Hi, so I'd been playing Valorant for a while and my rank was Plat most of the time and my highest one was Diamond 1 like several months ago. I kinda had a break and started playing again after the latest update with KAY/O.

My first 5 ranked games were fine and I got Gold 1 with 3 wins and 2 losses. In those games, I had like 20-ish kills and more than 1.0 KDA rate, so no complaint there. After that my games are just getting worse and worse and now I'm a Bronze. I don't know if it's because everyone in Silver and Bronze just gets really good all of the sudden or there's something wrong with how I play. My aim is pretty much the same and I got 1st place most of the time in DM. But in ranked matches I feel like people just constantly 1 tap me while shoulder peeking in every position I choose. And I keep on losing every ranked match. I even got 0-13 in one.

This is not me ranting about how people are so much better than me or there's something wrong with the ranking system. I actually want to ask you guys for some suggestions to improve myself to get out of Bronze. I usually play like 3 DM matches before I start queueing for ranked matches and I feel like it's enough. What is your practicing routine and is there any trick to play against people who are actually better than me in terms of aiming and stuff?