Valorant pronounces its latest initiator, Tejo – the well-dressed man of motion – has formally joined the Agent roster. Hailing from Colombia, Tejo will undoubtedly shake up the gameplay together with his distinctive equipment that flushes out enemies utilizing a top-down method. Tejo requires you to research the scenario mid-round and use skills to assist clear the way in which on your group strategically. Primarily based on the enemy’s playstyle, the place are they prone to be? Can you employ their location to your benefit and get them in a weak place?
“We had a gameplay alternative the place we needed to have an Initiator who considered the map a little bit in another way – extra top-down as a substitute of taking angles one after the other. We needed to attempt including a few skills with outputs like flushing that was actually thrilling for creating these home windows of energy,” famous Ryan “Rycou” Cousart, sport designer for Tejo.
Initiators must do issues exactly. We’ve all been there – trying up Agent guides on YouTube, heading to a customized to check out a lineup, ghosting by way of the partitions to see if it landed accurately. Tejo provides Initiator gamers one thing totally different by with the ability to precisely place utilities utilizing the map in additional exactly focused areas, as a substitute of counting on the perfect-pixel lineups that some utilities with larger footprints could depend on. This lets you be extra exact with what you wish to do however with the trade-off of getting a smaller space of influence.
To successfully use his exact utility, Tejo wants some data — and like different Initiators, he’s good at gathering that data himself. “Since Tejo can present details about the place the enemies are, it permits him to be much more according to the worth he can convey,” acknowledged John Goscicki, Agent group lead. “Tejo is likely one of the few Initiators with no flash so he’ll be simpler with one other Initiator like Breach or KAY/O the place you may create these actually quick, explosive takes.”
The thought of this Agent being an Initiator who leads a group with sturdy sport sense goes together with the notion of somebody who’s skilled on the battlefield and in life.
“The phrase we used lots was simply ‘man of motion.’ We’ve all seen the flicks, learn the books the place you simply see the dude within the button-up, within the blazer, simply coming and destroying everybody,” famous Goscicki. “He’s the rugged skilled – his shirt is unbuttoned and he’s prepared for motion. He’s not like Chamber the place each element about his apparel issues to bolster the thought of touchdown the proper shot. Tejo goes to run in there by way of all the explosions and every part’s acquired to be unfastened, wavy, and comfy.”
Everybody can play Tejo however these with strategic sport sense could make him actually shine. Step as much as the problem and study to make use of him to your benefit earlier than everybody else. If the new Agent isn’t sufficient pleasure already, try the new PlayStation Plus choices which embody varied in-game gadgets, comparable to Snowball Gun Buddy, Celestial Participant Card, Sentinels of Mild Spray, Sovereign Spray, and Radianite Factors.
As Tejo would say, “We will stand round all day speaking about killing them… or we simply do it.” Valorant is free-to-play on PS5 now.