VALORANT Aeris bundle: transforming melee, skins and price

Riot Games will add the Aeris skin bundle to VALORANT on August 19, when the in-game store refreshes. The card-themed set is priced at 9,500 Valorant Points and will replace the Phoenix Prime bundle.

Aeris includes four weapon skins for the Vandal, Bandit, Guardian and Marshal. Each weapon has unique equip, reload and inspect animations that feature animated cards and flowing energy. The set offers four color variants: white, red, purple and blue. The bundle also contains a player card and a gun buddy, and includes a Flex cosmetic item.

The headline item is the Suit of Aeris melee weapon, which changes form as players attack. The first strike uses a dagger, the second strike becomes a sword and the final strike becomes a greatsword. The alternate melee attack uses the greatsword form and the weapon has unique audio and visual effects.

The bundle’s finisher fans out cards around defeated opponents and then detonates them with an explosion and an energy beam.

The Flex cosmetic can change the bundle’s displayed cards and has a chance to replace the standard art with cards from Riftbound: League of Legends Trading Card Game.

The full bundle costs 9,500 Valorant Points. Items sold separately are priced as follows: the four weapon skins together total 2,375 VP, the Suit of Aeris melee is 5,350 VP, the Flex cosmetic is 1,375 VP, the player card is 575 VP and the gun buddy is 475 VP. Players purchase these items in VALORANT’s in-game store using Valorant Points.

VALORANT’s store refreshes every three weeks and Acts are released every few months. Aeris is scheduled to enter the regular rotation on August 19.

Riot has released previous premium skin bundles that include custom animations, finishers and Flex items.