The Most Popular Skin for Every Weapon

Since February 2026, a growing number of volunteers have been running valorant-watcher, an open-source background process that collects the kinds of data the official VALORANT API normally doesn't expose, weapon skins among them. It's a minimum-weight process, roughly 20MB of RAM, installed in three clicks, and it simply runs quietly in the background afterwards. It doesn't touch any other tracker's rate limits or interfere with anything else on your machine.

Anyone can run it, and in return get much more detailed stats on the tracker: a full inventory breakdown, average agent select time, far looser rate limits on the website, early access to new features, visibility into penalties and level progression, and more being added over time.

Feeding off that pool of volunteers, valorant-watcher now has a database of which skin each player has equipped, per weapon. Aggregated across 13,151 tracked inventories, that turns into a straight popularity ranking: for every weapon in the game, which skin (including the stock, unskinned default) players actually run the most. Snapshot below is from July 7, 2026.

Explore the Rankings

Weapon

Vandal

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Vandal		17.9%
2	Gaia's Vengeance Vandal		8.6%
3	Kuronami Vandal		5.7%
4	Prelude to Chaos Vandal		5.4%
5	Prime Vandal		5.2%
6	Rogue Vandal		5.1%
7	Reaver Vandal		4.3%
8	Primordium Vandal		4.2%
9	Forsaken Vandal		2.5%
10	RGX 11z Pro Vandal		2.3%

Full rankings for every weapon

Classic

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Classic		29.3%
2	Interhelm Classic		6.5%
3	Prime Classic		5.7%
4	Spectrum Classic		4.6%
5	Bubble Pop Classic		3.8%
6	Blackthorn Classic		2.4%
7	Superset Classic		2.2%
8	ATLAS // CMD Classic		2.1%
9	Nocturnum Classic		1.9%
10	RGX 11z Pro Classic		1.9%

Shorty

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Shorty		34.2%
2	Dragon Gate Shorty		7.5%
3	Snakebite Shorty		6.8%
4	Perch Shorty		4.5%
5	Heartseeker Shorty		4.0%
6	Doom Wing Shorty		3.4%
7	Karabasan Shorty		3.3%
8	Prelude to Chaos Shorty		3.0%
9	Oni Shorty		2.9%
10	Sidekick Shorty		2.7%

Frenzy

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Frenzy		28.6%
2	Montage Frenzy		13.3%
3	Insidious Frenzy		8.7%
4	Oni Frenzy		3.3%
5	Paceline Frenzy		2.8%
6	Spellbound Frenzy		2.7%
7	Haloform Frenzy		2.7%
8	Live Wire Frenzy		2.6%
9	Glitchpop Frenzy		2.5%
10	Spitfire Frenzy		2.3%

Ghost

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Ghost		23.1%
2	Sovereign Ghost		8.1%
3	Kuronami Ghost		6.4%
4	Gaia's Vengeance Ghost		5.5%
5	Reaver Ghost		5.0%
6	Heartstopper Ghost		5.0%
7	Phaseguard Ghost		4.0%
8	XERØFANG Ghost		3.9%
9	Evori Dreamwings Ghost		3.7%
10	Ayakashi Ghost		3.6%

Bandit

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Bandit		55.4%
2	Soulburst Bandit		23.6%
3	Crash Out Bandit		8.9%
4	Reaver Bandit		6.6%
5	Rogue Bandit		5.3%
6	SilkLeaf Bandit		0.2%

Sheriff

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Sheriff		18.9%
2	Singularity Sheriff		9.3%
3	Keys to Elysium Sheriff		9.2%
4	Neo Frontier Sheriff		7.7%
5	Reaver Sheriff		5.8%
6	Mystbloom Sheriff		5.4%
7	Ion Sheriff		5.3%
8	Kuronami Sheriff		5.2%
9	Solarex Sheriff		2.6%
10	Protocol 781-A Sheriff		2.0%

Stinger

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Stinger		35.6%
2	Crash Out Stinger		7.5%
3	Heartseeker Stinger		4.9%
4	Paceline Stinger		4.6%
5	Refractrix Stinger		4.0%
6	Prelude to Chaos Stinger		3.8%
7	Celestia Stinger		3.8%
8	Sovereign Stinger		2.8%
9	Shimmer Stinger		2.5%
10	Cloudweaver Stinger		2.3%

Spectre

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Spectre		31.7%
2	Kuronami Spectre		5.8%
3	Crash Out Spectre		4.7%
4	Reaver Spectre		4.1%
5	Prime Spectre		3.8%
6	Evori Dreamwings Spectre		3.8%
7	Soulburst Spectre		2.9%
8	Montage Spectre		2.7%
9	Singularity Spectre		2.1%
10	Recon Spectre		2.0%

Bucky

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Bucky		40.5%
2	Crash Out Bucky		5.7%
3	Belaflaire Bucky		4.1%
4	Stormborne Bucky		4.0%
5	Spellbound Bucky		3.4%
6	Rogue Bucky		2.5%
7	Moon Scout Bucky		2.4%
8	Prime//2.0 Bucky		2.4%
9	Bulletbox Bucky		2.4%
10	Iridian Thorn Bucky		2.4%

Judge

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Judge		39.9%
2	Dragon Gate Judge		6.8%
3	Byteshift Judge		5.6%
4	Interhelm Judge		4.0%
5	Mystbloom Judge		3.5%
6	Bubble Pop Judge		2.6%
7	Glitchpop Judge		2.1%
8	Shimmer Judge		1.9%
9	Tacti-Treat Judge		1.9%
10	Elderflame Judge		1.8%

Bulldog

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Bulldog		38.3%
2	Soulburst Bulldog		5.2%
3	Oni Bulldog		4.0%
4	Heartbreaker Bulldog		3.8%
5	Nocturnum Bulldog		3.8%
6	Perch Bulldog		3.5%
7	Araxys Bulldog		3.0%
8	Phaseguard Bulldog		2.2%
9	Protocol 781-A Bulldog		2.1%
10	Shimmer Bulldog		1.9%

Guardian

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Guardian		32.9%
2	Kuronami Guardian		5.4%
3	Sovereign Guardian		5.3%
4	Reaver Guardian		5.1%
5	Prime Guardian		3.3%
6	Gaia's Vengeance Guardian		2.9%
7	Blackthorn Guardian		2.8%
8	Paceline Guardian		2.5%
9	Heartseeker Guardian		2.0%
10	Refractrix Guardian		2.0%

Phantom

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Phantom		23.2%
2	Recon Phantom		11.8%
3	Oni Phantom		4.5%
4	Kuronami Phantom		4.1%
5	Primordium Phantom		3.9%
6	Ayakashi Phantom		3.7%
7	Reaver Phantom		3.2%
8	Mystbloom Phantom		3.1%
9	Nocturnum Phantom		2.9%
10	Prime//2.0 Phantom		2.1%

Vandal

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Vandal		17.9%
2	Gaia's Vengeance Vandal		8.6%
3	Kuronami Vandal		5.7%
4	Prelude to Chaos Vandal		5.4%
5	Prime Vandal		5.2%
6	Rogue Vandal		5.1%
7	Reaver Vandal		4.3%
8	Primordium Vandal		4.2%
9	Forsaken Vandal		2.5%
10	RGX 11z Pro Vandal		2.3%

Marshal

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Marshal		34.4%
2	Insidious Marshal		8.5%
3	Sovereign Marshal		6.9%
4	Kuronami Marshal		6.2%
5	Neo Frontier Marshal		5.9%
6	Blackthorn Marshal		3.0%
7	Doom Wing Marshal		3.0%
8	Gaia's Vengeance Marshal		3.0%
9	Perch Marshal		2.7%
10	Interhelm Marshal		2.5%

Outlaw

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Outlaw		46.4%
2	Keys to Elysium Outlaw		9.5%
3	Byteshift Outlaw		5.5%
4	Soulburst Outlaw		5.0%
5	Mystbloom Outlaw		3.9%
6	RGX 11z Pro Outlaw		3.9%
7	Heartseeker Outlaw		3.9%
8	EX.O Outlaw		3.2%
9	Cloudweaver Outlaw		3.0%
10	Overlay Outlaw		2.7%

Operator

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Operator		37.3%
2	Reaver Operator		8.6%
3	Forsaken Operator		5.8%
4	Kuronami Operator		4.8%
5	Ion Operator		3.4%
6	Mystbloom Operator		2.9%
7	Heartbreaker Operator		2.2%
8	Araxys Operator		2.1%
9	Elderflame Operator		2.0%
10	Origin Operator		1.9%

Ares

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Ares		38.9%
2	Keys to Elysium Ares		11.1%
3	Dragon Gate Ares		4.0%
4	Oni Ares		3.6%
5	Montage Ares		3.3%
6	Mystbloom Ares		3.3%
7	Hieroscape Ares		2.9%
8	Yoonseul Ares		2.8%
9	Bumble Brigade Ares		2.7%
10	Haloform Ares		2.7%

Odin

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Standard Odin		40.9%
2	Insidious Odin		8.0%
3	Reaver Odin		5.4%
4	Heartbreaker Odin		5.1%
5	Doom Wing Odin		4.2%
6	Evori Dreamwings Odin		4.0%
7	Solarex Odin		3.8%
8	Comet Odin		3.0%
9	Neo Frontier Odin		2.8%
10	Prime//2.0 Odin		2.1%

Melee

#	Name	Skin	Share %
1	Melee		22.9%
2	Kuronami Naru-Kami		4.5%
3	Xenohunter Knife		4.4%
4	Reaver Karambit		4.2%
5	Kuronami no Yaiba		3.5%
6	Prime//2.0 Karambit		2.9%
7	XERØFANG Knife		2.7%
8	Keys to Elysium		2.4%
9	VCT 2026 Sigil		2.0%
10	RGX 11z Pro Karambit		1.9%

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