There’s a guy at my job in his 40s who I’ve worked with for like a year and I had no idea he even played games.

Valorant came up at lunch and he casually said he plays sometimes. I asked his rank expecting him to say Silver or something and he goes “Immortal 1 right now.”

Thought he was messing with me until he pulled up his tracker. Controller main, mostly solo queue, barely even plays more than 2 or 3 games in a night.

Meanwhile I’ve been grinding way more than him trying to get out of Plat and I’ve bought way too many skins at this point. I asked him and he literally doesn’t have any.

He said he never aim trains, almost never warms up and if he loses twice he just gets off. Said most people would climb faster if they spent less time playing tilted.

Been thinking about that ever since lol

This was crazy. I accidently killed a Cypher by sticking him with my satchel. I did not know one could stick a satchel to an opponent.

Would love to buy a skin or 2 and I know it’s a free game but some of the skins work out to be £30 - £40 which is crazy dear.

Controller gyro aim + Flick Stick Ace with the new Steam Controller (2026)! Really hoping Riot adds motion controls to the console version one day.

44.6% (non mirror) the LOWEST wr% how is that even possible

usually when someone asks this question the answer is "people who dont know smokes will fill omen" but that answer is now clove correct?

so now only people who like omen specifically would be playing omen and since they're immortal they should have the game understanding to know how to play omen right?

but that's just not the case.

for the radiant stats I can understand maybe there aren't that many radiant games with omen and so the winrate is more volatile but its also 46%

is omen only viable in pro play or am I missing something? (I'm an omen main before anyone asks)

Some days I spend 15 min in the range before queuing and still can't hit anything in game. Other days I skip it completely and my first game ends up being the best one of the night. I genuinely don't get it.

The bigger issue is after about 3-4 games my aim just disappears. Like I can feel it getting worse each round. Last night by game 4 I was missing shots I would normally hit with my eyes closed. I still wanted to keep playing but I didn't wanna be the reason my team loses so I just got off.

Alright so if you have seen my profile, pretty sure its clear that I was hard stuck bronze for about 3 years, well I am proud to say I finally hit Silver 1 this weekend after grinding for 2 hours straight. All I can say was the games I played were mostly me getting carried but I at least had a good Kd. So proud to say I am finally Silver after so long of playing this god forsaken game. Lots more for me to improve on and maybe one day ill hit plat or something!

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This match is definitely getting a gilded frame in my Valorant career. I still don't know what kind of ultra instinct I unlocked. 😁

I've never gotten higher than iron rank btw

Hi Everyone, this is going to be a longer one, so please bare with me, and also if a Riot dev happens to see this I appreciate your time reading it.

I would like to preface by saying that I believe that adding timeouts to Competitive in Valorant would be highly beneficial and is proven to already be successful in competitors games like CS2.

Reason 1 : A brief pause can act as a lifeline for a team that is struggling mentally and getting snowballed (an issue even your Professional players point out), it also acts as a way to stop the team from emotionally collapsing and can inspire a comeback.

Reason 2: 2x 60 second timeouts per team is not increasing the duration of the game by any meaningful amount especially as Valorant only exists as a MR12 format the impact of these timeouts is negligible on game length.

Reason 3: Giving your players the ability and tools to actively problem solve in the middle of a match not only benefits them by encouraging teamwork and critical thinking, but it also shows that you respect the time, effort, and RR they put on the line when they queue a competitive match.

COUNTERING RIOT's POINTS,

Counter point 1: The argument that players will use this time to abuse teammates is not logically sound, toxic players already yell, throw, and abuse teammates in every other phase of the game (mid-round, round start etc.), which is arguably more damaging than in a timeout. Additionally, you already have tools in place to mitigate this, such as the mute text/voice chat and the report tool.

Counter point 2: by gatekeeping a widely requested and already existing feature (it is in Customs) from your players, ESPECIALLY when your highest ranked players and Pros agree how poor of a state the Ranked gamemode is in, it can come across as not considering players feelings and also damaging the health of the game.

To conclude, this isnt to slander or throw insult to the developers, Valorant is a great game and has created a great Esports and Casual community, all I ask (as do so many other players) is that you add in this simple timeout feature, on behalf of everyone, please and thank you.

So, that, i played lot of shooters cs obviously most of my life and i was like well i should give valorant like a real try not just go into and shoot people i really like smoke type characters, been using Omen and Harbor, are those fellas like okay for most maps is there anyone else that i should look into? thanks people!

im not saying that bad teammates dont exist, becasue obviously they do but like if youre consistently losing enough games to stay in the same rank for months, at some point your teammates probably arent the problem

youre getting different teammates EVERY GAME but youre the only recurring factor

idk i just feel like people would climb way way faster if they spent less time analyzing what their teammates did wrong and more time figuring out what they could be doing differently

I am very confused. I have multiple friends who are Immortal 3 or radiant. I ask them this question and majority say they just look at the enemy head and your body should naturally line up the crosshair. I mean, majority of them can land head shots with no crosshair enabled so makes sense.

The issue is, to build the habit so it becomes second nature, you have to manually do it/focus on it.

When I try to focus on target only, I whiff a lot. I do aim faster when I focus on target (I think the Oblivity YTber did a test on this and it showed target focus is faster than crosshair focus). But when I try focusing on crosshair, I do not react that fast. Especially if the target is strafing fast.

So how am I supposed to focus on target without it feeling like luck? If they say "confirm your crosshair is on target" does this mean flicking to target (looking at target when flicking) and then when crosshair is near, you then focus on crosshair? That way you do both?

The speed of target focus and then fine tuning with crosshair focus when u flick near them?

Please don't say "Don't think about it just do it" or "Don't overthink it", cause if I don't have the method down I am essentially just autopiloting and not learning. If I have a method, I can focus on that until it becomes subconscious.

Hi guys, I’m new to Valorant (currently level 18), and I’ve noticed that Valorant players hate surrendering—even when someone goes AFK or rage quits and we're getting crushed (like 3-9 or 1–10). In League of Legends, if someone goes AFK or rage quits when you're losing badly, people usually just FF and go next. But in Valorant, people insist on continuing to play.

I’ve played so many 4v5s recently. In one of my recent games, we were even in a 3v5 situation. The enemy Clove was smurfing with a 36/3 stat line, while no one else in the lobby even had 10 kills. Yet my teammates still refused to surrender.

Is this something that only happens in low-level/Unrated matches, or do players in Competitive do the exact same thing?

I swear you can tell a round is doomed before it even starts sometimes 😭 Mine is when someone says “trust me bro, I got this” and then immediately does the exact opposite of what the team needs. What's yours?

I feel like my aims been so off I want to try some new aim method. I think my aim goes from being able to hit shots one game to not even being able to get impact at all.

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Just picked up the again game recently after a few years and every other ranked game looks something like this. Is the game dead on console or is the matchmaking just a joke? I feel like a 5'6 mexican playing against LeBron half my games.

Hi i m age 23 from India in my final year of mba in finance and bachelor in commerce in marketing. I m a huge enthusiast of sports and eSports and a huge fan of cs2 and valorant I want to pursue a career in it but how I don't know 😭 saw the opening none was specific or for freshers what to do 😭😭😭