I’ve played since act 1 and I absolutely love the game. I genuinely want to become better and this really has been the only game since Gears of War on the Xbox 360 that I’ve taken seriously in a competitive sense. I don’t want to trash the game or anything like that because again, I do love this game and think it’s one of the best FPS competitive games out right now. That being said, I will say I’m not crazy insane player, I’m an (what I consider) an above average player and I’ve spent my valorant career constantly in the gold rank. Very seldom have I seen platinum and I’ve always played to try and climb the ranks like any other player does. I’ve had an extremely hard time getting out of gold due to various reasons which I’m sure you’ve all heard of:

1. Smurfing can be a major issue is some games. This is all too real again, in some games. I’ve had enemy fraggers go 38-4 and it couldn’t be more obvious that there silver 3 rank isn’t legit. That is few and far between for the most part but I will say I do see it every other day at least.

2. People throwing. Surprisingly enough I’m shocked to see that people actually do this, or maybe don’t directly do it. Instead they just don’t really care how the game turns out so they do whatever they want which may not coincide with what the rest of the team is doing. I’ve had several games recently where people openly say they “don’t care” or they “aren’t trying” and it does suck to see that in ranked of all modes.

I don’t want to make this post to trash the game or the ranked system, I only went to show the difficulties highsilver/gold players face on a daily basis in ranked. We are players trying to improve and climb the ranks like any other, and I hope issues like these can be addressed so climbing the ranks can be more successful while having great teammates to play with. Cheers and merry Christmas to all!!