Agent Overview

Yoru is an extremely flashy and tricky agent in Valorant. His abilities are extremely disruptive, and with enough creativity can single-handedly win games. While his kit is very strong, Yoru is an agent that takes a lot of time and practice to perfect. His ability Fakeout has the potential to confuse and blind your opponents, and his other abilities can be used to teleport into advantageous positions. All Yoru mains should be eager to learn new combinations with his abilities and practice them in unrated matches to get comfortable with the mechanics.

Strengths

• Yoru is the trickiest agent in Valorant, with many abilities enabling him to outplay his opponents.
• His Blindside flash is quick deploying and difficult to dodge when placed properly.
• Yoru’s ultimate, Dimensional Rift, enables him to safely gather information about enemy positions and ping them for his teammates.

Weaknesses

• Yoru requires a high level of creativity to find success because of how used to his play style the community has become.
• Players can struggle to win games if they lurk too hard, and their teammates cannot take sites alone.
• Yoru’s Gatecrash ability can be watched by opponents and end up misleading Yoru players into a false sense of security when teleporting out of bad situations.

Skill Breakdown

Ability 1 (C) – Fakeout

Equip an echo that transforms into a mirror image of Yoru when activated. Fire to instantly activate the mirror image and send it forward. Alt-Fire places an inactive echo, and use to transform an inactive echo into a mirror image and send it forward. Mirror images explode in a blinding flash when destroyed by enemies.

Ability 2 (Q) – Blindside

Fire to throw the fragment, activating a flash that winds up once it collides with a hard surface.

Signature Ability (E) – Gatecrash

Equip a rift tether. Fire to send the tether forward, and Alt-Fire to place a stationary tether. Activate to teleport to the tether’s location, or press your use keybind to trigger a fake teleport

Ultimate Ability (X) – Dimensional Rift

Equip a mask that can see between dimensions. Fire to drift into Yoru’s dimension, unable to be affected or seen by enemies from the outside. Activate this ability again to get back into the action with a short animation.

Tips and Tricks

Tip #1 – Acting as the Clone

One tip for Yoru players looking to outsmart their opponents is when Yoru acts like his clone. What this means is that Yoru walks in a straight line with the same gun out, not moving his crosshair and walking through his opponents. This play is very dangerous because opponents (especially if they’re inexperienced and lower level) may just shoot the Yoru player. When this tip does work, though, it can yield massive results and lead to a quick and easy round win.

Tip #2 – Combo Crashing

Yoru’s abilities, Gatecrash and Blindside, can be used very well in conjunction with one another. To perform this tip, activate Yoru’s Gatecrash ability and wait for it to arrive at the desired teleport location. Then, when ready to activate the Gatecrash, Yoru should deploy his Blindside ability and instantly activate Gatecrash to teleport. When performed properly, Yoru will teleport, and the audio will be masked with the audio of his Blindside flash. Be careful not to teleport too far away, or the audio will not be masked very well.

Tip #3 – Flashing From the Rift

When using Yoru’s ultimate ability Dimensional Rift, remember that you can still use your other abilities. One way to reap the benefits of this ability is by locating an enemy player in your ultimate, throwing a flash, and then immediately coming out of your ultimate in an advantageous position. This is one of Yoru’s easiest ways to get a pick after using the ultimate to gain information around the map.