{"id":1405,"date":"2022-03-29T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virlan.co\/tech\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2022-04-03T08:54:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T12:54:52","slug":"who-is-the-valorant-new-agent-bountyhunter-what-abilities-he-has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virlan.co\/tech\/gaming\/who-is-the-valorant-new-agent-bountyhunter-what-abilities-he-has\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is the Valorant New Agent BountyHunter? What Abilities Does He Have?"},"content":{"rendered":"

VALORANT<\/strong> took an act off from releasing new agents. The reason the dev team gave was that they wanted to focus on balancing and fixing the game over adding something new. This meant that for the third episode in a row, fans were not given a new agent in every act. For the end of VALORANT<\/strong> Episode 4 Act III fans will likely be getting a new agent. Could that be VALORANT Agent BountyHunter<\/strong>? Here is why this may be the case.<\/p>\n

Valorant New Agent Class and Codename: BountyHunter the Initiator?<\/h2>\n

Although the Blackmailer<\/strong> can be the new Valorant agent<\/strong>, there’s one more speculation left in light of recent Riot Games leaks<\/strong>. Firstly, the new agent’s<\/strong> codename was revealed: BountyHunter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This has sparked a lot of new ideas for the agent<\/strong>, maybe the BountyHunter<\/strong> will be a new agent that will hunt the Blackmailer<\/strong>. Or better yet: BountyHunter<\/strong>, the Blackmailer<\/strong>, and Victoria Vector<\/strong> are the same, anime plot twist style! And Riot Games<\/strong> have come out themselves to reveal the agent’s class in their newest State of Agents: the BountyHunter<\/strong> will be an Initiator<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The new Valorant agent BountyHunter<\/strong> will be an Initiator based on gathering information like Sova<\/strong>. An information-based Initiator is highly missed in the meta since the other agent classes have been filled to the brim, especially Duelists<\/strong>. One thing to note from the teaser though: the coffee is Turkish, and you can compare the teaser with real Turkish coffee in the image above.<\/p>\n

BountyHunter\u2019s Lore so far<\/h3>\n

Of course, there were a lot of hints that lead to the Agent<\/strong> being reveal much like any other agent we have right now. This agent has recently blackmailed Brimstone<\/strong> into revealing everyone\u2019s secrets if Brimstone doesn\u2019t give answers to something this agent wants to know. Something about a missing person that Brimstone or the Valorant Protocol<\/strong> is connected to. Of course, Brim wants to know who this blackmailer is so he set forth Sova<\/strong> and Cypher<\/strong> to scout and find out his\/her identity. Upon their search however, they have failed to find any information, except for Cypher\u2019s breakthrough that this person is located near Turkey. We now know that this agent is confirmed to be Turkish given the developer\u2019s hints. Cypher<\/strong> is impressed with the agent\u2019s work of not being detected, and asked Brimstone<\/strong> what he will do when they locate this new agent. Brimstone might of course recruit this new agent in the Valorant<\/strong> Protocol to add their scouting power instead of just Sova.<\/p>\n

BountyHunter\u2019s Abilities<\/h4>\n

As stated in the developer\u2019s notes, Valorant\u2019s new agent<\/strong> will be able to contest Sova\u2019s scouting skills. Sova has been a default starting agent in all line ups of high ELO pubs and even pro play. They are thinking of adding another scout to the game or might just cancel out Sova\u2019s ability<\/strong> to see things. As stated in the lore, Cypher<\/strong> and Sova<\/strong> doesn\u2019t have the ability to pinpoint the exact location of the new agent. The new agent can also gather information much like Sova<\/strong> and Cypher<\/strong> can. The last clue is having the Turkish line \u201cHerkesin bir korkusu var\u201d, where the new agent\u2019s abilities might be centered towards fear. In Valorant Spike Rush<\/strong>, there\u2019s an orb called Paranoia<\/strong> that causes one player to have a black and white image, as well as hears things near him. This might be one of the new agent\u2019s abilities as the mechanic of Paranoia is in line with \u201cfear,\u201d disrupting the senses of players. It might be like Cypher\u2019s<\/strong> global effect for an ultimate or like Skye\u2019s Trailblazer<\/strong> that would only affect the agents caught by the ability.<\/p>\n

There is also a leak that there has been an added \u201cTotem\u201d item from dataminers, where totems in Valorant are deployed like Killjoy\u2019s<\/strong> turret and alarm bot or Raze\u2019s boom bot or even Cypher\u2019s<\/strong> default camera. This means that the agent would also have a deployable item for one of his\/her skill in the game. There are no confirmations yet on the list of abilities of the new agent. We can only assume based on how the new agent is perceived and the lore that Valorant has created for the BountyHunter.<\/p>\n