The new agent for the release of VALORANT next Tuesday is called “Reyna” and is a vampire. We were able to share this and a few more small details with you on Saturday evening. A real “champion spotlight”, as is usually known from Riot Games for new characters – for example also in League of Legends – did not appear at first.
Against this background, on the night of Sunday ‘Riot Morello’, Character Design Lead for VALORANT, shared more detailed information about the skills of the eleventh VALORANT character Reyna. As already suspected by many players, she becomes a duelist who has an incredibly high potential to massively influence the game in several rounds in favor of her own teammates. However, if it does not use this potential, it is almost completely ineffective. It is therefore also a high risk to include Reyna in your own team constellation, explains ‘Morello’.
Reyna really can
In the teaser released yesterday, which also contains a few seconds of Reyna gameplay, the symbols of their abilities and some of them can be seen in action. However, what exactly this does has been speculation rather than confirmed. Now some light comes into the dark. First of all: Reyna relies heavily on taking opponents’ lives by hand. Because only through death blows does she get her most important resource.
The “Get Frags” agent, as Reyna is called by the Character Design Lead, needs so-called soul balls to be able to use two of her most important skills. Assists are not enough. The balls cannot be saved or collected, they only last a few seconds. After successfully completing the course, it is important to decide promptly which of the two skills that share their charges should be used. The choices are:
- Healing for maximum own life and “overhealing” on up to 50 armor
- Invulnerable for a few seconds and unable to shoot yourself
Their ultimate ability remains. This allows her to shoot bullets out of her weapon faster, reload faster and change the recoil behavior significantly. A real frenzy mode. By the way, this will restart in duration if you get a shot while the skill is active. He also improves the skills that can be activated with the soul balls already explained.
The only skill that we are still not told all the details about is the dark eye, which seems to impair the view of opponents, according to the pictures from yesterday’s teaser. A few surprises should remain for the release on Tuesday – so the statement from ‘Morello’.
The full Twitter thread
If you would like to read the comments and explanations from the VALORANT Character Design Lead yourself, you can do this on Twitter:
Reyna has the potential to pop-off like no one else, avoiding being traded on or healing so you have to beat her square-up each time. If she doesn’t get kills, though, she’s BAD. Like, near-useless. You’re making a big bet picking Reyna.
– Morello (@RiotMorello) May 30, 2020
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About VALORANT
VALORANT is the new first person shooter from Riot Games. The makers of the famous League of Legends are expanding their games portfolio in several genres. The formerly called “Project A” is a competitive 5-on-5 FPS game that will be released on June 2, 2020. The gameplay can best be described as a mixture of Valves Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Blizzards Overwatch. There are also references to Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege.
In Valorant, Riot Games attaches great importance to a good netcode, stable servers and a sophisticated anti-cheat system in order to make the gaming experience as fair as possible. VALORANT should also look good on older computers.
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