Valorant is your global competitive stage. It's a 5v5 tac-shooter matchup to plant or defuse the Spike in a one-life-per-round, first to 13 series. More than guns and bullets, you'll choose an Agent armed with adaptive, swift, and lethal abilities that create opportunities to let your gunplay shine. Download Valorant free, where guns meet hypernatural powers. Creativity is your greatest weapon.
Plant the Spike
Agents and their signature abilities are how you win with skill and style. Adapt and outplay in the role of either a Duelist, Initiator, Controller, or Sentinel.
Detonate or Defuse
Haven. Bind. Split. Ascent. Each a stage for a multitude of savvy plays, agent clutches, and team strategies.
Recommended Specs:
- Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
- 4 GB of RAM
- CPU: Intel i3-4150, Ryzen 3 1200 (AMD)
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GT 730, Radeon R7 240
What's New:
Hi friends! Alice here with Patch 8.11, and this one is a bigger one. We've got some updates to some Duelists, these are the same that we shared last week. We also have a new map rotation, and a new map, Abyss… just make sure to watch your step. Additionally this will be the first patch our new friends on console will get to enjoy, we have some new features for them, and are excited to welcome them into our community!
We can't wait to see your clips on Abyss (please show us your creative ways of knocking someone off, we've been dying to see them since we started developing this map), and hear your overall feedback for this patch, so please send it our way. Good luck in your matches and enjoy Patch 8.11.
Agent Updates
For some context, this update is aimed to allow other Duelists to compete with Agents like Jett and Raze that excel at taking space for their team through sheer speed and mobility. These changes provide more ability for Duelists to take space for their team, and to be the tip of the spear through their own unique play styles – whether it's stronger pure dueling ability like Iso, a mixture of speed and evasion in combat like Neon, or Reyna's blend of being able to recover and escape from combat.
ISO
Iso is receiving strictly buffs this patch because he's underperforming across all skill brackets. Leaning into increasing Iso's signature ability output is intended to make Iso more reliable at challenging contested spaces and winning opening duels by granting his shield immediately after channeling the ability. Iso's buff will also remain active and orbs will still spawn should he lose his shield and secure a kill during Double Tap's uptime. Shooting the orbs will refresh the duration of the buff and the shield.
NEON
We want to sharpen Neon as an Agent who excels at taking mobile fights directly to her opponents by buffing the unique value she brings to the table. We've made her slide more effective at sliding directly into opponents by making it more combat-ready, and by removing all weapon movement error when sliding as well as a few other changes. The updates to her Fast Lane (C) are intended to make fights around her wall dropping feel more intuitive for Neon's allies while reducing the visual noise it creates in game.
Sharpening her Relay Bolt (Q) to be a more premium and reliable one-charge ability is intended to allow Neon to have more success when she does decide to commit to a fight with her slide, as well as make some room for the second slide charge.
REYNA
Reyna is receiving both buffs and nerfs this patch to reshape the power of her kit. The goal of the changes is to reduce the level of dominance she can achieve in Ranked, especially at low and mid ranks when outperforming her enemies, while pushing some of her value in coordinated settings:
Healing has proven very strong statistically in Ranked with higher impact at low and mid ranks. This change should reduce her ability to snowball round-over-round in these settings.
Removing the time restrictions on her Devour (Q) and Empress (X) should allow you more flexibility to play at your team's pace and increase the baseline value of both in coordinated play where rounds play out slower.
Dismiss (E) has been re-tuned to provide a greater movement speed boost, but has a shorter duration. This should reward decisive and skillful Reyna players by unlocking faster and more powerful combat repositioning.
