Valorant Status Effects Guide: Key Takeaways
- Some Valorant status effects will deal multiple buffs or debuffs.
- Most status effects only last for a second or two.
- You can get afflicted with multiple status effects in a row.
- Most status effects in Valorant don’t stack.
The different crowd control skills in Valorant affect your character in a variety of ways. It’s important to get familiar with them so that you’ll know what to do when you’re inflicted with them.
Here are all the different Valorant status effects and what they do.
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Table of Contents
Blind
When you are afflicted with blind, your vision gets blocked out. There are a few kinds of blind status effects in Valorant.
Flash is the traditional type of blind you can find in other games like CS:GO. A bright light replaces your entire screen.
Agents that can apply the Flash status effect in Valorant:
- Flashpoint – Breach
- FLASH/drive – KAY/O
- Curveball – Phoenix
- Guiding Light – Skye
- Fakeout – Yoru
- Blindside – Yoru
Plasma Blind has your vision blocked by a plasma blast. You can still see very little on the edges of your screen. Plasma Blind is unique to Gekko’s Dizzy.
Nearsight is a type of blind where your vision is shortened, and you gain the deafened status effect as well.
Agents that can apply Nearsight are:
Combat Stim
The Combat Stim increases your fire rate, reload speed, and recovery speed. Brimstone’s Stim Beacon is the only ability that can apply Combat Stim to other Agents.
Empress is a buff unique to Reyna when she activates her ultimate. It gives her a Combat Stim buff while also increasing her equip speed and empowers her Devour and Dismiss skills.
Overload is a Combat Stim buff unique to KAY/O when he activates his ultimate. It allows him to emit suppressing pulses around him and allows him to be downed when taking damage instead of getting killed instantly.
Concuss
Their movement will be severely decreased, and the fire rate will be greatly reduced. Additionally, their vision will be blurry and grayscale. They also can’t use ADS or scopes.
- Nova Pulse – Astra
- Fault Line – Breach
- Rolling – Thunder Breach
- Trapwire – Cypher
- Wingman – Gekko
- Reckoning – Harbor
- Relay Bolt – Neon
- Trailblazer – Skye
Deafen
Severely damages your ability to hear in-game.
Agents that apply Deafen:
- Seize – Fade
- Nightfall – Fade
- Prowler – Fade (Due to Nearsight)
- Paranoia – Omen (Due to Nearsight)
- Leer – Reyna (Due to Nearsight)
- Seekers – Skye (Due to Nearsight)
Decay
Will temporarily lower your HP to gradually down to one. You will gradually regain all of your original health once the effect is over.
Agents that apply Decay:
- Seize – Fade
- Nightfall – Fade
- Poison Cloud – Viper
- Toxic Screen – Viper
- Viper’s Pit – Viper
Detain
Your movement will be severely slowed, and you can’t use/ equip any weapons, skills, or the spike.
Agents that apply the Detain Status Effect in Valorant:
- Lockdown – Killjoy
- Thrash – Gekko
Heal
Heal will start to replenish your health gradually. Once you take damage, the healing effect will automatically pause and only continue outside combat.
Agents that apply Heal:
- Blaze – Phoenix
- Hot Hands – Phoenix
- Devour – Reyna
- Healing Orb – Sage
- Regrowth Skye
Mark
Your movements and location will be marked by dark mist. It follows you for the entire duration.
Agents that can apply Mark:
- Haunt – Fade
- Nightfall – Fade
Reveal
Similar to Mark, but reveals your silhouette instead. It will usually expose your location during the time you are Revealed.
Agents that can apply Reveal:
- Spycam – Cypher
- Neural Theft – Cypher
- Trapwire – Cypher
- Haunt – Fade
- Owl Drone – Sova
- Recon Bolt – Sova
- Hunter’s Fury – Sova
Slow
Has your movement and jump height decreased.
Agents that can apply the Slow status effect in Valorant:
- Gravity Well – Astra
- Trademark – Chamber
- Tour De Force – Chamber
- Cascade – Harbor
- High Tide – Harbor
- Slow Orb – Sage
- Seekers – Skye
Suppress
Anyone afflicted with Suppress aren’t allowed to use or equip any of their abilities. It also cancels abilities being used and can’t use any abilities awaiting activation.
Agents that can apply Suppress:
- ZERO/point – KAY/O
- NULL/cmd – KAY/O
Tether
Anyone who gets the tether status effect in Valorant are pulled toward a specific location and will have a limited range of motion.
Agents that can apply Tether:
- Trapwire – Cypher
- Seize – Fade
Vulnerable
The final Valorant status effect is Vulnerable. It doubles any damage you receive.
Agents that can apply Vulnerable:
- Gravity Well – Astra
- Alarmbot – Killjoy
- Snake Bite – Viper
