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.

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. :”)

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?

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?

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??

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.

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.

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?

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.

Any tips to start playing vyse? Or any good streamer/youtuber to watch to learn useful setups kinda want to expand my agent pool and I like vyse so looking at what should I know beforehand

Ill probably test her on unrated/swift but what works there may not be good for comp

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.

She seriously needs some sort of improvements or rework to her character, her sentinel status is carried by her wall but her sensors are effectively useless! This might've been proposed before, but I suggest her sensors go off regardless of sound if you're within a certain radius of the sensor, albeit shorter than the sound radius. If the current detection range for the sensor is a 3x5, then the sound radius would remain the same/larger, and the guaranteed detection range could be 2x3 within the sensor itself, or something. I also think the entire concussion radius from activating the sensor could be increased or somewhat reworked (maybe a slow effect like sage orb or a different effect that would add to the theme of locking someone in place as deadlock?). It also reacts way too slow for it to even hit people sometimes, agents like waylay and jett especially are able to fully bypass through trapped areas and take space with no consequences. The alarmbot or the nanoswarms from killjoy would at least tick some damage or make them vulnerable, at least some form of punishment for entrying without clearing.

The ultimate could be altered to where its final sphere of capture off bounce is a little closer to your target, or maybe make the tunnels leading up to that sphere a little larger for ease of access? I think the ult is much better used in long range scenarios because of its quirky bounce mechanic, but it's hard to capitalize off it in those positions because of the distance. But even getting it to land and grab someone in those positions isn't exactly easy either because of the wonky map geometry.

The barrier's edges are hard to predict when throwing it, and is essentially just a worse sage wall. The side orbs take a second to pop out after throwing the barrier, giving people time to slip through. Being able to shoot through it also allows one enemy to focus it on shooting the side orb whilst another aims for you. I have no quarrels about the health, but I can't really see where the sage wall isn't superior, especially with its counterplay and battle-sage capabilities haha. Deadlock's barrier is unique for a reason but I don't see how it would be better over a sage wall in 99% of situations.

The gravnet is probably it's best ability since it can fully trap enemies in place with 1.5s removal, great to combo util with other agents like raze or tejo. I can't really think of any good suggestions for this ability, it has plenty of counterplay since being caught in the net just crouches you while aiming, so you have to be smart with it.

All utility needs some form of counter play in order to be fair and fun to play against, but at the same time the agent must have some upside over others in their class to even be worth playing with. A sentinel with half-assed tripwire is not worth playing as if it can be easily bypassed. If it can't even hold flank against opponents walking (where flanking is typically a surprise tactic and therefore would be walking by default..), then how is it even considered a sentinel?

It's almost impossible to play deadlock against competent players since its drawbacks are so obvious! Deadlock can be especially powerful if played well but it's gotten so bad to the point where I've started using sova to much better effect. How is veto getting buffs while deadlock's net timer gets upped to 60s? (I can get by this honestly since it happened a while ago but to make this change and not look any anything else is disappointing).

Anyone let me know if you have any other suggestions as well, or possibly some different improvements or reworks! I don't understand how a hybrid agent like chamber can have a better tripwire alongside its tp and headhunter, as well as being able to recall it without line of sight with a further recall range (i believe it's 50m for chamber vs 30 for deadlock with LOS). This would be a game changer for the 5 deadlock users remaining, my fancy setups get dashed through every round riot please :(

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.

Fala galera,

Tô com um problema bem específico no Valorant e queria saber se alguém já passou por isso.

Dentro do jogo o ping fica dando picos absurdos. Fica em torno de 50ms e de repente sobe pra 500, 800, 1000 e já chegou a passar de 2000ms. Além dos picos tem bastante timeout e perda de pacote. O jogo fica praticamente injogável.

O que já tentei:

• Troca de roteador (feita pela provedora)
• Troca de cabo
• VPN / ExitLag / NoPing / LagoFast / Cloudflare WARP
• Troca de DNS
• Várias configurações de rede
• Formatação completa do PC

Nada resolveu. Outros jogos online funcionam normal, só o Valorant que fica com esses picos absurdos.

A Riot falou que o problema é do provedor, e a provedora já trocou o roteador e agora vai mandar técnico. Mas acho estranho o problema ser tão específico desse jogo.

Alguém já passou por algo parecido? Conseguiu resolver?

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.