VALORANT Patch 13.05
Released 1 September 2026 during ACT V. Pick’Ems for Champs soon, penalties for stream sniping and instalock tools, and future changes to the Agent Gear system.
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
TLDR; Pick’ Ems for Champs, penalties for stream sniping and instalock tools, and future changes to the Agent Gear system so make sure to grind it out and get all the items now!
Heyo, it’s Ash and we’ve got a small-ish patch for you with mostly bug fixes. We’re prepping for a pretty beefy next patch in 13.06 so more to come!
COSMETICS UPDATES
- Sound Sprays
ESPORTS FEATURES
- Pick’Ems have returned for Champions Shanghai ! Starting on September 10, you will have access to the Group Stage in-client and on the web. Predict the advancing teams for points, earning extra points for correctly guessing the exact placement. You’ll also earn rewards just for participating. Get your picks in before Groups kickoff on September 24th!
PLAYER BEHAVIOR UPDATES
- We've started rolling out penalties if we detect usage of stream sniping and instalock tools. Players found using these tools will be subject to temporary game bans that will escalate to permanent with repeated usage.
PROGRESSION UPDATES
- Agent Gear
BUG FIXES
- Agent
- Fixed an issue where the Combat Report incorrectly displayed "Enemies Blinded" for certain abilities that don't apply Blind.
- Fixed an issue where smokes would block flashes after dissipating.
- Chamber
- Cypher
- Fixed an issue where Cypher's Cyber Cage could incorrectly block flashes, detection, and other line-of-sight-dependent abilities.
- Deadlock
- Fade
- KAY/O
- Omen
- Sage
- Waylay
- Fixed an issue where Waylay's Refract could cause snapshots of dynamic map objects to remain visible after the ability ended.
- Fixed an issue where Waylay's Saturate could apply Hinder to Agents while they were intangible.
GENERAL UPDATES
- Default Bot Count in Range Practice Mode
- The default number of bots spawned is now 5.
- You can adjust this number in the Range settings.
- Fixed an issue where the close button was not functional after purchasing VALORANT Points.