Points per kill should be changed

Posted by Steve

Friday, January 8, 2021 1:00 AM

The current system gives the most points for entry kills and considers the last kill in the round as the least important, even when it is 1 v 1 clutch. Usually support agents suffer from this, since they can’t chase entry frags, which directly affects their combat score and, as the result, their rank (which takes into consideration combat score in low and med ranks).

The idea is to assign the points based on the importance of the kill. Obviously, the importance can’t be calculated perfectly, but it clearly does not exclusively depend on the number of enemies alive. We should at least consider the number of alive allies too.

The system, based on the difference in the number of players alive, seems to be more fair:

  • + 4 allies alive – 70 points
  • + 3 allies alive – 90 points
  • + 2 allies alive – 110 points
  • + 1 ally alive – 130 points
  • equal numbers – 150 points
  • + 1 enemy alive – 150 points
  • + 2 enemies alive – 130 points
  • + 3 enemies alive – 110 points
  • + 4 enemies alive – 90 points

Thus, the most important kills are:

- those, which give your team a numerical advantage (kill when there is an equal number of allies and enemies)

- those, which take away this advantage from enemy team (kill when there is +1 enemy alive compared to your team)

Everything which moves away from these conditions in any direction is less important, for example:

- kills 5 v 1, 4 v 1 or 5 v 2 are not that important, since your team already has an advantage and these are almost free kills

- kills 1 v 5, 1 v 4 or 2 v 5 are also not really important, since these kills provide almost no benefit to your team (however, if you keep killing further, each next kill will be considered more and more important, eventually you will achieve “+1 enemy” and “equal numbers” situations)

As a result, entry kills still give maximum points, but clutch kills are now equally important. In the same time baiting your team and doing 1-2 frags in the end of a round provides less points.

References

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/kroq1d/points_per_kill_should_be_changed/
  • https://reddit.com/kroq1d

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