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Learn more about how the team is approaching core topics like ability overload, smurfing, and more.

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Abilities, Smurfing, Replays, and More // Dev Updates

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Anna Donlon reflects on VALORANT’s journey to 5 years and invites you to join us for many more.

Celebrating 5 Years of VALORANT

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Ban hammer goes brrr after Riot-wide holiday break.

Vanguard hits new ‘Bans-Per-Second’ record.

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Find out more about the upcoming changes across Agents, Balance, Ranked, Replays, and more.

What’s New for Season 2025 // Dev Updates

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A warm welcome to VALORANT’s 5th year from Studio Head, Anna Donlon.

Welcome to Season 2025

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Our final Dev Update before we roll into 2025.

Player Behavior, Balance, and Anti-Cheat // Dev Updates

Every rose has its thorns. But only some are deadly.

Vyse: Adapt or Die

Maps Producer Albert Robles looks at Abyss and map pools as well as the rest of 2024 for maps.

State of the Maps - July 2024

Join us on our journey of taking VALORANT from the keyboard to the sticks in our newest Dev Diary.

Bringing VALORANT to Console // Dev Diaries - VALORANT

Map Rotations, Replays, and More // Dev Updates

Coleman Palm and John Goscicki touch on balance and the first new Agent of 2024.

State of the Agents - March 2024

The latest look on our efforts to keep cheaters out of your games.

ANTI-CHEAT UPDATE // WINTER 2023

VALORANT Data Drop: VCT 2023

Character Producer John Goscicki gives a brief look at 2023’s Agents and a preview of the next Agent.

State of the Agents: Gekko, Deadlock, and ???

VALORANT’s Cape Town Servers Are Live

Game Director Andy Ho and Global Head of VALORANT Esports Leo Faria go over some exciting Premier updates.

What’s Next? // Premier - VALORANT

The latest on Team Deathmatch, updates to the progression system, and a lethal new Sentinel—let’s catch up on what’s next for VALORANT in 2023.

What’s Next in 2023 // Dev Diaries - VALORANT

VALORANT Data Drop: Phantom vs. Vandal

We are updating our participation-related penalties in Patch 6.07.

VALORANT Systems Health Series - AFK and Queue Dodge Update

Developing a new kind of Initiator and his found family.

Gekko: Viva Familia // Dev Diaries - VALORANT

Read how our dev team turned misfortune into the best-performing servers since launch.

How We Got to the Best-Performing VALORANT Servers Since Launch

Technology of the Future Found in the Ancient Past.

Lotus: Unearthing VALORANT’s Lost City

Here’s a message from the devs of just some of what’s in store for VALORANT in 2023.

2023 Kick Off // Dev Diaries - VALORANT

The latest on our work to combat smurfs, some results, and next steps.

VALORANT Systems Health Series - Smurf Detection

VALORANT Data Breach: 9-3 Curse

Thanks for 2022 from the entire VALORANT dev team. Read for leaks.

Thank You, from our Dev team

Read how the Piedra del Sol skinline from Episode 5 Act II’s Battlepass brings Aztec Gods to a new age of gaming.

Summon the Past: VALORANT's Piedra del Sol

AGENT ORIGINS: Phoenix

Explore how the VALORANT maps and narrative team shaped the language of our newest map, Pearl, and introduced the world to Omega Earth.

How we Shaped Pearl // Dev Diaries - VALORANT

A brief review at today’s Agent meta, and a thorough look at the major lenses we use to decide balance changes.

State of the Agents - Sept. 2022

The Premium Content team discuss their journey resurrecting a fan favorite, Reaver.

True to Form: The story of Reaver

From competitive swimming to leaderboard staple, this is zt0l.

FORMATION Stories: zt0l

Dropping by to help you understand how we’re tuning map diversity in the Competitive queue.

VALORANT Systems Health Series - Map Diversity

Map pick/ban, gifting, reporter feedback and…VALORANT on Netflix?

Ask VALORANT - May 19

Character Producer John Goscicki has the latest update for the new Agent.

State of the Agents - March 2022

This is the story of how VALORANT’s performance team boosted your client performance.

Performance Boost: VALORANT’s Global Invalidation

With 2 years of Controllers, Duelists, Sentinels and Initiators, it’s a good time to see how  we do it today.

Neon and Agent Design in 2022// Dev Diaries - VALORANT

Members of the Social and Player Dynamics team update you on ongoing future work on voice and chat toxicity.

VALORANT Systems Health Series - Voice and Chat Toxicity

Part 2 in our special series about our work to get Yoru in the right place.

State of the Agents - Yoru Part 2

Anna looks back on the year so we can look ahead for VALORANT Act II.

Episode 4 Act II Look Ahead // Dev Diaries

Giving a whole new meaning to run and gun.

Co-Developing Neon & Zeri

To fans and players of VALORANT worldwide…

To fans and players of VALORANT worldwide,

State of the Agents - December 2021

Members of the Social and Player Dynamics team drop the latest on AFK data and work.

VALORANT Systems Health Series - AFK

We lay out our plans for months-long communications around game systems health.

VALORANT Systems Health Series - Intro

This special series is to show you exactly what we are working to get our dimensional Duelist in the right place.

State of the Agents - Yoru

You’ve played the newest map, now see how it was made with a breakdown from the VALORANT Map team.

Controlled Ruptures - Making VALORANT’s Fracture

Join Character Producer John Goscicki as he goes over 3.06 Agent changes, balance outlook and our next Agent.

State of the Agents - September 2021

Zedd is the Grammy award winner that co-created Spectrum, and is better than most of us at VALORANT.

FORMATION Stories: Zedd

Rank distribution, Account Levels, and skins are covered in this Ask VALORANT.

Ask VALORANT - Aug. 27

We share how the Sentinels of Light came to VALORANT via the Ruination and Sentinels weapon skins.

How we brought the Sentinels of Light to VALORANT

Cynprel is the VALORANT community’s lore enthusiast, archivist, and theorist. Read how they keep you informed.

FORMATION Stories: Cynprel

Join our devs for a talk on the art and design behind Breeze.

Then Came the Breeze // Dev Diaries - VALORANT

VALORANT Creative Director bridges the gap between DUELISTS and DUALITY.

The Story of VALORANT so far

Our devs stop by to address performance, that 5-stack question, and crustaceans on Breeze.

Ask VALORANT - May 31

Our Character Producer goes into planned 3.0 Agent changes and who’s coming in Episode 3.

State of the Agents - May 2021

Today we tackle smurfs and give a small update on a potential replay system.

Ask VALORANT - May 6

The Global Esports team shares details on recent community topics within VALORANT Esports

Ask VALORANT - Esports (April 2021)

How do we approach odd ability use? Did HRTF lower my volume? And more on today’s Ask VALORANT.

Ask VALORANT - Apr. 12

Anna Donlon says hello and welcome to our Vietnam players. We’ve also got a special in-game title for all.

Welcoming Vietnam to VALORANT

Character Producer John Goscicki drops knowledge on the recent Viper changes and our balance outlook in 2021.

State of the Agents - Mar. 2021

This one goes out to all of you who feel like the system is holding you down. How does Rank Rating and MMR work in VALORANT?

Ask VALORANT - Rank Rating Edition

Take a look at how our principal illustrator built Astra’s art from sketch to cosmic Controller.

Astra: From Sketch to Key Art

This week, we address the Rank Rating penalty for queue dodge, and look at the knife hit detection.

Ask VALORANT - Feb. 24

Our Social and Player Dynamics team lays out the next steps to combat bad behavior in our game.

VALORANT Behavior Detection and Penalty Updates

Character Producer John Goscicki drops the latest look of where our Agents are today and where they are headed.

State of the Agents - Feb. 2021

The state of match remake, Agent keybinds and some thoughts on Spike Rush.

Ask VALORANT - Feb. 11

Two big league questions on running/shooting accuracy and rank rating answered here.

Ask VALORANT - Jan. 28

Our anti-cheat analyst gives you the latest on what we’re doing to stop cheaters in the new year.

VALORANT Anti-cheat: Winter Update

Plans for rank system changes, another surrender vote, and story mode, all discussed here.

Ask VALORANT - Dec. 24

Game Lead Anna Donlon wraps the year and Senior Producer Arnar Gylfason tells you what we’re doing so that each patch is smoother than the last.

Smoothing the VALORANT Rough Patches | Dev Diaries - VALORANT

A thanks from members of the Audio discipline on VALORANT.

End of Year: Audio Discipline

Thank you from the esports team for a groundbreak year!

End of Year: Esports Team

A thanks from the team that thinks about the lore and the creative cohesion of all your experiences.

End of Year: Creative Team

State of the Agents - Dec. 2020

Riot Games presents VALORANT: a 5v5 character-based tactical FPS where precise gunplay meets unique agent abilities. Learn about VALORANT and its stylish cast