What’s The Difference Cheap vs Expensive Paintballs

Paintball can range a lot in price. They normal start out around $40 USD for a box/case of $2000 and can go all the way up to $85. With such a big difference, and what are you actually getting when you buy tournament level paintballs over recreation grade?

There are three main advantage that a high-end paintball have: brittleness, markability and accuracy. To show the differences I'll be comparing Valken Infinity paintballs and Valken Pro paintballs, I'll also be using the Planet Eclipse Emek and the Field One Acculock barrel.

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[BarnyTrubble]

1:45 when the cheap paint breaks off a piece of the rock lmfao

[MrMalicious]

Nothing elevates your paintball experience more than having great shooting paint. It’s worth the extra if you can spare it. That Valken Redemption Pro is some serious stuff.

[Offline]

Don’t even play paintball, just here to be here

[rhabeldibabeldi]

I bought tournament paint on my first biggame. Only problem is I was playing magfed and had a lot of ballbreaks in the mag... Lesson learned 😂

[unkulwilly]

when i first got my Mini in 2008 i was amazed by the accuracy it had with cheap paint. but after one trip to the field, and watching my marker turn into a shotgun after the paint broke inside the barrel making the gun useless, ive since only used middle/high grade paintballs.

spend a little more money and get a lot more performance!

[bobbery]

I get the $60 dollar ones, they might not be tournament level, but they shoot well and break pretty good

[soccerguy]

I wish hydrotec paintball came to fruition. Such a revolution in paintball technology

[heroshotmedia]

I remember when Dye made their CG paint. That stuff was probably the best paint ever made but so freaking expensive! I guess that’s why it isn’t around anymore haha

[ekomagfed]

I love Graffiti paintballs from Valken for Magfed.

[noobart]

I swapped to an mg100 with first strike. So glad I did!! I enjoy a tricked out mg with canted red dot and fiber optic 4x sight with mags. So much fun for woodsball! Great vid!

[minhtinnguyen]

My home field in Washington doesn't allow Valken infinity paint because there “too hard” and hurt.

[egosumumbraemortis]

If you figure you only get so much time per day, per match, etc. it’s totally worth it to upgrade to the 50-70$ range of paint. There’s nothing more frustrating than watching balls bounce off someone you really want out; which could also cost you the game.
Secondly, if you practice accuracy like you should, nailing three to four shots on your target with an ultra bright paint instead of wasting 20 rounds of cheap paint where one might break is still saving you money. You’ll spend more initially, but more will break and end up lasting longer since you’ll be shooting less.
Personal choice: Valken Redemption Pro. Hasn’t failed me once and had a lovely yellow/green fill.

[soyasause]

Here in new zeland the difference between cheap paint and expensive paint is cheap makes your gun a spray paint can and expensive works properly lmao

[chrism]

I'm glad I'm an adult now (27). I can buy ANYTHING I want and I'm not stuck behind my parent's paycheck... When I was a kid I had to buy a relatively cheap PB gun and cheap paintballs. Now I got a $1600 gun and get the best paintballs (just bought everything about a week ago). I'm getting back into the sport... I can't wait! Now I just need to find a Paintball course to play at. If anyone lives near Jacksonville / St. Augustine and knows of a good place please let me know!

[GodTouchedMe]

Back around 2004 to 2006, walmart sold a white box of 2, 000 paintballs (no brand on the box, literally just all white) and those were $25 each and those paintballs shot and had the fill of $80 boxes today.

[NeonTetraAquarist]

Where I play there is a ton of brush on some of the maps and the fragile stuff never makes it through, so the stuff with the harder shell actually pays off sometimes

[liammorales]

Anyone remember all star paint? Empire really knew what they were doing. Not anymore with their evil paint shells

[BlutoandCo]

Also depends how its been stored. You store and treat cheap paint well, that will be better than porly stored and transported tourny paint. If your playing woods big games then lean more towards the cheap paint as it "may" get thru leaves etc better.

[sicario_paintball]

I shot $32 Defy paint in my Mini Gs, Shocker Amp and Tippmann TMC Elite and it shot all over the place.

Shot $60 G.I. Sports paint and it was accurate AF.

Marker, barrel, stainless steel inserts.. didn't matter as much as the paint quality.