Weapons and knives in Valorant
In Valorant you don’t pick a weapon based on which one is best, but on what you can afford with …
Valorant is a five-versus-five tactical shooter from Riot Games in which precise gunplay is combined with agent abilities. It’s free to play and, besides PC, also runs on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. This section is your guide to it: agents and their abilities, maps and their rotation, ranks and how to climb them, crosshairs and settings, and how to get the game running.
Alongside the guides you’ll find news from the game and patch notes summed up in plain English. Riot releases them roughly every two weeks and uses them to change weapon stats, agent abilities and the maps in rotation, so each guide says which version it applies to; right now that’s patch 13.05 from 1 September 2026.
In Valorant you don’t pick a weapon based on which one is best, but on what you can afford with …
Valorant has nine ranks, from Iron up to Radiant, the highest rank, which only the top 500 players in each …
Valorant is one of the few current online shooters that runs on almost any computer, since Riot built it from …
To download Valorant, get the free installer from playvalorant.com (or install it through the Epic Games Store), log in with …