Chamber — VALORANT's Long-Angle Sentinel

• CTrademarktrap

  EQUIP a trap that scans for enemies. FIRE to place it on the ground. When a visible enemy comes in range, the trap counts down and then destabilizes the terrain around them, creating a lingering field that Slows players caught inside of it. The trap can be picked up to be REDEPLOYED.

• QHeadhunterdamage

  ACTIVATE to equip a heavy pistol. ALT FIRE with the pistol equipped to aim down sights.

• ERendezvousmobility

  EQUIP a teleport anchor. FIRE to place it on the ground. While on the ground and in range of the anchor, REACTIVATE to quickly teleport to the anchor. The anchor can be picked up to be REDEPLOYED.

• XTour De Forcedamage

  ACTIVATE to summon a powerful, custom sniper rifle that will kill an enemy with any direct hit to the upper body. ALT FIRE to aim down sights. Killing an enemy creates a lingering field that Slows players caught inside of it.

Riot's notes from patch 1.01 to 13.06 change Chamber in 9 patches. The latest is patch 9.05, published 2024-09-10.

1. Patch 9.052024-09-10

   • RendezvousTP radius increased from 13m→to18m
   Why, in Riot's words

   We've updated Omen's voice lines and added interaction lines with Viper, Clove, Iso, and Vyse.

2. Patch 8.032024-02-21

   QHeadhunter

   • Price decreased150→to100

   XTour De Force

   • Firing rate increased0.7→to0.9
   Why, in Riot's words

   Continuing with our recent focus of sharpening the strengths and weaknesses of the Sentinel role, this update aims to push Chamber’s ability to hold territory with his unique arsenal of weapons. The changes should provide you with more access to the Headhunter (Q) as a save or sidearm without draining your econ, and increase the clear strength of Chamber’s ultimate compared to the Operator.

3. Patch 6.112023-06-06

   ERendezvous

   • Reduced weapon equip time after post-teleport lockout0.7s→to0s

   CTrademark

   • Disable range increased4000→to5000
   • Trap arm speed reduced4s→to2s

   XTour De Force

   • Firing rate increased by 15%
   Why, in Riot's words

   Chamber has taken a backseat in overall pick-rate after the last round of changes in Patch 5.12. At the time, we reduced Chamber’s sphere of influence significantly. We’re looking to put more power into his ability to lurk, and give him more flexibility within his setups.

4. Patch 6.072023-04-11

   • Yellow indicator removed from Trademark (C)
   Why, in Riot's words

   In an effort to consolidate and make consistent our use of UI indicators throughout our roster, we’ve updated some abilities to have or not have UI indicators.

5. Patch 5.122022-12-06

   ERendezvous

   • Chamber now places a single anchor that can be teleported to while inside its range
   • Radius increased7.5m→to13m
   • Removed teleport activation height restriction
   • You can teleport to the Anchor while on different verticality so long as you are within its radius.
   • Increased weapon equip time after teleporting0.4s→to0.7s
   • Headhunter is unaffected by this change
   • Chamber no longer incurs an additional cooldown when recalling his Anchor after teleporting.
   • Health decreased80→to50

   CTrademark

   • The trap is now range restricted
   • Trademark will disable when Chamber moves out of range, and reactivate once he is inside.
   • Can now be recalled mid-round without line of sight
   • 30s cooldown on recall

   Destruction remains permanent

   • Initial Arm Time increased2s→to4s
   • Health Increased1→to20

   XTour De Force

   • Fire rate decreased by 57.5%

   Slow

   • This applies to both Trademark and Tour De Force
   • Reduced duration6s→to4s
   Why, in Riot's words

   Spread increased after 2nd bullet, when spamming. This is explicitly meant to reduce low-precision body-shot spam as an effective combat measure at range.

   Destroying Rendezvous teleport anchor now disables it for the remainder of the round, instead of being placed on a cooldown.

6. Patch 5.032022-08-09

   ERendezvous

   • Base Cooldown increased20s→to30s
   • Recall Cooldown increased20s→to30s
   • Cooldown set to 45s whenever a Rendezvous anchor is destroyed
   • Diameter size of the “ring” Chamber can stand that allows him to activate Rendezvous decreased21m→to15m

   CTrademark

   • Slow Duration decreased9.5→to6s

   XTour De Force

   • Ultimate Points Required increased7→to8
   • Slow Duration decreased9.5→to6s

   QHeadhunter

   • Bullet Cost increased100→to150

   XTour De Force

   • Leg shot multiplier reduced1.0→to0.85
   Why, in Riot's words

   As players in both ranked and pro play have mastered Chamber, his strengths have started to overshadow his weaknesses, making the counterplay to Rendezvous and his arsenal not as effective as we’d hoped. Chamber’s overall strength has also felt outsized, and we believe that we can reduce the complete power of his kit while still keeping him competitive with the rest of the roster.

   We hope that a harsher punishment for destroyed Rendezvous anchors, and the reduced radius will demand Chamber mains to be more careful in their use. This change also brings the counterplay of Chamber’s destructible objects more inline with the behavior of other destructible objects in the game.

   For Neon specifically, it also gives us more tuning levers for balancing her across different skill levels. This change should also add depth to the mastery needed when tracking while sprinting that her ult demands.

7. Patch 4.112022-06-07

   Rendezvous range indicator does not disappear when far enough away to be off of the minimap

   • You should now consistently spawn farther from where you died and experience fewer "revenge" kills.
   Why, in Riot's words

   Fixed an issue where our spawn point scoring system in Deathmatch wasn’t updating correctly.

8. Patch 4.092022-05-10

   Trademark

   • Cost increased150→to200
   • Charges reduced2→to1
   Why, in Riot's words

   A quick note about Sentinels: When we think about the Sentinel role, we think about its overall ability to keep map control and defend space. We believe that Sentinels and Sentinel players should have many options and methods to control and defend, whether it’s through the use of Sage’s reactive slow abilities, Cypher’s flank-watching gadgets, or defensively-oriented combat and guns like Chamber. Like all our Agents, it’s important to carve out sharp strengths and weaknesses for Chamber in the roster. If you take him for his weapon arsenal and disengage, you should feel as if you're giving up a strength—like traps or stall—that his peers excel at. As usual, all eyes are now on Chamber changes, and we’ll adjust if we see him suffer disproportionately on defense relative to attack. —Jay Watford, Lead Agent Designer, and Dan Hardison, Game Designer

9. Patch 3.102021-11-16

   • The next Sentinel Agent deploys with Patch 3.10— Allons-y!
   • Get the Chamber basics on his Agent page

What role is Chamber?

Sentinel. Riot describes the role: “Sentinels are defensive experts who can lock down areas and watch flanks, both on attacker and defender rounds.”

What are Chamber’s abilities?

C — Trademark, Q — Headhunter, E — Rendezvous and X — Tour De Force, the last being the ultimate.

What does Chamber’s ultimate do?

Tour De Force, in Riot’s words: “ACTIVATE to summon a powerful, custom sniper rifle that will kill an enemy with any direct hit to the upper body. ALT FIRE to aim down sights. Killing an enemy creates a lingering field that Slows players caught inside of it.”

When did Riot last change Chamber?

Patch 9.05, published 2024-09-10 — the latest of 9 patches that change Chamber in Riot’s notes from 1.01 to 13.06.

Is Chamber changed in patch 13.06?

No. Nothing in Riot’s patch 13.06 notes names Chamber.

Which other Sentinels are there?

6 more in Riot’s current roster: Cypher, Deadlock, Killjoy, Sage, Veto and Vyse.