Jett
Representing her home country of South Korea, Jett's agile and evasive fighting style lets her take risks no one else can. She runs circles around every skirmish, cutting enemies up before they even know what hit them.
Jett is a Duelist. Jett's signature ability is Tailwind, and their ultimate is Blade Storm.
- Role
- Duelist
- Signature (E)
- Tailwind
- Ultimate (X)
- Blade Storm
- Released
- Closed beta, patch 0.50 (May 12, 2020)
What are Jett's abilities?
Cloudburst
Basic abilityINSTANTLY throw a cloud. Forms into a brief smoke on any surface or after a delay. HOLD ACTIVATE to steer towards your crosshair.
Updraft
Basic abilityINSTANTLY propel high into the air.
Tailwind
Signature abilityINSTANTLY prepare a dash. REACTIVATE to dash forward or in your movement direction. Resets every two kills.
Blade Storm
Ultimate abilityINSTANTLY access five accurate throwing knives that deal lethal damage with direct hits to the head. FIRE to shoot. On kills, refresh your knives. ALT FIRE to throw all remaining knives without a refresh.
Drift
PassiveHOLD JUMP while falling to glide.
How has Jett changed in every patch?
All patch notes →Jett has been changed in 26 patches, from patch 0.50 to patch 12.09: 13 buffs, 26 nerfs and 17 bug fixes. Newest changes first.
- BugfixBuff Drift: Fixed a bug where its gliding SFX was audible from the other side of Astra’s Cosmic Divide.
- BugfixBuff Cloudburst: Fixed an issue where throw animations would break if aiming straight down
- BugfixBuff Fixed a bug where Jett could get stuck in midair near ledges/box corners
- Bugfix Tailwind: Fixed a bug where the audio would continue into the next round.
- Adjustment Blade Storm: Third person animations while Blade Storm is equipped have been adjusted to help with combat clarity.
- Nerf Tailwind: Dash window decreased 12s → 7.5s
- Nerf Tailwind: Activation windup increased 0.75s → 1s
- Nerf Cloudburst: Duration decreased 4.5s → 2.5s
- Nerf Cloudburst: Time to re-equip gun takes slightly longer after using the ability.
- Nerf Updraft: Charges decreased 2 → 1
- Nerf Blade Storm: Ultimate points increased 7 → 8
- Bugfix Adjusted hair height to fit within standardized vertical range
- Nerf Blade Storm: Blade Storm legshot multiplier reduced from 1.0 → 0.85
- BugfixBuff Tailwind: Fixed a bug where switching weapons in the middle of the dash for Tailwind would cause the weapon pull out animation to take longer
- BugfixNerf Tailwind: Fixed a bug where Jett could equip a weapon during the dash
- BugfixNerf Tailwind: Fixed a bug where using Tailwind in specific locations could let Jett reach very faster than intended speeds (aka. “superdash”)
- Adjustment Progress/Charge bars moved to a consistent location and made a consistent size
- BugfixBuff Fixed a bug where Tailwind would sometimes fail to cast when used immediately after curving Cloudburst
- Bugfix Blade Storm: Fixed a bug where the indicator would sometimes stay active after firing all kunai
- BugfixBuff Fixed a bug where Jett could find herself unable to use abilities or weapons when using Tailwind immediately after depleting Blade Storm's daggers
- Nerf Tailwind:
NEW EFFECT: On first cast, Jett consumes her Tailwind charge and after a.75 second delay, activates a 12-second window where she’s able to dash on next key press
- Charge can still be regained with 2 kills
- These changes also apply to Big Knife rounds in Escalation
- Added Blade Storm: Ammo count added to HUD
- Buff Blade Storm: Can now be input-queued to equip after the current action
- Added Blade Storm: Kunai will now recharge after killing a training dummy or defuse practice bot
- Nerf Cloudburst: Charges reduced 3 → 2
- Nerf Blade Storm: Right-click/Alternate Fire kills no longer recharge kunai
- Buff Blade Storm: Right-click/Alt. Fire damage differences from 1.09 are reverted, damage and multipliers will once again mirror the left-click
- Nerf Cloudburst: Cost increased 100 → 200
- Nerf Updraft: Cost increased 100 → 150
- Nerf Tailwind: No longer breaks Cypher's Trapwires
- Nerf Blade Storm: Ultimate points required increased 6 → 7
- Nerf Cloudburst: Duration decreased 7 → 4.5 seconds
- BugfixNerf Tailwind: Can no longer trigger the defuse sound while dashing
- BugfixNerf Tailwind: Can no longer use on ropes or ziplines
- Nerf Blade Storm: Time between consecutive Burst Fire use increased 0.33 seconds → 0.45 seconds
- Nerf Blade Storm:
Daggers thrown in Burst now have a damage falloff that begins at 12 meters and drops steadily at max falloff to 30 damage
- The correct value for damage dealt at max falloff is undocumented, instead officially being documented in the patch notes as dealing 35 damage at max falloff
- Nerf Blade Storm: Headshot multiplier on Burst Fire reduced 3x → 2x
- Buff Blade Storm: Now refreshes when used to kill Phoenix during Run it Back.
- Bugfix Fixed a bug with Jett’s lower body popping out of place during her glide
- Buff Cloudburst: Duration increased 4 → 7 seconds
- Buff Tailwind: Automatically breaks Cypher's Trapwires after being briefly revealed
- Buff Updraft: Cost reduced 200 → 100 credits
Patch change data adapted from Jett's update history on the VALORANT Wiki, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Unlocked by completing Jett's Gear contract with Kingdom Credits.
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