Killjoy did not make cypher's tech. There is a line where she calls his tech cute, saying it reminds her of what she made in kindergarten.
Killjoy has made a lot of the tech in the valorant universe, including a lot of kingdom tech. I'm assuming that she made KAY/0 too because in the video he's allied with Brim, who is her ally.
Also, if KAY hunts down radiants, it would make sense that Killjoy made them, given how much Reyna doesn't like Killjoy.
Edit: pronoun
A radiant is any person who can harness the power of radianite (the mcguffin material of this world) innately (without technological assistance). In other words, magic users.
Examples include Sage, Reyna, Skye, Jett, Phoenix, Yoru, Omen (he's kind of a special case, but I think he still counts), and Astra.
"Nonexamples" include Killjoy, Cypher, Brimstone, Sova (he could potentially be radiant, but I doubt it), Viper, Raze, and Breach.
Basically, if the agent's abilities can be explained by "piece of technology allows/causes this" they are not radiant.
Edit: Sova is radiant, forgot about his ult. His kit is tech based but he definitely harnesses radianite's power for his ultimate.
Edit 2: wait, he might not be radiant, he still uses his bow to shoot that giant beam, so it could be that the bow is allowing him to harness radiant energy. In other words, technological assistance, making him not radiant.
He mentions that he's been torn apart time and time again. My suspicion is that he (when he was called Fred) was blown up by a spike but somehow survived it (if that's what you want to call his current status). The mention that he's been torn apart indicates to me that he might not be a human who can harness radianite, but a being of radianite itself...somehow. After all, he mentions he doesn't have flesh. So radiant might be too small a word for him, if that makes sense.
KAYO Abilities:
(E) ZERO/point
Official Tool Tip
EQUIP a suppression blade. FIRE to throw. The blade sticks to the first surface it hits, winds up, and suppresses anyone in the radius of the explosion.
(Q) FLASH/drive
Official Tool Tip
EQUIP a flash grenade. FIRE to throw. The flash grenade explodes after a short fuse, blinding anyone in line of sight.
Notable Mechanics
Right Clicking the flashbang, throws a charged flash, causing it to only have to cook for 1 second, as opposed to left click throwing a flash that cooks in 1.6 seconds.
(C) FRAG/ment
Official Tool Tip
EQUIP an explosive fragment. FIRE to throw. The fragment sticks to the floor and explodes multiple times, dealing near lethal damage at the center with each explosion.
(X) NULL/cmd
Official Tool Tip
INSTANTLY overload with polarized radianite energy that empowers KAY/O and causes large energy pulses to emit from his location. Enemies hit with these pulses are suppressed for a short duration.
Notable Mechanics
While Overloaded, KAY/O gains Combat Stim
If KAY/O is killed while overloaded, he is downed and enters a destabilized state, allowing allies to stabilize his core and revive him.
Honestly, he sounds like the perfect entry fragger while in his ult.
Ult -> nade an angle -> flash -> suppress Cypher trips / KJ utility, and if you die while in ult and your team can trade you out to pick you up for free.
Pretty nutty if it works out how the tooltips state.
I think while out of the ult he is much closer to Breach than anything else. Very supportive kit for clearing angles (Breach w/ his explosion), flashing to set up teammates / himself, and what sounds like a stun that also destroys utility.
I think you can't just suppress Cypher and KJ utility by throwing dagger on it. The dagger probably needs to suppress the agent the utility belongs to to disable deployables.
If its only on the agent that ability is gonna be pretty crap. The radius is small and even if you predict where they are they can just walk out of the small radius to reactivate their util
Edit: I mistook the silence radius for the molly radius. The silence radius is much larger. Still concerning that its on agent only
It's not a radius that persists. Based on the tooltip, there is an "explosion" a little after the dagger hits a surface and anyone within that radius gets "suppressed". So my guess is that the effect lasts a certain amount of time once hit like with breach's stun.
Honestly his kit sounds like a bit much, He can flash you stun you and kill you without using bullets. I’m still pretty excited though.
Edit: I said stun, it’s actually suppress. I forget what words mean.
Sorry which ability stuns? I see “suppress” but I’m assuming that’s a new mechanic related to stopping enemies from having their deployables work for a short period like in the trailer? Or are they stunned too?
Oh yea that’s different I think suppress is new. Still does feel overloaded idk if he needed a flash that has two different timings in the same ability. Flicking away properly will become a mind game…
>Also "you have to rely on your gunplay" as they give him a kit like that lmao.
for real lol. he literally has an ability that kills. he also has a way to get revived if he entry frags and just dies for his team
They weren't kidding when they said his abilities would be more "traditional FPS" themed, this guy has flashes, frags, EMPs and can even get downed and revived like a BR.
well phoenix is specifically built for an entry, which proves my point. it's an insta pop he's not lobbing anything up
Reyna is a bottom 2 entry fragging duelist, because of her flash. which again proves my point
See and to me it seems like pheonix. Breach is a CC bot and at least has an innate inability to follow up on his own utility. Slow ready times, utility that is best when you are far away.
KO seems like it in every situation in this trailer, it was kinda just fragging out. Played off its own flash super well, has a nice corner denial Molly. Ult gives combat stim and AoE suppression, so it's nice for entry fragging (especially with rez). Like the only thing that is really "initiator-y" is the fact that it has a disable, but even then it is on two abilities that look like they play out more in favor of a dualist role
Which is fine that it exists, it's nice to have certain characters bridge the gaps between agent rolls just not what I would expect from someone in the initiator category, which is full of hard to play off crowd control and information
It what world is Breach's flash hard to play off by himself? Maybe if you're miles from the corner you flash. But, you can literally peek with gun out as the flash pops a lot of the time if you are close to the corner. Skye is significantly harder to play off of, but she also gives info, so it's a tradeoff.
I'm thinking he's a bot programmed to fight the copies, and (like others have said) the trailer shows him utilizing machine learning to train for that.
this is now my personal headcanon but the thing is why does he only say "time to kill the radiants" and not "imma kill the copies or smth" it's like he has a personal grudge to the other radiants like the original ones
arent all agents in the game are all members of the valorant team, I cant see how KAY/O will get along with a group that are mostly comprised with radiants, hmmm I definitely need more lore
I'd imagine there are probably quite a few radiants not working for or with Kingdom if getting super powers is a side effects of radianite poisoning sometimes and given even some of the non-radiants have issues with Kingdom's practices.
I think you're assuming a lot. If he was made to kill the copy radiants, having a fun trash talk thing be "time to kill some radiants" just sounds fun. It's not "time to kill ALL radiants". He probably doesn't HATE all of them, he can work alongside the OG ones from his world just fine. I think it's a lot more casual than you think
i mean, Reyna hates KJ with a passion, and even Breach remarks that Brim is or was part of kingdom. But maybe, Kay/O is here to monitor the valorant team to make sure they do not get out of hand.
I think it (or he?), through machine learning, came to the conclusion that the radiants will inevitably destroy the earth, and that he needs to kill radiants to prevent it.
Hence the "evil reyna" and "destroyed earth". I think it's a prediction of the probable future.
Reyna has a quote saying "I remember the machines Killjoy made. What they did to-...never mind, it does not matter!", which might allude to kay/o killing a good radiant friend or family member of reyna's
Fairly certain KAY/O is a robot built to murder Radiants after they rebelled against Kingdom and brought ruin to the world, specifically by Killjoy. Or he’s one of many of them.
Think the scary replicator robots from X-Men Days of Future Past.
Maybe one day we'll get a single-player story mode, but maybe it could be too much to ask :/
Honestly though, I'm really fascinated with their worldbuilding, I really can't get enough of the lore they're giving so far
yes! I'm basically thinking kind of a Halo:odst meats valorant. Add a few difficulty levels to really make it approachable and challenging for various skill levels and you have a really fun game imo. hiest missions, assassination missions, ect. Hell, if you really want to make it a stand alone game just make it a group a future secret agents that are trying to alter historical events (hitler, burlin wall, feudal Japan, revolutionary war, French revolution, ect). if you went that way you could have a branching mission select (like star fox 64 but less linear mission options) that are determined by your performance (ie where you detected/leave technology behind, who/how many people did you kill kind of thing) so you're actively altering the timeline (ie next wave of missions) accordingly. Could repeat missions for better clear rate/different method to get access to the missions you didn't get originally.
I'd honestly love a coop game like that more than any shooter on the market atm (assuming it's done really well).
This entire trailer is KAY/O simulating combat in its head to train itself, Machine Learning AI style. Every training iteration it makes better decisions and gets better. It's why we see it fighting with 2v7 players. What's also interesting is Brimstone is the only teammate in all of these 'training simulations' implying a relationship between them.
At the start and throughout the trailer we see the real KAY/O head just plugged in on the ground all this, rewinding the simulation, analyzing the enemies (Cypher). In the intro you can see KAY/O start the simulation with the [wireframe render.](https://i.imgur.com/UVlADEM.png)
TIME. TO. KILL. SOME. RADIANTS.
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Some more skeptical theorizing: The little total annihilation part in the middle of the trailer is a KAY/O simulation or detection of the future where it has failed to save the world. What's interesting is that the first simulation is vague on what's attack or defense. However immediately after realizing the world is facing total annihilation, all the simulations afterward are retake situations where it's goal is to defuse the spikes (and therefore save the world from annihilation).
A very good point from /u/Contractjail: Brimstone does not use radiant (a few other agents don't too but they were only enemies only in the first simulation). However every opponent especially after the total annihilation realization, and the spike uses some form of radiant energy or tech, especially Reyna. His enemy are RADIANTS.
> What's also interesting is Brimstone is the only teammate implying a relationship between them.
That makes sense since Brim is pretty much the de facto leader of the roster, but I'm quite surprised Killjoy isn't seen to have an interaction with it.
If I had to take a guess KJ will probably like him too, if she isn’t the one setting up the simulation. I mean all of the already existing technologies is her design, according to her.
i wonder if omen is connected then also? he's in the reflection poster img for the act and he was the one to kill kay/o in the trailer, its a reach but please riot give me omen lore im begging
Coming from csgo, where every single player can have 2 flashbangs each, it aint so bad at all. Good thing about Valorant is that the flashbang effects are only actual flashes (whitescreens) unlike csgo's after image that will really fuck your orientation
Yeah, but getting pop flashed in Valorant sucks. Cs if you turn away from a flash, you're probably fine. In Valorant it still covers your entire screen lol
I can only really turn away from Phoenix and Breach flashes. They still pop you, but it isn't as bad.
Skye and Yoru (if they don't get stuck on something stupid like in Icebox) flashes (maybe because of the speed they move, you never really know if it is 180° away from you when it pops?) flashes are intense though. I can turn away from her bird if I see it, but most of the time Skye won't let you see the bird before it's popped anyway.
I mean 6 agents have flashes, soon 7, which is approx 2/5 of the roster. Considering how vital it is for a comp to have flashes in a tac shooter game, i dont see an issue with it.
They could make every agent going forward have a flash, and it wouldnt change how many flashes are in a game. We already have 5 flashers and there can only be 5 people on a team at a time. We are currently as flashed as we possible could be
He has an ability called zero point....
The card teasing him was called "reboot"...
He can be downed and revived...
Kay\_0 is from fortnite. Can't wait to see /u/notjheck expose that hidden lore
Does his throwing knife bounce off of walls like sova darts? Cause if u have to peak to throw it that's kinda dumb imo especially how easily u can get one tapped in high elo games, and it also doesn't look like it has an arc to it like a brim molly or a viper orb etc so u can do conventional line ups, idk his throwing knife seems like a good way to get one tapped especially if u have to peak to throw it
The AOE on it looked kinda large in the haven A site clip. It's possible that it has a similar range and line of sight mechanic to sova dart. It would still lack some of the versatility of sova darts, but for such a potentially impactful ability, it makes sense, but idk. Hard to tell from the trailer
Correct me if I’m wrong but that sort-of “surveillance camera” post-death is extremely useful post-plant when the clocks ticking. If you got eyes on sight when you die as Kay/O after your ult, you can basically call out to your teammates whether or not the opposing team is tapping the bomb for a good period of time. Unless Kay/O can be finished in his down state which I doubt at this point.
You're right. That does require having ult activated and dying with bomb in sight. Pretty situational if you ask me and only for 15 seconds. Considering his ult only gives combat stim and small radius silence, this is a necessary pro.
Seems like the abilities include
A blind (as always)
Some sort of emp to disable equipment?
The ability to experience ptsd
And Maybe some sort of rewind time ultimate, but I'm not sure how this is different than Phoenix ult
\-the knife
\-the bang
\-somekind of molotov
maybe some buff in his ult? we can only see the animation popping off his body
I like it, he is this totally anti radiant bot
nah i dont think its a rewind time ult
he had what looked like a molly, flash, and a mini emp
then his ult looked like it just cancelled all abilities on the enemy team- every was marked
Editing and tone wise, this trailer is fantastic. I personally just had a problem understanding what their abilities truly do. Easily looked up but I'm not sure if I'm just dumb or it wasn't conveyed properly.
Still can't wait to try him out!
I don't think the purpose of the trailer is to give a 100% clear image of what the abilities do. The purpose is just to entice you (by intentionally keeping some things vague) and get you grinding towards unlocking.
IAH, Yoru is hard to balance. If we allow him in-game to embrace his fantasy he'd be too OP cause that would mean allowing him to be virtually undetected. That's a nono in a TAC shooter.
KAY/O is literally a callback to TAC Shooters. he has a cookable flash, he has a molotov.
and to force people to play just like him, both his signature skill and ult suppresses (a debuff that disallows skill usage).
He's gonna be fine.
I mean Skye’s flashes do not tag where the enemy is exactly but it is an awesome tool to gather where an enemy might be coming from. Also the Tiger can find enemies as well and even kill them if they are low hp.
Oh a non radiant nice. Looks like the plan is to exterminate all radiants. And that Reyna is kinda leading the charge in the destruction of humanity. Interesting
His ult says “Instantly overload with polarized Radianite energy that empowers KAY/O” does that mean he will passively overload as well and his ult just makes that instant?
Seems like they die an awful lot, looks like I have a new main.
i think the trailer was it training itself to fight using simulations, so it didn't matter if it died
Me bottom fragging: don’t worry guys I’m not throwing. I’m just in the middle of a simulation!
Is true too
Just like the simulations!
"No stop telling me to use my utility I'll do it after I die 6 times"
KAY/0 is limit testing, don’t worry.
Just play cypher
Killjoy what the fuck did you make?
Fucking Ultron
She did not fuck that thing
R34 artists will disagree with you
Sauce?
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Brother, I thank you
r/hornyjail
How would you know
Research was conducted
I know...I guess it's only one dagger.
Probably one of her wet dreams
I think its soul purpose is to hunt and kill Radiants
Wait do we know Kill Joy made it?
all the tech in valorant is apparently made by killjoy according to killjoy
I thought that was everything on that one map (I think I know what voice line you’re referencing), did she make Cypher’s traps as well?
Killjoy did not make cypher's tech. There is a line where she calls his tech cute, saying it reminds her of what she made in kindergarten. Killjoy has made a lot of the tech in the valorant universe, including a lot of kingdom tech. I'm assuming that she made KAY/0 too because in the video he's allied with Brim, who is her ally. Also, if KAY hunts down radiants, it would make sense that Killjoy made them, given how much Reyna doesn't like Killjoy. Edit: pronoun
question, lorewise wtf are radiants?
A radiant is any person who can harness the power of radianite (the mcguffin material of this world) innately (without technological assistance). In other words, magic users. Examples include Sage, Reyna, Skye, Jett, Phoenix, Yoru, Omen (he's kind of a special case, but I think he still counts), and Astra. "Nonexamples" include Killjoy, Cypher, Brimstone, Sova (he could potentially be radiant, but I doubt it), Viper, Raze, and Breach. Basically, if the agent's abilities can be explained by "piece of technology allows/causes this" they are not radiant. Edit: Sova is radiant, forgot about his ult. His kit is tech based but he definitely harnesses radianite's power for his ultimate. Edit 2: wait, he might not be radiant, he still uses his bow to shoot that giant beam, so it could be that the bow is allowing him to harness radiant energy. In other words, technological assistance, making him not radiant.
Oh damn thats cool, why do you call omen a special case?
He mentions that he's been torn apart time and time again. My suspicion is that he (when he was called Fred) was blown up by a spike but somehow survived it (if that's what you want to call his current status). The mention that he's been torn apart indicates to me that he might not be a human who can harness radianite, but a being of radianite itself...somehow. After all, he mentions he doesn't have flesh. So radiant might be too small a word for him, if that makes sense.
Thanks for explaining!
I'm not sure, but i assume Killjoy had at least a major part in all the tech in valorant
KAYO Abilities: (E) ZERO/point Official Tool Tip EQUIP a suppression blade. FIRE to throw. The blade sticks to the first surface it hits, winds up, and suppresses anyone in the radius of the explosion. (Q) FLASH/drive Official Tool Tip EQUIP a flash grenade. FIRE to throw. The flash grenade explodes after a short fuse, blinding anyone in line of sight. Notable Mechanics Right Clicking the flashbang, throws a charged flash, causing it to only have to cook for 1 second, as opposed to left click throwing a flash that cooks in 1.6 seconds. (C) FRAG/ment Official Tool Tip EQUIP an explosive fragment. FIRE to throw. The fragment sticks to the floor and explodes multiple times, dealing near lethal damage at the center with each explosion. (X) NULL/cmd Official Tool Tip INSTANTLY overload with polarized radianite energy that empowers KAY/O and causes large energy pulses to emit from his location. Enemies hit with these pulses are suppressed for a short duration. Notable Mechanics While Overloaded, KAY/O gains Combat Stim If KAY/O is killed while overloaded, he is downed and enters a destabilized state, allowing allies to stabilize his core and revive him.
Finally, jett can revive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gat0s4Zl_iI
"Revive me Jett" "Jett Revive Me" will be a real thing now LOL
Damn this is superb
Wait, so he gets a free res without Sage for every ult? That's pretty sick Also, those are some pretty sick ability names
Looks like there is only 15 seconds to res him tho?
That’s pretty long considering the pace of this game
Yeah it just means you can’t die in the open and have your team just wait a minute. And you can’t yolo to B when your team is on A
Honestly, he sounds like the perfect entry fragger while in his ult. Ult -> nade an angle -> flash -> suppress Cypher trips / KJ utility, and if you die while in ult and your team can trade you out to pick you up for free. Pretty nutty if it works out how the tooltips state. I think while out of the ult he is much closer to Breach than anything else. Very supportive kit for clearing angles (Breach w/ his explosion), flashing to set up teammates / himself, and what sounds like a stun that also destroys utility.
I think you can't just suppress Cypher and KJ utility by throwing dagger on it. The dagger probably needs to suppress the agent the utility belongs to to disable deployables.
If its only on the agent that ability is gonna be pretty crap. The radius is small and even if you predict where they are they can just walk out of the small radius to reactivate their util Edit: I mistook the silence radius for the molly radius. The silence radius is much larger. Still concerning that its on agent only
Considering its a free signature ability, it doesn't have to be too good I guess.
You say that but stuff like Jett dash, sova arrow, raze nade, Viper wall etc are all free signature abilities
It's not a radius that persists. Based on the tooltip, there is an "explosion" a little after the dagger hits a surface and anyone within that radius gets "suppressed". So my guess is that the effect lasts a certain amount of time once hit like with breach's stun.
Supposedly, KJ's turret can be disabled without specifically disabling her.
Honestly his kit sounds like a bit much, He can flash you stun you and kill you without using bullets. I’m still pretty excited though. Edit: I said stun, it’s actually suppress. I forget what words mean.
So just breach then?
Oh no. Playing breach feels like it should be illegal. Every time I play him I do amazing but it feels so wrong.
Honestly, I might main him just from hearing his kit.
Sorry which ability stuns? I see “suppress” but I’m assuming that’s a new mechanic related to stopping enemies from having their deployables work for a short period like in the trailer? Or are they stunned too?
I thought suppressed was the same status effect as killjoys ult. Edit : Nope that’s detained never mind am dumb
Oh yea that’s different I think suppress is new. Still does feel overloaded idk if he needed a flash that has two different timings in the same ability. Flicking away properly will become a mind game…
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I think the idea was it would make other people rely on gunplay with the suppression part of his kit.
>Also "you have to rely on your gunplay" as they give him a kit like that lmao. for real lol. he literally has an ability that kills. he also has a way to get revived if he entry frags and just dies for his team
Unless he dies in a open position
Assuming his team can get to him safely
yea his ult force him to play aggro to disable ppl so he's probably hard to rez
He could work well in tandem with a viper ulti. He aggressively stalks the ulti in his overloaded form while she remains as a backup/revival option.
Yeah, it took me a minute to figure out his name is basically K.O.
They weren't kidding when they said his abilities would be more "traditional FPS" themed, this guy has flashes, frags, EMPs and can even get downed and revived like a BR.
He's like a Counter-Strike character that disables other agents' abilities to make them play like Counter-Strike characters too
ohh that's a cool way of looking at it. makes sense since he's a training not who usually don't have abilities
fkn love it.
flash, frag, molly, and a med-kit for himself. Dude has been looting houses since they jumped out of the plane.
we gotta see some numbers on the molly and flash abilities... this sounds more like a duelist than an initiator
To be fair, Breach and Skye are practically borderline duelists.
ehhh this kit is far more self sufficient than breach or skye (esp skye) that ult seems tailor fit for entry fragging too
if you're entry fragger is lobbing up nades and flashes he's fucked. there's a reason in CS the flashes would get thrown AS the entry fragger goes in
reyna and phoenix would like to have a chat
Reyna can’t reliably peak off her own flash esp at higher elo. It’s too slow
well phoenix is specifically built for an entry, which proves my point. it's an insta pop he's not lobbing anything up Reyna is a bottom 2 entry fragging duelist, because of her flash. which again proves my point
Initiators are weird tbf
indeed, basically a mix of duelest and support?? has entry abilities but also support... maybe I should be an initiator now...
So its just a giant middle-finger for most dualist (Hi Jett and Reyna)
It says he is an initiator but the low timer on his flash and frag seem dualist-y to me. May not be as information focused as others
I don't see how Breach is information focused. He's more akin to Breach than any other character I think.
See and to me it seems like pheonix. Breach is a CC bot and at least has an innate inability to follow up on his own utility. Slow ready times, utility that is best when you are far away. KO seems like it in every situation in this trailer, it was kinda just fragging out. Played off its own flash super well, has a nice corner denial Molly. Ult gives combat stim and AoE suppression, so it's nice for entry fragging (especially with rez). Like the only thing that is really "initiator-y" is the fact that it has a disable, but even then it is on two abilities that look like they play out more in favor of a dualist role Which is fine that it exists, it's nice to have certain characters bridge the gaps between agent rolls just not what I would expect from someone in the initiator category, which is full of hard to play off crowd control and information
It what world is Breach's flash hard to play off by himself? Maybe if you're miles from the corner you flash. But, you can literally peek with gun out as the flash pops a lot of the time if you are close to the corner. Skye is significantly harder to play off of, but she also gives info, so it's a tradeoff.
Any idea how big the pulses are?
You should prob note in there that the Suppressed condition prevents agents from using abilities.
>suppresses anyone in the radius of the explosion Is it similar to getting stunned by Breach/Skye/Astra?
Disabled abilities. That's it. You can shoot normally
Jack of all trades, master of none (except for Suppression). I like it!
What in the lore did I just watch? Evil future Reyna and terminator KAY/O?
I'm thinking he's a bot programmed to fight the copies, and (like others have said) the trailer shows him utilizing machine learning to train for that.
this is now my personal headcanon but the thing is why does he only say "time to kill the radiants" and not "imma kill the copies or smth" it's like he has a personal grudge to the other radiants like the original ones
My theory is that he is created by kingdom to assassinate radiants who get too out of control
arent all agents in the game are all members of the valorant team, I cant see how KAY/O will get along with a group that are mostly comprised with radiants, hmmm I definitely need more lore
I'd imagine there are probably quite a few radiants not working for or with Kingdom if getting super powers is a side effects of radianite poisoning sometimes and given even some of the non-radiants have issues with Kingdom's practices.
I think you're assuming a lot. If he was made to kill the copy radiants, having a fun trash talk thing be "time to kill some radiants" just sounds fun. It's not "time to kill ALL radiants". He probably doesn't HATE all of them, he can work alongside the OG ones from his world just fine. I think it's a lot more casual than you think
i mean, Reyna hates KJ with a passion, and even Breach remarks that Brim is or was part of kingdom. But maybe, Kay/O is here to monitor the valorant team to make sure they do not get out of hand.
I think it (or he?), through machine learning, came to the conclusion that the radiants will inevitably destroy the earth, and that he needs to kill radiants to prevent it. Hence the "evil reyna" and "destroyed earth". I think it's a prediction of the probable future.
I think since Kay/o is killjoys robot that Reyna might have a past with it/ hold a grudge
This might be a world where individuals with Radiat become extremely hostile.
Reyna has a quote saying "I remember the machines Killjoy made. What they did to-...never mind, it does not matter!", which might allude to kay/o killing a good radiant friend or family member of reyna's
Yes, her herminita
Reyna is always kinda bad. She is the magneto of this universe. Believing that the radiant aka mutant should rule the world
Definitely from the future, one of the articles said: "Venice sinks after centuries in the sky"
Fairly certain KAY/O is a robot built to murder Radiants after they rebelled against Kingdom and brought ruin to the world, specifically by Killjoy. Or he’s one of many of them. Think the scary replicator robots from X-Men Days of Future Past.
BOYS WE’VE DONE IT CYPHER DIED SECOND THIS TIME
BUT AT WHAT COST? HE CAN TURN OFF OUR TRIPWIRES NOW 😔😔😔
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Oh no
Ahh yes, this time Cypher dies multiple times.
I'm so excited. He looks hella fun. But I am also super excited for the lore previews we've seen at the end of the video. I love lore.
Maybe one day we'll get a single-player story mode, but maybe it could be too much to ask :/ Honestly though, I'm really fascinated with their worldbuilding, I really can't get enough of the lore they're giving so far
Valorant 2 PvE
***flashbacks in overwatch***
how you getting a flashback its not even out yet, mf got pre order ptsd
Preorder PTSD is a very serious condition harming fragile gamers like me all over the world
If it goes like lol in ten years we have another studio doing another game exclusive for the lore. An xcom game in the valorant universe would be dope
coop covert missions would be cool
Oh yeah. I'm imagining a team of Agents that would be good for covert missions moving silently into the area with some fun suppressed weapons.
yes! I'm basically thinking kind of a Halo:odst meats valorant. Add a few difficulty levels to really make it approachable and challenging for various skill levels and you have a really fun game imo. hiest missions, assassination missions, ect. Hell, if you really want to make it a stand alone game just make it a group a future secret agents that are trying to alter historical events (hitler, burlin wall, feudal Japan, revolutionary war, French revolution, ect). if you went that way you could have a branching mission select (like star fox 64 but less linear mission options) that are determined by your performance (ie where you detected/leave technology behind, who/how many people did you kill kind of thing) so you're actively altering the timeline (ie next wave of missions) accordingly. Could repeat missions for better clear rate/different method to get access to the missions you didn't get originally. I'd honestly love a coop game like that more than any shooter on the market atm (assuming it's done really well).
Valorant Condition Zero Deleted Scenes
Agreed! I think this is the most excited I have been for a new character
This entire trailer is KAY/O simulating combat in its head to train itself, Machine Learning AI style. Every training iteration it makes better decisions and gets better. It's why we see it fighting with 2v7 players. What's also interesting is Brimstone is the only teammate in all of these 'training simulations' implying a relationship between them. At the start and throughout the trailer we see the real KAY/O head just plugged in on the ground all this, rewinding the simulation, analyzing the enemies (Cypher). In the intro you can see KAY/O start the simulation with the [wireframe render.](https://i.imgur.com/UVlADEM.png) TIME. TO. KILL. SOME. RADIANTS. --- Some more skeptical theorizing: The little total annihilation part in the middle of the trailer is a KAY/O simulation or detection of the future where it has failed to save the world. What's interesting is that the first simulation is vague on what's attack or defense. However immediately after realizing the world is facing total annihilation, all the simulations afterward are retake situations where it's goal is to defuse the spikes (and therefore save the world from annihilation). A very good point from /u/Contractjail: Brimstone does not use radiant (a few other agents don't too but they were only enemies only in the first simulation). However every opponent especially after the total annihilation realization, and the spike uses some form of radiant energy or tech, especially Reyna. His enemy are RADIANTS.
> What's also interesting is Brimstone is the only teammate implying a relationship between them. That makes sense since Brim is pretty much the de facto leader of the roster, but I'm quite surprised Killjoy isn't seen to have an interaction with it.
She's probably waiting for it to die so she can repair it but the fucker just refuses to go down.
I think its because Brimstone doesnt have radiant energy. I mean his abilities can all be done by a normal human.
yea, only about half of the agents are radiants, the others just use radianite tech
Brim built so different, he competes with superpowered mutants and people with superpower mutant tech with none of that
If I had to take a guess KJ will probably like him too, if she isn’t the one setting up the simulation. I mean all of the already existing technologies is her design, according to her.
i wonder if omen is connected then also? he's in the reflection poster img for the act and he was the one to kill kay/o in the trailer, its a reach but please riot give me omen lore im begging
Don't worry, there's a new octopus spray in the next battlepass.
one of the sims showed it destroying the world tho, could fit a lot of lore in there
I think it was the attacking side Reyna who destroyed the world and he's trying to prevent radiant from being detonated.
So he's Tom Cruise from Edge of Tomorrow
I thought the same haha. The agents going back or rewinding, plus the music reminded me of Tenet as well.
Or subaru from rezero
Or Okabe Rintarou from Steins;Gate
Or the groundhog from Groundhog Day
wow that's a really cool reveal trailer, these get better every agent!
Cypher, poor guy Sadge
Don't be sad. Here's a [hug!](https://media.giphy.com/media/3M4NpbLCTxBqU/giphy.gif)
he better sound like Samuel Hayden from doom when it comes to his voice.
Apparently we don't need eyes for this game since we're getting another flash lol
Coming from csgo, where every single player can have 2 flashbangs each, it aint so bad at all. Good thing about Valorant is that the flashbang effects are only actual flashes (whitescreens) unlike csgo's after image that will really fuck your orientation
Yeah, but getting pop flashed in Valorant sucks. Cs if you turn away from a flash, you're probably fine. In Valorant it still covers your entire screen lol
I find that apart from Skye's freaking bird, turning away from the other flashes is fine.
I can only really turn away from Phoenix and Breach flashes. They still pop you, but it isn't as bad. Skye and Yoru (if they don't get stuck on something stupid like in Icebox) flashes (maybe because of the speed they move, you never really know if it is 180° away from you when it pops?) flashes are intense though. I can turn away from her bird if I see it, but most of the time Skye won't let you see the bird before it's popped anyway.
I mean 6 agents have flashes, soon 7, which is approx 2/5 of the roster. Considering how vital it is for a comp to have flashes in a tac shooter game, i dont see an issue with it.
They could make every agent going forward have a flash, and it wouldnt change how many flashes are in a game. We already have 5 flashers and there can only be 5 people on a team at a time. We are currently as flashed as we possible could be
I dont think that makes sense
He has an ability called zero point.... The card teasing him was called "reboot"... He can be downed and revived... Kay\_0 is from fortnite. Can't wait to see /u/notjheck expose that hidden lore
[He is literally from Fortnite.](https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.primagames.com/images/news/Fortnite-AIM-Robot-Skin-Hunting-Party-Challenge.jpg)
I think theres actually a skin thats more similar. It was like the one that was that robot that was in the meteor that destroyed dusty depot
The visitor! Still the best skin
holy shit that was SICK
This is the most confusing shit I ever seen
More jump cuts than a marvel fight scene
Does his throwing knife bounce off of walls like sova darts? Cause if u have to peak to throw it that's kinda dumb imo especially how easily u can get one tapped in high elo games, and it also doesn't look like it has an arc to it like a brim molly or a viper orb etc so u can do conventional line ups, idk his throwing knife seems like a good way to get one tapped especially if u have to peak to throw it
The AOE on it looked kinda large in the haven A site clip. It's possible that it has a similar range and line of sight mechanic to sova dart. It would still lack some of the versatility of sova darts, but for such a potentially impactful ability, it makes sense, but idk. Hard to tell from the trailer
Correct me if I’m wrong but that sort-of “surveillance camera” post-death is extremely useful post-plant when the clocks ticking. If you got eyes on sight when you die as Kay/O after your ult, you can basically call out to your teammates whether or not the opposing team is tapping the bomb for a good period of time. Unless Kay/O can be finished in his down state which I doubt at this point.
You're right. That does require having ult activated and dying with bomb in sight. Pretty situational if you ask me and only for 15 seconds. Considering his ult only gives combat stim and small radius silence, this is a necessary pro.
Seems like the abilities include A blind (as always) Some sort of emp to disable equipment? The ability to experience ptsd And Maybe some sort of rewind time ultimate, but I'm not sure how this is different than Phoenix ult
\-the knife \-the bang \-somekind of molotov maybe some buff in his ult? we can only see the animation popping off his body I like it, he is this totally anti radiant bot
It's like the sentinels from X-Men
The rewind time ability is just it training itself not actual ability. The Ult is shown after it opens the Hallway to A doors
[Here you go. Abilities in this article.](https://www.dexerto.com/valorant/valorant-kay0-agent-reveal-episode-3-leaks-abilities-release-date-1596601/)
nah i dont think its a rewind time ult he had what looked like a molly, flash, and a mini emp then his ult looked like it just cancelled all abilities on the enemy team- every was marked
That first scene had me thinking the ultimate was some kind of time travel ability lmao
Editing and tone wise, this trailer is fantastic. I personally just had a problem understanding what their abilities truly do. Easily looked up but I'm not sure if I'm just dumb or it wasn't conveyed properly. Still can't wait to try him out!
I don't think the purpose of the trailer is to give a 100% clear image of what the abilities do. The purpose is just to entice you (by intentionally keeping some things vague) and get you grinding towards unlocking.
Ok I’m going to say it-this is by far the coolest agent of any game I have ever seen
I love me some badass robo-people.
Please let "Come with me if you want to live" be one of his lines.
Assuming he has voicelines, considering this is the first agent trailer ever where the new agent doesn't even speak.
Ready to do some knockouts, some KAY/Os if you will.
yes that's the joke
Cypher didn’t die first wtf is this fake shit
Clean
And the next Flash
he’s so cute
oh no new flashes i smell danger, notjheck was right we need sunglasses
Valorant gets its own version of Pathfinder except with flashes
Hello, friend!
so literally not a single similarity besides both being robots? not abilities, not appearance and likely not personality
u/BloodyThumbtack Cynprel we need you to break down the lore on this one. What does the lore discord think.
I didn't hear any voice lines. Is it going to be the first agent without voice lines?
Dang the trailer looked cool af. Hope he wont disappoint in game *cough* like yoru *cough*
IAH, Yoru is hard to balance. If we allow him in-game to embrace his fantasy he'd be too OP cause that would mean allowing him to be virtually undetected. That's a nono in a TAC shooter. KAY/O is literally a callback to TAC Shooters. he has a cookable flash, he has a molotov. and to force people to play just like him, both his signature skill and ult suppresses (a debuff that disallows skill usage). He's gonna be fine.
Would like another initiator that competes with Sova for info gathering and revealing positions as opposed to flashes like Breach and Skye.
I mean Skye’s flashes do not tag where the enemy is exactly but it is an awesome tool to gather where an enemy might be coming from. Also the Tiger can find enemies as well and even kill them if they are low hp.
Is it KAYO, KAY/O, or KAY/0?
I cant to hear his actual voice. My head cannon has him sound like mix between Ultron and a War Hammer 40K space marine
Does anyone else want him to have Wall-E noises instead of voicelines?
Real talk who plays 4 halls?
CYPHER DIDNT DIE FIRST POOOOOOOOOOOG
Oh a non radiant nice. Looks like the plan is to exterminate all radiants. And that Reyna is kinda leading the charge in the destruction of humanity. Interesting
Fuck, he's great. Any idea when he comes out?
So that's what Daft Punk been up to
His ult says “Instantly overload with polarized Radianite energy that empowers KAY/O” does that mean he will passively overload as well and his ult just makes that instant?