Every agent in valorant News has four unique abilities. Each ability offers some strategic element that determines what class an agent falls under. There are currently four classes in VALORANT to choose from. Initiators are agents who use their abilities to engage in a contested area. These agents are often the best at initiating large battles, hence their name. Duelists are agents who excel in single combat. Duelists' abilities help them secure kills, and you'll usually see a duelist's name at the top of the kills leaderbo
Scorpios are both loved and hated for being cunning and resourceful, but any teammate will be glad to have someone as smart as them on the team. While they might be stubborn, Scorpios bring some serious muscle to any composit
Although many people argue that duelists are weak in the current state of the game due to their lack of utility, a skilled Jett player can silence the haters in a cloud of head clicks and dashes. Jett is the ultimate skirmisher; she can jump, dash and float around her enemies, setting up highlight reel plays. She can create clouds of smoke which block vision, and her ultimate allows the player to send a flurry of throwing knives which kills instantly on headsh
Every day, more and more VALORANT fans are getting their hands on beta key drops from Twitch streams and with a total of ten agents to choose from, new players are often left wondering just who they should play. Before figuring out a main for Riot's new tactical shooter, it's best to learn what differentiates the agents from each other, as well as the similarities between t
Any small room in Valorant is just begging to be filled with Paint Shells. Any enemy foolish enough to be seeking refuge inside these rooms is going to need to choose between one of two deaths: death by explosion, or death by bullet. Either way, you've come out on
"Schemes" are a great way to describe what Omen does on the field of battle. The controller can send out shadows in the shape of spheres that block vision. Omen also fires a projectile that can travel through walls, reducing the vision of anyone it touches. The agent also has two teleportation abilities, allowing him to travel a short distance, or teleport to any location on the
Currently in the closed beta, Valorant has ten different characters to choose from. All of these characters fit into one of four roles: Duelist, Sentinel, Initiator, and Controller. While each character plays drastically different, they still each accomplish the basic function(s) of their role. (Or should, in the right ha
Yoru is a strong Agent with a huge arsenal full of epic weapons. He's a great Agent to play with either in solo or team games, as he can easily fend for himself when he needs to, and can lead to victory on his own
Let's take a look at one of the characters that created the most stir back when the Valorant guide closed beta first began: Raze. She's since been nerfed, but she is still a perfectly viable character to choose and can be a force of nature in the right ha
Sage is the glue that holds your team together. As Sage, you play as the backbone to your team; healing them when they get low, reviving them when they fall, blocking off the opponent and slowing them to allow your team to pick up the k
Although Cypher is able to gather more intel than Sova is, the hunter's information-gathering abilities are still massively important to his team. And unlike Cypher's kit, Sova's allows him to deal damage and hunt down his enem
A Tower – Hopping on the boxes to place the camera in the upper corner provides sight over the entire room and is not immediately obvious to players who may not have checked their mini-map for the Spycam locat
Positioning is everything at higher tiers of play and nobody does it quite like Fade. Her seize ability ties groups of enemies to a single location, preventing them from running away. Haunt also reveals enemies in a specific location, taking the guesswork out of attackers hiding in co
The poison agent's other abilities revolve around her fuel. Viper can create a wall of gas, or a smoke cloud at the cost of her fuel, which slowly regenerates when the abilities are turned off. Viper's kit allows for some tricky mind games that will surely leave her enemies confu
A Tower – This is a great spot to experiment with, but like Bind: A Short, should see a change in the future. Placing the Spycam outside of the window near the decorative, upwards pointing rocks provides a high viewpoint, but too much cover for opponents to quickly ident
Placing a camera at the above locations is not enough to make a difference on its own. The best Cypher players will be up to date on their map knowledge with each new patch, will experiment to learn which locations suit them best, and above all else, will use their mics to communicate effectively. A good Cypher can make games feel as though one were cheating thanks to the information made available, and this is something every player should learn to do, even if not planning to play the agent exclusiv
Scorpios are both loved and hated for being cunning and resourceful, but any teammate will be glad to have someone as smart as them on the team. While they might be stubborn, Scorpios bring some serious muscle to any composit
Although many people argue that duelists are weak in the current state of the game due to their lack of utility, a skilled Jett player can silence the haters in a cloud of head clicks and dashes. Jett is the ultimate skirmisher; she can jump, dash and float around her enemies, setting up highlight reel plays. She can create clouds of smoke which block vision, and her ultimate allows the player to send a flurry of throwing knives which kills instantly on headsh
Every day, more and more VALORANT fans are getting their hands on beta key drops from Twitch streams and with a total of ten agents to choose from, new players are often left wondering just who they should play. Before figuring out a main for Riot's new tactical shooter, it's best to learn what differentiates the agents from each other, as well as the similarities between t
Any small room in Valorant is just begging to be filled with Paint Shells. Any enemy foolish enough to be seeking refuge inside these rooms is going to need to choose between one of two deaths: death by explosion, or death by bullet. Either way, you've come out on
"Schemes" are a great way to describe what Omen does on the field of battle. The controller can send out shadows in the shape of spheres that block vision. Omen also fires a projectile that can travel through walls, reducing the vision of anyone it touches. The agent also has two teleportation abilities, allowing him to travel a short distance, or teleport to any location on the
Currently in the closed beta, Valorant has ten different characters to choose from. All of these characters fit into one of four roles: Duelist, Sentinel, Initiator, and Controller. While each character plays drastically different, they still each accomplish the basic function(s) of their role. (Or should, in the right ha
Yoru is a strong Agent with a huge arsenal full of epic weapons. He's a great Agent to play with either in solo or team games, as he can easily fend for himself when he needs to, and can lead to victory on his own
Let's take a look at one of the characters that created the most stir back when the Valorant guide closed beta first began: Raze. She's since been nerfed, but she is still a perfectly viable character to choose and can be a force of nature in the right ha
Sage is the glue that holds your team together. As Sage, you play as the backbone to your team; healing them when they get low, reviving them when they fall, blocking off the opponent and slowing them to allow your team to pick up the k
Although Cypher is able to gather more intel than Sova is, the hunter's information-gathering abilities are still massively important to his team. And unlike Cypher's kit, Sova's allows him to deal damage and hunt down his enem
A Tower – Hopping on the boxes to place the camera in the upper corner provides sight over the entire room and is not immediately obvious to players who may not have checked their mini-map for the Spycam locat
Positioning is everything at higher tiers of play and nobody does it quite like Fade. Her seize ability ties groups of enemies to a single location, preventing them from running away. Haunt also reveals enemies in a specific location, taking the guesswork out of attackers hiding in co
The poison agent's other abilities revolve around her fuel. Viper can create a wall of gas, or a smoke cloud at the cost of her fuel, which slowly regenerates when the abilities are turned off. Viper's kit allows for some tricky mind games that will surely leave her enemies confu
A Tower – This is a great spot to experiment with, but like Bind: A Short, should see a change in the future. Placing the Spycam outside of the window near the decorative, upwards pointing rocks provides a high viewpoint, but too much cover for opponents to quickly ident
Placing a camera at the above locations is not enough to make a difference on its own. The best Cypher players will be up to date on their map knowledge with each new patch, will experiment to learn which locations suit them best, and above all else, will use their mics to communicate effectively. A good Cypher can make games feel as though one were cheating thanks to the information made available, and this is something every player should learn to do, even if not planning to play the agent exclusiv
