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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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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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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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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Version History[edit]
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Balance Changes
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| 10.00
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 Gameplay logic around ability effects themed as explosions has been updated. Explosions should behave more consistently in how they deal damage.
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| 7.12
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- Owl Drone (C)
- Fixed an issue causing kills with Shock Bolt to not be awarded while using Owl Drone
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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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- Recon Bolt (E)
- Now correctly appears when playing with Bloom turned off
- Scanning VFX updated to be more visible as it travels through the world
- Model size increased to more accurately represent its hitbox
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| 5.12
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- Owl Drone (C)
 Now immune to all allied damage
- Shock Bolt (Q)
- Now deals damage to Fade's Prowler
- Recon Bolt (E)
- Health increased 1HP >>> 20HP
- Now immune to all allied damage
- Hunter's Fury (X)
- Now deals damage to
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| 5.01
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- Shock Bolt (Q)
- Fixed issue with the bolts not damaging enemy traps and other game objects other than players
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| 5.0
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- Recon Bolt (E)
- Fixed a bug where revealed agents would sometimes briefly appear in an incorrect location on the minimap
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| 4.11
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- Shock Bolt (Q)
- Fixed the trick shot VO line so that it only plays when he kills an enemy agent with 1-bounce or 2-bounce bolt
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| 4.09
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- Owl Drone (C)
- Fixed an issue where an unintended ‘use’ input could happen after abilities such as Owl Drone 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
 Changed crosshair color to green to better stand out against the white HUD- [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
 Removed delay on [Target Hit] confirmation text
- Shock Dart (Q)
- Max Damage decreased 90 >>> 75
- Radial damage has been scaled in accordance with new max damage
- Hunter's Fury (X)
- Ammo count added to HUD
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| 4.05
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- Recon Bolt (E)
- Fixed issue where the bolt could be destroyed by Brimstone's Orbital Strike even if it was well out of the laser's target area
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| 3.05
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- Hunter's Fury (X)
- Now deals damage to
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| 3.01
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- Recon Bolt (E)
- Fixed the projectile from looking deployed for enemies when flying through the air
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| 3.0
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- Owl Drone (C)
- Cost increased 300 >>> 400
- Shock Dart (Q)
- Cost increased 100 >>> 150
- Recon Bolt (E)
- Cooldown time increased 35s >>> 40s
- Hunter's Fury (X)
- Ultimate points required increased 7 >>> 8
- Fixed a bug where cancelling Hunter's Fury while charging a shot allowed the player to skip the unequip animation by equipping a weapon, ability, or the Spike
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| 2.05
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- Owl Drone (C)
 Added unique keybinds to the option menu for flying up and down when using Owl Drone- Fixed a rare bug that could leave players unable to move or process inputs until they died when entering or returning from Owl Drone
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| 2.03
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- Owl Drone (C)
- Fixed issue where Owl Drone could clip through specific map geo and view the other side
- Fixed a couple input bugs around possessing and unpossessing Owl Drone in the same frame which lead to locking all inputs or locking view direction
- Hunter's Fury (X)
- Fixed issue where Sova could sometimes get the voice over for Hunter’s Fury to play, even though it isn’t used, by trying to equip the Owl Drone at the same time
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| 1.09
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- Owl Drone (C)
- Fixed issue where Sova's hitbox was incorrect while using 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 the agents
- Recon Bolt (E)
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| 1.05
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- Owl Drone (C)
- Fixed issue causing Owl Drone to rotate slower
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| 1.04
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- Owl Drone (C)
- Fixed jittering when reaching the max flight height
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| 1.03
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- Recon Bolt (E)
- Removed more locations where Recon Bolt was able to go through walls
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| 1.01
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- Recon Bolt (E)
- Will now behave more consistently and only reveal the portion of enemies behind a wall
- The Area-of-Effect indicators 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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- Owl Drone (C)
- Now includes a layer of sound for engine rotors
- Sova will no longer float in the air if the Sage Barrier Orb wall he is standing on is destroyed while using Owl Drone
- No longer rapid-fires darts if the prior one hits an enemy
- Shock Dart (Q)
- Reduced collision size on arrows so they don't get stuck on corners when fired near them
- Recon Bolt (E)
- Fixed multiple spots where Recon Bolt could over-penetrate map geometry
- Reduced collision size on arrows so they don't get stuck on corners when fired near them
- Hunter's Fury (X)
- Added foe coloring
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