Valorant’s Night Market returned for the first time in 2022 on February 9, offering players some of the game’s best deals and discounts on select skins for a limited time. The current Night Market is expected to end on February 21. Coinciding with Valorant’s in-game Lunar New Year celebration, the Night Market is a pop-up shop that offers each player a unique, randomized selection of six different gun skins, like those from previous Valorant battle passes, at a discounted price. The Night Market gives players the chance to obtain some of Valorant’s most sought-after weapon skins for a fraction of their original price.
Valorant’s Night Market’s system is inspired by another Riot Games game, League of Legends. The Your Shop store in League of Legends offers players champion skins at a discounted price. Like Valorant, there are six skins available and the selection of skins is unique to each player. However, unlike Valorant, League of Legends’ Your Shop is not entirely randomized but instead based on the player’s match history for the past six months, prioritizing skins for the player’s most-played champions. A player’s Valorant Night Market is believed to be entirely randomized.
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Like the Night Market’s skins, the discount off of the original price of the weapon skin is randomized. Valorant developer Riot Games hasn’t confirmed the maximum available discount, but several screenshots and videos online show top discounts offering 40-50% off the original price of the skin, with discounts around 40% being relatively common. Some Valorant players on Reddit claim to have seen skins discounted by 70% in their Night Market, but there don’t appear to be any
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