How to Redeem a Valorant Gift Card and Get Your VP

Summary: A Valorant gift card is redeemed inside the game client, not on a website. Open Valorant, click the Valorant icon to the right of the Store tab, choose Prepaid Cards and Codes, type the code without spaces and submit. The Valorant Points land on the Riot account straight away. The one thing that reliably breaks the process is region: a card issued for one market will not redeem on an account registered in another.

• Redemption happens in the client under Prepaid Cards and Codes, not through a browser redeem page.
• Enter the code with no spaces. Spaces are the most common cause of an invalid code message.
• Riot prepaid cards work across Valorant, League of Legends and other Riot titles on the same account.
• Region locking, not expiry, is what stops most codes working. Check the market before buying.

What a Valorant Gift Card Actually Buys

A Valorant gift card converts into Valorant Points, the premium currency used for weapon skins, the Battle Pass, agent unlocks and the rotating store. Riot consolidated its prepaid cards some time ago, so a Riot gift card and a Valorant gift card are typically the same product: value credited to the Riot account, spendable across Riot titles.

Points are credited at the rate set for your region, and larger denominations usually carry bonus points in the same way the in-client bundles do. If you are still deciding on a denomination, the breakdown of Valorant Points prices and packs covers what each tier gets you.

How to Redeem a Valorant Gift Card on PC

• Launch Valorant and sign in to the Riot account that should receive the points.
• Click the Valorant icon to the right of the Store tab in the top navigation.
• Select Prepaid Cards and Codes.
• Type the code from the card, with no spaces anywhere in it.
• Press Submit. The Valorant Points appear on the account immediately.

More than one card can be applied to the same account, so a few smaller denominations combine perfectly well. Riot documents the process and the error messages on its prepaid gift cards support page, which is the authority worth checking if a step here looks different in your client.

Redeeming on Console

Valorant on PlayStation and Xbox handles currency through the platform store rather than Riot's prepaid system. A PC prepaid code does not redeem there, and console points are bought with platform credit instead. If the plan is to play on console, a PlayStation or Xbox gift card is the product that works, not a Riot one.

Region Is What Usually Goes Wrong

Riot issues prepaid cards against specific markets, and the code checks the region of the account it is being entered on. A card bought in the United States will not redeem on an account registered in, say, Brazil, and no amount of support correspondence changes that, because the currencies and the pricing tables behind them are different. This is the same constraint that applies across the category, and how region locking works on gift cards covers the ways it shows up.

The practical rule is to buy the card for the region your Riot account is registered to, not the region you happen to be sitting in. Check that before paying rather than after, since digital codes stop being returnable the moment they are revealed.

When the Code Will Not Go Through

• Invalid code. Almost always spaces, or a zero read as the letter O. Retype it character by character before assuming the card is dead.
• Wrong region. The code is real but does not match the account's market. Nothing can be done at the client end.
• Already redeemed. Single use only, which is the risk with any code bought secondhand.
• Never activated. A physical card only goes live when it is paid for at the till.

Keep the card and the purchase receipt until the points have actually landed, because Riot support asks for proof of purchase before it will look into a failed code. Buying from a source that will not issue a receipt is one of the clearest warning signs in the gift card market.

Where to Buy One That Will Actually Redeem

Riot publishes a list of authorised retailers per region, and buying inside that list is the simplest way to avoid the region and activation problems above. Key marketplaces such as CDKeys also list Valorant Points cards, usually with the issuing region stated on the product page, which is the detail that matters more than the price.

Sellers like GameSeal work the same way, listing regional variants side by side. Whichever you use, the check is identical: match the card's market to the account's market before paying.

Where Your VP Actually Lands

Redemption itself is four clicks inside the client and almost never the hard part. The decisions that determine whether it works at all happen earlier, at purchase: the right region, an activated card, a seller who issues a receipt, and a code nobody else has touched. Get those right and the Prepaid Cards and Codes screen does its job first time.

Points credited to a Riot account do not expire, so there is no reason to sit on a code once you have one. If you want to pay in crypto and redeem against your own region, browse Valorant gift cards.