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
Valorant SMGs
Valorant Shotguns
Valorant Rifles
Valorant Snipers
Valorant Heavy Weapons
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
