Riot Video games has launched the most recent playable agent that might be becoming a member of Valorant‘s roster. Named Waylay, the brand new agent hails from Thailand, and was unveiled throughout the grand finals of the VCT Masters: Bangkok esports occasion. Take a look at the trailers unveiling and showcasing Waylay beneath.
Waylay might be becoming a member of the roster of Valorant as a part of Act 2 of the sport’s 2025 season, which might be going stay on March 5.
Her set of skills revolve round darting across the battlefield because of the truth that she will flip into gentle. The introductory cinematic exhibits off these capabilities fairly effectively, whereas the gameplay reveal trailer provides us a have a look at how her skills will play out in an precise match.
Together with simply flying across the battlefield to tackle opponents by flanking them from totally different instructions, the trailer additionally exhibits off her final capacity, which permits her to keep away from even different brokers’ strongest powers.
As is the case with all Valorant brokers, Waylay may have entry to 4 key skills: Refract, Gentle Velocity, Saturate, and her final, Convergent Paths.
Refract permits Waylay to create a beacon of sunshine on the ground. Gamers can then immediately journey again to this beacon from anyplace else within the map, all of the whereas being utterly invulnerable as they journey.
Gentle Velocity provides Waylay her signature burst motion, permitting her to sprint ahead twice on the velocity of sunshine. Gamers can even sprint upwards with the primary of the 2 dashes, and the power can even alternately be used to sprint forwards solely as soon as.
Saturate acts like Waylay’s grenade capacity, permitting her to throw a cluster of sunshine that explodes when it hits the bottom. Enemies caught on this explosion endure from slowed down motion and weapons.
Her final, Convergent Paths, permits Waylay to create an afterimage that tasks a beam of sunshine. After a delay, the beam begins increasing as Waylay will get a velocity increase, whereas additionally hindering opponents acught within the space.
Alongside Waylay, the seasonal replace may also convey with it the brand new Cyrax assortment, with skins for the Vandal, Ghost, Guardian, Stinger, and Fanblade. The brand new assortment gives gamers to sport a crystalline search for their weapons of alternative. The Cyrax Assortment might be available for purchase on March 6.
The final main addition to Valorant‘s roster was ballistics skilled Tejo, who is ready to use explosive skills, in addition to a stealth drone, to get management of the battlefield. Tejo was added to Valorant‘s roster as a part of the Act 1 of the sport’s 2025 season.
Valorant is a free-to-play aggressive shooter that’s obtainable on PC, PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S. The sport blends the tactical gameplay of titles like Counter-Strike, the place even a single headshot could possibly be deadly, with hero shooter mechanics from video games like Overwatch, the place each playable character has entry to their very own units of skills, giving all of them distinctive edges in battle.
For extra particulars, try our overview of the PS5 launch of Valorant.
