DuelistRaze explodes out of Brazil with her big personality and big guns. With her blunt-force-trauma playstyle, she excels at flushing entrenched enemies and clearing tight spaces with a generous dose of "boom."
CEQUIP a destructible <whitebold>Boom Bot</>. FIRE to send it forward. <debuffred>Chases</> the first enemy it sees, exploding and dealing <debuffred>damage</> to enemies on impact.
Bought with credits at the start of a round, and lost when you die.
QINSTANTLY throw a destructible <whitebold>Blast Pack</> that sticks to surfaces that fully arms after a delay. REACTIVATE to detonate, <debuffred>knocking away</> anything hit. If fully armed, <whitebold>Blast Pack</> will also deal <debuffred>damage</> to enemies.
Bought with credits at the start of a round, and lost when you die.
EEQUIP <whitebold>Paint Shells</>. FIRE to throw. ALT FIRE to lob. After a delay, explode, dealing <debuffred>damage</> and creating sub-munitions, each also dealing <debuffred>damage</> to all players. Resets every two kills.
The signature ability — free every round, and on some agents it recharges through play rather than being bought.
XINSTANTLY prepare <whitebold>Showstopper</>. FIRE to launch. Explodes on any surface, dealing high <debuffred>damage</> to all players.
Charged by ultimate orbs, kills, deaths and planting or defusing the spike.
Entry fraggers. Their kits are built to take space and win the opening duel, with self-sufficient tools to engage or escape.
Two of Raze's abilities are bought with credits each round and lost on death. Paint Shells is the signature ability, so it's free every round, and Showstopper is the ultimate — it can't be bought at all, it charges through play.
Raze is a Duelist. Entry fraggers. Their kits are built to take space and win the opening duel, with self-sufficient tools to engage or escape.
Raze's ultimate is Showstopper, bound to X. INSTANTLY prepare <whitebold>Showstopper</>. FIRE to launch. Explodes on any surface, dealing high <debuffred>damage</> to all players.
Paint Shells. EQUIP <whitebold>Paint Shells</>. FIRE to throw. ALT FIRE to lob. After a delay, explode, dealing <debuffred>damage</> and creating sub-munitions, each also dealing <debuffred>damage</> to all players. Resets every two kills.
Raze has 4 abilities in total: Boom Bot, Blast Pack, Paint Shells, Showstopper.
No, Raze was added after release — only 5 of the current agents shipped with the game at launch.
Raze has to be unlocked, like every agent beyond the starting few. You do that with Kingdom Credits earned by playing, or with VALORANT Points if you would rather not wait. Unlocking is permanent and no agent is ever sold as a stronger option — the roster is balanced, not tiered by price.
There are 9 in the Duelist role: Raze, Hush, Phoenix, Iso, Neon, Yoru, Waylay, Reyna, Jett. Roles are the game's own grouping, not a community one, and they describe the job an agent does for the team rather than how strong they are.
How often professional teams actually pick Raze, measured across 1,820 tournament games played between 2026-05-22 and 2026-08-20. This is professional VALORANT, not ranked — the two behave differently, and a pick rate at this level says more about map strategy than about what wins games in a solo queue.
Pick rate is the share of the ten player slots in a game that this agent filled. Win rate hovers near 50% for almost every agent because professional matches are between evenly matched teams — a figure far from 50% usually means a small sample rather than a strong agent. Maps with too few games to be meaningful are left out entirely rather than shown with a warning.
Two of every agent's abilities are bought with credits at the start of a round and lost when you die. The signature is free on a cooldown, and the ultimate cannot be bought at all — it charges from kills, deaths, spike plants and orbs.
Raze was added after launch. Only 5 of the current roster shipped with the game, and the agents added since tend to carry more conditional or setup-heavy abilities than the originals.
During development Raze went by the internal codename Clay, which is the name that still appears in the game files.
There are 30 playable agents in total, 9 of them in the Duelist role.
The other 8 agents who fill the Duelist role. If you like how Raze plays, these are the closest thing to a lateral move — same job on the team, different tools.
Interactions involving Raze, from either side — what their abilities do to other agents’ utility, and what other agents can do to theirs.
Raze Paint Shells destroys Killjoy Turret
The turret has modest health and the cluster grenade's repeated blasts comfortably exceed it. This is the standard answer to a turret holding an angle you need.
Raze Blast Pack destroys Cypher Trapwire
A satchel's explosion breaks trips in range. Cheaper than walking into one, and it clears the entrance without announcing exactly where you are the way triggering the trip does.
Sage Barrier Orb blocks Raze Boom Bot
The bot treats the wall as geometry and cannot path through it. It will bump and turn rather than break through — walling the choke defeats the scout entirely.
