Kairo (VALORANT Agent Concept)
Code name: Kairo
Real name: Shoko Kiritani
Role: Initiator (or possibly Duelist)
Pronouns: She/Her
Sexuality: Sapphic/Lesbian
Country of origin: Japan
Voice Actor: First Summer Uika
Official Description:
Hailing from the heart of Japan, Kairo harnesses the power of rifts to transform the battlefield. With the ability to swiftly open pathways, she provides her team with unexpected tactical advantages while keeping enemies constantly off-balance, ensuring that her allies are always a step ahead.Abilities:
Passive [Spirit] - Using Void Phase and Reality Tear consumes Spirit. C [Now You See Me] - ACTIVATE to prepare your rift energy and see it's range indicator. FIRE to teleport forward to the target location for a limited amount of time. RE-USE to teleport back to your original location. (Cost: 250 | Max distance: 20m) Q [Rift Bind] - EQUIP a rift bind. FIRE to send it forward, briefly trapping any agent caught by it in place. (Cost: 250 | Charges: 2 | Debuff: 4s immobility) E [Reality Tear] - EQUIP and ready a reality tear. FIRE to create a rift in reality, allowing agents to pass and interact through structures. RE-USE to close the rift. (Cost: Free | Duration: Minimum 2s | Cooldown: 12s after deactivation) X [Kitsune's Escape] - EQUIP a dimensional portal map. FIRE to create a one-way dimensional rift at the selected location. Allies and enemies can travel through this rift. (Cost: 8 points | Duration: 10s)Random facts: Yoru's older sister. Travels through the rift using a unique kitsune mask artifact. Artwork by MarcosSketches on twitter!
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Full artwork + theme text. Will update this thread with more artworks later on~
also here are her initial key art concepts
HELLO? THEIR ARTSTYLE IS ABSOLUTE DIVINE
THE LIGHTING AND EVERYTHING IS JUST
chefs kiss
artwork is by marcossketches on twitter! i credited them in the og text <3 i just handled her design ideas and guidance
OHHHH!!
I'm sorry i misinterpreted DSHHWDH 🙏
ur good!!!
@NikkiKaji this is fucking sick
all of ut
it
thanks!
It's pretty good!
Your thought of developing the concept further and presenting it to the discord community is a very good thing
nicee
This is just omen on steroids
Definitely gives duelist vibes
Love this though
her ultimate’s basically Wraith from Apex
The visuals are gorgeous but I don't vibe with the gameplay. Her ult is literally Omen's but better
yes i agree the ult could use work, though i believe her ult and omen's ult can be good and bad in their own ways. i view it from, let's say, reyna's heal vs. clove's heal (at least before the Reyna changes). I think that limiting the range of the teleport could be a potential balance - but there's other factors to the ult that aren't mentioned above like a sound queue and a temporary re-equip after exiting the portal.
the alternate version of her ult was literally a mix of Yoru's ult and Wraith's ult from apex, where she becomes invisible and places down a one way portal from where she ults and where she runs out of range
ok, more artwork! This one was drawn by ratscanttt on twitter, and the background and card design was done by me <3 The player card is titled "Protector" and meant to mirror Yoru's "Bloodline" player card.
More artwork + some adjustments and additional details to her abilities! Later today or tomorrow I will share some lore related stuff. (1st artwork by ratscanttt, 2nd and 3rd artworks done by Paper_Nika ❤)
Passive [Spirit]
*100 Spirit *Recharges at a rate of 1 every 0.5 seconds, taking 50 seconds to fully recharge from 0-100. *Killing an enemy fully recharges Spirit. *If both "Now You See Me" and "Reality Tear" are active, drains at a rate of 1 every 0.07 seconds, lasting a maximum of 7 seconds.C [Now You See Me]
*Cost: 200 *Drains Spirit at a rate of 1 every 0.08 seconds, lasting a maximum of 8 seconds. *A marker will be left at the original teleportation spot, similar to Phoenix's ultimate. *If Spirit fully drains, will automatically be teleported back to original location. *1 second activation windup time *1 second unequip time. *0.5 second pre teleport delay *10 meter arrival audio cue radiusQ [Rift Bind]
*Cost decreased 250 >>> 150E [Reality Tear]
*Drains Spirit at a rate of 1 every 0.12 seconds, lasting for a maximum of 12 seconds. *Can only go through surfaces that are 6 meters in lengths or less. *Can go through a maximum of 2 surfaces. This is to allow the portal to travel through walls or objects that aren't "connected" to each other. (It's difficult to explain this without visuals, but there are some walls in the game that have no physical mesh in between them and would result in being teleported out of bounds, if that makes sense.) *2 second deactivation cooldown, 10 second activation cooldown.X [Kitsune's Escape]
*15 meter arrival audio cue radius *Duration increased 10s >>> 15s *Max deploy distance: 70 meters
nicd
ty! <3
This is so cool
Spray designs ❤️ artwork by nanami_draws
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if this actually makes into valorant im gonna be getting aces all day
THIS IS COOL
very sick
ty!
Sounds like opposite yoru fr
Yoru is blue she is red
Yoru is a guy
"Random facts: Yoru's older sister. Travels through the rift using a unique kitsune mask artifact." 😭
yeah i fell into the "japanese character has a sibling that met a tragic fate" trope
looks at LoL looks at Overwatch
WHY LESBIAN BRO
why not default mode
bc men are gross
her words not mine
oh yeah speaking of that, Kairo x Fade
Valorant needs to hire this person
I LOVE IT
the only problem
is
if she was in the actual game
she might get crazy nerfed
probably yeah XD