I'm so bad at Valorant

Hey guys, I've been playing Valorant for about two years now, but I’ve been stuck in Platinum for a long time. I finally hit Diamond this week, a goal I've been chasing for years. However, as soon as I reached Diamond, I started facing peak Ascendant and Immortal players, and I’m getting crushed. I really want to improve, especially when it comes to my aim, because I feel like my aim and reaction time are terrible. I watch a lot of videos and practice in Aim Lab, but only for about 15 minutes before I play Valorant, and it doesn’t seem to help much. I’m thinking of quitting, but I’ve already spent over $2K on skins, so it feels like a waste of money if I stop playing. It’s also embarrassing to get on Valorant because I feel like my skill level is too low for the rank I’m in. My level is almost 600 and yet I'm still in plat lobbies and I don't even fragged out on plat lobbies. Idk what to do anymore

Let me drop my tracker if u guys wanna see my stats. After I derank my diamond, that's when I started playing like absolute trash.
https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/PKPKPKPKPKPK%23PKPK/overview

Play more

ideas

1. play for fun (idk how that could be possible)
2. get coached
3. start cheating (pls don´t)

For aimlabs you could try a 30 minute session once you get off, but anything before you play is like lifting weights before you do cardio

Watch some coaching vids on youtube and focus more on using brain instead of aim also if you want to be better mechanically play deatchmatch aimlabs is just placebo

I used to play for fun, so take my advice with a grain of salt, but here are things you should be doing.

1. Aimlabs is not warm up. Warmup using death match or the practice range.
2. NEVER train before your games, it will tire you out and make it harder to focus on the game.
3. If your pc is strong enough, record your games and watch them. It will be so much easier to notice what you are doing wrong when you aren't focusing on the match. While watching imagine a perfectly played scenario and try to pinpoint what the issue could be and than search for ways to fix it on youtube, if you don't already know how you could fix it.
4. Don't fill. While filling what your team needs is good for winning games, you will be too busy focusing on your util to think about the other aspects of the game. Just choose 2-3 agents you like to play the most and stick with them.
5. After choosing your agents, learn those agents fully by watching others play them. Or maybe even watching guides for the specific agent, even though I don't personally like guides as they aren't subjective enough for a specific players playstyle.

Can't think of anything else at the moment but hopefully this helps you out 👍🏻

Watch primmie and try to copy how he shoot ,genuine advice

1. a bit hard to give advice when i havent seen u play
2. u should never have like a SET amount of practice time, warm up until u feel that ur confident in ur aim and warm up until you feel like you could hit your shots with ease, however long this will take. js dont overdo it tho
3. iyw get coaching it rly helps if u dont know what ur doing
4. most important advice: you play and u see ascendants and immortals and immediately ur brain triggers a response that theyre "better" valorant is a majority mental game, ALWAYS and i mean ALWAYS take each fight with confidence and with the mentality that you would fuck them up. you are the best person in the lobby at all times. stop portraying anyone who is a higher elo than you as some sort of mythical figure. just go into each fight and have the mentality that you will win. cmon, youve played this game for years. theres no way ur worse than the others. confidence is SO overlooked and so under talked ab but if u asked any pro player they would most likely tell u to play w confidence

this is coming from a peak radiant btw

Stop watching Gen g and watch good team like Furia or gentle mates

run it down no other choice

More hours needed

Just realized the way to own people is to simply own deathmatch consistently

We all are bad sir.. we all are

i feel you ... i just log in to play 5-6 tdms and thats about it ... i have moved on to story-mode games

Usually when people struggle with ‘aim’ it funnily enough isn’t really. There are 3 main things which complement your aim that you should work on: holding, peeking and movement (while shooting), all 3 of these will set you up for gunfights where you end up having to aim less. I struggle with this too, but usually if you know the right techniques it’s all about getting practice

(This is generic advice tbh so take it with a pinch of salt, some parts may not apply to any one person specifically)

I’m thinking of quitting, but I’ve already spent over $2K on skins, so it feels like a waste of money if I stop playing.

sunk cost fallacy

I get the idea since i was a diamond in these last 2 acts, & i know you will get to face ascendant rank which had peaked immortal before in these lobbies. and it felt like their shot is immensely better than you.

My only advice is just dont be sad about it, some people play this game as the 2nd/3rd fps game they play, so if theyre good at it, its quite normal no ?

Yes, there is some people who invest litlle to no time on the game and still master the aim & hone their game sense to the max but we should realize that this case is a minority.

I just checked your stats on the tracker and i dont think your bad. Youre quite the average or even a little above average & ITS NOT BAD. Many people on Vlr are silver / gold even tho they played so many hours.