Fanart i painted for my girlfriends birthday, i hope some people here like it as well.
no AI was used

The whole time I thought the things holding her neck piece (the straps...I can't think of a word rn) were just different color patterns of her suit. When I realized they were straps it was too late to fix things properly and it's driving me insane how incorrect it looks. 😭😭😭

in 0:10. Maybe it was a skin? Never seen this before lol. This was like 2 days ago, in a normal match.

As the title asks, would a fully indoor location fit a 2-bomb format game mode?
I always wanted a map to be located inside a skyscraper, with A-Site, Mid, and B-Site being 3 separate floors in the building.

- What weapons would be meta?

- What agents would be meta?

Riot keeps each of Clove's abilities to the point where they seem like they're desperate do anything possible to have them not near the top even if that means having an agent with gutted identity. Her aggressiveness and post death smokes have been constantly nerfed. Doesn't seem to healthy for Clove.

How about buffing other controllers?

https://reddit.com/link/1xg5brx/video/g45khlsovuxh1/player

i was playin comp with a friend then out of the sudden a vandal starts flying to my face, then both of my opponents show without anything in their hands and i get destroyed.

what happend???

Deadlock just feels like the half baked versions of different sentinels rolled into one. She doesn’t slow down enemy pushes as well as Sage, she cant hold down an area as good as KJ or Cypher or even Vyse, she cant take duels like Chamber, and she doesn’t have the counter potential of Tejo. So like…what exactly does she do? I want her to be good because shes my main and theres definitely a lot of cool thinhs you can learn to improve with her but in so many instances i just think “if i was cypher” or “if i was chamber” instead of “i got that kill/defended area because i was SPECIFICALLY deadlock.”

She just has no niche to carve out it feels like and even the devs dont really know how to change her without her making other sentinals then obsolete if they did buff her. Honestly her wall needs a rework and the trips need to be given a more guaranteed effect or REALLY make getting a trip trigger actually be basically a guaranteed duel win. I am coming back to val after not playing for like a year so mabye im wrong but it seems she’s gotten 0 changes and shes constantly seen as “the other sentinel” people just dont pay any mind too. Nobody is afraid of a deadlock on the other team or even has a strong opinion on her whatsoever when they see shes chosen, shes the most nothing burger slot it feels like.

Iso's C ability, contingency, is now semi-transparent for iso. He can see through it, but not shoot through it. Enemies and his allies will not be able to see through it.

Would this be too strong of a buff for him? I feel like it would help him to scale better if enemies had to fear and respect his wall a little more, knowing that he would have an advantage if they decide to peek into it.

I’ve never played games on my pc before except minecraft and got Valorant to play with my hb. I mean i knew it was gonna be hard as a first timer but this is crazy hard. But yeah it’s almost been one month and im learning everyday.

But playing bad is so embarrassing and it feels worse when people call you out for “being a girl” as a reason for being bad. It’s gone to a point where i say “Gang i’m new here sorry in advance if i play bad” when a match starts. The environment is so toxic. The cussing and being crazy loud and saying stuff like “atleast do this right that’s the least you could do”…it just makes the learning environment so toxic. I wish the environment was a little bit more beginner friendly and yeah sure maybe valo isn’t beginner friendly but it’s not like i’ve never had a good match. There have been times i do play well. But when it’s bad ah it just ruins my mood and it gets so embarrassing.

I know it is possible to have a good environment coz my hb is always so supportive and helping me out. He’ll be like don’t listen to whatever they be screaming. I wish everyone was like that but of course everyone does just want to win. But like it’s not even ranked matches tho. cries

I hate how my mood gets ruined trying to play the game. Everytime i say “this is the last time im ever playing this” cause im that annoyed but i keep coming back coz i do genuinely wanna learn and become better.

I just hope people try to understand that. Is that too much to ask for?

According to tracker.gg, my headshot percentage of 11.8% is worse than the average Iron player. Yet I reached Gold 1 this week and am doing just fine despite usually having the worst hs% of my teammates. Some games I'm in the single digits while the average Gold player gets about 20 to 30%, so clearly that metric is flawed. I think having a high KAST value is more indicative of actual skill level. Maybe cause I main as Cypher and love to spray through cages and smokes, that plays a part. Thoughts?

i love seeing hush in different art styles! here’s my version. p.s. so excited to see her in pro and how she changes the meta.

So, I hit diamond about 3 years ago and stopped playing for like 2 years. I've been hard stuck gold/play for the longest time since I've picked it back up and it feels borderline impossible. I'm not blaming my teammates or anything, it's the RR system. I'll gain 15 for a 30+ kill game and then lose 20 on a 30+ kill game. I have brimstone lineups for almost every map but I've recently started playing Omen too. I'm just lost lol

Uhh I have been playing valo since last 2-3 months and I don't seems to improve however hard I try, I can't climb out of bronze for some reason. Somedays I can play so good that everything feel effortless but the other day my aim become shaky. If you have any tips please help me

I am living in a huge dorm right now so my current setup is a 15inch laptop with slow wifi used by 500+ students. I am peak d2 but hard stuck p2-p3.
Ive never played consistently so I made a goal for myself to hit ascendant this year but honestly, is it even a realistic goal given my setup?
Obviously it's possible but this is my current cope.
Advice or opinions welcome.

I think VALORANT should introduce a feature that allows players to freeze one weapon skin in their daily shop rotation so they can purchase it at a later date.

For example, if a skin you've been wanting finally appears in your shop but you don't have the money to buy it that day, you could freeze it in place instead of losing it when the shop resets.

How it could work:

• Players can freeze one skin at a time.
• The frozen skin stays available until purchased or manually unfrozen.
• The remaining shop slots continue rotating normally.
• Players can only freeze skins currently appearing in their shop.

I think this would be a great quality-of-life improvement, especially considering how many skins are in the game now and how unpredictable the daily rotation can be.

It would also benefit Riot since players would have more opportunities to purchase skins they actually want instead of missing out on them.

What do you guys think? Would you use this feature?

I just joined the game today and I have no clue what to do, who to play, ect. Any recommendations on who I should main that’s good for me BUT I still want a strong meta pick, I’m good with learning things quick so don’t take that into a lot of consideration. Mainly just wants somone meta.

Every time I play ranked, most of my games I play fairly decently. However there's always a game where I just go horribly negative and I don't know why, its as if I go on autopilot and make all the wrong decisions. I was wondering if anyone else has dealt with that and if they were able to find a way to deal with it.

I have proof that sage is Mason from call of duty black ops 1

Now I know what you're going to say: "Are you insane?", well I am, but you need to genuinely hear me out.

Black Ops 1. Mason and the numbers, what did the numbers mean? For starters, let's ignore the fact that Mason's main personality is saving life's, he's always been a fighter that trains hard. So initially I thought he could be brimstone, but sage just made more sense.

Sage has never been confirmed to be a girl, in fact, we never saw sage dating someone, sage was also never explicitly confirmed to be trans so we can't count on that.

What is the story of Valorant? Alpha earth and omega earth. 2 different earth's. 2. And in one of riots lore podcasts, David Nottingham stated "Who is to say there is only 2 earths?". This is a direct hint at more than 2 possible earths. But how can Black ops 1 and Valorant take place in the same universe? Well they do.

https://youtu.be/jAj\\_nbWYb7g?si=uFfQ1ToqhlK\\_\\_8A\\_

in valorant official music video at 1:14 YOU CAN littesrly see exact debree from Raul menendez that take place after the assumed death of Mason. clashing down on earth. Same fire. And to fully seal this, the pony tail of phoenix's sister makes out the number 357 from top to bottom.. One Google. Search can confirm to you that these are the exact 3 numbers that mason experiences.

Let's go back to my previous statement. The assumed death of Mason. **When did the valorant music video release?** 2025. Now tell me. **When did judgement day happen in black ops 2? It happened at 2025 in game date. Nope, I'm not lying, search it on Google. Right now.** so this is direct proof that what we saw in that music video was judgement day that happened at black ops 2.

Now we've confirmed they are from the same universe, how is sage related to mason? Well it's actually really straight forward.

Sage was one of the first people to found the valorant Protocol alongside brimstone. Again 2020. Masons assumed death happened all the way back in 1989 in the docks. So we aren't talking about a case of 2 people existing at the same time. The cannon ending for mason at the time as confirmed by Activision was that he survived that encounter. This explains why we never see him again even though he's alive. It's because he traveled to valorants universe. To escape his past, and start a new future. A future where he can finally achieve what he wanted. A team of people he can count on. And trust.

Sage is the only valorant agent that's changing. The reason is, masons past life keep flickering back. He keeps getting reminded of what happened back at his own earth. He wants to forget but he can't. The crystals on her jaw is just masons acceptance of his new life.

But that's not all. I have many more proof. Riot games thought no one would notice. But it's getting uncovered slowly.

Her dash can scale from main to backsite. Its insanely fast and you get control over your movement. She can pop a flash mid dash so her entry is literally unstoppable. Her entire kit makes a dive duelist not need an initiator AT ALL. She can pull rats out of the corner and pop a flash with insane control. Is this just a retaliation to the fact everyone just locks jett every game and they want to power creep the hell out of a new agent so people finally switch? like you can hit switch from main on ascent without even having to get out. This goes with so many other things as well that im to lazy to speak on.

Who are your go-to agents and gun, and which maps do you prefer to play on? Do you guys have any tip depending on the maps?

Why is there iron, bronze, silver, gold in the same lobby?

I am not sure how riot games calculates the "hidden mmr", but this is too far of a stretch.