Agent doesn't matter as much as y'all think. The only time you'll rank up faster with a certain agent is when you are a LOT better than people in your elo. (1 good game doesn't count)

Not even Radiant players care that much about team comp.

Team play is more fun to play with a good comp, comms and doing util combos. However you will only start finding these teams sometimes in diamond and above.

At the end of the day, just play what you like, don't scream at your teammates when they make mistakes (it only makes things worse) and ignore prior rounds if you made mistakes. Focus on yourself and just get good at one character at the start. If you have good fundamentals, you are useful on every agent.

Why can't people get that Agent choice doesn't matter but fundamentals, aim, and macro trump anything an agent can do.

You're probably stuck Iron if you think your issue is "Man, I need an easy agent to make me climb higher. That's it. That's the solution"

You're probably not going to like this answer but the most reliable way to get out of low elo is to just kill your opponents. Practice your mechanics, play shitloads of Deathwatch, find an aimlab routine if this is your first competitive shooter. In ranked, forget about utility, forget about theory, strategy, forget about any guides telling you to "abuse this one simple trick to get to diamond!" Run with your teammates and take every duel that presents itself. Don't even bother buying your agent's spells until you can make your crosshair do what you want it to do. In as little as a week you're going to see drastic improvement. I've seen Iron gameplay, there are no words to describe what happens down there. People playing with Sims 4 mouse sensitivity, commenting on the colour of the ceiling to their irl friend sitting next to them while a gunfight is breaking out nearby, going afk while still alive in the middle of the round to go make a sandwich... Like what the fuck lol.

In my opinion it’s cypher right now, after the buff at least. If you know the setups, you can get yourself far enough without having to do much aim training.

That just means u r shit at deadlock. Learn to use her properly. The agents are not the problem, u r.

I know you didn't ask this but to rank up you should improve your gameplay instead of finding an agent. But that being said I would say, Skye because if you use her utility properly she can be really effective.

1. Raze
2. Breach
3. Sage
4. Phoenix
5. Cypher
6. Brimstone
7. Jett
8. Sova
9. Omen
10. Viper MY OPINION NOT FACTS

Hard to rank really, viability changes on defense and attack, viper could probably be top 5 on defense but pretty close to bottom on attack. Overall top 5 for me would be.

1. Sage
2. Raze
3. Brimstone
4. Phoenix
5. Breach

By level 50 , you could've unlocked most of the agents

Your play style says vyse or cypher, but really if you want to get better with you should learn to play entry with phoenix - throwing a good flash lets you win a fight with bad ping and the healing lets you recover

Can you elaborate? I mean ik I can learn a lot of lineups, or weird angles to hold and stuff, but won't playing like that just lead to me dying more in real games? I get like a brun lineup or a viper lineup, but like say breach. How do u play him, especially in solo queu? Most people like to run around and do their own thing, and not wait for flashes and stuff. Or say astra. How do u play a smoke when ur team is not cooperating?

What I'm saying is val comp can't truely be fun unless I try to fill the gaps in my team, cause otherwise we lose. Most want to play duelist or initiator, but can't frag out or play for picks. Ik that in higher elo this is not that big of an issue, but my god I just can't seem to win playing for fun, uk? I tired playing omen or raze or yoru, the typical 'fun' agents, but none seem to work.

Learn a reliable smoker like clove or omen, usually your team needs one.

Well, if you can't smoke or play dueslists maybe you should try an initiator. I was going to say KAY/O as always but you said you can't entry aswell.

Can you tell me your playstyle? Maybe we can find something with that.

The scariest to play against is a raze who has the movement down. Shotgun only, too. I can’t beat them.

Kayo, with just a knife or if you can handle flashes you will be very useful and you can learn the grenade lineup

I think any agent is destructive if mastered. So learn the one you like.

Harbor. No explanation required

For me it'll always be Jett. Duelists who can entry and get a pick will do so much.
And in defense, if you're struggling, you pick the OP and go agressive + dash out.

I’m in Bronze, so every agent on the enemy team is S Tier and every agent on my team is F Tier

lmfao but yeah deadlock is very bad, she can’t really cover flank because u can just walk past her trips. Cypher is pretty op rn though.

S: Deadlock

F: Everyone else

Cypher got jacked up so well his pick rate has increasedq

The new meta

hornyrable mention: viper because nice ass

CHAMBER COMES WITH FREE SHERIFF AND OP SKIN COME ON

this one is too funny

Ratio’d 🤡

go into the range, and test the agent abilities, whatever clicks with you, try to aim to unlock them

you like playing DPS / in-your-face playstyle? play a duelist

you like supporting your team by disrupting or stalling the enemy? play an initiator

you like making your own domain with tripwires, scanners and other sorts of defensive utility? play a sentinel

you like shaping the map to your own liking, blocking vision of enemies and making it hard to contest ground? play a controller

i'd suggest having 2-3 mains, since you will get less bored maining more than 1 agent

don't worry about skill, it will naturally come with playtime, i play since 2022 and still suck, but it's very fun so i don't really care

if you want skins, then wait until you have enough radianite to upgrade them (you get radianite with the free version of the battlepass, radianite is currency with the big R on it)

when you get a solid amount of radianite, see which gun you perform best with, just keep in mind that knives are universal and you will always look at them when rotating or else, but are 2x / 3x more expensive than gun skins

some gun skinline recommendations (that are less than 2000 vp / 20$ max) : prime, gaia's vengeance, reaver, xerofang, oni, sovereign

some knife skinline recommendations (that are less than 3600 vp / 35$ max) : xenohunter knife, recon balisong, gaia's wrath, sovereign sword

remember, skins aren't mandatory, but are cool to look at

Phoenix is nice for the beginning has a very straightforwardly playstyle for new agents just watch some vids abt them read abt what they do and pick who u like there is no bad/good choice here. A few mught say stay away from yoru/astra at the beginning bcs they are more complicated but go for who u like.

Skins wise the cheapest would be the agent ones ud need kingdom credits for that but ull also need them to buy new agents. (Id go for agents)

Otherwise next cheapest would be the battlepass, this one has some decent ones I have to say thats 1000VP (ValorantPoints) and costs real money. Lastly the store, good skins in there cost atleast 1750VP and more but again real money.

Keep playing, watch youtube and don't beg for skins

If you have confidence and think you can learn quick.. clove ( sss+ tier), Reyna/jett/phoenix (S tier, don't need any support to carry), ISO/ neon (do need some support usually to carry). If you want to carry your teammates but don't want to be a dulist or a hyper aggressive player, your best bet would be cypher(gekko also works till low plat ). Contrary to popular opinion I would avoid omen.. i don't feel like it's util is enough to carry games as frequently as other. Even tenZ doesn't like playing omen in ranked cuz its a character you need some teamwork to play around

“Im level 5 levels away” stroke = miss spelling or wrong sentences

I agree with you, but these games require a lot to know before you jump into competitive.

I just don’t want to see you suffering miserably if you queue with someone higher rank and you don’t understand shit about angles, aim, abilities and such. Not for my sake, yours, these guys can be just as toxic as cs players, which would result you leaving the game and community losing another guy who seems enthusiastic about the game. Im with you not against you, just suggested an agent and pointed out a fun part in the post.

Good luck!

Reyna, iso, phoenix or jett if your mechs are truly superior

Bro everyone is having a stroke in this summer like. 300 hours is like nothing fella, I came with 1600 from cs still barely able to get plat. If you have a good setup, mentality, time to learn things then I suggest phoenix.

So sick of everyone suggesting Reyna in these posts. No wonder there are constant instalock Reynas who are absolutely terrified to entry

Picking a hero you enjoy, and learning them inside and out, will be significantly better for you than just going with whatever people tell you

And why aim when you can Stinger Only

I would recommend either Fade or Skye. Fade is pretty good and relatively easy to get the hang of, while Skye provides both healing and flashes with basically a drone as the cherry on top. Not to mention both of their ults let you find enemies way easier

Well I started by getting them all over time and then deciding who to main based on my experience

Go watch videos. Pick who looks cool. Enjoy

Astra cause why not

Go onto the range. You get to select and tryout every agent. Pressing F1 also gives you an explanation on their abilities.

Pick the one you like and have the most fun with.