Hi all, someone on the Valorant discord posted the solution, so thought I'd share it here: Apparently something in the new patch removed Valorant as an exception in SOME antivirus softwares (AVAST, Malware Bytes). So, you need to re-set it...

Started playing in Episode 1 Act 1 and was bronze 3 and pretty much played every act since then. Never filled out an act rank triangle however due to school and other things and this is also my first fps which is pretty cool imo. AMA https...