TLDR; Pick’ Ems for Champs, penalties for stream sniping and instalock tools, and future changes to the Agent Gear system so make sure to grind it out and get all the items now!

The game should be able to detect all your accounts that you have and ban your main if you troll on an alt from the same computer/IP address or phone number.

A simple solution to the Alt Account epidemic that is in Valorant where people (including me) have multiple Valorant accounts and some may feel the need to act toxic on these accounts when they would never do it on their main. Faceit in CS enforces a hard NO multi-account abuse and they will ban your main account if you have a Smurf account. Obviously Valorant allows Alt Accounts (which I am fine with if used properly), but Valorant should be able to detect someone’s main/alt account through IP addresses or computer hardware and ban someone on their main if they are abusive on their alt.

I’m not saying NO to alt accounts if used properly. I think alt accounts are good for combating ranked anxiety or climbing properly on a different account, just playing the game normally. Just that if an instance someone starts being a freak on their alt account (very common in Immortal+), their main account should be identified by the system and banned too.

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Lately my team comps have been 2 or 3 instalock Duellists that do everything but enter a site. Rather than whine about it again, I figure I should switch roles from Sentinel to Initiator so our team can be more proactive when on attack.

It doesn't necessarily have to be the best initiator but one with the easiest learning curve. Someone who isn't map dependent and ideally with not many lineups to memorize. I tried Sova a couple of times, but I didn't particular like his kit.

Hello everyone.

After 1 year of not playing Valorant I decided to come back and start playing again. I've been enjoying the game so far and the modes I currently play are Swiftplay (I find it more chill and I use it as a warm-up) and Unrated (to get used to the economy, rounds so I can later play Ranked).

The agents I mostly play as of right now are Kay/o and Fade. I really like their abilities and I also think they are helpful to the team too.

There are 29 total playable agents each one of them having their one specialties and abilities as well as strengths/weaknesses.

Out of them all, what single agent do you think is the most annoying/terryfing to play against by someone who has mastered that agent? Like that agents where you feel hopeless and the game is over before it even begins.

Let me know what you think. Thanks!

I saw some people uploading their deathmatch vod and some people gave really good advice to them so i wanted to to the same too.

I lose so many 1v1s as you guys can see from the vod, i'm actually losing my mind about the fact that i suck this much and been trying to get better, i am just stuck at where i am. please guide me. what do i need to work on based on this deathmatch? Is it aim? work on strafing? crosshair placement? movement?

Thank you everyone in advance even if you take a look at the vod for 5 seconds. Love this community.

rank: plat2

Edit: Thank you so much everyone, this is even more helpful than i could ever imagine. Thank you so much

Does anyone know what this is? I won this at EMEA Gamechangers final last weekend but after I redeemed the card, it just showed this to me and nothing happened. I'd appreciate any input on what the hell this is lol.

Like they are literally making new accounts and playing against actual Iron, Bronze, Silver players just for content. Isn't smurfing against TOS?

I don't really understand why Riot doesn't do anything when they are streaming it and uploading it to YouTube for everyone to see.

Maybe Riot should do something like Faceit with ID verification for at least one account per person. Obviously it wouldn't stop everything, but it would probably help a lot with smurfs.

Just kinda weird seeing normal players get punished for smurfing while Radiant streamers can make a whole YouTube series out of it.

Can someone explain to me how miks did not die here? I get he is in the healing ability, but if a vandal does 160, how was he still 34 HP after I shot him in the head?

Did the healing someone tick between the damage going from 150 to 0? He was 100 health 50 shield prior to me shooting him, ending on 34 after I shoot him in the head

I've noticed I mess up almost all of my attacks on summit. I play really well on defense but when it comes to attack my kills drop substantially. Almost every single summit game I played, it goes overtime because of this issue. Both teams play well on defense and bad on attack.

I'm a clove main and in b2 currently. I find this problem mainly in A site. One smoke is enough for my whole team to become stagnant. If we enter we get caught from all the angles. Sova isn't picked much in my teams, and fades haunt doesn't expose everyone, tejos drone can cover only one side. Can someone pls tell me how can I attack well on summit?

For the first time ever I experienced having a radiant in my game. Im asc 3 rn, and have been on a hot streak recently, I knew eventually it would happen, but this was my first time.

For me, it was ascent, and essentially if anyone peaked him, they died, if he was in a 1v3 he won, like 3 times in a row.

It was genuinely so shocking to see someone make correct play after correct play, and not only that, but not make a mistake that cost his life unreasonably

I'm interested to know if this was as shocking to others as it was me.

hiii, I peaked dia2. currently dia1 and I’ve been stuck in getting back to dia2 lately. I mostly play solo and I know I play inconsistently, but after several games tonight I can’t help but feel demotivated and lost, especially since after one bad game (Sunset-Omen) I got put into a match wherein the average rank was gold3 (Summit-Omen). I often place 6th-7th in average dia1 games. Also, I got -20 rr in a lost match where I MVPed; it was the first time I MVPed this Act and I expected to lose 15-17 rr only, so I was really surprised to get -20. Now I’m dia1 0rr, and although I still have two shields from being demoted, I feel frustrated as I’ve reached around dia1 80rr already just the other day and was one win away from dia2 before things went astray. I feel like the rr and matchmaking system has been more unfair and difficult lately so I guess I just wanna hear some thoughts if I’m the only one having an experience like this. Would also greatly appreciate it if you guys could take a look at my tracker and suggest on what I should improve. thank youu!

valo tracker profile

the useful part isnt really whether someone has a key at 0.1 or 0.2. look at which keys they treat differently.

movement usually needs a very different feel from abilities, reload, crouch or space. if you make the whole board equally sensitive, accidental presses can become more annoying than whatever speed you gained.

a much easier way to tune it:

• start with movement.
• play for a while without touching anything else.
• if a key keeps going off when you didnt mean to press it, make that key less sensitive.
• only change one thing at a time.

otherwise you end up with six new settings and no idea which one made the keyboard feel better.

Used to be D3 one game off Asc and used to get accused of smurfing in mainly Ascendant lobbies. I've had just under 3 years away where I haven't had a gaming PC due to starting a family.

I'm now G3 and finishing mid table on my teams, in awful lobbies that are G3-P1 mainly. Old me would've destroyed these lobbies and it's so frustrating. I only get to play 2 games (maybe 3 max occasionally) in one sitting compared to pre family games where it'd be 10+ so how do I reach my old levels with less game time and 3 years of rust?

Any tips, besides the obvious 'just play'? :)

https://imgur.com/a/KErnIXT

Hello! so first i am from APAC server (sorry if my english isnt good),u can check my tracker The Fool#1704

i have been playing since Episode 2. and all i have ever managed to reach is just plat-diamond 1 only. i feel like i dont know what to improve on myself actually. my sens is 1600dpi and 0.175 sens. sometimes i can carry my team and sometimes its just me in the middle of the pack. i always watch vct and supported paper rex and nrg, and usually if im in game with my friends, im the one who give strats to them for what to do. im a flex and usually i play duelist and smoker. im also a crouch sprayer guy, but not every fight, i just like crouch spraying. i have fun playing this game but then, i want to be good at this game cause i have been playing this game for a long time and i just feel sad that im still stuck here.

my question is what do i have to do actually to be better, cause i watched pro plays, i watched some youtube videos, so i really dont know what to improve on. if someone is willing to help me please do and if u wanna watch vod can ask me, cause i dont know how to post my video here.

Thank you so much!

I’ve been playing for about 2 months and it’s my first go at a game like this. I’m having a lot of fun regardless of some of the more difficult games. Can’t wait to learn and get better !

Hi everybody. I made a video about all the sounds that go into Veto's ult. Take a look!

Here is a link to the full breakdown video in case you want to deep dive: https://youtu.be/3JjAK2uhxM4

I play Valorant. My peak is Ascendant 3 on my main, but now I'm Diamond 2 due to having a job. I got a 14-day ban for toxicity and am currently playing on a smurf. For some reason, playing in Diamond–Ascendant lobbies feels much easier — players are more readable, gunfights are much easier, and bullets literally land on the head on the first shot. My smurf is currently Gold 2, and my performance is extremely inconsistent. Sometimes I can't win basic duels, I'm scared to lurk on defense, opponents are totally unreadable, and yet in other games I drop 30+ kills with a 2–2.5 KD, while other times I barely manage a 1 KD. For context: on my main I'm a flex player, but I mostly play Fade/Killjoy/Cypher. On the smurf, I only play duelists.
Is this normal situation or is only mine problem (maybe psychological or smth). I just can’t play my own game like on main.

as the title says, i feel like every person has something they did or thought as a beginner in valorant and thought it’s a part of the game.
for me it’s when i played my first ever match right after the tutorial, and i thought “buy phase” was the games guide telling me to buy the gun “phase”, i went around google and everywhere else to find what is the phase only to realise it was literally the buy phase.

I got to my first full plat lobby today as a gold player, and as usual no one on the team was using my util. This was on haven as sova. After a round, a duelist asked "can you dart and drone?" after I had done both, scanned two on site with the dart, and tagged one with the drone, no one pushed, everyone sitting main waiting for... something. It's that something I'm trying to figure out. They said I used it "too fast". What are they waiting for? Am I supposed to wait until they're already onsite to recon? That seems insane to me. Is there body language I can watch for? Am I just supposed to use util entirely selfishly? My winrate on skye is much higher than sova I think because I can follow up on flash and dog more easily, but maybe I should try to extend that mindset to sova.

That is the one question I have though: if everyone just refuses to do anything on attack, do I just use util for myself, push on site solo, and hope for the best? I have done this and again, they still literally just sit main. It's not literally every game, sometimes there's coordination, but it's genuinely probably over half of games where this is basically every round. Anyway a bit of a rant but yeah. And does this change in, say diamond+ lobbies at all? I am hopeful it does.

here's to hoping my request gets approved. if it does though, will it be by the time the store is reset? yes i know i can't draw lmao.

I play at 2 sensitivities

0.125 at 1600 (Arm aiming)

and

0.25 at 1600 (Wrist/Forearm)

Now, Obviously, we have the default pros and cons, i.e, low lets you hit headshots more, and high lets you hit flicks easier.

For me, i do well in both,

Low sens:

My arm gets tired after playing on low for long

There are instances that I am not able to place my croshair on time or adjust during combat

I do end up hitting crazy flicks sometimes and have good holding abilities.

I am able to track corners while scaling, but again tires my arm.

High sens:

I'm able to place my crosshair and move around 100% better

I'm not able to hit headshots as often especially in mid to long range fights.

I can reset my crosshair much often and easier than low sens and do end up performing well

I can track corners welland flick if needed.

I feel like it seems biased towards high sens.

Now, like everyone with radiant dreams, i want the opinion of asc/immo/radiant players, should i play with a low or high sens.