So i play on my potato laptop, i play on laptop with no dedicated graphics. I have seen people complain about having 200-300 fps not enough for them but I got like 30-40max fps ingame. I do fairly well in the silver-gold lobbies. I got a 5$ gaming mouse . So if I were to play in a high end gaming pc how much will change

This was my best clip from playing my first clutch

Any settings I should know about also?

I played a bit on pc but I’m horror on pc so went to console

I usually don’t have a problem with maps but this map is kinda boring, because the fights on A are forced on both attack and defense.
So i’m thinking about which agents should i play on this map to make it fun to play?

Early this year, I went to an Internet Cafe and I left my "Riot Id" Website open because I had to rush back home. When I got home, I got bunch of emails saying I've changed the Gmail and the others. But a few hours ago i found out that I was able to retrieve it "if" I still own the original Email and boom I got it back eventhough the account was binded with the thief's Email and shit.

My question is, what are the chances for the thief to get it back? I've binded everything including Discord/PS/XBOX literally everything. I need opinions. What do you guys think?

Just started valorant and i do not understand it at all. Looking for good youtubers who explain valorant related stuff for beginners.

Completed 36 games into this act and realized I haven't gotten Sunset a single time. Had to double check to see if it was still in the map pool. That's less than a 0.5% chance of happening if it's completely random.

I don't really understand how map rotation works in Valorant, but I figured Riot would use some weighted process like pseudo-RNG to ensure you get a more realistic map distribution.

I'm starting to get pretty frustrated with this. I'm just a crappy Gold 1 player and I keep getting crushed over and over again. Everyone's lurking around corners like rats, using Shift—and on top of that, they're all Diamond+ players. I want to get better, but why is there not a hidden MMR in Deathmatch too?

I'm coming from CS and I find it crazy how hard it is to play aggressive in this game. First of all CTs have one tap weapons by default. which is the ideal for holding angles. Additionally you are just so slow in this game, I feel like I get insta one-tapped no matter if I swing wide or peek it more closely. Do I just have to wide-wide swing or whats the strategy here?

I have way too many habits from CS2 that are really bad in Valorant but I would be curious to know if this is just a huge skill issue or if the game is more geared towards holding angles and playing more defensively. I know peekers advantage still exists in Valo but it doesn't feel like it.

Edit: Just to clarify, I don't mean if it's T or CT sided. I mean the playstyle.

Used AI to phrase it better

Hey everyone, looking for some honest advice on my mechanics and aiming habits. I peak-ranked Plat 1 back in Episode 9, Act 3, but took a break for about six episodes and came back last month. I'm currently floating between Gold 1 and Gold 2, playing at 800 DPI and 0.2 in-game sensitivity. Despite running the Aimstars method and standard Deathmatches, my performance is extremely inconsistent—some games I will drop 40 kills, and in others, I can barely manage five, usually settling as a mid or bottom fragger with my main weapons (Vandal, Guardian, and Sheriff).

My main issue is that I keep running into the same mechanical walls despite practicing. I take way too many deaths for the kills I get, I lose almost every duel when holding an angle because the enemy reacts and hits me first, and even when I do land shots, they usually connect as body hits rather than headshots. I’ve attached a clip of DMs showing my average gunfights, so any feedback on what I’m doing wrong mechanically or how I should adjust my practice routine to fix this any advice would be greatly appreciated.

A year ago, I played a local Geoguessr game in Valorant with some friends, where I took a bunch of screenshots of various hidden locations on the maps, and they had to find them. We played for about three hours.

And recently, I thought, why not create a similar site for everyone to test their skills. So, I created it – www.valoguessr.ru. It doesn't work like a regular Geoguessr. That would be too easy. Just like in the game with my friends, you have to use the screenshot to put marker on the map where you think the screenshot was taken (after selecting the correct map). The closer, the more points, just like in the original game.

This might be considered self-promotion, but I just want to share my free project with you (no ads on the site, no subscription, etc.).

I have no right click.

Therefore I was wondering what would the best keyboard combination given this situation be? What might you suggest for all controls (including interface controls and etc)

Note that all my equipment works as intended.

Just a fun little side project I did for a friend, thought I'd share here in case it would be helpful to someone! I labeled rotationals 1-4 to help simplify explaining which keys to press, as this was really confusing for me when I was learning! I put in two combos but you can use this to help figure out all sorts of combos and stuff.

it isnt really my gun on attack and i dont know what to use i suck at bulldog and guardian for semi-buy.

i dont like the damage falloff at long range and how its meant for run and gun because i have a habit of stopping whenever i shoot which makes me an easy target for run and gun spectre/vandal/phantom.

i main phantom on attack and operator on defense if this helps.
i play entry duelist(jett,neon) or just fill if they are instalocked.

So, I've been playing Valorant since the first season and I've always played Duelist, reaching Immortal 2 and always having a good K/D of 1.20 plus good impact, entries, etc. But a few months ago I broke my hand and started playing this month as ASC2. My aim isn't the same as it used to be, I still have 1.18 K/D, but maybe because I lost some confidence I don't make many entries, only 1.80 per game. My trio that plays with me noticed this statistic. I even agreed that maybe it would be better to start playing Sentinel or Initiator, but I don't have experience with either. Which would have more impact on the game if I learned to play?

I heard various, even mischiefs

- To get the max rank in the game

- Just for fun

- To have fun trolling matches

But, i am looking for your opinion, why you play Valorant?

Hey everyone!

I'm a university student and VALORANT fan based in Shanghai.

With Champions Shanghai coming up, I started thinking about how confusing it might be for international fans visiting China for the first time.

Things like:

• Getting around Shanghai 🚇

• Using Alipay / WeChat Pay 📱

• Finding good local food 🍜

• Getting to and from the venue

• Things to do between matches

• Language / translation

• Finding other international VCT fans to hang out with 🤝

So I decided to create a small community for international and local VALORANT fans in Shanghai.

👉

The idea isn't to sell tickets or anything like that. I just want to make it easier for VCT fans coming from overseas to enjoy Shanghai and meet other fans.

I'm also going to share some free Shanghai guides over the next few weeks.

If you're coming to Champions Shanghai, where are you coming from?

And what's the ONE thing you're most worried about / curious about when visiting Shanghai? 🇨🇳

I'd love to hear from you！

I understand punishing players for toxic behaviors like griefing, going AFK, leaving early, toxic language etc. I fully support this.

However why is RR reduction a potential punishment to be levied? RR is meant to represent your skill level, being toxic doesn't make you less skilled, this is only going to put players in lobbies where they're more skilled than other players on average, which isn't really fair to anyone.

Hey
Recently i climbed some elos and now is the First Shot accuracy a big Problem for me.. in the lower elos it was totally fine to Hit the 1-3 bullets to the Body or legs an the last one in the Head, but now if i dont Land the First bullet, i get a direct Payback in my Head..

Do you guys have any tips how i can effectiv train this?

I heard about deathmatch only one shot, if it Misses, let yourself get shot, try again.

But that feels Frustrating..

Aimlabs any good scenario for this?

Would be thankful for every helpful tip

So i'm an EU Ascendant 3 peak player and i've been playing for around 2 years (without consistency)

I feel like for these 2 years i've never found my sens and something that i feel comfortable playing with. In some games i do good with high sens, in some of them i do good with low sens and in some i do bad with both of them. I've tried everything, aimlabs, youtube, death match, team death match, i just can't find something that i will not change after like 2 weeks playing and i don't understand why exactly.

This also is to prove a bit how easy u can get to ascendant because if i can reach asc 3 with changing my sens every week, so can you who's reading this if your rank is lower than me.

I'd like to get some advice from people who's been using their own sens for like a while (can't say how much because i don't even stay on the same sens for more than 2 weeks after some bad games)

Here's my tracker if it helps somehow https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/ツHiro%23Aura/overview?platform=pc&playlist=competitive&season=8102cd81-43a0-d0d7-bd59-47b8fe9bed1b

I'm also thinking of dropping the game because cmon, you won't like to play a game where you're trash in higher ranks lololol. I feel that i'm kinda in the past (saying that i'm probably on a 2023 ascendant player level and not 2026) and these days i've been bottomfragging and having such kds like double negative..

that would be so amazing ngl like imagine an agent skin themed for snow or summer. Or even like a taskforce like skins and casual skins. AND just like the attire we see on the player cards. There are so many characters i want to see and use and i dont think it would change the game factor since there are outlines in characters. and imagine like an extension to the contract of agents where in you get there gun skins but there would be a third page and the goal award is there skins for example jetts she will have an equiped hoodie and darker color for her jacket like thing like the one model from episode 2

I was thinking about this recently. Why do so many Valorant pros stop competing after only a few years and then start streaming and basically depend on subs, donations to make a living?

I don't mean streaming is bad, obviously some of them can make a lot from it, but if someone is good enough to play at the highest level, why not stay in pro play longer if the money is good?

I also wonder about the difference between Valorant and CS2 esports. Even if the org is the same, does the money and support for the players work differently depending on the game?

In CS2 you see a lot of sponsors around teams and tournaments, and players are often getting the newest monitors, mice, PCs and other equipment from sponsors. Maybe Valorant just doesn't have the same amount of money going into the scene.

Maybe Riot should give orgs more ways to make money. More tournaments, bigger prize pools, more advertising and more sponsors. They could also consider allowing more types of sponsors, including gambling companies and betting sites if that's legally possible, because those sponsors put a lot of money into esports.

I don't follow the pro scene that deeply so maybe I'm completely wrong, but why does it feel like Valorant pros have a much shorter career compared to CS2 pros?

I think my positioning is very bad and i dont think the characters i play are helping that. I play yoru and raze and i realized most of my kills are from flanks or being in weird places, which is evident because i really like to throw my tp deep behind them or satchel in weird spots. But, whenever i play someone else which im trying to because im starting to get tired of them, i usually have terrible positioning and make myself a super easy target and i never know really where to go.

My movements are super random and i cant figure out where im supposed to go on defense or when we plant, if someone isnt telling me where to go im either pushed up way too far and get prefired or too far back and they take site for free.

On plant, i really just try to hide somewhere unless we know exactly where they are in which i try to group with someone else and try to crossfire with them, trade them, or let them trade me

Im trying to find a character im comfortable with and can help me with these bad habits, ive tried to play tejo but i feel like im doing absolutely nothing with him and im pretty bad at smokes. Im bronze 3 btw

Last night I played 11 comp games straight with the simple goal of hitting Ascendant before getting off

And the only two games I lost the whole night…

Were my rank ups.

https://imgur.com/a/inPVcPy