The five best Valorant agents for beginners

For beginners looking to get a solid start, it’s smart to pick up the easier agents in Valorant as they work on improving in the game.

In Valorant, one has to nail their headshots and monitor the map all while making the most of their agent’s abilities. For newbies though, starting out with this in mind is rather overwhelming. Fortunately, there are several agents available in the game with straightforward abilities that do not require much thinking or complicated techniques to use.

By using these agents, beginners can simply concentrate on honing their aim and movement and mastering the mechanics of Valorant.

The best agents for Valorant beginners

Brimstone

The controller role isn’t the easiest to master. But for players looking to learn and excel at it, Brimstone is the perfect pick.

Brimstone’s Sky Smoke, despite having a map range restriction, is the easiest smoke to place in the game. Unlike other controllers, dropping his smokes requires no lineups and poses zero risk of unintentionally creating a one-way. Additionally, it has a pretty long duration, which means beginners can worry less about smoke timings and focus more on how to win the round.

Securing rounds, be it on attack or defense, is also made easier with his ultimate Orbital Strike. Pick an area and drop the laser, capable of taking a huge chunk off their health. And if that’s not enough, Brimstone’s got his incendiary too, which can make enemies think twice before stepping on it as it can instantly drop their HP down to half.

Fade

Although she may boast an intimidating look among Valorant agents, beginnersshould feel no fear when picking up Fade.

Fade brings plenty of information with her kit, which beginners can use without many drawbacks. Unlike other initiators whose abilities can blind teammates, this Turkish bounty hunter has utilities that barely harm the team.

Her signature ability, Haunt, summons a haunting watcher that reveals enemy positions and highlights them. Whether using lineups or not, this can be especially helpful for duelists, guiding them on which angles to focus on when entering sites. Additionally, she has a pair of prowlers that, when deployed, seek out enemies within range and pursue them. This not only informs the team of the enemy’s location but also disrupts their vision if they fail to destroy the prowler.

Seize, on the other hand, traps enemies in a specific area and reduces their HP over time. Players can combine it with damaging abilities like Raze’s Paint Shells for potential multiple kills or even an ace. Finally, Fade’s ultimate, Nightfall, sweeps through enemies, causing their HP to decay and leaving them unable to hear.

Sage

Sage boasts one of the highest pick rates in Valorant and that is mainly thanks to her simple and straightforward kit.

The Chinese sentinel agent is the ideal comfort pick for Valorant beginners who are into a less chaotic and more team-oriented playstyle. Whether a crack shot or not, a beginner playing Sage can still make a solid contribution with her utilities.

While she lacks traps for detecting flanking opponents, Sage excels at defending sites like other sentinels. Her Barrier Orb is a giant wall that takes a whole magazine to destroy, and her slow orb hampers enemy movement. It might take some practice to place the Barrier Orb just right, but players will pick it up quickly. Despite being beginner-friendly, Sage should never be underestimated. Alongside her healing abilities, she can revive a fallen teammate, which is indeed a game-changer, especially in nail-biting clutch situations.

Since all her abilities focus on supporting allies, Sage players should brace themselves for endless cries of “I need healing!” and “Revive me, Sage,” but that is something they might eventually get used to.

Reyna

If engaging in duels is the player’s game, their best bet would be Reyna. With her self-sufficient and straightforward abilities, she is easily one of the best agents to main at the start of the game.

Players who pick Reyna are rewarded when taking 1v1s with her ability to pick off opponents and swiftly get away with it through her Dismiss. They can also heal themselves, no Sage needed. She may not be as mobile as Neon, Jett, and Raze, but her Leer is what allows her to take space. It only blinds enemies, making it less punishing compared to Phoenix’s flash.

The catch is that Reyna does not offer much utility for her team directly. With most her abilities only benefiting herself, she needs to have sharp aim to do the job of a duelist. The upside is that Reyna’s abilities require no tough mechanics and setups, allowing players to solely focus on their aim, movement, and game sense.

Killjoy

Place bots and let them do the work. That pretty much sums up Killjoy’s gameplay, which makes her a go-to agent for beginners who prefer a reactive playstyle in Valorant.

Her kit revolves around playing with traps, adding more ways to win rounds beyond just raw aiming skills. The German genius’ Alarmbot sniffs out enemies around its vicinity and chases them, making them vulnerable. When paired with Nanoswarm, a damaging grenade, it will deal serious damage to them and potentially gain a player easy kills.

Then there’s her turret, a sentry gun that shoots at enemies in a 180-degree cone. Not only does it detect their presence, but opponents also receive damage from it. New players would be pleasantly surprised by how many unexpected kills they can score with it.

Ultimately, Killjoy’s Lockdown covers almost an entire site, and enemies caught inside are detained after a short wind-up. This either stops them from pushing further into the site or kicks them out of the area. Altogether, this lets her singlehandedly defend an area or even an entire site from attackers, showcasing the classic strength of Sentinels in Valorant.

There are loads of setups to pull off with Killjoy, but as a newbie, just chucking bots into tight spots can seriously mess with enemy plans. After all, a newbie is likely to be matched up against players of the same level. They may be clueless about how to deal with such sneaky setups.