I understand 10 maybe even 15 days but a month just feels excessive. Maybe I’m wrong but coming from hero shooters where characters are uncooked day of release it just seems odd.

first play experience since the update with Warden;

• good damage accuracy fire rate
• satisfying bullet travel & fun to shoot
• 2x scope gives clearer decision range when to hipfire vs ADS

Just made an account and I'm like level 3 getting matched with people who are always 250-400+ level, is it because there's not many new players?

Ever since going trough an cancer treatment last year (i am in remission). I started soloq griding again since the last 3 months. I've gone from gold 3 to plat 3. But the hidden mmr and its matchmaking is just pulling me down hard.

Every match i win i get like 13~ rr. But every loss i lose 23+ rr. i have this hidden mmr for 2+years.
I keep getting put in plat 1 and gold 1-3 lobbies. No comms and people that don't know what they are doing. had literal bots in my team for multiple matches.

Feels like OW2 and its forced 50% win rate all over again. I just want to play against people that are actually harder. And not just people who are worse than avg. like 4 matches of this whole act has been in diamond. the rest all low plat and gold, even silver.

This mastery system is dumb… just giving even less to ftp players… and you still have to spend kingdom credits

since the clove nerf is pretty brutal and removes the big reason I play clove (the speed after you get a kill and res)

will omen just be better? I mean against cloves you can just play safer so your team has smokes and omens kit is far more useful than cloves

I’m planning to buy a Vandal skin, but I can’t decide which one is worth it. 😭

What’s your favorite Vandal skin, and which one would you recommend buying? I’m looking for something that feels smooth, has satisfying sounds, and looks good in-game.

Drop your recommendations below! 👇

I've been through all of Clove's lifetime in Ranked, and on release, it was undoubtedly pretty good. But even in its current state, in most ranks, Clove is still averaging close to a 55% Non-Mirror win rate.

My question is why? The ult is good, yes. Undoubtedly, an extra life right in the middle of the action very rarely doesn't get value, especially if you recognize what times are good to pop it in. A good ultimate doesn't result in those numbers. The heal is temporary, the speed boost we will get back to, and the meddle is like a fade seize that doesn't seize.

That leaves smokes on death and the speed boost from the pick me up. I just don't see how these are worthwhile abilities. A stim beacon (apparently before the update it was actually better than a stim beacon, but regardless) does not make brimstone the scourge of ranked. And the dead smokes last such a short time, the only way they ever get value is if your teammate sticks the spike for a second, and then you smoke him off.

So is there something intrinsic about Clove that lets Clove players dominate? I don't think it's agent mastery, because a whole cohort of players being better at their agent doesn't seem right. Is it the playstyle of being with the team and spearheading a brazen rush that's just more tuned to ranked? Maybe, but Clove doesn't let you do that any better than any other agent, and the 7s smoke isn't good enough that Clove dying is less of a loss than normal. Only the Ult helps in this scenario, but the Ult is not up every round, and I don't see how the opportunity cost is paid.

I should also mention that empirically, I hate seeing Cloves in my team, because they're more often than not very bad at smoke timings, which is only exacerbated by the shorter smokes. Which brings you this definitely-not-a-rant about Clove. I can't speak of personal experience on the win rate numbers, because I almost exclusively play Omen as a controller, play worse on Clove than Omen, and other people playing Clove if I'm playing somethibg else don't do anything they couldn't on another agent, usually easier.

In the end, besides what I see as obvious facts, the numbers still paint Clove to be an astonishingly out of par agent. Some people are calling for a nerf just because of that, but I see no reason to play the agent currently anyways. So does Clove need a nerf? A rework? An investigation for Fraud? Or do my randoms need to shut the fuck up about me playing Omen?

Tldr; Clove bad imo, why winrate still so high?

So i came back from a brake of valorant tell me why i have to get 200k xp to unlock the new agent or pay 10 bucks????

I really wish riot took out RNG bullet spray auto out of full auto guns. The common reason why they added RNG, is to cater to newer/low skilled players while indirectly hurting skilled players/players who know how to control spray. Maybe another reason why they made the recoil pattern random is that they'll rather focus on making new expensive skins than giving full auto guns their own recoil pattern. I spray because i mastered burst firing, and a little bit of tap firing. Got bored so i figured using my middle and other finger near my pinkie to control spray recoil was fun and effective. (Yes very repetitive post lol) Any thoughts?

Hi i recently started playing Valorant and have been trying to rank up but I keep getting enemies that play on a higher level, my bf said that they’re smurfing but idk how to stop them from coming in my lobbies is there a setting to play against people on my level? Ty i really want to leave rank iron this month🥲

I recently got back to valorant after 4 years. I have played somewhat 50 games this season and notived something

I had to check, i had 12 miks plaeyers in my own and enemy team combined. 11 of them where bottom fragging. Not like a little but only 2 of them had over 10 kills

Can someone explain this phenomena, is the agent like extremly supportive like overwatch mercy or do they just suck

I really want to learn this agent but everything seems to broken. Is it worth learning when it is probably going to be heavily nerfed?

Hush is out and I already finished my weekly missions and have to wait 5 days for them to refresh. People like me who play the game more will get Hush slower as our already done weeklies do not count towards unlocking her.

The agent should've been released with new weekly missions.

Ok so now people are instalocking hush when she is just here in less than 24 hrs in comp and surprise we r exploring new agent in my rankup game and my 3 14 hush instalock doesn't know how to dash

So speaking of that can we make it like u have to reach mastry level 5 or so playing agent in tdm swift unranked so u basically at least know what cqex do actually somewhere not ranked ok hopefully high elo are sensible enough to not do it so they can be exception

Before u come after me I didn't unlock hush yet and when I do i will spam swift for a week before going comp with hush and maybe be respectful in comments

Does anyone have a Team for the Kickoff Stage in Europe?And what rank should i be?
I main Sage,Techno and Miks

I just saw the video that Sam just posted and I don't know how they got flor to play and why tf is subroza so obnoxious like for no reason he's lashing out at flor and for some reason EVERYONE IS IGNORING FLOR JUST SEEING THE VIDEO was so weird TT

people who watched that video what do you think about it

do u like it do u like it do u like it?!??? I spent HOURS editing 😓 hope you guys like it!!

I actually did the cosplay as soon as they announced it but it required a lot of editing because I didn’t have most of the accessories 👻

I’m currently mastery 3 with her and have had many matches with, as, and against her. Here is what I feel:
•She is definitely strong (with practice) but not to the level of prime raze, Jett, or neon.

•The time it takes to pull out abilities is longer than you think it would be

•All of her abilities (except for dash) can affect teammates, which in some niche situations can actually help your teammates (pulling teammates to cover)

•Her dash (and all her abilities) is super loud, like being able to pinpoint where she’s at during a gun fight loud

•Speaking about her dash, the super dash is super niche, so far it seems like it’s only good when the enemies are distracted, and when you actually have enough room on the map for it to matter and preferably lots of Intel.

•Prepping her abilities again, takes a while and leaves you vulnerable to wasting them if no enemies are around so you have to do it, knowing there are enemies in the area. You can’t be like “I hear someone let me prep my abilities. “ you need to have them already prepped by that point or you’re likely to get shot mid animation.

•She is not very good of a reactive agent, you really want to plan when and where you use your utility, it’s not like Phoenix where you can just run onto site and throw your abilities, willy-nilly and still get value

I’m sure that I have more opinions, but I can’t think of them right now. Overall, I think that this is the best agent released in a very, very long time. It’s been very boring having character characters with basically no skill ceiling or thought involved while playing. One of the things that Drew me to this game over Counter Strike was the ability to master an agent but, most of the cast has been neutered down to being very basic. I’m sure she will get play in the pro scene , but I don’t see her replacing characters like Jett.

what i mean is you can both prime it to use it insta and also bascially perfectly aim it to ur crosshair, compare that to say kayo who needs a lineup for his flash, or really any other stun in the game, the fact you can pick the exact position you want people to be pulled in or the exact position of the long flash while also having the instant versions is so cool, which iss kinda ironic coz her movement is the opposite, being very much more about distance and feel rather than precise movement like omen tp or jett dash(at least thats what i gathered from using her in the range)i feel like she will be such a ssatisfying agent to use at least for me

shes also the second duelist to entry with both movement and a flash

Why do people complain so much about good players like Keeoh or RoyalG making alt accounts and speedrunning to as high of a rank as they can go? Its the exact same as a high rank making an alt account and ranking it up but it appears that theres a lot less of an issue when someone does that.

Hey everyone,

I really want to see more audio customization options in VALORANT. I wish we could separate core competitive sounds from all the non-essential background noise and other sounds that don't help with map awareness or locating enemies.

Ideally, we should be able to independently adjust or completely turn off: Ambient map noises (wind, birds, background hums), automatic agent voicelines and round-start chatter, the sound of equipping your own weapons, skin music and ace themes, and other sounds

Having specific sliders or toggles for these distracting sounds would make the game feel much cleaner. What do you think?