Season 2025 // Act I of VALORANT begins January 9! Implementation of "Tejo."

Raiatto Games, LLC, a joint venture company of Raiatto Games, Inc. and VALORANT, a tactical FPS, announced that Season 2025 // Act I began on Thursday, January 9, 2025 (Japan time). Tejo, an initiator from Colombia, was also implemented at the same time.

Season 2025 // Act I of "VALORANT" has begun!

Season 2025 // Act I of the tactical FPS "VALORANT" began on Thursday, January 9, 2025 Japan time.

New content "Flex"!

For the first time since the release of VALORANT, a new content type " Flex " has been introduced. Players will be able to express themselves in more ways in the game!

The "flex" can be equipped from the collection and will appear on the player's spraywheel in the game. To celebrate the new content, players will receive one "Flex" for free!

The second "Flex" is available with the Season 2025 // Act I Battle Pass.

New skin series "EX.O" and new Battle Pass!

This Act also introduces a new skin series " EX.O" inspired by futuristic and sci-fi themes! This skin series includes the weapon skins Vandal, Sheriff, Spectre, Outlaw, and the katana "EX.O Edge".

The new Battle Pass includes the Celestia Ghost, Epilogue: Strategic Space War Card, Hieroscape Blade (two-bladed melee weapon), Moon Scout Outlaw, Cowcatcher Gunbody, Snowflake Flex, and many more items!

New agent "Tejo" is now available!

Tejo, a Colombian veteran, is a ballistic guidance system that will force you to choose between surrendering your position and surrendering your life.

His precision attacks are a threat to the enemy and will hold them in his sights.

Developer's Comments on "Tejo

Q. What were your goals and inspirations for Tejo?

A.One of the interesting challenges we wanted to address was to find a way to actively break angles and create opportunities, like breaches and kay/os, without using utilities that affect a wide range of angles, like flashbangs. This was a major collaborative effort with several designers, and I personally found the initiator feature very appealing, not as a new effect or a mechanism that would revolutionize the flow of the game, but rather as a unique use of the activation mechanism normally used by the controller. When the rocket was implemented, I found it exciting to see test players using it as if it were a fast version of the Fade "plowr". Perhaps it was a combination of my own desire to be a good controller, while always being the initiator when playing with friends, that led to my passion for trying out the map-targeting rocket (insert evil laugh here).

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Q. How would you describe Tejo's play style?

Tejo is for the player who wants to be more strategic in his shot calling on the map, but also wants to get out on the front lines and get his hands dirty at times. With the pressure that "guided salvos" create early on, Tejo can create situations where the defender is less likely to be successful in his offensive gambles. Unlike flashbangs, fades, or even Sauva's "reconvolt," which have a broad impact, Tejo's utilities affect a small area of the map. This means that players will have to use the game sense and intuition they have developed throughout the rounds to create favorable situations for their team. Compared to Fade, KAY/O, and Breach, Tejo is a bit more of a rear-guard initiator, but tools like the "Special Delivery" combined with the ability to disable angles for short periods of time can easily lead to favorable and calculated firefights. The combination of tools such as the "Special Delivery" and the ability to disable angles for a short period of time can easily lead to a favorable and calculated firefight.

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Q. How do you think "Tejo" will change the current meta?

Our goal is to create a new strategy by synergizing with agents that can compensate for Tejo's weakness of not being able to affect a wide area, especially those with search-and-rescue utilities. As far as internal testing has confirmed, Tejo has a significant presence on maps such as Bind, Sunset, and Lotus, where securing space on the first move is critical. We believe that his utility in flushing out the enemy may create new duelist options in situations where players have previously chosen to raise. Since Tejo's main influence is on his rocket, information warfare and tactics to set up the situation occur every round. The purpose is to put pressure on the enemy to force them to fight back while the rocket is down. Currently, cyphers are seen more and more in the live environment, and cypher users are showing very creative uses of trapwire. With Tejo's entry into the game, the standard installation may not be sufficient. We expect players to be even more creative. Finally, the unique elements of the stealth drone will make Tejo strong enough to compete with KAY/O in the area of suppression effects in situations where defensive agents are waiting to attack a site at once.

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