Agent Overview

Agent Overview

Raze is the definition of an explosive agent in Valorant. Her utility packs a major punch, and forces enemies to retreat or lose most of their health to her utility. Raze is especially fantastic because she doesn’t require many lineups or prior knowledge to find success. To master this Agent, you will need to take time to practice with her mechanics and get comfortable with utilizing her Blast Packs to get into sites fast.

Strengths

• Raze has the ability to find extremely fast entries into sites and catch her opponents off guard using her Blast Packs.
• She has the strongest grenades in the game, that when thrown well can kill an opponent or leave them extremely low health.
• With her Boom Bot, Raze can gather information and clear a good amount of space. This is extremely strong on the map, Bind.

Weaknesses

• Raze is a very one-dimensional agent, who doesn’t provide utility or much crowd control for your team. Instead, she offers many damaging abilities.
• Players can have trouble impacting a match if they don’t understand common angles and have a lot of information on enemy positions.
• Raze, like most fast-paced duelists, requires a high level of mechanical and gun skill to find any success as a duelist.

Skill Breakdown

Ability 1 (C) – Boom Bot

EQUIP a Boom Bot. FIRE will deploy the bot, causing it to travel in a straight line on the ground, bouncing off walls. The Boom Bot will lock on to any enemies in its frontal cone and chase them, exploding for heavy damage if it reaches them.

Ability 2 (Q) – Blast Pack

INSTANTLY throw a Blast Pack that will stick to surfaces. RE-USE the ability after deployment to detonate, which damages and moves anything hit. Raze isn’t damaged by this ability, but will still take fall damage if launched up high enough.

Signature Ability (E) – Paint Shells

EQUIP a cluster grenade. FIRE to throw the grenade, which does damage and creates sub-munitions, each doing damage to anyone in their range. This ability is refreshed after Raze obtains 2 kills.

Ultimate Ability (X) – Showstopper

EQUIP a rocket launcher. FIRE shoots a rocket that does massive area damage on contact with anything.

Tips and Tricks

Tip #1 – Explosive Entry

Raze’s ultimate Showstopper can be greatly assisted by her Blast Packs. Before attempting this tip in a real game, we’d recommend spending some time in a private match getting used to using Raze’s Blast Packs and their momentum. To perform this tip, the order of operations should be placing one blast pack, detonating it for momentum, then activating her Showstopper ability, using another Blast Pack to cancel the animation for Showstopper, and finally firing the rocket at an enemy’s location. This tip is relatively advanced and will take some time to get down, but once perfected will provide immense value.

Tip #2 – Boom Bot Leads the Way!

Raze’s Boom Bot is great for gathering information and forcing opponents off of common angles. When an enemy’s position is revealed, Raze’s Boom Bot can be deployed and followed by Raze to take down an opponent as they destroy her Boom Bot. While they’re destroying the Boom Bot, their crosshair placement will have to be readjusted, giving the Raze a major advantage. Remember though, timing the peek perfectly is very important, because if the Boom Bot isn’t close enough to force the opponent’s hand, they may not be focused on it.