TL;DR
Skill Improvement and Consistency
Improving your individual skill level is crucial for ranking up. Many players emphasize the importance of practicing mechanics, such as aiming and movement, through deathmatch (DM) and team deathmatch (TDM) modes [3:4]. Regular practice helps refine your skills and prepares you for competitive matches. Additionally, maintaining a consistent play schedule can help you gradually improve and climb ranks over time
[3:1].
Teamwork and Positive Attitude
Valorant is a team-based game, and effective communication and teamwork are essential for success. Being a positive and encouraging player can boost team morale and performance [5:1]. Focus on trading kills with teammates and listen to their calls, even if they seem incorrect, to maintain team cohesion
[5:1]. Avoid giving unsolicited advice during matches, as it may not be received well
[5:1].
Game Modes for XP and Leveling
To rank up quickly, it's important to maximize your account level by earning experience points (XP). Spike Rush is often recommended for fast leveling due to its short rounds and flat XP reward [2:2]
[4:3]. Unrated matches also offer substantial XP but take longer to complete
[2:1]. Playing consistently and focusing on winning games will increase your account progression
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Avoid Tilting and Maintain Momentum
Tilting can significantly impact your performance and ranking. It's important to manage your emotions and avoid playing when frustrated [1:2]. Winning games by large margins can help boost your rank faster
[1:3], but maintaining a steady win rate is more sustainable in the long run
[3:1]. Keep a positive mindset and focus on gradual improvement rather than quick gains.
By following these strategies, you can effectively work towards ranking up in Valorant while enhancing your gameplay experience.
I used to be silver 3, but then after a few bad games I got dropped to bronze 2. I know that I am silver/gold material though, since I almost got gold 1 before I started tilting and dropped hella ranks. I just can't seem to get enough winstreaks to get back into silver.
I solo queue, btw, so any tips on how I can rank back up and get momentum? I feel like I play better against better opponents in higher elo brackets for some reason.
I’m in the exact same spot I know I can get to gold but once I tilt it’s ggs. So frustrating bc I see people with way worse aim/awareness fluke there way to gold and it’s like bruh
Win games by massive margins, at least 13-5. I feel the game looks at that the most, which is kinda stupid but whatever. Other than that there isn't much.
I wouldn’t play ranked just to rank up, play ranked to rank up but most importantly to get better
I’m level 17 and new to pc.
I want to play ranked but going up levels takes so long. I can drop 25+ and still get barely any xp.
Anyone know what the quickest way is to get xp?
Also what should I expect going into ranked?
In my experience, nothing beats spoke rush. You get a flat 1k xp for at the most 7 rounds. So the time per xp, seems to be the best with that. Unrated can give like 3k I think, but it can take 25 rounds.
Account level work with ap not xp. And is 10ap per 1min playtime + first win of the day with 1000ap. Unrated is the best way to level as the longest playtime and less waittime.
i am currently silver 2 playing on Singapore servers and am pretty happy with my performance but even after grinding constantly i haven't managed to reach gold yet. all tips and advice appreciated
As a bronze 3 player just get good man
just keep playing i have faith in you
You seem like a good player. Mechanics seem to be your bottleneck. Hit DMs and tdms more than comp and you’ll be out of silver quickly imo. Am diamond 2
Check my last post on this sub :)
Unless your skill is at least 2 to 3 ranks above your current rank, it’s impossible to climb quickly. No matter how well you perform individually, if your team plays extremely poorly, you’re bound to lose. If you do have the skill to climb, your win rate will likely hover just slightly above 50%. Being 1 or 2 ranks better than your current rank won’t give you a 60–70% win rate, so playing a large number of games is inevitable. As you keep playing, your rank will go up, and so will your skill. Honestly, there’s no cheat code for climbing—no efficient or easy method. The more effort and sincerity you put into the game, the closer you’ll get to the rank you want.
I'm playing Valorant on console and I'd like some tips on how to get to level 10 quickly.
It may be difficult to understand as I am using a translator, but thank you for your understanding.
You play the game, and don’t post weird questions on reddit. Thats how.
Do we have to reach level 10 to play ranked on console ? Wasn't it level 20 for the pc?
Looks toxic, but its true, just play the game and after some time you would hit the comp requirement
Its classic reddior logic if this is a toxic comment lol. I’m just saying the truth. Want to hit level 10 as quickly as possible? Play for 24 hours straight, and don’t focus on anything else. Especially not social medias, since that stops your from being locked it, which adds more losses, which delays your levelimg.
I mean, u got a point
I think out of all game modes spike rush is proven to be fastest for leveling quickest
Win a game, you get more AP, try to q with someone, should get more AP as well.
Honestly the difference between gamemodes isn’t that big.
The “easiest” is to play deathmatch, wiggle the sticks and read a book/play on your phone or do something else. Since you can be afk in dm without a ban and it doesn’t ruin anyones game.
But you can grind spikerush, swiftplay or unrated. Any benefit from spikerush over dm etc is decreased due to the wait times.
You get ap from play time, with some bonus from winning.
Do more unrated than other game modes
Anyone here would like to share what he learned through his competitive journey and tell us some tips and tricks to rank up in Valorant? Been struggling a little bit in Platinum.
What they said, also click heads.
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Hello, I’ve been playing valorant since basically beta but i’m really bad at the game. I finally “locked-in” this year and have putting some hours into valorant. Anytime i get on i go to the practice range for 30 mins, do some team deathmatch, 1 or 2 unrated games, and then competitive. However, my rank has actually gone from iron 3 to iron 2. Can anyone give me some tips besides the basic “crosshair placement” or not crouching, etc?
You're not trash, you're trash at the game. I honestly think an underrated piece of advice when trying to get better at Valorant is to not equate your game performance with your success or worth as a person. Try to not let a bad game affect your mood too much, just do your best to improve and have fun, skills will come in time. The most important things is to enjoy yourself, it's a hobby after all.
That means a lot thank you
I really dont want to blame my teammates but most comp games my teammates aren’t the best, and many ive played with in unrated say i should be silver 1 or somewhere in bronze
Realistically, you can only affect like 30% of the games you play (idk the stat, but it's less than 50%). The other 70%, you were going to win or lose regardless of what you did.
So with that in mind, you have to be like... gold to actually climb out of iron FAST. I don't know how long you've been stuck, but eventually you'll get out if you're in reality bronze or silver level. It'll just take longer. Just enjoy the games being weird and fun, bc everyone gets sweaty and tox like immediately after iron bc suddenly they all think they're actually good.
Your teammates aren't really gonna be near good since you're in iron lobbies but so is the enemy team. What you can do about it is play smarter.
I was in iron for some time too but what finally got me out was putting thought (How the enemy plays; what gun they use, where they position etc.)
For example: Jett likes to peek mid with op and your team constantly peeks that and die, take map control and lurk your way to the Jett. Most people in that elo don't anchor sites anyway but be careful for those super passive players who just play on corners, there's so much of them T-T
Also take note of who likes to flank, do they flash before peeking that angle, where do they scan, which site does the sentinel play etc. Iron lobbies rarely have comms and usually just ping/type so you must be aware always.
No one (unless a smurf) has cracked aim so take notes of information and use that to your advantage. Prevent yourself from playing on autopilot, if you keep losing a duel on the same angle, stop. Repositioning is very essential too.
Honestly, your warm up is too much. One DM or even swiftplay is enough tbh. By the time you play comp, you might be strained already. Play one DM and do your comp games, thats where you learn and improve.
if it makes you feel better, I'm level 750 because I played too much spike rush when I was new cause I was overthinking ranked before too.
I got to my peak when I stopped caring about the rr and cared less about what my team did and focused more on mine. I was iron for two years, gold for one and I got to immortal on the following year because I took note of what I was doing wrong. We do things at our own pace. There will be good days and surely bad days.
And you're not trash, it just means there is plenty of room for improvement. Unlearning bad habits, improving game sense will get you out. Don't forget that it's a game so enjoy yourself! We each go by our own pace, trust yourself more ( Please don't warm up for that long ) Also, if you can record your gameplays so you can see what you could do better after!
Basically, take note of every information and use that your advantage and never autopilot, that's my advice. I believe in you, Goodluck!
DAMN thats some good advice 🔥🔥🔥 i really appreciate it
So you do 30 minutes of range, tdm, and 1-2 unrated matches before comp? Sounds like you sort of burn yourself out before even starting comp. Warmup is a short and to the point appraoch. Just do like 2-3 30bots, and a single DM/TDM, should be better. And count your first comp match of the day as "warmup", while approaching it from a "how do I win" angle.
Is crouching not good?
It's complicated. This video is a decent summary of how and when to use crouching in a fight.
https://youtu.be/LtyoXh2y-wk?si=JWNPZg3mtOXEx47o
Notice that he recommends not crouching at all during fights for Silver and below because those players don't have the basic mechanics of the game down yet.
Thank youuu!
That's way too long of a warmup, should be like 15-20 min of practice range and DM. Also, you should be playing at least 2 DMs after
Watch woohoojin's gold guide
Preciate that
I've been struggling with solo queue alot, I communicate with my teammates alot and im able to kill alot but yet i still lose and derank alot, im stuck in gold 2 and im struggling to get past it since I win and lose much, any tips?
Find people to stack with.
Basically every game has 1 3-stack,
2 2-stack+you in them or
1 4-stack + you
So the opponents you meet have most times equal or a bigger stack than you and your playing solo and can just hope ur teams stack doesnt suck. So your win probability skyrockets if you perform consistently well and stack with ppl who arent consistently playing bad.
Solo queueing in this game is the most dumb thing you can do since virtually no game in the history of valorant have been 5v5 with all players solo queueing.
Can only agree here. Used to be hard stuck gold 3, decided to start playing with even just two other friends. Made a big difference because now im plat 2. Alot of the time the rest of the team is either godly or the exact opposite and makes me wish I was full stacked. The useful info from your team and knowing that they have your back goes a long way.
Any discord servers yk or a place where i could find people to play with?
I know a discord server that you can find ppl to play with. And actually i can be one of them i guess. I am currently gold 3 im cursed at the moment and deranked from plat2. I haven’t won a game for so long in unrated or comp no matter how i do....
Honestly, you can just make friends in game. If you play well with people just ask if they wanna queue again after and eventually you’ll have people to play with all the time.
I only solo queue and I’m diamond, and have no issues climbing. It might be that you’re inconsistent and gold is what you belong at currently. I’d recommend taking a week off from ranked, and playing A LOT of unrated. I was plat 1 and just didnt feel like playing ranked. Played tons of unrated and got much better at the game; then absolutely curb stomped in ranked. I’m consistently playing well and having high-impact games. (Not necessarily high kill games, but make an impact so my team wins, KDA isnt everything)
I'm stuck in high gold. My games seem inconsistent. Do you do any aim training? I think my issue might be slow reaction time, which can't be improved much I guess. That's why I don't play fraggers.
I played thousands of hours of CS years ago, but a lot of the game sense carried over. My aim is definitely very good because I’ve played fps’s for so long, but my game sense and decision making plays a bigger role tbh.
Before I play ranked I warm up in the range. I shoot the static bots for a bit, then flick around in the sky range where the robots are flying and practice my spray on slightly moving targets. Then I go to the bomb defuse w/ hard bots and play that for a bit to practice keeping my crosshair on a wall while I’m moving around, if that makes sense.
All in all, biggest tip I can give to get out of gold/plat is to KNOW why you are doing something. A lot of people I play with will do something, but not have a reason. What do you want to happen? What could happen (usually dying)? And if you die, what are the odds the round is lost? If you want to wide peak B long on Bind def, think about it before you do it, and why its dumb or may be the right play.
All in all, have a reason for why you’re doing something. When you lose think about what YOU did wrong, not your teammates. In every game theres always rounds you can look back at and realize you were the reason the round got lost (bad peak, messed your spray up, should’ve went A instead of B w/ the info you had).
This comment. This is my point against toxic players who keep flaming my other teammates for "bottom fragging" but they are the ones who use their skills to assist the good fraggers but still complain and blame them for losing -_-
Yea, can’t stress enough how KDA doesn’t say it all. Ofc this isn’t an excuse to be negative and bottom every-game. You should be averaging decent damage regardless of agent. But a person middle-fragging could have much more impact on the game. (I.e. raze couldve gotten a 3k and died in a 1v5 when the team is already rich af; thats 3 unimpactful kills, whereas a 1v1 and winning means much more)
currently diamond 1 and looking to hit immo 3/rad willing to put in around 5 hours a day into training/playing what would be the fastest way to rank up putting in that much time every day
Win every game you play is the fastest way to rank up
queue with good players
Get kills don’t die hope this helps
watch pros and try to understand what theyre doing and why. once you get ingame try to replicate what theyre doing and try to fix any mistakes youre doing yourself. 5 hours a day is a lot to remain focused so i'd recommend 2-3 hardcore games a day and watch pros when not ingame
the more you win the more you rank up. i'm not sure what you want to hear, it's not like there's a secret to ranking up. build better mental, keep your aim sharp, study the maps, study the agents, study strats, practice good comms, so much goes into it there's not a lot you can do except to keep playing and improving the worst aspect of your game.
Yeah what he said. Also watch some videos on how to counter agents that you are aware of struggle against what I'd recommend
I'm level 7 right now but I feel that even after doing my quest I only go up 2 levels and I don't focus on doing quests anyway
Spike rush and unrated are about the same per minutes
If you don't have a lot of time per day then spike rush is better as the first win of the day (doesn't matter the mode, gives 1000 AP bonus). It's easier to grind for that first win.
If you have more time then you're bound to win a game of unrated (hopefully), so it's the same.
I’m a big fan of swift play for leveling
Do your dailies
Swift play is pretty good because you try and learn more about the agents
Spike Rush is probably still fastest but unrated isn't bad. Play with a party for the bonus AP. Focus on doing daily/weekly missions as well as whatever agent contracts you have because they also give bonus AP. Get your daily win every day.
Thanks
Whats the fastest way to level up? I mean the Account level. Each level needs 5K points, and per day 1st win gives 1K. What are other ways to farm AP.
1min playtime is 10ap.
But dont hurry, use the 20 lvl to learn the game.
as a level 370 non grass toucher.... just play a lot lol. also do your dailies and weeklies
Spike rush is the fastest for sure. But my question is: why? Level means shit. And you can even hide it.
Probanly to get to level 20 to unlock comp.
Spike rush should be the faster way, you just get your first game in unrated and then Spam spike rush to complete the daily and weekly challenges
lmk when u get an answer, i need help 2 lmao
Pretty sure spike rush is best bet
How to rank up quickly in Valorant
Key Considerations for Ranking Up Quickly in Valorant
Master the Basics:
Map Knowledge:
Agent Proficiency:
Communication:
Play with a Team:
Watch and Learn:
Stay Positive and Adapt:
Focus on Objectives:
Recommendation: Aim to play consistently and focus on improving one aspect of your game at a time. Regular practice, combined with a focus on teamwork and communication, will lead to faster rank progression.
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