I'm new to valorant and a bit of an amateur with FPS games. Been playing for over a couple of months now. Currently still in Iron. I hate how in low elo, wild cards occur to often. Sometimes you play against an enemy smurf, play with someone who has no idea what they're doing because they're super new to fps games and have no concept of using utilities, or someone on your team is AFK.

For smurfs, I don't understand you guys. Do you just stay in Iron just to feel the glory of crushing opponents? Thanks for ruining our games by being overly dominant. Thankfully the new requirements for competitive has been updated so hopefully we actually will feel the effect of a decrease in smurfs.

And for AFKs, well sometimes it's unavoidable. I understand that. But what I do hate most is we get no handicap or compensation at all. We lost a 4v5, and we still get either decreased or greatly decreased rating.

My suggestion is to adjust this decrease. I know. Yeah. You can win 4v5. If you play like a pro. That's not helpful advice. So basically your advice is to tell everyone to just be as good as the pros? Get lost. There should be an allowance or compensation for losing 4v5. The winning complete enemy team can still get the same amount of ratings, but the losing incomplete team should at least receive only a slight decrease - or better yet even nothing at all. It's 4v5. Don't tell me to just get better and win the game. If it wasn't a team game, then why not just keep playing 1v5?