The Master of Map Control, Tips and Tricks for Playing Brimstone in Valorant

This character has skills that initially seem trivial. But when applied correctly, it can actually provide such a crucial role for the team. In Valorant, this description is more suitable for Brimstone.

This agent is also not a popular character to play. Not because it’s difficult, his appearance that looks like “fathers” does make it not too much of a favorite by most of the player community. Even so, you can still take advantage of the existence of Brimstone to learn a number of things that are fundamental in Valorant.

In accordance with the title of the article above, Brimstone is a character known for his expertise in controlling the map. He can also be a character option other than Sage which is quite suitable for beginners to play. And to make it easier for you to recognize his strengths, here we include a number of tips and tricks that you need to know in playing his skills.

Steam Beacon (100 Credits)

With this skill, Brimstone throws a kind of advanced tool that can give an additional 10% fire rate buff effect in a visible radius circle. Stim Beacon itself is classified as a skill that can be quite effectively used. Given that you and your team can have one more advantage when it comes to gunfights.

Basic Tips and Tricks:

Has an appearance duration of 12 seconds. When you and your friends leave the radius or just when the Stim Beacon is gone, the buff effect itself will still last for 4 seconds. Can be filled again when approaching the radius effect again.
Enemies can also get a buff effect from your Stim Beacon if they get close to the radius. So make sure you place this skill in a fairly safe position.
Even though you have 2 stacks, you can’t stack the buff effect at all. So don’t waste your Stim Beacon skill on it.

Incendiary (300 credits)

Its use is similar to Phoenix’s fireball skill but without the self-healing effect. Brimstone can issue the same through its built-in grenade launcher.

By creating a flame effect when it hits the floor, this skill does not have as strong a damage as Phoenix’s skill. But instead, Incendiary has a much longer duration of zoning effect.

Basic Tips and Tricks:

Because it has a longer duration (about 8 seconds), you can use this skill for more strategic things, for example, to do zoning, to buy time for the enemy to push in each scenario, to squeeze them into corner points of the map. Alias, don’t just have to be forced to look for kills. In fact, you shouldn’t even think about it.
The throwing mechanism can be made to bounce. However, the bounce effect works 2 times. So that it will explode on the third contact.
Has a damage effect that not only works on the enemy, but also on the user and his own comrades.

Sky Smoke (100 Credits)

A skill that truly shaped the identity of Brimstone’s useful role itself. As a smoke type skill (with 3 stacks), he can release it more freely by choosing its placement through a tool that resembles a minimap. (Tactical Map).

Basic Tips and Tricks:

Compared to having Jett or Omen, Brimestone’s smoke skill is the best in Valorant. Apart from the reach mechanism which is very flexible, that is by simply placing smoke via the map icon, the duration of the smoke he has is also not short even though he still loses 1 second (for 14 seconds) from Omen and you are also provided with a maximum of 3 stacks.
You can get around various strategies by using it. For example, at the beginning, you can outwit the enemy by installing this Smoke near the entrance of the bomb area that is not intended for doing fake push.
In various situations, Smoke is usually placed in entry areas that are very vulnerable to be seen by the opposing team, even from a distance. So if you don’t intend to outwit, this skill can safely close the view of the enemy who is preparing to target you with Operators or other powerful weapons.
Even when you are protecting a bomb that has been successfully installed, this skill can be quite helpful to give the enemy a sense of hesitation in doing engagement. Especially if you still have more than 1 stack smoke.
Don’t be in a hurry to spend all your smoke immediately if removing just 1 is enough to make the enemy disturbed. The goal is that you can strategize to take it out again when faced with another situation.

Orbital Strike (ultimate skill with 6 orbs requirement)

The Ultimate Skill from Brimstone which is classified as very deadly. Where through the satellite, he can summon a barrage of lasers from to directly attack the area spots that Brimstone points to via the tactical map. Anyone who cannot escape the laser’s range will certainly be ready to die instantly. Yes, this is one of the best (if not the best) ultimate skills in Valorant.

Basic Tips and Tricks:

The attack area raised by this ultimate attack is quite wide. In fact, it can almost fill a bomb site area on a certain map.
Enemies affected by this skill will receive 38 damage per second with a 2 second delay before Orbital Strike is about to strike.
Even though the delay is 2 seconds, this ultimate skill can still be avoided by enemies when they do have opportunities and gaps. So it would be nice if Orbital Strike is placed when you can make sure that the enemy’s position is busy or careless. The placement of the location itself is really very considerate of the position and circumstances of the enemy team.
If you manage to make a group of enemies restrained or attacked in an area whose path is only in the same direction, this skill can be very effective to use.
If you fail to get a kill, Orbital Strike can at least still play a role in fishing and limiting the movement of the enemy team when you immediately start engagement.
Interestingly, it can also be used when enemies are planting to defuse bombs (prioritize when you can hear them starting to defuse).

Despite having at least a very effective skill used to kill, Brimstone is basically not an Agent character that can be played over aggressively in Valorant. The role itself is more focused on making it easier for your comrades to fight.

Of course, the right thing is that you have to be wise when placing smoke where your team expects both when attacking and defending. And another additional trick you can consider is if you feel your enemy can dare to enter the smoke (applies to any smoke), you can throw an Incendiary into the smoke to give them a surprise.

If that’s the tips and tricks we can give to Brimstone in Valorant. Stay tuned for our next interesting tips and tricks in other editions of agent characters.