How to Unlock and Equip VALORANT Skins

Weapon skins in VALORANT are cosmetic. They can change a weapon's model, effects, audio, animation or finisher, but they do not increase damage, accuracy or rank. Owning an expensive skin is not proof of skill.

Ways to get VALORANT weapon skins

• Featured bundle and daily Store offers: purchase available skins with VALORANT Points (VP). Offers rotate, and an unavailable skin cannot normally be selected from the full Collection and bought on demand.
• Night.Market: when Riot activates the event, each eligible account receives a limited set of personalised discounted offers. It is not always open and its selection cannot be freely chosen.
• Battle Pass: progress through the active pass to claim its listed rewards. Check the client before buying because contents and price shown for the current Act are authoritative.
• Agent Gear: after owning an Agent, unlock that Agent's gear tiers in order with Kingdom Credits. Agent Contracts were replaced in Episode 7; old instructions about levelling a contract are outdated.

The Accessory Store uses Kingdom Credits for old Battle Pass cards, sprays, titles and gun buddies, but Riot explicitly excludes gun and melee skins from that store.

How to equip and upgrade a skin

1. Open Collection and choose a weapon.
2. Select an owned skin and available variant, then choose Equip.
3. If the skin supports upgrades, open its levels. Eligible effects or variants can require Radianite Points and prerequisite levels.

You cannot “open” a locked Store skin for free from the Collection. Avoid account-sharing, skin generators and unofficial sellers. For safe account credit information, use the VALORANT Points guide.