How to Get Kingdom Credits in Valorant: Earn Rates, Daily Rewards, the 10,000 Cap and What to Buy

Kingdom Credits (KC) are Valorant's free currency. You can't buy them with money, they never expire, and they pay for the things most free-to-play players actually want: new Agents, Agent cosmetics and old Battlepass accessories. The catch is a hard cap that quietly stops your earnings if you forget to spend.

This guide is current for Patch 13.09 (October 27, 2026) in V26 Act 6. The big recent change came in Patch 13.06 on September 22, 2026, when Agent Mastery replaced the old Agent Gear menu. How you earn KC hasn't changed, but where you spend them has.

Quick answer

Requirements

• A Riot account with Valorant. KC accrue automatically from your first match. There's nothing to opt into.
• Clean matches. If you're penalized for disruptive behavior in a match, you get no KC for that match.
• Room under the cap. You need to be below 10,000 KC to keep earning.
• For Agent cosmetics: you must own the Agent, and since Patch 13.06 you also need Lifetime Mastery progress on that Agent to open its Reward Track.

Step 1: Play round-based modes for the steady income

The bulk of your KC comes from simply playing. In Unrated, Competitive, Swiftplay and Premier you get 2 KC for every round played and another 4 KC for every round you win, so each round win is worth 6 KC.

To put that in perspective, a full-length Competitive or Unrated match that you win 13-11 pays roughly 100 KC (24 rounds played plus 13 won). A loss still pays something, but round wins are where the extra credits come from.

Shorter modes pay a flat amount per completed match instead: 20 KC for Spike Rush and Team Deathmatch, 15 KC for Escalation and free-for-all Deathmatch.

Step 2: Clear all four Daily Reward checkpoints

Daily Rewards are the fastest KC in the game. Each day you get four diamond-shaped checkpoints, each made of four charges, for 16 charges in total. Every finished checkpoint pays 150 KC plus a chunk of XP, so a full day is worth 600 KC.

How charges fill up depends on the mode:

1. Unrated, Competitive, Swiftplay and Premier: 1 charge per round won.
2. Spike Rush, Escalation and Team Deathmatch: 2 charges per match.
3. Deathmatch (FFA): no charges at all. It still pays match KC, but it won't move your dailies.

Dailies reset every 24 hours. If you only have time for a few quick games, Spike Rush or Team Deathmatch is the most predictable way to finish all four checkpoints, since 8 completed matches fill them regardless of rounds.

Step 3: Don't count on weekly missions for KC

Weekly Missions are still worth doing, but they pay XP, not Kingdom Credits. That XP counts toward your Battlepass and any active Agent Recruitment Event. Your KC comes from match rewards and Daily Reward checkpoints only.

Step 4: Spend before you hit 10,000

The cap is the most common way players lose KC. Once your balance reaches 10,000, every round and checkpoint pays nothing until you spend some. Credits don't expire, so there's no reason to rush a purchase, but you should always leave yourself headroom.

What to spend Kingdom Credits on

Agents

Any Agent whose Recruitment Event has ended can be unlocked in the Agent Store for 8,000 KC. The alternative is 1,000 VP, which is real money.

New Agents can't be bought with KC for their first 28 days. During that window you can earn them through the free Recruitment Event (200,000 XP), buy them with VP, or get them through a linked, active Xbox Game Pass subscription. Hush, who arrived in Patch 13.09 on October 27, 2026, is in that window right now. If you don't reach the XP goal, she moves to the Agent Store for KC once her event ends in late November.

Agent Reward Tracks (new in Patch 13.06)

Agent Gear now lives inside Agent Mastery. Every Agent has its own Reward Track, opened up by Lifetime Levels you earn by playing that Agent, and you spend KC to unlock the rewards you want from it. The tracks include the old Agent Gear items plus new ones, such as components for the new Agent ID. Anything you'd already unlocked under the old system is kept.

This is the biggest shift for KC this year: you can no longer just pour credits into any Agent's cosmetics. You have to play that Agent first, then spend.

The Accessory Store

The Accessory Store sells Player Cards, Gun Buddies, Sprays and Titles from older Battlepasses, and it only takes Kingdom Credits. The selection is randomized per player, rotates weekly, never includes items you already own, and skips the three most recent Battlepasses. Epilogue items never appear.

Tips

• Finish dailies before grinding matches. 600 KC from checkpoints is worth several full matches of round income.
• Pick round-based modes when you have time. Round wins pay both match KC and daily charges at the same time.
• Save 8,000 KC ahead of a new Agent. If you miss a Recruitment Event, you can unlock that Agent the moment it ends.
• Use FFA Deathmatch to warm up, not to farm. It pays 15 KC but adds nothing to your dailies.

Common mistakes

• Sitting at the cap. Every match you play at 10,000 KC is wasted income. Grab an accessory or a Reward Track item to make room.
• Expecting KC for brand-new Agents. You have to wait out the 28-day Recruitment Event before the KC option appears.
• Impulse buys. All KC purchases are non-refundable, so check the item before you confirm.
• Confusing KC with Radianite or VP. Kingdom Credits can't be converted into either one, and they don't buy weapon skins or skin upgrades.