Riot unveils Hush as Valorant’s 30th agent and ninth Duelist at Champions 2026 final

Riot Games unveiled Hush, a new Duelist, at the Valorant Champions 2026 Grand Final and confirmed she will be added to the game in Season 26, Act VI. The developer said Hush will be the 30th playable agent and the ninth member of the Duelist class.

Hush was introduced via a cinematic trailer that featured the song "It’s You" by Karencici and presents her as coming from Guangdong, China. The trailer shows her entering a neon-lit restaurant and neutralising a room of armed opponents using apparent supernatural powers; she is depicted with long white hair featuring pink and purple highlights, glowing pink eyes and floating crystal-like energy that suggests telekinetic abilities. One sequence in the cinematic shows Hush taking a call from her mother while engaged in combat and responding with composure.

Riot describes Hush as a Duelist who blends mobility with tactical utility, a combination the studio says will allow players to outsmart opponents in varied ways during matches. Her kit allows interaction with weapons, the Spike and certain match objects from a limited distance by using the crosshair. That interaction mechanic is a core component of her toolset and applies to environmental items and equipment within reach.

One of Hush’s movement options lets players place an anchor and launch toward it; the anchor can be reactivated mid-air to produce a hovering effect. The agent also carries a flash-like tool that can be aimed before firing or thrown and then manually detonated to bind enemies caught within its impact radius. These options are presented in the trailer as part of her multi-layered mobility and utility.

Hush can deploy a controllable projectile that, upon detonation, pulls enemies together; that particular ability refreshes after every two kills. Another ability fires an energy orb that lifts affected opponents into the air when it detonates, leaving them exposed to follow-up attacks.

The agent’s announced design emphasises telekinesis, guided abilities, crowd control and aerial movement rather than the raw speed-based approach used by other Duelists such as Jett or Neon. Riot positioned these elements as the defining aspects of Hush’s playstyle in promotional material.

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