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Valorant also is a community of players from lots of games like CSGO, league, or Rocket league which again have established communities built up over years. We have pros from Counter Strike, COD, Rainbow Six, Overwatch, League of Legends, all coming into Valorant to fill out our community. These players have different expectations in how the game should be played with their respective background and experience. It makes sense that there can be very different experiences in teammates or opponents, because a CSGO player is going to expect something different then their teammate who is a cracked aimer that mained widowmaker. I say this because right now Valorant feels like any new popular esport title that has come out. Players are trying to figure the game out, learning different ways to play, and more and more people are picking the game up and trying to learn. So you will be running into players of all skills, knowledge, and background and that's super fun even if a little chaotic....

I am just a faithful player who is genuinely interested in Riot's view on the current state of this issue.

I'm going to give you my thoughts on the subject. While I do work for Riot(almost a year now!) this is the opinion of someone who has worked in FPS's, played competitively, and now works on Valorant. While I may have insight in the game and what's going on, and of course I'm speaking as the competitive designer, this isn't an "OFFICIAL RIOT STANCE"; I don't think the statements you're making have a "This is the answer" because a lot of this is immeasurable and without data to support anything. I will just give you what I think is happening, or what I've seen over my time in the games space.

A great example of this is how do you measure the "Mechanical Skill" levels of a game? The answer is you don't, at least we don't know how right now. Plus you would have to be able to pull data from multiple games, and publishers that aren't willin...

I think hand waving my above points and just saying "Why does he bottom frag against randoms in Diamond/Immortal" is not very fair.

I tried to tackle both sides of the "Win a match" vs "Win against X players"(When I say Win against X player, it means winning a duel not the match, sorry I speak this way because Encounter MMR is winning the duel, which is winning against that player specifically)

The fact of the matter is you have bad games. It doesn't matter how good you are, there will be days a Diamond/Immortal player can get the best of you. I beat TenZ in a DM in last Episode, but I'm not even Immortal, that's how the cookie crumbles. Maybe he was off, maybe he was trying something new, maybe he was having a tough game. Even grandmasters in chess lose games against people way below them because there is always the chance someone did something you didn't account for or you played poorly.

Also I think that there is a misconception in how much better Aim som...

This is an interesting comment, but when we investigate pros(or high ranking players) they are on those spots in the leaderboard because they do win against low ranked players.

Ranked, while complex in math, is simply a ladder. If you beat those around/above you, you climb. You can look at the top players in Radiant and most have a 60+% winrate.(of course because how MMR works winrate isn't always the best indicator of high ranking player, a high ranking player is worth more then a low ranking player when you win)

I think it may be a mix of confirmation bias, and the fact that at the end of the day our time to kill on lots of weapons is instant along with skill variance. You'll remember the streams where TenZ gets killed by an immortal 1, but he's still winning most of his matches.

In terms of why they may lose against low skill players, it happens. When I was in pro play we went from beating the #1 team in the world, and the very next day losing to a 32 se...

Nah, I think it's a great way to make sure that my team doesn't get tilted. Just had a rough loss? EVERYONE is getting a Spectrum fully upgraded classic for our save round

I'm so impressed by our community, this is awesome good work!

Only everywhere that isn't creepy, like I'd never be outside your window(unless you want me there, then I'll show up with a boombox playing "I will always love you" by Whitney Houston. You would realize that we have a connection, one that is formed by the bonds of blood and bullets on the virtual battlefield. Maybe we would start to duo queue together, we'd laugh and have great times. But then we would climb a few ranks, and we'd start to doubt, the matches would get tough and the wins would slow down. Like maybe my smokes are not setting you up with good entry into site, and we don't know how to talk about our feelings so we get into fights. Then I catch you duo'ing with another Omen, and I act like it doesn't hurt but it does. Slowly we would realize you missed my smokes, and that we were always ment to climb to immortal together, so we would fix things and I would bake you a wonderful cake to celebrate us duo'ing together again. Then right before our immortal promo's I would thr...

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We don't unfortunately as there are layers of proxy equipment you need to traverse before your traffic goes to a game container. The best way to check your ping if you get variance at peak would be to jump into a practice range. I'm on Telstra in NSW and have pretty high reliability 24/7 on an NBN service. If you are seeing differing performance throughout the day, we have metrics from league of legends at www.lagreport.com that you can use to see if it's similar for your ISP and location. These are normalized to remove variance from things like local wireless issues and are a good indicator of your ISP performance to Riot.

"Yo we got Fracture like three games in a rowwwwwww, lets gooooooo!"

"Evr, this is the Fracture playlist... You know the one you talked about in meetings, that your team had setup, to make sure it went live at the start of the Act."

"LETS GOOOOOOOOOO TEAMMMMMMMMMMM"

I really like Fracture.