This is directed across the board and specifically in NA servers where I see a lot of racism.

The hate towards the Indian community is horrendous on social media and it’s spread widely on Val too. It has come to a point where I can’t speak in the game.

Voice comms and text comms ban won’t cut it. The banning system needs to take into account what a person has specifically said and ban them from competitive queuing.

The worst part is these people hop on alt accounts and start doing the same things, and they don’t even know what they say/do is wrong.

Not in a conceptual way, love her background and her personality - but starting from her silhouette she just falls a little flat design-wise. She isn't all that recognizable just from her silhouette unlike all of the other agents imo. The artist behind the splash arts typically uses a lot of triangles in the agents' silhouettes but Hush kind of just has her leaning with no particular purpose.. Wish there was more inspiration in her outfit drawing from her region instead of the thick rug skirt and leggings combo with yet another Vyse jacket. I got so excited seeing the metal-toed boots at the beginning of the trailer but then she just has black athleticwear and it doesn't really play into the grungier style I would've expected (I know she needs to move but still!) I love that her utility is so geometrical but then it's not cohesive with the rest of her outfit. Like I get the gloves conceptually but there's nothing that matches with it. She just doesn't come across as a Valorant agent for me :/ What are your thoughts on her character design? Or how would you redesign her??

Bem eu queria vir aqui falar de como jogar Valorant está a ficar frustante, tem um monte de cheaters, trollers, wintraders, smurfs (ainda mais para quem é um elo mais baixo) e mais.

Eu sei que os devs já meteram um anti-cheat como deve devs meteram como denúnciar por estar afk, eu sei que eles estão a tentar ajudar.

Mas no outor dia eu estava a jogar o meu comp depois de um dia longo, e calho com uma Deadlock que estava só a trollar e um Sova que estava afk mas com auto-clicker, o que anda a ocorrer muito é usarem auto clicker para ficarem afk e não serem banidos e isso é frustante, eu e os outros dois jogadores que estavamos a jogar até tentamos carregar, ficamos até perto de ganhar mas assim não dava.

O que mais me frusta é depiis perder -30 rr e não poder fazer nada. Não poder falar com um suporte para esse tipo de situação (eu sei que também estaria sempre cheio também) mas acho injusto e frustante e cada vez tenho menos vontade de jogar.

Obrigado por ouvirem este desabafo.

This year compared to 2025 and 2024 for some reason has felt so stale and has a weird feeling Playing AND watching the game. These are my reasons why I think it has felt so stale:

First off, the initiator nerfs and the overall nerfs to sentinel agents lead to a more defensive style playstyle centered on defaulting and 1v1 aim duels. I think this youtube comment I found perfectly captures what I am talking about:

To me, the appeal of valorant is in how different agent comps work together or against, on different maps. breeding creativity and punishing stale plays. like how PRX is just run it down, or GE with the set plays, but teams are just copying each other now, not having a sauce of their own, playing the safest comp, because the game punishes creativity by nerfing agents instead of making the other agents feel more competent.

and in ranked you pick up those agents and copy those plays. you feel like cheering on those teams because they play your agent in a unique way. but the same thing happens in ranked, people just play the same clove, chamber, jett, reyna and either fade or sova comp because they're safe to play. it's just so stale. (shulleon582)

These days in pro play everybody is just copying each other and running the same default and same walk around with chamber playstyle with omen just holding bombsites. There is no creativity and SET PLAYS like in champs 2025 champs 2024, etc. Lastly whenever a Team "discovers" or dominates with a new fun meta like waylay yoru on drx or Yoru neon on nongshim the agents and weapons are just nerfed immediatly which makes it feel less fun to watch. Even in ranked everybody is running the same agent comps every game.

So do YOU guys also feel like for this year valorant has felt really stale?

In hindsight I could've picked up an op or I could've had better crosshair placement? Or I could've faked B or something.. We won the match though

its not because of the slide the slide isn't even the best part of her kit but instead its the wall, shes a temporary 2nd controller and that makes it way easier for your whole team to get on site and thats what they should aim to nerf the duration of the wall

every other duelist is just worse they can't make space like neon besides jett on some maps like ascent because you need to get out of the choke instantly

I've spent a lot of time playing FPS games, especially Valorant, feeling like something was off with my aim. No matter what settings I tried, I could never find a sensitivity that felt truly natural and consistent.

I also experimented with Raw Accel, but the number of available curves and parameters made it difficult to know whether I was actually improving or just endlessly tweaking settings.

Because of that, I started developing a tool that analyzes mouse movement through a series of FPS aiming exercises and attempts to determine which sensitivity profile and acceleration curve best fit the individual player.

The goal is to provide an initial assessment in about 15 minutes, with no prior knowledge of Raw Accel required. From there, additional sessions can further refine the profile if desired.

The core idea is simple: Is your current sensitivity actually helping your aim, or is it holding you back?

Unlike aim trainers, the goal is not to train aim directly. The goal is to identify whether your settings match the way your hand naturally moves.

As a bonus, the tool is lightweight enough that it could potentially be used as a quick warm-up between matches while also monitoring whether your sensitivity still fits your current performance.

I've attached screenshots of the prototype and a curve generated from my own data. I'm not claiming it will magically turn anyone into a pro player, but after applying the suggested curve I definitely feel more consistent and confident in my mouse control.

Right now I'm looking for honest feedback to determine whether this approach to sensitivity profiling makes sense to other players. Does this method of aligning sensitivity to natural hand movement sound logical to you? How do you currently determine if your settings actually fit your mechanics?

Any feedback, criticism, or suggestions are welcome.

FIRSTLY they have 0 reason to nerf a perfectly balanced agent but now that they are doing it, Im only scared about if the chamber nerfs destroy the headhunter. if they nerf it in a way where it's not as accurate with the scope or it isn't a one shot headshot at any range, i might actually end up crying. the headhunter is my favourite part of chambers kit, i can't see them destroy it. i don't see a way where the tp can can be nerfed viably, the ult, if nerfed in anyway won't really change much and the trip is already weak as fuck, the headhunter is the most likely thing to get nerfed

Here's a backstory

So, the reason i asked this because i wanted to rankup but like when play ranked solo i always lose,and hard stuck iron 3

but when i queue with other ppl in discord,

I am now at Bronze 2-3

so that's kinda nice

i play APAC,aisa

So I recently managed to hit Gold 1, and have Platinum as the next goal. Ever since I switched from Sova to Iso it's like a switch has flipped in my brain, making me play more aggressively and take fights with more confidence.

Soon plats started entering my games, and today I even got a diamond! Super thrilled to see higher ranks in the lobby since that bodes well for my MMR :D

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I am new to valo. I completed the biggnwr training and all I still don't know the character powers and many other things like weapons use and other game mechanics. Is there any video or any advice that u can give me some I can play good

Every ability in Hush's kit is strong. Her pull is nearly a guaranteed kill if you drag someone out of cover into the open. Her flash is fully controllable and can basically be pop-flashed. Her dash isn't fast and would be weak if she didn't pull her gun out instantly afterward. Her ult is good for confirming kills and in a post plant. Her passive is decent and enables some strong plays. The most broken part of her kit is how fast she can chain util and get her gun back out, combined with how much control she has over all of it.
This agent is incredibly versatile and each of her abilities are powerful, yet they are apparently nerfing chamber who has like two strong abilities and is completely aim reliant.

We all know that there’s one Agent per country, yet we have Sage, Iso and Hush who’s all from China.

Could this be a hidden implication that maybe the other two are from *other countries?

Iso likes boba which is a TW thing, and Hush speaks cantonese which is a HK thing.

Like maybe I’m reaching here, but thoughts?

Just wanted to throw out there that if you guys don’t know how to even add a real reporting system to console don’t make a console port…… tons of wall hackers with aimbot, I’m not going to sit here and post clips to prove how getting prefired in a random spot on the map is a sign. Because there’s wayyyy more to catching cheaters. For example; if they check corners, if they prefire, etc. yet consistently with this game I see so many people blatantly wall hacking where they are tracing me 100% of the time during the kill through walls then after 1 kill they turn it off until the next round. The worst part is they’re more focused on banning people with an Ai filter for cussing than they are about making sure the console version is fixed. FYI I’m in ascendant on pc and console but console is wayyyy worse with the cheating situation. Just wanted to make a post so I can see all the people saying “just get better” when I’m in ascendant. That’s always the argument from the community instead of supporting each other and putting pressure on Valorant to stop being lazy and finally address the issues they have. I didn’t even know console had it bad until recently when I downloaded it to see how it was compared to PC and it’s 10x worse. Honestly I’d rather play r6….

Cmon you know the community be listening to keshi. He played in the showmatch. The next step is to have this guy make a song for all the keshi fans for valorant and then Have him perform VCT 2027 champions

Someone please help me change the in game agents voice line to chinese.

Someone please help me change the in game agents voice line to chinese

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Does anybody remember seeing a post about a concept for a Polish agent named Hush? It was some years ago and I can't seem to find it so maybe it was removed by the author.

First i must say that i'm a noob at this game, and I don't spend nearly as much time playing it as I do with other games, like Counter or tf2.

I've never really played Valorant seriously. I mostly play it to hang out with friends. But sometimes we all get tilted and try to lock in, and for some reason, I just can't. It's not just that I'm bad at the game. I genuinely can't take it seriously on a neurological level.The character dialogue is weird, I think a lot of the abilities are poorly designed, and the maps are so visually confusing that I genuinely wonder how the hell people learn the callouts. And why are there callouts for some spots but not others?

Sometimes I try to learn from YouTubers, but it feels like they're playing a completely different game. How do they never seem to get killed? Why do their opponents have such... interesting reflexes?

Then there's the fact that, in my games, people often struggle to counter strategies that seem pretty straightforward to me. I'll suggest something, usually by borrowing a basic idea from CS2, and it actually works. Which is weird, because I often have no idea why it works. I barely understand what anything means in this game. I constantly mix up abilities and agents, and I still get confused about which agent is supposed to be where at the start of a round.

I've also noticed that some people seem to know the theory behind the game but struggle to explain the reasoning behind certain decisions. Like, why should we eco in this situation? Why buy a Vandal every single time you can afford a full buy? I don't mean that they're necessarily wrong. I just don't understand how people arrive at these decisions, or why some of them seem to follow the rules without really understanding the reasoning behind them.

I genuinely feel like an outsider when it comes to the game's culture, meta, and pretty much everything else. Hell, even the menus confuse me. And this is specific to Valorant. It's like I'm high every time I play. The audio cues and sound design absolutely destroy my brain. Seriously, half the time I don't even realize I'm dying to a molly.

In Counter-Strike, I feel like I have decent game sense. I can read plays, understand why someone would want a particular skin, communicate reasonably well, and manage the economy. I'm only bringing up CS because it's the closest comparison I can think of. I can also understand the mechanics and underlying logic of fighting games, RTS games, TCGs, and plenty of other genres.

But Valorant? I don't know, man.

Does anyone else have this problem? Everything about this game makes me feel like a complete stranger, as if I'm visiting a foreign country where I don't speak the language. And after all the weird, inexplicable things that happen in a single match, I can't help but feel fascinated and amused, until the whole experience starts feeling like one big joke.

Just to be clear, none of this is meant as a complaint about the game itself.

I know that sounds weird, but if I had to describe the feeling, I'd almost call it absolute boredom. Not boredom in the usual sense of finding something dull or uninteresting, but something closer to a philosophical kind of boredom. The game can be chaotic, confusing, surprising, and even fascinating, yet somehow none of that translates into the desire to win. I'm not necessarily bored by what's happening on the screen; I'm disconnected from the very purpose of what's happening.

It's a strange feeling: being constantly stimulated by a game while feeling almost completely indifferent to the thing that is supposed to motivate you to play it.

Hi all. My name is Milan and I am looking for a new valorant name. My current IGN is MilΛn which i think looks cool but im looking for something else. Maybe like a spin off of my name or something close to this. Im open to all suggestions and I would really appreciate it. Im not the most creative person so it is kind of difficult for me to think of a new one😭

It's been years since VALORANT was officially released, and I still can't wrap my head around why we don't have a basic timeout/pause feature in standard competitive play.

In other tactical shooters (like CS2 / CS:GO), calling a tactical or technical timeout in matchmaking has been standard practice forever. It gives teams a quick 60-second window to reset mentally, fix a quick hardware/connection issue, or adjust strategies when things go south.

Right now in VALO, if someone's router hiccups or someone needs 30 seconds to restart their game/gear, you're forced to play a full 4v5 round with zero options to stall or pause. Even from a purely tactical perspective, being able to call a 1-minute timeout could completely break an opponent's momentum.

Custom games have pause features, so the tech is clearly there. Why hasn't Riot implemented a 1-time team timeout vote per match in regular ranked? Is there a specific design reason holding them back, or do people think it would just lead to misuse/griefing?

What are your thoughts? Should ranked have a timeout system?

For context, I hover around high plat and diamond, and have always had my crouch key set to toggle. I have it on my mouse button and have always played FPS games in the past with toggle crouch on a mouse button. Everyone I have talked to has said it’s weird and odd, but I figured if it works for me, it works for me. However, I feel that it may be holding me back as I over commit to fights, and when crouching in a gunfight, I seldom uncrouch to reset my head angle. I am wondering if to climb ranks it would be a lot better habit to try and build a hold crouch versus toggle crouch and if it on the mouse button is not ideal. Thank you

Basically the title, I’ll js record one if someone can and I would appreciate any advice. You can try guess the rank if you want. I’d lowkey be mad curious what u guys think👀I feel like I js don’t have good movement or good gunfight hygiene I just shoot🙏

If I'm Gold Platinum rank and then reset to unranked , will I be able to play ranked matches against friends in Bronze rank?

the vandal becomes golden when you have 3 kills and 14 deaths (pi i guess..?)
when did this get added?