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Valorant's New Agent Waylay: Release Date, Abilities, and More

Valorant's New Agent Waylay: Release Date, Abilities, and More

TOI Sports Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Updated: Mar 4, 2025, 18:10 IST

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Waylay, Valorant’s 28th agent, joins as an agile Thai duelist with a focus on speed and light manipulation. With abilities like Refract and Light Speed, she launches on March 5, 2025, and can be unlocked either by 1,000 Valorant Points or through gameplay achievements.

Valorant's New Agent Waylay: Release Date, Abilities, and More

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While Valorant has a roster that is certainly bulging, with the introduction of Waylay, the latest addition to the duelist category, the agent becomes the game's 28th agent. So Waylay hails from Thailand as much as she comes with a completely different form of play based around speed, light manipulation, and aggressive space control. Indeed, being the eighth duelist in Valorant, Waylay has further included all the other existing speedsters like Jett, Raze, and Neon to this change the role of entry fragging.

Release Date and Time

Waylay officially comes into play on March 5, 2025, as Valorant starts its new Season 2025 Act 2. This update will go live after a straight shift of two hours off from the normal operations to allow players from different regions to log in on their own times. Here are the regional timings for the Waylay update:

Asia Pacific: March 5, 2025, at 1:00 PM PT
Brazil: March 5, 2025, at 6:00 PM Brasilia
Europe: March 5, 2025, at 10:00 PM CET
India: March 6, 2025, at 2:30 AM IST
Japan: March 6, 2025, at 6:00 AM JST

How To Unlock Waylay

As Waylay has two options to be unlocked, one option is the purchase of Waylay with 1,000 Valorant Points (VP). The second option is that of unlocking her free by way of completing the Agent Recruitment Event, which requires players to gain 200,000 XP counted through regular gameplay, daily, and weekly missions, with the eventual goal of unlocking Waylay.

Waylay's Abilities

Waylay's abilities have an accent on the agility, speed, and manipulation of light to ensure she gets an upper hand in combat. Here is how her kit breaks down:

Refract: Waylay can create a beacon of light on the floor, which she can reactivate to dash back to, becoming invulnerable during the movement.
Light Speed: This ability lets Waylay dash forward twice, the first dash propelling her upwards. The second dash can be triggered by an alternate fire.
Saturate: Waylay throws a cluster of light that explodes on impact, slowing enemies in the area by reducing their movement speed and weapon handling.
Convergent Paths: Waylay creates an afterimage of herself when this ability is activated, projecting a beam of light. After a little while, she will gain a superb speed boost, while the enemies lingering in the beam are hindered by some debuffs.

Waylay Official Gameplay Reveal // VALORANT

Waylay introduces a new type of debuffs, having a name called Hindering, which covers many aspects of the game. Players will start feeling the slowdowns of their movement speed, fire rate, recoil recovery, equipment time, reload speed, and jump speed.
With the sheer amount that she can travel quickly and perform area control, Waylay will indeed become one of the most fluid players in Valorant, giving an interesting new portrayal of duelist gameplay. Waylay, Valorant's 28th agent and eighth duelist, joins with speed, light manipulation, and aggressive space control. Available March 5, 2025, she can be unlocked via purchase or completing an event. Her abilities focus on agility and debuffing enemies.
Waylay brings a fresh playstyle to Valorant, blending speed with light manipulation for dynamic duelist gameplay. Her abilities focus on agility and debuffing enemies, offering new strategic depth in space control.

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