With Valorant Masters Bangkok being less than a month away, talks of a new agent being introduced in the game have made the entire Valorant fanbase excited. Players of the game are speculating that Riot will finally bless players with a new duelist in the game more than a year later.
Amidst all the excitement for the new agent, Riot should not forget about their one other duelist who still needs some tweaking even though he was released back in 2021. Let’s delve deeper into who this agent is and what happened to him through the years.
Valorant’s 15th agent is still the most unremarkable in the rooster
The Valorant Masters Bangkok grand finals will take place on March 2 and on the Valorant Champions Tour’s official X (formerly Twitter) page, they announced that a reveal of the new agent will take place just before the finals begin.
The new agent who is currently codenamed Agent 28, was first teased in the Dawn of the Duelist cinematic for the Masters Bangkok. In the teaser video, Tejo is seen messaging this mystery agent while traveling with the rest of the team, and on the other side, Agent 28 is receiving the message that reads “This crew has potential, but they’re not you.”
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Although we are still unsure whether the new agent is a duelist or not, there is one duelist in the game who has been suffering since his release, and while he went through a complete rework, fans are still disappointed at the state he is left in currently. We are of course talking about our favorite multi-dimensional Japanese samurai, Yoru.
Yoru is the 15th agent in Valorant and he was released in Act 1 of Episode 2 back in 2021. He is truly the glass cannon of the game, with two flashes, a teleporting ability, and a clone, taking space as Yoru is a literal do-or-die situation in the game. Yoru’s erratic yet sneaky nature contributes to a lot of interesting playstyles that give players the creative freedom to play as Yoru however they want.
While the masked samurai feels like an absolute treat to play, he is not as good as the other duelists in the hero shooter. He has gone through several changes in the past few years for the sake of balancing and currently, he is rather underwhelming in front of the other duelists like Jett, Raze, Reyna, and even Iso.
Most of the patches Yoru went through either buffed him to the gods or nerfed him to dust, and Riot still has not found the perfect balance for him to be at.
Riot Games must not make the same mistake twice
With all the new agents and maps on the horizon, Riot Games seems to have completely forgotten about Yoru and sort of swept him under the rug. While he may not be a popular pick during competitive matches, Yoru is still among the most fun agents to play in the entire game because of his deceptive capabilities and outplaying potential.
Although it is still unclear whether the new agent will actually be a duelist or not, Riot absolutely needs to learn from their mistake and avoid creating another disaster like Yoru. The developers must strike the right balance between fun and effectiveness so that the new character is viable in competitive play from day one.
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