no way hermit purple

New agent Joseph joestar 💀

I want an old man with a white mustache, old japanese hat. Hermit type

we got a jojo reference in valorant before gta 6 😭

Hermit purple wtf Joseph tf u doin here

I imagine the new agent as Pudge, instead of hook, his/her vines can hook in enemies and drag them or such, can be an ultimate or signature ability

BOI IS THAT A MOTHER FUCKING JOJOS REFERENCE?!?!?!!

FIRST WE GOT HAMON BUNDLE AND NOW WE GETTING HERMIT PURPLE?!?!?

hermit purple?!??! holy shit

Imagine their ultimate pauses the game timer for a few seconds

ultimate gonna be the secret joestar technique 💀💀💀

if they make cypher like killjoy with the range on the trip that would actually suck

agent ult: nigerundayo!!

2:50, nice flash dodge

bro looked away on the gekko blind😭

He finna predict my next line

Is this who skye was talking about in lotus voiceline when asking who grew the large flowers on the map?

lol hermit purple jojo reference

This is a jojo stand. Hermit purple

Joseph joestar in valorant before gta 6

Maybe its like Joseph's hermit purple from JoJo's

That hints about the new agents flowers being made of metal leads me to believe they can create cover like isos wall, but lower to the ground

5:52 Cypher: "am I a joke to you?"

the hermit purple comments are hilarious

purple vine? sand timer? hermit purple with timestop 🤯

Good theory, I really do think though that also the vine ability we saw in the trailer is not only gonna slow enemies down but also deal some damage because those thorns look spiky!

0:49 rip wingman

Pretty sure the vines breaking the hourglass art is more to do with the lore of the agent as they're being held by the organisation known as the scions of hourglass

This is literally Joseph joestar. It’s guns and purple vines.

Zyra ult would be awesome. Maybe have it be a massive aoe that does maybe 50 dmg and concusses the enemies. That way it's not a crazy amount of damage but ot definitely helps because that removes even heavy shield. Or more damage since brin does technically have one that can kill really easily.

Imagine if they had some weird, sunlight energy that they could send through the vines to attack caught enemies.

Aight so like. Hear me out. Theorizing some potential fun ideas for this agent. I’m thinking this agent could specialize in trapping more so than info gathering, which could fill a niche within the sentinel role Signature (it’s a long one, so I’ll break it up into parts): Essentially you can “draw” your own line of tripwiring up until a certain length, and the maximum length will be determined by a vine gauge atop your abilities. Equipping the skill gives you a “root bulb”. This root bulb cannot be retrieved once the round starts, so you’ll have to commit to it like a viper wall. When you alt-fire with this skill for the first time, you will plant the root bulb at your current location and shift to the root bulb’s perspective (like a skye dog). You’ll create a “tail bulb” and make a trail of vines that stick to the ground and walls as you move (yes you can move onto walls too). The vine gauge will increase as you plant more and stops growing more vines/stops movement when you reach its max. You can, however, backtrack and recover some of the vines to then move to a different spot. Alt-fire again to exit this mode. Using your primary fire while this skill is equipped will make the vines sprout and continuously slither between its surfaces, slowing anyone caught within them and immediately dealing 5 damage to enemies that come into contact with it. If any enemy stops while touching the vines, they’ll also receive 5 damage when they move again (changing movement to the complete opposite direction will technically count as stopping+moving again). When the vines are active, your vine gauge will deplete over time. When it fully depletes or by pressing your skill button again, your vine trail will retract proportionately. Also note that if enemies can shoot your tail bulb to shorten your vine’s active duration, and shooting the root bulb will completely disable your vines + place it on cooldown for a long time. Ok that was really long. Let’s maybe go over the other potential ideas: Another ability would be an Area Slow that can be remotely detonated. You’ll deploy it by running it through the ground, it’ll travel forward and bounce off walls like a raze boombot, and it’ll plant itself upon reactivating the skill or after a certain distance (you could also plant it at your current location by alt firing). The vines could rise up from the ground and extend vertically and linger for a while-so midair movement is also slowed down. The unique feature here is it may also slow down any utility’s velocity when it passes through (raze nades, sova darts, etc.) It won’t block visibility, but it may make a sound cue when enemies are caught by the vines. These vines are, however, breakable once activated. It will take a little bit of firing to get through them though. Another one could potentially be a a simple Briar trap. It plants itself into the ground in a zone around your current location and waits for enemies to walk over it. Upon detection, it sprouts up after a delay (with a visual cue that it’s about to activate) and deals 10 damage to them + makes a little thorny pierce sound cue. A special interaction you can do with this skill is to combine it with your signature skill by pressing F while looking at your root bulb. This spreads the briar throughout the vine system, which can instead deal 15 damage to enemies that touch your active vines. These briars and its additional dmg will go away once your vines deactivate. Ultimate idea: for how simple it is, it seems like the most fitting. Essentially it’s like a Breach ult: a wave that sends forth vines that sprout from the ground. If it hits enemies, they’ll be inflicted with a slow debuff and also become entangled in vines-rendering them immobile (they can however still aim and shoot). The vines disappear after a short time or by aiming at their feet to shoot it off. The slow debuff will wear off after a longer duration.

i think a really cool signature ability would be a vine wall kinda like a sage wall but it relies on a meter like skye’s heal. you could use all your vines to create a super strong wall on one choke or you can make tons of weak walls around different entry points to the site. you could create vine boxes that teammates could jump on for off angles and stuff too

Imagine a big carnivorous plant being the ultimate that grabs and damages enemies in a specific area

Here after the trailer. Its confirmed she is a sentinel 💖

The agent indeed is very interesting, im urging to see how it is going to be used in unusual ways already! Keep up the good work.

I think that the first ability you discussed could give the gravnet effect and if they break out it gives you a notifier or makes a special noise that you trapped them with the vines

6:56 I feel like they should make it so the ability can't be shot but instead has to be cut with a knife, which would be a little annoying but also gives the knife an actual use

2:51 the way that u turned away from gekkos flash 😆

vines are basically deadlock gravnet

Can also be like lesion from r6 where he/she throws thorn traps that can poison enemies and need to be removed to stop the poison.

Dude first thing i think about was barbedwire to

Another ultimate:-Jungle of wines/ slowing down spike timer

The ultimate rewinds time

maybe something like apex watson where instead of the elctricity gate its barbed wire

C: "Creepvine". Deploy vines in a lane that reveal enemies and slow them down. The vines will slowly grow across the affected lane and cover the entire lane for a limited amount of time. Q: "Thistlewhip". A deployable snare that captures airborne enemies when triggered and pulls them to the ground, as well as destroying utility and temporarily stopping any enemies in the radius. Triggered with proximity. E: "Cultivate". Deploy a cluster of thorns, each covering a small area that can be avoided or destroyed, but will alert the agent if destroyed, and will halt an advance for a bit as the enemies have to watch where they are going. X: Idk These are my ideas. I also like the idea of a remotely triggered flashbang 🤔

why not a vine on the ground where when you walk over, hurt you a little and slows? like a sage slow, but hurting and maybe you can activate it like a cypher cage (cool sentinel concept) it being one of the skills or the ultimate itself (you activate like a brim ult or harbor ult) and it forces the enemy to hide or else the are slowed and taking damage

They have so much potential i believe shes gonna be a initiator controller or sentinel it can depend i see her throwing vines out like iso ult that ensnares them like deadlocks net, she could also use her vines to potentially block or make a wall like safe but ur able to walk through it but ur slow and u take damage, maybe she makes a flower and they act as land mines that u can stick to the wall and it pops making them vulnerable if near it. I feel like her ult will either act as kill joins or harbors but instead of concussing or detaining it slows and ensnares them.

I can imagine the agent having purple vines a oldish look and probably went on a adventure

I think the way that enemies would counter the vines is removing it like deadlock's net

The orb could be a really good idea, if it was a vines orb and it could maybe slow you when you attempt to enter it and hurt you, could be used to gain information. Maybe, only that agent could go in and out without damage taken, including the other same agent on a different team. Maybe if it was a good enough wall kind of like the harbor wall or shield but also doing damage to all other players excluding ALL players od the new agent

3:52 maybe like Symmetra’s turrets/ Conduit’s ULT it’s gonna slow as you said but doing damage at the same time which could be great! I really hope it’s that

The vines could work like killjoy swarm grenade, you place it down and activate it whenever

hermit purple???:? no way

imagine if the "tripwire" vines can be broken by your teammate, forcing their crosshair to change to a teammate to free themselves instead of holding an angle, marking them in the map, and could be useful for your teammate to fight the angle, so the enemy hahas to either try and break the vines from their teammates or staying caught holding the angle, so it's balanced. as for the vine that throws thorns, it could be like the molleys from killjoy, a huge seed or ball of vines that blossom into a rose on the floor that you can detonate by pressing F, maybe it could leave a "bleeding" effect where you lose like 80health total by a certain period of time of like 6 seconds if you are caught within range

The character will most likely be best suited for abyss. So something like an omen teleport and a wall of thorns like a mini harbor + mini sage. Plus vines/thorns always means a slow that damages enemies if they walk over it. It's a video game rule.

the ult can be an area if in the area you get whipped by a vine and get Concussion and 10 damage every 5 seconds (the ult lasts for 35 seconds) kinda like harbor

It would be cool since the concept includes an hourglass, imagine the player can rewind themselves a few seconds early from where they previously went and regain a few bits of their health.

Ngl having vines that reveal u when u are in them and slow you would be super broken cause u could set them up deep in choke points and just leave it and stack somewhere else and if they go in the vines u get info and time to rotate

i hope next character is a guy with an ultimate ablility that stops time

remember the lost radiant flower in sunset? that can copy anything? this agent is it

def a sentinel with vine traps and holding down site

the problem with the ultimate you suggest is that it would make all gun fights unfair by moving you and making you inaccurate

I think it's gon be an agent that metal spiked skills cause bleed over time (like viper decay but permanent, and less damage) like, same function of deadlock E, but they can go trhough, but take damooge

Honestly think they could go kinda an Astra route where they can place patches of vines and activate them as abilities later on in the round

Ability ideas. A Placable that detects enemies nearby and blooms, it blocks off an entrance, like a Sage wall, you cant see through it, you can shoot through it, but you cant walk through it, to destroy it you have to knife it. A ability that spreads a membrane that when Hit Pings the enemy on the map or does a little Cyoher Reveal. A little guy that you move and control to gather intel, or root in place like a KJ turret or Cypher Cam For an ULT, maybe Something like a World of thorns, A KJ or Kay/O maybe a Bit of Both size ult that covers the Site with a whole bunch of Traps, Thorns that slow maybe Damage the enemies. I imagine a Harbor Indicator that if the enemies dont get out of the Plant stabs them or Roots them in place. It doesnt Move it stays at site.

I love the concepts off of so little we have to work with, but they would just be Deadlock 2 to me. I agree they'll probably influence timings and rotations, but I don't think they will have a throwable akin to Deadlocks gravnet. Love the idea of barbed wire areas and traps that slow down rotations by rooting on an area. However, it feels very equivalent to what Deadlock was trying to accomplish but failed to do. I'm hoping they're more unique than that.

Please let you and your team climb up the vines to gain height. Basically being able to place ropes down on the map

It would be cool if the barbed wire*aka first ability) was like R6 and it could be something intertwined into the "floors" of the map and then you have to melee to break the vines almost like the doors or like cutting through ACTUAL vines in a forest. It both slows and damages slightly. Maybe decays a bit?

i love how alot of these prediction came true or a mix of them r true

its gonna be a agent thats listed as missing from the missing list, its gonna be number 4, 8 or 11 from the information i gathered but other then that i don't know much more

SENTINEL + INITIATOR?! I'LL BE ABLE TO INITIATE INTO SITE AND HOLD SITE? AHHHHHH. I CAN FINALLY DO EVERYTHING. I'm so excited, I hope we finally get the first radiant sentinel

Mexx: R6 Me: "ZYRA"

thank goodness i wasnt the only one thinking it was hermit purple from jojo's bizarre adventure

I feel like the ability should be like a mini version of deadlock ult but not like hold them down literally it’s a get over here we can grab items, including the spike. I can only be used once per round.

Cypher main here. Cypher hasn't really changed that much, it's just that people have gotten better with him and countering him. I also don't think he counters a push as much as people think. I'm ascendant, and the higher I climb, the less stopping power I have. Sova, Raze, etc. have much more util prepped to check for me and break my util. Sage has a slow, and its... fine. Doesn't block vision, doesn't do damage, etc. We all know that sage is basically a wall bot with a heal. Because of how rushy ranked is, re-working Cypher and removing agent abilities with full "stopping" power instead of slows would make the rush problem in ranked way worse. But this could all be cope because I don't want my boy re-worked. lol

*Hears hybrid of Sentinel and Initiator* *Doesn't play Sentinel, doesn't care:* YEAAAAAAHHHH, BBBYYYYY, THAT'S MY SHIIIIIIIT.

Maybe it'll be a harbor ult with damage instead of concussion

I think the vines (however they are deployed) will slow the player down (like sage ice orb), AND damage them while they are moving through it. This makes the player either take damage to get away or stay and fight. I can also Imagine a Flower that is placed on they ground or wall that when it detects a player nearby, it will blind them (with spores or something). We have Sentinals with stuns and detections, but I would love to see one that either inflicts paranoia or a blindness similar to Omen's blind.

as a cypher main i hope if a rework happens our camera stays mostly same

Another ability might be with time where affected agents will be warped back in time like 5 sec similar to distruptors ability from dota2.

@mexx you forget Cypher also reveals with a slowing & tethering trap that can be destroyed. An indestructible slowing trap will NOT reveal or alert. That would be too broken. OR it will last a short time, like Deadlock's netnade.

I think what it's gonna be sentinel with healing ability. Gonna use your argument, and say what there is only 2 agents what can heal teammates, + we wasn't having new healer agent for a very long time. It can also not be just heal, maybe he would have ability what giving his teammates shield, similar to Iso, or maybe speed buff, something like that. I don't know about second ability, but, there is announcement on sunset, what saying "To all Radivore containment stuff, subject ZN35 remains unaccounted for in the Dirac Wing. This entity can disguise himself as any flora. Please remove all plants from your workspace until it is recovered." Remember which agent teasers are only plants? Yes. So, with this we can say what 1. This agent is gonna be Radivore 2. He gonna have ability what somehow connected to the "disguising as any flora". So, we have heal/buff ability, disguise ability, wich is gonna be 3 ability and ultimate? Well, on the loading screen of this act, we can see a spiky vines what coming out of the hand. Also, this vines was in other teasers of this agent, in the end of the "THE FUTURE'S READY" Episode trailer, on the "in bloom" player card, so this vines are definitely gonna be one of his abilities, or maybe even ultimate. If this vines are gonna be his ability, it's probably gonna be similar to the cypher trap, but with different effects. I don't know about ultimate, but I think it could be like, Sage wall, but very big, and teammates can walk through holes in branches, or again, it could be this spiky vines. Anyways, it's just my speculations, and I'm very excited too see this agent.

theres actually a somewhat sequecy off agent releases, controllers, iniciators/controllers, sentinels, duelist, and controllers/initiators, for an example harbor-gekko-deadlock-iso-clove (but fade came before harbor, but if you go do the official sequency of agent releases you can see some type of pattern )

I have a feeling it’s going to be an initiator next because they’ve released Gekko (initiator) Iso (Duelist) Deadlock (sentinel) and Clove (controller) so surely they circle back to initiator right? Although it could be a sentinel because the vines have a similar effect like deadlock

Not sure if they look at other games for agent/character ideas. I think just in a class based fps game there isnt that many agent ideas you can have without fundimentally changing the game so games come up with the same agent ideas coincidentally, but they probably think of ideas, then look at the other games and see what they did with an idea to see what they should do.

You saw the trailer.. all the ballistic weapon on the floor.. i think its about denying ballistics

the thing is that riot often tease the ult of the new agent which makes me think the flower is similar to deadlock ult like it catch some opponent and detained them inside the flower until they die or released and from the moving vine teaser i think it works like breach and iso ult

I think the new agent will have a power like omens blind only that instead of blind the agents who get caught in vines will slow and recive damage over time .

This explanation will lead chamber to be nerfed again

Deadlock and sage already are made to slow the opponents down but this agent could just be that implemented in a diferent way

You will propably be on a field of thorns where any movement you do will cause you lose HP when the agent Ults

What if the vines acted like vision control? Like you set them up on hallways and doorways and you’ll always be able to see enemies that pass over them. So retaking would be more difficult since you’d know where they’re coming from.

What if it's an ult and when you use it, vines start growing and keep growing until they reach a certain size? You can destroy a part of it with abilities, but it wouldn't be that useful as it would slowly grow again. This is definitely not gonna be an ability, but I think it's a cool idea.

i think riot should also consider adding passives to the other agents bcuz it bothers me thinking that only jett has this unique passive

Being based around vines i would imagine the ult will detain

Now what, you are telling me Joseph Joestar is coming to valorant with fucking hermit purple?

its definitely an initiator. they release them in an order, duelist-sentinel-controller-initiator

Ayooo hermit purple stand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"an agent that gets info and has a flash" Kayo -_- Skye -_- on a real note, i think your ideas for abilities would be crazy op