Riot Games revealed Hush, the ninth Duelist in Valorant, at the Champions 2026 Grand Finals on October 18. The reveal came before LOUD and Team Vitality faced off for the crown.
Key points
- Riot Games revealed Hush at the Valorant Champions 2026 Grand Finals on October 18.
- Hush is a Duelist from Guangdong, China, built around telekinesis and guided crowd control.
- Riot has scheduled Hush for live servers on October 27, across all global regions.
- The reveal lists five abilities, including Flow, Flashbulb, Displacement and Suspension.
- The reveal labels Hush Agent 31, but reports differ on the total roster count.
Hush will join the roster after VCT 2026 ends, in Season 26, Act VI. Riot has scheduled her for live servers on October 27, with full access across all global regions. The reveal labels her Agent 31, but reports differ on the total roster count.
A Trailer Built Around Telekinesis
Hush comes from Guangdong, China, and the trailer presents her as a master of bending reality. Her introduction uses the original track “It’s You” by Karencici.
In the Hush agent trailer, she walks down a rain-slicked alley and enters a neon-lit restaurant to confront a room of armed thugs. She has long white hair with soft pink and purple undertones, blunt bangs and pink eyes that glow when she uses her telekinetic powers.
Mid-fight, she answers a call from her mom on a floating smartphone and attaches a suppressor to her pistol. Riot framed the debut around a single idea.
“Rewrite the rules of the battlefield with Hush,” Riot said in its trailer post.
Five Abilities Built on Telekinesis and Crowd Control
Telekinesis and purple crystal powers play a central role in her kit. The reveal lists five abilities.
- Telekinesis (Passive, P): Align your crosshair to interact with weapons, the Spike or map switches from a limited long distance.
- Flow (C): Place an anchor in space and propel yourself toward it. Using it mid-air lets you hover as you move.
- Flashbulb (Q): Equip a flash device. Left-click throws it, and right-click readies it so you can guide it toward your crosshair before detonating it to blind enemies.
- Displacement (E): Uses the same throw and guide controls as Flashbulb. On detonation it pulls players in, concusses anyone who hits a surface or another player, and refreshes every 2 kills.
- Suspension (X): Launch an orb toward your crosshair, then detonate it to lift every caught player into the air.
Where Hush Fits in the Duelist Role
The reveal describes Hush as a high-skill playmaker who mixes rapid aerial entry with disruptive crowd control. She does not rely on raw speed the way Jett or Neon does. Neon’s mobility was reduced in Valorant Patch 12.09.
Hush depends on setup plays. Players guide her Flashbulb and Displacement projectiles around tricky angles. The reveal says her abilities can retrieve weapons on eco rounds, pull the Spike from afar and breach sites with prepped utility. It also calls her one of the most versatile playmaking Duelists Riot has added.
Champions Context and the Roster Pattern
The reveal follows an established pattern. Before the 2024 grand final, Riot revealed Vyse, Valorant’s 26th agent and sixth Sentinel.
Champions 2026 is the final Champions tournament of the franchise era, since the VCT returns to an open qualifier format in 2027. The next global Masters event will be held in London, as confirmed after Nongshim RedForce won Masters Santiago. Details are in Valorant Masters London 2026.
What Riot Has Not Confirmed
Riot has not said whether Hush will be playable in the upcoming Kickoff qualifiers. The reveal did not provide costs, cooldowns or Ultimate details.
Players have also questioned Riot Games’ anti-cheat measures, which require system-level security adjustments for Valorant.
