Everything we know about Valorant Agent 16: Grenadier leaks, abilities, release date
Valorant has been steadily building its roster every Act. Agent 16, codenamed Grenadier, is on the way, but not in Episode 2 Act 3. Instead, players will have to wait a bit longer. Here’s what we know.
With the launch ofGhanaian Agent Astra, there are now 15 Valorant Agents for teams to strategize around. Players were expecting Agent 16 to come inEpisode 2 Act 3, but Riot skipped over the release. It’s sent the community into a bit of disarray, given Riot released a new map in Breeze. However, don’t be too worried, Agent 16 is coming, just not right now. Here’s everything we know.
Valorant Agent 16 leaks: Codename, more
Players originally thought a promotion video on the Arabian Valorant account could have been a teaser for the new Agent. However, this turned out to be a trailer forStrike Arabia, a new tournament. https://twitter.com/ValorLeaks/status/1392120809376845827 While weeks followed with no relevant teasers, a May 11 leak finally gave us some fresh information. Shortly after the2.09 updatewent live, dataminers noticed a new character name hidden away in the game’s code. ‘Grenadier’ is the reported codename for Agent 16 in Valorant. While this could be indicative of the Agent’s playstyle, it’s purely a codename for now. There’s a good chance the actual name for the next character is something entirely different.
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Valorant Agent 16 teasers and clues
In theYR1 Valorantevent run down on June 2, the dev blog included a banner to tease the new agent. All we got was a symbol, presumably for one of the Agent’s abilities. At the time of the announcement, we had the names of Agents on their with information omitted.Riot must have later updated it since there’s a renewed banner that omits the other Agents name’s even further. A few days after that update onJune 8, Twitter user@cynprelnoticed fresh clues popping up on the newest map Breeze, including a newly lit sign by the teleporter, and a knife sticking out of a Radianite crate.
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“Judging by the setup here, this may be the ability that disables other abilities,” Cynprel said on Twitter, and while we can’t say for sure that’s what it represents, it’s as good a guess as any so far. https://twitter.com/cynprel/status/1402303842008518660?s=20
Summer Games Fest trailer
In addition to all of this, the new Summer Games Fest Valorant trailer dropped on June 10, and gives us a sneak peek at what this Agent could possibly look like. The clip shows off a robotic skeleton which appears to turn itself on, before panning down to a detached, robotic-looking head which comes to life before our very eyes. https://twitter.com/PlayVALORANT/status/1403059944295915523 When the trailer dropped, the official Valorant Twitter account was fully decked out in all things Killjoy, with the name, biography and images edited to look as though the German genius herself had penned them. It has us asking a few questions: was the new Agent built by our favorite Sentinel to protect Future Earth? Or is it an experiment gone wrong? Either way, there’s some seriousTerminatorvibes.
Valorant Agent 16 release date
Riot threw a spanner in the works by not following the previous schedule of one Agent per Act with Episode 2 Act 3. That means we can expect Agent 16 to drop in Valorant Episode 3 Act 1, due to launch onJune 22, 2021, right afterthe battle pass expires. This has been pretty heavily hinted at during Riot’sJune 2 postdiscussing what’s coming up as part of the title’s one year anniversary celebrations.
We’ll be updating this page as more information becomes available on the next character to release in Valorant.
