Abilities:
Shock Bolt
Owl Drone
Signature Ability:
Recon Bolt
Sova is a VALORANT agent, who specializes in scouting and reconnaisance. Sova's entire kit is built around finding the enemies and marking them for his allies. Owl Drone and Recon Bolt are a single target and AoE scanners, respectively. Sova's ultimate, Hunter's Fury, is a map-wide damaging ability that also marks enemies it hits. Teams that like to rely on complete information on enemies' movements and positioning will want to have a Sova in their ranks.
Biography[edit]
Born from the eternal winter of Russia's tundra, Sova tracks, finds, and eliminates enemies with ruthless efficiency and precision. His custom bow and incredible scouting abilities ensure that even if you run, you cannot hide.
Abilities[edit]
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Owl Drone
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Ability: Basic
Fuel duration: 7s
Cost:   400 Max Charges: 1
 
Equip an owl drone.
Fire to deploy and take control of movement of the drone. While in control of the drone, Fire to shoot a marking dart. This dart will reveal the location of any player struck by the dart.
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C
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Shock Bolt
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Ability: Basic
Cost: 150 Max Charges: 2
 
Equip a bow with a shock bolt. Fire to send the explosive bolt forward, detonating upon collision and damaging players nearby.
Hold fire to extend the range of the projectile.
Alternate fire to add up to two bounces to this arrow.
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Q
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Recon Bolt
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Ability: Signature
Duration: 5s
Cost: Free (40s Cooldown) Max Charges: 1
Equip a bow with recon bolt.
Fire to send the recon bolt forward, activating upon collision and revealing the location of nearby enemies caught in the line of sight of the bolt. Enemies can destroy this bolt. The bolt will scan 2 times before breaking with 1 second between each scan.
Hold fire to extend the range of the projectile.
Alternate fire to add up to two bounces to this arrow.
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E
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Hunter's Fury
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Ability: Ultimate
Ult duration: 6.5s
Ultimate Cost: 8  
Equip a bow with three long-range, wall-piercing energy blasts.
FIRE to release an energy blast in a line in front of Sova. Dealing damage and revealing the location of enemies caught in the line.
This ability can be Re-used up to two more times while the ability timer is active.
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X
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Version History[edit]
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Balance Changes
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| 7.04
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- Recon Bolt (E)
 Total number of scans reduced 3 >>> 2
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| 6.11
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 Sova's cape dynamics were redone and smoothed out, while still maintaining a silhouette close to his body to not give away enemy position.
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| 6.07
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- Sova’s Recon Bolt (E) has been updated to correctly appear when playing with Bloom (graphical effect that makes things brighter) turned off.
- Sova’s Recon Bolt (E) scanning VFX has been updated to be more visible as it travels through the world.
- Sova’s Recon Bolt (E) model has been increased in size to more accurately represent its hitbox. This will not affect lineups. The collision as it travels is unchanged.
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| 5.12
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 Recon Bolt (E) Health increased 1 >>> 20- Shock Bolt (E) now damages:
- Hunter’s Fury (X) now damages:
- Raze Satchel
- Reyna Leer
- Fade Prowler
- Chamber Rendezvous
- The following abilities are now immune to allied damage:
- Owl Drone (C)
- Recon Bolt (E)
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| 5.01
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- Fixed issue with Sova’s Shock Bolt (Q) not damaging enemy traps and other game objects (other than players)
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| 5.0
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- Fixed a bug where Agents revealed by Sova’s Recon Bolt (E) would sometimes briefly appear in an incorrect location on the minimap
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| 4.11
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- Fixed Sova’s trick shot VO line so that it plays when he kills an enemy with a 1 or 2 bounce Shock Bolt (Q). The line will no longer play if it destroys any utility under these conditions.
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| 4.09
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- Fixed an issue where an unintended ‘use’ input could happen after abilities such as Sova’s Owl Drone (C) is activated while using the ‘use’ key
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| 4.08
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- Owl Drone (C)
- Duration reduced 10s >>> 7s
- Health reduced 125 >>> 100
- Number of reveal pings reduced 3 >>> 2
- Initial delay before first ping reveals increased 1.2s >>> 1.6s*
- Delay between the first and second ping remains 1.2s*
- Shock Dart (Q)
- Max Damage decreased 90 >>> 75
- Radial damage has been scaled in accordance with new max damage.
 Changed crosshair color to green to better stand out against the white HUD Removed delay on [Target Hit] confirmation text- [Target Hit] confirmation text now remains on the player HUD when transitioning out of Owl Drone.
- [Target Hit] confirmation text now remains on screen for 2s, previously 1s
- Adjusted audio on drone dart hits for both Sova, and the player hit, to make confirmations more noticeable
- Fixed a bug with Owl Drone, where the Dart Cooldown UI element would not properly update after tagging an opponent.
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| 4.05
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- Fixed issue where Sova’s Recon Bolt (E) was destroyed by Brimstone’s Orbital Strike even if the Recon Bolt (E) was well out of the area
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| 3.05
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- Hunter’s Fury (X) now deals damage to the following:
- Killjoy Nanoswarm
- Cypher Trapwire
- Sage Barrier Orb
- Sova Recon Bolt (E)
- KAY/O Zero/Point
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| 3.01
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- Fixed Sova’s Recon Bolt (E) projectile from looking deployed for enemies when flying through the air
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| 3.0
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- Recon boolt cooldown time increased 35 >>> 40
- Owl Drone price increased 300 >>> 400
- Shock Bolt (Q) price increased 100 >>> 150
- Hunter’s Fury (X) ultimate cost changed from 7 to 8 ult points
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| 2.05
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 Added unique keybinds to the option menu for flying up and down when using Owl Drone- The defuse range circle indicator that shows after planting the Spike again displays properly.
- Fixed a rare bug that could leave players unable to move or process inputs until they died when entering or returning from Sova's Drone.
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| 2.03
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- Fixed issue where Sova’s Owl Drone could clip through specific map geo and view the other side
- Fixed issue where Sova could sometimes get the voice over for Hunter’s Fury (X) to play, even though it isn’t used, by trying to equip the Owl Drone at the same time
- Fixed a couple input bugs around possessing and unpossessing objects like a Sova drone in the same frame which lead to locking all inputs or locking view direction
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| 1.09
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- Fixed issue where Sova’s hitbox was incorrect while using his Owl Drone
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| 1.07
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- Updated the physics on Sova’s cape so that it should wiggle outside his hitbox less frequently
- Polish work on Sova’s 1P hands to bring them up to the fidelity bar of the rest of our agents
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| 1.05
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- Fixed issue causing Sova’s Owl Drone to rotate slower
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| 1.04
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- Fixed jittering when reaching the max flight height of Sova’s drone
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| 1.03
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- Removed more locations where Sova’s sensor arrow was able to go through walls
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| 1.01
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- Sova's Recon Dart will behave more consistently and only reveal the portion of enemies behind a wall
- The Area-of-Effect indicators for Sova’s Recon Bolt (E) now only show up on the enemy’s minimap if the player or their allies are close to the affected area
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| 0.50
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 Sova's Owl Drone now includes a layer of sound for engine rotors- Fixed multiple spots where Sova’s Recon Dart could over-penetrate map geometry
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