Riot Games has revealed Hush, a telekinetic Duelist from Guangdong, China, as Valorant's next agent. She was unveiled in a cinematic trailer shown ahead of the VCT Champions 2026 grand final between LOUD and Team Vitality. MassivelyOP and Dexerto both reported her arrival in the game on October 27; Esports.gg gave October 28.
Dexerto described Hush as the shooter's ninth Duelist, joining an aggressive roster that already includes Jett, Reyna and Raze. Esports.gg reported that she is Agent #31 in the game's fiction. The trailer did not show her in-game, MassivelyOP noted, but it did display her handling of a pistol, her ability to manipulate the gravity of items and enemies, and a fondness for dumplings.
Hush's abilities
Riot has published her full kit, which Dexerto and Esports.gg both detailed:
- Telekinesis (passive): Hush can pick up weapons and the Spike, and interact with doors and switches, from an increased range.
- Displacement (E, signature): thrown or prepped, then reactivated to send it toward her crosshair. It explodes on impact or after a delay, pulling players to its center and concussing anyone pulled into a surface or another player. It refreshes every two kills.
- Flashbulb (Q): thrown or prepped and redirected toward her crosshair, exploding on a surface or after a delay to flash nearby players.
- Flow (C): instantly creates an anchor that Hush propels herself toward after a short delay. Used in the air, she briefly levitates in place before taking off.
- Suspension (X, ultimate): prepared instantly and sent forward, steered with her crosshair. Reactivating it or firing again detonates it, levitating every player caught in the blast.
Esports.gg added that the ultimate's levitation lasts four seconds and can catch Hush's own teammates, and that she steers it in the manner of Skye's directed abilities. It compared Displacement to the pull-and-concuss combination available to Astra, and noted that the "prep" input sticks the projectile to a surface, so that it travels from there rather than from Hush herself.
Esports.gg also described the kit as a conventional one, against leaked information that had suggested otherwise, and said the extent to which Hush can shoot accurately during Flow's airborne window is not yet known. MassivelyOP pointed readers to the previous week's patch notes, which covered changes to other characters, the game client, maps and competitive ranking.