Waylay
Thailand's prismatic radiant Waylay transforms into light itself as she darts across the battlefield, striking down her targets through shards of light before flitting back to safety, all in the blink of an eye.
Waylay is a Duelist. Waylay's signature ability is Refract, and their ultimate is Convergent Paths.
- Role
- Duelist
- Signature (E)
- Refract
- Ultimate (X)
- Convergent Paths
- Released
- patch 10.04 (March 4, 2025)
What are Waylay's abilities?
Saturate
Basic abilityEQUIP Saturate. FIRE to throw. Explodes on landing, hindering all players.
Lightspeed
Basic abilityEQUIP Lightspeed. FIRE to dash forward twice. ALT FIRE to dash forward once. Only the first dash can launch upward.
Refract
Signature abilityINSTANTLY place a marker at your location. REACTIVATE to travel to it. While traveling, Waylay is immune but cannot see enemies. Resets every two kills.
Convergent Paths
Ultimate abilityEQUIP Convergent Paths. FIRE to gain haste and send forward a zone that hinders all players.
How has Waylay changed in every patch?
All patch notes →Waylay has been changed in 10 patches, from patch 10.04 to patch 12.06: 13 buffs, 8 nerfs and 8 bug fixes. Newest changes first.
- Nerf Saturate: Changed from INSTANT to EQUIP.
- Nerf Saturate: Hindered duration decreased from 4s → 3s
- Removed Convergent Paths: No longer spawns an afterimage of Waylay
- Adjustment Convergent Paths: No longer pushed back when casting
- Nerf Convergent Paths: Now briefly restricts aim rotation and movement speed similar to Breach’s Rolling Thunder when casting
- Nerf Convergent Paths: Hindered duration decreased from 7s → 6s
- Buff Convergent Paths: Initial windup decreased from 2s → 1s
- Nerf Convergent Paths: Width decreased from 18m → 13.5m
- Nerf Convergent Paths: Decreased movement speed buff on ult from 15% → 10%
- Adjustment Convergent Paths: Improved clarity so you know exactly where the edges are when dodging.
- BugfixNerf Saturate: Fixed a bug where it could affect enemies after they left the range of the area of effect.
- Buff Refract: Minimum time in refract decreased 0.5s → 0.35s
- Buff Refract: Maximum time in refract decreased 3s → 2s
- Buff Refract: Unequip time decreased 1.0s → 0.8s
- Buff Refract: Delay after reactivation decreased 0.1s → 0.05s
- Buff Lightspeed:
Unequip delay decreased 0.2s → 0s
- This was documented in the patch notes as 0.8s → 0.6s, which is only applicable to the Primary Fire dash and counts the unequip time from the moment the first dash's movement ends instead
- Buff Saturate: Windup before explosion decreased 0.75s → 0.6s
- Buff Saturate: Size increased 10m total size → 12m total size (radius increased 5m → 6m)
- Bugfix Convergent Paths: Fixed an issue where targeting indicator for Convergent Paths wouldn’t display properly for spectators, allies, and observer perspectives.
- BugfixBuff Refract: Fixed a bug where reactivating Refract immediately after casting Convergent Paths would prevent the reactivate from working.
- BugfixBuff Refract: Fixed an issue so Waylay will teleport properly back if she activates her Refract while picking up an ult orb.
- BugfixNerf Refract: Fixed an issue where Waylay could activate Refract outside of the playable space on Abyss.
- BugfixBuff Refract: Fixed an issue so Waylay should no longer end looking straight up in the air when she triggers Refract return when she's directly above the teleport point.
- BugfixBuff Convergent Paths: Fixed a bug where there was a performance hitch upon casting
- BugfixBuff Convergent Paths: Fixed a bug where Convergent Paths was unable to be equipped during the buy phase.
- Added Added
Patch change data adapted from Waylay's update history on the VALORANT Wiki, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Waylay gear skins
Unlocked by completing Waylay's Gear contract with Kingdom Credits.
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