Sentinel · Season 2026 Act VI
SentinelTier A (community)Ultimate: Neural TheftThe Moroccan information broker, Cypher is a one-man surveillance network who keeps tabs on the enemy's every move. No secret is safe. No maneuver goes unseen. Cypher is always watching. Data
Sentinel: Sentinels are defensive experts who can lock down areas and watch flanks, both on attacker and defender rounds.
From the game data · client 13.08
EQUIP a trapwire. FIRE to place a destructible and covert trapwire at the targeted location, creating a line that spans between the placed location and the wall opposite. Enemy players who cross a trapwire will be Slowed and Revealed after a short period if they do not destroy the device in time. This ability can be picked up to be REDEPLOYED.
INSTANTLY toss the cyber cage in front of Cypher. ACTIVATE to create a zone that blocks vision and plays an audio cue when enemies pass through it.
EQUIP a spycam. FIRE to place the spycam at the targeted location. RE-USE this ability to take control of the camera's view. While in control of the camera, FIRE to shoot a marking dart. This dart will Reveal the location of any player struck by the dart. This ability can be picked up to be REDEPLOYED.
INSTANTLY use on a targeted dead enemy to download information on their team. After a brief delay, the location of all living enemy players will be Revealed twice.
Ability names and descriptions are Riot’s in-game text; keys are the default bindings (C, Q, E, X for the ultimate). Data
Ranked, all ranks · 25 September 2026
MetaBot ranked data across all ranks, as published 25 September 2026 Community. Community statistics, not Riot figures. Patch 13.08 made no agent balance changes. Riot Full tier list on the meta page.
Suited to players who like holding a site, watching flanks and slowing pushes rather than taking first contact. Cypher watches the map with a tripwire that slows and reveals (Trapwire), a camera with a marking dart (Spycam) and vision-blocking cages, and reveals the enemy team with Neural Theft.
Written from the role and the ability descriptions above, not from match data.
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Answers
Cypher is a Sentinel. Riot describes the role this way: Sentinels are defensive experts who can lock down areas and watch flanks, both on attacker and defender rounds.
C: Trapwire; Q: Cyber Cage; E: Spycam; X: Neural Theft. The full in-game descriptions are on this page.
Neural Theft. In the game’s own words: INSTANTLY use on a targeted dead enemy to download information on their team. After a brief delay, the location of all living enemy players will be Revealed twice.
In MetaBot’s all-ranks data of 25 September 2026, Cypher has a 52.1% win rate and a 3.1% pick rate (tier A), number 2 of 7 sentinels by win rate. These are community statistics, not Riot figures, and they predate patch 13.08.
valorant-api.com: game data (agents, abilities, skins, ranks, acts), client 13.08 · Neuralboost — agent tier list by win rate (MetaBot data, all ranks, 25 Sep 2026) (community) · VALORANT Patch Notes 13.08
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