The Valorant character roster needs another Sage

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Do you also feel guilty each time Sage yells, “Must I do everything?” in Valorant? Technically, it’s not her job to break into the enemy lines and draw first blood in the FPS game, but she doesn’t have an option. Valorant’s ‘middle-seat mommy’ is a jack of all trades; Riot gave us a tender-hearted healer, and we whipped up an aggressive battle Sage out of it.

In the current Valorant meta, Sage does everything, and it’s refreshing to have an agent other than a duelist to own up to the game. In Ascendant ranks, Sage is the second most-picked agent with a stellar win rate, which proves that duelists are no longer the key to winning; players will prefer a support agent if they have a viable toolkit.

Despite the stats, Valorant doesn’t have another agent like Sage. No other support can supply healing and bring back the dead. In order to have a balanced roster, one of the three Valorant agents slated for 2023 has to be a healer.

Valorant has seven basic abilities that straddle almost all agents: smokes, molotovs, stuns, intel-gathering gadgets, movement tactics, crowd control devices, and healing. There are at least three options for each power, except for healing.

Sage’s healing is perfectly balanced yet powerful, while, by contrast, Skye’s healing is powerful but not viable compared to Sage’s. The initiator agent can heal teammates, but her dwindling oxygen tank of mysterious healing juice doesn’t quite do enough. Even a Skye needs a Sage – meaning that, to keep her alive, you must pick another healer. Now, Skye’s ample healing tank sure makes up for her inability to patch herself up, but she’s still a bad pick for solo games.

For this reason, Sage’s presence overshadows Skye, leading to poor playtime for the latter. Why