How to play Cypher – Valorant Guide and Pro Strategies

so you've unlocked cyber or you'rethinking of unlocking ham and you want to know how you can use these abilitiesto your fullest potential ciphers one of the most involved agents in the valentlineup so far but also one of if not the strongest in this video we're gonnadiscuss all of

his abilities how you can use them in some advanced strategies youcan implement when playing cipher I'm Hudi with level up gaming and let'stake your valor and game to the next level make sure you subscribe and hitthat little Bell so you're notified when I upload my next violent video

but let'sjump right into it with ciphers abilities first up we have ciphers trapwire which allows you to place a tripwire between two surfaces that willalert you and your team when an enemy triggers it it not only alerts the teamby making an audible sound but it actually marks them

through the wall andif they don't shoot it before it goes off it'll actually stunned them for acouple seconds as well it has a max deployable range but can be deployedfrom pretty far of a distance and it can be picked up from even further away asyou can see picking

it up and saving it is very important though because youhave to buy these trap wires every round if you have around where you don't useyour trap wires or they don't get used and you can pick them up and save themthey will carry over into the next round and

you don't have to worry aboutrebinding them as you can see if an enemy comes up your tripwire it'sinvisible and silent until they get really really close to it and if they dodetect it before they trigger it they're forced to make noise and destroy it andwhen they destroy it

not only does it cause them to you know shoot it withtheir gun or however they destroy it but actually it gives the decipher a audiblein textual warning on his stream letting him know that hey your trap wire wasdestroyed also you have to be careful not to place them

too high or too lowalthough if you're trying to hide them from the enemy it is a valid strategy toplace them extremely low I've found it's harder for them to see it when they'resprinting up to it if they're not paying attention if it's placed really low onthe ground it'll

still make the sound but it won't be directly in their lineof sight as they approach it that being said if they know it's there and it'splay super load they can very easily jump jump over it and again if it'splaced too high they can very easily Crouch under it

thegetting past your trap wire and not alerting you that they are there unlessyou've heard them make noise the nice part about this though is they do haveto run to do this they have to actually make some noise so if you're payingattention and you're not too far away you

could still be alerted to theirlocation next up we've got ciphers cyber cage ability and this is his visionblocking his zone control ability which is a little bit of different it's got alittle bit of a twist to it basically you throw this thing down on the groundyou can do

it at the beginning of the round you could save it and do it in themiddle of the action whenever you want and it can be triggered whenever youwant to pretty much from wherever you want to you all you have to do is lookin its general direction and hit

F and it will trigger the cage now what'sinteresting about this cage is not only does it block the enemy and the friendlyline-of-sight but when an enemy walks through your cyber cageit actually makes an audible sound that everybody can hear and it slows theenemy down so you'll know if

they're in there this is really interesting becausenormal smokes or abilities that block line-of-sight can be very easily walkedthrough and you'll have no idea that anybody's walking through it unlessyou've actually heard them making other noise whereas this will definitely letyou know that hey someone is here and they're trying

to come through this issuper interesting because it can definitely be used in tandem with yourtrap wires if you are if you have a tap trap wire set up somewhere you see thatan enemy has triggered it and you can't react and kill that enemy once theytriggered it it's very

common to actually set up a cyber cage shortly youknow a little bit before that or a little bit after it and pop that cybercage right when they trap your trap wire slowing them down so they can't push orget on site super fast you know if you're off site

and you realize you knowthey're pushing the other bomb site where you have all your utility set upit also has some very interesting so low or empty bomb site hold implicationswe'll get into that a little bit later when I show you some of these setupsthat we're gonna go over

next up though we've got one of my favorite abilitiesin the game so far it's the spy cam and it has manydifferent types of uses what's great about this ability is it can be deployedpretty much on any surface it can be used very quickly you canenter an exit from

using your spy cam almost instantly and you can see enemieswhere they're located you can even mark them with a dart that they then have tomanually pull out which allows you to see them through walls essentially againkind of like your trap wire it's invisible when it's not in use

but it'svery visible when it is in use so be careful if you're tagging people it's Ifind that it's better to kind of use it to find enemies but not necessarilyshoot them with the tracking Dart and then jump off of it real quick so itdoesn't get shot right away

as you would expect you can see all of the enemiesthat get trapped by your trap wires while you're in your camera you can alsotrigger your cyber cages while you're in your camera as well this can be greatfor holding sites solo this can be great for you know just

keeping an eye on abomb site where you're not playing where maybe your teammates are playing aroundwhere nobody is playing because then you can trigger your cyber cages remotely onthat bomb site where nobody's at and by your team sometime it can also be pickedup and moved around the map

within the round when you pick it up yourself andhas a 15 second cooldown before it can be placed again if the enemy destroys itit has a little bit of a longer cool down before it can be used again one ofmy favourite ways of using this thing is to

use it to clear around corners beforeI actually peek them whether I throw it out and then look at it and see an enemyaround the corner or I throw it out and an enemy shoots it right away I knowsomebody's there it can also be used to very easily look

over Linna siteblocking abilities like vipers wall or different smokes that are placedthroughout the map good placement of a camera can change the flow of an entireround because potentially knowing where all of the enemies are located or evenwhere one or two are located could indicate a push on a

specific site orlocation or just stop a potential flank from happening along with the trap wiresand the cyber cages this ability has some very interesting solo or empty siteold implications that we'll get into a little bit later when I tell you how youcan do that and I kind of

show some examples and lastly you have ciphersultimate which is the neural theft this ability is very similar if you've playedRainbow six siege two calves interrogate ability which essentially allows you totemporarily find all of the enemies on the map that are still left soessentially what needs to happen is

you need to kill an enemy or your teammateneeds to kill an enemy and then there is a timer on that enemiesbody and if you get to that enemies body and you use your neuro theft ultimatebefore the timer runs out you can actually link up to the enemy'scommunication system

and basically locate them through the walls throughoutthe map so pinging all of the enemies through the walls like I said there's atimer so it's got to be used within the time period I think it's about 10 to 15seconds and you have to be pretty close to the enemy

to use it but not too closeand not only does it locate the enemies through the walls and light them up butit actually draws a line in their direction if you pay attention which canalso help if they're very close to you personally I think this ultimate is verystrong you

should almost always use it on use when you get it if you can it'lloffer your team a huge advantage it'll offer you a huge advantage if you're ina clutch situation overall it is a fantastic ultimate so those are all ofciphers abilities now let's take a look at some

advanced use cases for cipher onboth defense and offense but starting off with defense so on defense there area couple ways you can play cipher and use his abilities to your advantage myfirst and probably one of the most effective ways is the team assisted holdand by that I mean

if your teammates are struggling to hold their bomb site notthe one you were playing on by default it's not a bad idea to run over thereduring the prep phase and set up some traps or a camera to help them out oreven gather more information so that you know

you should be rotating earlier thisis a very valid strategy providing yourself with as much information aspossible is huge next is the solo site hold and I thinkthis is honestly where cypher really shines so cipher is extremely strong atholding sites solo because of his traps and his information-gathering abilitiesnot

only can you watch your own back but you can set up traps and cameras thatkeep lookout over all of the bomb site entrances notifying you and your teamwhen the enemy is there and then when you know the enemy is there you cantrigger your cyber cages and really slow

them down and give your team a chance torotate or come help retake the bomb site if you need to fall back and since youcan jump on and off of your cameras so quickly you can gather inMeishan from it react and then double-check it to see what is going

onwithout having to repeat and risk your life again then a little bit more of acontroversial one is the empty site hold and by that I mean literally nobodyplaying on the bomb site as cypher you go over there during the prep phase andyou set up your trap wires you

set up your cyber cages and a camera in asneaky little location and you go and you play support on another bomb site tohelp your teammates the goal being that you can spend some time on your cameraand watch for your trap wire triggers and see if the enemy is

actually pushingthat bomb site and then if they are you jump on your camera you remotelydetonate your cyber cages and you give yourself a chance to rotate over andhelp your team retake that bomb site whether that's saving your cyber cagesfor the retake itself or using the cyber cages to

slow the enemy down so you canpossibly get there before they even take the bomb site this is a very validstrategy if you're trying to stack one bomb site with your whole team andlastly for defense its flank watch once you've figured out where the enemy isgoing to be pushing

from and it's not your bomb site what you should do ispick up all of your gadgets all the ones that can be picked up your trap wiresyour spy cam and move yourself over to the bomb site where they're pushing andwhile you're going over there set up your trap

wires in a way that it watchesyour back so you know if you're getting flanked if they had that one Romersitting outside your bomb site that hears you rotating over you can set upyour trap wires in such a way that you know you're not gonna get stabbed in theback

without realizing it let me know in the comments below if you would like tosee some specific solo bomb site setups for cypher next up we've got offense andcipher is still really strong on offense because he can gather so muchinformation not only can he find out where the enemies

are holding but he canactually watch the flank without actually dedicating himself to washingthe flank and setting up for post plant holds which are really strong but firstwe're gonna talk about finding enemy's ciphers really strong at finding enemiesand where they're located throughout the map his camera is deployable from

apretty far distance which means it can be placed and used to clear angles roomsor even entire bomb sites before you push them just throwing out a camera andjumping on it and seeing that there's an endholding around the corner or when you throw out the camera and it gets

shotright away that's more information than you had before you through the cameraand you didn't risk your life that can be the difference between you getting afrag or two or dying next up we've got flank watch flank watch is similar todefensive flank watch in that you are going to

be setting up your trap wiresin such a way that it notifies you and your team of an enemy pushing you frombehind even if that's not your trap wires and you're using your spy cam andjust checking it every so often keeping a close eye on the flank to be

sure thatthe pesky enemies aren't sneaking up behind you is huge for your team incontrolling the map and lastly we've got post plant setups on offense post plantsetups are essentially setting up for defense but you have to realize youdon't have the prep phase timer that you would normally have

when you're settingup for post plant so you still have to set your trap wires and you set them upin a similar way that you would for defense but you need to be carefulbecause you don't have that timer also throwing out your camera and gettingyourself into a safe position

so you can watch and see where enemies are pushingfrom or if they're coming towards you is huge during post plant situations evenbeing able to watch whether or not someone's actually defusing the bomb orif they're faking it overall Seifer is currently one of myfavorite agents to play and makes

playing agents without all theinformation gathering abilities feel very lackluster I believe that cypher isone of the strongest agents in the game currently and probably the strongestsoloqueue agent that you can play with his area-denial cages his trap wires andthe spy cam not to mention his ultimate which is incredibly

powerful if youdon't know where the enemy's already at if you enjoyed the video or learnsomething new make sure you one tap that like button and I'll see you in the game