ultimate valorant skin buying guide

This guide is made for the smarter buyers not those who throw their money at any skin.

Tip #1: Buy skins for your most used guns
There is no point in owning a ares or stinger skin if you buy the gun like once every 3 games. instead of building your full inventory you should use that money to buy multiple rifle skins or skins for any other gun that you use alot.

For me I only own vandal, phantom and sheriff skins since in game I always base my economy around these guns. some people might use the marshal or the spectre more so you could get those skins aswell if you use it.

Tip #2: Pistol skins are a scam
In an average valorant game you will see around 12-24 rounds of gameplay. there are only 2 pistol rounds and 2 save rounds if you lose both pistols.
This adds up to a total of 4 rounds where you will be using a pistol out of 24. thats why I would suggest against buying a classic or ghost skin

Tip #3: Dont buy bundles
Yes it usually comes at a discounted price in total but as I said rather than filling up your inventory with skins for all the guns you would rather buy multiple skins for the same gun that you use alot.

Tip #4: Battlepass arent a good investment
battlepasses are the biggest way riot can trick you into spending your money like a madman. At 15 AUD the battlepass can seem very inticing but trust me when I say never ever buy a battlepass for its gun skins. only ever buy a battlepass if you want it for the knife since all battlepass skins feel boring after 2-3 games.

Tip #5: buy multiple rifle skins
You should have atleast 2 vandal and phantom skins before you think about buying skins for other guns since a skin can feel very boring if you keep using for a long time. this cause you to usually start hating the skin and think that its making you whiff. (I litterally unequiped my prime vandal for the default cuz of how sick i got of it). thats why you should always have 2 skins preferably that are different colour schemes aswell.

Tip#5: dont buy same animation knife skins
If you already have the prime axe I can gurantee you that you dont want the soverign sword. The appeal is almost always in the animation and if its the same it feels bland much quicker. This is why if you already have the recon butterfly knife for example i would be against you buying the rgx one. you would be better off buying the katana or a karambit with a different animation.

These are all the tips I have for someone who is looking to spend his money wisely on skins

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Tip#6: Don't buy skins. Default skins are fire

All correct except maybe tip 5. Dont spend ur life savings on val skins, pick one you really like, buy it, then don't buy another skin for that gun

Tip #6 If you really like certain skin and you are financially stable after the purchase, just buy the skin and enjoy it

this acts battlepass is pretty sick tho ngl

I rahter buy bundles cus im rich af like my idol zombs

i wanted to buy prime vandal for 1 year and when i bought it it became boring in 1 week. sometimes im prefering my hivemind vandal over it lol

The pistol one is just a straight up lie. There are more than 4 rounds you use a pistol. Unless you are forcing every round there are countless times you will have only a sheriff or a classic.

wassup with vlr lately all these W posts

just get 1 classics oni shorty phoenix frenzy (best frenzy no cyap cause its fire and free) 1 ghost if u use ghost a lot a sheriff a spectre every premium phantom and vandal for the flex and op and smite knife

any default skin enjoyers?

talking about pistol skins, you can buy a classic/ghost skin, either of which you use in pistol rounds

Bumping this post for people considering to buy the new champions phantom (me)

You need battlepass for radianite. that in itself makes the bp worth it

Pistol skins underrated. If you hit your shots with pistols and win the round u have made a huge impact on the game

VV

Is champions 2022 bundle worth to buy?

battle pass is useful for the radianite tho

Bruh battle pass is a must buy.
You get so much Radianite which would normally cost you more than a single Battle Pass

Best is to pick a battle pass with a cheap and cool knife skin like karambit. Skins get so boring after a while anyway so theres no point just use battle pass skin and pick up enemies vandal.

I would agree that the majority of battle pass rewards are mid, however it's still worth purely for the Radianite. If you plan on buying skins that you want to upgrade all the way, that is. Even if it's just getting the pass every other season. If you're only getting one skin either every season or every other season, then you could get away with getting the free 30 (so long as you get to 35 each season). But otherwise I'd say spend the 10 bucks (USD) and get that juicy Radianite. You get 100 more Radianite from the pass if you reach 49 (130 in total), and another 30 if you complete 4 of the 5 epilogue rewards (that's 160 in total). The decent skins are usually 30 Radianite each for just the full upgrade (no alternate color) or 45 (if you'd rather one alt color after upgrade). Or at most 75 (if you really like all the colors lol). So one pass could easily tie you over for a couple seasons.