Friend or Foe: a Valorant decision speed drill
Friend or Foe is a Valorant decision speed drill built on Reflex. About 30% of its 30 targets are blue, and shooting one costs 500 points, while red targets score 900 minus your milliseconds to kill. It trains deciding what you are looking at before your finger moves. It is a Pro drill.
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- 30 targetsLength
- GhostDefault weapon
- ReactionCategory
- ProPlan
Why practise holding fire?
Because most reaction practice teaches you to click at anything that appears. Valorant has no friendly fire from bullets, so this is not about protecting teammates. It is about the half second where a shape comes into view and you have to know what it is before you give away your position.
What is the right order: colour or mouse?
Colour first, mouse second. The drill punishes the reverse: a wrong shot costs 500 points, as much as a 400 ms red kill earns. A blue target simply leaves if you leave it alone, at no cost.
The common mistake is moving to the target and deciding on arrival. Your hand then has momentum toward a click, and stopping it is the hard part.
How much slower should you expect to be?
Slower than in Reflex, and that is the purpose. Compare your two scores: the gap between them is what the decision costs you. A smaller gap with no blue hits is the sign of progress.
When should you run Friend or Foe?
After Reflex, once speed is warm, and when you notice that you fire at the first thing you see. Timings match Reflex exactly, so it needs no extra setup.
| Setting | Friend or Foe |
|---|---|
| Weapons | Ghost by default, or Vandal, Phantom, Sheriff, Classic, Operator |
| Difficulty | Easy, Medium, Hard, Elite or Adaptive |
| Score | 900 − time to kill (ms); −500 per friendly hit |
| Movement | You stay in place |
| Enemy fire | Nothing shoots back |
| Standing | Training drill, with no rank or leaderboard. |
Friend or Foe questions
How often do blue targets appear in Friend or Foe?
Each target in Friend or Foe has a 30% chance of being blue. Across a run of 30 that averages nine blue targets, though the exact number changes from run to run.
What happens if I ignore a blue target in Friend or Foe?
Nothing. A blue target in Friend or Foe expires after about 0.9 seconds at Medium, at no cost. Only shooting one is penalised, by 500 points.
Play Friend or Foe
It opens in your browser, with nothing to install. Running this drill needs the Pro plan.
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