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Overview

22 agents on the roster. 4 unique abilities each. 4 different classes of character. VALORANT’s wealth of options can easily leave you stumped, or wondering what you’re missing.

Welcome to the ultimate VALORANT agent resource collection, where we’ve collected all our agent content for your convenience.

Here you’ll find things like…

• Voice actor info.
• Agent bios for all VALORANT agents.
• Pages that dive deeper into each agent, their abilities and strategies.
• Advice for newbies like how to unlock agents and which agents are most novice-friendly.

We’ll even help you choose the best agent for your style, and show you which popular agents top the tier lists across the VALO community.

Agent content is a broad, exciting, and bottomless topic, and we’ll keep creating and updating it often to make this the only agent resource hub you ever need.

The basics…

What are agents?

Agents are the characters you play in VALORANT. Riot generally releases new agents every three to four months.

There are 22 agents in total: Brimstone, Phoenix, Sage, Sova, Viper, Cypher, Reyna, Killjoy, Breach, Omen, Jett, Raze, Skye, Yoru, Astra, KAY/O, Chamber, Neon, Fade, Harbor, Gekko, and Deadlock.

All VALORANT agents are the same height in-game, for the sake of fair competition. Every agent also has their own unique abilities, which range from realistic flash grenades to futuristic weaponry, and even magical abilities.

Every agent falls into one of four roles or classes:

• Controller – agents best suited to set their team up for success.
• Duelist – agents best suited to the front lines and seeking out head-on duels.
• Initiator – agents best suited to help their team capture contested ground.
• Sentinel – agents best suited for intel and guarding their team’s flanks.

How to choose the right agent

The right agent and player combo creates a symbiosis that can totally change your VALO experience. So picking the best agent for your style is a crucial choice.

But with so many agents to choose from, how do you pick which is worth your time?

Simple – do your research, find out how you like to play, target an agent that feels like a good fit and give them a go.

This page is your hub of all things VALORANT agents. A compilation of insights from the most dedicated VALO players and wiki contributors to help you make the best agent choice for you.

(or it’s just something cool to read, whatever floats your boat, Holmes.)

Unlocking agents

Newcomers have five base agents to get started in VALORANT. In order from most novice-friendly to least, those agents are Brimstone, Phoenix, Sage, Jett, and Sova.

You’ll need to unlock other agents by spending 8000 Kingdom Credits (earned by playing the game) or 1000 VALORANT points (purchased with real-world money).

New players can also complete the Welcome Contract to unlock two agents of their choice. No, all agents are not free.

Got an Xbox Game Pass? Only then can you unlock all VALO’s agents for free (lucky devil!). Just grant Riot Games permission to access your Xbox profile, load up VALORANT, and you’ll have unlocked every agent.

All VALORANT agents

You’ll find all 22 agents of VALORANT listed here in their official order with basic bio.

Note: This agent list is not in release date order. But you will find each agent’s order of release in an easy-to-follow format for all agents.

Agent 1: Brimstone

Release date: Beta

1st agent released

Agent type: Controller

Nationality/Origin: USA

VALORANT Protocol agent number 01

Difficulty level: Easy

Abilities:

• Q - Incendiary. Launch a grenade with a fiery area-of-effect.
• E - Sky Smoke. Place long-lasting tactical smokescreens across the map.
• C - Stim Beacon. Create a localized area that grants you and allies rapid fire.
• X - Orbital Strike. Rain down massive damage nearby for several seconds.

Agent 2: Phoenix

Release date: Beta

7th agent released

Agent type: Duelist

Nationality/Origin: UK

VALORANT Protocol agent number 09

Difficulty level: Easy

Abilities:

• Q - Curveball. Hurl a blinding flare that can be curved around walls.
• E - Hot Hands. Hurl a fireball that creates a damaging area-of-effect that also heals Phoenix.
• C - Blaze. Create a wall of flame that blocks vision, heals Phoenix, damages enemies, and can bend horizontally and vertically to cover ramps.
• X - Run it Back. Mark your current location. You’ll respawn here with full health if the ability expires, or you die while it’s active.

Agent 3: Sage

Release date: Beta

6th agent released

Agent type: Sentinel

Nationality/Origin: China

VALORANT Protocol agent number 07

Difficulty level: Easy

Abilities:

• Q - Slow Orb. Create a large, temporary area that causes all agents crossing it to slow down and make noise while moving.
• E - Healing Orb. Heal an ally or yourself to full health in a few seconds flat.
• C - Barrier Orb. Summon a solid wall in any direction.
• X - Resurrection. Revive a fallen ally with full health.

Agent 4: Sova

Release date: Beta

5th agent released

Agent type: Initiator

Nationality/Origin: Russia

VALORANT Protocol agent number 06

Difficulty level: Hard

Abilities:

• Q - Shock Bolt. Fire a charged arrow that explodes on impact and can ricochet off up to two surfaces.
• E - Recon Bolt. Fire a recon arrow that reveals nearby enemies, and can bounce off up to two surfaces.
• C - Owl Drone. Deploy a drone and use it to reveal enemies and mark them with a tracking dart.
• X - Hunter’s Fury. Fire up to three charged arrows across the map, through walls. Any enemy hit takes damage and is briefly revealed.

Agent 5: Viper

Release date: Beta

2nd agent released

Agent type: Controller

Nationality/Origin: USA

VALORANT Protocol agent number 02

Difficulty level: Hard

Abilities:

• Q - Poison Cloud. Throw a canister that creates a toxic gas cloud at the cost of fuel.
• E - Toxic Screen. Deploy a line of gas emitters and trigger to create a wall of toxic gas at the cost of fuel.
• C - Snake Bite. Launch a projectile that creates a pool of damaging acid where it lands.
• X - Viper’s Pit. Create a toxic cloud around you that highlights enemies and reduces the vision and max health of all agents inside it.

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Agent 6: Cypher

Release date: Beta

4th agent released

Agent type: Sentinel

Nationality/Origin: Morocco

VALORANT Protocol agent number 05

Difficulty level: Hard

Abilities:

• Q - Cyber Cage. Lay down a triggerable trap that creates a zone to block vision and slow enemies.
• E - Spycam. Place a tactical camera and use it to see new angles and fire tracking darts into enemy agents.
• C - Trapwire. Place a tripwire between two walls which briefly restrains and reveals enemy agents who cross it, dazing them too if the trap is not destroyed in time.
• X - Neural Theft. Use on a recently fragged enemy agent to reveal the locations of all their living allies.

Agent 7: Reyna

Release date: June 2, 2020

11th agent released

Agent type: Duelist

Nationality/Origin: Mexico

VALORANT Protocol agent number 11

Difficulty level: Medium

Abilities:

• Q - Devour. Consume the Soul Orb of an enemy agent you killed in the last 3 seconds to heal yourself rapidly.
• E - Dismiss. Consume a Soul Orb to become temporarily intangible. Combine with Reyna’s Ultimate to become invisible, too.
• C - Leer. Throw a mystical eye that reduces the long-distance vision of enemy agents that see it.
• X - Empress. Dramatically increase your rate of fire, reload time, and equip speed. Kill enemy agents to renew the duration.

Agent 8: Killjoy

Release date: August 4, 2020

12th agent released

Agent type: Sentinel

Nationality/Origin: Germany

VALORANT Protocol agent number 04

Difficulty level: Easy

Abilities:

• Q - Alarmbot. Deploy a bot to hunt down a nearby enemy and then explode, applying vulnerable.
• E - Turret. Deploy a turret that shoots enemy agents in a 180° arc.
• C - Nanoswarm. Throw a stealth grenade that, when activated, creates a swarm of damaging nanobots.
• X - Lockdown. Deploy a device that detains all enemy agents in range until destroyed.

Agent 9: Breach

Release date: Beta

10th agent released

Agent type: Initiator

Nationality/Origin: Sweden

VALORANT Protocol agent number 13

Difficulty level: Hard

Abilities:

• Q - Flashpoint. Create a wall-penetrating burst of light that blinds all agents.
• E - Fault Line. Create a quake you can charge up, that dazes all agents caught in its path.
• C - Aftershock. Fire a slow pulse through walls that deals heavy damage to any agent it hits.
• X - Rolling Thunder. Shoot a cascading, fiery quake in front of you, dazing and damaging agents in its wake.

Agent 10: Omen

Release date: Beta

3rd agent released

Agent type: Controller

Nationality/Origin: Unknown

VALORANT Protocol agent number 03

Difficulty level: Medium

Abilities:

• Q - Paranoia. Fire a wall-penetrating projectile that blinds every agent it touches.
• E - Dark Cover. Place a long-lasting shadowy sphere at your desired location to block vision.
• C - Shrouded Step. Teleport a short distance to your marked location.
• X - From the Shadows. Teleport to any area of the map, leaving behind a shade during transit that can be killed to cancel your teleport.

Agent 11: Jett

Release date: Beta

8th agent released

Agent type: Duelist

Nationality/Origin: South Korea

VALORANT Protocol agent number 10

Difficulty level: Medium

Abilities:

• Q - Updraft. Launch yourself high into the air.
• E - Tailwind. Dash forward a short distance.
• C - Cloudburst. Hurl a projectile that creates a foggy cloud on impact and obscures vision.
• X - Blade Storm. Summon and fire flying knives at enemy agents, singularly or all at once. Only single knife kills restore throwing knives to extend duration.

Agent 12: Raze

Release date: Beta

9th agent released

Agent type: Duelist

Nationality/Origin: Brazil

VALORANT Protocol agent number 12

Difficulty level: Easy

Abilities:

• Q - Blast Pack. Throw a sticky bomb that detonates on your command, or when the timer runs out, damaging enemy agents but not Raze.
• E - Paint Shells. Hurl a cluster grenade, damaging anyone in range.
• C - Boom Bot. Deploy a wheeled robot that moves in straight lines and bounces off walls until it reaches an enemy and explodes.
• X - Showstopper. Fire a rocket launcher at your target, for massive damage to anyone in its large area of effect.

Agent 13: Skye

Release date: October 27, 2020

13th agent released

Agent type: Initiator

Nationality/Origin: Australia

VALORANT Protocol agent number 14

Difficulty level: Medium

Abilities:

• Q - Trailblazer. Summon and control a tiger to strike an enemy, causing explosive damage to any agent directly hit.
• E - Guiding Light. Summon and direct a hawk to your crosshair’s location, then detonate to create a blinding flash.
• C - Regrowth. Heal allies within range and eyesight, but not yourself.
• X - Seekers. Send out three seekers to track down the three nearest enemy agents and Nearsight them.

Agent 14: Yoru

Release date: January 12, 2021

14th agent released

Agent type: Duelist

Nationality/Origin: Japan

VALORANT Protocol agent number 15

Difficulty level: Hard

Abilities:

• Q - Blindside. Throw a fragment of unstable reality that bounces off any hard surface and explodes, blinding enemies.
• E - Gatecrash. Fire a rift tether that enables teleportation to the tether’s location.
• C - Fakeout. Summon an echo of Yoru to distract enemy agents. Echoes explode in a blinding flash when fragged.
• X - Dimensional Drift. Tactically shift in and out of an alternate dimension where you can’t be affected or seen by enemies.

Agent 15: Astra

Release date: Mar 2, 2021

15th agent released

Agent type: Controller

Nationality/Origin: Ghana

VALORANT Protocol agent number 16

Difficulty level: Hard

Abilities:

• Q - Nova Pulse. Trigger stars placed during Astral Form to create a concussive explosion.
• E - Nebula. Trigger stars placed during Astral Form to create smoke screens.
• C - Gravity Well. Trigger stars placed during Astral Form to draw in nearby agents, then explode.
• X - Astral Form / Cosmic Divide. Enter an orbital spectral state to place stars on the map that Astra’s other abilities use. When Cosmic Divide is charged, use it to create a wall that blocks bullets and dampens noise.

Agent 16: KAY/O

Release date: June 22, 2021

16th agent released

Agent type: Initiator

Nationality/Origin: Alternate Timeline Earth

VALORANT Protocol agent number 17

Difficulty level: Medium

Abilities:

• Q - Flash/Drive. Throw a flash grenade to blind all agents in sight.
• E - Zero/Point. Throw a knife that sticks to any surface it hits, then explodes shortly after, suppressing agents in its radius.
• C - Frag/Ment. Throw a grenade that sticks to the ground and explodes four times, dealing near-lethal damage at the epicenter.
• X - Null/CMD. Emit a pulse that suppresses all enemy agents in range, increases KAY/O’s rate of fire and reload speed, and grants Combat Stim, allowing revival by teammates.

Agent 17: Chamber

Release date: November 16, 2021

17th agent released

Agent type: Sentinel

Nationality/Origin: France

VALORANT Protocol agent number 18

Difficulty level: Hard

Abilities:

• Q - Headhunter. Equip a pistol with heavy firepower.
• E - Rendezvous. Place two teleport anchors. While on the ground and within range of one, use it to teleport to the other.
• C - Trademark. Set a trap that fires a lingering slow-down area at any enemy agent that comes in range.
• X - Tour de Force. Equip a custom sniper rifle that one-hit-kills any agent it hits directly in the upper body, and creates a slow-down field field per kill.

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Agent 18: Neon

Release date: January 11, 2022

18th agent released

Agent type: Duelist

Nationality/Origin: Philippines

VALORANT Protocol agent number 19

Difficulty level: Medium

Abilities:

• Q - Relay Bolt. Fire an energy bolt that bounces once, and electrifies both surfaces it hits, causing concussion to agents in range.
• E - High Gear. Gain a speed boost and the ability to perform an electric slide.
• C - Fast Lane. Create two walls of electricity on either side of you that extend to the next surface in front of you, blocking vision and damaging enemy agents.
• X - Overdrive. Gain a speed boost and shoot deadly lightning from your hand. Every kill with the lightning resets Overdrive’s duration timer.

Voice actor

Agent 19: Fade

Release date: April 27, 2022

19th agent released

Agent type: Initiator

Nationality/Origin: Turkey

VALORANT Protocol agent number 20

Difficulty level: Hard

Abilities:

• Q - Seize. Throw a nightmarish orb that creates a temporary zone enemy agents can’t run out of.
• E - Haunt. Throw a fearsome orb that creates a being which reveals the location of all agents in sight.
• C - Prowler. Summon the Prowler to hunt enemy agents it sees and Nearsight them.
• X - Nightfall. Project a wall-penetrating pulse of nightmare energy which creates a trail leading you to enemy agents, while deafening and decaying them.

Agent 20: Harbor

Release date: October 18, 2022

20th agent released

Agent type: Controller

Nationality/Origin: India

VALORANT Protocol agent number 21

Difficulty level: Hard

Abilities:

• Q - Cove. Create a sphere of water that blocks bullets and vision.
• E - High Tide. Create a wall of water that follows your crosshair as you summon it, and slows down players who touch it.
• C - Cascade. Project a wave of water forward and through walls, slowing agents it hits.
• X - Reckoning. Summon a series of geyser strikes in the area, concussing any agents struck.

Agent 21: Gekko

Release date: March 7, 2023

21st agent released

Agent type: Initiator

Nationality/Origin: USA

VALORANT Protocol agent number 22

Difficulty level: Medium

Abilities:

• Q - Wingman. Summon Wingman to seek enemy agents and strike with a concussive blast, or to plant or defuse the Spike.
• E - Dizzy. Launch Dizzy to rain blinding plasma blasts at enemy agents in sight.
• C - Most Pit. Throw Mosh like a grenade to create a large area-of-effect explosion.
• X - Thrash. Summon Thrash and steer her telepathically to the enemy, then activate to lunge, explode, and detain all enemy agents in range.

Agent 22: Deadlock

Release date: June 27, 2023

22nd agent released

Agent type: Sentinel

Nationality/Origin: Norway

VALORANT Protocol agent number 23

Difficulty level: Hard

Abilities:

• Q - Sonic Sensor. Throw a sensor that sticks to walls and monitors the area for enemy sounds, then creates a localized concussive event if footsteps, gunfire, or other noise occurs.
• E - Barrier Mesh. Throw to create barriers that block agent movement.
• C - GravNet. Lob a grenade that detonates on impact, forcing enemy agents in range to crouch and move slowly.
• X - Annihilation. Capture an enemy in a cocoon of nanowire, which is pulled along a path. The enemy agent dies if they reach the end of that path without being freed.

Agent tier list

“Who is the best agent in VALORANT?” might just be a question without an answer.

Turn your head in any direction online to find a different agent tier list, always “up to date” with the latest competitive stats and recent nerf considerations.

Some lists share similarities, others are polar opposites. Most tier lists cite Jett as a solid top-tier choice… others consider her B-list material.

Here’s the dirty little secret… there is no “best” agent in VALO.

Only preferences.

This tier list represents the culmination of those preferences across the VALORANT communities plus the current pro-scene meta.

Keep in mind, top-tier choices can also vary from map to map. A low-tier ranking also doesn’t mean an agent doesn’t have strengths – C-tiers like Reyna and Yoru can be solid agents in the right hands, and despite Astra being C-tier, she's one of the top picks on Split.