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Profile
Biography
| “ | Raze explodes out of Brazil with her big personality and big guns. With her blunt-force-trauma playstyle, she excels at flushing entrenched enemies and clearing tight spaces with a generous dose of “boom.”
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Tayane Alves is an engineer coming from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, with a strong enthusiasm for explosives and paint - usually combined. Holding strong objections towards Kingdom Corporation's operations in Bahia, Alves was involved in driving the company out of her home state and forcing them to abandon their sites there, the marks of her tools staining the plots as a testament to her victories. Hired since then to work for the VALORANT Protocol as its twelfth agent, "Raze", Alves now sows her chaos against bigger threats to Earth. However, as the paint fades from Salvador's walls, Raze cannot afford to leave her home completely behind, lest Kingdom look to make its return there.
TAYANE ALVES: Early Life
- Alves comes from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.[1]
- Alves is involved with driving Kingdom out of Bahia and forcing them to abandon their sites there.[2]
- Alves meets and works with Erik Torsten.[3]
RAZE: VALORANT agent
- Recruited as its twelfth agent.
The Omega Project
- Raze is present during the Max Bot training exercise at VALORANT HQ.[4]
- Raze creates Max Bot along with Killjoy and is one of the agents to fight against him.
The Blackmailer
- Raze is reported to be freaking out over the strange happenings at VALORANT HQ including paranoia, flicking lights, cold door handles, etc.[5]
- This was related to the Protocol's interrogation of the blackmailer, who was being held at HQ after being apprehended in Istanbul.
Continuing the Omega Project
Personality
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The one-woman party from Bahia, Raze is always playful, impulsive, and spontaneous. She radiates chaotic energy and creates havoc on the battlefield, destroying every obstacle that is blocking her path. According to Sage, she can be impatient and won't stick to plans. She is notoriously cheeky, as seen when she earned Cypher's ire after constantly breaking his gadgets.
Fun-loving as she is, she refers to her fellow agents as family and always assures them that she'll be the one leading the fireworks display.
Appearance
Raze is a woman with a brown skin tone, always sporting her orange cap worn backwards accompanied by her headphones. Her hair is arranged in multiple braids held together by gold-colored hair rollers. She wears a sleeveless, orange top that exposes her midriff and is covered by a chestplate with the word 'BOOM' spray-painted on the front. She wears dark colored pants with a splatter of paint by the left thigh, held by a strap wherein her paintshell grenades are attached.
Abilities
Basic
EQUIP a Boom Bot. FIRE will deploy the bot, causing it to travel in a straight line on the ground, bouncing off walls. The Boom Bot will lock on to any enemies in its frontal cone and chase them, exploding for heavy damage if it reaches them.
Uses: 1 
Cost:
300
Duration: 
10 s
Health: 
100 HP
Damage: 
30-80 (Min. outer radius-Inner radius)
INSTANTLY throw a Blast Pack that will stick to surfaces. RE-USE the ability after deployment to detonate, damaging and moving anything hit.
Uses: 2 
Cost: 200
Duration: 5 s
Damage: 5-15 (Instant), 20-50 (After arming), 600 (Objects)
Signature
EQUIP a cluster grenade. FIRE to throw the grenade, which does damage and creates sub-munitions, each doing damage to anyone in their range.
Uses: 1
Cost:Free
Cooldown: 
2 kill recharge
Damage: 15-55 (Min. outer radius-Inner radius)
Ultimate
EQUIP a rocket launcher. FIRE shoots a rocket that does massive area damage on contact with anything.
Cost:♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 8 points
Duration: 10 s
Damage: 30-150 (Min. outer radius-Inner radius)
Contract
Chapter 1
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| SPRAY: Boomshaka |
PLAYER CARD: VALORANT Raze |
PLAYER TITLE: Warhead |
SPRAY: Bombshell |
AGENT: Raze |
Chapter 2
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| GUNBUDDY: Blast Pin |
SPRAY: Raze |
PLAYER TITLE: Ballistic |
PLAYER CARD: Rising Up |
SKIN: Pistolinha Classic |
Quotes
Update History
Progress/Charge bars moved to a consistent location and made a consistent size
- Showstopper
- Ammo count added to HUD
- Showstopper
- Can now be input-queued to equip after the current action
- Blast Pack
- Fixed bugs impacting Blast Pack's input queuing and re-equip speeds
- Boom Bot
- Damage reduced 50-125 >>> 30-80
- Cost reduced 400 >>> 300
- Boom Bot
- Can no longer be placed through some walls
- Updated Raze's model
- Boom Bot
- Cost increased 200 >>> 400
- Showstopper
- Ultimate points required increased 7 >>> 8
- Blast Pack
- Audio cues added to indicate when she's boosted in the air from Blast Pack
- Showstopper
- Explosion and Showstopper launching VFX updated so they are less obscuring and clear out of the play space faster
- Boom Bot
- Fixed Boom Bot blowing up when it hit the Spike if Raze was on defender side
- Boom Bot
- Fixed issue where Boom Bot could be placed through some walls
- Blast Pack
- Initial damage reduced to 15 with a 2 meter inner radius, falling off to 5 minimum damage
- The satchel will retain its max damage of 50 after arming (once it lands) for .5 seconds
- Patch notes state .2 m inner radius, this is likely a typo
- Shooting the blast pack causes it to detonate, dealing its current damage amount
- Satchel no longer does damage to allies
- Blast Pack
- Damage decreased 75 >>> 50
- Damage to objects now consistently does 600
- Showstopper
- Equip Time increased 1.1 >>> 1.4
- Quick Equip Time increased 0.5 >>> 0.7
- VFX reduced when firing rocket
- VFX on rocket’s trail slightly reduced
- Showstopper
- Cost changed 6 >>> 7 Ult points
- Blast Pack
- Maximum damage radius reduced 2 >>> 1 meters
- Blast Pack
- Cost increased 100 >>> 200 credits
- Tuned and adjusted audio for Paint Shells, Blast Pack, and Showstopper so that they’ll be easier to hear in hectic scenarios
- Paint Shells
- Reduced number of charges 2 >>> 1
- Now has a kill reset, requiring players to get 2 kills to refresh charge
- Fixed an edge case where the secondary cluster would explode quicker than intended. They now have a minimum duration before exploding
Spotify Playlist
Trivia
- Raze created her Boom Bot by stealing and modifying one of Killjoy's Alarmbots.[7]
- She did major upgrades on Breach's mechanical arms.[8]
- She and Killjoy developed a training robot known as "Max Bot," which is designed to imitate and replicate the powers and skills of its opponent.[9]
- She loves to breakdance and was part of a B-Girl crew in Salvador.[10]
Development
- An unused voice line by Sage might imply that Raze's call sign was originally going to be Bombshell.
- Raze was the first additional character to be added in the Closed Beta.
- Cypher called Raze "Izzy" in one of his early quotes, however the voiceline was removed from the game and her real name was eventually revealed to be Tayane.
Relations
- It is hinted that she worked with Breach before joining the VALORANT Protocol.
- The nature of their shared past was one that operated outside the law.
- Raze has close relations with Breach to the point of referring to him as "Breachy."
- Raze and Killjoy have a friendly rivalry.[7]
Gallery
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References
- ↑ Raze Salvador quote
- ↑ VALORANT Protocol#The Blackmailer's agent dossiers
- ↑ Breach-Raze duo quote
- ↑ Cinematics#WARM UP
- ↑ 4.07 Phoenix voicemail
- ↑ 4.09 Raze Voicemail
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Killjoy Reveal article (in German)
- ↑ VALORANT Lore Discord Narrative AMA: Breach's arms
- ↑ WARM-UP Cinematic
- ↑ VALORANT Lore Discord Narrative AMA: Raze breakdances
Agents
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| Quotes |  Astra •  Breach •  Brimstone •  Chamber •  Cypher •  Fade •  Jett •  KAY/O •  Killjoy •  Neon •  Omen •  Phoenix •  Raze •  Reyna •  Sage •  Skye •  Sova •  Viper •  Yoru
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| Scrapped |  Crusader • Joules •  Shatter
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