Valorant Hush Abilities and How to Unlock Her Free (Patch 13.09)

Valorant Hush abilities at a glance

Riot built Hush around one idea: she moves things without touching them. She can redirect her thrown abilities in midair, pull players out of position, and lift a whole group off the ground for her team to finish. Here is the full kit in one table, then each ability on its own.

Ability	Type	What it does
Telekinesis	Passive	Pick up weapons, the Spike and switches from an increased range. Always on, nothing to buy or press.
Displacement	Signature	A thrown charge you can redirect midair. It explodes, pulls all players toward its centre, and concusses anyone who slams into a surface or another player. Resets after every two kills.
Flashbulb	Basic	A thrown flash you can also redirect midair. It explodes on a surface or after a short delay and flashes every player looking at it.
Flow	Basic	Instantly create an anchor. Cast in the air, she hovers in place for a moment. After a short delay, she is propelled toward the anchor.
Suspension	Ultimate	A steerable charge you guide with your crosshair. Detonate it to levitate every player it catches, leaving them hanging in the air.

Valorant Hush abilities, one by one

Telekinesis (passive): grab things from range

Telekinesis is always on. Hush can pick up weapons from an increased range, so a better gun on the ground does not need her to walk right up to it. On the attacker side, she can also pick up the Spike from range. And she can use switches, such as map doors, from further away than other agents.

It sounds small. It is not. Picking up the Spike from range means she does not have to step into the open to recover it after a lost fight. A dropped weapon after a trade can come to her while she holds a safer angle. None of this needs a key press or a charge. It is simply how she interacts with the world, all the time.

Displacement (signature): the pull you can steer

Displacement is her signature, and it is the ability that defines her. Equip it and fire to throw it. Alt fire prepares it instead, so you can hold it ready. While it flies, reactivate the ability to direct it toward your crosshair. That midair redirect is the trick: the throw does not have to be perfect, because you can correct its path as it travels.

It explodes when it hits any surface, or after a short delay if it hits nothing. The blast pulls all players toward its centre. If a pulled player collides with a surface or with another player, they are concussed. So the pull is strongest in tight spaces, doorways and corners, where people have something to slam into. In the open it still drags players off their angles and ruins their aim for a moment.

Displacement resets after every two kills. That is the Duelist part of her kit. A good round feeds itself: pull a group, win the fight, get the charge back, and do it again on the next site hit. Play her passively and the kit starves. Play her as the entry, with a teammate trading behind you, and the resets start to stack up.

Flashbulb: a flash that bends

Flashbulb works like Displacement’s twin. Equip it, fire to throw it, or alt fire to prepare it. Reactivate it in flight to direct it toward your crosshair. It explodes on any surface, or after a short delay, and it flashes all players who are looking at it.

A flash you can steer around a corner is a flash you can use for yourself. Throw it past a choke point, bend it back toward the defenders, and swing while they are blind. Like any flash, it can blind teammates and yourself if you look at it, so call it before you throw it. Turn away from your own pop, just like you would with any other flash in the game.

Flow: an anchor, a hover, a launch

Flow is her movement tool. It works instantly: she creates an anchor. If she uses it while she is in the air, she briefly levitates in place instead of falling. After a short delay, she is propelled toward the anchor.

Think of it as a planned escape and a planned entry in one button. Set the anchor, take a fight, and let the pull drag you back out. Or use the hover to hold an off-angle in the air for a moment, where nobody expects a head to be. The delay is the risk: the move is not instant safety, so cast it early, before the fight turns bad, not after.

Suspension (ultimate): lift the whole fight

Suspension is the ultimate, and Riot’s own summary gives away its job: she suspends enemies helplessly for the killing blow. Prepare it instantly, then fire to send it forward. While it travels, you steer it with your crosshair. Press fire again, or reactivate the ability, to detonate it. Every player it catches is levitated.

A levitated player cannot hold an angle, use cover, or run. They hang in the air while your team shoots. That makes Suspension a site-take tool and a retake tool at the same time: steer it into the group defending a plant, or into the group rushing your site, and pop it when it sits in the middle of them. The steering matters because a smart team will scatter the moment they hear it. Curve it after them.

How to unlock Hush free

The free path is open right now, and it will not stay open. When a new agent launches, Valorant runs an Agent Recruitment Event for a limited time. During the event, you unlock the agent by playing and building event progress, then claiming her, with no Valorant Points spent. Hush launched on October 27, 2026, and the event runs for about 28 days, so it closes around November 24, 2026.

• Open the Agents page in the game. Hush and her recruitment event sit there, with her progress shown on her page.
• Play matches. Event progress builds as you play during the window. Normal play counts, so your regular daily and weekly missions move both goals at once.
• Claim her when the track fills. Once her event track is complete, claim Hush from the Agents page. She is then yours for good, on every map and mode.
• Do not wait for the last days. The event closes around November 24. If you start late and the window shuts, the free track is gone and the standard routes below are what remain.

One honest note on numbers. Some guide sites print an exact XP target for the event and an exact point price for skipping it. Riot does not publish those figures in its web patch notes, so this guide does not print them either. The game itself shows the real numbers on Hush’s page and in the store. Trust the client, not a screenshot on a fan site.

Unlock path	What it costs	When it works
Agent Recruitment Event	Free. You pay with play time during the event window.	Only while the event runs: about 28 days from October 27, 2026, closing around November 24.
Kingdom Credits	Credits you earn by playing the game, under the standard agent store system.	After the recruitment event ends, when she sits in the standard agent pool.
Valorant Points	Paid points, for an instant unlock that skips the grind.	Any time the client offers it, during or after the event.

Tips for your first games on Hush

• Throw past the corner, then bend it back. Displacement and Flashbulb both redirect toward your crosshair mid-flight. Overshoot the choke on purpose, then curve the charge into the defenders.
• Pull into walls, not into the open. The concussion only lands when a pulled player hits a surface or another player. Doorways, boxes and tight corridors are where Displacement wins fights.
• Play for the reset. Two kills refill your signature. Take the first fight with a teammate who can trade you, not alone against three.
• Set Flow before you need it. The propel comes after a delay. Cast early, fight, and let it pull you out. Casting at one health bar is too late.
• Steer Suspension to the end. Do not detonate on the first player you see. Guide it into the middle of the group, where the lift catches the most people.
• Use the passive every round. Grab the better gun from range, recover the Spike without stepping into the open, and open doors from a safer spot.

Once she is unlocked, the next edge is your setup. Our guide to the best Valorant settings covers Reflex, frame caps and the full video table for patch 13.09, so your PC keeps up with her pace.

What else changed in patch 13.09

Hush was the headline, not the whole patch. Clove took a small nerf: the bonus movement speed from Pick-Me-Up drops from 15 percent to 10 percent. Riot also fixed a rule gap on Not Dead Yet, so killing Clove after that cast now grants the killer an ultimate point and a signature refresh point, like other agents.

The Warden got a real buff. Riot smoothed its pitch recoil for the first few bullets and reduced the follow-up spread: the second bullet error drops from 0.25 to 0.2, and the third from 0.6 to 0.5. In plain words, the gun is easier to control in a burst, which fits its 2,900 credit price better.

Two gameplay words are now official terms. Haste means the movement speed buff, which is separate from Combat Stim, the buff that raises fire rate, equip speed, reload speed and recovery speed. Snapshot means the still-image silhouette reveal, the debuff from Cypher’s Neural Theft and Spycam. Patch 13.09 also rewrote every ability description and tooltip for clarity, added passive descriptions for more agents in Agent Select and the Agent Hub, and made Hush the first new agent judged by the Performance Score system, so her early scores may swing while Riot tunes them.

Hush questions, answered

Is Hush free to unlock in Valorant?

Yes, during her Agent Recruitment Event. Play matches to build event progress, then claim her from the Agents page at no cost in Valorant Points. The event runs for about 28 days from her October 27, 2026 launch, so it closes around November 24, 2026. After it ends, she unlocks through the standard agent store routes instead.

What role is Hush, and where is she from?

Hush is a Duelist from Guangdong, China. Riot describes her as an agent who uses telekinesis to close classified cases, fighting with precision and finesse. Her kit fits the role: a self flash, a pull that resets on kills, and a movement tool for taking space.

How does Displacement reset?

Displacement resets after every two kills. It is her signature ability, so the charge comes back inside the same round once you have taken two enemies down. That is why she rewards aggressive entry play instead of sitting back.

Can Hush pick up the Spike from range?

Yes. Her Telekinesis passive lets her pick up the Spike from an increased range when she is on the attacker side. The same passive covers weapons on the ground and switches such as doors, and it is always on.

What does Suspension do?

Suspension is her ultimate. She sends it forward and steers it with her crosshair, then detonates it to levitate every player it catches. Levitated players hang in the air, unable to use cover, which sets them up for her team to finish.