VALORANT Rising Heroes presented by AOC is the largest VALORANT esports tournament that the ANZ scene has seen yet with $24,000aud on the line in cash and prizes. It will see open qualifiers, a 16-team tournament, and a group stage live from ESL's brand new studios in Sydney.

Today a massive patch for VALORANT dropped that included a brand new agent called Killjoy as well as Act 2 bringing with it a rank-reset, new battlepass, and more ranking indicators.

This week we get a brand new patch for VALORANT with changes for a number of heroes, the biggest of which will affect Viper and Brimstone mains who will have to adjust their playstyle a little. The weapons get a little bit of love as well with changes for the Classic.

Major changes to VALORANT coming forward this patch, with Competitive Mode going live, changes to tagging and much, much more.

Three weeks after the beta release of VALORANT and the improvements are coming in hot and fast. The headliners for Patch 0.49 are the competitive mode and ranked matchmaking - which have both been added and are just waiting to go live.