Valorant Brimstone: Key Takeaways
- Valorant Brimstone skills: Stim Beacon, Incendiary, Sky Smoke, Orbital Strike.
- Your goal on Attackers as Brimstone: Block vision using your smokes, delay spike defuses, and get ready to trade your entry fraggers.
- Your goal on Defenders as Brimstone: Delay early pushes using your Incendiary or smokes, deny vision and information using Sky Smoke, and lead retakes with Stim Beacon.
- Your Stim Beacon is a great way to initiate fights and enter sites.
- Use your utility to delay Spike defuses.
Brimstone is one of the easiest Controllers you can use in Valorant. However, he can still be effective and can even rival other more complicated Controllers.
Find out how you can maximize your play using our Valorant Brimstone guide.
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Stack Your Incendiary and Orbital Strike
Brimstone’s Incendiary and Orbital Strike are some of the best tools for delaying Spike defuses in the game. They cover a lot of space, take a lot of time, and deal a lot of damage. What more can you ask for in a post-plant ability?
Something you can do to delay the Spike defuse for longer is stacking them together. You can use your Orbital Strike on the first tap, then follow up with an Incendiary. This is super effective if you have lineups on your molly. However, it’s essential that you stay alive, so try to play as far back as you can.
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Don’t Waste Your Smokes on Fakes
Brimstone’s smokes are the widest and longest-lasting smokes in Valorant. This gives him a huge advantage against other Controllers. However, one downside is that you are only limited to a maximum of three smokes per round. Once you use them, you’re out for the remaining time.
This is why Brimstone isn’t as great at faking site attacks like an Omen or Astra. Instead of wasting smokes on a fake, you can try to ask an ally like a Killjoy to use their ultimate or a Sage to use their wall to fake sites instead.
Try to Leave a Smoke for Post-Plant Plays
Most new Valorant Brimstone players go all out and use all three smokes during executes. While this blocks a ton of vision, it might be unnecessary at times. Sometimes leaving a smoke for post-plant is more important than being able to cover more areas during executes.
More often than not, two smokes are enough to get control of the site, especially with Brim’s wider coverage. This leaves you with one more than you can use to deny enemies from retaking the site or to help you retake the site yourself. Proper smoke placement is key, and more isn’t always better.
Keep Time and Resmoke
Brimstone’s smokes last for a little over 19 seconds. This is an crucial number that you should always keep track of whenever you’re using Brimstone. You can keep count in your head or do quick maths using the round timer. To make things easier, you can just subtract 20 from the timer and add another second.
Knowing when your smoke is about to run out is an essential skill that you should know as a Valorant Brimstone main. It allows you to properly resmoke whenever it’s about to disappear and continuously stall enemies from taking space.
The Best Ways to Effectively Use Brimstone When Attacking
- Place your smoke near the edge of walls or objects to ensure that enemies don’t have extra cover when peeking out of your smokes.
- Follow your smokes up with your molly to prevent sneaky plays. It’s perfect for areas like A heaven on Ascent, garage on Haven, and art on Pearl, among others.
- Throw your Stim Beacon whenever your team is going to enter the site.
The Best Ways to Effectively Use Brimstone When Defending
- Deploy your smokes one at a time, especially for sites with only one main entrance.
- Use your ultimate in tight spaces to force enemies out of cover when retaking sites.
- You can use your Stim Beacon to engage in fights when retaking, similar to how you use it when attacking.
