Agents

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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.

Usage and Availability

All agents have 100 base HP (increased with shields by up to 50) and four abilities, including a Signature and an Ultimate ability.

Five agents are immediately available for players to use; Brimstone, Jett, Phoenix, Sage, and Sova.

Other agents can be unlocked through the following methods:

• Permanently:
  • One agent for  1,000,  8,000 or 1 Free Agent Token in Agent Store
    • Up to 2x Free Agent Tokens can be acquired from Basic Training Event
    • During Agent Recruitment Event which lasts for 28 days from the new Agent's launch, when the player accumulate 200,000 XP during the event duration, the Agent is unlocked for free
      • Use of Kingdom Credits and Free Agent Tokens are disabled when Agent Recruitment Event is active
• 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

Roles

Depending on their abilities and playstyle, agents are assigned to one of four roles determined by the game.

Role	Official Description	Summary of Role
Controller	Controllers are experts in slicing up dangerous territory to set their team up for success.	The abilities of agents under this role allow them to assist their teammates by cutting enemy vision, taking control of an area, and forcing enemies into choke points.
Duelist	Duelists are self-sufficient fraggers who their team expects, through abilities and skills, to get high frags and seek out engagements first.	Agents under this role have abilities that allow them to focus on being the first to enter sites and engage the enemy. Unlike other roles, the Signature abilities for Duelists need to be recharged with 2 kills rather than a period of time.
Initiator	Initiators challenge angles by setting up their team to enter contested ground and push defenders away.	The abilities of agents under this role focus on initiating attacks on site, flushing enemies out of hiding spots and corners in order to assist the team when charging into battle.
Sentinel	Sentinels are defensive experts who can lock down areas and watch flanks, both on attacker and defender rounds.	The abilities of agents under this role focus on defensive play, with emphasis on supporting the rest of the team through providing intel, anchoring down sites, and preventing the enemy from flanking.

List of Agents

There are currently 6 Controller agents, 8 Duelist agents, 7 Initiator agents and 7 Sentinel agents in the roster, bringing to a total of 28 playable agents overall.

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.

Map of Agents' origins as of Veto's addition. (via @VALORANTukn on X)

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	England		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	Scotland	8.05	Isla Campbell
26	Vyse	Sentinel	Unknown	9.04	Marta Svetek
27	Tejo	Initiator	Colombia	10.00	Victor Turpin
28	Waylay	Duelist	Thailand	10.04	Mo Rodvanich
29	Veto	Sentinel	Senegal	11.07b	Bamar Kane

Upcoming Agents

There are currently no details for any upcoming agents.

Agent 08

Agent 08 is a character currently missing from the rosters of both the VALORANT Protocol and the VALORANT Legion. It is confirmed that they will eventually appear at some point when their story is ready to be told, though there is no info about them on the side of gameplay or development as a playable agent.

Scrapped Agents

• Crusader
• Joules
• Shatter

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.

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.

Trivia

• The height of all agents in game is set to 1.96 meters.
  • The in-game heights of the agents have to be kept the same so that no agent's height has an advantage over others, but the canon heights of the agents has been shared by the game's Creative Director.
    • As of Clove's addition to the game, Neon is the shortest agent and Breach is the tallest.