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If you're dodging in the lobby, you're hurting no one. You're maybe costing someone what, a minute of their time at most?

We have no control over what map we get, and if we get some 9 year old screaming into the microphone on a map I've played 6 times today, I'm going to dodge. I don't dodge often, but when I do, its scenarios exactly like that and I get punished for it. Why?

I lost 3 RR for dodging the other day, and apparently you lose 8RR (I believe it's 8 as of patch 2.06) for abandoning a match for 6+ rounds. So, you lose nearly half as much RR for dodging as you do for abandoning a match which is arguably far worse? That math doesn't add up. Sidenote, abandoning a match for 6+ rounds should count as a lost game.

You get roughly 20 RR for a win if your rank is synced with your RR, so that 3 RR a 15% loss just for dodging before the game even begins. That's way too high.

I understand part of the reason was to get people to play the game out even though their character might've been insta-locked. I think there are plenty of people playing this game at any given time that queue dodging so play you can play the character you want isn't a big deal. The time penalty was good enough. To be clear, I don't queue dodge if someone insta-locks my character.

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over 3 years ago - /u/EvrMoar - Direct link

This has helped reduce dodges by quiet a bit. A few RR will not hurt you, and it's not a reduction in your MMR. Only if you are clearly abusing the system will it really hurt you.

Also we are constantly pushing to reduce toxicity in Valorant. We are, and need to keep, reducing the amount of toxic players you encounter(reducing the amount of matches you need to dodge).

Here is a quote from an article we wrote about this: "For reference, our data says that more than 50% of dodges are caused by less than 2% of players, and the vast majority of players very rarely queue dodge, if at all. Targeting those repeat offenders should have a massive impact on how frequently you encounter queue dodges in your own games."

https://playvalorant.com/en-gb/news/dev/ask-valorant-feb-24/

Unfortunately dodging is important, to get away from toxic teams. But it also is used to manipulate ranked. Sorry for your frustrations, but we are constantly trying to reduce the reasons you feel you need to dodge.