Riot Games revealed Hush, Valorant's newest agent, during the Champions 2026 grand final broadcast in Shanghai on October 18. She's a Duelist built around telekinetic abilities, and she's set to join the live servers on October 27, lining up with Season 26, Act VI.
Hush is the game's 31st agent overall and the second new addition of 2026, following Miks, who launched with Act 2 in March. Riot aired her character trailer after the event's opening ceremony, framing her as a reality-bending fighter who can manipulate objects and enemies from a distance.
Who Is Hush
According to Riot's reveal materials, Hush hails from Guangdong, China. Her design leans on telekinesis as both a combat tool and a character hook — the marketing language around her centers on bending the rules of the battlefield rather than simply outgunning opponents.
Her Abilities
Hush's passive extends her interaction range noticeably beyond a normal agent's: she can pick up dropped weapons, grab the Spike, and open doors from roughly 25 to 30 meters away, based on footage shown during the reveal.
Her first ability, Flashbulb, is her entry tool. Players can fire it immediately or hold it prepped with alt-fire, then reactivate it to redirect the throw toward their crosshair before it detonates and blinds anyone caught in the blast.
Flow is her mobility ability. Activating it instantly drops an anchor point; if Hush is airborne when she does it, she briefly levitates in place before being pulled toward that anchor after a short delay.
Her ultimate, Suspension, is prepared instantly rather than requiring a cast animation. Once armed, she fires it forward and can steer it with her crosshair before detonating it on command, triggering a four-second levitation effect on every player caught in the area — allies included.
Release Timing
Riot has kept the reveal and the in-game release as separate milestones, which is standard practice for the studio's agent rollouts. The reveal trailer landed October 18 at Champions; Hush becomes playable on live servers October 27, alongside the start of Act VI.
Why It Matters
Hush is Valorant's second Duelist-role addition in roughly two years of a roster that's increasingly top-heavy with flashy mobility kits, and her object-manipulation gimmick — picking up the Spike or weapons from well outside normal range — is a genuinely new mechanic rather than a reshuffled version of an existing ability. Whether that translates into a balanced pick or another agent needing day-one nerfs, as has happened with several recent launches, won't be clear until she's live and competitive teams get reps in ranked and VCT scrims.
Full patch notes for her release, including any price in Kingdom Credits or Valorant Points and exact numbers for cooldowns and flash duration, are expected from Riot closer to October 27.
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