Ascendant

Time For A Rant

Its trending on Twitter/X so I figured I'd talk about it and give my opinion. 1 day away from a new act and there isn't 10,000 immortals NA. Why is that? Its because of Ascendant.

Ascendant right now is the biggest cluster fuck ever. You have ascendants queueing against immo3/radiants, ascendants queueing against platinums, ascendants queueing their own rank and beyond. There is so many damn ascendants its not even funny. I'm currently Immo 2, but almost every game I queue is into Current Asc 2-3 players that were immo 2-3 last act. I don't really have an explanation to why there is so many damn ascendants, but there is. Every DM, swiftplay, any mode is filled with ascendants. I would say like 60% of my friends on val are ascendant and the skill gap is so wide it's not even funny. Last episode peak radiants to last episode peak platinum with a .9k. Everyone is in the damn green rank. It's elo hell

My recommendation is that riot increases the rr gained for ascendants queueing their rr and above by a significant chunk per game like 7-10 (ex: instead of 18 you would get 26), and lowers it for those playing in lobbies below their mmr by a similar chunk of 5-8. Basically, ascendant mmr rework. But that may not fit shit, so lmk what yall think riot should do or if it's just going to take time.

People that think silver is elo hell have no idea what the fuck goes on in here. Ascendant was made by Satan himself

Boostio was in my friend's ascendant lobby a couple weeks ago

https://tracker.gg/valorant/match/75cf1a72-8ab9-4e9a-bea6-a61f569fc729

Literal World Champ randomly in Ascendant. This is real ascendant btw not the former radiants that barely play but have the rad mmr.

nihso [#2]

People that think silver is elo hell have no idea what the fuck goes on in here. Ascendant was made by Satan himself

It's just purgatory, at places like these you can get some causal gamers, alcoholics, TenZ cosplayers, fucking smurfs and boosted duos, some factory worker or a 12 year old, this shit literally has everyone

Yuh_aye [#3]

Boostio was in my friend's ascendant lobby a couple weeks ago

https://tracker.gg/valorant/match/75cf1a72-8ab9-4e9a-bea6-a61f569fc729

Literal World Champ randomly in Ascendant. This is real ascendant btw not the former radiants that barely play but have the rad mmr.

r u sure that this wasn't at the start of the act? maybe he got placed into ascendant

Jokes on you, I'm Diamond 2

Nef0r0 [#4]

It's just purgatory, at places like these you can get some causal gamers, alcoholics, TenZ cosplayers, fucking smurfs and boosted duos, some factory worker or a 12 year old, this shit literally has everyone

I usually play against jetts that are Prime TenZ and Demon1 combined with an added 500mg of caffeine, adderall, and cocaine.

aquaa018 [#5]

r u sure that this wasn't at the start of the act? maybe he got placed into ascendant

no he did his placements like a month prior

nihso [#7]

I usually play against jetts that are Prime TenZ and Demon1 combined with an added 500mg of caffeine, adderall, and cocaine.

And meanwhile on my team I have a human analogue of a sloth

I would assume less people playing is a main factor as to why there is less immortals, the ranking system hasn't inherently changed in years there is just progressively less immortals, last year you would see 10k immortals easily with the ascendant rank

laifu [#10]

I would assume less people playing is a main factor as to why there is less immortals, the ranking system hasn't inherently changed in years there is just progressively less immortals, last year you would see 10k immortals easily with the ascendant rank

except the problem is, more and more people are playing the game, not less. Despite the popular belief that less people are, stats show more people are playing the game.

laifu [#10]

I would assume less people playing is a main factor as to why there is less immortals, the ranking system hasn't inherently changed in years there is just progressively less immortals, last year you would see 10k immortals easily with the ascendant rank

This cluster fuck happens almost every time a new episode starts
it should be expected atp
also there arent really less valo players
its been the same pretty much lmao

I couldn't agree more penguin, there is so many fucking ascendants and you summed it all up too well. I may be part of the reason but its still the fact that I cannot CANNOT rank up as much as I try, this entire act I've been hard stuck ascendant 2 and it is the player base in my mmr, why am I always facing ex radiants and peak diamond 1s. please fix this im tired of being hardstuck ascendant 2 i just want my imm 2 back.

im struggling in low diamond