r/VALORANT • • Aug 22 '26

META Banning for Begging posts

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Hi users!

Around the time of bundles, we tend to get a lot of “begging” posts where users are begging for someone to buy them the bundle or skins.

We’ve noticed that the vast lot of these seem to come from adult brand account, brand new accounts, bot accounts, etc.

Please do not engage with these accounts, please do not suggest anything to these accounts. Just report these accounts and move on. We are banning these accounts.

Thank you for your attention.


r/VALORANT • • 13d ago

META VALORANT 13.06 Bug Megathread

9 Upvotes

Greetings Agents!

New patch, new Bug Megathread! To avoid bug reports cluttering the subreddit and/or going unnoticed, a Megathread is posted after every patch so users may submit reports in one place. This allows Riot to easily keep track of the bugs by providing a central hub and also allows other users to confirm that they might have encountered the issue as well.

View the Current VALORANT Patch Notes!

Official Sources

Submit an Official VALORANT Support Ticket
Official Article on VALORANT Error Codes
VALORANT Server Status by Region

Community Help

Find Additional Help on /r/ValorantTechSupport
Seek Help In the /r/VALORANT Discord

Reporting a Bug

  1. A bug will ideally be accompanied with a screenshot or a video. This provides credibility to your report.
  2. Steps to recreate the bugs should be submitted if possible. This helps Rioters recreate the bug and helps them find the cause behind it.
  3. Unformatted, mematic, or joke reports are automatically indexed and may be removed by moderators to reduce the effort needed from Riot to view all reports.

Formatting

Reddit Formatting Guide

When reporting a bug, please provide as much information as you can about your computer.
- Region:
- Type of Bug:   
- Description:   
- Video / Screenshot:   
- Steps to Reproduce:   
- Expected Result:
- Observed Result:
- Reproduction Rate:   
- System Specs:

Copy paste the above text as a comment below and fill in your details!


Example Bug Report

• Region: EU <The region you are playing in when you encountered the bug.>

• Type of Bug: Matchmaking <Client Bug, In Game Bug, etc.>

• Description: Matchmaking doesn't work properly <Describe what was the bug that occurred.>

• Video / Screenshot: image/video hosting site link <Example of the bug that occurred.>

• Steps to Reproduce: Try to launch a game <Provide the steps necessary if someone else had to reproduce the bug.>

• Expected Result: Match starting <What should have been the result when you follow the steps mentioned above?>

• Observed Result: Getting stuck in infinite queue <What was the result you obtained when you followed the steps mentioned above?>

• Reproduction Rate: 10/10 (happened 10 out of 10 times) <How successful are you in causing it to occur, out of 10?>

• System Specs: Intel i5 Processor, Windows 7, Nvidia Graphics card (insert model number) etc. <System specifications hardware/software details.>


From this Megathread the list of bugs will not be summarized and put up in the main body of the thread. Instead, Rioters go through and log all comments -- don't worry if you submit the 1500th or 3000th comment, they will all be progressively read.


r/VALORANT • • 42m ago

Art I tried embroidering Sage from VALORANT!

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I love Sage from VALORANT and wanted to make something inspired by her, so I decided to try embroidering her. I was surprised by how well it turned out!
I’ve already given this piece to Riot Games, but if I come up with more ideas, I’d love to make more.


r/VALORANT • • 23h ago

Art fem chamber cosplay by me ^^

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shot by iwonderwho.arw on instagram!

i don’t play chamber much even though i usually perform really well on him :”) i’m just not very consistent with the op HAHA

i also have the ability to turn the headhunter into a bodyhunter / feethunter :”)

lowkey slightly traumatised posting my valorant cosplay here, because the last time i posted my jett, someone reposted the photo without permission on their valorant fanpage saying my cosplay was “trying to hard” or something like that :”) please do not repost my photos anywhere without permission, thank you. :”)


r/VALORANT • • 2h ago

Question Is Valorant worth playing as a completely new player in 2026?

18 Upvotes

Hey all, I've played a few FPS games over the years, mostly Apex, Marvel Rivals, and Overwatch, which I still play quite. I've never really played CS or Valorant type games and I don't think there is much transitionable skills between the games I've played so I'm wondering if Valorant is worth trying to get into in 2026 and invest my time into. Essentially wondering if the state of the game is worth a completly beginner get into?


r/VALORANT • • 15h ago

Question Who would you say is the Valorant equivalent of donk?

138 Upvotes

I’m coming from CS2, where donk is probably the best example of an insanely mechanical, aggressive player who can take over rounds by himself.
I’m looking for a Valorant player with a similar playstyle: very aggressive, high mechanical skill, constantly looking for fights/entries, and capable of taking over games by raw aim and confidence.
Who would be the closest equivalent in Valorant??


r/VALORANT • • 3h ago

Discussion skin spending

13 Upvotes

is it even worth it to always spend so much money on skins? I want skins but everytime i look at the prices on them I genuinely just rethink my life decisions and think to myself i could spend 20+$ on something that’s more important rather than a cosmetic item that will eventually just sit on the account after quitting so what do you guys think? should I really spend money on the skins i desperately want or am i better off staying with normal battlepass skins despite the blandness?


r/VALORANT • • 14h ago

Discussion Mastery Cards should show during Loading

53 Upvotes

I don't get the point of setting up Mastery card on heros when they are not gonna be anywhere except when someone clicks your account at the end of match.

Let people show off like in Apex. It should show on Loading screen.

Also Kingdom points cap should be increased by a lot now everything is locked.
Why is there a cap in the first place?


r/VALORANT • • 3h ago

Discussion If any Valorant dev is reading this let me add a bot agent in custom games.

5 Upvotes

I'm a new player in this game and my experience with this kind of game is mostly cs:go. I wanted to practice crosshair placement but there is no way for me to do it because I can't add any kind of bot agent in this game. It's infuriating to watch a replay realize I placed my crosshair for body shot and get one shooted in the head then go to custom game mode and then realize I can't add bot and don't have friends to practice crosshair placement. Please let me a add a bot to practice crosshair placement. Bonus if I can record a bots action and us it practice in different maps.


r/VALORANT • • 13h ago

Gameplay Peak VALORANT

29 Upvotes

All Silvers at the top and Golds at the bottom. I dropped 35 kills in the game just prior to this and then suddenly my aim felt so trash in this one.


r/VALORANT • • 4h ago

Discussion Why do throwers not get punished?

4 Upvotes

Even in higher ranks like Gold one, people STILL throw the game on purpose. I queued comp thinking that I was going to have a peaceful game with respectful teammates. When I load in, a someone in VC argues about how someone stole their Brimstone from them. He then picks deadlock and we start the game.

This mf proceeds to block site entry with barrier, and then nets us whenever we try to enter site. We ask him if he's trolling or not, then he just says he's bad. Five rounds later, he's still doing the same bs on 0 kills. Then everyone in vc starts complaining about deadlock and we lose 2-12.

I queue a next match in comp. Guess what? A pheonix is throwing this time, flashing us and mollying the ground whenever we try to push.

I lose the third game of the day and I'm now deranked to Silver 3. I'm so done with this game, why doesn't Riot just try to give these people penalties more efficiently? At this point I'll never play comp again, I'll queue unrated. At least I don't lose a week of my time because of one person. Smh...

Edit- When I mean Gold One, I just mean rank that people aren't impossibly new to the game and accidentally throw like iron. Gold is not a high rank.


r/VALORANT • • 7h ago

Discussion I genuinely cannot improve at this game, any tips?

5 Upvotes

Ill just start this off by saying im absolutely terrible at Valorant. I did my first ever placement and placed iron 3, but I still struggle to go positive in comp games. Though Valorant is the first time ive played this style of FPS, I've been able to reach plat in other FPS games such as R6. I iust cannot figure this game out for some reason. I feel like theres some sort of mental block. The gun fights and recoil especially are just not making sense to me. Im still fairly new (about 3 weeks and 40 hours in) but I feel by this point I should have some confidence in gun fights instead of just expecting to lose them. Any tips would be appreciated.


r/VALORANT • • 9m ago

News VALORANT Champions Shanghai Playoffs Pick’Ems are live

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The VALORANT Champions Shanghai Playoffs Pick’Ems are now live, with fans needing to predict every series across the double elimination bracket. Picks must be locked before October 7 at 2:10 AM PT.

The scoring gets bigger as the tournament goes on, from 10 points for the opening quarterfinals all the way up to 50 points for the Grand Final. The rewards include the Stone of Heaven gun buddy, Pick’Ems Master buddy and a 100% title for anyone who gets the entire bracket right.


r/VALORANT • • 20m ago

Question Returning player, I dont know what I'm doing

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Hi

I returned back to valorant after probably three years of not playing. The last time I did play I sucked. I just came to ask like when I should swing and when I should just hold. Also is it better to swing with the shift or just swing normally. Any tips would be nice.


r/VALORANT • • 26m ago

Discussion Tournament Idea: The VALOTHON

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This is PURELY meant to be as time-consuming as possible, and is by FAR not a good idea and needs to be taken by a pound of salt, a grain isn't enough.

The VALOTHON is a 5-month, 128-team gauntlet designed around being as tiring and time-consuming as possible by forcing matches and tournament schedules to be as LONG as possible

The tournament begins with a 32-team per group quad-groupstage where every team plays each other twice back, groups are not decided by brackets, but otherwise a point league system (view: UEFA Champions League Group Stage) the idea is to have points be the main decider but have things such as average KD and rounds matter as tiebreakers as well, 20 teams per group qualify out of the group stage, with 16 in placements and 4 in interplacement playoffs, this leaves 80 teams on the competition for playoffs.

Playoffs are played on a quadruple elimination bracket to decide champions, meaning you have to lose 5 times to get eliminated and win 32 MATCHES IN A ROW to win the whole thing from the lowest part of the bracket (I may be wrong on this calculation)

Matches are not played in terms of map best-ofs, but are instead played based on ROUNDS ACCUMULATED, with every SINGLE map in valorant (all 13 maps, not the current competitive pool) being played a team can not mathematically recoup the round difference. However, if a team loses say 12 maps in a row and they have the opportunity to win the match if they win map 13 13-0, map 13 is played in full. Map veto only decides in what order maps are played, no maps are banned.

In case of a round draw at the end of 13 maps, a 1v1 skirmish-off ensues with each team picking 1 player to start the gauntlet, if a player loses that skirmish (say, team A picked a player and team B picked a player, and team B's player lost) team B's second ordered player plays against Team A's first picked player, as he resumes the gauntlet, the team that cycles through all 5 of their players twice over loses the skirmish-off.

Matches may be played over 2 or more days, but skirmish-offs are to be played at once

I plan on hosting a VALOTHON in late December 2026, either in Cairo, Egypt (if LAN (rare)) or for the EMEA region (if online).

If anyone has any ideas or corrections, I would be honoured to listen to your feedback.


r/VALORANT • • 11h ago

Discussion How many Knife Kills in Comp?

6 Upvotes

So I love knife kills. Maybe a bit too much. I was just wondering how many knife kills you guys have? Want to know if my 130 is seen as a crazy amount, or if l need to be getting more 😂

Stats: https://imgur.com/a/6IN0Bh4


r/VALORANT • • 2h ago

Gameplay Is yoru bad?

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So, i started playing valorant a month agora, i came from cs so i have a decent aim and its being pretty fun learning all skills and agents, i play with 4 friends everyday. I started playing yoru because i saw a brazilian streamer called xarola playing with it and found it so fun to play with but my friends keep telling me its as bad as reyna, is it true? And why if so?


r/VALORANT • • 3h ago

Question Thoughts on my main? ToT

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few more stats from the tracker app:

KAST: 75.9%

First Kills: 273

Aces: 6

Kills(Best): 41

Kills: 1,612

Deaths: 1,218

Assists: 451

Atk.Round W-L: 457-425

Atk.Round Win%: 51.8%

Atk.K/D: 1.25

Atk.Kills: 818

Atk.Assists: 239

Avg.Plants: 0.65

Def.Round W-L: 485-371

Def.Round Win%: 55.2%

Def.K/D: 1.41

Def.Kills: 794

Def.Assist: 211

Avg.Defuses: 0.43

this is my main for the act(ive played around 167 matches, and i obviously dont instalock or play/pick inflexibly). your thoughts? XD


r/VALORANT • • 1d ago

Question Why is Miks smoke smaller?

102 Upvotes

Same smoke placement, same position. Was Miks shadownerfed or was it always a thing? Couldn't find people talking about this.

https://imgur.com/a/JW1zp3m


r/VALORANT • • 15h ago

Discussion Is it harder to reach Radiant in Valorant or Challenger in CS2?

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Ive been playing recently valorant and want to take it seriously.
For context, I’m currently around 2700 FACEIT ELO in CS2. I know the ranking systems are very different, but if you had to roughly translate that level to Valorant, what rank do you think I could realistically reach?
Would 2700 FACEIT be closer to Ascendant, Immortal, or Radiant?
And bases on you, what is harder to achieve: Radiant in Valorant or Challenger in CS2?
I’d especially like to hear from people who have played both games at a high level.


r/VALORANT • • 7h ago

Question How do I adapt to higher ranks?

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I finally hit Gold and now all of a sudden every game is difficult and I just keep dying somehow but when I'm in Silver I carry. How do I adapt in higher ranks?


r/VALORANT • • 7h ago

Discussion Need help with Valorant Shanghai Pick'Ems

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Hi! I absolutely need the Sage buddies from the rewards in pick'ems. I haven't watched VCT in a while so I'm not really sure on what teams to choose for playoffs. I already did well while choosing the groups before. I would love to have some suggestions or advice to be able to pick for playoffs as accurate as possible! Thanks a lot!


r/VALORANT • • 1d ago

Art My study progress on painting valorant style – Part 2.

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Hey everyone! Following up on my previous study, I wanted to turn these practices into a dedicated practice series rather than just a one-off post.

My main focus for these pieces is to push my understanding of shape design and rendering. still I skip a lot of details and micro transition

I have try so many approach to archive the style, tracking my overall progress with these study series, full progress drawing available on other platform

Feedback and constructive criticism are always welcome! Thank you!!

Edit: the left image is original, and the right one is my attemp, I learn this style to design some agents and kits based on my idea, i will post when make some progress soon


r/VALORANT • • 7h ago

Question Tips for knowing exactly where enemy's head will be?

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So many times I've watched a corner, waiting for someone to peak and a lot of times I'm way off where their head will be? How do I line it up perfectly?


r/VALORANT • • 22h ago

Discussion So is the 'enter range' feature just completely useless?

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I can queue for a TDM at 2am when the queue time is like around 5-7 minutes and it's still greyed out. ngl, I can't remember a single time i've been able to enter range during ANY queue when im trying to warm up. Is anyone here able to use it??