Larry [#33]
High elo pugs in faceit isn’t bad or if you queue like one of the hubs. There is always a given to have a bad team or teammates but it just seems more frequent in Valorant. Valorant has a bigger smurfing problems than any other game right now. I have friends who have like 10 accounts, boost them all and then sell them for easy $$$. Obviously takes time but one immortal account with skins can easily sell for 600 depending on the skins.
I do know for NA mm though. It’s a lot different from EU mm. There are players who are gold nova in mm who realistically shouldn’t be there. I have a friend who’s 2600 elo on faceit but stuck gn4 in mm. For whatever reason it’s impossible to gain elo in NA. You win 10 games in a row and it’s a coin flip if you rank up.
honestly boosting is much more of a problem than smurfing. Smurf accs now rank up way too quickly unless you intentionally lose every other game which will get ur acc banned. but it's honestly hard to lose rr that quickly in val so boosting can surprisingly last for quite a bit of time. but then again it takes a while so there's much less people than i expect. Also I don't like how people do boosting to make a quick profit. It's pretty yikes and I hope that industry stops because even if they add coaching stuff and actually helpful stuff, it's still not the best thing.
so in conclusion, yes val ranked is shit, but csgo ranked is a burning piece of dogshit. Honestly Idgaf that rito has all my info, what are they gonna do with it? at least it the anticheat works so that is good enough for me because I find that faceit in other games gets wayyyyy too sweaty and I like to relax so val ranked works well enough that I'll play it every so often.