Hello There! As the ending of episode 2 draws nearer (2 days away) I have something I have a give I would like to give to the community. I'm here to share my private collection of homemade viper lineups. Here is the link. |Mirror 1|Mirror 2| Whether you have been playing viper since beta, picked her up after her buff, or have never played viper ever before I can guarantee you will find this document useful. I personally believe Viper is wildly underappreciated and is often viewed as just the "post-plant agent" when in reality she is so much more and is completely capable as a Solo controller that specializes in deception and map presence. For the rest of the post I will provide some supporting information and context to preface the document itself.

Why Google Slides?

Simple put, I am drawing HEAVILY from u/KhigenNA and the other creators involved in the sova lineup document that started just over a year ago. Here is the link. Truth be told, I had never really even considered doing something so thorough and well put together until a friend introduced me to the original Sova document. I had simply been memorizing 50+ lineups because it came naturally to me. But with the addition of breeze and the task of creating and memorizing additional lineups became too daunting I made the decision to begin compiling all of my self-made lineups into one neat place. Google Slides was used in the original Sova document and I decided to use it as well for similar reasons KhigenNA had stated. It also saved me the trouble of going through the effort of finding a neat layout and format.

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I would like to be abundantly clear in that the original idea, format, and even the layout of this reddit post are HEAVILY inspired by u/KhigenNA and I do not in the slightest take credit for the design used here.

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How to use this?

It's very simple and very intuitive. The first slide is a home page or a sort of hub with clickable images for all 6 maps currently in Valorant. Simply click one of the maps and you be brought to a page that looks similar to the image below. The shape and the location of the shape indicates what type of lineup it is, which team side it is thrown from, and roughly where it lands. Each of these icons is clickable and will take you to a separate slide full of information on how to execute the lineup as well as other details regarding it. Click the map name on each slide to return to the page with the map itself. On each map page you can click the box in the bottom left to return to the primary hub on page 1.

https://imgur.com/a/LNa2UMT

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What's in the info slides?

• Map Name (click to go back to map layout)
• ATK (yellow) / DEF (purple)
• Lineup Type and Name
• Trajectory / Time-to-Land
• Positioning (text and image description)
• Lineup (difficulty / text and image description)
• Jump / Running
• Result (image)

Here's an example:

https://imgur.com/a/pQnfZ5X

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How many lineups are there?

There are currently 101 lineups documented in this presentation. 14 for Breeze, 15 for Icebox, 26 for Bind, 21 for Haven, 17 for Split, 8 for Ascent. I do have a dozen or so more that I just have memorized but aren't published in this document due to me trying to avoid cluttering the map layouts. Some lineups are only accessible through other lineup slides such as the ones on Bind. I have 3 lineups for A site default, but the icon only links to one of them, but the slide has two nested links that take you to the other lineups. In cases like these I kept the more difficult and less intuitive lineups a few more clicks away while keeping the most rationale and "normal" one as the first lineup you see. For example I have a lineup for A Site default on Bind that lands within 3.5s of firing. Which is twice as fast compared to the normal lineup people use that takes 6-7s. Ascent has the fewest lineups as it was the last map I did and I wanted to keep the number at a cool 101 for the time being. With time I will update the document with more lineups on each map especially Ascent and Breeze once I get around to them.

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Will these lineups work for me?

Probably. I didn't have the same foresight that u/KhigenNA did and I did not perform these lineups using low settings. HOWEVER due to the nature of Viper her lineups are much less precise than Sova's and the vast majority of the lineups will work on all settings because you don't need to be pixel perfect. By and large the most determining factor to determine whether or not the lineup will work is whether or not it is a jump or running throw. If it is either or both of those then the difficulty raises significantly as the throw is inherently longer distance and small mistakes have larger impacts. However, these jump and running lineups are much less common and only make up a small percentage of my recorded lineups.

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Are these lineups good?

I was looking for a few things when creating the majority of these lineups. I wanted to be sure that the lineup was easily reproduce-able, it had to be thrown from was sensible location, had to land in a location of importance/impact, and had to land in a reasonable amount of time. A lot of the included lineups are naturally post-plant lineups and are inherently good. The real benefit here is that there are significantly more post-plant lineups than just your standard default plants. This allows you and your team more flexibility when pushing onto site for a plant. (You no longer need to tell your Sage exactly where to plant)

I largely feel confident in these lineups and confident in sharing them with all of you because I use them consistently, daily, repeatedly in Immortal ranked lobbies.

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Who found all these lineups?

I have found the vast majority of these lineups on my own. However as I have been a Viper main since the closed beta it is almost a guarantee one or two of these lineups were created by someone else. If anyone finds a lineup that was originally theirs please provide proof to me that you created it and I will gladly credit you where credit is due.

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Why are some lineups not included?

I tried to include as many of the important lineups as I possibly could, but I avoided including faux-lineups (I.E. ones that aren't actually lineups and are just simple geometry). I did this to avoid clutter and keep up a professional look to the presentation.

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Will this be updated?

Probably, yes, almost definitely. Will there be a schedule for when updates come out? Absolutely not. Can you get notifications/reminders when an update is released? Absolutely! Follow me on Twitch and follow me on Twitter to stay updated.

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Final Notes:

If you actually read through all of this, thank you so much it means the world to me. If you are new to Viper then welcome to the club of nerds! Don't let this intimidate or overwhelm you, it is really meant as a tool to make Viper LESS intimidating and anxiety inducing. I can't officially recommend using the document while in-game to learn lineups. But I can't deny that I have done it myself in Immortal lobbies. When it really comes down to it though, Viper and her lineups will not carry you to Immortal. You need to know the game, and you need to know your mechanics. This is not a crutch, nor will it function as one. But I guarantee that Viper is an extremely entertaining and rewarding agent to play.

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That's all, once again thank you so much for taking the time to look at my work. It's over a month in the making and it means a lot to me.

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Follow Me On Social Media!!!

I Stream multiple times daily but currently do not have a schedule! Please stop by and chat a little, I'd love to hear your thoughts on what i'm providing here and you can see some of the lineups in action.

Valorant: SkyeLyner#SoloQ

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/skyelyner

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SkyeLyner

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Message to the mods

Hopefully none of this post is in violation of the posted rules to the subreddit. I read through the rules myself and tried to keep things healthy for the subreddit. I am not a very fluent redditor and spend 90% of my time lurking here. So formatting and other courtesies I may miss out on and I sincerely apologize for that. I have put a significant amount of effort to not only create this post but all the behind the scenes work on the document itself as I am working completely alone. If I did in any way break the rules I ask only that you notify me privately before taking down the post and I will immediately rectify the issue without question. Thank you for your time and your effort as moderators of this community.