Valorant introduces agents with abilities that can range from being too weak to absurdly overpowered. It’s challenging for the developers to perfect every aspect of an agent on the release day. Chamber was entirely broken from the moment he entered the game. In fact, Chamber was one of the very few agents that dominated the meta on release day.  For everyone excited about the upcoming Valorant Agent 25, there’s more reason to be hyped up.

Phoenix leaks more information about Valorant Agent 25

From a recent developer video, Riot has confirmed that the new agent will be a controller. To spice up the release, a new Phoenix voice line has surfaced in Valorant, hinting at a broken ultimate. Check out the video below:

Our new Smoke Agent will have the ability to revive after dying | #VALORANT

"Aye fam, imagine when me and the new kid go on the same mission, other team gonna be stressin', with both of us coming back to life" pic.twitter.com/uFTwPtDhLS

— Valorant Updates (@ValorantUpdated) March 3, 2024

Yes, you heard it right. Valorant Agent 25 might be coming in hot with an all-new self-revival ultimate. As of today, only Phoenix, Sage, and Kayo have resurrecting abilities. Phoenix’s ultimate, “Run it Back,” brings him back to life while attempting to go all Rambo on the opponent. Kay-O can only be resurrected by a teammate, and Sage can straight revive any dead teammate with her ultimate.

Everything we know about Valorant Agent 25 so far!

Valorant Agent 25 is confirmed to play an aggressive playstyle as opposed to the traditional back-of-the-line support meta. In the present meta, controllers can go aggressive with a shorty, pushing their own smokes. This strategy is a one-off, viable during eco rounds and nothing more.

Developers have confirmed that Valorant Agent 25 will be breaking the traditional controller meta. A teaser was shared with the caption “when dropping smokes brings new life.” Initially, this statement only hinted at the fact that a new controller agent is incoming. With the recent Phoenix voice line update, the mentioned caption gives out way more meaning. The “bring new life” aspect of that phrase clearly suggests a revival ability. Club that with the Phoenix voice from the video posted above, and voila, we have a “self-resurrection” ability.

Possible Abilities for Valorant Agent 25

Since the ultimate for Agent 25 is most likely to be a self-revival ability, it only makes sense for it to revolve around the agent’s smokes. Every controller has range restrictions regarding placing smokes. Astra, initially on launch, had no range restriction for smokes, but Riot quickly nerfed them. Valorant Agent 25 will probably have a range restriction and an ultimate that requires smokes to be active. The ultimate for the new agent would most possibly be to resurrect himself in an active smoke while he dies.

Also, the developer did hint at peeking aggressively with the upcoming controller. A possible ability would be to be invisible, similar to Reyna, for a brief moment while exiting the smokes. Depending on how loud the ability is, players could pull off some aggresive plays in positions no other controller would be able to do. These are just wild guesses from the hints that Riot has been dropping over the weeks. It’ll be really interesting to see how far off a miss these guesses are. Riot’s always clever with introducing unique combinations of already existing abilities as a single ability. This agent might just give the controller role a new meaning.