All Valorant Gun Buddies: How to get them & what they look like

July 2024 · 5 minute read

In Valorant, skins aren’t the only way of customizing your weapons. Gun buddies are a great way of adding your own personal twist to your favorite guns, and are comparatively cheaper to get hold of. Here’s a list of every gun buddy in Valorant.

Because Valorant hasn’t been around as long as other shooters like CSGO, you’d expect there to be a limited choice in the number of cosmetic changes you can make to your weapons. However, buddies open up new ways of personalizing a weapon to make it unique to you and reflect your in-game achievements.

The best part of buddies is that you can apply them to any gun in your arsenal. Adding a buddy to a shiny new skin is the cherry on top of the cake.

Gun buddies are also a cheaper way of customizing your weapons, with every buddy being obtainable for free! So, let’s jump right into our list of every Valorant gun buddy!

To help you navigate our extensive list, though, we’ve dropped this little jump-to section in below to make life a little easier.

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How can I get & equip gun buddies?

Like skins, gun buddies are available by either progressing through the battlepass, buying them as part of skin bundles, or completing Agent contracts. Each Agent has unique buddies within their contract which derive from an aspect of their personality.

To add buddies to your guns, all you need to do is this:

  • Open up the in-game collection tab.
  • Select the weapon you want to customize.
  • Click the “Buddies” tab.
  • Choose from a variety of gun buddies and add them to your weapon of choice!

    • The gun buddy will be assigned to that weapon no matter who you play. Equally, if you’re torn between which gun to put your buddy on, most buddies come in a pack of two, meaning you can stick them on multiple weapons!

    The Dallah Buddy is one of the game’s most iconic.

    Agent contract gun buddies

    Each Agent contract buddy is available as a Tier 6 reward on the relevant agent’s contract. Each buddy is styled to be relevant to their Agent’s theme and backstory. And, the best part is that they’re available for free!

    Activating the contracts for these Agents will allow you to progress towards picking up each of these buddies. It’s a bit of a grind, though, so we suggest picking one contract and sticking to it.

    Agent contracts buddies

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    Battlepass gun buddies

    Each of these gun buddies can be unlocked by progressing through the different stages of the battlepass. Here are all the gun buddies, as well as the levels you need to achieve to unlock them. Buddies accessible for free are in bold, with the tier that you get them at in brackets.

    Episode I Act I

    Act 1 battlepass buddies

    Episode I Act II

    Episode I Act III

    Act 3 battlepass buddies

    Episode II Act I

    Episode 2 act 1 Battlepass buddies

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    Skin bundle gun buddies

    The other way you can pick up buddies is through buying skin bundles in store. Each of these buddies is included (for free) if you splash out on a skin collection, but they can also be purchased separately if you’re on a budget.

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    valorant bundle buddies

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    Episode 1 Ranked Reward Buddies

    At the end of Episode 1, ranked players received buddies to match their end-of-season placement.

    A token to remember the first Episode of VALORANT.

    Keep climbing before your Act Rank locks on January 11 and upgrade your EP1 Gun Buddy, coming in early 2021. pic.twitter.com/JNFDAqUuXx

    — VALORANT (@PlayVALORANT) December 14, 2020

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    Special buddies

    These buddies can be obtained in unique ways to the others mentioned.

    SPECIAL BUDDIES VALORANT 2

    So there you have it! That’s very one of the 85 gun buddies available in Valorant. We’ll be sure to update this list as new gun buddies are released. In the meantime, make sure to follow @ValorantUpdates on Twitter for all the news from Future Earth.

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