Valorant skins that hold account value: tier list from the live market

Valorant skin tier lists usually rank looks. Looks are free to disagree about; availability isn't — a skin either has a return path or it doesn't, and that's what an account's resale value hangs on. This list ranks the known lines by how closed their door is, with live market numbers from 1,204 Valorant listings on our shelf, snapshot August 28, 2026.

The same reading rule as our Fortnite list applies: median account is the middle price of accounts carrying the item — company kept, not item price. From is the cheapest live listing carrying it. Tables hold items with ten or more live listings; thinner rows are quoted in the text with their counts.

S — Champions: sold once, tied to one event, never restocked

Each Champions bundle exists for a few weeks around its year's event and is never sold again. It's the closest thing Valorant has to a sealed print run.

Live supply on our shelf is thin — which is the point. Champions 2021 Vandal (7 live listings, entry from $253) and the 2021 Karambit (6, from $253) are the deepest cuts; Champions 2024 Phantom is the most represented at 13 listings, entry from $209, with the 2024 Blade at 7 from $209 and the 2025 Butterfly Knife at 11 from $108. The older the year, the fewer the listings — 2021 rows are half the size of 2024's, and no restock will ever refill them.

A — collab lines with a dead partner: Arcane

Arcane skins shipped around the Netflix series drops; the show has ended, and the RiotX crossover window closed with it. Reissue would need a new deal, not a shop rotation.

Arcane Sheriff trails at 6 live listings, entry from $440 — the thinnest supply in the line. Arcane pieces were also earnable, which cuts both ways: more accounts carry one, but the full matching set is rare.

B — retired premium lines: gone from the shop, return not impossible

Elderflame, Magepunk, Prime and the other premium collections rotate out and can return through the night market or a rerun — Riot has never promised scarcity here. They hold value while absent; a return compresses it.

The B-tier medians look enormous next to the entry prices, and that gap is the tell: these skins mostly live inside stacked collection accounts, so the account median reflects the whole locker around them. If the skin is all you want, the entry column is your number — and the night market might undercut even that. Buy B-tier for the collection, not as a store of value.

What we deliberately don't rank

Battle pass melees, event sprays, and anything under ten live listings without a known line history. A tier list is a set of claims; below ten data points we'd be ranking noise. As stock changes, rows move between tiers — the snapshot date at the top is part of every number.

The live Valorant shelf is where these numbers come from, recomputed continuously; if you're hunting one specific skin, named listings let you pin it instead of gambling on a locker description.