I'm a 33 yo player who's first FPS was briefly CS:GO for 3 month and then directly Valorant.

I started has a iron 1 in the game and then after some studying of the game got to D2 last year. Ranked was already bad last year and I was pretty disapointed by the toxicity in Diamond and the basis level which seemed worst than gold (no comms, no utility, dont know how to use ability).

Then i got a 7 month without internet last year which was frustrating but I finally could play again end of last year, since then, I've felt that ranked was awful...like really awful !

I was happy to comeback to the game after so much time without playing but people were both super toxic and honestly not putting much thought into the game. But I quickly ranked up from G1 to plat 3 again.

That is when things started to become absolutely hellish, everytime I would get close to Diamond by a few points I would get :

• AFKs
• Trolls
• No comms teammates
• Stoners
• Even a clear cheater

Last 2 days, I've come to a full tilt, from P3 to P1 and I've decided that i'm done putting in the effort, I will probably stop ranked, and if I play I will just play muted and live my life for my own sanity.

One thing I dont get is why people dont seem to want to improve in this game, to me improvement is always the way to go. If you have any advice to how to overcome this I'm listening, but honestly, I'am almost completly done with the game, i get no pleasure from it.