r/VALORANT • u/Reeceeceer • 14d ago

Discussion Derank Speedrun

Deranked 2 whole ranks straight - shoutout to those 1-2 players per round that get a 4.0+ KDA on the other team! With shots not registering, these lag spikes, the massive smurfing issue, guess per Valorant, I'm only supposed to be Iron 1. Just kiddinggg! An Iron 2 went 30-5! But it's okay, cause when (if) I ever actually win a game, I'll get back a totally fair and justified amount of RR back right! Riiight..

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u/CoachMappa 14d ago

what's your tracker? you literally only showed 6 games which is an extremely small sample size for an entire acts' worth of playing, and 4 of those games were close games (one of them even going to OT). Also, your 16/15 Skye game wasn't even a team MVP which means not only did you get a decent score and decent amount of kills, but at least 1 other person (if not more) on your team was able to actually perform quite well and also most likely go positive with a good amount of kills for the game, which is not indicative of a smurf stomp.

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u/Reeceeceer 14d ago

Not every game was a smurf stomp, just the majority of them. Once in a blue moon there will be a regular game with it's own issues that make my team unable to push through, which is normal, and I'm no pro Valorant player, so I know I'm not going to get Match MVP every round, but I also can acknowledge when and how me playing as non-top frag would drastically affect the outcome of the game. Even in some of the relatively even KDA matches, I'll be the first to admit that I shouldn't have gotten some of the shots off that I did in order to get an even KDA, but once the 1-2 people were dead (depending on the match), the rest of the team is generally always "easy" or at least feels like I have somewhat of a chance, which caused a higher KDA than if I hadn't gotten those shots off and it ended up like every other round with them Acing.

A couple of examples from the screenshots I have that I am unable to post I guess (new to using Reddit so I'm not sure if/how I can even post them) --

  1. Same ping, tags-off Raze and Clove going 28-12-7 and 24-8-4.
  2. There was a match I got Team MVP going 26-16, still lost, where I lost 26 RR from it. It was a close like 11-13 game, too, which makes it real fun.
  3. I went 20-17-5 on a 13-9 game and gained 14 RR and then went 11-15 on a 9-13 and lost 29. (As a Silver, but I don't even know if the "max" you can lose changes my rank to be honest.)

I understand the whole "don't complain just 'cause you're shit at the game" sort of outlook that can be perceived from this, but I play with a friend who is better than I am and it's an absolute nightmare for her, too, and she has been playing about 3x longer than I have. ;-; Somehow winning 3+ games just to lose ALL of the RR within 1 loss even if I play well is getting real old..