VALORANT Patch Notes 13.01

What’s in this update

Hey, it’s Ashley! Hope everyone has been enjoying their summer and spending some time outside. It’s the season of sport so if you’re watching the World Cup, who are you rooting for?
Here’s the breakdown for Patch 13.01:

• Iso buff to weapon equip speed after unequipping Double Tap
• Yoru buff with an increase in duration of Gatecrash
• Outlaw adjustment to allow for more expression and control
• We can better detect rank manipulation and will begin issuing penalties for confirmed users. If you know you do this, count your days.
• Loads of bug fixes

ALL PLATFORMS

AGENTS UPDATES

• Iso
• Double Tap
• The speed of equipping your weapon after unequipping Double Tap is now instant.
• Yoru
• Gatecrash
• Active Beacon Duration increased from 15s >>> 20s
• Fakeout
• To further satisfy his deception fantasy, clones from Fakeout will now hold Yoru's last equipped weapon, instead of defaulting to his strongest weapon.

PLAYER BEHAVIOR UPDATES

• Rank Manipulation Penalties
• We’ve rolled out new tools to better detect rank manipulation in VALORANT, building on systems we successfully introduced in League of Legends last year. Combined with the data we’ve gathered since adding the Rank Manipulation category in-game late last year, we will begin issuing penalties for confirmed rank manipulation.
• Penalties may include account suspensions, rank reversions, and ranked reward reversions.

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