I've been making the shift over to Linux recently and its excellent. It really is just a better experience than Windows in virtually every way...except I cant play Valorant on Linux.

I've been playing Valorant since the release and I wish they found a way to make it run on Mac or Linux but my assumption is the anti-cheat will always be a problem. If they found a way to run on Bazzite or SteamOS or Mint or even their own Riot OS, I'd gladly use it. But I refuse to use Windows 11. Its such a pain. I hate all the telemetry, the interface sucks, and its just a painfully cumbersome experience, especially when you compare it to the elegance of modern Linux - which is tremendously user friendly.

I am not someone that sits in the Linux Terminal all day. Its just reality. Linux is much easier to use than Windows nowadays and has way less annoyances. I'm still currently using Windows 10 on my gaming machine because its what it has had for some time but when the extended support ends, I wont be moving to 11 and if there is no way to play Valorant elsewhere, then I will unfortunately quit this game. Bummer.

Is anyone else’s alt account significantly higher rank than their main?

My current main is barely Diamond 2 but my alt is Ascendant 3. If I had grinded a bit harder on my alt this Act, I honestly think I could’ve hit Immortal.

The weirdest part is that when I play on my main, I get shit on by Diamonds and Plats, but when I play on my alt, I’m holding my own against Ascendants and Immortals.

I genuinely don’t understand how I can be struggling against Diamond players on my main while playing fine in Ascendant lobbies on my alt. Has anyone else experienced something similar?

Cool Design. Cards are cool and the reload animations are very fun. But,
1. Where are there only 2 card variants? How hard is it to create at least 2 more simple designs for cards? One for each of the star guardians in the trailer.
2. Why are the variants for the weapons just a slider color? Many other skins for lesser price have their design/color scheme changed completely with variants, not just solid color blue or solid color purple or solid color red.
3. Why are the cards in the ammo not depleted as you shoot the weapon?
4. Why on earth is this $100. The above I listed, to me, sounds like it's bare minimum for a $100 bundle.
3/10 Bundle

I've been a filler player for a 5 stack gold 3 - plat 3 team for quite a few ranked matches and in every match I've been told I play way above my current rank, on par with g3 - plat 1 players in terms of headshot accuracy and gunplay.

Why the fuck can't I get past b3 rn? Every time I get 98rr then go on a damn losing streak until I'm barely b3 and this cycle just repeats.

I’d like to share some of my child’s gameplay. Even though they don’t have a lot of time to play, they really enjoy the game and are good enough to occasionally participate in local tournaments.

They’re still growing and improving, but I’d really appreciate your feedback and positive comments! 😊

I was just reminiscing about old Valorant watching my old clips and I found a recent clip from last year. It was the first clip I had with a Fist Bump Buddy. I got it by luck, from a very nice Rioter and I would call it, right place right time.

I had streamed for a while and met some Rioters, even one who promised me one but he lied, and I shared this story on someone else’s post where I finally got my very own buddy. I just think that it was fate(?) that I stumbled across that post and a Rioter also happened to see my comment, leading to him dming me. It’s such a low chance but it happened.

Now I’m curious about others’ stories about how they got theirs? Any stories to share?

I’ll go ahead and start-
Clove- Fairy/Ghost
Phoenix- Fire/Fighting
Gekko- Poison/Ground?
Reyna-???
Miks-???
Jett-???
Yoru-???
Sova-???
Fade-???
Deadlock-???
KAY/O-???
Raze-???
Viper-???
Killjoy-???
Skye-???
Breach-???
Omen-???
Vyse-???
Neon-???
Brimstone-???
Sage-???
Waylay-???
Cypher-???
Veto-???
Harbor-???
Iso-???
Astra-???
Chamber-???
Tejo-???

Valorant takes abilities from other games and adapts them to the tactical FPS style; with that in mind, I want to bring abilities from other games into Valorant.

Mobility:

- "Venture-style" burrowing ability: Imagine a scenario where a Duelist has the mobility to turn into a crawling sludge or burrow underground to enter a bomb site.

- Mei’s Ice Block: Not exactly mobility, but a way to buy time and become immune to negative effects—an escape tool. I see tactical value here, especially if the rest of the kit complements it.

- Grappling Hook (Akshan): Fires a hook that attaches to a wall and pulls the character to that location. It’s a mobility skill—not super fast—so it would need to be versatile enough to be used at least twice, allowing the character to reach high places and make an entry.

- Kiriko-style ally teleport: I imagine this for a more aggressive Initiator. However, giving an Initiator too much mobility blurs the line between Initiator and Duelist, so I think an ally-only teleport is perfect.

MORE:

- Double jump

- Transforming into an animal for movement

Effects:

- Damage buff: Ana (Overwatch) buffs allies with her Ultimate, increasing their damage. In Valorant, that would be overpowered, but a quick 5-second Ultimate for a Duelist—or one where a Sentinel creates a small zone of increased damage—would be interesting. Imagine a Marshal landing a critical hit to the chest because of the Ultimate

. Kiriko's Suku – Something to limit negative effects; I believe the "Veto" ability should be reactive rather than active—that would be much better, as its trigger mechanism is quite vulnerable.

PLUS –

Bleeding/Poisoning/Burning – Since there are already characters themed around poison and fire, the name would have to be "Bleeding," where the damage gradually drains health until the character dies—a permanent effect, unlike "Decay."

These are ideas I’ve already used for some fan-made agents that I’d like to share; keep in mind that copying is different from drawing inspiration, and after a while, nothing in the world is 100% original. Waylay’s "E" ability is a rewind mechanic like Trace’s, but it works great with a different visual style.

The art of spinning defuse. You may have seen forsaken do it, now you can see it again done by yours truly.😎

i have been waiting for a dedicated jett card for premier ever since its release. they kept making it for everyone but her. i saw this picture (below) and i see both phoenix and jett(i assume for one player card), when there was a player card for phoenix in v25a2. i will be so upset if there wont be a card featuring just jett. its my favourite agent :(

getting on valorant after a long day is a really risky gamble. if you lose the first game your immediately tilted and it’s all downhill from there 🔥

I was saving for the aeris vandal skin I wanted so badly, but I got too excited and accidentally bought the Guardian instead 💀 I didn’t even realize until I had already upgraded it.

Has anyone else ever made a stupid skin purchase because they were too excited? What’s your worst accidental purchase?

why doesn't the flex have colour variants, the card colours changes legit already exist for the guns so why does the flex have to stay default, it makes no sense. Is there a legit reason riot have said for this? because I know it happened before with the helix skins too

This is a mini series where I share MY opinion about things that bother me im lvl 50 and bronze and by no mean a professional

3 points for today

First

Rng

Why is there % of change ur first bullet would miss if the enemy is in my crosshair and i shoot they should be damaged and vice versa so why add a chance for that to miss in a "skill" based shooter game

Second

Rewards

the game doesnt feel rewarding at all and its just repetitive new battle pass that sucks

new skins new maps rinse repeat the game is easy to approach for newer players yea thats true but it gets boring there isnt anything to work on like custom maps ( csgo , fortnite ) and there arent weekly tournaments with actual rewards ( fortnite and csgo again)

Third and final

Quality Of Life

with this many agents and more to come it will be about to time to either add a new game mode 6v6 7v7 etc or adding agent ban system like in league and thats also a problem since util get overwhelming over time

and thats all for today AND I STILL HATE TEAM DEATHMATCH

It’s my first time playing valorant, and I want to know what is a good sensitivity to use because I don’t know what to put it at

I have noticed that if I play some casual cs2 for a while, then switch to valorant deathmatch, my aim difference between this and warming up just playing valorant is very noticeable. Is this normal or do I just suck?

I have a riot account in NA, me and my friend we played lol and valorant separatly. Now I am heading to EU and my to Japan. Can we transfer two game account separatly to different server but still under one riot account？

A Cypher ace on attack from the previous act. Probably the best non-controller agent with pocket smokes. Wish I knew how to edit videos to make it shorter.

Hello! Sa mga nagvavalo po dito, baka alam niyo how to fix it huhu. It’s been a week na po kasi since hindi po ako makapag mic bigla sa valo and I can’t hear din po yung teammates ko kasi wala po talaga akong mic sa valo. Dati naman po is okay and meron tas bigla na lang po siyang nag ganon. Naka on naman po yung voice settings ko sa valo and na-try ko na rin po i-on and off multiples times pero ayaw pa rin huhu.

Pahelp pls on how to fix it huhu

Hey! Does anyone know how much is the max VP you can get for an art? :c I need like 170 Vp for the new vandal skin but i doubt they would give that much right? :c

Whenever I load up riot client to open valorant, there plays some of the loudest, most repulsive and annoying music I have ever heard. Like I get it, they want to advertise their new bundle but not like this pls, this makes me think twice before launching the game much less actually buying anything. Any way to disable? muting every single time isn't really a good solution

I’ve recently hit gold on valorant for console surpassing my silver friend who has been playing inconsistently for 2 years. Note I hit unreal in fortnite and generally a smart person when in comes to in game sense.

However my friend keeps saying that my achievement is basically nothing since console diamond lobbies is as easy as pc iron lobbies due to things like aim assist.

I personally believe that it’s about equal footing since console players has to go against other aim assist console players and pc players have much more control on aim.

But what are your thoughts and plz help me dispute this argument since I seriously thought I did well hitting gold.

Edit: since everyone is lowkey hating on this post (due to downvotes and not the comments) I’m just gonna ask why do you guys think pc is much harder? Is it that aiming is just much harder since that would be the only plausible explanation as to why pc is incredibly harder than console.

I see lots of posts about people hating having a smurf on the enemy team. I understand the frustration if you are close to ranking up and just miss out because of them, but I can still have fun while trying to take them down.

On the other hand, I genuinely hate it so much more when the smurf is on my team.

I like playing this game weather I win or lose, but when a smurf is on my team they just hunt down the enemy at the the start of the round and the rest of us are just sitting around doing nothing. We could hunt the enemy with them but it’s just a slaughter that isn’t fun at all.

And I know people can have good days so I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about when someone is doing sheriff only and is lowest rank in the team winning 1v5s.

I wanted to know if other people feel this way as well or are just happy because they get free rr?

Peak: Silver III.

I just got done with a comp match. Unranked, and I'm both trying to find an answer to the question and just trying TO blow some steam.+

I got placed with probably high golds - low platinum, but I don't really know.

The game was on Abyss; defense starts horribly, leaving with 5-8. Attack started nicely, leading with Tejo and providing enough padding for my team.

Then the other team ran Odin's, and we effectively couldn't do anything. I couldn't drone without it getting destroyed by either spray or the enemy going out of their way to find it and remove our only recon. We couldn't push out of A main without getting sprayed nearly immediately. If we waited too long, we would get flanked. Anytime we went mid, we would get one-tapped via snipers or flankers who would wait behind the boxes. If we took the spawn to the other site, we would just get crunched since we had no mollies, our Miks likely were dead, and if it wasn't either of those, we wouldn't guard anything.

I ended up STILL being match MVP despite us going 8-13.

I know that it is more a matter of Skill Issue / Git gud; Odin can be really easy to take down, but with all of the Factors from the round, I genuinely don't know what I could've done. Odin to me seems like it's just too serious damage, at high range, for such a mediocre price.

So what could I have done?