How many VALORANT agents are there? Full list

VALORANT has a wide selection of agent characters to choose from, each with a unique set of abilities tailored to every type of FPS player under the sun. But exactly how many agents are there in the game right now?

Lucky for you, we’ve tallied them all up. Here is everything you need to know about all the playable agents in VALORANT, from how many there are in total to all their ultimates and abilities.

How many agents are there in VALORANT?

At the moment of this writing, there are a total of 22 agents in VALORANT available to play in matches as long as you’ve unlocked them. But it wasn’t always like this. There were originally only 10 agents when Riot Games released VALORANT on closed beta in April 2020, which means that the publisher adds about three or four agents per year—or one every three to four months.

Related: Full VALORANT agent release order

So, how many new Agents can you expect to be added to the game in the near future? Well, it has already been confirmed that Riot will add three new agents over the year, so there is only one more agent to be added in 2023 after Deadlock made her way into the game in June.

All VALORANT agents and their abilities

Astra

Blessed with cosmic powers, Astra brings the edge of large, translucent smokes and strong crowd control to the table. An Astral Guardian out to save the world, Astra can enter Astral Form in a meditating pose, which lets her offer allies crucial support, although she can be quite vulnerable when up in the air.

Real name: Efia Danso
Release: Episode Two
Agent role: Controller

• Gravity Well – Activate a Star to form a Gravity Well. Players in the area are pulled toward the center before it explodes, making all players still trapped inside fragile.
• Nova Pulse – Activate a Star to detonate a Nova Pulse. The Nova Pulse charges briefly, then strikes, concussing all players in its area.
• Nebula – Activate a Star to transform it into a Nebula (smoke).
• Dissipate – Use (F) on a Star to Dissipate it, returning the star to be placed in a new location after a delay. Dissipate briefly forms a fake Nebula at the Star’s location before returning.
• Ultimate: Astral Form / Cosmic Divide – Activate to enter Astral Form, where you can place Stars with primary fire. Stars can be reactivated later, transforming them into a Nova Pulse, Nebula, or Gravity Well. When Cosmic Divide is charged, use secondary fire in Astral Form to begin aiming it, then primary fire to select two locations. An infinite Cosmic Divide connects the two points you select. Cosmic Divide blocks bullets and heavily dampens audio.

Breach

As his name suggests, this bionic Swede is an expert at breaching his enemies’ territories. Earth-shattering crowd control and potent blind abilities allow him to slice up the enemy team’s unity, leaving them helpless. 

Real Name: Erik Torsten
Release: Beta
Agent Role: Initiator

• Aftershock – Equip a Fusion Charge. Fire the charge to set a slow-activating burst through a wall. The burst does heavy damage to anyone caught in the area.
• Flashpoint – Equip a blinding charge. Fire the charge to set a fast-acting burst through a wall. The charge detonates to blind all players looking at it.
• Fault Lines – Equip a seismic blast. Hold Fire to increase the distance. Release to set off the quake, dazing all players in its zone in a line up to the zone.
• Ultimate: Rolling Thunder – Equip a seismic charge. Fire to send a cascading quake through all terrain in a large cone. The quake dazes and knocks up anyone caught in it.

Brimstone

One of the founders of VALORANT Protocol and leader of the pack, Brimstone, brings a major advantage to the fight with his precise orbital arsenal. Besides being a favorite among aggressive players for his instant smokes, Brimstone’s well-built bod and deep tone make him an internet sensation.

Real name: Liam Byrne
Release: Beta
Agent role: Controller

• Incendiary – Launch an incendiary grenade that deploys a damaging field of fire.
• Stim Beacon – Target a nearby location to call in a Stim Beacon, giving all players near it Rapidfire.
• Sky Smoke – Use your map to call in orbital deployment smokescreens that obscure vision. Click to set the locations, and confirm to launch.
• Ultimate: Orbital Strike – Use your map to target a location, launching a devastating orbital strike that pulses for high damage over several seconds.

Chamber

Stealing the hearts of many, French weapon designer Chamber walked into the Protocol in Episode Three, Act Three, shaking up the game’s meta like no other agent. Despite the massive nerfs he has undergone, reducing his dominant pick rate to ashes, he’s still the most attractive agent—and I speak not just of his appearance.

Real name: Vincent Fabron
Release: Episode Three
Agent role: Sentinel

• Trademark – Place a trap that scans for enemies. When a visible enemy comes in range, the trap counts down and then destabilizes the terrain around them, creating a lingering field that slows players caught inside of it.
• Headhunter – Activate to equip a heavy pistol. Alt fire with the pistol equipped to aim down sights.
• Rendezvous – Place two teleport anchors. While on the ground and in range of an anchor, reactivate to quickly teleport to the other anchor. Anchors can be picked up to be redeployed.
• Ultimate – Tour de Force – Activate to summon a powerful, custom sniper rifle that will kill an enemy with any direct hit. Killing an enemy creates a lingering field that slows players caught inside of it.

Cypher

Whether it’s for hacking the enemy’s location or manipulating them, Cypher is an expert at both. The Moroccan spy may seem impassive from his fishy get-up, but a couple of his voice lines implicating a lovable family that he seems to have lost can get you worked up.

Real name: Amir El Amari
Release: Beta
Agent role: Sentinel

• Trapwire – Place a stealth tripwire between two walls. Triggering enemies are restrained and revealed for a short time. If the trap isn’t destroyed, it activates to daze the trapped victim. It can be picked up.
• Cyber Cage – Toss out a remote activation trap. Reactivate to create a cage that slows enemies who pass through it. Look at a trap and press “use” to detonate it, or hold “activate” to detonate all.
• Spycam – Place a remote camera. After placing, reactivate to view the video feed. Left-click while in camera to fire a tracking dart. It recharges when picked up or killed.
• Ultimate: Neural Theft – Extract information from the corpse of an enemy, revealing the location of their living allies.

Deadlock

Deadlock’s fierce attitude makes her a favorite among many, although her unique kit is what shines the most about her. Hailing from Norway, the elite operative brings the deadly power of dynamic nanowires to the battlefield, letting sentinel players be more than just the team’s defense.

Real name: Iselin
Release: Episode Seven
Agent role: Sentinel

• Sonic Sensor – Equip a Sonic Sensor. Fie to deploy. The sensor monitors an area for enemies making sounds. It concusses players in that area if footsteps, weapons fire, or significant noise are detected.
• GravNet – Equip a GravNet grenade. Fire to throw. Alt fire to lob the grenade underhand. The GravNet detonates upon landing, forcing any enemies caught within to crouch and move slowly.
• Barrier Mesh – Equip a Barrier Mesh disc. Fire to throw forward. Upon landing, the disc generates barriers from the origin point that block character movement.
• Ultimate: Annihilation – Equip a Nanowire Accelerator. Fire to unleash a pulse of nanowires that captures the first enemy contacted. The cocooned enemy is pulled along a nanowire path and will die if they reach the end unless they are freed. The nanowire cocoon is destructible.

Fade

One of VALORANT’s most mysterious characters, Fade draws her dark, nightmarish powers from others’ fear and grief. Previously a bounty hunter, she’s a master at sniffing out and marking hiding enemies, thanks to the trail of terror they leave behind.

Real name: Hazal Eyletmez
Release: Episode Four
Agent role: Initiator

• Seize – Equip an orb of nightmare ink. Fire to throw the orb, which will plummet to the ground after a set amount of time. Upon hitting the ground, the ink will explode and create a zone in which enemies who are caught in it cannot escape the zone by normal means. Re-use the ability to drop the projectile early in flight.
• Prowler – Equip a Prowler. Fire will send the Prowler out, causing it to travel in a straight line. The Prowler will lock onto any enemies or trails in their frontal vision cone and chase them, nearsighting them if on contact them. Hold the fire button to steer the Prowler in the direction of your crosshair.
• Haunt – Equip a nightmarish entity. Fire to throw the orb, which will plummet to the ground after a set amount of time. Upon hitting the ground, the orb will turn into a nightmarish entity that will reveal the location of enemies caught in its line of sight. Enemies can destroy this entity. Re-use the ability to drop the projectile early in flight.
• Ultimate: Nightfall – Equip the power of Fear. Fire to send out a wave of nightmare energy that can traverse through walls. The energy creates a trail to the opponent as well as deafens and decays them.

Gekko

With four adorable yet potent Radianite-powered creatures by his side, Gekko brings both charm and challenge to the battlefield. While his animated kit is great for initiating strategies, Wingman’s passive Spike planting potential takes a major responsibility off the team’s shoulders. 

Real name: Mateo Armendáriz De la Fuente
Release: Episode Six
Agent role: Initiator

• Wingman – Gekko equips Wingman and fires it, seeking enemies. Wingman unleashes a concussive blast toward the first enemy he sees. Gekko can use alternate fire to send Wingman out to either defuse the Spike or plant the Spike. Gekko must have the Spike in his inventory to use Wingman as the planter. Gekko can retrieve Wingman after a short cooldown.
• Most Pit – Gekko equips Mosh Pit and can throw the projectile underhand with alternate fire or throw normally using regular fire. Mosh duplicates upon landing and explodes after a short delay across a wide area, most similar to a KAY/O grenade.
• Dizzy – Gekko equips Dizzy and fires it to soar through the air. Dizzy charges and then unleashes plasma blasts at enemies in line of sight. Enemies hit by her plasma are blinded. When Dizzy expires, she reverts into a dormant globule which can be picked up by Gekko for another charge after a short cooldown.
• Ultimate: Thrash – Gekko equips Thrash and steers her toward the enemies. Activate to lunge and explode, which detains enemies. After Thrash expires, she can be picked up to gain another charge after a short cooldown to be used once more.

Harbor

After a major fallout against his employer, REALM, and choosing to keep a magical, ancient artifact, Harbor now harnesses the power to bend water to his will, offering excellent cover for his team to execute its plan.

Real name: Varun Batra
Release: Episode Five
Agent role: Controller

• High Tide – Equip a wall of water. Fire to send the water forward along the ground. Hold Fire to guide the water in the direction of your crosshair, passing through the world, spawning a wall along the water’s path. Alt-Fire while bending to stop the water early. Players hit are slowed.
• Cove – Equip a sphere of shielding water. Fire to throw. Alt Fire to underhand throw. Upon impacting the ground, spawn a water shield that blocks bullets.
• Cascade – Equip a wave of water. Fire to send the wave rolling forward and through walls. Re-Use to stop the wave from moving further. Players hit are slowed.
• Ultimate: Reckoning – Equip the full power of your Artifact. Fire to summon a geyser pool on the ground. Enemy players in the area are targeted by successive geyser strikes. Players caught within a strike are Concussed.

Jett

Hailing from South Korea, Jett is an expert in aerial movement, allowing her to dash and leap into sites or exit a sticky situation instantly. She’s adored for her fast-paced battle style, making it hard for enemies to keep up with her.

Real name: Han Sunwoo
Release: Beta
Agent role: Duelist

• Cloudburst – Throw out a cloud of fog that obscures vision on impact. Hold down the ability button to bend the cloud’s in-flight trajectory.
• Updraft – After a brief wind-up, propel yourself upwards.
• Tailwind – Immediately dash a short distance in the direction you’re moving.
• Ultimate: Blade Storm – Arm yourself with several deadly throwing knives that deal moderate damage and kill on headshots. Scoring a kill restores all daggers. Left-click throws a single dagger. Right-click throws all remaining daggers in a short-ranged burst.

KAY/O

KAY/O is a battle robot from an alternate future, here to maintain peace between the Radiants and the humans and prevent a devastating war. Interestingly, he was built by humans to neutralize hostile Radiants in the future, but he’s currently fighting beside Radiants and humans in a world where there’s peace between both races.

Real name: NA
Release: Episode Three
Agent role: Initiator

• ZERO/point – KAY/O equips a suppression blade that, when thrown, sticks to the first surface it hits. The knife then winds up and suppresses anyone caught in the explosion radius, rendering their abilities useless.
• FLASH/drive – KAY/O equips a flash grenade that explodes after it’s thrown, blinding enemies in its line of sight. Right-clicking the grenade causes it to only cook for one second before exploding. Left-clicking cooks the flash for 1.6 seconds longer.
• FRAG/ment – KAY/O equips an explosive fragment that sticks to the floor when thrown. The fragment explodes multiple times and deals near-lethal damage at the center with each explosion.
• Ultimate: NULL/cmd – KAY/O instantly overloads with polarized radianite energy, empowering him and causing large energy pulses to emit from his location. Enemies hit with the pulses are suppressed for a short duration. KAY/O also gains a combat stim while overloaded. If the robot is killed while overloaded, he’s downed and enters a destabilized state that allows allies to revive him by stabilizing his core.

Killjoy

A genius inventor, Killjoy’s arsenal of specially curated robots offers unrivaled support to her and the team. Besides her excellent engineering skills, her lively personality is a winner, capturing the hearts of many, including Raze.

Real name: Klara Böhringer
Release: Beta
Agent role: Sentinel

• Alarmbot – Equip a covert Alarmbot. Fire to deploy a bot that hunts down enemies that get in range. After reaching its target, the bot explodes, applying Vulnerable. Hold equip to recall a deployed bot.
• Turret – Equip a Turret. Fire to deploy a turret that fires at enemies in a 180-degree cone. Hold equip to recall the deployed turret.
• Nanoswarm – Equip a Nanoswarm grenade. Fire to throw the grenade. Upon landing, the Nanoswarm goes covert. Activate the Nanoswarm to deploy a damaging swarm of nanobots.
• Ultimate: Lockdown – Equip the Lockdown device. Fire to deploy the device. After a long windup, the device detains all enemies caught in the radius. The device can be destroyed by enemies.

Neon

Despite her struggles to control her electrical powers, Neon never hesitates to put her life in line to protect the ones she cares about. A runner, she’s an expert at cornering and confusing enemies, who are left trying to track her while she’s sprinting around them.

Real name: Tala Nicole Dimaapi Valdez
Release: Episode Four
Agent role: Duelist

• High Gear – Instantly channel Neon’s power for increased speed. When charged, use Alt Fire to trigger an electric slide. Slide charge resets after two kills.
• Relay Bolt – Instantly throw an energy bolt that bounces once. Upon hitting each surface, the bolt electrifies the ground below with a concussive blast.
• Fast Lane – Fire two energy lines forward on the ground that extend a short distance or until they hit a surface. The lines rise into walls of static electricity that block vision and damage enemies passing through them.
• Ultimate: Overdrive – Unleash Neon’s full power and speed for a short duration. Fire to channel the power into a deadly lightning beam with high movement accuracy. The duration resets on each kill.

Omen

The word that best describes Omen is also what he exactly is: a Phantom. No one knows his origin. He hails from the shadows, offering the team exceptional cover and support with the power he draws from a phased world. He seems to have a history with Viper from her time as a scientist at the Kingdom Corporation, but the full story isn’t apparent enough.

Real name: Omen (possibly John, as hinted by Viper in a voice line)
Release: Beta
Agent role: Controller

• Paranoia – Send out an Ethereal shadow in a straight line, nearsighting anyone it touches.
• Shrouded Step – After a delay, dematerialize and teleport a short distance to the pointed location.
• Dark Cover – Cast out a stealth ethereal orb that bursts into an obscuring sphere of shadow at its final location. Can be charged to increase distance.
• Ultimate: From the Shadows – Select anywhere on the map to teleport and reform. When arriving, appear as a Shade, that will go back to your original location if killed. Once the teleport is complete, become Incorporeal for a short time.

Phoenix 

Flaunting a fiery, confident nature, Phoenix hails from the United Kingdom and brings the edge of sharp flashes and damaging flares to the battle. He isn’t known for being careful or thoughtful, so you’d often see him rush into the fight without backup.

Real name: Jamie Adeyemi
Release: Beta
Agent role: Duelist

• Hot Hands – Throw a fireball that explodes after a delay or upon impact with the ground. The fire zone damages enemies and heals you.
• Blaze – Cast out a flame wall that blocks vision and damages anyone passing through it. You can bend the wall when casting by turning while holding left click.
• Curveball – Cast a curving flare that bursts into brilliant light after a brief delay, temporarily blinding all looking at it. Left-click curves it left, right-click curves it right.
• Ultimate: Run it Back – Mark your current location. If you die during this ability’s duration or when this ability’s duration expires, you’ll be reborn at the marked location with full health.

Raze

Hailing from Brazil, Raze is armed with colorful explosives, ready to blast her enemies, as well as paint their graves. She’s an engineer, just like her romantic interest, Killjoy, and is a one-woman party.

Real name: Tayane Alves
Release: Beta
Agent role: Duelist

• Blast Pack – Instantly throw a Blast Pack that will stick to surfaces. Re-use the ability after deployment to detonate, damage, and move anything hit.
• Paint Shells – Equip a cluster grenade. Fire to throw the grenade, which does damage and creates sub-munitions, each doing damage to anyone in their range.
• Boom Bot – 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.
• Ultimate: Showstopper – Equip a rocket launcher. Fire shoots a rocket that does massive area damage in contact with anything.

Reyna

The Mexican soul harvester, Reyna sucks the life out of her enemies—literally. Her kit is dependent on how well she performs, and while it may sound like a disadvantage, know that her limitations can easily push her beyond what she’s usually capable of.  

Real name: Zyanya Mondragón
Release: Episode One
Agent role: Duelist

• Dismiss – Consume the life force of a killed enemy to turn invisible and invulnerable for a short duration.
• Devour – Consume the life force of a killed enemy to restore your health.
• Leer – Send out an Ethereal, destructible Orb that Nearsights any enemies that look at it.
• Ultimate: Empress – Enter a heightened state of bloodlust, giving you Rapid Fire and making enemies easier to see for the duration. Scoring a kill resets the timer.

Sage

Hailing from China, Sage is the epitome of calm and composed, helping her team hold its edge in the fight with her healing and defensive prowess. Her ability to revive dead teammates is a game-changer. 

Real name: Wei Ling Ying
Release: Beta
Agent role: Sentinel

• Slow Orb – Cast out a radianite orb that breaks into a slowing field upon impact with the ground. All caught in the field are slowed, grounded, and make noise when moving.
• Barrier Orb – Conjure a large, solid wall. Right-click to rotate the wall before casting.
• Healing Orb – Heal an ally or yourself to full health over a few seconds.
• Ultimate: Resurrection – Target a friendly corpse. After a short delay, revive them with full health.

Skye

Skye unleashes her band of pet animals—birds, tigers, and more—upon her enemies, driving them out of their spots or punishing them if they don’t move. Besides her combat skills, she is known to be able to sense nature’s whispers, learning of impending dangers before things get bad.

Real name: Kirra Foster
Release: Episode One
Agent role: Initiator

• Trailblazer – Skye equips a Tasmanian tiger trinket. Fire to send out and take control of the predator. Players can fire again to leap forward as the tiger, exploding in a concussive blast and damaging enemies directly hit by it.
• Guiding Light – Skye equips a hawk trinket. Fire to send it forward and hold fire to guide the hawk in the direction of your crosshair, similar to Jett’s smokes or Phoenix’s wall. Players can reuse the ability while the hawk is in the air to flash anyone caught in the blind. If an enemy is caught by the flash, the hawk will play a hit-confirm sound.
• Regrowth – Skye equips a healing trinket. Hold fire to channel, healing allies in range and in Skye’s line of sight. The ability can be reused until her healing pool is depleted. Skye can’t heal herself.
• Ultimate: Seekers – Skye equips a Seeker trinket. Fire to send out three Seekers that track down the three closest enemies, nearsighting those caught.

Sova

Sova comes from the harsh winters of Russia, offering a range of helpful intel-gathering tech for his team to break into sites. A humble hunter, he’s not known for showing mercy when it comes to the enemies of his world.

Real name: Alexander (Sasha) Novikov
Release: Beta
Agent role: Initiator

• Shock Bolt – Fire an explosive bolt that emits a damaging pulse of static energy upon impact.
• Owl Drone – Deploy a pilotable drone that can fire a dart that will Reveal enemies who are hit.
• Recon Bolt – Fire a bolt that deploys a sonar emitter. The sonar pings tag nearby enemies, causing them to be revealed. Can be destroyed.
• Ultimate: Hunter’s Fury – Fire up to three deadly energy blasts that spear across the entire map. Each hit enemy takes heavy damage and is marked.

Viper 

Viper’s toxic personality may not be pleasant, but her hand-made toxins bring an incredible advantage to the game. Being one of the founding members of VALORANT Protocol and an ex-Kingdom employee, she’s a keeper of many secrets, including Omen’s true identity.

Real name: Sabine Callas
Release: Beta
Agent role: Controller

• Snakebite – Fire a projectile that explodes into a pool of damaging acid.
• Poison Cloud – Throw a gas emitter that you can reactivate to create a poisonous smoke cloud at the cost of fuel. The emitter can be picked up and thrown again after a short cooldown.
• Toxic Screen – Deploy a long line of gas emitters that you can reactivate to create a tall wall of toxic gas at the cost of fuel.
• Ultimate: Viper’s Pit – Emit a massive toxic cloud in a large area that lasts as long as Viper stays inside the cloud. Enemies inside the cloud are highlighted to Viper.

Yoru

Armed with flair, courage, and, of course, stealth tech, Yoru rips open the dimension to infiltrate enemy territories and stall them, while offering his team a smooth, obstacle-free entry in the meantime. When he’s not deceiving enemies, Yoru is determined to uncover the mysteries of his past. 

Real name: Kiritani Ryo
Release: Episode Two
Agent role: Duelist

• Fakeout – Equip a Yoru decoy. Fire to activate and send the decoy forward, alt-fire to place a decoy in place, and use the inactive decoy to send it forward.
• Gatecrash – Equip to harness a rift tether. Fire to send the tether out moving forward, alt-fire to put a tether in place, and activate to teleport to the tether’s location.
• Blindside – Equip to rip an unstable dimensional fragment from reality. Fire to throw the fragment, activating a flash that winds up once it collides with a hard surface in the world.
• Ultimate: Dimensional Drift – Equips a mask that can see between dimensions. Fire to drift into Yoru’s dimension, making the player unable to be affected or seen by enemies during the ultimate’s duration.