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VALORANT Patch 10.08

Released 29 April 2025 during ACT II. Agent updates, Gifting, and throwback VALORANT music.

Structured from Riot's official patch notes. The bullets below are the announced changes; anything VALDB detected in the game files beyond them lives on the detected changes feed and is never mixed into this page.

Overview

Hey, everyone. It’s Kenny here, wishing you a warm welcome to Act III of Season 2025 and Patch 10.08.

This patch brings some Agent balance updates for Brim, Astra, and Yoru, plus the long-awaited Gifting functionality to the Featured Store, and a slew of bug fixes.

CLIENT UPDATES

  • In celebration of VALORANT's fifth anniversary, we are bringing some of the Episode 1 music back in patches 10.08 and 10.09. This includes music for the menus, character select, and Victory/Defeat.

GENERAL UPDATES

  • Gifting Now Available
  • How to Gift:
  • Open the details page for the Featured bundle or item
  • Click the Gift button in the bottom-right corner
  • Select your recipient (restrictions apply)
  • Choose to gift the full bundle or individual items
  • Send your gift!
  • Your recipient will be prompted to accept or decline the gift the next time they log in to VALORANT.
  • Gifting is currently limited to Featured Store items, with expanded support planned for future updates.
  • For full details and gifting requirements, visit our Player Support site .
  • Ranked Gun Buddy Coming Soon!
  • After Act III ends, you'll receive a ranked gun buddy based on the highest rank you achieved throughout the first three acts of Season 2025.

MAP UPDATES

  • New Map Rotation
  • FRACTURE is OUT of the COMPETITIVE and DEATHMATCH queues.

AGENT UPDATES

  • Brimstone
  • Astra
  • Yoru
  • Dimensional Drift point cost 7 >>> 8

BUG FIXES

  • Agents
  • Harbor
  • Deadlock
  • Fixed an issue where Deadlock's Barrier Mesh could be used to boost players.
  • Vyse
  • Fixed an issue where Vyse's activated Shear wall didn't display the warning fade out visual cue.
  • Fixed an issue where Vyse's Shear wall blocked bullets after the visual wall despawned.
  • Fixed an issue where Vyse's Steel Garden warning indicator did not properly match the debuff area.
  • Yoru
  • Skye
  • Gekko
  • Tejo
  • Fixed an issue where Stealth Drone could not be tagged by Cypher's camera.
  • Fixed an issue where Armageddon VFX may remain after being used.
  • Fixed an issue where there was no danger indicator for players running through Armeggadon from the back side.
  • Reyna
  • Iso

KNOWN ISSUES

  • Cosmetics
  • We'll be deploying a fix with the correct item names with Patch 10.09 in a couple of weeks.

PREMIER UPDATES

  • Welcome to Stage V25A3! Matches start on May 7.
  • We've updated our Premier Restrictions. Instead of a flat 30 day ineligibility, players who engage in disruptive behavior are now ineligible for Premier for a period of time based on the severity of the misconduct and the length of the active intervention.

BUG FIXES

  • Lowered the size of the hover text for Rank Shields in the Summary screen.

BUG FIXES

  • Fixed an issue where long player names would overlap certain elements in the Timeline screen.
  • Fixed an issue where text explaining rank requirements for the current season was not shown on the Act Rank screen.
  • Updated the Act Rank screen text to refer to Seasons.

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