Vyse
Metallic mastermind Vyse unleashes liquid metal to isolate, trap, and disarm her enemies. Through cunning and manipulation, she forces all who oppose her to fear the battlefield itself.
Vyse is a Sentinel. Vyse's signature ability is Arc Rose, and their ultimate is Steel Garden.
- Role
- Sentinel
- Signature (E)
- Arc Rose
- Ultimate (X)
- Steel Garden
- Released
- patch 9.04 (August 27, 2024)
What are Vyse's abilities?
Razorvine
Basic abilityEQUIP a destructible Razorvine. FIRE to throw. Razorvine stealths after landing. INTERACT to create a zone that slows and deals damage when players move through it. Can be recalled during BUY PHASE.
Shear
Basic abilityEQUIP Shear. FIRE to place. Shear stealths after placement. Triggers when enemies walk on it, and after a delay, create a brief indestructible wall. Can be recalled during BUY PHASE.
Arc Rose
Signature abilityEQUIP a destructible Arc Rose. FIRE to place. ALT FIRE to place it through a wall. REACTIVATE to flash all players looking at it. Can be recalled.
Steel Garden
Ultimate abilityEQUIP Steel Garden. FIRE to prepare a zone. After a delay, jam enemy primary weapons within range.
How has Vyse changed in every patch?
All patch notes →Vyse has been changed in 16 patches, from patch 9.04 to patch 12.09: 11 buffs, 20 nerfs and 27 bug fixes. Newest changes first.
- BugfixBuff Shear: Fixed a bug where possessable drones (Sova's Owl Drone, Skye's Trailblazer, Tejo's Stealth Drone) would trigger the arming audio
- Razorvine:
All Random One Site only:
- Fixed an issue where she could continuously place infinite Razorvines during Buy phase.
- Razorvine:
All Random One Site only:
- Buff Steel Garden: Radius increased from 26m → 28m
- BugfixBuff Shear: Fixed a bug where Sova’s Recon Bolt and KAY/O’s ZERO/point would get stuck inside an activated wall instead of being destroyed
- Bugfix Razorvine: Fixed a bug that caused it to appear to be missing its bottom half when Vyse died or it became inactive
- Nerf Arc Rose: Now destructible after the flash windup starts rather than being invulnerable.
- Removed Arc Rose: When enemy players are successfully flashed, the audio cue and voiceline alerting Vyse and her allies is removed
- Nerf Arc Rose: Flash duration decreased from 2.25s → 2.0s
- Nerf Arc Rose: After destruction, cooldown is increased from 45s → 60s
- Nerf Arc Rose: Recalling the ability will now always incur a 20s cooldown
- Nerf Shear: Trigger logic has been reworked to make it easier to bait out. The wall now spawns immediately when an enemy enters and then leaves its trigger zone. Enemies will also hear an audio cue, audible only to them, when they enter the trigger zone
- Nerf Razorvine: Health decreased from 40 → 20
- Nerf Steel Garden: Initial windup increased from 3.4s → 4.4s
- Nerf Steel Garden: Radius decreased from 32.5m → 26m
- Bugfix Steel Garden: Fixed issue where the audio could trigger twice after Observers swap targets.
- Bugfix Razorvine: Fixed a bug where it would leave circles on the minimap for observers when Vyse died.
- BugfixNerf Arc Rose: Fixed an issue where the cooldown on Vyse’s Arc Rose was not properly set after it was destroyed.
- Bugfix Shear: Fixed an issue where Vyse’s activated Shear wall didn’t display the warning fade out visual cue.
- BugfixNerf Shear: Fixed an issue where Vyse’s Shear wall blocked bullets after the visual wall despawned.
- BugfixNerf Steel Garden: Fixed an issue where Vyse’s Steel Garden warning indicator did not properly match the debuff area.
- BugfixNerf Shear: Fixed an issue where enemies could get stuck inside Vyse’s wall if the wall was overlapping with a smoke ability at specific times.
- BugfixNerf Shear: Fixed an issue where enemies could get stuck in Vyse’s Shear if they jumped when it was triggered.
- BugfixNerf Shear: Fixed an issue where Vyse’s Shear’s SFX could get stuck playing for enemies after moving out of range or if Vyse dies.
- Buff Razorvine: Activation windup decreased 0.3s → 0.2s
- Nerf Razorvine: Duration when activated: 10s → 6s
- Nerf Shear: Triggered Wall Duration: 8s → 6s
- Bugfix Arc Rose: Fixed a bug where Vyse’s Arc Rose idle animation stopped looping when she crouched.
- BugfixNerf Arc Rose: Fixed a bug where destroying the Arc Rose while Vyse was recalling it did not respect the 40 second “destroyed” cooldown.
- Razorvine and Arc Rose
- Fixed an issue where Arc Rose and Razorvine were visible when placed on specific water surfaces.
- Razorvine and Arc Rose
- Bugfix Razorvine: Fixed an issue where Razorvine had lingering VFX when canceling early.
- Bugfix Shear: Fixed an issue where Yoru’s Fakeout did not trigger Shear
- Bugfix Shear: Fixed an issue where Breach was unable to cast abilities through Shear.
- Bugfix Shear: Fixed an issue where Sova’s Recon Bolt was destroyed by Shear.
- Bugfix Shear: Fixed an issue where Gekko’s Thrash and Raze’s Showstopper could hit people on the other side of Shear.
- BugfixNerf Shear: Fixed various collision issues with Vyse’s Shear, that blocked bullets and people while despawning.
- Bugfix Shear: Fixed rare instances of people’s bodies being clipped inside Vyse’s Shear.
- Bugfix Shear: Fixed an issue where Shear had lingering VFX when canceling early.
- BugfixNerf Arc Rose: Fixed an issue where Arc Rose could be placed on invalid objects.
- Adjustment Steel Garden: AOE windup audio integration have been updated from being positioned directly on the Agent when in the AOE to being slightly directional toward the origin of the AOE to allow you to know which direction to travel in, in order to escape.
- Added Added
Patch change data adapted from Vyse's update history on the VALORANT Wiki, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vyse gear skins
Unlocked by completing Vyse's Gear contract with Kingdom Credits.
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