Riot Games Reveals Hush, Valorant's Telekinetic Duelist from China

Riot Games unveiled Hush, the next Duelist agent for Valorant, during the grand final of VCT Champions 2026 in Shanghai ahead of the match between LOUD and Team Vitality.

The agent from Guangdong, China, will join the roster on October 27 during Season 26, Act VI, becoming the game's ninth Duelist and 30th agent overall.

Her reveal featured a cinematic trailer titled "RISE AND FALL" set to the original song "It's You," performed by Karencici, which showed her confronting armed enemies in a neon-lit restaurant.

In the trailer, Hush sports striking, long white hair with soft pink and purple undertones, sharp blunt bangs, and piercing pink eyes that glow brightly whenever she channels her telekinetic powers.

She exudes an effortlessly cool, nonchalant vibe throughout a chaotic gunfight, even pausing mid-brawl to casually answer a phone call from her mom on a floating smartphone while attaching a suppressor to her pistol.

The official Valorant account posted the video with the caption "Shh... Hush is here."

Hush's full kit centers on telekinetic powers, starting with a passive ability called Telekinesis that lets her pick up weapons and the Spike and interact with switches from an increased range.

Her signature ability, Displacement (E), can be thrown or prepped and then reactivated to send it toward her crosshair, exploding on impact or after a delay to pull players to its center.

"Anyone pulled into a surface or another player is concussed," Riot Games said, noting the ability refreshes every two kills.

Flashbulb (Q) operates similarly, as it can be thrown, prepped and redirected toward her crosshair before exploding on a surface or after a delay to flash nearby players.

For movement, Flow (C) instantly creates an anchor that Hush propels herself toward after a short delay, and if used in the air, she will briefly levitate in place before taking off.

Her ultimate, Suspension (X), is prepared instantly and sent forward, with Hush steering it using her crosshair before reactivating it or firing again to detonate it, levitating every player caught in the blast.

Earlier leaks had claimed the agent would be able to copy allies' abilities and have an ultimate that changed based on whether she was attacking or defending, but neither claim was true.

Hush is the second new agent of 2026 after the Controller Miks and the third agent from China after Sage and Iso.

She will be available in the Americas on October 27 and in all other regions on October 28.

Players can unlock her by earning 200,000 XP during her recruitment event, and once it ends, for 10,000 Kingdom Credits or 1,000 VP.

Riot Games said Hush will be a high-skill, playmaking Duelist who blends rapid aerial entry with disruptive crowd control, differing from the straightforward speed of agents like Jett or Neon.

Her mix of long-range object manipulation, guided crowd control and aerial mobility is expected to make her one of the most versatile playmaking Duelists added to the game.

Her abilities can help retrieve weapons on eco rounds, pull the Spike from afar, and breach sites with prepped utility.