Hey all! Just like the title says, I recently finished my first round of competitive, and it was one of my worst experiences I've had gaming in a long time.

I've been playing the game for a few days now (unranked) and have really enjoyed it, I met several nice people, who have been pretty cool to me. I was starting to feel pretty decent, often being in the top 2 in my games. I have had a few people ask for my rank, but I couldn't ever tell them, so I tried comp today to see where I would place.

Instantly everyone is yelling at me over coms saying things like: "don't ads, don't crouch, strafe/don't strafe" all sorts of stuff like that. When I tried asking if they were being serious, they laughed and said I was trolling. The jokes continued and got worse, to the point where I didn't want to play the game anymore.

So, legitimate questions:

1. Are you supposed to ads?
2. Are you supposed to crouch
3. Are you supposed to strafe?

Coming from apex (a game i still love), I've always ads'd. Also, movement is huge, so valorant is a different game all together. Hopefully I don't sound too b*tchy writing this, as I really am searching for good info, but also wondering if that's just the nature of comp in valorant. Thank you!