Valorant Clove Guide: How to use Ruse effectively?

With this Clove guide for Ruse, you will zoom across the map, popping heads in no time. The Scottish Agent is the latest addition to Valorant's roster and arrives as a unique character. Wielding the power of self-resurrection, this Controller can disrupt enemy pushes with decays and smokes, empower themselves with temporary overhealth and speed boosts after frags, and even cheat death with a conditional self-revive.

Dive into this Valorant Clove guide to learn the ins and outs of the Controller's smoke, playstyle, and how to dominate the battlefield.

Being a Controller, Clove's main utility is the smoke. The Agent's signature ability, their smoke, is called Ruse. Unlike other Agents in Valorant who cannot use any abilities after their death, the Scottish troublemaker can utilize their ability to smoke after they die.

The new smoke is lilac in color and hollow on the inside, similar to other smokes (except Viper's) in Valorant. The smoke from Ruse ability is a sphere, meaning one-ways are possible when smoked on a raised platform or a ledge. Each smoke lasts for approximately 15 seconds.

Most Controller players should have no problem adjusting to the new smoke because the core mechanic of the ability stays the same. While that's easy to say and sounds rather simple, there are quite a few technical aspects to this new smoke.

Unlike Omen or Astra, who can see the entire map within their shadow and astral worlds, the new Agent's smoking mechanic is similar to that of Brimstone. Clove equips a tactical map when you use Ruse, and you can press your Primary Fire button to mark locations on the map where you want to smoke. Alt Fire confirms the smoke, which blooms almost instantly.

The area covered by this tactical map is considerably