Valorant Player Count, Rank Distribution, Revenue (2024)

Valorant has roughly 21 million monthly active players in 2022, with rising popularity each passing month.

Find out:

• How many monthly, daily, and peak concurrent players Valorant has
• How many people occupy each in-game rank, and how long is the average playtime for each game mode
• How much does Tencent (owner of Riot Games) earns from games like Valorant

Learn the answers to all of those questions in the article below.

Interesting Valorant Stats

• Close to 21 million people play Valorant monthly, 2 million play it daily, while at least 300,000 people are playing the game concurrently.
• The average playtime of Valorant game modes is between 7 to 40 minutes per mode.
• On September 2, 2022, Valorant registered the highest number of over 6 million concurrent players.
• Up to 21.9% of players have one of the Silver ranks, whereas most players (looking at percentages) have the Gold 1 sub-rank at 7.6%.
• After two Valorant Champions Tours, the game earned a total of $58.72 million, half of which was awarded to competing teams.
• Valorant has already hosted more than 880 tournaments and awarded more than $15 million in prizes.

Valorant player count

The highest count of Valorant concurrent players

How long is an average Valorant game

Valorant rank distribution

What’s the average rank in Valorant

How much money has Valorant made so far

Valorant Player Count

• An average of 20.91 million people play Valorant each month in 2022.

That’s 2.15 million more compared to 2021’s average monthly players.

Here are the average monthly player counts for each year:

• Valorant had precisely 23,315,501 monthly active players (MAU) in January 2023.

According to ActivePlayer, this is the highest number of MAU, right after 23,014,487 monthly Valorant players in December 2022.

Here is exactly how many people play Valorant each month from February 2023 to July 2020:

• In Q2 2022, Valorant had a record-high number of monthly active users (MAU) and grossing quarterly receipts, according to Tencent.

(Tencent)

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Valorant Average Daily Players

• An average of 2.04 million people play Valorant each day in 2022.

That’s around 230,000 more compared to 2021.

Here’s how many average daily active players played Valorant between 2022 and 2020:

• Between 2020 and 2022, the highest number of average daily Valorant players was 2,250,145, registered in October 2022.

The table shows a detailed view of daily Valorant players from February 2023 to July 2020:

Average Valorant Concurrent Players

• Valorant has between 300,000 and 500,000 concurrent players.

(ActivePlayer)

• According to PlayerCounter, Valorant had around 740,000 and 750,000 concurrent players on December 13, 2022.

(PlayerCounter)

The highest number of Valorant concurrent players

• The highest number of concurrent Valorant players was 6,027,617 on September 2nd, 2022.

(Tracker)

Valorant Rank Distribution

• The average Valorant rank is the “Silver” rank (25%) in February 2023.

Due to a new episode in the Valorant season, the ranks have been reset. That’s why you don’t see the data from December and January.

Overall view of the rank distribution by each month:

However, looking at sub-ranks, most players have the Silver 1 rank (10%).

There are 9 ranks in Valorant or a total of 21 sub-ranks plus Radiant.

Compared to the month before, most players (0.7%) gained the Ascendant rank.

Here is a more detailed distribution of ranks in Valorant:

How many players per rank

• Up to 5,537,431 Valorant players have the Silver rank, considering there were roughly 22,149,726 active monthly players in February 2023.

Only 6,645 players currently hold the highest rank of Radiant.

The number of players was calculated from the number of monthly active players in February 2023 from the table above.

Here are the estimated number of players based on rank:

What’s the average rank in Valorant?

• Approximately 25% of Valorant players are in the Silver rank, with most owning a Silver 1 rank.

As seen above, 5,537,431 players have a Silver rank, while 2,214,972 have a Silver 1 rank.

The table shows the Valorant player count for the individual Silver sub rank:

It also means that if you have the Silver 1 rank, you’re in the top 65.6% of players.

(eSports Tales)

How Long Is an Average Valorant Game?

• The average duration of a Valorant match is between 30 to 40 minutes.

However, the length varies depending on the game mode. Here are the average playtimes based on a mode:

Possibly the longest single match in Valorant was a VCT (Valorant Champions Tour) battle in 2021 between teams TSM and GenG, lasting around 1 hour and 40 minutes.

(Global Gaming)

How Much Money has Valorant Made So Far?

• Officially, Valorant earned around $58.72 million from VCT Champions Bundles.

However, at least $29.36 million was paid to teams participating in the VCT 2021 and 2022.

Otherwise, Riot Games doesn’t disclose exact revenues from Valorant’s microtransaction system.

(Upcomer, Dot Esports)

Valorant revenue

• Tencent revenue from international games (Valorant included) was $1.68 billion in Q3 2022.

Tencent doesn’t individually state the revenues for each of its games but instead puts them in domestic and international games categories.

Here’s the revenue Tencent made from international games from Q3 2022 to Q3 2020 (when Tencent also included Valorant’s earnings):

Other Interesting Valorant Facts

• From the Valorant’s launch in 2020, the game has already hosted 885 tournaments and awarded $15,605,475 in prize money to teams.

Valorant Champions of 2021 and 2022 had $1 million prize pools, with other tournaments having lower pools.

(Esports Earnings)

• Last year, people watched more than 1.16 billion hours of Valorant content.

Here are all the impressive stats of Valorant viewership in the last 365 days:

• 1,160,467,079 hours spent watching Valorant (221,317,514 more than last years)
• 43,179,077 hours spent broadcasting Valorant (6,503,652 more than last year)
• The average number of Valorant content viewers is 132,473 (25,265 more than last year)
• There’s an average of 4,929 Valorant channels on the internet (743 more than last year)
• 1,197,406 was the highest number of concurrent Valorant viewers (149,741 more than last year)
• There are up to 1,819,012 Valorant broadcasters (498,856 more than last year)

(SullyGnome)

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Conclusion

This was all the data on the latest Valorant statistics that we could find.

This free-to-play game is still young, and with the help of Riot Games (which also owns League of Legends, a massive RPG title with a broad gaming community), it can become one of the most popular FPS games in the world.

Have you tried Valorant? Are you playing Valorant frequently? What rank are you currently holding, and how long did it take to get it?

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