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''If your team loses and you top frag, in 100 years will people remember the team who won or the person on the losing side that had the highest kills?''

i think i would try to half it but listen to footsteps

I personally think if I knew reynas last known position was B, I'd stick to half and since the reyna blind came out after the half was achieved I wouldve probably sprayed or played for the push as soon as I got half. I dont think this is the right play, but I think it wouldve been better than the video. Probably depends too much on a 50/50 is the biggest issue with that whereas holding the smoke push wouldve probably been like a 60/40. I wouldve also considered tping out when the reyna blind was thrown but idk if there was enough time to do so. Also one thing to consider was that I wouldve trusted my deadlock to shoot the blind or the reyna

this is very helpful to watch ty

nice video bro,e learned so much

Wow. I never thought about what we can achive as a team against what i can achieve in general.

Great coach! Have you by chance studied to be a teacher/esport coach? Great quality so far. I need to figure out how to record my own vods and have you review them!

i think regardless of whether yoru holds it or not, the deadlock should've ulted before the tap/swing. the ult is kinda like a raze rocket, whereas the way deadlock played it kinda just ended up baiting the yoru. assuming the deadlock had ulted first, then i think yoru faking would've been the right play (and it would've been much more obviously the right play) because at worst deadlock kamikazes reyna, which means yoru surviving takes priority over sticking the defuse.

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When you hit g3 to plat you can’t just entry solo anymore.

My problem? I frag 38/8/6 kda on average each game, hardstuck gold, I play with Ascendant players in Ascendant lobbies, guess what, I place 2nd or 3rd in team, sometimes even top fragger of the team. And yet, my team mates are trash when I practically carry them. Such a "fair" ranked system

You just opened another pov in my mind mate. thank you so much! great video!

This was really good, thanks a lot! I'm a new subscriber :)

Saw you on reddit, will check this video out. Really liked the diamond chamber vod you did on sunset!!

this is great and helpful, but I do wosh you'd expand on the explanations, especially on the choices you didn't make

thats the best guide i have ever saw

Please continue to make such videos. It really helps a lot of potato brains like me. Please do incorporate bad decisions and tell us why. That would be a blessing.

Loved the video concept, enough to consider making something similar myself. Your decision making has flaws but that doesn't matter because it makes people think critically which is more important. Loved the video, keep it up

The thing is, Valorant is not chess. There is no single perfect move, there are always options and risks associated with them.

My duo used to main skye and when they would do something very stupid she would flash them off the angle to prevent them from dieing

my man u got a sub never stop uploading

just like zammey!

Ngl you kinda sound like dopai, Great video btw

The last one is a bit hard to make use off, at least around gold and platinum rank. Through I rarely use that smoke, I do it after communicating that I will make a smoke for them to play around. The issue lies that my teammates rarely know what they are supposed to do with such a smoke, unlike me who can work around all smokes, my teammates doesn’t know how smokes work. They usually dies and then point their fingers at me saying “Why did you think putting a smoke there was a good idea?!” Therefore even if those smokes would win me some rounds, I tend to stay away from them at my current rank. Thoughts?

The only reason i care about bottom fragging is when i try to tell my team it do something or tell them why this plan wont work or being helpful i get "don't speak to me bottom fragger"

The amount of times the MVP of my team was a coward that baited the entire team and took ages to rotate while the enemy team fucked our asses unironically pisses me off. We have info that all 5 of them are on B, the bastard will stay on B and will only start slowly rotating after the game becomes a 5v2, and they will talk shit to the team anyways

Here right after bottom fragging for 3 games in a row. My way to play better is to stop playing, wait and rest

I'm an omen main, I took all the same decisions you made, maybe not the smokes you threw in B site in bind when you were pushed up in A short (lot of lurkers in my plat lobbies). The thing is i'm pretty sure I wouldn't do them in games, maybe due to the in game conditions. How to work on that ?

these videos are not realistic, even if the people in comments chose right every single time during this video it doesnt mean that they would do so ingame, being able to notice all the key patterns during the game and performing at the same time is 100x harder than watching it from the video, which is why they are not in immortal.

In the second clip what do you think about smoking too mid to misdirect the idea of rotating? As a smokes player I love to throw misdirecting smokes

We stuck in gold reason is you guys trying to teach we are wrong and you mf smurfing in low elo for sake of teaching is right

Phew, thank god im in silver 😅

when I play with my friends elo(technically smurfing sorry for that )my peak is asc 3. I got sh*t on silver to gold lobbies this guys have crazy I kid you not there is a lot of cray aimers in the said elo but they lack game sense they don't know how to use utils and what key agents to pick on certain maps. Btw my aim is sh*tty but I take what I learn on watching VCT matches and apply it to my gameplay to compensate for that, also comms is very important talk to your team if you are bottom fragging don't tilt talk with your teammates and use your util properly it's a team game after all.

I ended the last act at gold 2 after I have already been gold 3. In the last couple days I have had 1 out of 5 games without smurfs. It's impossible to climb like that. I have multiple viewers in my chat who are diamond elo or higher and they all agree that I am playing at a platinum level. Yet I still can't get out of gold 2 or 3 because I am facing smurfs almost every game. And of course if you are better than gold you will rank up eventually, but only if you play against people who are gold as well and not some ascendent or immortal jett mains who just do whatever they like and one tap everyone because they have god like aim... Valorant has a huge smurf problem which is ruining the game for casual and new gamers and the valorant community and riot games itself support this so much...

The first one I would’ve sprayed the omen maybe get one or two there then re position and shoot the fade so I don’t get blinded and then wait for my team to rotate if there’s anything wrong can you pls help im bronze one im just saying that’s what I would do and I would have not of used my ult since it was a 1v5 and we got gekko and fade for like the dog and dizzy

im a gold player that pretty much mainly plays controller (most often omen/viper). i believe that i have a lot of moments where i play or think like a plat or diamond player, sometimes my mechanics mirror that as well. but i play like a gold player a lot also, equal to or somewhat greater than the amount i play above that. so many people i know have the same moments im talking about where they play like a higher rank than they are. and they build their ego off them. i was like that as well until i took a break and realized that it isnt about how good you are in single time popoffs, its entirely how good you are consistently. if youre consistently playing like a platinum player, youre going to be platinum. personally i think if i really dedicated an hour a day out of the time i spend doing random things for even a week or two into vod reviewing, mechanics practice, figuring out my weaker sites as both an agent and my personal ability to play them, really anything related to the game where im learning instead of just playing. if i did that i think i could 100% rank up into plat pretty quickly and so on. i do believe that quite often i *do* in fact get bad teammates and it does contribute to me losing a match, but i also understand that i could have played a bit better, or played around them to set myself, and anyone on my team playing "competently" up for success a little bit more to maybe get even 1 or 2 more rounds in, maybe help bring us to a win. i understand that the specific match i played with them could have just been an off game for them and they arent always a bad player for the rank theyre in. and also smurfs are fucking annoying as shit but they arent the reason youre a lower rank than you think you deserve. sure theyre common in gold, but you can still play around them.

You're clueless and giving bad advice. The only thing gold should focus on is mechanics. The RR system is so KD weighted that your winrate literally has no effect down there. It's all KD. Also trying different sens is good and builds mouse control. Yes, golds have horrible game sense--but so do dia, asc, imm, etc. Theoretically literally nothing matters until immortal when win/loss ratio starts to have a real effect on RR. It should be all aimlabs until imm, unless riot fixes the broken system.

If you know when and why you're doing everything the game becomes alot more clear as to why you weren't climbing, Absolutely nailed it on the head with alot of point that should be focused on. 0:59 3:03 4:16 These specifics i tell most people that are trying to get better aswell, Just one more point to add to the minimap part, If you're in a smoke or dead LOOK AT YOUR MINIMAP no player should be unless very obviously in danger of an actual smoke swing should be STARING at their cross hair and coming out with ZERO idea of what's even going on on site. If you're dead literally press M and keep talking everytime you see ANYONE and where they are(Besides 1v1s, Only give THE crucial info and let them play DO NOT backseat.), and ping spike ffs, You're dead you have NOTHING else to be doing. See tons of 1vX and the 4 teammates aren't even TRYING to help with what they at least have.

Tell that to me after the Jett on the other team going 54/12

not true, when i solo queue i lose when i queue with mates, even with lower ranks i rank up simple as that

It's so sad people like have become so out of touch with how it feels playing in gold or silver, I'm ascendant one, but have friends in that rank and it's crearly not their fault being unable to climb up, most of the stuff said in this video is not true or just really out of touch. Great attempt though.

I argue that comms is on par with the mini-map, especially when you're dead. You can literally become an observer for your team. Comms must be clear, precise, and whatnot, but that's another discussion.

Also don’t watch coaching videos. Best way to improve is by looking at your own faults, not what some coach says on the internet. /s I do want to say through, do not glance at your minimap ever so often in solo queue. The reasons pros does it is because information is key there and often they have each other’s back at the highest level. This isn’t LoL, you are only meant to watch the map when in moments you are not in position to shoot your weapon, never glance. An example would be holding an angle with the OP, it’s way better just to ask your team where the enemy is,than to glance at the minimap. 2 reasons for this, 1st, you may not be ready to shoot if someone peeks you in that moment, 2nd You may panic. Either is a huge error. Got this from Woohoojin and other coaches.

I was in gold for a while and consistently playing didn't get me anywhere until I started doing 1000 moving bots every day in the range and working to get that time down. After that I hit ascendant in 4 months. Golds are garbage at everything, but making sure its not your aim that's the problem will get you to plat 3 and at that point you can start focusing on how youre swinging, your timing, your util, your playbook, etc.

i had a peak #96 raidiant currently immo 2 in my game tho

my friend, gold is very much elo hell. if you play even a few games in gold you’ll see the disparity between G1 and G3. no more clickbait titles.

Perfectly said, people often forget the game is built around the game giving you a 50/50 chance of winning every game. They most likely add up the mmr’s of every person to create an even-ish balance on both sides of a team so the better you play the more pushback you feel from the game. How you rank up largely depends on your individual skill and game sense through both wins and losses.

you read me like a book, though im still going to grind aimlabs more than valorant, because id rather get better at aiming than valorant.

aim labs helps raw aim but there is more to the game than raw aim, the thing is theres no blanket solution for everyone it all depends on your limiting factor whether that be mechanics gamesense mental etc.

I m not gold but nice video