Eco, Force, and Full Buys in Valorant

Valorant's economy decides what your team holds in its hands each round, and most trackers ignore it entirely. Riptide buckets every round you play into one of three buys - eco, force, or full - and reports your round-win rate in each, so you can see whether the rounds you lose are aim problems or wallet problems.

The three buckets

The bucket is yours, not your team's: it reflects the value of the loadout you personally carried into the round. Over a season the two align - teams mostly buy together - but the per-player cut is what lets the stat say something about your own discipline.

What win rates by bucket tell you

• Eco wins are stolen rounds. Every eco round you win flips a round the enemy budgeted to take, and it usually breaks their economy at the same time. A healthy eco win rate signals pistol skill and disciplined saves that stay alive.
• Force rate close to your full rate means your forces are well chosen. A force win rate far below your full-buy rate says you force into rounds you cannot win - the discount buy is costing you twice: the round and the next round's economy.
• A weak full-buy rate is not an aim problem. Full buys are your maximum-strength rounds; losing them points at execution and mid-round decisions - entries that do not get traded, utility spent early, rotations called late.

Buy discipline

The single habit that moves these numbers is buying with your team. Five mid-strength buys on the same round beat three fulls and two pistols, because rounds are won by the weakest link in the execute, and a mixed buy hands the enemy two easy kills and two cheap rifles. The classic leak is the solo force inside a team save: it rarely wins the round, and the rifle you drop on death funds nothing next round.

• Match the call. A committed force with five players is a real round; a half-committed one is a donation.
• Save properly. An eco is only cheap if you keep the money and the guns you are hiding. Dying for a 9-damage exit peek defeats the point.
• Force with a plan. The good force buys target a specific weakness - a thin site hit, a stacked retake - not a hope.

How Riptide surfaces economy

When a match carries per-round economy data, your player page reports rounds, wins, and win% for each bucket, and the match breakdown shows a per-round economy panel with each player's loadout. Economy is context, not a rating input: it never enters the Impact rating, so a stretch of poor team economies cannot drag your skill score down. Older stored matches without economy data simply sit out of the split.