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Celebrate Five Years of VALORANT: Season 2025 // Act III Kicks off April 30



Season 2025 // Act III goes live tomorrow, bringing a new battlepass that is all about celebrating iconic moments from VALORANT’s history as we head into our five-year anniversary. Players will get to experience some nostalgia going all the way back to 2020 through a special series of anniversary-themed player cards such as the 5 Years: Duelists Card, 5 Years: Cypher's Revenge Card and 5 Years: Can't Slow Me Down Card. Some Gun Buddies and Sprays will also evoke memories, including the animated Balikbayan Box Spray and Boba Truck Buddy. 

Gifting is coming to VALORANT this act, bringing the ability to gift friends and other players starting with items in the Featured Store. Players will be able to gift whole bundles or individual items, encouraging more ways to celebrate with friends. Alongside Gifting, Duo’s Day is back with a limited-edition capsule featuring the zany duo of Haz and Matt, where players can Gift the bundle to the Haz or Matt in their lives.

This act also brings players a new collection, Divergence, where fantasy and otherworldly elements collide in the form of new skins for the Vandal, Classic, Judge, Operator and Staff melee.

Season 2025 // Act III goes live on April 30 with the Divergence collection and Duo’s Day limited edition capsule available to players on May 1.

ABOUT VALORANT

VALORANT is a competitive 5v5 character-based first-person tactical shooter developed and published by Riot Games for PC, Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation®5. VALORANT is a precise and lethal multiplayer game with high-fidelity gunplay, a diverse arsenal of guns, agents with unique abilities, and competitively tuned maps for unlimited hours of play. In VALORANT, players lock in their agent for the entire duration of the match and then attempt to win a round-based, attackers vs. defenders, best-of-24-rounds fight. 


VALORANT is a free-to-play game and optimized to perform on a wide variety of PC and console platforms, allowing for a global audience to compete. Demonstrated by the game’s best-in-class game server quality, global infrastructure, and proprietary anti-cheat technology, Riot Games is committed to preserving the core tenets of the tactical shooter genre and upholding the competitive integrity of the gameplay experience across all available platforms.