There’s no question that the thing that sets Valorant apart from other tactical shooters is the abilities.
In addition to your run-of-the-mill flashes and smokes, you’ve got walls, teleports, aerial strikes, resurrections, hell, even rocket launchers. And while VALORANT does have precise gunplay, and shooting definitely matters, what such an array of abilities offers players is a sea of opportunities to bully one’s opponents by way of bamboozling them.