2022 was another fantastic year for VALORANT. The game celebrated its second birthday this year and has continued to do well for both casual and competitive players.

The development team at Riot Games has put out an impressive amount of content for VALORANT this year, including one new map and three new agents, along with a wide variety of new cosmetic items.

Today, we’re focusing on the agent releases in 2022, which have resulted in Neon, Fade, and Harbor making their way into servers worldwide. Each of these agents fulfills a different role, and they all also have markedly different designs, personalities, and places in the meta. But which agent was the best addition to VALORANT’s character lineup?

Here are our rankings of each agent release for VALORANT in 2022, from worst to best.

3) Harbor

It feels like Riot had been teasing Harbor’s release for nearly the entire year, with a wide variety of cosmetic items and even an entire map based around water and the ocean. Finally, in October, players got their water-themed agent.

Harbor was also pretty popular for his design, and also filled a void of representation that players had been requesting—an Indian agent. Once his face was revealed, social media went wild over his looks, some saying he might be the most handsome agent in the lineup.

Harbor also got a great agent trailer. His cinematic is thrilling, and captures not only his energy as a character, but also provides a backstory to all of…