On May 1, 2025, Riot Games officially launched the Valorant Season V25 Act 3 update, introducing the highly anticipated ‘gifting’ feature to the popular tactical shooter.
The gifting feature in Valorant enables players to gift any featured skin or bundle from the in-game store to their friends, a feature that was requested by the community since the game’s release. However, there are certain restrictions involved.
Now that the gifting feature is finally live, players are eager to learn how to gift skins in Valorant and send some skins to their duos.
In this guide, we’ll walk you through the steps you need to follow to gift skins to your friends in Valorant.
How To Gift Skins in Valorant?
Whether you’re looking to give the Divergence bundle to the friend who carried you to Diamond or the new Duo’s Day collection to the one who’s obsessed with collecting Player Cards, you’ll first need to know how to gift skins in Valorant.
Below, we’ve listed the detailed steps that you need to follow to be able to gift skins to your friends in Valorant:
- Launch Valorant.
- From the main menu, click on the store icon.
- Select the bundle that you wish to gift in Valorant.
- Under the price tag of the skin or the bundle that you’ve selected, you’ll be able to see a ‘Gift’ button. Click on it.
- Select the recipient for the gift.
- Confirm the skin or bundle that you are gifting, and hit ‘Next.’
- You can then check the price summary for the purchase or proceed directly to gifting.
Now all you need to do is complete the final checkout process, and you should’ve successfully sent the gift to your friend.
The gift recipient will have up to sixty days to accept the gift. If they fail to accept the gift or if they reject the gift, your Valorant Points (VP) will be sent back to you.
Valorant Gifting Restrictions
Before you go ahead and start sending gifts to your friends in Valorant, you should be aware of certain restrictions that are involved with the gifting process.
Take a look at all the Valorant gifting restrictions below:
- Currently, you can only send gifts from the ‘Featured’ section in the store.
- Neither the gift sender nor the recipient should be banned from Valorant.
- The sender and recipient need to be friends for at least seven days.
- The gift sender should be at least Account Level 15.
- You can only send gifts to other players within the same region as you (some regional restrictions may apply).
- You can only send up to five gifts per day.
- The gift recipient will have to accept the gift within sixty days.
This concludes everything you need to know about how to gift skins in Valorant.