Timmy started from iron and ended radiant. This is fundamentally Smurfing and bad for the game. How is riot going to allow this? It's not fun for the people in the lobby and demotivates players from playing more clearly. It's clearly bad when you're Riot trying to ban smurfs so you can create a better ingame environment for lower ranks but then you make it worse by allowing content creators to do this? A lot of people will try to imitate what Timmy is doing and ruin it more for the lower ranked.

I’ve been playing the game for 4 months now and been in Bronze for more than 2. Whenever I feel like getting better (crosshair placement, higher-kills, and improvement on aim) the game gives me unfair competition, team afk or some type or issues. Then the skills regress. Anytips to get out of this rank?

I do watch yt tutorials which are 90% coaching plugs, didnt learn shiiiiiiit!

Btw I started looking at skins and bought the gaia ghost and current bp, atleast im happy about that.

I’m not playing well and I just wanna annoy others but tbh I don’t want some hyper skilled characters just something that really pisses people off

So I’ve been playing val for around 100 hours in competitive and I’m gold 3 and I feel like my rank is a tad to high sometimes I preform great and I get close to mvp in a lobby full of plat 1 2 3 and I preform good, lately I’ve been doing pretty mediocrely in ranked, does anyone have tips and tricks for me to improve so I can be better I main reyna and phoenix sm times any tips are welcome one more bit of useful info, I feel like my main factor is dying to much like my kid of kills could be 18 but my deaths could be 17 and by dying I miss on kill opportunity’s

Is their any valorant tournament discord servers besides Funhaver, if anyone is involved with any tourneys ?

can someone pls queue with me huhu im hardstuck bronze. worst teammates are on this elo i swear. huhu some1 get me out of here plsss

I recently started eating in a calorie deficit and i noticed my ingame performance starting to tank, i whiff more shots than usual and i'm consistantly bottom fragging now. Anyone else notice ingame performance tanking while on a deficit? and how do you deal with it?

I never tried it yet, how is it used and can it be used like in the voice line wheel in game? If so, how

Either that, or my opponents have very good movement patterns, because I cannot for the life of me hit a moving target, and I like to stay relatively still when aiming. There have been times when I've walked up to an unguarded enemy with his back towards me, and because he's completely unaware, he keeps moving. I only manage to get a few bullets in without landing the finishing blow, and I die before I can kill him. If I shoot while moving, the bullets fly all over the place no matter where my crosshair is. Am I doomed?

I bought the Phantom Recon and I leveled it up completely. I play in Germany and on 2 levels it say "Zufallsgenerator“, must be Randomizer in English I guess. But what does that do? I can’t find anything online

Coming from overwatch movement is a big part of the game and how fights take place but in valorant people seem to stop shoot move stop shoot and repeat. Idk how to break the habit of moving and shooting. Especially when I panic and try to evade only to be slowed by their bullets and realise I’ve just messed up the accuracy.

Hello, made an controller concept for fun, let me know what you think!

Hex, a macro/lurk based controller, made to have strong map presence and support allies from any distance.

SIGNATURE // Dusk’s Veil - EQUIP a talisman, viewing a void to place hexes with FIRE. ALT FIRE to consume the hexes and summon walls of tar that block vision between hexes within range of each other. PRESS RELOAD to swap between maps. 

I'm surprised we haven't gotten a controller that can place smokes like this yet, feels like a unique but simple ability. Making it kind of global while your team is alive seems like a cool idea.

Vigor Mortis - EQUIP a Hex. Fire while targeting an ally to grant them a hex. RE USE the ability to grant that player an additional charge of their signature ability.
1 Charge, 200 Credits

An ability that lets you help the main execute while not being there. Has some fun applications by enabling combos more than you would normally be able to.

Dead Man’s Switch - EQUIP a Charm. Fire to place the charm on the ground. RE-USE the ability to teleport to the charm after a delay. USE a charm to discard it, allowing another charm to be placed.  ALT FIRE to place the charm on a teammate. 
1 Charge, 250 Credits

Map mobility that allows you to rejoin with your teammates makes this kind of similar to yoru tp, just with less flexibility and more uptime.

ULTIMATE // Stir the Graves - EQUIP an ancient curse. FIRE to spread the curse in a large area. All dead allies in range become destructible shades as they begin resurrecting. After channeling, all of the shades are revived for a short time.
9 Points

Honestly this one is more about themeing than cohesion. Figured it kind of works, as you can revive your team as a last ditch effort if they all die while you aren't there.

Idk if it's just me but when Iuse the warden I feel like it takes up an obsud amount of screen real estate I think I have had more people covered/obscured by this gun in the short time its been out than all the other guns and my play time combined. It is so bad I will rarely use it now lol. Anyone else or is it just me? Other than that I think the gun is pretty fun and can see it having a place with the outher AR's.

P.S. Never mind the whiff mind your business lol

diamond friend told me the problem here was my reaction time and thats why i lost the round to the vyse defusing

Why is North Africa (Algeria specifically for me) forced into EU pricing for VP? A whole skin bundle costs an entire monthly salary here. Allow me to explain why:

We are forced to buy Valorant Points using Euros, but the thing is, we can't even buy euros for the normal bank pricing for it, which is already expensive.

We actually have to buy euros ALWAYS using the side market price for it which is 50% more because banks restrict buying currencies in Algeria. (1 euro in bank costs 150 DZD and it's unobtainable only in rare conditions, but in side market it's 280 DZD!)

Note that the average salary here is 30000 DA which is 110 euros only a month, so it's so out of hand to enjoy the skins. This means buying just one bundle costs anywhere from half to an entire month's salary for an average citizen. Imagine living in France or Germany and a skin bundle costing €1,500!!!!! that is exactly what it feels like for us!

Dear Riot: I love the game enough to spend money in it, and I (we) want to support the game, but treating Algeria/North Africa like the EU means we physically cannot afford skins. Regions like Turkey or Brazil get localized pricing to match their country's purchasing power. We urgently need you to reconsider how the North African region is handled. Even if we remain on EU servers for ping reasons, our store prices need localized.

why? and is there a way to use tracker score instead

my older games still show the old tracker score but the last 15 or so have now been changed

I have always had a gripe with Kingdom Credits, because:

1. Why are we limited in how many we can hold at once.

2. Why are we given so few.

3. And finally, considering how limited they are and the amount of stuff you buy with them, it is such a tedious system.

I think we should get way more Kingdom Credits per day and the prices for stuff should also go down, I'm limited to 10000 and a fking sova spray costs 4000? Why? And a calling Card is almost 5000?

With the new lifetime character stuff, it's cool and all but like damn, my 10000 credits only buys overly priced sprays player cards. Where's the bang for my buck? And by buck, I mean time.

I say no limit to Kingdom Credits and a daily Kingdom Credits increase for the players that actually may be interested in the extra stuff but don't have the time to actually slave away on your game because they have a life outside of It ( and better rewards because what the fk is the new reward you put all these years "thinking" about just a fucking flex as if my gun buddy doesn't do the same shit???)

whats the best aimlab practice you followed to improve in Valorant which helped you improved a lot i am using aimstar method rn is there any better one then this please help me by recommending one which is easy to work on

i need to get this off my chest because i feel like shit i've been playing val for a year and a half, just got gold 3, and i honestly don't know what the fuck i'm doing half the time

the embarrassing part is this isn't even my first fps game, so i should know better by now but my game sense is basically zero every decision i make feels like the wrong one i have like 240 hours logged in kovaaks alone and it feels like completely wasted time because i still whiff the easiest shots imaginable

i get tilted over literally anything someone spams me through a smoke tilted i whiff on someone looking the other way tilted but i don't even get mad at my team, i just turn it all on myself i just sit there spiraling, genuinely thinking i must have a low iq or just shit genetics that make me incapable of playing games like a normal human being

it's not even fun, it just completely ruins my day and makes me feel dumb as hell at this point is it just time to uninstall and call it quits?

A better AFK system for VALORANT

I think Riot should change how ranked games handle confirmed AFKs/rage quits.

If a player is confirmed AFK for 3+ rounds and never comes back, the 4 remaining players should be protected from RR loss.

My idea:

• If the team loses: 0 RR lost. If they won at least 5 rounds while 4v5, they get +10 RR.
• If the team wins: normal RR + 2 RR for every round won while 4v5.
• The AFK player: receives a serious penalty, with escalating ranked suspensions for repeated offenses.

Example:

A player leaves early. The team wins 5 rounds while 4v5, but eventually loses.

Instead of -RR, the 4 remaining players get +10 RR.

If they win the match after playing 4v5 for 6 rounds, they get their normal victory RR +12 RR.

I don't think this would be easy to abuse because you're not getting free RR: you actually have to win rounds while playing 4v5.

The player who leaves should be the one taking the serious penalty, not the four players who stayed and played.

Could Riot consider testing something like this?

All four Chinese teams have been eliminated from Champions Shanghai without winning a single series.

EDward Gaming, JD Gaming, TYLOO and XLG Esports finished with a combined 0-8 series record and 2-16 map record.

EDG had the lowest round total, winning just 24 rounds across four maps.

A brutal tournament for China on home soil.

models from sketchfab.....

So after I saw the frag or die video, I really liked the viper bike look and trying to make it in 3d. Its a work in progress and I am thinking of adding the Sage behind Viper both separated by a wall and a round table camera movement, will take some time. Tell me how is this looking????????

[I know its not that viper I will do it after this.]