Let’s all be honest, if you have played Valorant for more then 10 minutes you have experienced a fantastic match without a player in your or the other team. Sure it sucks, sure the system that detects afks is superb, but I don’t think the problem is to punish the afks. Sure enough after a week ban they will be more afraid of being banned till 2121, but they can still make dozens of accounts and still play. Until they afk in unrated/no competitive modes they just ruin other people fun, but in competitive everything changes. Most of the time people will not play competitive for enjoying themselves, but for grinding their ranks and to get better to climb, so an afkers could be very tilting and (let’s be honest) it almost means a loss for that team. The problem here is that people lose full RR while having 1-2 people afk. I played a match today where there were 2 afks and we sadly loss(scoreboard here), I got match mvp but still loss 16 RR. Now, I’m not a player who tilts that easily, so I took it and went on. But imagine the Jett on my team, who got trash talked by raze, had to support 2 afkers and loss more than 16 RR, how tilted could he was? To be fair a systek where for every player afking there is something like 5 RR loss less it wpuld be great for players to stop being angry and tilted.

Edit: like they did on the remake option, they can make that if you are a premade party you don’t gett less rr if they afk