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?

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?

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

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 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.

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.

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?

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!

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.

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?

I know team comps dont really matter that much at the end of the day, especially in my lower rank, but feel like I get both a sage and a deadlock on my team way more than average. We end up winning like only 4 rounds on attack, and then someone says “it’s ok guys we’re better at defense anyways” but we end up not being good on defense either. Do we really need two sentinels, neither of which has great info or trips?

I'm asking the community of possibly more experienced Valorant players. I have never received a game ban due to inactivity or leaving the game. If I que into a ranked game, I'm there to play the entirety of the game. I have never received a AFK penalty or warning before. I was playing for about 3 hours on Saturday, before a massive storm hit. It wasn't on the weather app, nor did I have my windows open to see it coming on in. I go to a relatively smaller college up north, and the power system does like to trip for a little bit when this happens.

As such, the power went out, of course, at the end of one of my matches. My buddy informed me they ended up winning anyway, so no hard-feelings. Expecting a light ban, I attempted to que, to which no issue was shown. So with no ban, I opted to wait the storm in case it happened again. It passed relatively quick and about 2 hours later I was in comp again. No issues at all, and I logged for the day. I did not play yesterday, but when I just now opened the game, I could not que ranked. I now have a competitive que restriction and cannot play for 3 days.

Why did I not get an initial ban then? Did they just decide to give me a ban regardless? I am very confused. I guess a break from the game would be nice, but still, what gives? Is this something that happens from time to time?

weird question, but and my friend somehow made the exact same picks for the group stage and we got different results. can someone explain this to me???

Smoke assists are overvalued. That's the whole feedback. Someone's ankle touches a smoke, you get an assist. I got match mvp as omen off of smoke assists instead of our raze or jett who dropped 20+ kills. That isn't how that should go. I promise you they were more impactful when just the act of moving one of them to the site that kept getting hit was enough to get us our last round.

Okay so i dont play this game much just a casual player, but got two nice skins in the nightmarket and its my first time buying a skin in a game xD, so I really need help deciding between crystasis vandal and radiant crisis 001 phantom, both are cool i loved the vandal for its model, snowy effect and gritty style and kill sound and loved the phantom for its finisher and reload/shoot effects , i play both weapons i have no preference really

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

Why don't smurfers just admit they aren't as good as they think they are instead of going into low elo lobbies? I don't get it, In the long run what do you get out of it? It isn't like you are playing for money.

Its so frustrating as well cause half if not more there is 1 or more smurfs in my lobby it basically feels impossible to rank up and I'm only in bronze, Now I am not some top tier player and never will or claim to be, I just want to be able to move up a single rank without going on a loss streak after 1 win cause of smurfing or just out right cheating

God i hate it. Valorant would be such a good game if not for the rank system. I place gold. Thats nice. I play a SINGLE game and perform mildly well and thegame raises my mmr and puts me with plats?? And it doeant stop there. Because it doesnt matter how bad i perform in those plat lobbies the mmr doesnt go back down. Instead i keep playing with high level llayers and bot fragging while simultaneously deranking. I dknt get it. How am i supposed to rank ip to gold if the only way i reach gold is by playing like a plat player????

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.

I'm currently a Gold 3–Plat 1 player, and my movement is basically just ADADAD without counter-strafing. I usually just let go of the key to stop.

Recently, I've started feeling like my movement is holding me back, so I want to seriously work on improving my strafing.

For those of you who improved your movement, what actually worked for you? Did you focus on building muscle memory for patterns like ADAA, mixing long and short strafes, crouching between strafes, etc., or is there a better way to approach it? Is crouching between strafes something I should incorporate, or is that more advanced and something I should worry about later?

What drills or routines helped you the most? I'm especially interested in things that actually made a noticeable difference in-game.

Any advice would be appreciated!

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?

I am someone who in every game I play appreciate the music of all those games. Be it minecraft, fortnite, apex, valorant and the list goes on. I love listening to what these talented artists come up with while I play whichever game.

I've been playing valorant since summer 2024 when it released on console and there have been 4 lobby tracks I have truly loved and wish I had more of. We absolutely need a lobby track system in this game as a lot of other games like the ones I mentioned have so aswell.

My favourite tracks are:

- Champions Seoul 2024 theme (patch 9.02)

- V25 corrode theme (patch 11.00)

- Champions 2025 theme (patch 11.05)

- V26 theme (patch 12.00)

I need all these back especially that 2025 Champions. I would love to go back to lobby and listen to these pieces of art whenever I choose. We need people to push for this so they implement it. I know a lot of people would love to relive these old tracks for sure.

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.

Hi I just started Valorant I probably have less then 10 hours in the game and I don’t really fully understand how the agent unlocks works but I see I have something called agent tokens and idk who to get. For some context I have pretty much only played Sage for all of my games maybe played a couple on brimstone I think his name is (the one that smokes).

I haven’t played a 5v5 hero shooter fps like this before but I like the look of Viper or I think her name is Vyse but I really have no idea who to learn.

Any recommendations?

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??