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Agents are the playable characters in VALORANT, representing an agent of the VALORANT Protocol. Each agent serves as a different class with four abilities.
Summary[]
Five agents are immediately available for players to use; 
Brimstone, 
Jett, 
Phoenix, 
Sage, and 
Sova.
Agents can be unlocked through the following methods:
- Permanently:
- One agent for
1,000 or 
8,000 in Agent Store
- During Agent Recruitment Event which lasts for four weeks from the Agent's launch, when the player accumulate 200,000 XP during the event duration, the Agent is unlocked for free
- Use of Kingdom Credits is disabled when Agent Recruitment Event is active
- One agent each at Tiers 5 and 10 by progressing through Welcome Contract
- One agent for
- Temporarily:
- All agents unlocked via linking to Xbox Game Pass until their subscription has ended
- The player will still be prompted through the necessary permanent methods above if the Agents were not unlocked in the first place
- All agents unlocked in The Range
- All agents unlocked via linking to Xbox Game Pass until their subscription has ended
Each agent has 100 base HP (increased with shields by up to 50) and four abilities, including a Signature and an Ultimate ability. Depending on their abilities and playstyle, agents are assigned to one of four roles determined by the game:
Controllers are experts in slicing up dangerous territory to set their team up for success.
Duelists are self-sufficient fraggers who their team expects, through abilities and skills, to get high frags and seek out engagements first.
Initiators challenge angles by setting up their team to enter contested ground and push defenders away.
Sentinels are defensive experts who can lock down areas and watch flanks, both on attacker and defender rounds.
Development[]
Riot was aiming to launch the game with 12 agents, but only 8 were available in the early press builds. The March 29, 2020 private event introduced Breach. Since the Closed Beta launch on April 7, 2020, Raze was added, bringing the Agent total to 10. [2]
It is the intention of the developers that a new agent be released around once per act. New agents take 12–15 months to develop, and their design is focused around points such as what's missing from the game's current playstyles, are there any prospective thematics that present big opportunities, and what’s needed for better game health.[3]
List of Agents[]
The numbers in the "No." column are in the chronological order of when the agents were recruited by the VALORANT Protocol. You can find their numbers in game by going to their gear and looking at their banners. There is an eighth agent in the VALORANT Protocol but their identity is unknown, and they are not yet a playable agent in VALORANT.[4]
| No. | Agent | Role | Origin | Release Patch | Voice |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Brimstone
|
 Controller
|
 United States
|
Beta | Steve Blum |
| 02 |  Viper
|
Controller
|
United States
|
Ashly Burch | |
| 03 |  Omen
|
Controller
|
Unknown | Jason Marnocha | |
| 04 |  Killjoy
|
 Sentinel
|
 Germany
|
1.05 | Eva Feiler |
| 05 |  Cypher
|
Sentinel
|
 Morocco
|
Beta | Nabil Elouahabi |
| 06 | Sova
|
 Initiator
|
 Russia
|
Aaron Vodovoz | |
| 07 | Sage
|
Sentinel
|
 China
|
Naomi Yang | |
| 09 | Phoenix
|
 Duelist
|
 United Kingdom
|
Afolabi Alli | |
| 10 | Jett
|
Duelist
|
 South Korea
|
Shannon Williams | |
| 11 |  Reyna
|
Duelist
|
 Mexico
|
1.0 | Karina Altamirano |
| 12 |  Raze
|
Duelist
|
 Brazil
|
Beta | Carolina Ravassa |
| 13 |  Breach
|
Initiator
|
 Sweden
|
David Menkin | |
| 14 |  Skye
|
Initiator
|
 Australia
|
1.11 | Miranda O'Hare |
| 15 |  Yoru
|
Duelist
|
 Japan
|
2.0 | Daisuke Takahashi |
| 16 |  Astra
|
Controller
|
 Ghana
|
2.04 | Effie Nkrumah |
| 17 |  KAY/O
|
Initiator
|
Alternate Timeline Earth | 3.0 | Gabe Kunda |
| 18 |  Chamber
|
Sentinel
|
 France
|
3.10 | Hugo Pierre Martin |
| 19 |  Neon
|
Duelist
|
 Philippines
|
4.0 | Vanille Velasquez |
| 20 |  Fade
|
Initiator
|
 Türkiye
|
4.08 | Selin Çuhadaroğlu |
| 21 |  Harbor
|
Controller
|
 India
|
5.08 | Sunil Malhotra |
| 22 |  Gekko
|
Initiator
|
United States
|
6.04 | Alejandro Antonio Ruiz (With creature voices from Jan Johns, Kellen Goff, and Paul Guyet) |
| 23 |  Deadlock
|
Sentinel
|
 Norway
|
7.0 | Nora Gjestvang |
| 24 |  Iso
|
Duelist
|
China
|
7.09 | Unknown |
| 25 |  Clove
|
Controller
|
United Kingdom
|
8.05 | Isla Campbell |
Upcoming Agents[]
There are currently no details for any upcoming agents.
Scrapped Agents[]
Trivia[]
- The height of all agents in game is set to 1.96 meters.
References[]
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Agents
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 Controllers |
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 Duelists |
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 Initiators |
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 Sentinels |
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| Scrapped |  Crusader • Joules •  Shatter
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