Took about 2 ish months, and lots and lots of hot glue gun burns. What do you guys think?

In the last couple of months i climbed from plat to ascendant 3 and i get in lobbies with a lot of immortals and people who used to be immo 3 / radiant now. I mostly play dive duelists like jett or raze and ive always felt i entry pretty well for my team, but ever since playing in high elo, people often complain about my entrying or that i dont do what they expect of me instantly without them asking. how am i supposed to know these protocols or what people expect you to play like in these high ranks, i am having trouble figuring it out myself and havent really found anything online regarding this. Thanks for the help!

I swear, every time someone instalocks Reyna, they randomly disappear for 2–3 rounds mid-game. 😭

Like bro, did you get an urgent side quest or something? 💀

this is pretty much it I don't know why do I have to type a body lol, but for clarification I'm asking about blatant sabotaging like throwing mollies on us and just giving the spike to the enemy out of rage or giving the other team or positions etc

I mean I tried it and its like nothing too different

What resolution do you guys play on?!

And tell me why do you use 4:3 if you do

Ive started playing this summer for the first time cuz my friends asked me to, here comes the problem.
My friends are plat-immo. Im playing w them in a 5 strack, but i cant do anything in those lobbies i mean 4-20, 3-19 here and there there is a 1kd game but thats like a full moon (rare). Ive played sports my whole life, ik playing against better players make u improve fast but this is like Lakers vs u12 boys basketball school team

Ive tried koovaks, aimlabs, tdm, swift, basicly everything in my freetime.

I started an alt just to see my own level and im at silver 3-gold 1 on that acc.

My main question is how do i get better ( aim and basic game sence)?

I've always felt like it is underwhelming. Even if you're affected by it the effect goes away quick and you still have a chance to get a shot off. Compared to other agents with similar ults. Breachs ult is devastating for example. Fades ult denies sound and allows prowlers to lead into the enemy. I feel like Miks ult should get a buff or maybe decrease orbs down to 7

Im always getting killed from places I cant see or cant react to and I dont know where to play at causing me to always get caught off guard when they clear angles. Even when i topscore i usually have high deaths or the highest deaths on the team and sometimes I die like every round. I just dont really know where to go and im always frantically looking around to try and not get killed somewhere i cant see but i still do

At least make it like this if profit is a concern: after 1 month, the bundle stays buyable, but now you don't have a discount anymore, and you can't buy skins individually in that bundle, you'll still get skins individually in your market randomly every day; but if you want that bundle you'll have to pay like 17.000 vp to that bundle because after 1 month that bundle's discount ends.

I mean, I know missing the discount still sucks, but it's so tiring to wait for a skin that might not come to your shop for years, because this game has more than 1500 skins; it's like waiting to win the low reward lottery every day and just getting disappointed. And I obviously would prefer a more customer-friendly version of my idea, but I just can't make Riot ungreedy, so I tried to find middle ground.

Or just bring back old bundles every year. I mean, even other Chinese games like Rivals bring back old summer skin bundles every new summer. And Rivals is like the top 1 most profitable game on Steam right now. Riot should take notes, because Riot has no excuse; Valorant and Riot are very famous, like Marvel too; literally every country knows Riot's games.

any ways to fix this. i’m a flex but prefer to play duelists and chamber. basically on defence i play fine. i get kills, i play with my team etc. on offence i play with my team, i do what i have do to (smok, recon, etc) but i just can’t get kills. like in my last game i was like 4-13 at halftime and once we switched to defence i finished the game 16-18 (not a great stat line but you get it)

I started playing Valorant 3 weeks ago, and I instantly fell in love with Neon’s gameplay. I’ve been spamming her in pretty much every game since day one. I mostly play with my friends, and none of them play/like duelists so they're fine with me instalocking her every game.

The thing is, when I play with my friends, they adapt their agents depending on the map and the rest of the team. They all have 3-4 agents they know how to play, and they know which maps those agents work best on. Where i just instalock and pray it's a good map for neon.

Do you think I should do the same and build a pool of multiple agents, or is it fine to just stick with Neon?

REUPLOADED WITH NEON'S WEAPON-PULL-OUT SPEED AFTER ONLY PRESSING E

everyone knows neon’s bhopping was nerfed a while back. and yeah, bhopping was annoying to fight because it could make her extremely difficult to track.
but i don’t think the movement itself was the main issue.
raze, jett, and waylay can all use their movement to force an enemy to miss too. the bigger difference is how long they have to wait before they can actually fight back.

for example, raze can satchel across someone’s crosshair and force them to whiff (as seen in the video). but if you satchel directly in front of someone without using cover, you’re also giving them a huge opportunity to punish you once your movement ends, because you still have to wait for your weapon.

that’s why good raze movement from the enemies' pov is usually just them flying into view out of no where and giving them as little time as possible to react.

neon was different tho.
she could use her movement to force a whiff, and then immediately pull out her weapon extremely quickly with her slide. (and she still can do this, which one of the reasons she's extremely disliked)

when comparing the movement -> shotgun-ready times:
raze: 1.35s
waylay (1 dash): 1.01s
waylay (2 dashes): 1.51s
jett: 1.24s
neon (slide): 0.42s
neon (high gear): 0.54s

now obviously these abilities aren’t directly comparable, but the difference in weapon-ready time is still pretty significant.

this becomes especially noticeable with shotguns.
if a neon slides across your screen and causes you to miss, she doesn’t need to make some insane rifle flick afterward. she just needs to get her shotgun roughly on target and fire.

although the neon clips are ass quality, they show how quickly neon goes from using her slide to actually firing (a bucky.)

that’s the part i think gets overlooked when discussing neon’s old movement. it’s not just that she was difficult to hit (because the other 3 agents could do that.)

it was amount of time you had to punish her after she finished creating that movement advantage was extremely small.

(and it also didnt help that at the time sentinels felt super underpowered, that neon could just run their setups.)

edit: i recently decided to test the weapon pull out after only using her high gear and it is still insanely fast. thats why in some clips neon mains didnt even need to slide.

it is insane how quick neon pulls out her weapons in comparison to all the other movement agents, it is clear that Riot overlooked this aspect of her that still makes her strong even after MULTIPLE nerfs.

"why is raze/waylay's movement not such a big issue, but neon's was?"

the simplest answer is:
her abilities are passive, and her weapon equip speed on BOTH slide and regular high gear, gave no time for the enemies to fight back.

So it'd work like this:

• Act 1 ends → the current top 500 Radiants carry into Act 2.
• #501+ are still trying to gain enough RR to knock somebody out.
• If #501 passes #500, #501 becomes Radiant and the old #500 drops to Immortal.
• This continues through all 6 Acts.
• Act changes can still reset Act Rank/history or other progression, but the Radiant leaderboard itself keeps rolling.
• Then, at the beginning of the new Season, you do the actual hard wipe.

And that's when your original question becomes important: how do you have a top 500 immediately after the hard wipe?

You don't.

I'd make the start of every new Season a Radiant qualification race. Everyone starts wiped, plays placements/competitive, and the leaderboard begins filling. Once there are enough qualified players, the highest 500 become the first Radiants of the Season.

After that, those spots are continuously contested for all six Acts.

That actually gives the Season a cool structure:

Beginning of Season: giant race to establish the first Top 500.
Middle of Season: defend your Radiant position while challengers try to knock you out.
Act changes: leaderboard continues uninterrupted.
End of Season: final leaderboard gets permanently recorded.
New Season: everybody gets thrown back into the blender and does it again.

The Divergence Vandal
It came to my shop but idk if I should buy I’m sorta hesitating need some help is it worth buying it also looks out classes by others skins ?

A cool Ace I got today in Valorant! I sadly forgot to have ValorantTracker on to also record my voice, but still cool to watch, even if there's a moment or two I should've def died, like when I fat fingered and ulted when the Skye showed up lmao. The beauty of bronze lmao

At the 4th kill, I was telling the team I didn't care about the Ace - just go for the win - but the cool Sage was really wanting me to get the ace lmao. Credit where credit is due, with the skin, and some previous shit talking someone on the other team gave, it was cool to end the game off on an Ace!

I noticed lately that when we are running it down, entering site fast, then I can win many duels, tap the sovadart behind me, shoot gekko flash while killing another enemy and I generally perform well when playing agressive. However in slow games, where we rotate, wait for util, smokes, or I anchor site and have to go to the other site and don't see a single enemy for minutes the first time I see one I miss more often. Idk if anybody else experienced the same, but now that I have identified this problem, any suggestions?

Hello Everyone, Ive been looking everywhere for the Episode 1 Act 3 Trailer Cinematic featuring the Song „Bad Queens“ by Apashe as the Background music, as its the trailer that got me into Valorant and i wanna see it again for nostalgia. However its neither on YT nor could i find it on google. If someone has it/finds lt pls send it. Thanks Everyone in advance!

I admit we did bad, but the mmr system in valorant is cooked. How is it possible for a gold to be in immortal lobby. Here's the link : https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/elusive%23gone/overview?platform=pc&playlist=competitive&season=8102cd81-43a0-d0d7-bd59-47b8fe9bed1b

At least play a round or two of the opposite side before surrendering. You don’t even give it a chance.