Can't Buy It.
Just Chosen.
The Project about Riot Gun Buddies in Valorant
No grind. No store. No unlock. A Riot developer drops into your match and decides. 550+ players found so far.
3 years.
One square at a time.
Every square is one week of research in live Valorant lobbies, finding owners and asking the same two questions. The brighter the square, the more owners found that week.
Three years of asking
turned up this.
Players met with an RGB in a live match. Not scraped off a forum thread, not counted twice. 440+ of them agreed to share their full story.
Years of looking. Mostly evenings, in live lobbies, opening the same conversation over and over.
Distinct ways people got one. More than the community assumed, and a few still have no explanation.
The agents owners actually main. A small thing, but the kind of pattern you only see with enough of them in one table.
It started because
somebody was wrong.
In 2023, Keeoh posted a video saying there was nothing left to make content about in Valorant. I did not agree. The Riot Gun Buddy had zero real coverage online, just community guesses and Reddit myths stacked on top of each other for years.
I had the access and the persistence, so I went and got the actual answers. What came back was that the community had some things right and a lot wrong. Connections matter more than anyone admitted. Sportsmanship is real and measurable. And a handful of patterns in the data still have no explanation at all.
Nobody had ever done this before. Three years. 550+ conversations. One person at a time.
Two videos.
One dataset.
Every myth about the Riot Gun Buddy, answered on camera, twice. I am putting together my own video, and MrLowlander is covering the research separately on his own channel. Neither is live yet, follow whichever one you do not want to miss.
Research conducted transparently. Riot was notified before publishing.
Two paths. Pick yours.
Add your story to the biggest RGB database.
Got a Riot Gun Buddy? I want to know how it happened. Every conversation gets this closer to the full picture.
Add your storyYears of research. All in one page.
Every myth about the Riot Gun Buddy, answered with real data from real owners.
Read the researchTop questions
that everyone asks.
How did you know exactly what skins I had?
That part stays private. Riot asked me directly not to popularize it, and for good reason: 99% of random tricks floating around comments are straight-up spyware designed to steal your Riot login tokens and lock your PC out of Valorant forever. Deleting those messages is protection, not gatekeeping.
Why does this research even exist?
The item had no real coverage anywhere, and I had the access and the stubbornness to go find out. That is genuinely the whole reason.
So what did you actually find out?
The community had some things right and a lot wrong. Every real answer is going into the video once it is out, that is where the full breakdown lives.