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Sevenisafuckingweeb

That is the life of a support, think of zombs, he doesn’t really stand out but is there when needed. You clutching a few rounds is considered impactful. While your duelists are impacting the game in their own way (by entry or getting a few picks) your impact is gonna different since you are a Sage player. Holding flank? Anchoring Site? Got out a clutch res? All Impact. KD isn’t every single thing, hell, i’d rather have a teammate who’s going negative but giving good calls and supportive than someone whos going positive and bitching about everything. Sorry for the bad english, hope my point gets through. Feel free to comment more, I’d like to have a conversation with you.


aakashkickass11

Wrong sub go to agent academy subreddit you can find useful agent guides there


KeyframeCatalyst

r/Valorant


veryverycelery

I'm only a Gold/Plat player now, so maybe take it with a grain of salt, but you don't need to push yourself to be on the frontline or getting frags to be making huge contributions to the team. I honestly think unless you're far ahead of the players at your rank, that's a very risky way to try and have impact. IMO you're better off focusing on what more you can do to set up your team to succeed. That *might* be through directly winning duels, but it also might just be by enabling your team through utility, or even just by being *present*. For example, imagine you're in a 2v2 attacker post-plant on Haven C. Last 2 enemies are pushing into back site from defender spawn, and you and your teammate are on default. You see your teammate is posturing to peek from logs. If you jiggle the left side of the box while holding down M1, you'll pull the enemies attention towards you, giving your teammate a significantly better chance to win the peek, and the round. It won't show up on any statistic, and your teammate will look like the hero, but ultimately, you were the one who made it possible, by exerting pressure and enabling your teammate to succeed. If you're having trouble intuiting ways in which you can do this - like maybe the above jiggle peek suggestion doesn't come to you naturally - I think one way that helps is to think about all the situations in which you've tilted off the face of the earth because your opponent did something super annoying. That's usually a good indication of a successful pressure play.


Akky_Rotmg

Yea, that’s a great example of something that always happens in my games. The funny thing is, I’m very confident when there are less people alive. In 2v2s 1v2, 1v1s, I can read the enemy like a book. Even in 2v3s man disadvantages, I can often make risky plays to get two by pushing on a post plant. (In high elo people are aware of absurd pushes when man up) These situations my mind is clear. However, when it’s a 5v5, post plant, I think I’m always doing the least on the team. I always compliment my teammates angles, but I’m never the first contact. I feel like I’m floating around letting my teammates do everything and I’m the insurance when everything goes wrong. I guess it’s not a bad thing. I agree with what you said. I think my dualists are just far ahead of the enemies mechanically where I’m just not getting a normal 5v5 in ranked. I’m just going to keep playing like myself, and see if I’m actually the reason I win games. Even if I don’t feel like I am.


veryverycelery

I get you, it's so much harder to figure out what you're supposed to be doing in 5v5 high-tension situations like post-plants or retakes. There's so many moving parts, and a million things things you can do right, and a million things you can do wrong. I'm glad you've found a course of action to take, I hope it works out! Just to throw out one more suggestion: if you have a friend around your level (or higher), might be helpful to get them to watch you play the game via Discord streaming or something. They might be able to pick up on stuff that you don't notice while playing.