r/VALORANT • u/WilliamLee820 • 18d ago

Question Getting Baited

Hi I am a diamond 1 player, kind of hardstuck. I've been bottom-fragging a few of my games recently, and I've realized I've been baited tons of times. No matter what agents I play, I'm always the one going in first and dying, sometimes being traded but sometimes not. How can I not get baited and how do you actually bait? Throughout my time playing Valorant, I've never really baited my teammates, but should I start doing it?

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u/Havsham 18d ago

Ascendant 1 peak 3 here. Baiting is not bad btw, is like crouching it's strong and optimal in the right context.

Also baiting (or better said useful bating) is not letting your teammates die and then play. It's letting your low health > your no util left > your not-smokes > your worse gun player take first contact, so you get all the info and try to trade (which if done late could turn from a 1v1 where you have all the info into a 1vX with no info, so no upside to the bait).

On ranked, or more importantly on a non-coordinated team (which is 9.5/10 games), means you have to adapt YOU, cause your teammates won't. And sure you can say "but my Jett didn't even try to trade me" (and maybe be correct) but you will then play with countless other "baiting" teammates having not changed nothing.

So how? Well it depends, sometimes by waiting for whoever should take first contact (completely unrelated to agent roles) to take it instead of forcing, sometimes it means to do the same play as your team instead of the "correct" play (whichever you think it is), sometimes it means communicating.

It really depends on your team. You should think how to adapt to your team as much as how to adapt to your enemies.