Our Valorant tier list isn’t for the highest elo or solo-queue heroes, instead we’re ranking all of the Valorant characters based on their potential effectiveness in the average ranked match. We always suggest playing with at least two or three friends so you can actually string some strats together, hence why you won’t spot hard-carry agents like Reyna near the top of our list.
This Valorant tier list also takes the current meta into consideration, so while some agents are very powerful on paper, you’ll find their abilities hard to use in ranked because of how most team’s generally play. Utility is essential in Valorant and can make the difference between securing a plant and getting trapped in spawn, so smokes, delaying utility, and corner-clearing flashes are generally what separate S-tier from C-tier. Anything that counters Operator plays is good in our books.
If your team is trying to figure out what comp they should be running in ranked then hopefully our Valorant ranked tier list will help you out. We’ve done our research tuning into pro streams and dying countless times over in ranked play so you don’t have to.
Here is our Valorant tier list, in order:
S Tier
Viper is a bit of a meta pick and not great for solo-queuers, but if you’ve got a good team behind you this is one agent who can be wielded like a surgeon’s knife. Difficult to master, she requires precision, and piloted by the right person can lock down a site on her own, provided the map is suitable for it. This makes Viper the perfect agent to pick on defence as her abilities can be lethal when timed correctly.
Sova is a pure reconnaissance agent, although his ultimate is handy for netting some free kills. In the right hands, and with a memory bank of Recon Bolt lineups, you can get a read on how many enemies are stacked up on a certain site. His Shock Bolts are useful for clearing out traps, chipping enemies with damage, halting pushes, and his Owl Drone can be used as a follow-up to the Recon Bolt to gain intel on any areas the bolt couldn’t see. All of this makes Sova equally viable on attack and defence, making him the best agent in the game for supporting a push onto site.
Jett is an agent for players who want to take big risks but are confident they can hit their shots. She’s fast, nimble, and can escape practically any situation. The best Jett players are sharp with her blade-throwing ultimate, can navigate the arena quickly, and who can use the Operator or Judge.
Astra literally changed the game when she was introduced, and it’s no wonder because she has powerful cosmic abilities that mean she plays quite differently to the other agents on the roster.
Sage has been tweaked more than once since the game’s release, so her place on the tier list has shifted with the meta. At the moment she’s pretty strong, and it’s not hard to see why. Not only is she Valorant’s only dedicated healer, she can also bring dead teammates back to life with her ultimate, which can instantly swing the tide of a match.
Raze gets a lot of flack for being too simple and only useful for picking up cheap frags with her Paint Shells cluster grenades and rocket ultimate. However, she’s one of the strongest agents for clearing utility in Valorant. Her Paint Shells and Blast Packs can be lobbed into default Tripwire and Nanoswarm spots, perfect for clearing out utility and buying a quick path onto site. On defence, these same abilities are handy for slowing down pushes.
Valorant’s newest agent has hit the ground running – quite literally in that her entire thing is zipping around the map at incredible speeds with her High Gear ability. Fast Lane is another great ability for giving a clear pathway into a space, or potentially for isolating an enemy agent for a 1v1 bout. Her other two abilities are less about speed and more about harassment.
While Killjoy’s no longer as potent as she used to be (which saw her frequently banned at pro level), she’s still a very solid operator so her A-tier rank is more than justified. Killjoy’s main benefit is that her gadgets can collect information without risking her own neck.
There’s nothing particularly clever about KAY/O, but he’s a dependable and solid operator with plenty of offensive utility that make him a solid foundation for any push. His Zero/Point, Frag/Ment, and Flash/Drive abilities are situational, but give KAY/O a well-rounded loadout to meet almost any situation.
Skye’s higher up the list than she used to be thanks to some targeted buffs that mean she doesn’t have to rely so much on teammates exploiting the openings she can create. Guiding Light can blind enemies with its flash effect, and Trailblazer or her ultimate Seekers can help you flush enemies out of cover as well as deal damage.
Omen’s ability to move around the battlefield without being spotted and feint moves makes him incredibly difficult to read, forcing enemies to second guess anything you do. He can quickly move between cover in the heat of battle without exposing himself, blind and deafen huge areas of a site with his flashes, and cut off important Operator angles with his precise smoke placement.
Cypher’s recon utility is a little too easy to predict and destroy if you’re not switching up placement every round, but codename Gumshoe is an incredibly powerful agent in the right hands. Recent nerfs have tanked his pick rate, meaning he’s not as favoured as he used to be.
There are many positive arguments and things to be said about Reyna’s potential and toolset, but she’s also a ‘feast or famine’ agent, and that means she’s only as good as the player controlling her. She can be S-tier in the hands of the right player, especially when solo-queing, but for the purposes of this list she struggles to remain in B as she’s a poor team player.
If this list ranked agents in terms of how well dressed they were, Chamber would be God tier. Sadly, it’s a ranking on how well agents fare in a team in ranked play, and here the exquisitely cut Frenchman struggles a bit more.
As with a lot of the agents in Valorant, in the right hands Breach can be a powerhouse. But in the wrong hands he’s as much a hindrance to his own team as he is the enemy team, and he’s always in the wrong hands.
Phoenix is fun, but relies a little bit too much on other teammates to be truly viable. At the very least, there are usually better picks, but that’s not to say he doesn’t have some tricks up his sleeve.
While Brimstone was more dependable when Valorant first launched, as newer agents have come online his utility has become less and less desirable. Each of his abilities, bar perhaps his ultimate, is better done elsewhere and in a more focused kit. Originally he was thought to be boring, but now he’s boring and underpowered – a tragic combination.
Considering Yoru is getting a rework in the not-to-distant future, it’s no wonder he languishes at the bottom of the list at the moment. You can see the potential of his teleport ability in someone like Chamber, who has a more manageable version of the same concept, and there are other agents that are just far better at disruption and intel gathering.
