Huge props to SugarZero for single-handedly convincing most of the valorant community that astra is still a great pick after her nerfs during their Masters Reykjavik run. I probably would have dropped astra completely if it wasn't for him especially on how good this agent is at Pearl.
I absolutely have to say that the quality, consistency and passion put into every one of your videos is truly unbelievable, I hope you really start gaining some serious attention as Valorant gains a bigger audience over time, keep it up TMV!
Recalling is such an effective tool that I hardly see any Astra players utilize in their games. Using it like a jett smoke to get out of dangerous positions is a great way to describe how it can be used.
Damn, this “Thinking Man’s Valorant” guy must be really good if he is promoting his course more than even the coach for G2. I wonder what his course would look like
Tbh Astra looks like "The agent that breaks Valorant but no one knows it". I play pretty much the same way as 14:53 (but hardstuck s3 lmao), and I think still to this day, smokes seem terribly underrated as a contact method. Especially, smoking in the middle of a battle area can have an absurd impact, either by hiding in it or peek at one side of the smoke (And beware of bucky + close range smoke)... excepted teamates are unlikely to be able to use this kind of contact smoke, so that's more a thing to use when there're not many alive. As an Astra player, switching to any other agent feels so powerless, because she can just do an illegal amount of things. Also the best agent when it comes to watch the butt of that one player who instantly pushes on defense (People say higher rank is harder, but radiants never get matchmaked with 4 no-com dudes against a full com team). I think many players got feared by the nerf... for real, the old astra allowed to just spam stars randomly, while having one less and higher cooldown simply requires to optimize their use. Of course, that's the kind of agent to pick if one can really exploit all of her abilities. If not, better go Brim or Omen.
You can also use recalling stars as a way to more safely swing an angle. You can't do it too many times in one game, but you can swing into a recalled star's smoke, count so you know when it will fade exactly, and then get the jump on an OPer because 1) you potentially aren't where their crosshair is, and 2) they probably won't realise it's a recall. Also works way better if you have an OP too, because you need to kill them pretty quickly to get it to work. The only thing it does is essentially give a very minor peeker's advantage.
That's the thing with Astra : her tricks only work a few times, but she has so many of them that she can just keep using new ones over and over and keep up for the whole game lmao
This works well in coordinated play, but as an smokes main, your team can just decide to run in so I have to be ready to smoke. Recalling too much doesn’t fit in ranked that well
i cannot tell you how many times i died because i thought the recall smoke was a real smoke, i pushed in the smoke ready to flash, but it was a recall smoke and im wide in the open with utility out, got gunned down immediately
I would lean more toward the faster cooldowns, it keeps her skill ceiling high and means she can't just smoke every choke on low elo defense. Pushing players to do more mid round star placements and uses to get the best out of her. Increasing her risk reward
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Huge props to SugarZero for single-handedly convincing most of the valorant community that astra is still a great pick after her nerfs during their Masters Reykjavik run. I probably would have dropped astra completely if it wasn't for him especially on how good this agent is at Pearl.
Ayrin played it very well on pearl on defense in champions
yeah astra is still good. all the nerfs did was stop her from being game breaking.
SugarZero is the astra goat
@@donut9600 but still I think that riot should a bit decrease Astra cooldown for suck, concuss and recall star... Just little decrease
Yeah SugarZero has popularized a lot of strats. The one that comes to mind isntantly is the Haven A site smoke.
I absolutely have to say that the quality, consistency and passion put into every one of your videos is truly unbelievable, I hope you really start gaining some serious attention as Valorant gains a bigger audience over time, keep it up TMV!
Recalling is such an effective tool that I hardly see any Astra players utilize in their games. Using it like a jett smoke to get out of dangerous positions is a great way to describe how it can be used.
Damn, this “Thinking Man’s Valorant” guy must be really good if he is promoting his course more than even the coach for G2. I wonder what his course would look like
I heckin love Astra!
One of these for cypher in organized play would be GOATed
Tbh Astra looks like "The agent that breaks Valorant but no one knows it".
I play pretty much the same way as 14:53 (but hardstuck s3 lmao), and I think still to this day, smokes seem terribly underrated as a contact method. Especially, smoking in the middle of a battle area can have an absurd impact, either by hiding in it or peek at one side of the smoke (And beware of bucky + close range smoke)... excepted teamates are unlikely to be able to use this kind of contact smoke, so that's more a thing to use when there're not many alive.
As an Astra player, switching to any other agent feels so powerless, because she can just do an illegal amount of things. Also the best agent when it comes to watch the butt of that one player who instantly pushes on defense (People say higher rank is harder, but radiants never get matchmaked with 4 no-com dudes against a full com team).
I think many players got feared by the nerf... for real, the old astra allowed to just spam stars randomly, while having one less and higher cooldown simply requires to optimize their use.
Of course, that's the kind of agent to pick if one can really exploit all of her abilities. If not, better go Brim or Omen.
True. When youre used to impact the whole map from everywhere, switching agents feels like you're limited in your options
You can also use recalling stars as a way to more safely swing an angle. You can't do it too many times in one game, but you can swing into a recalled star's smoke, count so you know when it will fade exactly, and then get the jump on an OPer because 1) you potentially aren't where their crosshair is, and 2) they probably won't realise it's a recall. Also works way better if you have an OP too, because you need to kill them pretty quickly to get it to work. The only thing it does is essentially give a very minor peeker's advantage.
That's the thing with Astra : her tricks only work a few times, but she has so many of them that she can just keep using new ones over and over and keep up for the whole game lmao
Just won 2 games on Astra before this video, definitely trying these in my ranked games
You should've included rat smokes e.g. Sscary's Haven garage smoke
That's not really Astra exclusive though, that's just a general controller play.
astra meta was one of the most consistent ones after chamber before the nerfs
I would love it if you can make this a series and maybe do chamber next!
Chamber is not very complicated if you have a functioning brain.
click on heads or bodies if u op
put your trap behind, put 1 tp behind safe wall and second one somewhere close to you, go out and hs but if you miss then tp. Simple as that.
Astra only needs the simultaneous smoke recharge. Nothing else
Such an underrated agent
funny that you posted this on the same day I got my first ever astra ace, this was really helpful!!
I've been doing the attacking pearl star since the map came out, funny to think pros started using it now.
i been doing it with my viper orb :)
I miss my recall everytime I play any other controller
This works well in coordinated play, but as an smokes main, your team can just decide to run in so I have to be ready to smoke. Recalling too much doesn’t fit in ranked that well
Recalling works pretty well selfishly to agro peak something and use it to get to safety
Yeah you gotta use it selfishly in solo q. Nice to use it in coordination with a duo tho.
is this the first time we have seen him ingame?
thanks so much for this giuide
i cannot tell you how many times i died because i thought the recall smoke was a real smoke, i pushed in the smoke ready to flash, but it was a recall smoke and im wide in the open with utility out, got gunned down immediately
Who is that Thinking Man's Valorant in the Gosu Camp?
For the example on pearl, how viable would vipers smoke orb be for this. Given u have a lineup from spawn or something
Fuck it let's go ill do it
Astra should get either the 5th star back OR get lower cooldowns for her util and recall
I would lean more toward the faster cooldowns, it keeps her skill ceiling high and means she can't just smoke every choke on low elo defense. Pushing players to do more mid round star placements and uses to get the best out of her. Increasing her risk reward
Hits less for 150 without even aiming at him lul
Nice
Okay Mr Plat