So for context, I started playing Val for the first time last year in October, 40ish hours, but didn’t make it out of bronze and just swapped over to Overwatch 2 and stopped playing Valorant entirely.

I do have experience with FPS games and such but only on console with a controller, Val was my first PC FPS.

I started playing again mid April and still placed bronze but it only took me a few days to reach silver.

I ended E6: A2 as a silver 3. I was struggling in my gunfights and whatnot but felt like I was in the correct rank.

At the beginning of the month (May 2023) I started taking the game more seriously and looked up how to get better aim and how to play my main (Jett and KJ) etc. just the standard YouTube guides like woohoojin, sondo301 and others.

In Gold, I felt like i was able to be top 3 overall in the lobby quite frequently and in just 3 days I hit plat, already thinking that was abnormally fast.

In plat, I definitely felt like I was being more challenged obviously and had some setbacks, however this time, I no longer felt like I was being top 3 quite frequently anymore but still felt like I was doing my job as a duelist and occasionally having 20+ kills and even 29 kills a couple of times.

And finally, a couple of days ago I ranked up from plat to Diamond, and now I’m halfway to Diamond 3. The issue I have however, is that I no longer ever get MVP, and the last time I actually was mvp was 5 days ago when I was in plat 2.

I understand that I don’t necessarily have to be MVP very often but the problem I have, is that I feel like I’m much worse than the average player in this rank, at least mechanically…but I keep winning and consequently climbing.

I don’t care for my rank itself, I just want to be able to say I’m a diamond player and not feel like I’m actually worse than the average player in this rank.

I hope I was able to explain what I meant.

My Riot ID is Santi#0002 if you’d like to check anything.

I appreciate those who took their time to read.