How can I improve in this game and stop being useless?

Posted by Steve

Monday, July 12, 2021 7:28 PM

I play games since around 2011 or so, but I never tried a shooter until two weeks ago, only "similar" stuff.

I feel like this can't justify how bad I am in this game. As I said, I started playing my first shooter two weeks ago, which of course was Valorant. I was able to unlock competitive, but here is where the problem lies:

I'm stuck at Iron 1 with 0 pts, everytime I get some pts, I lose the next match, so I'm basically always at 0 pts. I used to think it was due to the fact that my team *never* has the level advantage (there's always a lvl 90-110 and two lvl 50s in the rival team, meanwhile we are a bunch of lvl 15-25), and while that might make a difference, other people with a similar level do way better than me (maybe due to past experiences with other shooters), in some matches I'm only able to kill one or two people, and everyone in the chat is like "kayo pls" "kayo wtf???" "bruh report" "kayo kill someone pls" and I don't really know what to do.

Now I will explain more or less how I play, since otherwise you don't really know anything.

First of all, I always pick Spectre as my weapon (Stinger if I don't have enough money or Odin if I have *a lot*), usually I tend to attack from afar or somewhat close to the enemy.

I hide behind corners and sometimes I move a bit to shoot, but as soon as one pixel is in enemy range, I get killed in two shots before I can do anything. This leads me to sometimes just move like crazy to try to be unpredictable, but of course, I die. So both strats somehow fail (even tho the first is supposed to be the correct one), so what's wrong? I know my accuracy also has some issues, but there is more, I just don't know what. (My KDA and Avg. Score are always the lowest among the 10 of us btw)

Scenarios I find a lot are:

  1. I see someone close to me, start to shoot sooner, but die (I might have less damage? or even at close distance I'm trash?)

  2. I move one milimeter to shoot, and die in one or two shots.

  3. Somehow it seems people always know where am I, even if no detection ability was used.

  4. Sometimes I'm randomly able to kill 3 people in one round because of...I don't really know what lol

As you might have realized from the comments above, yes, I play Kay/o, but today I decided to play Omen, since if I'm trash at killing people, at least I will try to help others with my Omen (and sometimes I can kill while inside the shadows). My plan is to unlock Killjoy, as she seems to be better for me (I can place turrets which will do more than I do lol, and I can also put a special grenade I can easily trigger to kill people that want to disable the spike and stuff)

Thanks in advance!

References

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/oiq38m/how_can_i_improve_in_this_game_and_stop_being/
  • https://reddit.com/oiq38m

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