INITIATE.V25 // Season 2025 Cinematic Kickoff Trailer

Ready the squad as we kick off Season 2025: a year of new Agents, new locations, new stories, and plenty of new ways to flex.

Pre-production & post-production: Eddy Studio
Animation: Little Zoo & Brunch Studio
Layout & Compositing: Brunch Studio

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Music:

Title: my lawyer said don’t
Artist: VALORANT x 8AE

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[lastthing]

So nice of cypher to record and edit this hype video for his fellow agents.

[MariaHie]

This is how to introduce new agents and maps. The cinematography!

[tiredengie]

Hard af trailer. Riot’s animation team doesn’t miss.

[outerspace]

0:11 ain’t no way my boy phoenix got crossed by raze

[YourAveragePersonOnTheStreets]

TIME FOR EARLY AGENT ANALYSIS TIME!

0:50 - able to disable utility?
1:06 - a recon light up beacon thingy
1:08 - some sort of detonation device that can be launched and stick to surfaces
1:11 - probably the same thing as the projectile in 1:08 but is shown how its launched
1:50 - looks to be an aoe affect type ultimate(?) where the agent presses a switch to activate a large series of explosions.
(Reminds me a little of Rumble's Ultimate from League of Legends)

Role: Initiator, possibly a deep-lying support like Breach and a mix of Sova due to being able to use a lot of ranged abilities

this comment may age very poorly or will be used by youtubers to help with their own predictions/early analysis lol

Edit: Riot release the gameplay trailer right after I posted this comment so watch that instead of my inaccurate predictions. There’s also already a few videos showcasing the agent fully :p

[quiks]

tejo says "cucho" to brimstone i love it
Explein : In Colombia, someone of advanced age is called cucho.

[Cryyyyyyyyys]

Hope the place they were fighting in becomes a new map, because I'm loving the old French monastery courtyard vibes

[glitzerschnitzelofficial]

2:10 Yellow-Orange is the new bomber style. 🤔

[Sgth]

For a music company, these guys know how to drop bangers.

[JosephSinan]

He is looking like 99lvl mafia in mafia city ads.

[oldman]

1:46 if you didn't understand, what he said "Brimstone, we need to cook"

[vviiolet]

these get better and better each time i love you riot animation team

[godders]

The cinematography of this trailer makes it the best Valorant animations so far imo

[LSTS-]

1:41 Tejo looks like the tipical mafia boss

[SrGareth]

"que hubo cucho, el parche esta listo" 🤣GOD

[siddiqkal]

That animations is the best i've seen in years, They really got the jjk animators to animate. Nice one riot can't wait to found out about the new agent

[Bkamv]

We Are getting some Daddy issues with this one🗣🔥🗣🔥

[LimeSlimeee]

2:17 What happened to Episode names? this isn't league 😭

[Ian_Wel]

Amazing trailer OMG, this was the best trailer yet keep this up riot. So ready for the new agent.

[kennethmatthews]

These trailers are FEATURES!!! I don't even play the game, but I'm always here for a trailer and always will be.