Duelists are the best agents in the game for the front-line push. If you love to push and love first blood kill, then the Duelists agent suits your gameplay style. There are six Duelist agents in the Valorant game, which is a higher number than all other agent types. Initiators are five agents, and Controller and Sentinel each have four agents. Duelists always push forward to conflicts with the enemy they also stop the enemy’s push and are first to enter the site due to their Duellist abilities.
There are 19 Valorant Agents in the game; these are divided into four type groups. These types are known as Controller, Sentinel, Initiator and Duelist.
- Duelist : Phoenix, Jett, Reyna, Raze, Yoru, Neon
- Initiator : Sova, Breach, Skye, KAY/O, Fade
- Controller : Brimstone, Viper, Omen, Astra,
- Sentinel : Killjoy, Cypher, Sage, Chamber
Duelists are also known as attackers; they push forward to conflicts with enemy teams.
Initiators get enemy intel and find enemy moments to help their team.
Controllers are used to blocking enemy sight lines and help teams to stop enemy push or entering the site.
Sentinel are defenders played at the back line to help their team.
Today we are talking about Duelist agents and discussing their abilities and advantages. So you can use them better in the game.
Phoenix
Phoenix is not the strongest agent in the Duelist category, but it can get the job done. Phoenix has two abilities which help him to restore his HP. These abilities also damage the other player and block the vision. These abilities are known as Blaze and Hot hands. Blaze is used to create a hot wall which blocks vision, and when players pass through, they get damaged. He can throw hot Hands Phoenix signature abilities that explodes into a lingering fire zone that damages enemies. Phoenix also uses its ultimate to get one extra life in a round.
Blaze | 200 Credits | 1 Charge
Blaze is a firewall which can block vision and damage players passing through it. Phoenix can bend the wall in the direction of the crosshair.
Curveball | 250 Credits | 2 Charges
Curveball is a flash orb. Flash orb curving path and detonates after a short time after throwing. Curveballs can be curved in both rights and left directions.
Hot Hands | Free | 1 Charge | 2 Kill Recharge
A hot hand is a fireball that explodes after hitting the ground and damages the players in the radius. Hot Hands also increase phoenix’s health.
Ultimate | Run it Back | 6 Points
Run it Back gives phoenix extra life in a round. While this ability is active, dying or allowing the timer to expire will end this ability and bring him back to his total health.
Jett
Jett is one of the most incredible and flashiest Valorant characters. She can get a place in every match in Valorant. With his name Jett, she can propel high into the air. She also can propel in the direction she is moving. Tailwind helped him to change his location very fast. These abilities also make her one of the best agents to use Operator. She can easily escape after first blood. She also has a cloudburst, which is smoke she can curve the smoke in the crosshair direction.
Cloudburst | 200 Credits | 2 Charges
She can instantly throw a smoke which blocks brief vision. She can curve smoke in the direction of your crosshair.
Updraft | 150 Credits | 2 Charges
She can propel into air high instantly with Updraft abilities.
Signature | Tailwind: Free | 1 Charge | 2 Kill Recharge
She can instantly propel herself in the direction she is moving. If Jett stands still, she will propel forward.
Ultimate | Blade Storm | 7 Points
This is the most powerful ultimate in the Valorant. Set of highly accurate knives that recharge on killing an opponent. She can fire a single knife at your target. She can also throw all remaining daggers at the target.
Reyna
Reyna is a self-sustaining Duelist who can clear her way by herself. She can handle or push to a site solo with her unique abilities. Her leer is an amazing blind ability which forces enemies to shoot it or is unable to peek for two seconds. Thanks to her Dismiss abilities, she can swing more aggressively. She can use a soul orb to fall back to safety instantly. She can also use the soul orb to heal itself. Last but not least, the Reyna Ultimate helps him to do 1v5 better than any agents.
Leer | 250 Credits | 2 Charges
Leer is an ethereal destructible eye. She can cast the eye a short distance forward, which blocks enemies who look at it nearsighted.
Devour | 200 Credits (Shared with Dismiss) | 2 Charges
Any enemies killed by Reyan leave behind Soul Orbs which can last for three seconds. She can use nearby soul orbs to heal herself. If Empress is active, this skill will automatically cast and not consume the orb.
Dismiss | 200 Credits (Shared with Devour) | 2 Charges
She can also use the soul orb and become intangible for a short duration. She becomes invisible if Empress is active.
Ultimate | Empress | 6 Points
Reyna Ultimate increases her firing speed, equipment and reload speed dramatically.
Raze
Raze is a mass destruction duelist agent. Her Boom bots, which are robots, can clear a large area. Raze Paint Shells is a grenade that causes damage and creates sub-munitions, damaging anyone in the range. Raze Blast Pack helps to avoid different traps and jump off from tripwire. She can use two blast pack jumps in a row and gain massive forward momentum. It is extremely hard to track her movements. Raze ultimate; a showstopper can be used with a blast pack; a showstopper is a rocket that can cause massive damage to anything that comes into contact.
Boom Bot | 300 Credits | 1 Charge
Boom Bot travels into a straight line on the ground and bounces off walls. The boom Bot will lock onto enemies and explodes for heavy damage if it reaches them.
Blast Pack | 200 Credits | 2 Charges
Blast Pack can be thrown and stuck to the surface. It can detonate, damage and move anything hit. Raze isn’t damaged by this ability.
Paint Shells | Free | 1 Charge | 2 Kill Recharge
Paint Shells is a cluster grenade that damages and creates sub-munitions and damages anyone in their range.
Ultimate | Showstopper | 8 Points
It’s a rocket launcher ultimate which shoots a rocket that does damage to a massive area.
Yoru
Selecting Yoru as your agent is difficult, but a recent buff to yoru in patch 5.01. Which makes yoru back into a pick-up Duelist agent. Yoru can use teleport and flash as his abilities. Fakeout is a clone ability of yoru if enemies shoot it, they get blind. Yoru flash is not fast than another agent, but it is very useful when yoru are on its ultimate. Yoru can fake his teleport, but enemies need to look for it to confirm, which helps yoru trick enemies.
Fakeout | 100 Credits | 1 Charge
It’s an echo that transforms into a mirror image of Your when activated. A mirror image can explode in a blinding flash when enemies destroy it.
Blindside | 250 Credits | 2 Charges
Blindside is a flash that winds up once it collides with a hard surface in the world.
Gatecrash | 200 Credits | 2 Charges | 2 Kill Recharge
Gatecrash is a rift tether. Which Yoru can use to teleport to the tether location, or it can fake teleport.
Ultimate | Dimensional Drift | 7 Points
Yoru dimension cannot be affected or seen by enemies from the outside.
Neon
Neon is a newly added Duelist Agent. Neon is a speedy agent like Jett. If you like to play with Shorty or Stinger, then you can do it with Neon speed. Fast Lane is a two-energy line wall that helps Neon enter a site. It also blocks enemies’ vision and damages the enemies passing through them. Relay Bolt is an energy bolt that bounces once. They electrify the ground and cause a concussive blast. Neon is also very powerful with her speed and ultimate. She throws a highly lightning beam with high movement accuracy.
Fast Lane | 300 Credits | 1 Charge
Neon creates two energy walls to extend a short distance. The lines rise into walls of static electricity that block vision and damage enemies who pass through them.
Relay Bolt | 200 Credits | 2 Charges
These are energy bolts that bounce off the surface once. It creates electricity with a concussive blast.
High Gear | Free | 1 Charge | 2 Kill Recharge
It’s a Neon signature power which increases speed. Slide charge resets every two kills.
Ultimate | Overdrive | 7 Credits
It’s a deadly lightning beam with high movement accuracy. The duration resets on each kill.
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