Worst to Best - Valorant Agent Ranking: #3 Cypher

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Old-School swag and new-school Gadgets: #3 Cypher. (Image credit: Valorant)

In this daily series, EarlyGame ranks all Valorant agents from worst to best. Today it's time for #3 - Cypher.

We’re hitting the top 3 of our Valorant Agent Ranking and, honestly, at this point any of the characters could be ranked as #1. Still, choices had to be made, so here we are:

A 40’s noire design with a slick white fedora in contrast to breaking edge technology - it’s Cypher. He looks like he’s from a Cyberpunk detective pulp novel and plays like it too: Spycams and tripwires - outside of a video game he’d be creepy as hell, but within Valorant, he is one of the best agents.

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It’s 3am and this guy approaches you in a dark alley. What do you do? (Source: Riot Games)

In Valorant, information is super valuable. Knowing where the enemy is can make all the difference. When it comes to supplying information, none do it better than Cypher: Trapwire places a tripwire that tethers and reveals all enemies that walk through it. The tripwire can be used to wall off areas and, combined with his other abilities, can easily help secure whole sites.

Cypher’s ultimate Neural Theft can be used on any dead enemy and briefly reveals his teammates locations, which is all the information you’d want in a game like Valorant. His strongest ability though might just be Spycam, a camera that, well… spies. It can be placed anywhere and accessed remotely to scope out the area and tag enemies. This is huge as, depending on where it is placed, Cypher is able to scope out large parts of the map with no risk. Lastly, Cypher Cage, can be tossed and triggered remotely. When triggered it functions similarly to a smoke and blocks vision but it also slows all enemies that walk through it and causes them to make distinct sounds.

All in all, Cypher is a master at disrupting and exposing the opposing team. He can secure locations like no other, provide general security, gather information and can slow down the enemy greatly. All this is incredibly valuable to any team, which is why Cypher is one of the best agents and in the top three on our Valorant agent ranking.

Tomorrow we reveal the seond best agent in Valorant, as our ranking continues. Today you can still find out more about everything concerning Valorant right here at EarlyGame.

Amidu Njiemoun

Amidu is a Brunel University graduate, and former published novel & screenplay writer turned gaming journalist and show host. He was a Senior Content Creator and Content Co-Lead at EarlyGame....