Riot have by chance leaked footage and talent particulars about Killjoy, Valorant‘s upcoming twelfth agent. She’s a turret-loving engineer kind trying to present up Brimstone, in keeping with the keenness with which she’s pitched her abilities to the homicide squad. Her reveal web page briefly went dwell a couple of days in the past, you see, and we received a peek at Killjoy’s portfolio.
She’s received space denial popping out the wazoo.
Let’s leap straight into the skills, as helpfully snapped by Dexerto earlier than that launch web page was taken down.
“Ability 1 (C) — Alarmbot
Equip and deploy a bot that hunts down enemies who dare to get in vary. When my killer robotic pal reaches its goal, increase goes the fool. Alarmbot not solely offers injury, it quickly leaves affected targets weak to double injury from all sources. Hold equip if you wish to recall your deployed bot.
Ability 2 (Q) — Turret
Sometimes it’s good to plant some roots. Deploy a turret that fires at enemies inside its 180-degree cone. Hold equip to recall the deployed turret. With my turret, I can maintain an space fairly effectively myself whereas the others cowl the angles I can’t.
Signature Ability (E) — Nanoswarm
OK examine this out. Throw the grenade. When it lands, it goes quiet. Then, activate the Nanoswarm to deploy a harmful swarm of nanobots and catch the enemy crying. I like this trick!
Ultimate Ability (X) — Lockdown
You’ll have to regulate your timing for the windup, however when you get this machine going, it detains all enemies caught in its radius for about eight seconds. Yeah, enemies can destroy it — besides I constructed loads extra.”
And right here they’re in motion:
I’ve seen many anti-turret murmurs, and I believe I perceive them. There are already 5 beings out to homicide you at anybody time in Valorant, and rubbing up in opposition to an extra automated one may very well be a grind. It doesn’t appear too lethal within the video above, although, and in follow could effectively work out to be extra of a distraction than a self-sufficient assassin. I might ask that you simply withhold judgment on the turret.
That grenade/mine seems prefer it has a nasty space of impact, thoughts, contemplating it will probably lay there all invisible like. And being frozen by her Lockdown final sounds nearly as agonizing because the panicked shouting and miscoordination that’s prone to fill the windup time. Erk.
There’s no signal of when Killjoy will truly begin killing pleasure in-game, although the state of the now-removed reveal web page suggests she’s rearing to go.
