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I do not have a good answer for this, I was told but I can't fully remember. I will follow-up and ask to make sure I find out.

We also have a social player dynamics team which focuses on this kind of thing, so they are the ones that would be better suited to answer this. So, I'm sorry I don't have an answer but know that we are aware of toxic behavior and have a team dedicated to solving these issues.

Congrats! Radiant is a huge achievement, I'm trying to climb ranked and I can't even imagine setting aside the time as well as the dedication required to hit that rank. Seriously, great work.

Good luck in your future endeavors, and if you do comeback hopefully we've made some great changes for you to dig your teeth into!

Good luck with your team and your climb in the Valorant eSports scene! There is something special about being on a team, grinding out games, tournament play, etc. I wish more people got to experience it.

Your frustrations are definitely heard. Ranked is going to evolve and hopefully, given the time needed to improve the system, you and the community feel like we improved ranked as Valorant grows over the next months/years. Again good luck, and yes your feedback/issue/situation has been heard :)

Thank you! I'm just like everyone here, I want to play good games! I really just want a space where the community, and myself, can have fun and to push the industry forward. Valorant is so baby so there is so much potential for the game and that is extremely enticing for a designer.

I shipped about 8 COD titles, so it was definitely time for a change of pace. I've also been a huge Riot fan and played league since beta, so I was super excited to join the team.

Warzone was a blast to work on, I feel very pillaged to have a big part in the design of it. Thank you for fragging out and playing the games I've worked on! Without people playing our games, we wouldn't have a job or a community to play against >:)

I wouldn't say you are restricted by rank. I think it's better to look at it as you need to prove you belong where you belong. Your mmr/elo/rank almost become one in the same after so many games and the game has a pretty good idea of where you currently belong. That's where the variance comes into play. Variance is like saying "hey we think you belong where you are at in elo/rank, but you are starting to improve/decline in skill. We are going to loosen how far +/- we can match you to test you and see if that's true."

At lower ranks performance is important for this, so even tho you may not be win/losing you may be having mixed performances against people above or belong your rank. The system will compare every single interaction in a match. So if you are gold, and you are going even with other gold players, but getting stomped by silver players, that could negatively impact where the system thinks you belong.

The system is intensely complex, and I said this in other...

Connection issues can be roughhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I don't live in the Riot area/LA yet, but I just got fiber where I love and it's been insane. Unfortunately I will have to move sometime next year and have to figure out a good place to live, that also has amazing internet. It's always a struggle lol, especially because sometimes living out of town is cheaper but also has worse internet.

Valorant is unique in the fact that your elo/rank/mmr is very closely tied and almost one in the same after you play your placements, or maybe a few games after placements if the game can't tune in on your exact skill.

The one thing that I think that helps with getting where the game thinks you belong is that Variance/Confidence I talked about. The system will tighten your gain/loss amount when you start to even out in a certain rank because it thinks you belong there. If your win/loss or performance, depending on how much those things may matter(example; immortal3+ is win/loss only), start to change then that variance will increase because you probably don't belong in that area and you will find it easier to climb/derank.

If you are swinging ranks really hard, you may not be playing games consistantly, or if it's in lower ranks your performance may be very inconsistant. If you pop-off for two games against plat players, but then get stomped when there is an enemy g...

Hmm I can't answer this well, my guess would be having different variance on where the game thinks you belong. I know that's not a good answer, but variance can be unconfident in you, because it also tries to take into account how likely you are to have a bad day, good day, how swingy you are in win/loss streaking.

One thing to think about, and this isn't ment as a slight to you or your skill, is how quickly you hit those ranks. If your friend hit Radiant before you, it might be likely that the system identifies him as the better player. Be it the performance before hitting immortal 3 where only winning/losing really matter, along with the confidence the system had in where he or you belong.

Congrats on making it to immortal and getting close to radiant tho! I'm striving to at least get to immortal someday. Hopefully we can make some improvements to ranked so you get a better idea of how you're progressing and why these situations could be occurring.

Thanks! My job is definitely a change of pace from what I was doing before. I was a systems designer on COD and the last thing I worked on was Warzone. It's nice being able to dive into such an awesome product, with an awesome dev team, and really engaging with the community to try and make a difference - I've had a blast so far.

There are so many learnings from ranked, elo systems, match making, so we definitely can't sit still and think we know what is best. Trying to constantly improve it and get feedback is super important.

Top radiant is probably most effected by win/loss streaking. There are all the factors I listed above, and as teams start to get mixed up and elo ratings start to get mixed, the system is pretty good at seeing who should be rising up and who shouldn't. Of course, this is win/loss base and not performance, but even just using win/loss alot of things can happen.

I unfortunately do not know enough about combat score and what stats it tracks. My guess is that the combat score doesn't take into account every individual players skill, where as the elo system does.

So the combat score may be saying "you get 5 points for a kill"(I made that number up). Then the elo system is going to go "You are X elo, opponent was Y elo, do some calculations - that kill was worth 3.14"(again made up numbers).

Obviously we don't want anyone to be able to figure out how we do things, so there is probably always a level of transparency we can't offer(this also can prevent figuring out exploits). But maybe this is an area we can improve visibility on someday.

Also I could be wrong because I don't know how the combat score works, unfortunately. I'm still learning and asking questions about the system as I'm diving in. I'll try to figure out what it's doing so I can talk about it more informed in the future. The above text was purely a guess.

Unrated, because it requires you to play it before going into ranked, is definitely used as a "guideline" on where to test you in your placements. Due to it being unrated it's very loose, but it's the only info we have on you that directly translates to the bomb game mode.

That being said I believe the system is very good at figuring out where you belong during your placements, or at least shortly after. I actually think the changes requiring games won over games played will help the lower ranks and placements(creating more fair matches).

Because some players don't have to try in their first 20 games to get to ranked, or you have people afk'ing/voting to surrender, it really throws off their initial testing/variance area when stepping into ranked. Now that we will be requiring unrated wins, players will have to try in unrated. This will give us a better idea of where they may belong so we can test them better in placement. That also means you will have less players ...