Riot Games has officially revealed Hush, VALORANT's newest Duelist, live on the Champions 2026 broadcast ahead of the Grand Final in Shanghai. The reveal ends a month of teasers and introduces a telekinetic agent from Guangdong, China, whom Riot calls the VALORANT Protocol's new reality-bending Duelist.
The official agent trailer, titled RISE AND FALL, puts Hush front and center in a teal-and-pink neon showcase set to "It's You" by Karencici. Hush has pale, white hair worn with straight bangs and glowing pink-magenta eyes, and she wears a dark, high-collared outfit marked with a teal circular emblem.
Watch the Hush agent trailer here:
What Riot Has Confirmed About the New VALORANT Agent
Riot's official channels confirm the core details of the reveal:
Name: Hush
Role: Duelist — the roster's ninth
Origin: Guangdong, China — the third agent from China, after Sage and Iso
Theme: Telekinetic, reality-bending powers
Roster spot: The 30th agent to join the game
Release window: Season 26 // ACT VI — outlets report a global launch on October 27, though Riot has not posted an exact date
Reveal: Live on the Champions 2026 broadcast, October 18, before the Grand Final in Shanghai
Every Ability in the New VALORANT Agent's Kit
A few hours after the trailer, Riot followed up with an official abilities video breaking down Hush's full kit. The whole kit leans on telekinesis, and three of her abilities can be steered with the crosshair after they leave her hand:
Telekinesis (passive): Hush can pick up weapons and the Spike, and interact with switches, from farther away than usual
Displacement (signature): Throw it, or use alt fire to prep it, then reactivate to direct it toward the crosshair — it explodes on impact or after a delay, pulling players to the center and concussing anyone who hits a surface or another player, and it refreshes every two kills
Flashbulb: Handles the same way — throw or prep it, redirect it toward the crosshair, and it explodes on impact or after a delay to blind players looking at it
Flow: Instantly creates an anchor — if Hush is in the air, she briefly levitates in place, and after a delay she propels herself toward the anchor
Suspension (ultimate): Hush sends Suspension forward and steers it with her crosshair, then reactivates it or fires again to detonate it and levitate the players it catches
Riot has not published ranges, durations or ability costs yet, so the hard numbers will have to wait for patch notes. On paper, it is a Duelist built around control rather than raw speed — Flow is her only true movement tool, while Displacement and Suspension are about yanking enemies out of position. The kit also settles the pre-reveal speculation: a fuller kit that leaked ahead of the announcement does not match what Riot has now shown.
When Hush Joins the VALORANT Roster
Hush arrives in Season 26 // ACT VI, which is already underway. The current patch, 13.08, opened the Act without any Hush content, so she will land in a later patch — coverage of the reveal points to October 27 for her global launch, a date Riot has not yet posted on its own channels. Riot has also not announced her real name or her voice actor.
The reveal caps a teaser campaign that began with a brief appearance at the end of Riot's September dev update, continued through a silhouette in the Champions 2026 trailer and a Shanghai pop-up café promotion, and peaked with a final teaser on October 15. Expect full patch notes with her ability costs and numbers closer to launch.
Source: Riot Games
