Initiator · Agent

Skye

Hailing from Australia, Skye and her band of beasts trailblaze the way through hostile territory. With her creations hampering the enemy, and her power to heal others, the team is strongest and safest by Skye's side.

Skye is a Initiator. Skye's signature ability is Guiding Light, and their ultimate is Seekers.

Skye full portrait
Role
Initiator
Signature (E)
Guiding Light
Ultimate (X)
Seekers
Released
patch 1.11 (October 27, 2020)

What are Skye's abilities?

C

Regrowth

Basic ability

EQUIP Regrowth. HOLD FIRE to heal allies in range and line of sight. Uses a limited healing pool. Cannot heal self.
Q

Trailblazer

Basic ability

EQUIP a destructible Trailblazer. FIRE to take control. FIRE again to lunge and explode, concussing all players and dealing damage to enemies on direct hits.
E

Guiding Light

Signature ability

EQUIP a Guiding Light. FIRE to send it forward. HOLD FIRE to steer towards your crosshair. REACTIVATE to detonate, flashing all players looking at it.
X

Seekers

Ultimate ability

EQUIP destructible Seekers. FIRE to send out up to three Seekers. Chases the three closest enemies, nearsighting and slowing on impact.

How has Skye changed in every patch?

All patch notes →

Skye has been changed in 31 patches, from patch 1.11 to patch 12.05: 22 buffs, 25 nerfs and 23 bug fixes. Newest changes first.

  1. Patch 12.05
  2. Patch 12.04
    • Bugfix Seekers: Fixed an observer bug where they would not show on the minimap when she is an attacker.
  3. Patch 12.02
    • Nerf Seekers: Can now be concussed.
  4. Patch 11.11
    • BugfixNerf Regrowth: Fixed a bug where it was healing certain deployable abilities
  5. Patch 11.09
    • Bugfix Guiding Light: Fixed an issue that caused visual effects to linger when equipping and unequipping immediately
  6. Patch 11.00
    • Bugfix Fixed inconsistent spacing in ability tooltips
  7. Patch 10.08
    • BugfixNerf Trailblazer: Fixed an issue where Skye’s Trailblazer leap did not get slowed by Waylay’s Saturate debuff.
  8. Patch 10.03
    • Buff Seekers: Now slows enemy dashes
  9. Patch 10.00
    • BugfixBuff Guiding Light: Fixed a bug where Guiding Light’s flash duration was not scaling properly
    • BugfixNerf Guiding Light: Fixed a bug where Guiding Light’s hit confirm sound and VO would not play when hitting Yoru’s Fakeout Clone
  10. Patch 9.04
    • BugfixNerf Seekers: Fixed an issue where Seekers would not consume Ultimate Points under certain conditions.
    • Adjustment Guiding Light: Max flash duration changed from 1-2.25s (based on windup) → 1.25s
      • This was a bug that was eventually fixed in v10.00, having first been reported to the wiki after v9.03
  11. Patch 8.01
    • Nerf Guiding Light: No longer regenerates charges during a round.
    • Adjustment Guiding Light: Now automatically activates the flash at the end of its lifetime.
    • Added Seekers: When a Seeker gets close to its target, the target player will now get a yellow directional warning indicator.
  12. Patch 7.12
    • Removed Trailblazer: Camera movement is disabled during the leap.
    • Nerf Trailblazer: When the Trailblazer is destroyed during the leap, it no longer causes a concuss explosion.
    • Added Trailblazer: Trailblazer plays the destruction voice line when destroyed during the leap.
    • Nerf Trailblazer: Trailblazer explosion now concusses allies as well as enemies.
  13. Patch 7.09
    • Buff Trailblazer: Adjusted collision so that it goes under Trapwires placed at mid-height.
  14. Patch 7.04
    • Nerf Guiding Light: Max duration while casting reduced 2.5s → 2s
    • Nerf Trailblazer: HP reduced 100 → 80
    • Nerf Seekers: Ultimate Points increased 7 → 8
    • Nerf Seekers: Seeker Health decreased 150 → 120
  15. Patch 7.02
    • BugfixNerf Guiding Light: Fixed an issue where Skye would get an additional charge of Guiding Light upon swapping sides.
  16. Patch 6.07
    • Removed Seekers: Yellow indicator removed from Seekers
  17. Patch 6.00
    • BugfixNerf Trailblazer: No longer deals damage to enemy Trailblazers or Owl Drone
    • BugfixBuff Seekers: Seekers are no longer visible on the minimap while they are still invisible if an enemy has line of sight to their hidden location
    • BugfixNerf Guiding Light: Can no longer continue controlling hawks while suppressed
  18. Patch 5.12
  19. Patch 5.09
    • BugfixBuff Seekers: Improvements made to how Seekers navigate around obstacles after they've acquired a target to more reliably and efficiently reach them
    • BugfixNerf Seekers: Will no longer debuff targets if they are intangible on reaching them
  20. Patch 5.07
    • Adjustment Guiding Light: The max flash duration of Skye's Guiding Light now scales from 1s to 2.25s over a.75s charge up after being cast
    • Buff Guiding Light: Guiding Light can no longer be shot and destroyed
    • Added Guiding Light: New VFX, UI, and sounds added to communicate new gameplay intent
    • Nerf Guiding Light: Unequip Delay out of Guiding Light increased.75s →.85s
  21. Patch 4.11
    • Bugfix Fixed a bug where Skye would sometimes make an unintended pose, seen in third-person, when holding a gun
  22. Patch 4.10
    • Adjustment Progress/Charge bars moved to a consistent location and made a consistent size
  23. Patch 4.07
    • BugfixBuff Seekers: Can once again break through the destructible doors on Ascent
  24. Patch 3.06
    • Nerf Guiding Light: Unequip time after casting or bending Guiding Light’s projectile increased.5 →.75
    • Nerf Guiding Light: Windup time after activation before the flash goes off increased.25 →.3
    • Nerf Seekers: Cost increased 6 → 7
  25. Patch 3.01
    • BugfixNerf Guiding Light: Can no longer be activated while suppressed
  26. Patch 3.00
    • Buff Trailblazer: Vision radius increased 1750 → 2250
    • Buff Trailblazer: Max concussion duration increased 3 → 4
    • Nerf Trailblazer: Cost increased 200 → 250
    • Nerf Guiding Light: Charges reduced 3 → 2
    • Nerf Guiding Light: Cost of charges increased 100 → 250
    • Buff Guiding Light: Charges now replenished on a 40-second cooldown
    • Buff Guiding Light: No longer need to re-equip Guiding Light to trigger flash detonation
    • Buff Guiding Light: Projectile now goes around corners tighter when free flying and is more responsive to guiding
    • Buff Guiding Light: Audio attenuation when cast reduced 3250 → 1250
    • BugfixBuff Seekers: Fixed issue causing Seekers to show up on the enemy's minimap even when the Seekers aren’t visible to them
  27. Patch 2.07
    • BugfixBuff Guiding Light: Fixed an issue where Guiding Light appeared to go underground when thrown directly down
  28. Patch 2.05
    • BugfixBuff Trailblazer: Fixed a rare bug that could leave players unable to move or process inputs until they died when entering or returning from Trailblazer
      • "We previously addressed some causes of this bug last patch, this fix should address the remaining known causes"
  29. Patch 2.03
    • BugfixBuff Trailblazer: Fixed a couple input bugs around possessing and unpossessing Trailblazer in the same frame which lead to locking all inputs or locking view direction
    • BugfixBuff Seekers: Seekers now work if Skye is killed at a very specific moment while casting them
  30. Patch 2.02
    • BugfixBuff Seekers: Fixed Seekers not being able to find enemies on the zipline platform on B-Site of Split
  31. Patch 1.11
    • Added Added

Patch change data adapted from Skye's update history on the VALORANT Wiki, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.

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