I'm not a typical FPS player, came from MMO's but started to really like Valorant. I went on a downward spiral this weekend and wanted to get it off my chest. Beginning of the weekend, I'm bronze 3 with 2 up arrows, feeling good about maybe getting to silver. The following are snipets of my 7 game losing streak:

Game 1: Starts good, win the first two, round 3 starts, our Reyna just says "sorry boys, trying to derank, you can report me if you want" and afk's. We lost 8-13, put up a good fight, but 4v5 is tough. 2 down arrows

Game 2: The only comp match I've ever forfeited. End of round six, losing 0-6 the enemy Reyna and Raze have a combined 25/0/4 KDA. Our team has 4 total kills. They say in chat "I think we smurfed to hard lol". We forfeited, their parting note was "LOL we smurfed so hard they quit". Down rank to bronze 2.

Game 3: Honestly a pretty good game, our Jett and I were popping off (and im not a pop off kind of player). Unfortunately, when the game is 9-9, our Reyna DC's. We still take the game to OT due to some awesome clutches. End up losing 12-14, my final KDA was 32/12/8. I'm figuring a no change in rating, maybe one down arrow......2 down arrows.

Game 4: Bottom fragging, int master Phoenix dies first thing every round, then tells everyone what they are doing wrong, muted. Started shooting his gun around everyone to let the enemy know where we were. Everyone else on the team was great, but having our phoenix is almost worse than having an afk. Lost 9-13, 2 down arrows.

Game 5: This game was actually a relief, no leavers, no one toxic, just poor gameplay on me and my teams behalf. My KDA was trash at 8/14/9. Lose 11-13, 1 down arrow. Kind of peeves me to see one down arrow for a worse loss than game 3, but no smurfs, no leavers, im happy to lose a normal game.

Game 6: Another DC/AFK, started in round 4, lose 6-13. Welcome back to Bronze 1.

Game 7: This is the game that made me just stop playing for a bit. Icebox (which I dont mind). Thing is, game loads up, see the enemies previous act ranks..... lowest was gold 2, with a diamond 2 in there. First message from the enemy team "Yall ready to get smurfed on?". Throughout the game they made comments like "Man smurfing to bronze isnt even fun". Dumpster fire 4-13. 2 down arrows.

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I dont mind losing in Valorant, happens. But what really irked me about these 7 games were, most were not what I would call "competitive". Is this what people call ELO hell? The worst part is, before this streak, I was genuinely getting better at the game, better comming, better aim, more map awareness, but now I just dont know. Anyone else having this kind of experience?