[2022] Can anyone help me understand how to fix hidden RR and what the game is looking for?

I currently hover around S1 but feel like I should be maybe be a little higher. I play with the same group of friends on most nights and as we climb, they get substantially more gains for wins and less punishment for losses despite me being the top fragger of almost every match and them being ranked above me. We can have a win where I am match MVP and my RR gains are beat out by a S3 who had 12 less kills than me. My understanding of the hidden MMR system is that Valorant believes I am a lower actual skill level than my silver 1 suggests and are trying to force me down, but I am regularly outfragging people ranked higher than me and going positive against golds. I assume there has to be something I am missing pretty substantially to understand why they don’t like my gameplay.

Is there something to do with utility usage or death counts outweighing kill counts that I need to consider? I will note that I play duelist and most of the others don’t - is this a factor? I read somewhere that Valorant looks at more factors within the game to determine how good you are, but I really want to understand them. I am trying to avoid making a clean account, I just want to know what I am doing wrong and fix it. Sorry if this is a stupid question, I’ve just been looking everywhere and can’t seem to find a consensus. We have all come to the conclusion that my account is just broken but I assume there is something I can do to prove myself to the hidden system.

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Originally posted by idiotdroid

I am missing pretty substantially to understand why they don’t like my gameplay.

You are. You seem to think the number of kills matter towards your MMR.

Its not the number, but the individual KDA against each individual enemy. This is called Encounter MMR. Its designed to help calculate a players skill based on the duels they take rather than number of kills. That way a Controller or Sentinel player who doesn't see a lot of action can still get the credit they deserve for playing well.

You can get a performance bonus as the bottom frag. And you can also not get one as the top frag.

You also need to understand that not all kills are equal. Obviously a First Blood is worth more than cleaning up the last kill. But also WHO you kill is important as well (because of encounter MMR).

After each game, forget the scoreboard, and check your Performance tab. This will give you a better idea on how you played.

Like sure, you got more kills than the Gold 3, but you might have also died to him 6 times and only killed him once. And most of your kills might be on the other Silver players in the match. Combine that with only getting clean up kills and the game has decided you played poorly, even if you top fragged.

This is a great answer! Thank you for writing this up.

I talked about this with another player recenetly, if you want to learn more or hear how the system works, check out this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/twq8fl/is_my_mmr_fcked/i3j2goi/

Ultimately MMR is just a ladder, if you beat people you climb the ladder and push others down. Your RR gains just push you towards your MMR, so if you fall down the ladder your RR gains will push your rank down with it(and vice versa). Ultimately you just need to win and be better then those above you to steal their ladder spots and push your RR gains higher and higher to climb along with your MMR.

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