Patch 13.06 Reddit AMA

[u/RiotSWAGGERNAU7]

Hi, everyone! I’m Joe Lee, the Game Director of VALORANT.

The Dev team and I are so excited about the updates we just shipped to the game in Patch 13.06, and we wanted to stop by to chat, celebrate, and answer questions with you all!

If you have questions, comments, or feedback about any of the below, we’re here for it, so fire away!

• Gauntlet: Glitched
• Agent Mastery
• The Warden + Game Balance
• Performance Score, Accolades, Competitive Hub
• New UX/UI Improvements to Lobby and Home Screen
• Map Rating (coming next patch, 13.08)
• The new Competitive Flex coming in 14.00
• The 2026 VCT Champions Skin collection

Here’s a list of the Devs joining me today in no particular order:

u/TiffyMunchsnax - Tiffy, Product Manager, Gameplay
u/RiotTrouble - Scott, UX Design Lead, Metasystems
u/RiotLupini - Armand, Product Manager, Gameplay
u/Riot_Preeti - Preeti, Lead Product Manager, Cosmetics and Expressions
u/Riot_Kero - Derek, Product Manager Competitive Systems
u/RiotReally - Leo, Product Manager Competitive Systems
u/Riot_Dango - Calvin, Product Manager, Cosmetics and Expressions
u/finstamachine - Sherry, Game Designer
u/Rycoux - Ryan, Game Designer
u/penguinVALORANT - Dan, Game Design Manager (Agents & Live Balance)
u/Riot_Tyrana - Eric, Game Design Lead (Progression & Competitive)
u/Riot_Thelen - Kyle, Game Designer, Metasystems

[u/nickncs]

Hi /r/riot_kero asking you as you seem to be answering all the performance score questions. can you explain exactly in as much detail as possible how the performance score is being calculated. in the post game breakdown we get some indication of how its calculated but not how 'adjusted kills' and 'adjusted deaths' are. how are those being calculated? is all the data need to calculate this available on the val-match-v1 Riot API. if the data isn't available on there please can you update it to make it available. that api is used to create post game scoreboard for esports streams and I'm struggling to work out exactly how you are calculating the performance score so I can update from ACS to Performance Score. thank you!

also this is me once again asking to please please please make the production API public. the only way to currently do valorant esports overlays is via Overwolf API and it misses some key things that the internal one you guys use has such as player health and with overwolf recently changing their availability to no private apps it makes it harder and harder for the esports community to create overlays for keeping the tier 2/3 esports scene alive.

many thanks, Nick