In 2024, VALORANT has become one of the most recognized games in the world. This is due to the ability to play with your friends in various game modes. The game is easy to understand as it’s mainly a first-person shooter with multiple agents. Each agent has some unique abilities to differentiate it from the rest. With this, let’s look at the best agents for beginners in VALORANT in 2024.
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VALORANT currently consists of a total of 24 agents. The latest agent is Clove, who was released this year. Over the years, multiple agents have been reworked. When a new player logs into VALORANT, they will have five agents unlocked. Those five agents are as follows:
From the list above, one will notice that each agent is associated with a certain class. There are four categories in VALORANT: Duelist, Controller, Initiator, and Sentinel. Below is a list of the best agents to use from each agent category in VALORANT in 2024. Also check out our beginner’s guide to VALORANT to hone your skills even further.
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The best sentinel agent to use is none other than Sage. Sage is one of the most unique agents in the game as she can heal herself and her team too. Her ability pool has slow orbs that can be thrown on the ground. Once used, the opponent’s movement in the affected area would be slowed down.
Finally, Sage has her signature ability, the Barrier Orb. This ability allows the player to build a wall that will block both bullets and opponents. Her ultimate is Resurrection, which allows players to revive their teammates. Sage’s mechanics are straightforward, so mastering this agent requires no high skill level. The agent is also a support agent, so players can practice the game’s shooting mechanics. Her ultimate is resurrection, which allows players to revive their teammates.
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The next class is known as Controllers. They are ideal agents who can support the team, but their main focus is to block entry and vision into a site. In this class, the best agent to use is none other than Brimstone. Brimstone is the only agent in the game who can place three smokes at once.
The other abilities on Brimstone are Stim Beacon and Incendiary. These abilities help support a team while on attack. Brimstone VALORANT is a simple agent to understand, focusing on basics such as smoke and a grenade launcher.
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The next class of agents is known as initiators. Their main goal is to obtain information using their abilities, acting like recon for their respective teams to figure out where the opponents could be present. The agent players should play to get a grip on this agent class is Sova. Sova has abilities that are primarily focused on obtaining information.
His signature ability is the recon bolt. For the given area on the map, it can provide the exact location of the opponents. This information is available to all teammates so that they can synchronize their abilities. Sova’s Owl Drone allows the agent to get vision on a given site for a certain amount of time. The ability that has quite a high skill gap is his Shock Bolt. This ability can be used in the post-plant—an ideal test to see how players know their geometry on a given map.
Sova is also easy to learn as an agent, and since his launch, there hasn’t been a major change to this ability kit in VALORANT. As this agent is already unlocked, players can use it in all game modes.
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The last type of agent, which is the most popular in VALORANT, is the duelist class. These agents’ ability kits consist of tools that players can use to affect their opponents’ aim. This could be by either blinding them or even stunning them. The best agent to understand the duelist class is learning how to play Phoenix VALORANT.
Phoenix has been one of the most popular agents in the game. He has been a part of the game since its beta. The agent is unique due to having a passive ability as well. The passive ability is that it can gain health from abilities such as Blaze and Hot Hands. Ablaze is a wall of fire that blocks vision, and hurts opponents who pass through it. Hot Hands is similar to Brimstone’s Incendiary. This is a fireball that will hurt opponents who stand over it.
Finally, his ultimate is called Run It Back. This ability, when activated, places a marker from where the ability has been activated. From there, the player can run and kill opponents. If the player is killed, he will spawn again at the marker with total health. Due to the ability only requiring six orbs to activate, it’s one of the fastest ultimates to use in the game.
