VALORANT Patch 10.08 introduces a long-awaited function together with some vital agent tweaks and bug fixes as we dive into Season 25 Act Three.
The brand new gifting system has lastly dropped, so now you can ship choose objects to your duos or pals. On the balancing updates, Yoru, Astra, and Brimstone are getting a lot wanted changes to maintain a stage enjoying area.
Right here’s a full breakdown of the VALORANT Patch 10.08 notes.
New options in VALORANT Patch 10.08
Gifting system
Patch 10.08 lastly brings a function gamers have lengthy been asking—gifting. Beginning with the primary bundle of V25 Act Three, now you can ship choose Featured Retailer bundles and objects straight to your folks, so long as you meet a number of necessities. Your good friend will get a immediate to just accept or decline the reward the subsequent time they log in.
For now, gifting is restricted to objects from the Featured Retailer, however Riot has confirmed they plan to increase the system in future updates.
Ranked Gun Buddy
Now you can begin grinding for a ranked gun buddy in Act Three. The one you earn will replicate the best rank you hit throughout all three acts of Season 2025. These unique buddies might be handed out when Patch 11.00 drops in the beginning of Act 4.
Agent adjustments in VALORANT Patch 10.08: Yoru, Astra, and Brimstone
Yoru’s Dimensional Drift final has been giving gamers a tricky time, and Riot’s lastly stepping in with some heavy nerfs. The power’s length is getting lower down from 12 to 10 seconds, and the purpose price goes up from seven to eight. These adjustments ought to make it more durable for Yoru to assemble intel and roam with out consequence utilizing his final.
Astra can be getting toned down. Her Nova Pulse concuss length is being decreased from 4 to three.5 seconds, bringing it extra according to the stun results of different brokers and serving to to curb her capability energy creep. Lastly, Brimstone’s Incendiary has obtained an audio tweak—it’s now simpler to listen to, particularly when it’s tucked inside smokes, so that you’ll have a greater shot at avoiding or countering it.
VALORANT Patch 10.08 bug fixes
Brokers
- Waylay
- Fastened a bug the place reactivating Refract instantly after casting Convergent Paths would forestall the reactivate from working.
- Harbor
- Fastened a bug the place Harbor’s water bracelet would typically bleed by means of skinny partitions just like the doorways on Ascent.
- Impasse
- Fastened a problem the place Impasse’s Barrier Mesh was not enjoying hit audio when capturing the middle node.
- Fastened a problem the place Impasse’s Barrier Mesh could possibly be used to spice up gamers.
- Vyse
- Fastened a problem the place the cooldown on Vyse’s Arc Rose was not correctly set after it was destroyed.
- Fastened a problem the place Vyse’s activated Shear wall didn’t show the warning fade out visible cue.
- Fastened a problem the place Vyse’s Shear wall blocked bullets after the visible wall despawned.
- Fastened a problem the place Vyse’s Metal Backyard warning indicator didn’t correctly match the debuff space.
- Yoru
- Reverted a bugfix that brought about Yoru’s clone to barely mismatch regular participant motion when operating into partitions.
- Skye
- Fastened a problem the place Skye’s Trailblazer leap didn’t get slowed by Waylay’s Saturate debuff.
- Gekko
- Fastened a problem the place Gekko’s Thrash leap didn’t get slowed by Waylay’s Saturate debuff.
- Tejo
- Fastened a problem the place gamers might increase on Tejo’s Stealth Drone.
- Fastened a problem the place Stealth Drone couldn’t be tagged by Cypher’s digicam.
- Fastened a problem the place Armageddon VFX might stay after getting used.
- Fastened a problem the place there was no hazard indicator for gamers operating by means of Armeggadon from the again facet.
- Reyna
- Fastened a problem the place Reyna’s Devour Overheal wouldn’t be interrupted when taking injury that was lower than her present Overheal quantity.
- Iso
- Up to date Iso’s Double Faucet tooltip to say the reload pace buff.
PC-only repair
- Lowered the scale of the hover textual content for Rank Shields within the Abstract display screen.
Console-only fixes
- Fastened a problem the place lengthy participant names would overlap sure components within the Timeline display screen.
- Fastened a problem the place textual content explaining rank necessities for the present season was not proven on the Act Rank display screen.
- Up to date the Act Rank display screen textual content to confer with Seasons.
VALORANT Patch 10.08 Premier updates (PC)
- Matches begin on Might 7.
- Up to date Premier Restrictions. As a substitute of a flat 30 day ineligibility, gamers who interact in disruptive habits are actually ineligible for Premier for a time frame primarily based on the severity of the misconduct and the size of the energetic intervention.
