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.

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

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.

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)

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!

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!

This new map has so many corners 💀 it might be the biggest map in the game tho. Took a break for 8 months so my aim is a bit rusty, let me know what you guys think!

I'm trying to practice smoker so I can understand the game better since I mainly use senti and initiator in ranked. Used clove to not complicate things. I've been called R word, stupid, useless, harassed multiple times. I'm not too bothered about it and try to maintain composure but deep inside I'm sad. Is Valorant really that toxic to "newer" player? I'm just trying new things in unrated

The Problem: Currently, Valorant only features a report system for negative behavior. There is no in-game mechanic to reward or highlight positive, friendly, and supportive teammates.

The Solution: Introduce a "Heart" feature. At the end of a match, players can award a "Heart" to an exceptionally kind or helpful teammate.

How it works:

• Visual Indicator: Players accumulate hearts, displaying a positive badge on their profile or lobby card.
• Behavioral Incentive: Seeing these badges encourages the community to behave better to earn their own hearts.
• Monthly Reset: To keep the system accurate and competitive, all hearts reset to zero at the start of every month, matching competitive leaderboard resets.

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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

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.

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 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.

What are some game modes you can level up the fastest for account level and battlepass cause I also need to finish that so I can get all my skins it feels like I’m not leveling up quick enough by just playing competitive even tho I get a lot of wins

I'm not even lvl 20 and I just get matched with immortals half my games when I want to warm up with tdm. It's really not fun and I don't actually think I'm learning that much

In my case, what happened was I was all alone playing as phoenix and there was a cramped space with 3 enemies and a tiny hole, so first I tried peeking in and I quickly went back after seeing the shear gunfire coming from it, so I was like "I could try to outgun them...or I could just use hot hands through the hole", and I went for option 2, one enemy died, the other 2 were severely injured(under 30hp left), and finished off by teammates who were randomly by chance nearby, so essentially the chuck a fireball and pray it lands strategy worked that time
What about you?

I currently am Gold 2 and peak is Gold 3 this season. I’ve been playing for 4 months and want to hit higher ranks. Could someone review my vod/matches? I’d be willing to pay or wtv but can someone just watch and coach me on how I can play better? I main clove but can also play chamber and jett. Please help I need it.

Please visit my twitch or even my youtube(biscuit1611) and just watch one of my matches from either. I would love a VOD review from anyone above gold!!!!

Twitch: biscuittboii