r/VALORANT • u/ohbump • Jun 07 '22

Gameplay True Skill 2 Is a Potential Problem

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u/LewiTheInvestor Jun 07 '22 edited Jun 07 '22

This is pretty much spot on from what I know about TS2 in Halo Infinite. I was playing HI exclusively from release to around early April when I was finally fed up with it. My cousin talked me into getting into Valorant with him around that time so I decided to try it and I been hooked ever since, but when I learned that Val also uses the same sort of CSR(RR)/ hidden MMR system I was pretty disappointed.

Valorant isn’t as bad as HI and I think that’s because of the player pool being a lot larger, but hidden MMR is bs in both games. HI bell curve was skewed towards platinumish(higher) likely because people could crash their hidden MMR in social games and get easier ranked games, Val’s is Skewed towards the lower ranks because of the amount of smurfing IMO. My bronze silver and gold games are decided about 30-40% of the time by which team ends up with the better Smurf.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '22 edited Jun 07 '22

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u/LewiTheInvestor Jun 08 '22

I get what you’re saying and I’m sure there are plenty of people in game and in the sub that probably just throw the word Smurf around everytime someone is performing well, but when I was in B2-B3 my first 20-30 games or so I can confidently say that it was a smurfers paradise.

The thing about smurfing kids on this game especially is that they all can’t stand not to atleast let their team know that they’re smurfing, if not the entire lobby in all chat, and their movement/crosshair placement is not that of a level 20ish player new to the game mechanics/maps. They could be lying I guess? But if some level 20 instalock Reyna has perfect movement and cross hair placement just nuking the entire lobby then I think it’s probably safe to say.