Riot Video games has launched its VALORANT Champions 2025 Anthem, ‘Final Shot’, that includes artists templuv and 347aidan.
VALORANT Champions is the ultimate worldwide event within the sport’s yearly esports calendar. This 12 months, the occasion is heading to Paris from September twelfth to October fifth.
Champions Paris will see 16 groups from the 4 VCT areas (EMEA, Americas, Pacific, China) compete for its $2.25m (~£1.66m) complete prize pool.
VALORANT Champions 2025 Anthem Particulars
With the official launch of the 2025 Champions Anthem at present, templuv and 347aidan have joined the ranks of musicians to combine their artistry into VALORANT esports historical past.
Templuv are a duo of musicians that printed their debut EP in April this 12 months. In the meantime, 347aidan is a extra established rapper and singer from Canada. His 2021 single ‘Dancing in My Room’ helped him achieve wider recognition after changing into standard on TikTok.
The music video for Final Shot additionally deserves recognition, having delivered excellent animations. In synch with the tune’s themes of perseverance and proving oneself, the video tells the story of an important VCT spherical on Abyss.
After his teammates, Breach, Astra, Chamber and Waylay, have fallen, Phoenix finds himself in a aggravating 1v5 post-plant situation.
Regardless of being surrounded by the enemy, he efficiently defeats Viper, Cypher, Sova and finally Jett to cease her from defusing the spike and safe victory for his staff.
Riot Video games’ Anthem Custom
Just like League of Legends esports traditions, VALORANT developer Riot Video games has launched devoted Champions Anthems because the competitors’s inaugural version in 2021.
Due to Riot Video games’ eye for high quality music manufacturing and animations, the music video to the primary anthem, ‘Die For You’ that includes Grabbitz, has reached greater than 111m YouTube views. Final 12 months’s anthem, SUPERPOWER with KISS OF LIFE and Mark Tuan, has recorded over 8.7m YouTube views thus far.
The intersection of music and esports is an integral a part of the VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) client expertise, with the pre-finals present usually that includes a reside efficiency of the most recent anthem. Furthermore, the tune is performed through the inspection animation of the annual Champions pores and skin bundle.
Given the optimistic reception of Riot’s music initiatives, the writer has doubled down on this technique in recent times. 2025 alone noticed the discharge of quite a few VALORANT-related songs, together with a VALORANT Cellular launch monitor with BBNO$ and Yuki Chiba’s official VCT Pacific Stage 2 anthem.
