the A Site of Ascent before finally finding the Sage playing from under Ascent’s A Heaven. And now that information has been gathered, Skye can look to take space on the site with knowledge of where one potential threat lies.

Tip #2 – The Classic Fake Flash

Skye’s Guiding Light ability can potentially flash opponents after being guided to their detonation position. What many players don’t remember about Skye is that she can choose not to activate this ability, to fake the opponents out. When most players see a Skye flash, they either turn away to avoid the blind or hide behind cover to break its line of site. And by not activating the flash, players are commonly convinced that it will be activated later, giving Skye a wider gap of time that she can peek an angle.