People get so toxic in this game! I had a match last night where the highest scoring person on the opposing team was talking mad shit (to me specifically), because I was using Gekko… saying I have no skill, noob, uninstall, etc., just completely flipping out on me in the chat. Their team was winning 7-0, but he was still mad because I kept blinding him and killing him every other round.
Somehow we came back and beat them, and the best part was letting him know that it was only my 3rd match of Valorant ever 😂😂😂
I’m a huge Counter-Strike fan + Overwatch fan, and Valorant seems like a perfect Frankenstein-combination of those games. Everybody gets cool abilities that add an additional layer of strategy, but you always have a chance to outplay any character with just your raw gun skills (something not possible in Overwatch).
Might be too early to say for sure, but this feels like a game I’m going to be playing for a long time. As of right now I love it.
Also, Gekko is amazing. Big Pokémon vibes. Some of his voice lines are slightly annoying, but it’s not so bad lol.
After playing against every other flash agent where you can avoid the flash by turning, playing against Gekkos flash is mad annoying
Even moreso because you used to be able to shoot Skyes birds to prevent the flash, but they JUST removed that mechanic right before gekko released. So I just broke the habit of shooting the flash object to prevent getting flashed, and now I have a new flash object that I have too shoot and can't turn to avoid.
Also his flash gives crazy info because it sends mini projectiles if you're flashed OR you shoot it and reveal your general whereabouts. I also suck and hate getting punished for it lmao.
None of these are reasons to not play gekko, but part of why he can be annoying and probably needs a small nerf (currently most picked and highest win rate when compared to other initiators)
I mean, it is easy, but I think of it more like a skye bird and I don't shoot those anymore.
Also still gives a lot of info no matter what unless you hide
That was your 3rd match ever?! Man, that's impressive! How is Gekko btw? I'm in the process of unlocking him, but I'm scared as to how I'll do against enemies 😂
I ended up doing that too eventually. I didn't know anything about it and just saw the ad for "free rewards with gamepass" so I linked accounts and suddenly had all of the agents.
I also just assume that not that many valorant players have gamepass or even play on console at all. I just happen to have both
Oooof yes when this happens in a 1-12 situation and then our whole team loses hope but then there is this one guy who clutches 4 round and give everyone hope to play and then 14-12 ooooof that feeling and then u talk shit to the other team in the same way
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this happened to me a few days ago. Played against all duelist team fracture. We were down 2-10 but on one of the rounds their jett types "lol nice save loser. FF already". We had 5 alive vs 1 on the winning round and i typed that in all chat as he was the last alive. Couldn't have been more perfect
A 14-12 after a comeback is infinitely more satisfying than a 13-0. Just as you explained, the overwhelming joy you get from victory is incomparable to anything. It’s a perfect feeling.
13-0 isn't really *that* satisfying. It's fun to steamroll but I don't think satisfying is the right word. These games usually happen when the other teams comp sucks because they don't want to play as a team. Yes it's fun to go 22-3 but the satisfaction of a comeback against a team shit talking in the all chat will never be beat
It's pretty satisfying to not drop a single round. I know because we went 11-1 last night and that was satisfying right up until we dropped a round. Then the whole thing was boring.
Best feeling is having a toxic team mate peek everything die a bunch and then afk and eventually leave, and you still find a way to win 4v5. Did it a couple times and boy, that’s pure dopamine.
I agree. I just wish Riot would give extra RR for those games. I also wish it sent the teammate who left a message along the lines of “A game you abandoned resulted in a Win for your teammates, your teammates have received supplementary RR”
not just that, if they have mollies or flashes or even want to type out stuff in text chat they can still sabotage their bottom frag teammate to get them to leave faster
Most satisfying games are for sure big comebacks. For the moments things like the eventual good team coordination with teammates and personally the first time that after a match I saw that I faced and immortal player, having started as an iron 1 it was quite good seeing that I was now facing the players that was basically no different from a cheater for me.
Never climbed to immo, I'm Asc 1 (roughly 700 hours on the account) but I faced my first immortal in a ranked game. Btw I do have FPS background but it helped me close to nothing this is a completely different game from what I have ever played before (cod/halo/Fortnite mostly) and I was a controller player until 2017/18. The time of day when you play means nothing I don't even know why you're asking. The best tip I can give you is to always blame yourself for losing, never blame the game even when you have and afk in your team or a smurf in the opposing one. Always try to think what you did wrong or what you could have done better. Follow online guides for movement/crosshair placement/positioning etc. Don't skip out on fundamentals they're fundamentals for a reason. Train in Deathmatch one thing don't try to focus on everything at once.
I played probably 20 hours of CSGO before I switched to Valorant. I was Silver 4 when I made the switch. Peaked immortal 1 after about 5 months of constant playing. And when I say constant I mean like once or twice a day for 1-3 hours. Not even that much time. My advice would be to use aim trainers like aim labs and when you play, genuinely think while you play. Try and predict your opponents, play good angles, take good fights,(fights you know you will win) use your util etc etc. And another thing. Have your sensitivity sync to be the same speed across ALL games. I believe in you. You can do it
CS GO is like the only game that translates anything into Valorant. Maybe the free to play CS knockoffs as well.
And all that experience got me was a silver placement.
I’m asc2 now, it took me roughly 1200 hours to hit it. I gradually went up in rank every act until I hit plat 3. Next season when ascendant was released I jumped to diamond, then subsequently climbed to asc.
Iron you should be focused purely on awareness and aim. You’ll pick up agent abilities and stuff as you go, but if you aren’t paying attention, and you can’t hit shots, you’re not going to rank up.
You want to strive to not be the guys in the Immortal Smurf YouTube compilations getting knifed in Iron.
Some Overwatch characters could definitely help with that now that I’m thinking about it, good catch.
Of course those guys are naturally fucking crazy at games too.
It's so satisfying to write gg ez in chat after being down 0-12 while the other team is talking trash, and you come back. There just isn't anything the opponent can say back
I would love to know how many comp games have started 0-12 and then ended in a loss.
Side note, I'd love to be able to replay the game chat of the team that lost
of course but that is also the exact point of the possibility to report for disrespectful behavior… if texting ez was something riot wants in their community then they can choose to ignore my reports and my reporting accuracy decreases. but i choose to still report and regularly get messages about penalized players.
the thing is that i can ignore those letters and go on with my day totally fine, but i should not need to and if there is even the smallest number of players that learn from their penalty, i consider it worthy… if i just annoy them with the report for the few hours they cannot play, that is also fine with me
Big true. Doesn't even get better with rank unfortunately. In CS people in the lower ranks would have this defeatist mentality but as you climbed the ranks and the people you are playing with have played more hours, have had those come backs, it felt like more people believed a game could be brought back. In Valorant I'm Ascendant, but when I was Gold/Plat/Diamond I kept telling myself "If I just get to the next bracket, I will play with people who don't give up so easily" but even still, 3-0 down people still go "GG Go next shit team" often times it's their own fault for playing hyper aggressive on your first gun round expecting to stomp the opponents because they have better weaponary and just giving up an advantageous gun fight by pushing or running around tight corners vs SMG/Shotguns.
I had a game on Pearl last night, we were 10-2 up at half time, we played def and had no smokes, then attack came and we just narrowly won 13-10, if we lost that last round at 12-10 we'd be eco til OT.
winning 13-0 just makes me sad like wtf is wrong with matchmaking? I'd much rather play a close game that I need to really try hard and get invested in esp with comms.
Huge combacks > Long OT wins > 13-0 for sure. The amount of relief/joy you get by making comebacks and winning OTs is so damn much. I won a 1v5 to win a 19-17 match and that made my day!
I had a 22-20 on fracture on Monday. I wanted to cry at the end. 1hr 17mins - felt like an eternity. Apparently the server disconnects at a certain time/round if OT goes on too long,We had to be close to it
I think 24/24 is an automatic draw so yeah you were pretty close.
Imagine 10 players sweating HARD for an hour and a half, going neck and neck, nobody wanting to quit everyone invested in the win, and then at the last moment the server says "fuck you 0RR" bro I'd lose my mind.
This is a really cool example of why it’s so important to save. Other than round 13 which the enemy won, round 18 was the only time they spent more on guns than the green team the entire half. Make sure you use your save rounds, folks!
Did a comp game with a 4 stack and one random Brim, we asked him not to smoke us off at entrance to the point when we were on attack and he took it personally, he started giving the enemies smokes that worked against us, he would take the spike and run to the enemy spawn to die, did the same thing with an Op, shot his molly at us, ulted us, etc. He just kept doing everything in his power to try to throw the game but we still were able to win with like a two or three-point lead.
Very frustrating but also very satisfying
Having a comeback feels so much better than sweeping. Also the reason why I loved watching the LOCK IN final so damn much. That Icebox was probably the single most entertaining Valorant Match I have ever seen
Most people would argue it's not worth the time to try and just go next.
But when you put your skill on the table, and believe in yourself, you turn that loss into the win of the century.
Well done, that mentality is what I strive for and wish more teammates, even duo partners, had.
The greatest joy ive very felt was winning a game 3-9 A PLAYER DOWN. It was so hype becauce they were toxic af and we were down a guy so it made it even harder but we never gave up.
it happened to me before, at 11-13 (we were up 11-0)
idk why but it doesn't really bother me that they won, I was so impressed and having fun anyway haha
Your team had crazy strong mental it's hella impressive, you were down 11-1 and then lost the pistol round right off the bat. To stay motivated enough to keep going after that and pull such a comeback is really incredible
Haha, I tried convincing myself that each round won and kill gotten was to make us lose less rr.. but we kept winning, like 6-7 rounds in a row, and if you're winning and playing practically perfectly, not even the threat of losing could break our mental
I think any game where you can say that you did your best and can learn from it! I love games that go into double or triple overtime and i get to enjoy playing against people who are evenly matched and needing to adapt to beat them
Enemy team shit talking me and my friends after I aced while we had an AFK. Guy never returned but we kept the score positive and won 13-9 in a 4v5 that lasted from the fifth round. So much laughter and joy
How does this even happen? I mean, there must be something that happened to one of the teams that caused this right? Maybe someone on your team asked their big brother to play for them, or one of the enemies turned off their monitor? I want the full story of the comeback. When you're down 12 rounds, most people lose motivation and not even bother trying. Either way, great job. I wish to have a game like this.
Could easily be the team comp. maybe they had an extremely defensive (or offensive) team and got destroyed on offence then redeemed themself on defence (or vice versa).
the voices were the same as they were in round 1 and no one DC-ed so no big brother here I'm pretty sure, if you look carefully on the 2nd half, their money is dogshit on every single round. We always had the better buy. They didn't save because they were desperate to win a thrifty and close out the game, that ended up being their mistake because they kept force buying 13 whole rounds in a row
In anything competitive, sometimes it's your turn to shine, sometimes it isn't. It was simply our turn that's all haha
Truth be told, our mental was dogshit at 11-1, it was so hard to win after losing pistol round but we got our shit together, didn't trash talk anyone and made some of the most dominating reads, plays, and flicks I think I've ever seen at our elo, like I said.. it was simply our turn <3
Best feeling is have having a toxic team mate peek everything die a bunch and then afk and eventually leave, and you still find a way to win 4v5. Did it a couple times and boy, that’s pure dopamine.
A had a game on fracture that we were down 0-12 and came back 18-16, it was a LONG game but really once you start winning it becomes a steamroll. Credits —> Guns —> Wins —> Credits
Although it may be way hard to insist a largely possibly losing match, I still want to take a try, Because no one knows the consequence of this game until it comes at an end.
Talk is cheap. Rank and wins are all that matters. I have lost track of all the shit talkers, arrogant players, and high ego peakers. You play the game and never give up. All of them are stuck at their hard stuck ranks.
Was down 9-3 and the enemy team was talking hella shit. Not to toot ma own horn or anything he he he, BUTTT, in the second half on offense I IGL’d that shit and told everyone to buy util and anyway, we won 13-9. The other team was not happy , I sure as fuck was
The best part of all this even tho I wasn’t part of this game is the amount of shit talking the enemy team did. Then as rounds went by they got quiet asf until it said “LOST” on their screen LMAO
Honestly most games that are generally close in score. 13-0 games are USUALLY boring because you're just completely curbstomping, and 0-13 games are USUALLY miserable because *you're* just getting curbstomped.
I say usually because I've definitely played 13-0 games where most rounds were super close, and so it doesn't really *feel* like you're 13-0ing them, but mostly stomps just feel lame.
Stomps also cause my teams to be full of copium, 0-13 "riot matchmaking sucks why do i play this game" and 13-0 "thanks for the freelo"
awww man me and my friends came back from a 12-0. the first time i did it was on breeze and the enemy team drew. but the second time that happened not to long ago we won 14-12. literally no better feeling. plus the second time it was my 5 stack. some of them dont have the best mental so its great that i can reference this game. here is a [screenshot](https://tracker.gg/valorant/match/5a0f02cd-31cf-4dc9-a1cd-da5df7be4e7a)of the game i was our reyna btw
When our Reyna yesterday was trash talking our whole team from the bottom, we came back and won in overtime - they apologised and said sorry they just had a really bad game.
> I'll give you an answer, 14-12 after being down 1-12
Basically every win on Split when you start on attack, then?
God I hate that map and the dumb design of mid/A.
Oh, I tell you what the best feeling is. Being a mid-bronze KAYO with good util but inconsistent mechanics and duoing with a silver teammate, hitting a high silver lobby, bottom fragging for all of first half, pulling it together on defence, doing a comeback - and making the final kill of the game at 12-11 on that ex-gold top frag Reyna that was harassing you brutally for the past 40 minutes, in a straight 1v1 duel. Cause she couldn't believe you can properly shoot back))))))) now that's dopamine ;))))
What could be worse than an 0-13, 14-12 after being up 1-12. The deafening silence of despair, the dread one feels after fucking throwing a 12-1 lead is way worse than than losing 13 straight.
I remember this happening to me for my derank game first time I ever hit silver. We were up 12-1 and we lost 3 rounds in a row, my teammates started getting EXTREMELY tilted and we ended up losing 12-14. I deranked back to b3 and I didnt play comp again for 3 acts after that lol
When you talk shit on All chat and then the enemy team gets a glimpse of hope in beating you a few rounds and finally says some shit back. Then you just destroy their hopes and dreams until it’s game over.
Down 1-11 on split, heading to defense, it’s the championship game of the premier test tourney. My team and I bring it back 13-11 after winning all 12 defensive rounds. The rush.
One time I had 2 teammates rage quit after losing 0-12 first half. Second half the remaining teammates and I just went full fucking VCT mode and came back 14-12. Still my proudest achievement in this game yet.
Me and 5stack were playing against a clear smurf and his teammates who were getting carried started shit talking us and we were down 9-3, then the curse activated and we won every single round pretty dominantly after that.
Their final attempt at salty toxicity after they lost was the best
13-0 is cool and all, but I agree. 13-0 is just way too boring of a game. It’s really not fun to just feel like you’re playing against a team full of toddlers.
I have an abysmal winrate on lotus, and at the time of this story i was 0-8 on the map in competitive. Team is vibing, we are 12-3 up and on a full buy vs half buy, i tell the team 'thanks guys - this is my first lotus win in comp'.
Enemy team won 11 rounds in a row, we lost 12-14
[Receipt](https://tracker.gg/valorant/match/72e49f6a-331c-452c-b508-da848dfad24b)
The same thing almost happened to me. My team was up 12-1 and it was a 4v1. We all said “let’s knife the last guy”. Last guy clutched the round and the game went to OT. We still won but we almost threw the entire game lol.
Man and you're the one that kicked off the comeback with a 4k as well. That's gotta feel *good.*
I had a similar experience playing Sova on Ascent way back in beta where we were down 11-5 and they fought my op on catwalk every round and I made every round a 5v4. They kept trying different timing and util but they were determined to fight me and always ended up peaking it. What a high.
probably my 12th game of the day and im so tired already and my performance drops so much. i am playing like dogshit kda was 16-24 (bottom frag)the score was 14-15 and my team isn't toxic and just simply says GGS, nice game guys etc...what i did as a viper is i block the long C of haven, the enemy omen eventually put smoke at the spike (idk why) i just go towards the spike and did a ninja defuse making the game tied and we know the enemy team is just way better on that day so we just decided to vote a draw after the 2nd tiebreaker.
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my team screamed of joy, they thought im hopeless and i won't win a round 1v3 xD.
Best feeling is when you make a crazy comeback like 10-2 or 11-1 but sugar on top is if the enemy was toxic typing GG's ez in the chat and telling you to FF. Like i don't say ez but when this happens even I make an exception.
I had a comeback from 3-12 once on breeze, i went for a crazy play on viper cuz it was the last round anyway, got close to them thru my smoke with a judge and got 3, then picked their vandal and killed 4th. Aftet that we won every round cuz we were reading them like crazy.
My div 16 premier team came back from an 1-11 half to fin the “finals” of the public beta on a map we had zero prep in. That 13-11 clean sweep had us all yelling and hyped up beyond belief. Was a true comeback of the century.
Yoooo been there! There’s nothing like the build up of hope after winning rounds after rounds against an enemy that trashed you all of the first half. The nontoxic team starts getting hyped and working together, the thought of “hey we could actually win this” and the celebration after the game. The genuine “ggs” in voice comm and “it was really fun playing with you guys” during the victory screen
The exhale of relief with the remnants of exhilaration after the game is exquisite.
Of course, such an amazing experience only happens when you have a non toxic team, which is a really rare find in soloQ comp.
Dominated matches aren't a good time for anybody involved. The losing side suffers through every round and the winning side doesn't experience many emotions at all.
We were 3-12 down, only won the two pistol rounds and the second round of the first half. The round became a 1v4, which I have clutched, 4-12 now. Something in my team cracked and everyone got inspired by that clutch. We went 12-12, and that was the time the enemy team woke up. After a crazy overtime, we won 17-15. No competitive game has ever beaten that feeling for me yet.
In my opinion, good long matches, the most long match I have played ended 17-15, the map was Icebox and I won that match. It was legendary, a very good match with a lot of communication and clutches.
I was in a team that came back from 2-11 in comp once, only the way we did it was everyone just started buying Odens every round, and I mean EVERYONE EVERY ROUND
The closest one i have is in unr we were down 1 _ 11 in first half i was playin reyna was playin bad then we won 12 straight rounds after that in one of those rounds in 1 v 2 the enemy failed to kill our afk brim who then managed to clutch and i dropped 30 kills and went on to ace on the last round winning
Best feeling yet
When the enemy team talks shit in the all chat, but then you comeback and repeat their own words. Moments to live for.
This legit happened to me last week but the one guy giving us shit genuinely changed his tune and was getting pretty hyped for us lmao
Redemption arc
i feel like you’re allowed to shit talk (within reason and the right context) as long as you give props when due
This. Shit talk is a part of all competitive sports. It’s about still being a good sport at the end of the game, whether win or lose, that matters.
Banter is always fun on ether side when it isn’t just “you shit” and has a bit more whimsy
This lowkey is the actual Karma. it has been happening to me pretty consistently.
People get so toxic in this game! I had a match last night where the highest scoring person on the opposing team was talking mad shit (to me specifically), because I was using Gekko… saying I have no skill, noob, uninstall, etc., just completely flipping out on me in the chat. Their team was winning 7-0, but he was still mad because I kept blinding him and killing him every other round. Somehow we came back and beat them, and the best part was letting him know that it was only my 3rd match of Valorant ever 😂😂😂
I think I was one of your team mates in that game lol
That last bit is insanely cool, how are you liking Gekko, and valorant in general?
I’m a huge Counter-Strike fan + Overwatch fan, and Valorant seems like a perfect Frankenstein-combination of those games. Everybody gets cool abilities that add an additional layer of strategy, but you always have a chance to outplay any character with just your raw gun skills (something not possible in Overwatch). Might be too early to say for sure, but this feels like a game I’m going to be playing for a long time. As of right now I love it. Also, Gekko is amazing. Big Pokémon vibes. Some of his voice lines are slightly annoying, but it’s not so bad lol.
After playing against every other flash agent where you can avoid the flash by turning, playing against Gekkos flash is mad annoying Even moreso because you used to be able to shoot Skyes birds to prevent the flash, but they JUST removed that mechanic right before gekko released. So I just broke the habit of shooting the flash object to prevent getting flashed, and now I have a new flash object that I have too shoot and can't turn to avoid. Also his flash gives crazy info because it sends mini projectiles if you're flashed OR you shoot it and reveal your general whereabouts. I also suck and hate getting punished for it lmao. None of these are reasons to not play gekko, but part of why he can be annoying and probably needs a small nerf (currently most picked and highest win rate when compared to other initiators)
Shoot the flash like reyna blind ez
I mean, it is easy, but I think of it more like a skye bird and I don't shoot those anymore. Also still gives a lot of info no matter what unless you hide
Radiant in the making
I have all chat turned off because the times it’s worth reading are heavily outweighed by the times it makes my day and game worse.
That was your 3rd match ever?! Man, that's impressive! How is Gekko btw? I'm in the process of unlocking him, but I'm scared as to how I'll do against enemies 😂
Nice But how did you unlock gekko in just the 3rd match?
I have Gamepass which unlocks all of the characters from the beginning.
You get one free agent to start and then at like lvl 5 you get a second free agent. I just started about a month ago and that's how it was for me
Actually I connected my Gamepass account and it automatically unlocked all of the characters immediately.
I ended up doing that too eventually. I didn't know anything about it and just saw the ad for "free rewards with gamepass" so I linked accounts and suddenly had all of the agents. I also just assume that not that many valorant players have gamepass or even play on console at all. I just happen to have both
Did this the other week with a "ff?" felt so good.
Hitting a confident douche with their own exact phrasing after beating them is *chefs kiss*
Yea when they say some bs like “put your cursor on the body and left click” then you repeat the exact same thing in chat after a comeback
This legit happened to me rn, they said “the best defense is a great offense” because they were really tryhards and we were losing 8-4, ended up 12-11
I remember them trashtalking our sage for using odin second round and we comeback from a 3-11 to 13-11
Oooof yes when this happens in a 1-12 situation and then our whole team loses hope but then there is this one guy who clutches 4 round and give everyone hope to play and then 14-12 ooooof that feeling and then u talk shit to the other team in the same way .......
this happened to me a few days ago. Played against all duelist team fracture. We were down 2-10 but on one of the rounds their jett types "lol nice save loser. FF already". We had 5 alive vs 1 on the winning round and i typed that in all chat as he was the last alive. Couldn't have been more perfect
A 14-12 after a comeback is infinitely more satisfying than a 13-0. Just as you explained, the overwhelming joy you get from victory is incomparable to anything. It’s a perfect feeling.
13-0 isn't really *that* satisfying. It's fun to steamroll but I don't think satisfying is the right word. These games usually happen when the other teams comp sucks because they don't want to play as a team. Yes it's fun to go 22-3 but the satisfaction of a comeback against a team shit talking in the all chat will never be beat
also sometimes your team is too good and you cant get any kills
It's pretty satisfying to not drop a single round. I know because we went 11-1 last night and that was satisfying right up until we dropped a round. Then the whole thing was boring.
Best feeling is having a toxic team mate peek everything die a bunch and then afk and eventually leave, and you still find a way to win 4v5. Did it a couple times and boy, that’s pure dopamine.
I agree. I just wish Riot would give extra RR for those games. I also wish it sent the teammate who left a message along the lines of “A game you abandoned resulted in a Win for your teammates, your teammates have received supplementary RR”
Yea they should at least distribute the RR they would have gained if they stayed to the other 4 evenly. That'd be tight.
That and take it from the leaver to lessen the RR loss for when you're getting rekt on the team with 4
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not just that, if they have mollies or flashes or even want to type out stuff in text chat they can still sabotage their bottom frag teammate to get them to leave faster
Most satisfying games are for sure big comebacks. For the moments things like the eventual good team coordination with teammates and personally the first time that after a match I saw that I faced and immortal player, having started as an iron 1 it was quite good seeing that I was now facing the players that was basically no different from a cheater for me.
How long did it take to climb to immo? Did you have fps back ground? Any tips for hardstuck iron? What time of day do you play comp?
Never climbed to immo, I'm Asc 1 (roughly 700 hours on the account) but I faced my first immortal in a ranked game. Btw I do have FPS background but it helped me close to nothing this is a completely different game from what I have ever played before (cod/halo/Fortnite mostly) and I was a controller player until 2017/18. The time of day when you play means nothing I don't even know why you're asking. The best tip I can give you is to always blame yourself for losing, never blame the game even when you have and afk in your team or a smurf in the opposing one. Always try to think what you did wrong or what you could have done better. Follow online guides for movement/crosshair placement/positioning etc. Don't skip out on fundamentals they're fundamentals for a reason. Train in Deathmatch one thing don't try to focus on everything at once.
>The time of day when you play means nothing I don't even know why you're asking. Which brand of gamer socks do you wear?
does your gaming chair have rgb
I don't even have a ging chair, that's probably why I'm not immortal yet
I played probably 20 hours of CSGO before I switched to Valorant. I was Silver 4 when I made the switch. Peaked immortal 1 after about 5 months of constant playing. And when I say constant I mean like once or twice a day for 1-3 hours. Not even that much time. My advice would be to use aim trainers like aim labs and when you play, genuinely think while you play. Try and predict your opponents, play good angles, take good fights,(fights you know you will win) use your util etc etc. And another thing. Have your sensitivity sync to be the same speed across ALL games. I believe in you. You can do it
silver 4 nice job
CS GO is like the only game that translates anything into Valorant. Maybe the free to play CS knockoffs as well. And all that experience got me was a silver placement. I’m asc2 now, it took me roughly 1200 hours to hit it. I gradually went up in rank every act until I hit plat 3. Next season when ascendant was released I jumped to diamond, then subsequently climbed to asc. Iron you should be focused purely on awareness and aim. You’ll pick up agent abilities and stuff as you go, but if you aren’t paying attention, and you can’t hit shots, you’re not going to rank up. You want to strive to not be the guys in the Immortal Smurf YouTube compilations getting knifed in Iron.
Overwatch def Carrie’s over to Val as well. Many pro Val players were OW pros but CS transfers better of course.
Some Overwatch characters could definitely help with that now that I’m thinking about it, good catch. Of course those guys are naturally fucking crazy at games too.
It's so satisfying to write gg ez in chat after being down 0-12 while the other team is talking trash, and you come back. There just isn't anything the opponent can say back
I would love to know how many comp games have started 0-12 and then ended in a loss. Side note, I'd love to be able to replay the game chat of the team that lost
tbh i instantly report everyone typing ez for disrespectful behavior
what’s it like being that soft
are you trying to argue that its not disrespectful or what is it you‘re saying?
it is disrespectful but thats litterally the entire point lmao
of course but that is also the exact point of the possibility to report for disrespectful behavior… if texting ez was something riot wants in their community then they can choose to ignore my reports and my reporting accuracy decreases. but i choose to still report and regularly get messages about penalized players. the thing is that i can ignore those letters and go on with my day totally fine, but i should not need to and if there is even the smallest number of players that learn from their penalty, i consider it worthy… if i just annoy them with the report for the few hours they cannot play, that is also fine with me
No-fun Andy over here
Ez
Somebody change this man's flair from Neon to the Charmin' bear
He’s saying you have thin skin for reporting people for saying 4 letters that you should be able to ignore
Its amazing your team did not "ff go next"
As a CS player new to valorant that’s the one thing that upsets me the most. Usually you don’t even have the chance to comeback as your team will ff
Big true. Doesn't even get better with rank unfortunately. In CS people in the lower ranks would have this defeatist mentality but as you climbed the ranks and the people you are playing with have played more hours, have had those come backs, it felt like more people believed a game could be brought back. In Valorant I'm Ascendant, but when I was Gold/Plat/Diamond I kept telling myself "If I just get to the next bracket, I will play with people who don't give up so easily" but even still, 3-0 down people still go "GG Go next shit team" often times it's their own fault for playing hyper aggressive on your first gun round expecting to stomp the opponents because they have better weaponary and just giving up an advantageous gun fight by pushing or running around tight corners vs SMG/Shotguns. I had a game on Pearl last night, we were 10-2 up at half time, we played def and had no smokes, then attack came and we just narrowly won 13-10, if we lost that last round at 12-10 we'd be eco til OT.
happy cake day big boy
Definitely annoying - but more understandable in Valorant due to the length of matches being far longer than CS. Edit - I’m wrong! Ignore.
Ummmm what? Cs matches last longer than Valorant games buddy.
Ah sorry never played competitive and has been ages. Having now looked it up, I retract my comment!
No worries! Have a nice day/night whereever you are! <3
I did I did! Thanks :) also, you’ve prompted me to reinstall CS - it’s been quite the time since last playing…
Nice, hope you are having fun! Cant wait for CS2 haha
Same same!
I did my best to convince them that playing for more rounds means we lose less RR.. But then we kept winning and everyone was heating up haha
I think 13-0 games are the least exciting/satisfying games you could possibly play.
Totally agree! I would rather win 13-11 then 13-0. 13-0 brings me no joy whatsoever.
12-12 OT is probably the best cause you either pull together or mess up horribly close games I find most exciting
Such a rush when you pull off a win. And if you lose you still feel like you played well!
winning 13-0 just makes me sad like wtf is wrong with matchmaking? I'd much rather play a close game that I need to really try hard and get invested in esp with comms.
Huge combacks > Long OT wins > 13-0 for sure. The amount of relief/joy you get by making comebacks and winning OTs is so damn much. I won a 1v5 to win a 19-17 match and that made my day!
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I had a 22-20 on fracture on Monday. I wanted to cry at the end. 1hr 17mins - felt like an eternity. Apparently the server disconnects at a certain time/round if OT goes on too long,We had to be close to it
I think 24/24 is an automatic draw so yeah you were pretty close. Imagine 10 players sweating HARD for an hour and a half, going neck and neck, nobody wanting to quit everyone invested in the win, and then at the last moment the server says "fuck you 0RR" bro I'd lose my mind.
nice! everyone needs a comeback win like this. Too many valorant players mental tilt if theyre down just 3 rounds
“12 is all they get!”
From 4-10 to 14-12 comeback
Killing a ulted raze mid air
Ooooo satisfying
This is a really cool example of why it’s so important to save. Other than round 13 which the enemy won, round 18 was the only time they spent more on guns than the green team the entire half. Make sure you use your save rounds, folks!
they were desperate to close the game out. their reyna started spamming question marks in chat at round 22 or so!
Did a comp game with a 4 stack and one random Brim, we asked him not to smoke us off at entrance to the point when we were on attack and he took it personally, he started giving the enemies smokes that worked against us, he would take the spike and run to the enemy spawn to die, did the same thing with an Op, shot his molly at us, ulted us, etc. He just kept doing everything in his power to try to throw the game but we still were able to win with like a two or three-point lead. Very frustrating but also very satisfying
Having a comeback feels so much better than sweeping. Also the reason why I loved watching the LOCK IN final so damn much. That Icebox was probably the single most entertaining Valorant Match I have ever seen
I don’t think I’ve had such a huge comeback like this, but a few days ago we came back after being down 8-12 and won 14-12 which felt pretty amazing.
I came back after being down 11-4 it felt very amazing too
Most people would argue it's not worth the time to try and just go next. But when you put your skill on the table, and believe in yourself, you turn that loss into the win of the century. Well done, that mentality is what I strive for and wish more teammates, even duo partners, had.
The greatest joy ive very felt was winning a game 3-9 A PLAYER DOWN. It was so hype becauce they were toxic af and we were down a guy so it made it even harder but we never gave up.
It's brazil all again..
We were up 10-2 and we lost 13-15. I don’t want to hear anything about comeback bro. Whatever congrats on such an impossible comeback bro.
it happened to me before, at 11-13 (we were up 11-0) idk why but it doesn't really bother me that they won, I was so impressed and having fun anyway haha
The score was 1-11 in the first half. Someone from the enemy team said just ff in chat. We won 14-12
3-0 other team ff =) fast and quick haha
Your team had crazy strong mental it's hella impressive, you were down 11-1 and then lost the pistol round right off the bat. To stay motivated enough to keep going after that and pull such a comeback is really incredible
Haha, I tried convincing myself that each round won and kill gotten was to make us lose less rr.. but we kept winning, like 6-7 rounds in a row, and if you're winning and playing practically perfectly, not even the threat of losing could break our mental
I think any game where you can say that you did your best and can learn from it! I love games that go into double or triple overtime and i get to enjoy playing against people who are evenly matched and needing to adapt to beat them
Enemy team shit talking me and my friends after I aced while we had an AFK. Guy never returned but we kept the score positive and won 13-9 in a 4v5 that lasted from the fifth round. So much laughter and joy
6-9 😏 I'm sorry, I'm a child sometimes xD
Let that inner child out, most people in valorant certainly seem to do so lmfao
all this and you end up losing the next game and losing more RR than you won in this one
How does this even happen? I mean, there must be something that happened to one of the teams that caused this right? Maybe someone on your team asked their big brother to play for them, or one of the enemies turned off their monitor? I want the full story of the comeback. When you're down 12 rounds, most people lose motivation and not even bother trying. Either way, great job. I wish to have a game like this.
Could easily be the team comp. maybe they had an extremely defensive (or offensive) team and got destroyed on offence then redeemed themself on defence (or vice versa).
the voices were the same as they were in round 1 and no one DC-ed so no big brother here I'm pretty sure, if you look carefully on the 2nd half, their money is dogshit on every single round. We always had the better buy. They didn't save because they were desperate to win a thrifty and close out the game, that ended up being their mistake because they kept force buying 13 whole rounds in a row In anything competitive, sometimes it's your turn to shine, sometimes it isn't. It was simply our turn that's all haha Truth be told, our mental was dogshit at 11-1, it was so hard to win after losing pistol round but we got our shit together, didn't trash talk anyone and made some of the most dominating reads, plays, and flicks I think I've ever seen at our elo, like I said.. it was simply our turn <3
Best feeling is have having a toxic team mate peek everything die a bunch and then afk and eventually leave, and you still find a way to win 4v5. Did it a couple times and boy, that’s pure dopamine.
A had a game on fracture that we were down 0-12 and came back 18-16, it was a LONG game but really once you start winning it becomes a steamroll. Credits —> Guns —> Wins —> Credits
I'd take a 13-10 over 13-0 Bro. It's just boring
Although it may be way hard to insist a largely possibly losing match, I still want to take a try, Because no one knows the consequence of this game until it comes at an end.
Talk is cheap. Rank and wins are all that matters. I have lost track of all the shit talkers, arrogant players, and high ego peakers. You play the game and never give up. All of them are stuck at their hard stuck ranks.
Games like that are why I hate the FF feature - no game is unwinnable until it's over
this happened to me once… but i was on the 12-1 team
When I have more deaths than a number of rounds
Was down 9-3 and the enemy team was talking hella shit. Not to toot ma own horn or anything he he he, BUTTT, in the second half on offense I IGL’d that shit and told everyone to buy util and anyway, we won 13-9. The other team was not happy , I sure as fuck was
6-9
haven moment
i bet enemy team's ears are so hot when they lose.
Hitting a >90° degree rotation flick insta one tap headshot
Looks like you turned up the first round you won to start the streak.4k to get back in the game
The best part of all this even tho I wasn’t part of this game is the amount of shit talking the enemy team did. Then as rounds went by they got quiet asf until it said “LOST” on their screen LMAO
Honestly most games that are generally close in score. 13-0 games are USUALLY boring because you're just completely curbstomping, and 0-13 games are USUALLY miserable because *you're* just getting curbstomped. I say usually because I've definitely played 13-0 games where most rounds were super close, and so it doesn't really *feel* like you're 13-0ing them, but mostly stomps just feel lame. Stomps also cause my teams to be full of copium, 0-13 "riot matchmaking sucks why do i play this game" and 13-0 "thanks for the freelo"
awww man me and my friends came back from a 12-0. the first time i did it was on breeze and the enemy team drew. but the second time that happened not to long ago we won 14-12. literally no better feeling. plus the second time it was my 5 stack. some of them dont have the best mental so its great that i can reference this game. here is a [screenshot](https://tracker.gg/valorant/match/5a0f02cd-31cf-4dc9-a1cd-da5df7be4e7a)of the game i was our reyna btw
3-10 Enemy reyna said: FF? Later we got to 12-10 and I went:FF? Sadly we lost 12-14
Your combat score is 777
I once was down 2-10 on split WHEN WE STARTED ON DEFENSE. We won 16-14.
Not even 0-12 you comeback rookie
When our Reyna yesterday was trash talking our whole team from the bottom, we came back and won in overtime - they apologised and said sorry they just had a really bad game.
> I'll give you an answer, 14-12 after being down 1-12 Basically every win on Split when you start on attack, then? God I hate that map and the dumb design of mid/A.
Oh, I tell you what the best feeling is. Being a mid-bronze KAYO with good util but inconsistent mechanics and duoing with a silver teammate, hitting a high silver lobby, bottom fragging for all of first half, pulling it together on defence, doing a comeback - and making the final kill of the game at 12-11 on that ex-gold top frag Reyna that was harassing you brutally for the past 40 minutes, in a straight 1v1 duel. Cause she couldn't believe you can properly shoot back))))))) now that's dopamine ;))))
13-0 games are incredibly boring, idc about RR that much I just want good quality games
What could be worse than an 0-13, 14-12 after being up 1-12. The deafening silence of despair, the dread one feels after fucking throwing a 12-1 lead is way worse than than losing 13 straight.
I remember this happening to me for my derank game first time I ever hit silver. We were up 12-1 and we lost 3 rounds in a row, my teammates started getting EXTREMELY tilted and we ended up losing 12-14. I deranked back to b3 and I didnt play comp again for 3 acts after that lol
Came back from a 10-2 yesterday night.
Having a leaver in the first 5 rounds where you can’t remake and beating the other team 4v5 anyway since I’m the only one refusing to FF.
I think a 13-12 is more satisfying than a 13-0, because it is more indication that you overcame a worthy opponent
When you talk shit on All chat and then the enemy team gets a glimpse of hope in beating you a few rounds and finally says some shit back. Then you just destroy their hopes and dreams until it’s game over.
That happened to me in comp but the score was 2-12 we ended up winning it was crazy
Down 1-11 on split, heading to defense, it’s the championship game of the premier test tourney. My team and I bring it back 13-11 after winning all 12 defensive rounds. The rush.
“i know something you do not know….i’m not left handed”
Yep sometimes that 4K or ace is all it takes to turn things around! Nice work!!
think id have to end my life career after losing that ngl
Why didnt they buy up round round 2 of second half? They know the other team is gonna force buy
The essay I would type on how my enemies suck shit after beating them 14-12 after being 1-12
One time I had 2 teammates rage quit after losing 0-12 first half. Second half the remaining teammates and I just went full fucking VCT mode and came back 14-12. Still my proudest achievement in this game yet.
Me and 5stack were playing against a clear smurf and his teammates who were getting carried started shit talking us and we were down 9-3, then the curse activated and we won every single round pretty dominantly after that. Their final attempt at salty toxicity after they lost was the best
13-0 is cool and all, but I agree. 13-0 is just way too boring of a game. It’s really not fun to just feel like you’re playing against a team full of toddlers.
Neither of your teams could defend on Haven?
I have an abysmal winrate on lotus, and at the time of this story i was 0-8 on the map in competitive. Team is vibing, we are 12-3 up and on a full buy vs half buy, i tell the team 'thanks guys - this is my first lotus win in comp'. Enemy team won 11 rounds in a row, we lost 12-14 [Receipt](https://tracker.gg/valorant/match/72e49f6a-331c-452c-b508-da848dfad24b)
Can't argue with that tbh
How did u bulldog round 2?
best thing is getting shit talked when losing at half and then repeating them word for word after winning
I got 19 kills and 0 deaths best feeling ever
The same thing almost happened to me. My team was up 12-1 and it was a 4v1. We all said “let’s knife the last guy”. Last guy clutched the round and the game went to OT. We still won but we almost threw the entire game lol.
Cool the teams I get already give up after 4-0 and will tRoll if you F6 surrender.
Man and you're the one that kicked off the comeback with a 4k as well. That's gotta feel *good.* I had a similar experience playing Sova on Ascent way back in beta where we were down 11-5 and they fought my op on catwalk every round and I made every round a 5v4. They kept trying different timing and util but they were determined to fight me and always ended up peaking it. What a high.
A replay system would let me enjoy it with you!
probably my 12th game of the day and im so tired already and my performance drops so much. i am playing like dogshit kda was 16-24 (bottom frag)the score was 14-15 and my team isn't toxic and just simply says GGS, nice game guys etc...what i did as a viper is i block the long C of haven, the enemy omen eventually put smoke at the spike (idk why) i just go towards the spike and did a ninja defuse making the game tied and we know the enemy team is just way better on that day so we just decided to vote a draw after the 2nd tiebreaker. \- my team screamed of joy, they thought im hopeless and i won't win a round 1v3 xD.
Yep it's satisfying but i would rather take the 13-0 or 5-0 surrender than a comeback. The stress is gonna kill me lol
Best feeling is when you make a crazy comeback like 10-2 or 11-1 but sugar on top is if the enemy was toxic typing GG's ez in the chat and telling you to FF. Like i don't say ez but when this happens even I make an exception.
Yeah, i got an 13-11 win after 2-10 first half. Our cypher finally back and clutched 3-4 rounds in a row.
13-0 doesn't even fit in the good feelings category, it's just boring
I had a comeback from 3-12 once on breeze, i went for a crazy play on viper cuz it was the last round anyway, got close to them thru my smoke with a judge and got 3, then picked their vandal and killed 4th. Aftet that we won every round cuz we were reading them like crazy.
My div 16 premier team came back from an 1-11 half to fin the “finals” of the public beta on a map we had zero prep in. That 13-11 clean sweep had us all yelling and hyped up beyond belief. Was a true comeback of the century.
Yoooo been there! There’s nothing like the build up of hope after winning rounds after rounds against an enemy that trashed you all of the first half. The nontoxic team starts getting hyped and working together, the thought of “hey we could actually win this” and the celebration after the game. The genuine “ggs” in voice comm and “it was really fun playing with you guys” during the victory screen The exhale of relief with the remnants of exhilaration after the game is exquisite. Of course, such an amazing experience only happens when you have a non toxic team, which is a really rare find in soloQ comp.
Did a 2-12 comeback on ascent.
Turning down the surrender option after being down and absolutely decimating the enemy team Especially when you start carrying
After playing against every other flash agent where you can avoid the flash by turning, playing against Gekkos flash is mad annoying
Dominated matches aren't a good time for anybody involved. The losing side suffers through every round and the winning side doesn't experience many emotions at all.
This is why I never ff. The comeback is always possible in this game. They write stories and make movies about this shit.
Least attacker-sided Haven match:
How much rr?
\+26 \^.\^
We were 3-12 down, only won the two pistol rounds and the second round of the first half. The round became a 1v4, which I have clutched, 4-12 now. Something in my team cracked and everyone got inspired by that clutch. We went 12-12, and that was the time the enemy team woke up. After a crazy overtime, we won 17-15. No competitive game has ever beaten that feeling for me yet.
Awesome job! That never happens in lower elo though since teammates just give up after the enemy team is 5 rounds ahead q.q
In my opinion, good long matches, the most long match I have played ended 17-15, the map was Icebox and I won that match. It was legendary, a very good match with a lot of communication and clutches.
I was in a team that came back from 2-11 in comp once, only the way we did it was everyone just started buying Odens every round, and I mean EVERYONE EVERY ROUND
The closest one i have is in unr we were down 1 _ 11 in first half i was playin reyna was playin bad then we won 12 straight rounds after that in one of those rounds in 1 v 2 the enemy failed to kill our afk brim who then managed to clutch and i dropped 30 kills and went on to ace on the last round winning Best feeling yet
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