Breach

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* Email ID

## Additional Pages

• Breach/Quotes
 **Lore Wiki Article**

— Official description

**Breach** is an Agent in *VALORANT* and one of the first Initiators available to play since the Closed Beta.

## Profile

### Biography

*VALORANT* Lore Wiki: **Breach**

* Biography
* Timeline of events

A criminal from Sweden, Erik Torsten was set to be convicted along with the rest of his family for their crimes. As he was a double congenital amputee however, the judge was pitiful and lenient towards him, giving him a smaller sentence that soon allowed Erik to return to his old ways. Building himself his own mechanical arms to use, Erik would hit back with his own criminal assignments, becoming so notorious for the terrible things he had done that he eventually had to go into hiding and effectively exile himself from his home. During these times, he also encountered the young Brazilian Tayane Alves, who worked alongside him for a while and provided some major upgrades to his arms, resulting in the carbon-steel titanium-plating version that he uses to this day.

Later approached to become a VALORANT agent, Torsten accepted the offer though his induction was not a smooth affair. Leaving behind his criminal life in line with VP procedure, his records were sealed and he became the Protocol's thirteenth agent, "Breach". Despite now serving for the secret organization with more dignified actions however, the consequences of his criminal past forever remain, leaving him a man that, for all he does now, can still never truly return home.

#### ERIK TORSTEN: Early Life

* Torsten is separated from his family when they were imprisoned. The judge had specifically taken pity on Erik due to him being a double congenital amputee.
* Erik continues his criminal activities in locations such as Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Salvador.
* Erik meets and works with Tayane Alves.

#### BREACH: VALORANT agent

* Recruited as its thirteenth agent.
	+ Breach's induction is not a smooth affair.
	+ Breach's recruitment results in his criminal records being sealed.

#### The Omega Project

* Breach contacts Brimstone with concerns about VALORANT's secrecy, given the recent reappearance of footage of the enice incident on the internet and family members of Everett-Linde employees asking questions.

#### The Blackmailer

* Breach is assigned as a member of the Istanbul strike team.
	+ Breach's role was to help with extraction, but he only ends up reinforcing the rest of the squad when they come under attack.

#### Continuing the Omega Project

* Breach is reported to be having arguments with Brimstone.

#### First ventures into Omega

* Breach is assigned to carry out a raid on a Kingdom Industries site to obtain intel.
	+ The mission is a successful, clean job.
* Breach thanks Brimstone for pulling strings to get the sentence of Breach's nephew reduced.

#### Project Landfall

* Breach invites Brimstone to a jam session at VALORANT after finding out the commander plays bass.
* Breach talks to Jett about her needing to lay low.

### Personality

— Breach (Match Start)

If there's anyone who knows the risk - and the thrill - of their job as a VALORANT agent best, it's probably Breach. This bionic man has hinted at having a long history of being in the battlefield, and any shootout is always fun for him. He mainly treats his current occupation in VALORANT as nothing more than another post wherein he drops into the fight, wins, and gets paid. However, he's also looking for excitement and will not hesitate to wreck havoc along the way.

According to Sova in his voicelines, Breach lacks patience and tends to rush into fights while leaving his team behind. The Swede has also earned the ire of Yoru for being a loudmouth who doesn't shut up. With his gimmick for aggression, Breach believes in getting the job done quick, and when the guns are being held up on his face, that's when he knows that it's just another Tuesday.

### Appearance

Breach is a tall man with long brown hair tied in a ponytail, while sporting a beard and a mustache. He is most noticeable with his metal arms that are made out of carbon steel with titanium plating. He wears a green vest that covers a black shirt that sports a red logo of a horned demon. The Swede also sports a large tattoo on his chest. He wears green pants which carries a holster on both sides, completed by a pair of boots.

## Abilities

### Basic

C – Aftershock

EQUIP a fusion charge. FIRE the charge to set a slow-acting burst through the wall. The burst does heavy damage to anyone caught in its area.

**Uses:** 1
**Cost:** 200
**Windup:**  2.2 s
**Damage:**  80 per tick, 2 ticks within 0.6 s

Q – Flashpoint

EQUIP a blinding charge. FIRE the charge to set a fast-acting burst through the wall. The charge detonates to Blind all players looking at it.

**Uses:** 2
**Cost:** 250
**Windup:**  0.5 s
**Debuff:**  2 s Flash

### Signature

E – Fault Line

EQUIP a seismic blast. HOLD FIRE to increase the distance. RELEASE to set off the quake, Concussing all players in its zone and in a line up to the zone.

**Uses:** 1
**Cost:**Free
**Windup:**  1 s
**Cooldown:**  40 s
**Debuff:**  3.5 s Concuss

### Ultimate

X – Rolling Thunder

EQUIP a Seismic Charge. FIRE to send a cascading quake through all terrain in a large cone. The quake Concusses and knocks up anyone caught in it.

**Cost:**♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 9 points
**Windup:**  1.2 s
**Debuff:**  7 m Knockback + 6 s Concuss

## Agent Cosmetics

The following are cosmetics related to Breach from Agent Gear and from other sources (e.g. Battle Pass).

### Gear

*More information: Gear*

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

### Other cosmetics

Player Cards

Weapon Skins

## Update History

**v7.04**
* Aftershock
	+ Ticks reduced from 3 to 2
	+ Damage increased from 60 per tick to 80

* Rolling Thunder
	+ Ultimate points increased 8 >>> 9

**v6.11**

* Rolling Thunder
	+ Warning visuals have been updated to provide a clearer edge to the ultimate’s area of effect. This should make it easier to understand when you will and will not be hit by the ultimate.

**v5.12**

* Aftershock
	+ Damage modifier to non-players reduced 250% >>> 100%
* Rolling Thunder
	+ Ultimate Points increased 7 >>> 8

**v5.07**

* Rolling Thunder
	+ Combat report will no longer show dead enemies hit

**v4.10**

* Progress/Charge bars moved to a consistent location and made a consistent size

**v3.05**

* Aftershock
	+ Now deals damage to the following:
		- Killjoy's  Alarmbot,  Nanoswarm, and  Lockdown
		- Cypher's  Trapwire
		- Reyna's  Leer
		- Sage's  Barrier Orb
		- Sova's  Recon Bolt
		- KAY/O's  ZERO/point

**v3.0**

* Aftershock
	+ Now explodes 3 times with each blast dealing 60 damage with no fall off
		- Blasts are .6 seconds apart
	+ Explosion radius increased 260 >>> 300
	+ Unequip time after firing decreased 1.1 >>> 0.7 seconds
		- **The correct value is undocumented, instead officially being documented in the patch notes as being reduced to 0.9 seconds**
	+ Cost increased 100 >>> 200
* Flashpoint
	+ Total charges reduced 3 >>> 2
	+ Cost increased 200 >>> 250
	+ Projectile speed decreased 2500 >>> 2000
* Fault Line
	+ Full charge time decreased 1.5 >>> 1 second
	+ Width increased 600 >>> 750
	+ Telegraph windup time decreased 1.3 >>> 1
	+ Concussion duration increased 3 >>> 3.5
	+ Unequip time after firing decreased 1 >>> 0.7
	+ Cooldown time increased 35 >>> 40
* Rolling Thunder
	+ Area of effect changed from cone increasing to max width of 2300 >>> Line with width of 2300

**v1.11**

* Flashpoint
	+ Full flash time increased from 1.75 seconds >>> 2 seconds
* Fault Line
	+ Spawn location from Breach increased 0 >>> 8 meters
	+ Full charge time reduced 2 >>> 1.5 seconds
* Rolling Thunder
	+ Spawn location from Breach increased 0 >>> 8 meters

**v1.07**

* Concuss now de-scopes players and prevents re-scoping
* Flashpoint
	+ Off-screen flashes now match behavior of other flashes in the game and apply a minimum amount of flash more aggressively
	+ Charges increased from 2 >>> 3
	+ Reduced windup time from 0.6 seconds >>> 0.5 seconds
* Rolling Thunder
	+ Detonation delay between blasts decreased from 0.3 >>> 0.255

**v1.06**

* Flashpoint
	+ The audio and visuals for Flashpoint should better indicate when to turn away, and when it's safe to look again

**v1.04**

* Aftershock
	+ Fixed Aftershock not properly applying damage to all characters if multiple are hit by it

**v0.49**

* Updated Breach’s visuals

## Trivia

* Canonically, Breach is currently the tallest agent among the VALORANT roster.

### Relations

* Breach's quotes hint that he knew Raze before joining VALORANT.
	+ The nature of their shared past was one that operated outside the law.
		- *"Raze! Huh, together again and we're not even breaking the law!"*
	+ Raze sometimes calls Breach by a nickname, "Breachy."
		- *"You know Breachy, in all this chaos it would be terrible if some equipment just...got lost...you know?"*
* Viper was involved in Breach's recruitment into VALORANT.
* There is friction between him and Brimstone, with Breach suggesting that Brimstone has reasons the prefer not working with him, though Brimstone appears to deny some of these claims.
	+ *"It could be worse Brimstone. Instead of working together, we could be facing off. Or maybe you'd prefer that..."*
	+ *"Haha, when that Brimstone sees me here, he's gonna be sooo pissed."*
	+ *"Brimstone, the corporate sellout. Here to look out for Kingdom's special interests?"*
		- *"You don't know what you're talking about, Breach."*

### Development

* Previous designs of Breach had him with a orange or brown jacket, black arms, blonde hair, and a mask.
* The earliest known concept of Breach was the scrapped agent, Crusader. The differences between these two is that Crusader was female, and Crusader's abilities featured a Sword, a Flash Grenade, and the scrapped ultimate ability, Riot Shield.

## Gallery

Early ConceptGame Mode Vote ArtworkChill Out
## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 VALORANT Protocol#The Blackmailer's agent dossiers
2. ↑ *VALORANT* Lore Discord Narrative AMA: Breach was born without arms
3. ↑ *VALORANT* Lore Discord Narrative AMA: Breach's arms
4. ↑ Breach's induction into VALORANT.
5. ↑ *VALORANT* Lore Discord Narrative AMA: Breach's past
6. ↑ 4.01 Breach email
7. ↑ Istanbul Strike Team
8. ↑ 4.09 Raze Voicemail
9. ↑ 5.01 Breach Voicemail
10. ↑ 5.09 Breach Voicemail
11. ↑ 6.02 Breach Voicemail
12. ↑ 7.07 Jett voicemail
13. ↑ Agent Heights - as of Harbor's addition.
14. ↑ Game Mode Vote Promotional Images
15. ↑ Breach Chill out