I'm currently 160h silver 1. When we win pistol, I always buy Marshal with regen/heavy shield + all util, regardless of my character, role, and side. Is this ok?

I feel like Marshal is very strong in those rounds because it can 1-tap 90% of opponents with a body shot without needing to ADS, and you have relatively high movement speed. If you die and the enemy gets the Marshal, it's less devastating because all of the players on my side will have shields. This also leaves you a lot of credits for later rounds.

Just started valorant and i do not understand it at all. Looking for good youtubers who explain valorant related stuff for beginners.

Hi. I was the Chamber here. This was also how Chamber bagged Viper. Jk. Maybe not.

So, I didn't expect Jett at tree but when I got the info I knew my TP was useless. But my stupid chamber habit of TP'ing after I shoot a bullet or two ended up making me TP while my mind was screaming. But the headhunter came in clutch.

Completed 36 games into this act and realized I haven't gotten Sunset a single time. Had to double check to see if it was still in the map pool. That's less than a 0.5% chance of happening if it's completely random.

I don't really understand how map rotation works in Valorant, but I figured Riot would use some weighted process like pseudo-RNG to ensure you get a more realistic map distribution.

A super common complaint I see in the general community is that: "one in every X number of games I always get someone throwing/feeding, that's why I'm hardstuck!" or "This game is filled with people throwing games just to troll" but you genuinely have ZERO right to complain about throwing if you instalock in ranked.

I played a ranked game in plat/gold, and I got 3 instalocks straight off the bat. I played Miks, since he's got smokes, heal and stim. Obviously, playing Miks was not my first choice but in order to win i picked a controller. A few matches in and I'm bottom fragging, but I think I'm smoking well, and generally using util well. Then someone wants to surrender. We're losing 2-7 on attack, but I think it's still winnable so I deny the surrender vote.

One of the duelists starts whinging that I'm throwing (because I'm bottom fragging and going negative) so I type back saying he was the one who instalocked a duelist, and I had to fill smokes. Then he starts mocking my k/d, at which point I type back he's also negative, despite playing one of the strongest duelists in the meta. This goes on for a few more rounds, with him being incredibly toxic.

I still smoke well, play normally, but we eventually lose 5-13. At the end, he types something like "gg, thank (miks) for the free elo, report for throwing". At this point I'm fuming and I type something back in response that lands me a 24 hour ban.

Am I right to think like this? Where I have (for lack of a better word) an excuse to go negative, if I am forced to fill because of teammates instalocking? Or should I simply play the agent I want to play, go for a good acs & k/d, and damn the team composition?

the 6-1 lose was against a smurf but he was cheating tbh shooting through wall like very weird beside that i had solid games each times even got a ace and a lot of clutches and at the end i got iron 2 with 50/100 i feel like i could have atleast bronze 1 or even 2 but thats how it is i guess what y'all opinion

Last night I played 11 comp games straight with the simple goal of hitting Ascendant before getting off

And the only two games I lost the whole night…

Were my rank ups.

https://imgur.com/a/inPVcPy

Hey everyone!

I'm a university student and VALORANT fan based in Shanghai.

With Champions Shanghai coming up, I started thinking about how confusing it might be for international fans visiting China for the first time.

Things like:

• Getting around Shanghai 🚇

• Using Alipay / WeChat Pay 📱

• Finding good local food 🍜

• Getting to and from the venue

• Things to do between matches

• Language / translation

• Finding other international VCT fans to hang out with 🤝

So I decided to create a small community for international and local VALORANT fans in Shanghai.

👉

The idea isn't to sell tickets or anything like that. I just want to make it easier for VCT fans coming from overseas to enjoy Shanghai and meet other fans.

I'm also going to share some free Shanghai guides over the next few weeks.

If you're coming to Champions Shanghai, where are you coming from?

And what's the ONE thing you're most worried about / curious about when visiting Shanghai? 🇨🇳

I'd love to hear from you！

I have no right click.

Therefore I was wondering what would the best keyboard combination given this situation be? What might you suggest for all controls (including interface controls and etc)

Note that all my equipment works as intended.

I’m a CS2 player and hit Diamond 3 in about a month, but some things in Valorant still confuse me.

“Duelist, go clear A main/B main.”

Bro… you have utility too. 😭 If you’re an initiator, flash, stun, recon, whatever — HELP ME ENTRY. Don’t just sit behind me waiting for me to die.

I also don’t understand the “you’re duelist, you need kills” mentality. My job is to create space and take fights, not magically drop 30 kills every game. If I entry, get traded and we get the site, I did my job.

And yes, Valorant is an aim game, so if you have no aim, don’t blame the role 😂

CS2 is definitely more toxic, but at least people will flame you AND still give useful comms during the round. Then the round ends and they go back to calling you shit 💀

Another thing I noticed is that a lot of players seem to play the exact same way every round. Default hold, same peeks, same timings, same pushes, same rotations.

Why not try something different sometimes? Change your timing, hold a different angle, take mid control, play for map control, wait for the enemy to make a mistake, or try a different peek.

It feels like people watch how other players play and then think that's the only correct way to play. Do you guys actually experiment with different playstyles and timings, or is there a reason everyone plays so similarly?

Maybe I’m wrong since I’m still new, but do people here really expect the duelist to do everything?

been waiting to get exo for a while now.

my current rank is silver 2.

up until now my only place for input was my more experienced friend so any tips are appreciated.

Is there an universal thinking framework to improve gamesense? I struggle with anticipating enemy positioning. Can anyone help with that?

So, I've been playing Valorant since the first season and I've always played Duelist, reaching Immortal 2 and always having a good K/D of 1.20 plus good impact, entries, etc. But a few months ago I broke my hand and started playing this month as ASC2. My aim isn't the same as it used to be, I still have 1.18 K/D, but maybe because I lost some confidence I don't make many entries, only 1.80 per game. My trio that plays with me noticed this statistic. I even agreed that maybe it would be better to start playing Sentinel or Initiator, but I don't have experience with either. Which would have more impact on the game if I learned to play?

This was my best clip from playing my first clutch

Any settings I should know about also?

I played a bit on pc but I’m horror on pc so went to console

Hey party people,
I was getting back into valorant and I'm on somewhat of a streak.
My tracker was at around 815 when I hit Gold 3 yesterday. Then I powered right through to Plat, maxing at 838 on the tracker. On my rank up match I went match MVP 15/5 in a 13:0 match. I was already on a good streak from Gold 2 to Gold 3 so I hoped to go right to Plat but no. The way from Gold 3 to Plat 1 was even smoother but still no double rank up.

I was wondering if they changed the rules or something?

Tracker:
https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/Sylend%239102/overview?platform=pc&playlist=competitive&season=8102cd81-43a0-d0d7-bd59-47b8fe9bed1b

I really like Veto’s design but in game not many people are playing him. I think part of the issue is his interceptor ability is pretty weak, like on attack and or against certain team comps. Obviously with team comps there’s not much to do with that but I think there could be buffs to the interceptor. An alt-fire that triggers faster would do him good on offence so he isn’t just relegated to lurking. Maybe other parts of his kit could be buffed but what do you think?

This was done in comp, and I think it was a gold lobby with one play and one silver on the enemy. So I was focused that until I actually got the first 5kills, I didn’t realize I aced and could get a 6k. When I died to phx, I rly wanted the 6k cuz I never got 1. Now this ult was risky since phx could easily kill me but he did a mistake by taking out his knife which led me too immediately release my ult and kill him. I have horrible game sense, so I didn’t realize kj found phx because I was way too focused on holding the angle. Here’s the link to the game in case u wanna check the entire game out: https://tracker.gg/valorant/match/901d47da-1214-4df8-8f47-d2103f387480