VALORANT Guide Directory
Riot’s tactical FPS is showing no signs of slowing down, with VALORANT going from strength to strength with each new Chapter.
Whether you’re a newcomer or a veteran player, there’s plenty to get your head around in this quick-reaction time shooter. GGRecon’s collection of guides will help you understand how the play the game a little better, and give you all the resources you need to improve your skills at the game.
Agent Guides
The Agents of VALORANT all possess completely different abilities, and you’ll need to understand their basics if you want to play well as them - or even against them.
We’ve broken down all the Agents that are currently available in the game, providing explainers of their abilities and some tips on how to best utilise them.
- Agent classes and abilities explained
- Agent tier list
- Clove
- Deadlock
- Fade
- Gekko
- Harbor
- Jett
- Mage
- Neon
- Yoru
Weapons and Maps
Once you’ve got the Agent basics down, you’ll need to spend some time getting to grips with both the weapons and the maps. Shooting skills and map knowledge go hand in hand when playing this shooter, and you’ll need to master both to secure regular wins.
In these guides, we’ve broken down what you need to know about each map, plus which weapons are the most ideal for you to use.
- Weapon tier list for 2024: Phantom or Vandal?
- All game modes and maps
- All maps in Competitive rotation
Best Settings
Getting your settings dialled in is always important in a shooter, and VALORANT is no different. These guides go through some of what we think the best graphics and resolution settings are.
Skinlines
Much like VALORANT’s main competitor, Counter-Strike 2, weapon skins are an incredibly important aspect of the game for many. You can easily spend hundreds of dollars collecting them all, so it’s useful to know which ones are available - and when you can pick up a bargain.
Crosshairs
You’ll spend most of your game time looking at your crosshair in-game, so it’s vital you have it dialled in exactly how you like it. We’ve got plenty of words to help you find the right crosshair for you, with step-by-step instructions on how to customise it yourself.
- Best Crosshair settings
- Best Pro Player Crosshairs
- How To Change Crosshair Colours
- How to copy a crosshair
- How to get a circle crosshair
- How to get a dot crosshair
- How to get a double crosshair
How To’s, Tips and Tricks
Whether you want to know how to improve your aim, or how to see your stats from previous matches, you’ll find the answers in this section here.
- All ranks in order
- Best Aim Trainers
- Best Mouse for VALORANT
- Aim Guide: Fastest Ways to Improve Your Aim
- Change your name
- Change FOV
- How to get a rank buddy
- How To Get Alpha Threat Card
- How to play Team Deathmatch
- How to search who you are up against
- How to level up and get XP fast
- How to view match history
- Premier Mode explained
- How to view purchase history
- Rank distribution in 2024
- Raw Accel explained
- Run and gun nerf explained
Errors and Bug Fixes
As a primarily PC game, VALORANT is prone to its fair share of errors and bugs. If you’ve encountered an issue, don’t panic - you’re likely not the first person to encounter it!
This section will go over the most common bugs and errors that players run into, with explanations on how to fix them.
- How to fix error 19
- How to fix the not opening bug
- How to fix black screen
- How to fix competitive queue disabled bug
- How to fix error 59
- How to fix version mismatch error
- How to fix your update pausing
- How to fix fps drops
- Stuck in loading screen fix
Patch Notes
VALORANT receives extremely regular updates, with Agent and Weapon values constantly seeing tweaks to make sure the game is as balanced as possible. To make sure you’re up to date with everything going on in the game, take a look at our archive of patch notes below, which document all of the changes the game has seen since launch.
- Update 9.01
- Update 8.10
- Update 8.09
- Update 8.08
- Update 8.05
- Update 8.04
- Update 8.03
- Update 8.01
- Update 7.12
- Update 7.10
- Update 7.09
- Update 7.08
- Update 7.07
- Update 7.06
- Update 7.05
- Update 7.04
- Update 7.03
- Update 7.02
- Update 7.01
- Update 7.00
- Update 6.11
- Update 6.10
- Update 6.08
- Update 6.07
- Update 6.06
- Update 6.05
- Update 6.04
- Update 6.03
- Update 6.02
- Update 6.01
- Update 6.0
- Update 5.12
- Update 5.10
- Update 5.07
- Update 5.06
- Update 5.04
- Update 5.03
- Update 4.10
FAQs
If you’ve not yet found the answer to your question, this final section might just help you out. Here’s a collection of answers to questions that we’re frequently asked about VALORANT.
- Can you play on Mac?
- Every LGBTQ+ character in the game
- How to uninstall
- Player count
- How to claim Amazon Prime Gaming drops
- Download size
- Server tick rate
This guide is a work in progress and will be continuously updated as the game evolves.