Posted by Steve
Monday, November 29, 2021 12:45 AM
925 is an Initiator class agent, and is somewhat of a "joke" character, being somewhat ridiculous compared to the rest of the cast. 925 is a robot, similar to the practice bots in the range, dressed up in business casual attire with a white button-up with rolled-up sleeves, a team-coloured tie, dark brown pants, and black shoes. Personality wise, they act like a stereotypical business-man, complaining about how they'll be late to some appointment or another. They probably dislikes most of the other Agents (maybe not Chamber), but works with them begrudgingly.
ABILITIES
SIGNATURE (E): Tie Grapple (1 charge, 25s cooldown)
Press to equip tie. Fire by pressing left click. If tie hits a surface, 925 will be pulled in that direction. Pressing left click mid-pull will cancel the grapple and allow 925 to re-equip their gun.
The grapple works like Pathfinder's (Apex Legends), which means 925 will not be able to shoot while the grapple is active, and even after cancelling the grapple, 925 will keep their momentum. The tie can also be shot by the enemies, causing the grapple to be cancelled. The tie can stretch up to 10m.
ABILITY 1 (Q): Need a Refill (2 charges, 250 credits each)
Press to equip a mug of team-coloured mystery liquid. Fire to drink, then press fire/alt-fire again to throw. If mug hits an enemy directly, target will take 15 damage and be slowed. If mug hits a surface, it will explode and do nothing.
This move is a skillshot/lineup move. Once you drink the "coffee," you cannot put the mug away, meaning you cannot use any other ability or shoot. You need to hit a player, or accomplish nothing with the mug. It's a bit different to almost every other ability in the game, however, I think that people may be able to get creative with it as well.
ABILITY 2 (C): Water Break (1 charge, 250 credits)
Press to immediately toss a platform, which unfolds to become a water-cooler. Friendly players standing within a 5m radius of the cooler will slowly heal a maximum of 35HP over 2.5 seconds. The cooler will last for 10 seconds or until it is destroyed.
While I personally think that the healing space is pretty much filled (and oversaturated) by Sage and Skye, I just couldn't think of anything more perfect for a business obsessed robot. I balanced it by making it not a lot of healing, but being pretty quick. It's not something that'll fix you, but it'll help you enough to keep you working (like real breaks at work).
ULTIMATE (X): Dial Up (7 Ult Points)
Friendly Side Voiceline: "I'll give them a call..."
Enemy Side Voiceline: "Let's chat, shall we?"
Press to equip a cellphone. Firing will cause enemy player's communicators to go off, playing loud ringtones and pinging them through walls once every two seconds. To counteract this, enemy players must hold the interact key to hang up.
This ability works like a mixture between Cypher's camera ping and his ult, causing every enemy player to get pinged until they can hang up. This gives 925's team insight to every player on the map. Enemies will have to hold interact for around 5-6 seconds to cancel the call, which puts away their guns (and could also block their vision due to looking at their phone).
This could also lead to some funny worldbuilding, showcasing every agent's personal phone and ringtone as they struggle to hang up, listening to 925 blather about random stuff like stocks or NFTs or something.
925 may start out seeming annoying and too self-sufficient to be an iniatiator, playing elevated off angles or pushing in quickly, tossing skillshots to deal minor, annoying debuffs and damage, healing their team, and revealing your every move. However, they have some obvious flaws like easy to avoid/cancel abilities and long startups that players must learn to abuse. And the 925 players must learn to adapt to that, playing creatively and supporting their team with unorthodox methods on already unorthodox abilities.
If you have any criticism, go ahead and comment. I would love to hear other's feedback.
References
- https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/r3ykv6/initiator_agent_concept_925/
- https://reddit.com/r3ykv6
More Like This
Pro players not “slicing the pie”
Posted by Otto
Tuesday, July 6, 2021 4:36 AM
New Gun or gun for new character!?
Posted by Otto
Saturday, February 12, 2022 6:31 PM
Valorant is making a doom and quake refrence with the new bundle
Posted by Otto
Friday, June 24, 2022 6:31 PM