Cypher

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**Cypher** (Arabic: سايفر; codename **Gumshoe**, real name **Aamir**) is an Agent in *VALORANT*.

## Profile

### Biography

If intel is your thing, then Cypher might be your agent. This Moroccan surveillance agent has abilities that trap and reveal the locations of enemies that get stuck in them, as well as an actual spycam that he can place on the map to watch the action from afar. His ultimate extracts information from a fresh enemy corpse to temporarily reveal the location of remaining players on the opposing team .

### Personality

— Cypher (Match Start)

Cypher is constantly gathering secrets, information, and intel, to the point of managing to retrieve the passwords of everyone in the Valorant Protocol. He keeps most of this information to himself, making sure that no one ever discovers them and only revealing anything he knows for a price. In contrast of how he knows a lot about his allies, they do not know much about him, and he prefers to keep it that way.

While Cypher has a history of being a killer, he has shown to have warmer ties with some of the agents in the Protocol, to the point of referring to them by nicknames. He is also known to be rather cheeky, and tends to take parts or tools from his fellow agents whenever he needs them, often informing them later on that he has done so rather than asking them if he can use them beforehand.

### Appearance

Cypher wears a hat with an antenna attached to it. This device is what's used to locate and transmit the locations of enemies when Neural Theft is used as it floats over the body at Cypher's command. He wears an overcoat where he keeps his utility stored and always has a mask on to keep his face hidden. This mask is high tech and vision-specific.

## Abilities

### Basic

C – Trapwire
Berkas:Trapwire.png
EQUIP a trapwire. FIRE to place a destructible and covert tripwire at the targeted location, creating a line that spans between the placed location and the wall opposite. Enemy players who cross a tripwire will be tethered, revealed, and dazed after a short period if they do not destroy the device in time. This ability can be picked up to be REDEPLOYED.

**Uses:** 2
**Cost:** 200
**Damage:** Damage 5 (if windup completes)
**Debuff:** Debuff 3 s stun (if windup completes)

Q – Cyber Cage
Berkas:Cyber Cage.png
INSTANTLY toss the cyber cage in front of Cypher. ACTIVATE to create a zone that blocks vision and plays an audio cue when enemies pass through it.

**Uses:** 2
**Cost:** 100
**Duration:**  7 seconds

### Signature

E – Spycam
Berkas:Spycam.png
EQUIP a spycam. FIRE to place the spycam at the targeted location. RE-USE this ability to take control of the camera's view. While in control of the camera, FIRE to shoot a marking dart. This dart will reveal the location of any player struck by the dart.

**Uses:** 1
**Cost:**Free
**Cooldown:**  Spycam: 15 s (Recalled)/45 s (Destroyed), Dart: 6 s

### Ultimate

X – Neural Theft
Berkas:Neural Theft.png
INSTANTLY use on a dead enemy player in your crosshairs to reveal the location of all living enemy players.

**Cost:**♦♦♦♦♦♦ 6 points

## Update History

**v3.09**
* Berkas:Spycam.png Spycam
	+ Cypher can no longer place Spycam on the Breeze door in order to destroy or see through the door when it's lowered.
		- Similarly, fixed random spots where Cypher could not place Spycam in the same area.

**v3.04**

* Berkas:Cyber Cage.png Cyber Cage
	+ Other abilities can no longer be placed on the projectile while it’s in mid-air or deployed on the ground

**v3.0**

* Fixed a bug where picking up Berkas:Trapwire.png Trapwires or Berkas:Cyber Cage.png Cyber Cages during the Buy phase would prevent you from purchasing a second charge
* Berkas:Neural Theft.png Neural Theft
	+ Ultimate points required decreased 7 >>> 6

**v2.07**

* Can no longer place Berkas:Spycam.png Spycam in Berkas:Cyber Cage.png Cyber Cage projectiles

**v2.06**

* Berkas:Spycam.png Spycam
	+ Fixed issue where Spycam broke Sage’s Berkas:Barrier Orb.png Barrier Orb when placed close to it

**v2.05**

* Berkas:Spycam.png Spycam
	+ Fixed issue where Spycam's dart could sometimes hit players that were on the other side of a wall
	+ Fixed Spycam targeting going through Sage’s Berkas:Barrier Orb.png wall
	+ Fixed a rare bug that could leave players unable to move or process inputs until they died when entering or returning from Spycam
		- *"We previously addressed some causes of this bug last patch, this fix should address the remaining known causes"*

**v2.03**

* Berkas:Spycam.png Spycam
	+ Fixed a couple input bugs around possessing and unpossessing Spycam in the same frame which lead to locking all inputs or locking view direction

**v1.11**

* Berkas:Trapwire.png Trapwire
	+ Disabled and revealed upon death
* Berkas:Spycam.png Spycam
	+ Disabled and revealed upon death

**v1.04**

* Berkas:Cyber Cage.png Cyber Cage
	+ Can now be picked up during buy phase

**v1.03**

* Berkas:Trapwire.png Trapwire
	+ Fixed a bug where traps that were placed such that they were on the inside of a doorway, would not trigger when someone walked through them

**v1.02**

* Fixed an issue where players could place a Berkas:Cyber Cage.png Cyber Cage on a Berkas:Trapwire.png Trapwire
* Berkas:Spycam.png Spycam
	+ Fixed an issue where Spycam blocked Spike defusal
	+ Added prevention for Spycam going through teleporter doors on Bind when placed on the frame from the outside

**v1.01**

* Berkas:Cyber Cage.png Cyber Cage
	+ No longer holds the teleporter doors on Bind open
* Berkas:Spycam.png Spycam
	+ Spycameras placed on the teleporter door frames on Bind no longer teleport it’s view location underground

**v0.50**

* Berkas:Trapwire.png Trapwire
	+ Can no longer pick up the trap after an enemy has triggered it
* Berkas:Cyber Cage.png Cyber Cage
	+ No longer slows enemies that move through it
* Berkas:Spycam.png Spycam
	+ Spycam cooldown when destroyed increased 30 >>> 45 seconds
	+ Cypher will no longer float in the air if the Sage Berkas:Barrier Orb.png Barrier Orb wall he is standing on is destroyed while using the Spycam
	+ Exploit fixes

**v0.49**

* Berkas:Cyber Cage.png Cyber Cage
	+ Fixed a bug where Cyber Cage would be selected at a larger range than intended causing overlapping interaction issues
* Berkas:Spycam.png Spycam
	+ Fixed issue with camera being placed on the Haven A Main boxes

**v0.47+**

* Berkas:Spycam.png Spycam
	+ Can no longer use weapons

## Gallery

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## Trivia

**Lore**

* Cypher's real name is 'Aamir', an Arabic name which means "Prince" in English.
	+ Berkas:CypherEnemyCypherBarrierDown.mp3 "*Who will see better, Aamir?"*
* Cypher is from Rabat, Morocco, where Bind is also located.
	+ Berkas:CypherMatchStartBind.mp3 *"What has Kingdom done to this town?! However pretty their lies are, they're just sucking my city dry!"*

* His Thrifty quotes imply that he may be poor, or was at one point.
	+ Berkas:CypherThrifty1.mp3 *"I'll try to be even more **poor** next time. It'll be hard, hmm, but I'll try"*
	+ Berkas:CypherThrifty2.mp3 *"You think I don't know how to get by without money?"*
* Cypher intentionally keeps his face and true identity hidden.
* Cypher has accommodated Omen's request when the latter asked for still unspecified information with "hard to find answers." He was successful in providing Omen with answers, but not without a price considering that the request took more than his "usual bag of surveillance tricks."
	+ Berkas:CypherAllyOmenMatchStart.mp3 *"Omen, I have the information you asked for. But my price! My price hasn't been paid yet..."*
* Cypher, alongside Viper, was part of a mission to retrieve information from the Everett-Linde Research Laboratory. They attempted to secure blueprints for a full Alpha-Omega teleporter that allows travel between Earth-1 and Mirror Earth, but it was unsuccessful despite several data recovery attempts from Cypher.

**Relations**

* Cypher knew someone called Nora, who was likely a family relation to him. Cypher's quotes imply that Nora and other members of his family met a tragic fate:
	+ Berkas:CypherLowHP1.mp3 *"Nora, I will see you again."*
	+ Berkas:CypherMatchStart5.mp3 *"I must survive to protect my family. I can't lose them. I can't feel that pain again..."*
* Cypher knows many secrets that he keeps from his fellow agents. Because of this, some of them find it hard to trust him.
	+ One such agent is Sova, whose values of honesty and openness conflict with Cypher's secrecy.
* In his email sent to Brimstone, Cypher is shown to be untrusting towards Chamber as he validated the French agent's work history. He has raised suspicion over the fact that the latter has no criminal record or incident report of any kind, pointing out to Brimstone that Chamber may be *"very good at hiding the truth."*

## References

1. ↑ https://www.gameinformer.com/preview/2020/03/02/valorant-preview-a-deep-dive-on-the-new-hero-based-tactical-shooter-from-riot
2. ↑ *VALORANT* Lore Discord Narrative AMA: Cypher's eyes
3. ↑ VALORANT Reddit AMA - Cypher's identity.
4. ↑ VALORANT Discord Dev Q&A - Cypher selling intel to Omen.
5. ↑ Viper's report to mission regarding the Everett-Linde sweep.
6. ↑ VALORANT Reddit AMA - Rivalry between Cypher and Sova.
7. ↑ Cypher's email to Brimstone.