Valorant Patch 13.09: Hush is playable, Clove’s Haste drops, Warden gets a handling pass

Riot dated VALORANT Patch Notes 13.09 October 27. The TL;DR on that page is the whole brief: new Agent Hush, updated tooltips, Warden buffs, and a long bug-fix list. Sheep Esports and Shacknews both file the same notes today. This desk already ran the October 18 reveal. That piece had the kit sitting on Dexerto’s Korean-account sourcing. It is on playvalorant.com now.

Hush is in the client

Riot’s own copy: Hush hails from Guangdong province and uses telekinesis. The notes print the five-ability kit in English. No credit costs, charge counts, or ultimate-point number are on that page.

• Telekinesis (passive): pick up weapons, the Spike on attacker side, and INTERACT with switches from increased range.
• Displacement: throw or prep, then redirect toward the crosshair. Pulls players to the center; a slam into a surface or another player concusses. Resets every two kills.
• Flashbulb: same throw/prep/redirect pattern, then a flash.
• Flow: drop an anchor and propel to it after a delay. In the air, she levitates briefly first.
• Suspension: steered projectile. Detonate to levitate all players in the blast.

Riot did not print a patch hour or a region stagger on the notes. Outlets that split Americas on the 27th and other regions on the 28th are describing the usual client roll, not a second date Riot published today.

The numbers that actually moved

• Clove — Pick-me-up

  nerf

  Bonus movement speed 15% → 10%. Now labeled Haste.

• Clove — Not Dead Yet

  nerf

  Killing Clove after the cast now grants the killer an ultimate point and a signature refresh.

• Warden

  buff

  Pitch recoil smoothed on the first bullets. 2nd-bullet error .25 → .2. 3rd-bullet error .6 → .5. Riot says this is to match the 2900 credit price.

• Haste / Snapshot

  adjust

  New official buff terms. Haste is move-speed only. Combat Stim is fire/equip/reload/recovery. Snapshot is the still-image silhouette (Cypher).

• Map Rating

  adjust

  Your Act Best Match now weighs more each Act.

• First Blood Accolade

  adjust

  Threshold raised. Historic counts are not rewritten.

Brimstone Stim Beacon, Clove Pick-me-up, Miks Harmonize, Neon High Gear/Overdrive, and Waylay’s old Convergent Paths all show as Haste. Jett’s passive is off the Buy Menu so it matches other non-purchasable passives. Korea only: Radianite Points can be bought in-game.

Performance Score on a new agent

Hush is the first new Agent since Performance Score launched. Riot says scores on her may be bumpy for a few days while they tune what good utility use looks like. End-of-game pages get a “learn more” screen. PC only: hover text for trades on the scoreboard.