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I think it's hard when you just kind of abstract out, "Well, how effective is the killer vs. the assister, and I think that the assister is more/less effective, etc." because it's purely opinion-based. It's the same argument for or against win/loss MMR vs. Encounter. It's just an opinion on how valuable each one is.

That's why when you make an MMR system, you validate these things and find out the most effective way to test and measure data sets like this. If our rating system was terrible, we could see that in data and adjust how the system measures these things(which we've done for years before Valorant was even live!). We also have simulations and other things we run and crazy intelligent data scientists who help us.

Think of it this way. We have many people playing matches, using a system that's trying to pair them up based on how it's rating them. Let's say we got it wrong and valued Kills too heavily. Suddenly, the system would be putting players who were good...

It's a little more complex, it takes into account assists, ability usage, site taking, etc. At the end of the day it doesn't matter what agent you play, every time you take a positive action against an opponent you are stealing MMR from them in a sense.

No smurf queue, and if one account is ranking up faster it's because it's doing better. We don't have a winners or losers queue, some people bring that up alot; there is no benefit to this and just reduces fair match making(which is our goal, to have the fairest matches).

Lower Rank's use more encounter MMR, and higher use more Win/Loss MMR. Encounter cares more about who you beat in duels, win/loss cares about who you win the match against. Players that win duels, and win matches, will climb faster then players that just do one or the other.

The only reason an account would get stuck is that the performance is different on that account, you can look at TenZ and see him take an account to Radiant MMR in 20 games. MMR is just a ladder, beat people and you steal their spot and climb the ladder.

Not sure why the accounts would be a different rank, but usually when people bring this up and we do investigations it's because they group with different people and pl...

The matchmaking is slightly different but overall very similiar. We are a little looser in DM but we don't have to worry about team balance so it's easier to make matches. I think DM is just a different beast tho, because some players(like myself) perform differently in one mode compared to the other. I have amazing aim, but I hold W like a COD player.

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I work on these!

Tournament mode is still in development no ETA, it's the competitive teams primary focus right now.

The cascading pick I announced as this episode, so no ETA or updates yet.

hope that helps!

Hey I wanted to say the past couple weeks I know I haven't gotten a chance to respond to looking into your Account.

I will say I looked at your account and saw that for the most part everything looked pretty normal. You had a couple matches that were a little one-sided, but for the most part a lot of your matches ended 13-10 or above. Your overall match fairness based on round difference was actually very good, which is a good indicator your getting pretty fair match-making. I also looked at your account internally and didn't see anything suspicious.

The reason you may be having trouble climbing, or not seeing ranked progress, is due to two things. So our system has two MMR's that make up your one MMR; Encounter and Win/Loss. Encounter is basically every interaction you have with an enemy, looking at both your MMR's, and adjusting your Encounter MMR based on those interactions. Win/Loss MMR is very straight forward.

Looking at Encounter is near impossible, b...

There are a lot of reasons, and opinions, on how your aim would improve going lower. I agree, you would probably benefit a ton from it, it will feel SUPER AKWARD at first. There are two ways, lower it slowly or all at once. Considering you are like in space in terms of high edpi, I would just slam yourself down to low.

Remember your EDPI is your DPI X In game sensitivity. So you can keep higher DPI, and lower in game sense or vice versa. For example I play at 1600 DPI and .145 in game sens.

THAT BEING SAID, I have a bigger concern for your wrists. Lower DPI is much easier on your wrists, as it forces you to use your arm and shoulder more. As someone who is slowly turning into a boomer, I have dealt with wrist problems my whole gaming career. After my run in eSports I had to baby my wrists. I've noticed huge improvements in my wrist pain and I wish I would have played lower sens the whole time when I started playing games. Don't be like me, set your self up to years ...

I'm sorry, that's a rough experience and I understand how this can be extremely frustrating. (btw I read both of your posts so I may give feedback talking about things you said in both of them)

I'm never going to say our ranked is perfect, in fact you point out the very struggle of ranked systems. There are people that are going to get to the rank the system evaluates them at, then if they feel like that rank is not justified they will look for reasons or stats to validate their idea that "this rank for me is wrong". Changing how we display rank, showing MMR, etc. will not change this experience or this feedback, in fact if you are truly playing against bronze and iron players your MMR is probably below your current rank. This isn't giving an excuse for your case, we should talk about YOUR experience, I just wanted to point out this issue is common in every game in every rank system.

So I really want to address all the issues you raise. The first issue that's easy t...

It doesn't matter if you wait and play in two weeks, or play now, the system will be able to push you to your appropriate rank. It depends on how superstitious you are of the first few weeks of the season. Rank/MMR doesn't care about time of season, or if you've been reset or not; you will always be pushed to where you belong. Not playing won't do anything to change your MMR or the skill of the opponents you will play against when you come back.

This is a problem of all ranked systems, even if you displayed MMR.

Lets take two players in a pure MMR ranked world:

Player A - Has played 5 ranked games

Player B - Has played 50 ranked games

Both players are ranked silver. While Player A actually belongs in Gold, they just haven't played enough games for the MMR system to adjust them there. Player B belongs in Silver, and has proven this by playing 50 games. Technically, in a pure MMR system, they are still both silver. The rank of Player A is wrong, because their MMR is wrong, because they haven't played enough games.

The same problem exists in any ranked system, because both systems require you to play X number of games until your true MMR is reached. In a system that separates rank from MMR all it is doing is putting your rank below your MMR and letting your rank slowly adjust to your MMR, instead of letting you see your MMR wildly swing over your first handful of matches. They do the sa...

This is a huge concern from the team as a whole, and we have a whole team focused on it. There are lots of things being worked on, and we even patrol and escalate issues we see on social media. Definitely a space we are constantly evaluating, and we have a whole team dedicated to the space.

There is no MMR system that knows your rank from your first handful of games. Technically the traditional ELO system would require 1000+ matches to get an accurate picture of your true skill.

The system will always push your rank to your MMR, you can't stop it. We are just forcing your rank to display the lower end of where your MMR range is, rather than the average or where the system thinks you may belong right now. When you play 10-30 games it will converge and match.

We do this on new episodes, again just to make sure you aren't boosted, to force you to validate your rank, and also to ensure based on the new game balance you actually belong at those ranks.

So in the end as long as your rank ends up matching your MMR, it doesn't matter if it shows your true MMR or not, it will still take X number of games to get an accurate read of where you belong.

Great write-up! ACS was worked on before I joined the competitive team, and while I would love to go back and revisit it at some point we just are focused on other areas right now. I want to point out one thing, which is ACS has no correlation/relation to your MMR; it's just generated for stats/feedback on the end of game screen.

I agree the RPS system is really interesting, and maybe after we get this tournament system out the door we can take a look at ACS and stat stuff. But no promises, again it just depends on the team's focus, what fires we have to put out, etc. I just want to say I also see the value in stats like this and would love to see them someday.

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I wrote up a response to these kind of posts here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/s2bk5d/riots_placement_for_this_season_makes_me_not_want/hsedlck/

Hopefully that helps explain "The Great Reset of 2022"

I've seen a few posts, and I addressed this in a small post on twitter but I really want to make sure to be open about what's happening and why.

First, I understand it's frustrating to go from a rank you spent lots of time achieving and then get dropped back down. Rank is part of your identity in Valorant and when ranked reset occurs it can be very upsetting depending on how hard you drop. While it may be rough to get dropped, know that the entire playerbase of ranked is getting dropped the same amount following the same rules. We aren't dropping you more, or singling you out, the whole community gets hit with the reset.

Second I want to talk about the reset itself. I believe we could have done a better job messaging the Episode reset was occurring, I will ensure going forward it's included in the patch notes. It's a standard formula we now have for ranked but the rules for reset are as follows:

1. Every episode the highest you can place is diamond 1, ...

Players that dodge fracture will have the same weight as a player that doesn't, it's when the map is played that the weighting gets reduced. Honestly dodging is just setting you up for penalties because the system will push you to play maps you haven't played.

The weights last for multiple matches, so while it's possible to get bind, split, bind, split, the potential that can happen is very low. Once you play a map that maps weight is reduced for a number of games afterwards.

Lastly we have another lair of protection which watches for streaks, so if you do get the same map multiple times in a row it tries to prevent you from getting it again by weighting that map down a very large amount. Unfortunately, again, matches don't get thrown out and it's still a weighted but random system. While it's pretty rare to get a map 3 times, or even 4 times, it can still occur.

Data wise the system is pretty good, but we want to make sure we are getting the best results ou...

All maps get weighted the same, there is no favoritism. We grab a bunch of people that could potentially match against each other, and then from that player pool figure out the best way to make two teams to go against each other. After that we choose a map.

When choosing a map we look at all the maps each player has played in their match history, also the system does not "disable" or "remove" any map from randomly getting picked. This is because we do not want to throw out matches at this point, and would rather have a match where someone has gotten the same map in a row(due to random map occurrence) rather than throw out a fair match and make the match maker do more work.

So basically when you get a map, it reduces your chance of getting that map again by the same amount as any other map. If you get a map multiple times in a row we reduce that value even further. That being said it depends on the maps everyone in your game has played, not just you. Also even tho th...