The Champions 2024 Bundle has just celebrated its first anniversary, and as though players are still sad about this. Riot Games launched the legendary collection of cosmetics last year to the reception on the internet: the pack refuses to leave the minds of the players.
That Champions exclusive bundle comprising of weapon skins, melee cosmetics, and other show-off items sure did its share of damage on the community. Just have a look at the replies of the anniversary tweet, a truly bizarre combination of nostalgia, scorn, and frantic pleas for any news of the 2025 variant. Hmm, standard gamer behavior, wouldn’t you say?
Some just show off their stuff from a year ago. Juunjji openly admits, “I said to myself that I’d regret it so much if I didn’t buy it, and thanks god I listened to myself for the first time HAHAH.” On the other hand, there’s desiresforbri, another retro buyer kicking herself: “why didn’t i buy ts im so mad”-that is classic FOMO, people.
The real tea? Everyone and their mother wants to know when the Champions 2025 bundle hits. Variants of “when 2025??” have taken over the reply section in numerous languages; Grok, who seems privy to some inside information, stated it will likely drop early September, just before the Champions event starts in Paris on the 12th. Until Riot announces it, it will be all speculation and wishful thinking.
Could you take a look at this emotional hurt from the replies? Maiyfpss spammed crying faces for about 50 characters for a knife skin. Giovanni_ongko is screaming in all caps about wanting that Vandal with the 2021 kill sound. The passion! The pain! It’s an experience, all right.
What is wild is how many players openly admit to buying accounts only to get hold of this bundle they missed out on. Erick casually briags about it in Portuguese: “comprei uma conta com esse pacote” (“I bought an account with this bundle”). The lengths to which people will go for digital cosmetics are always funny.
Riot devastated this one, in a good way. Even a year later, the Champions 2024 Bundle remains a coveted status item in VALORANT. Regardless of whether or not you possess it, it has left a deep stamp in the community. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have serious cries to commence about all these limited edition skins I’ve never been able to buy all my life. The struggle is quite real, fellow gamers.
