Act 5 · Patch 13.05

How many shots, at this range, through that armour

Every competitor prints a damage table and leaves you the arithmetic. Set the situation and read one number per gun.

19 weapons · 37 published damage bands · armour rule from Riot’s own gear description. Nothing here is estimated.

Your situation

Range · 18 mTheir armourWhere you hit

Credits (0 = all)

19 weapons · body at 18 m vs heavy armour

Weapon	Price	Shots	Damage	Time	Fire · mag	When to buy it
ClassicSidearm	free	6	26	0.74s	Semi · 12	Always in the slot — the pistol round floor and the save-round answer.
ShortySidearm	300	4	45	1.00s	Semi · 2	A corner and nothing else. Punishes one push, then it is dead weight.
FrenzySidearm	450	6	26	0.50s	Auto · 15	Close eco duels where you can hold the trigger and walk forward.
GhostSidearm	500	5	30	0.59s	Semi · 13	The eco pick that still rewards a head click at range.
BanditSidearm	600	4	39	0.59s	Semi · 8	A cheaper Sheriff trade: fewer shots, easier to land.
SheriffSidearm	800	3	55	0.50s	Semi · 6	Pistol-round win condition and the force-buy that steals a rifle.
BuckyShotgun	850	2	135	0.91s	Semi · 5	One choke, one angle. Buy it to deny a site, never to take one.
MarshalSniper Rifle	950	2	101	0.67s	Semi · 5	The cheap long angle — one body shot does not kill, so plan the second.
StingerSMG	1,100	7	23	0.38s	Auto · 20	Half-buy aggression. Burst at close range, useless past a lane.
AresMachine Gun	1,600	5	30	0.31s	Auto · 50	A wall of bullets for a choke you cannot see through.
SpectreSMG	1,600	7	22	0.45s	Auto · 30	The best half-buy in the game: full-auto, controllable, cheap.
JudgeShotgun	1,850	2	84	0.29s	Auto · 5	A full-buy shotgun: it holds a close angle better than any rifle.
BulldogRifle	2,050	5	35	0.40s	Auto · 24	Force-buy rifle. Burst mode is the reason to take it over a Spectre.
GuardianRifle	2,250	3	65	0.38s	Semi · 12	One tap or nothing — a rifle for a player who wins first shots.
OutlawSniper Rifle	2,400	2	140	0.36s	Semi · 2
PhantomRifle	2,900	4	39	0.27s	Auto · 30	The forgiving rifle: bigger magazine, softer recoil, quieter fire.
VandalRifle	2,900	4	40	0.31s	Auto · 25	One head shot at any range, and it never falls off.
OdinMachine Gun	3,200	4	38	0.25s	Auto · 100	Post-plant and choke denial. Never an entry gun.
OperatorSniper Rifle	4,700	1	150	—	Semi · 5	One angle, one shot, and a plan for after it is taken.

Patch 13.05 · Act 5

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valorant-api.com 29 agents · 116 abilities · 20 weapons · 13 maps
Riot patch 13.05 published 1 Sept 2026, checked 3 Sept 2026
Round economy two independent guides, both dated
Editorial ability jobs, buy reading and drill pairings — ours
Shots to kill computed from Riot's damage bands and Riot's own armour rule — absorbs 66%, breaks after 25 or 50
Not published per-stance accuracy (stand · walk · run · hip-fire · ADS) — no Riot source publishes it, so there is no such column

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Game data and media via IGDB · igdb.com