Blaze is a basic ability for Phoenix.
Description[]
| “ | EQUIP a flame wall. FIRE to create a line of flame that moves forward, passing through the world and creating a wall of fire that blocks vision and damages players passing through it. HOLD FIRE to bend the wall in the direction of your crosshair.
— In-game description
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Blaze is a Vision Blocker ability that Phoenix must equip before casting. On cast, he will send forward a missile that will pass through terrain. As it travels, it leaves a path on the ground directly below it. Phoenix can control the direction and altitude of the missile by using Hold Fire and moving his crosshair towards the intended direction. Phoenix cannot use Hold Fire afterwards if he initially cast the ability without using Hold Fire.
Once the missile reaches its maximum distance, a wall of flame will start to rise from Phoenix's location, spreading across the length of the path until it reaches its end. Agents will begin to take damage as soon as the flame wall reaches an area they are standing on. The wall will always deal damage to agents at the same rate, but agents will take more total damage over the ability's full duration if they are closer to Phoenix's cast location compared to a player who was further away on cast. Once the wall reaches its maximum length, it will continue damaging any player it touches until it expires, at which point the whole wall will rapidly fall.
Phoenix is affected by Heating Up if he comes into contact with the wall.
Heating Up[]
- Main article: Passive Effects → Heating Up
Phoenix will heal himself instead of taking damage if he comes into contact with Blaze.
Stats[]
| Stat | Value | Confirmed value? |
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 Equip time
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0.8 seconds |  Game files
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 Deploy time
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0.125-0.75 seconds (Depending on distance) |
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 Unequip time
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0.5 seconds |
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 Length
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1–21 meters |
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 Damage
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1 per tick Total 225-240 |
Range's training bot
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| x0.5 multiplier to objects | Game files (v5.12)
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 Ticks/Tick Rate
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30 per second (1 every 0.033 seconds) Total 225-240 ticks |
v1.0
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 Duration
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8 seconds | v1.0
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- Values shown are only accurate to PC platform. Other gaming platforms may have different values from the above information presented.
- Values marked with
are estimated values due to them not being provided explicitly in game or from patch notes. While they may not be the true value, they have been manually tested to be very accurate.
Quotes[]
Cast[]
Previews[]
In Game[]
In Cinematics[]
Update History[]
Note: Updates to Heating Up may also be relevant to this ability.
All Platforms[]
- Fixed an issue where Blaze referenced a Harbor projectile asset for a few frames
- Fixed an issue where Blaze’s visual effects could be slightly offset
- Initial projectile goes through walls
- Now properly deals damage to Rendezvous, Trademark, Cove, Leer, Recon Bolt, and ZERO/point
- Cost decreased 200 >>> 150
- Now deals damage to all enemy objects
- Damage multiplier against specific enemy abilities set to 50%
- This is an undocumented change (see Health#Abilities)
- Phoenix will now equip his weapon earlier if he stops bending his wall
- Fixed nearsight not applying properly when going through Blaze
- Duration increased 6 >>> 8 seconds
- Damage changed 15 every 0.25s >>> 1 every 0.033 seconds
- Closed exploit where Nvidia Inspector could be used to see through Blaze
Console-only[]
- Can be set to Togglable in the Agent Profile Settings, allowing you to press and let go of the input to steer the ability freely while it’s active
| Types | Passive (list) • Basic • Signature • Ultimate | |||
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| Functions | Barrier • Blind (Flash • Nearsight) • Cripple • Crowd Control (Banish • Concuss • Detain • Displacement • Slow • Tether) • Decoy • Deterrent (Molotov) • Empowerment (Weapon Equip) • Intel (Autonomous Deployable • Controlled Deployable) • Limiter • Mobility (Dash • Intangibility • Teleport) • Resource Bar • Setup • Sustain (Heal • Invulnerability • Revive) • Vision Blocker (Smoke • Wall) • Niche | |||
| Deployment types | Beam • Emission (Aura) • Grounded: (Grounded AoE • Grounded Object) • Hitscan • Placement • Possession • Projectile (Missile) • Self-targeted • Targeted | |||
