Lure your foes with Valorant’s subsequent defensive agent: Vyse

Riot Video games has unveiled Vyse, the newest agent for its tactical 5v5 shooter Valorant. This defensive Sentinel hero makes use of liquid steel to isolate, lure and disarm aggressive gamers that dive in recklessly.

“For Vyse, we wished to create a Sentinel that had an answer to area taking duelists in a means that wasn’t primarily stall-oriented,” stated Kevin Meier, Valorant sport designer at Riot Video games. “Throughout growth, we regularly considered Vyse setups like a Spider Internet — permitting gamers to enter the net, however delivering a killing blow when caught.”

Whereas Vyse doesn’t have the knowledge gathering instruments of different Sentinel brokers, she makes up for it with the flexibleness of her lure setups and talent to lock down an area in opposition to a number of enemies.

She additionally has a flash bang to blind enemies — the primary true flash for brokers in her function. This retains her extra defensive device equipment related when gamers are on the assault, which inspires gamers to experiment with workforce composition in return.

Vyse made her official debut throughout the higher bracket finals of its 2024 world championship match: Valorant Champions Seoul. Riot teased her reveal forward of the published.

Vyse is the primary agent launched since Clove, who debuted in March 2024. Notably, Vyse is the primary Sentinel agent launched since Chamber, who joined Valorant’s roster in November 2021.

Vyse releases on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X|S on August 28, 2024 as a part of Valorant Episode 9 Act II. That is the primary agent to launch since Valorant launched its console editions earlier this month.

Vyse’s skills

Vyse lets Valorant gamers separate enemy brokers, prevents them from escaping with slows and blinds them to stop them from retaliating. Gamers might want to fastidiously coordinate their setups with workforce mates.

Arc Rose

EQUIP an Arc Rose. Goal a floor and FIRE to position a stealthed Arc Rose, or ALT Hearth to position the Arc Rose by it. REUSE to blind all gamers it. This capability might be picked as much as be REDEPLOYED.

Shear

EQUIP filaments of liquid steel. FIRE to position a hidden wall lure. When an enemy crosses, an indestructible wall bursts from the bottom behind them. The wall lasts for a short time earlier than dissipating.

Razorvine

EQUIP a nest of liquid steel. FIRE to launch. Upon touchdown, the nest turns into invisible. When ACTIVATED, it sprawls out into a big razorvine nest which slows and damages all gamers who transfer by it.

(ULT) Metal Backyard

EQUIP a bramble of liquid steel. FIRE to ship the steel erupting from you as a torrent of steel thorns, JAMMING enemy main weapons after a short windup.