Yoru

No, he is probably the least beginner-friendly duelist of the lot. His kit covers up no weakness and produces no automatic effect: where Raze deals damage without having to aim and Phoenix heals himself with his own ability, Yoru depends entirely on his ability to fool a human opponent. A player new to the game does not yet have the reference points to know what the enemy expects, which makes his decoys useless. Phoenix or Raze are far more rewarding first duelists.

The principle is to reproduce plausible behavior. A decoy sent down a corridor nobody ever uses will not fool any experienced player. Use it instead on the entry route your team would actually take, and at the moment the defense expects to see someone come through. Second important point: even when it is spotted, the decoy still pays off, since the player who shoots it down ends up blinded and revealed.

It makes him untouchable and visually invisible, but not silent. Footsteps are still heard by the enemy team, which is the main limit of the ability and the most common mistake among new players, who run across the site believing they cannot be detected. Used properly, walking slowly to spot the positions before picking an exit point, the ultimate remains an excellent information-gathering tool.

Ryo Kiritani is a Japanese agent able to punch openings between dimensions and travel through them. His writing rests on a solitary temperament and an openly hostile attitude toward teamwork, paired with a desire for recognition he never states outright. That tension between what he can actually do and the little regard he feels he gets is the through line of the character.