Ranked this act has been so fucking unpleasant for me in the higher ranks. The player quality has somehow gotten worse and it feels like less people are trying.
Example 1: https://tracker.gg/valorant/match/1ebf7083-f489-4b22-86ff-bc7a9080d297?handle=RickyIndian%23kdot
This game, we were down 9-3 on our defensive half on icebox. On my team, I have 2 no-commers while their Reyna and Viper are hard lurking so it's extremely difficult to keep up what's going on throughout the map. (oh and to add on, look at their reyna's top 3 most used weapons: https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/atlid%23ssj2/overview)
On our attack half, our no-commers surprisingly started talking and we made a good effort to win but still couldn't.
Example 2: https://tracker.gg/valorant/match/89241071-7cb0-401a-816d-29b0605f1fbe?handle=RickyIndian%23kdot
For this example, our jett was nearly triple negative while not comming, running through smokes on defense constantly and always dry peeking operators while somehow still having the audacity to talk shit. Although I didn't have my best game, it's pretty hard to counter awpers and players that run at you while you're in a 4v5 and only with limited utility.
TLDR: Ranked has been so horrendous to play this act with people that are genuinely horrible at the game being able to climb to higher ranks.
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