Valorant guns: all weapon stats and recoil patterns

The Valorant weapons arsenal is an intricately, painstakingly crafted repository of destructive potential. And perhaps more so than in most other FPS games, you really need to know what you're doing with them. Our Valorant weapons guide will offer up detailed stats on each of the 17 different weapons you can purchase between rounds, along with clear recoil patterns so you can start to tame these powerful beasts and become a true master of weapons in Valorant.

Valorant guns & weapons guide

• Valorant weapons - One Shot Kill potential
• Valorant weapons - stats and recoil patterns
• Valorant Sidearms
• Valorant SMGs
• Valorant Shotguns
• Valorant Rifles
• Valorant Snipers
• Valorant Heavy Weapons

Valorant guns - One Shot Kill potential

With such a low time-to-kill (TTK) in Valorant, some of the stats that you'd normally put into a weapons guide (TTK and DPS) are less important. Instead, one trait stands front and centre: a gun's potential to kill an enemy with a single shot.

Valorant weapons have three different sets of damage stats based on whether you hit in the head, body, or limb. And the headshot multiplier is huge, so you should always be aiming for the head in Valorant so you can maximise your chances of getting a one-shot-kill.

I've put together the below tables to display which weapons have the ability to kill in one shot. I've taken into account all body parts, distances, and armor levels.

As you can see, the vast majority of weapons can only kill in one shot with a headshot. The exceptions are the two sniper rifles; the Marshal can deal 101 damage with a bodyshot, while the all-powerful Operator deals 150 damage with a bodyshot and 127 with a limb shot.

You may also notice I haven't included the shotguns (or the Shorty sidearm) in the above tables, because it seems a bit silly to do so. They're a different beast altogether with their individual pellets. Suffice it to say that at optimum ranges, each of the shotguns can easily deal over 100 damage with a single blast.

Valorant guns - weapon stats and recoil patterns

Now let's move onto each of the Valorant weapons and their stats and recoil patterns. As time goes on I'll be creating individual pages for each weapon which go into much more detail; you can click on the weapon names in the tables to head to the individual guide if it exists.

Note: the "Dropoffs" column indicates the thresholds at which the damage values change for that weapon. So if the threshold is 30m, then that gun will deal a certain amount of damage from 0-30 metres, and then a smaller amount of damage from 30-50 metres.

Valorant Sidearms

Name	Cost	Mag	RoF (Alt)	Pen	Dropoffs	Head DMG	Body DMG	Limb DMG
Classic	N/A	12	6.75 (2.22)	Low	30m	78 | 66	26 | 22	22 | 18
Shorty	200	2	3.3	Low	9m | 15m	36 | 24 | 9	12 | 8 | 3	10 | 6 | 2
Frenzy	400	13	10	Low	20m	78 | 63	26 | 21	22 | 17
Ghost	500	15	6.75	Med	30m	105 | 88	30 | 25	26 | 21
Sheriff	800	6	4	High	30m	160 | 145	55 | 50	47 | 43
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Valorant SMGs

Name	Cost	Mag	RoF (Alt)	Pen	Dropoffs	Head DMG	Body DMG	Limb DMG
Stinger	1000	20	18 (4)	Low	20m	67 | 62	27 | 25	23 | 21
Spectre	1600	30	13.33 (12)	Med	20m	78 | 66	26 | 22	22 | 18
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Valorant Shotguns

Valorant Rifles

Name	Cost	Mag	RoF (Alt)	Pen	Dropoffs	Head DMG	Body DMG	Limb DMG
Bulldog	2100	24	9.15 (4)	Med	N/A	116	35	30
Guardian	2700	12	6.5 (6.5)	Med	N/A	195	65	49
Phantom	2900	30	11 (9.9)	Med	15m | 30m	156 | 140 | 124	39 | 35 | 31	33 | 30 | 26
Vandal	2900	25	9.25 (8.32)	Med	N/A	156	39	33
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Valorant Snipers

Valorant Heavy Weapons

Name	Cost	Mag	RoF	Pen	Dropoffs	Head DMG	Body DMG	Limb DMG
Ares	1700	50	10 -> 13	High	30m	72 | 67	30 | 28	25 | 23
Odin	3200	100	12 -> 15.6	High	30m	95 | 77	38 | 31	32 | 26
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That's just about it for this Valorant weapons guide - at least for now. But in the meantime, I'll be working hard to put together a whole series of guides to help turn you into a veritable God of Valorant. Click any of the links below to head over to a different Valorant guide!

Valorant guide series