Valorant's New Agent Hush Can Pull You Into Walls, and Korea's PC Bangs Noticed

Valorant has given players agents who teleport, heal, build turrets and summon walls of ice. Its newest one simply grabs the battlefield and moves it, enemies included.

Hush, a telekinetic Duelist from Guangdong, China, became playable in VALORANT Patch 13.09, published on October 27, 2026. Riot first showed her in a cinematic trailer on October 18, just before the VCT Champions 2026 grand final. She's the game's ninth Duelist, joining fighters such as Jett, Reyna and Raze.

What Hush does

Hush's kit is all about forces: pulling, pushing and lifting.

• Telekinesis (passive): pick up weapons, the Spike (on attack) and interact with switches from longer range.
• Displacement (signature): a thrown charge that explodes on impact or after a delay and pulls every player toward its centre. Anyone pulled into a wall or another player is concussed. It recharges every two kills.
• Flashbulb: a flash that bursts on a surface or after a delay, blinding anyone looking at it.
• Flow: sets an anchor and propels Hush toward it after a short delay; if she's airborne, she hovers briefly before launching.
• Suspension (ultimate): a steerable projectile that, when detonated, levitates every player caught in it.

On paper that's a dream for coordinated teams: pull defenders out of cover with Displacement, flash them, then float a whole site with Suspension. It's also likely to cause chaos in solo queue, because Displacement doesn't care whose side you're on.

The rest of Patch 13.09

• Clove: Pick-me-up's bonus movement speed drops from 15% to 10%, and killing Clove after Not Dead Yet now gives the killer an ultimate point and a signature refresh.
• Warden: smoother recoil on the first bullets; second-bullet error drops from 0.25 to 0.2 and third-bullet error from 0.6 to 0.5.
• New terminology: "Haste" now officially names movement-speed buffs and "Snapshot" names silhouette-reveal debuffs, with tooltips redesigned across the roster.
• Competitive: your Act Best Match counts more toward Map Rating, and the First Blood accolade is harder to earn.
• Korea: players can now buy Radianite Points in-game.

The PC bang bounce

In Korea, where Valorant has become a fixture of PC bangs, Hush had a visible effect. In the week from October 26 to November 1, 2026, Valorant climbed back to No. 2 in total PC bang playtime, up 1.9% week on week, with the gain credited to Hush's release.

That matters because the Korean PC bang chart is one of the most closely watched barometers of PC gaming in Asia. Across 2025, Valorant held 8.03% of all PC bang playtime, fourth behind League of Legends (36.01%), FC Online and PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS (the full PC bang chart story).

Why it matters

New agents are Valorant's heartbeat, and Duelists are the role that sells the game: they're the ones on the highlight reels. Hush is the most physics-driven agent Riot has made, which could reshape how teams take sites, especially on maps with tight chokepoints. Her quick bump in Korean PC bangs suggests players are curious. The real test is whether she shows up in ranked play a month from now, after the novelty fades. For how Korea's PC bangs are changing in 2026, read our PC bang feature.