I have been playing VALORANT since the beta. I am an Omen main and have 7000+ hours in Omen. However, my peak Division was Bronze 3. I have never crossed into silver. I am not very good at the game, and to be honest I probably never will be. I’m colorblind, my computer is older than time itself, and my wifi quality makes Argentinas Wi-Fi look incredible.

My hands down worst experience ever playing competitive was on Bind. I was in a 5 stack que with my friends (all Iron) and we got put against 4 Diamond Smurfs and one Iron who they were boosting. They told us to FF on round 5 because we didn’t stand a chance. They were right, but we decided to go out with honor and got 13-0.

I’ve been seeing a lot of people on this sub saying “skill issue get better” and technically yes, it is a skill issue, but that’s the problem. How is it fair that players who are ranked so much higher than me can just come down, tank MY MMR, and get away with it? Its not just “skill issue get good”, it’s downright cheating and is unfair. Don’t even say “learn from the smurfs” because that isn’t how that works. I’m not gonna watch a Smurf jiggle peak a corner and then immediately learn how to do it and beat them. I have to practice that and implement it into my game play. An iron player doesn’t learn from Smurfs. Irons are still learning how to get better, diamonds are better. Absolutely destroying someone doesn’t help them learn, it only puts them down and makes them believe they are just garbage and will never make rank.

To anyone who disagrees and thinks I am just “mad cause bad”, I offer you this to think about. I am a competitive Chess player and I am incredibly fucking good at it. I am 2350 FIDE and will be putting on a GM title within the next 10 years at least.

If you defend Smurfs, then let’s play a game of chess, because I promise I will destroy you, and when I do, I’ll rub it in your face like the fucking filthy Valorant cheater you are. Know why? Because you don’t stand a chance. You are probably 1000 rated at best and have no chance of beating me. Actually scratch that, I’m going to use the highest level of stockfish I can and play all the best computer moves against you because that’s what cheating is. Skill issue my ass. Smurfing is bad and needs to be fixed. Fuck all of you who support Smurfing and making the game unfair and not fun.