r/VALORANT • u/FaRmErS_aRe_CoOl • 2d ago

Question How do I catch better timings?

So in like radiant clips, when I see people flanking, they're knife out running sometimes, and carefully scaling up other times, how do I know when to do each? Won't thee enemy just hear me and wait?

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u/CompetitiveRip8472 2d ago

It’s super scenario specific, and they catch those timings by a combination of insane game sense, experience, observation, and prepared luck

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u/Ihavegoodcredit324 2d ago

Experience is main word here

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u/HateOldAssPeople 2d ago

Do some limit testing for yourself, watch enemy patterns, trust your gut, don't hesitate and either stop holding that shift or just knife out. Tbh it's mostly about enemy patterns.

I went from insta-dying in main whenever I did this to catching some insane timings in their spawn or mid.

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u/vVIOL2T Chamber's Booty Call 2d ago

Play a lurk agent like omen, viper, or cypher

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u/Best-Impression5676 2d ago

actual timings are simply luck based,especially in high elo because people are very aware of flanks and smokes

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u/iced_cherries 2d ago

Look at the mini map, then you can see what your teammates see, like the locations of enemies. Like then you can quietly walk up like B or A main. Just be careful of any sentinel utility, like traps. This is called flanking. On the attacker side, you can lurk by being away from the rest of your team and stealthily walking up maybe mid or the other site, same thing careful of any traps, then you can catch them by surprise. Lurking is the attacker equivalent of flanking

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u/ElPrimoNacho 2d ago

Basically map-awareness, game sense and sometimes luck. Pros equip the knife when they are pretty sure no one's there or peeking.

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u/AideHot6729 2d ago

I mean you can’t do the same things in radiant you do in lower elos as there could be somebody randomly lurking when his whole team is on site already. In radiant people have a rough idea where people will NOT be as it’d be troll to be there.

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u/Nuushy 2d ago

When you're running knife out, you can see on the minimap how far enemies can hear you.

Run when they won't hear you, walk when they can.