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Agent roles

Every agent belongs to a role that sets their job in the team.

Duelist

The Duelist is the role built to take space and win the first fights. Its abilities are for entering a site, surprising an angle, or escaping after a duel. It brings value when teammates help it enter, and loses it when it goes in alone without information.

Opens the action by taking the first duel so the team can follow behind.
Creates space on the site or in a lane, pushing forward with its own abilities.
Stays within reach of the team after entering, to trade its kills instead of dying alone.

Initiator

The Initiator sets up the attack by gathering information and disrupting enemies. It spots, stops, or weakens entrenched opponents so its team can enter a site more easily. On defense, it's used to delay, confirm a presence, and flush out players holding an angle.

Reveals enemy positions with its scouting abilities before the entry.
Stuns, slows, or damages defenders so they can't hold their angle.
Syncs its abilities with the Duelist's entry, otherwise the information arrives too late.

Controller

The Controller carves up the map with smoke screens and blocking zones. It hides dangerous angles, cuts off defenders' vision, and secures the team's advance. Its aim counts, but it's mostly the placement and timing of its abilities that decide the round.

Places its smokes on key angles to cut vision before an entry or a plant.
Keeps enough charges to put up a screen again at the moment of the defuse or the retake.
Calls out what it's blocking, so the team knows where it can advance without risk.

Sentinel

The Sentinel protects a sector and holds the flanks. It sets traps, alarms, or obstacles that warn the team and slow enemies, which lets it hold a site with few players. Some Sentinels also heal or revive teammates.

Locks down a flank or a site with traps and alarms to be warned without having to watch.
Buys time for the team by slowing or delaying attackers.
Moves its setups from round to round, to spots the opponent hasn't seen yet.