Riot Games officially unveiled Veto, the newest Sentinel agent in VALORANT, during the grand finals of VALORANT Champions Paris. A Senegalese enforcer powered by a unique DNA mutation, Veto is designed to upend traditional combat dynamics by nullifying enemy powers and technology, leaving players to rely solely on their gunplay skills. He joins the roster on October 7, 2025, marking one of the most anticipated additions of the year.

Veto brings a distinctive control-based playstyle to the game, focused on disruption and battlefield lockdown. His toolkit enables him to immobilize opponents, disable utilities, and sustain himself during critical moments, making him a formidable force in competitive play.

Veto’s abilities redefine the battlefield

• Chokehold: Equip a viscous fragment of your mutation. Fire to throw. Upon impact, the fragment deploys a trap that holds enemies in place, Deafening and Decaying them. The trap can be destroyed before activation.

• Crosscut: Equip a vortex and fire to place it on the ground. While in range and looking at the vortex, reactivate to teleport to its location. During the buy phase, the vortex can be reclaimed and redeployed.

• Interceptor: Equip and place an Interceptor at a target location. Once active, it destroys any utility that would bounce off a player or be broken by gunfire. Enemies can also destroy the Interceptor.

• Evolution: Instantly begin a full mutation, gaining a combat stim, regeneration, and immunity to all debuffs.

With this kit, Veto aims to shift engagements away from ability-heavy skirmishes toward more raw mechanical duels, giving defenders new ways to control space and disrupt coordinated pushes.

Skirmish mode goes live alongside agent launch

Alongside the Veto announcement, Riot also rolled out Skirmish, a new custom game mode now live for players. Skirmish allows 1v1 to 5v5 close-quarters fights in a new compact map that drops players straight into action, offering fast-paced rounds ideal for warmups and competitive drills.