What Happened to Default Melees? | VALORANT

LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE - Todays video is about there will NEVER be a default melee again on VALORANT. In 2020 when VALORANT first came out, the default melee was born and we saw quite a few iterations of it with reskins, all this time later we haven't seen any since. What happened to them?

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0:00 intro | what is the default melee on valorant?
0:37 how many default reskins are valorant?
1:31 the evolution of valorant melees
2:15 Get rewards with Astra
3:20 why did valorant stop making default melees?
4:21 valorant devs on default skins
4:55 can default reskins exist on valorant again?
6:11 retrospect on pricing and if the default melee should come back :)

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[WhiffiE_]

in an alternate universe, we have a champions default knife

[frogcatdog]

tldr; smite knife is so peak riot knew they could never top it so they shifted into a different direction.

[Luci_]

Or even better, keep default knives but add agent exclusive default knives to unlock with kingdom credits as well

[Straws.luv.]

I think you should be able to buy prism knife with kingdom credits

[freakingannonymouspanda]

Honestly, I think we need more affordable default knives, which are still cool looking, so if more people are using them, the game can be a little less visual clusterfuck that it is headed towards

[りしれ供さ毀]

Personal Administrative Melee Unit: huh? A little change is not bad bro

[alokerosuchy]

I feel like recolors of standard x(vandal, knife, phantom, etc.) should cost radianite instead of VP, like the smite collection, make it cost 30 radianite so people don't have to spend money on skins that don't have effects or change the model, that way more people can have skins and Riot could launch more "default knives"

[KittAnimations]

i think a default knife or something similar would be really good on a "black market 2.0 bundle" if they ever decide to make another

[wilbirddd]

ok but when will val make a finisher with the knife also or at least the kill banner

[svenderslol]

Video was so goated 👍keep up the good content

[Messiman]

I think the fact that the battlepass exists kind of negates the space for default knives. $10 for the battlepass gets you a knife that is better than a default knife; I doubt that Riot would charge less than $10 for a knife that you can just outright purchase. Although I think the closest comparison would be color reskins for Overwatch heros. I wonder how many people buy those rather than just saving currency for new designs that aren't just the default model with a new colorway.

[cloudstrife]

Honestly do wish melees werent so expensive or I'd grab a few. Im stuck grabbing the BP ones and maybe one day I'll get my kuronami no yaiba(WHY IS IT 50$ BTW??) The one bad thing about being a console player is only having one battlepass so far to get skins and stuff for.

[azaimadil]

I honestly would rock any default knife skin. I just dont like the default pull out animation, it doesnt feel good.

[guwopzy]

5:05 Really hope people dont get offedned, its literally fact, the tone theme and art direction of CS is irl military shooter, Valo is cartoon shooter

[roxinim]

imagine paying for the most pricy gun skin (knife) on the game just for it to be a recolor of the default one.

[universalalisha]

I legit love ego knife in the green and tan variant

[Old_Hickory_Jackson]

I believe Valorant's skin direction was going to be like CSGO with default knife variants but they decided on unique knives

[hardseltzer]

valorant players want a unique animation for every knife they see but fail to realize that there are only so many ways to actually use a knife 💀

[erosiveart_]

Started playing val when the console beta came out, my first knife will be the champs 2024, thoughts???

[techconix]

full rgx collection when (i reminded you)