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Riot confirms new duelist and sentinel agents, Team Deathmatch for 2023

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June 5, 2023

Anna Donlon, Executive Producer, and Andy Ho, Game Director of Valorant, revealed in a Dev Diaries episode that Team Deathmatch and two new agents are coming to the game this year.

The pair also revealed that there will be a second global Premier test next month, in July, with a full release planned for the following month, after Champions concludes on August 27. Donlon said there might be "a surprise or two in store" for the capstone event of the year.

Episode 7 will launch between late June and early July, as the current Act III will finish June 26. It will debut Team Deathmatch in Valorant, which will include gun and ability play, but also maps tailor-built to the TDM mode.

Regarding the two new agents coming this year, Donlon revealed that they will be a sentinel and a duelist. While details on the latter were sparse, the EP hinted that the new sentinel could have movement-impairing abilities.

Andy Ho also unveiled that the team will add new forms to unlock accessories from previous battle passes, and change the current system for unlocking agents and the items in their contracts.

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widepeepofrosty

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LETS GET EXCITED FOR A NEW BROKEN AGENT WOOOOHOOOOOOO

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Mortadelo

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There are 5 duelists and only 2 and a half are used. Seriously doubt so
The sentinel will see, Killjoy is very strong

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im excited for a broken sentinel, more focused on cheese set-ups and traps rather then firepower like ch*mber ≧◡≦

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Jett, Raze, Neon, and Yoru are all meta duelists. The only ones that need a some competitive rework are reyna and maybe phoenix

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Mortadelo

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Yoru has 4% pick rate in EMEA, 1% in Pacific and 0% in Americas, that's not being meta
Neon has 8% in EMEA, 4% in Pacific and 6% in Americas, that's BARELY being meta

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Just because you have 1K hours on yoru doesn’t mean he’s meta…

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Yoru will never be meta. That’s just how the agent is designed he will always be a niche agent that can surprise people if you have enough different ideas. Otherwise the agent is really easy to counterstrat after seeing him once. Like fnatic did against PRX yoru (Even though they still lost KEKW)

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yoru is the opposite of meta duelist, and neon is only really used on lotus

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neon is the best duelist on fracture

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Depends on the team, some teams work better with the raze comp and some know both and switch depending on what there opponents like to play, like if they play cypher then they’ll run the raze comp

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V0sotros

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she's definitely not meta if she's only used on 2 of the 7 maps

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When you don't know the meaning of meta xD

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If teams started playing yoru they'd be winning more and more. He's meta but teams don't realize it yet

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yungbasel

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My friend. He could be the best agent in the game. With a sub 10% pickrate, he by definition is not meta

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sdgdfdrgdrfgdrgdrfttdhy

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lil bro is zooted out his mind rn

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Sen 3-0 fnatic

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Danny

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They should add a deathmatch that actually stays full instead of having half the lobby quit 2 minutes in

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its crazy how none of my dm lobbies ever had this issue, do you play NA only?

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Danny

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Yes

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From what ive heard from pros, they usually prefer EU/ASIA/SA DM. In EU i heard pros complaining how players just hold an angle and dont move. In NA I heard them complaining about ppl leaving or just hold w key. In SA i heard them complaining about tryhards, asia i never heard anything

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Danny

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Ok well I’m not in any of those regions lol

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loloscum

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you dont play t he game then, i literally mentioned all regions

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Danny

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I’m talking about the regions you said pros prefer numbnuts

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loloscum

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?????? you're braindead what the fuck are you on about

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Danny

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Here let me format it for your tiny idiotic brain

They should add a deathmatch that actually stays full instead of having half the lobby quit 2 minutes in

its crazy how none of my dm lobbies ever had this issue, do you play NA only?

Yes

From what ive heard from pros, they usually prefer EU/ASIA/SA DM

Ok well I’m not in any of those regions lol

If you can’t understand the convo from this idk what to say man. Get brain surgery

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loloscum

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This proves it, Americans are braindead.

continue thread →

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can confirm EU hold angles hold shift and do as little peeking as possible

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Sounds amazing

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when teamskins????

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1mBor3d

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When sentinels win something that way they’ll make a larger profit off of it

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randomperson

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probably its the "a surprise or 2 in store"
champs winner will get a team skin?

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jawn

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we need a dumb broken duelist, tired of jett and raze

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Chow1E

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we need new role that really change the game instead new agent fucking L RITO

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kapteN

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Right so what do you suggest?

Duelists - take space
Sentinels - hold space
Controllers - shape space
Initiators - help take space and get info on space

With some of them some util to deny space

What else is there?

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Initiators would be divided into two then

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just renaming agents' roles won't change the game though

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"Maps make speciffically for TDM" that's nice tbh

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liquid 2-0 loud
nAts drop 80

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As a past Overwatch fan that had 3 years of no-content with the excuses that PVE was being developed just so now they dropped that too, this is refreshing, honestly.

Having constant flow of content (and people actively giving updates and at least seeming to care) is the reason why I kicked Overwatch's ass to switch to this game.

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W

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TDM maps is gonna be such a gamechanger.

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I wonder if it will be a “flex”duelist of just a duelist. When I say FLEX I mean Phoenix, Reyna, and Yoru. All the agents I just mentioned can‘t get into the site quickly. They have to run in just like everybody else. Yoru could fit into “both” of the duelist categories, but if you just TP into the site there is a good chance you will die.

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can we get a god damn replay system holy shit

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At the end of this year don't worry!

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Exciting, hopefully the sentinel won't be a duelist this time.

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Hopefully this sentinel will be more like chamber (holding with firepower) rather than another cypher/kj aidsfest.

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we need AIM MAPS for warm up, please stop sleeping on this feature rito

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Emmy_TOF

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BR when?

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W

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randomperson

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they should have only removed a mag from vandal
it doesn't affect much but could bring phantom pickrates a bit higher
removing from both is a nerf to phantom because spray and spam is phantoms strong suit

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