Raze

Artwork

## Quotes

— Character selection

**Raze** (codenamed Clay) is an Agent in *VALORANT*.

## Profile

### Biography

Raze's playstyle is very aggressive compared to many of the other agents in VALORANT, as most of her abilities are focused on mobility and damage instead of intel gathering or support. She is one of the few agents wherein all of her abilities are primarily meant to deal damage, namely Paint Shells and Showstopper, meaning that there is no doubt to her role as a duelist.

### Personality

— Raze (Match Start)

The one-woman party from Bahia, Raze is always playful, impulsive, and spontaneous. She radiates chaotic energy and creates havoc on the battlefield, destroying every obstacle that is blocking her path. According to Sage, she can be impatient and won't stick to plans. She is notoriously cheeky, as seen when she earned Cypher's ire after constantly breaking his gadgets.

Fun-loving as she is, she refers to her fellow agents as family and always assures them that she'll be the one leading the fireworks display.

### Appearance

Raze is a woman with a brown skin tone, always sporting her orange cap worn backwards accompanied by her headphones. Her hair is arranged in multiple braids held together by gold-colored hair rollers. She wears a sleeveless, orange top that exposes her midriff and is covered by a chestplate with the word 'BOOM' spray-painted on the front. She wears dark colored pants with a splatter of paint by the left thigh, held by a strap wherein her paintshell grenades are attached.

## Abilities

### Basic

C – Boom Bot
Berkas:Boom Bot.png
EQUIP a Boom Bot. FIRE will deploy the bot, causing it to travel in a straight line on the ground, bouncing off walls. The Boom Bot will lock on to any enemies in its frontal cone and chase them, exploding for heavy damage if it reaches them.

**Uses:** 1
**Cost:** 300
**Duration:**  9.3 s
**Health:** Health 100 HP
**Damage:** Damage 30-80

Q – Blast Pack
Berkas:Blast Pack.png
INSTANTLY throw a Blast Pack that will stick to surfaces. RE-USE the ability after deployment to detonate, damaging and moving anything hit.

**Uses:** 2
**Cost:** 200
**Damage:** Damage 5-15 (Instant), 20-50 (After arming), 600 (Objects)

### Signature

E – Paint Shells
Berkas:Paint Shells.png
EQUIP a cluster grenade. FIRE to throw the grenade, which does damage and creates sub-munitions, each doing damage to anyone in their range.

**Uses:** 1
**Cost:**Free
**Cooldown:**  2 kill recharge
**Damage:** Damage 15-55 (edge-center)

### Ultimate

X – Showstopper
Berkas:Showstopper.png
EQUIP a rocket launcher. FIRE shoots a rocket that does massive area damage on contact with anything.

**Cost:**♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 8 points
**Duration:**  10 s
**Damage:** Damage 30-150 (Min. outer radius-Inner radius)

## Update History

**v3.05**
* Berkas:Boom Bot.png Boom Bot
	+ Damage reduced 50-125 >>> 30-80
	+ Cost reduced 400 >>> 300

**v3.02**

* Berkas:Boom Bot.png Boom Bot
	+ Can no longer be placed through some walls

**v3.0**

* Updated Raze's model
* Berkas:Boom Bot.png Boom Bot
	+ Cost increased 200 >>> 400
* Berkas:Showstopper.png Showstopper
	+ Ultimate points required increased 7 >>> 8

**v2.07**

* Berkas:Blast Pack.png Blast Pack
	+ Audio cues added to indicate when she's boosted in the air from Blast Pack
* Berkas:Showstopper.png Showstopper
	+ Explosion and Showstopper launching VFX updated so they are less obscuring and clear out of the play space faster

**v2.06**

* Berkas:Boom Bot.png Boom Bot
	+ Fixed Boom Bot blowing up when it hit the Spike if Raze was on defender side

**v2.01**

* Berkas:Boom Bot.png Boom Bot
	+ Fixed issue where Boom Bot could be placed through some walls

**v1.08**

* Berkas:Blast Pack.png Blast Pack
	+ Initial damage reduced to 15 with a .2 meter inner radius, falling off to 5 minimum damage
	+ Once the satchel lands, it arms after .5 seconds, increasing it’s max damage to 50
	+ Shooting the blast pack causes it to detonate, dealing its current damage amount
	+ Satchel no longer does damage to allies

**v1.05**

* Berkas:Blast Pack.png Blast Pack
	+ Damage decreased 75 >>> 50
	+ Damage to objects now consistently does 600

* Berkas:Showstopper.png Showstopper
	+ Equip Time increased 1.1 >>> 1.4
	+ Quick Equip Time increased 0.5 >>> 0.7
	+ VFX reduced when firing rocket
	+ VFX on rocket’s trail slightly reduced

**v1.04**

* Berkas:Showstopper.png Showstopper
	+ Cost changed 6 >>> 7 Ult points

**v1.0**

* Berkas:Blast Pack.png Blast Pack
	+ Maximum damage radius reduced 2 >>> 1 meters

**v0.50**

* Berkas:Blast Pack.png Blast Pack
	+ Cost increased 100 >>> 200 credits

**v0.47+**

* Tuned and adjusted audio for Berkas:Paint Shells.png Paint Shells, Berkas:Blast Pack.png Blast Pack, and Berkas:Showstopper.png Showstopper so that they’ll be easier to hear in hectic scenarios
* Berkas:Paint Shells.png Paint Shells
	+ Reduced number of charges 2 >>> 1
	+ Now has a kill reset, requiring players to get 2 kills to refresh cooldown
	+ Fixed an edge case where the secondary cluster would explode quicker than intended. They now have a minimum duration before exploding

## Gallery

Raze (Full).pngRaze (Half).pngIn-game iconEarly clay.pngEarly ConceptVersus Raze Killjoy Card.jpgPlayer card featuring Raze
## Trivia

**Development**

* An unused voice line by Sage might imply that Raze's call sign was originally going to be Bombshell.
* Raze was the first additional character to be added in the Closed Beta.
* Cypher called Raze "Izzy" in one of his quotes, possibly implying that this was her real name. However, this voiceline has been removed from the game so it is no longer confirmed to be canon.

**Lore**

* Raze is from Salvador, Bahia in Brazil.
	+ Berkas:RazeMatchStart2.mp3*"You can take the girl out of Salvador, but you'll never take the girl out of Salvador! Wait..."*
	+ Berkas:RazeClutch2.mp3 *"Woohoo! I'm the pride of Bahia!"*
* Raze created her Boom Bot by stealing and modifying one of Killjoy's Alarmbots.
* She loves to breakdance and was part of a B-Girl crew in Salvador.

**Relations**

* It is hinted that she worked with Breach before joining the VALORANT Protocol.
	+ The nature of their shared past was one that operated outside the law.
		- Berkas:BreachAllyRazeMatchStart.mp3 *"Raze! Huh, together again and we're not even breaking the law!"*
	+ Raze has close relations with Breach to the point of referring to him as "Breachy."
		- Berkas:RazeAllyBreachChat.mp3*"You know, Breachy, in all this chaos it would be terrible if some equipment just...got lost...you know?"*
* Raze and Killjoy have a friendly rivalry.

## References

1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 Killjoy Reveal article (in German)
2. ↑ *VALORANT* Lore Discord Narrative AMA: Raze breakdances