Valorant is a sport of methodical motion. Your weapon is at its most correct whenever you’re standing nonetheless, and pinpoint accuracy is important if you wish to stay. That’s what makes Neon, the sport’s newest playable character, so fascinating. She’s a hyper-aggressive duelist whose equipment is all about rising the tempo of matches.
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Following a teaser trailer launched earlier within the week, Riot has detailed all of Neon’s talents. Her innate talent “High Gear” permits Neon to dash and slide into fight, one thing no Valorant agent earlier than her has been capable of do. “Speed, everything about Neon came back to that feeling of running forward and moving fast,” mentioned character producer John Goscicki.
Neon’s two different major talents, “Relay Bolt” and “Fast Lane,” enable her to throw an electrical molly and create two parallel partitions of vision-obscuring static. Meanwhile, her final, “Overdrive,” lets Neon shoot out lethal lighting beams, with every kill she obtains resetting the length of the talent. Her equipment is most harking back to that of Phoenix who can create a wall of flame to cowl his entry assaults. However, the actual fact Neon can dash and slide ought to make weapons just like the Stinger, Judge and Frenzy particularly lethal in her palms since they have an inclination to dominate in shut quarters.
Neon will be part of Valorant’s roster on January eleventh, the identical day Riot plans to launch Episode Four, Act One. You can get the related Battlepass for 1,000 Valorant Points, or the equal of $10.