Griding Valorant

Do you guys genuinely grind Valorant and love it? I love tac shooters, I played cs source since I was like 7. Source is different than Valo where you join specific servers, so you can play with the same crowd, make friends, very easy to just chill and get some great games in. Don't like that crowd? Just choose a different server. You could join communities of scrimmers and get a 10-man pub in 15 minutes and get 10 serious dudes trying to win. Even in CSGO's initial release, i made it to double ak(whatever it was called) with only a few weeks of grinding.

Val is SO hard to grind for me. The moment you get a troll or a DC, and your 3 rounds in, you basically just throw 45 minutes of your life down the drain, and its fuckn miserable just sitting there knowing your getting shit on, knowing you're going to take an L, and it just turns me off immediately. AND, not only that, but I lose rank points too? wtf

People will say hey that's any game, and IT SURE IS! but in apex? get shit on, I'm back in a game in 5, cod/warzone is instant requeue's, finals is the same as apex, etc etc.

How do yall do it?

I don't gotta worry I am the DC 🗿

RANK? & HOW LONG U BEEN GRINDING?

you just dont. its miserable

ufc [#3]

RANK? & HOW LONG U BEEN GRINDING?

Ehhh, I'll get on for a few days and then i get 2/3 shit games and it immediately turns me off for weeks, sometimes months. I love watching pro play because of the teamwork you see teams have, and when you get games like that in ranked its amazing, but i haven't legitimately played ranked in maybe 18 months because its a never endless circle of trolls/dc/instalocks etc

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Ehhh, I'll get on for a few days and then i get 2/3 shit games and it immediately turns me off for weeks, sometimes months. I love watching pro play because of the teamwork you see teams have, and when you get games like that in ranked its amazing, but i haven't legitimately played ranked in maybe 18 months because its a never endless circle of trolls/dc/instalocks etc

yeah but what is your rank, the thing is you have to get on the solo clutch mindset if you want to rank up which is ideal till you reach a certain rank, hence my reason for asking a rank, if you are a relatively higher rank I will suggest you to apply for a team and grind with teammates. I am assuming you are lower rank because you said you play the game quite inconsistently and not assuming your skill level, saying that I also suggest you dedicate a 10-15 minute session of skill training before your games and go into the games with a clutch mindset, setting up plays where you are comfortable to isolate duels and turn a 1 versus 4 into four separate 1 versus 1s. This does not necessarily mean that you need to play a duelist but rather use an agent which will help you achieve this objective. Regarding random teammates I would suggest turning off the members who are impeding your ability to focus and only communicating with the ones that are providing you information that is crucial to the game at hand.

i don't even play this game

ufc [#7]

yeah but what is your rank, the thing is you have to get on the solo clutch mindset if you want to rank up which is ideal till you reach a certain rank, hence my reason for asking a rank, if you are a relatively higher rank I will suggest you to apply for a team and grind with teammates. I am assuming you are lower rank because you said you play the game quite inconsistently and not assuming your skill level, saying that I also suggest you dedicate a 10-15 minute session of skill training before your games and go into the games with a clutch mindset, setting up plays where you are comfortable to isolate duels and turn a 1 versus 4 into four separate 1 versus 1s. This does not necessarily mean that you need to play a duelist but rather use an agent which will help you achieve this objective. Regarding random teammates I would suggest turning off the members who are impeding your ability to focus and only communicating with the ones that are providing you information that is crucial to the game at hand.

I usually get into that gold/plat middle ground when i do my placement matches, but never have the fortitude to grind enough. I've made it to diamond maybe 2/3 times, but again its just sooooo agonizing.

I hear everything you saying, but that sounds so counterintuitive to what the game is. it's a 5 man competitive tactical shooter. And it is heavily role based, if cs, i can smoke an angle off, throw a pop flash, entry mid, and then immediately de-escalate, and just lurk. Valorant doesn't allow for that unless you're just throwing the integrity of the game out the window and just doing you every match. Sure i can do that, but thats terrible at least IMO.

I usually play smokes because i like being able to take space on the map and call for my team to pivot off the rotations and info i get across the map. You can also play mind games with throwing default smokes and breaking sentinel util off that style. If I'm doing that as a duelist or initiator I'm just completely throwing off the teams synergy. Also, the muting teammates make a TON of sense, but again soooo counterintuitive. I personally THRIVE off coms and info, I can genuinely say when I'm with a team that communicates I'm twice the player, and vice versa. I will absolutely shit the bed with no comms, playing CS for 20 years does that.

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I usually get into that gold/plat middle ground when i do my placement matches, but never have the fortitude to grind enough. I've made it to diamond maybe 2/3 times, but again its just sooooo agonizing.

I hear everything you saying, but that sounds so counterintuitive to what the game is. it's a 5 man competitive tactical shooter. And it is heavily role based, if cs, i can smoke an angle off, throw a pop flash, entry mid, and then immediately de-escalate, and just lurk. Valorant doesn't allow for that unless you're just throwing the integrity of the game out the window and just doing you every match. Sure i can do that, but thats terrible at least IMO.

I usually play smokes because i like being able to take space on the map and call for my team to pivot off the rotations and info i get across the map. You can also play mind games with throwing default smokes and breaking sentinel util off that style. If I'm doing that as a duelist or initiator I'm just completely throwing off the teams synergy. Also, the muting teammates make a TON of sense, but again soooo counterintuitive. I personally THRIVE off coms and info, I can genuinely say when I'm with a team that communicates I'm twice the player, and vice versa. I will absolutely shit the bed with no comms, playing CS for 20 years does that.

Its not counterintuitive, the bottom line is be good enough to be able to clutch at the rank you are, once you reach diamond or above again, reach out to join teams in discord, otherwise you should be able to play a normal game a clutch every round for the team

usually after clutching 3-4 rounds your team of randoms automatically rally up to support you in the best way possible
and there is nothing you can do about the disconnected player at the moment besides 4v5, and having the ability to make clutch plays lowers the load on your team

valorant_player [#8]

i don't even play this game

but your username is valorant_player