How to Get Free Valorant Skins - Every Working Method

Playing Valorant can get pretty boring when all you see on screen are the regularly issued weapon skins. Skins are an investment, and we can’t always use the free sidearm skins handed out by Valorant. While the most common ways to snatch some free skins are through grinding the Agent Gear track, blasting through the free Battle Pass track, or scouring for codes on the internet during the rare times Riot feels generous, none of these actually give you free weapon skins for your Vandal, Phantom, or your melee. Accept this fact, and you can focus much of the search for free skins on the systems that pay out for playtime. Still willing to work for your free skins? Let’s get right to it.

Can You Actually Get Valorant Skins for Free?

The good news is, yes! The bad (or neutral) news, however, is that the weapon skins in the Night Market, or the premium pass, are definitely not free. These require Valorant Points, which equal money. What you can get for free, though, are the weapon skins from the Agent Gear contracts, a free Battle Pass, event codes, esports drops, and friends with spare VP.

Agent Contracts Became Agent Gear, and They Still Pay Best

The pure XP grinding from Tier 6 to 10 has been exhausting, and Riot thinks so too, which is why they scrapped the progression overhaul. They replaced it with Kingdom Credits, a currency earned only through playing. Now that’s free skin.

What Riot kept throughout the Acts is the 10-tier gear track. You can still acquire a gun buddy at Tier 6, and Tier 10 still gives you the agent-specific sidearm skin. We already did the math. A full track needs around 43,000 KC for most agents, 47,000 KC for the five launch agents, and Tier 5 refunds 2,000 KC for everyone else.

These credits are earned in matches. You receive 4 KC per round won and 2 per round played in Competitive, Unrated, Swiftplay, and Premier. For Spike Rush and Team Deathmatch, on the other hand, you each get 20. This caps at 600 KC per day (150 KC each of the four checkpoints), and hard caps at 10,000 KC. This amounts to around ten weeks of steady play for a gear.

The Valorant Battle Pass: Free Track vs Premium Track

Here’s more maths we did to calculate the required XP in a Battle Pass. Say it’s 55 tiers across 11 chapters. The XP you’ll get for each tier is the tier number times 750, plus 500. This means Tier 2 costs 2,000, while reaching Tier 50 should cost 980,000 XP in total. This doesn’t count the last 5 tiers of the epilogue, which cost 36,500 each.

Now let’s look at the free track. It pays out roughly 15 items per act (sprays, cards, titles, buddies, Radianite bundles, and one sidearm skin as the headline). The premium track, on the other hand, costs 1,000 VP and holds everything flashy, including skin collections, Deluxe upgradable, a melee at Tier 50, and more!

How to Level Up Your Battle Pass Faster

Unlike League of Legends, Valorant has no first-win-of-the-day bonus. Here’s how you progress:

● Clear all daily checkpoints. There are four, and each is 1,000 XP plus 150 KC. That’s already 4,000 XP, not including match XP. These numbers also double for a day miss, so you can catch up.

● Do weekly challenges. Three arrive per week, and they stack. You can clear several in a session.

● Watch your XP per minute. If farming XP is the goal, compare the XP earned for each game mode. 200 XP per round won in Competitive, Unrated, and Swiftplay, and 100 per round played; 900 for Team Deathmatch, up to 1,000 for Deathmatch, and Escalation up to 900.

● Queue with friends. Valorant encourages team play by granting an 8% to 20% XP Squad Boost by party size. Xbox Game Pass grants another 20%.

The most important thing you need to remember is that winning rounds pays the most, and the best way to do that is to improve. Maybe stop queueing on autopilot and have a coach pull apart your VODs if you’re really dedicated to the grind. This way, you can shorten your pass timeline and lift your rank at once.