"If you're not a good shot today, don't worry. There are other ways to be useful." -my favourite quote of the entire game. Of course that does not apply to reyna insta lock, you are useless if you are not a good shot today.
@danshakuimo Flashes that don't blind teammates or yourself are the best. I never team flash I only flash myself not proud to say it but i'm a Kay/O main that flashes themselves because i forget I even throw it.
@Danny Reyna flashes are some of the best because they can't blind teammates. I've died due to allied flashes before so I would rather the Reyna flash us in instead of someone else (or even myself when I have flashes).
I just have this as a bad habit, at first I binded it to caps lock but I mashed it so much when recording everyone was asking me why I spammed it so much even when in combat
@Danny yeah but when you try to do it , you Might see yourself highlighted in the scoreboard and if you're in last place you might get mentally weaker thus missing hits
just being generally nice goes a LONG way. i notice when i'm losing comps like, 5 to 8 and the teammates are nice and trying to boost morale, it makes the game much better. even if we lose, it doesn't feel shitty bc it was still fun. even yesterday mym team was losing 3-8 but everyone was so nice that when we figured out a nice strat, we ended up winning. and the fact that everyone was like "we can do this"/"we can still turn it around", complimenting tries and shots and actually communicating instead of flaming, no one gave up and we pushed through. had the same experience in another comp about 10 minutes ago. ofc skill and etc come into play but having a good teammate experience really is one of the main things
The scoreboard rule I break every single game, but I don't actually see anything negative for myself in it. If I do well in a game, I get more motivated in a sense of "Okay, maybe I can carry us! ^-^" If I don't do well in a game, I get sad, cause I drag my team down and then tryhard more so they don't get mad at me (also really don't want to be the reason as to why 4 other people lose their game) If I'm in the middle of the scoreboard, I usually just vibe along and try to play off of my teammates.
Same but if im bot frag i try to be a little less selfish and go in for my teammates with lower health and just try to help in general cuz my aim isnt good enough for the match
the thing is you SHOULD look at the scoreboard. know what weapon everyone is carrying and everything. i have the habit of looking at it in the middle of rounds so i know what gun my allies have too.
same, it gives motivation if i’m top frag and i don’t feel bad about bot frag because of my playstyle. another good thing is you can motivate your botfrag if they aren’t playing well
@RarePhaeochromocytoma00 you realise Val is very differently played from every other fps right ? New players will often not understand basically the entire game unless they watch bulk guides
I have lineups with brim and i get the plant most of the time down and i always get teamates who steal spike and never plant but are to busy trying to get kills
My unspoken rule: The one who should supply the Trashtalk for your team is the bottom fragger, because the words of the person who's the shittiest on your team will be the one that will latch onto enemies minds, making them respond and possibly tilt. Just keep up the act and you'll be helping your team!
Actually, if you see a smoke and they don’t know you’re there, you absolutely should push it. Especially a Jett smoke. Jetts will often smoke off an angle so they “don’t have to worry about it” and focus on a different one. Push it and most of the time it will be a free kill for you, my friend.
This depends on the rank heavily, smokes aren't "don't worry about this" they're actually, "put this position in extreme disadvantage and remove sight lines." Situationally you can push smokes but you should pretty much know what's on the other side as in, you've played part of a game with these players so you should know how they treat smokes and how they play rounds. Obviously if you're in the pits where entry fragger means 1v5 clutch attempter because nobody every fucking follows the duelist in ever then you can abuse that, but that knowledge should come from playing a few rounds to see if the rest of the entries team is dogwater or not.
The knife fight one. I'm a new player and when I played replication a few days ago both teams got KJ, so the enemy team said "knife fight mid?" and three of my teammates (including me) agreed to it. Too bad 2 people in my team didn't know how to read so they ruined the game and shot the enemy team :(
6:49 i only open door on attacking bc if we hear steps but no ones there we often just do like one watches behind one front one opens door snd another guy rushes trought door
when i got my first ace the other day, my team all were moving on the last guy but waited for me to make the first move and they just waited for a refrag. it was so nice
@Eventide you have no ground to stand on here, your original replies was saying that you haven't earnt an ace if you had to tell your teammates to stop playing for you to get it. But no where did this comment say that they told their teammates to stop, their team just saw that they got 4 kills and decided to let them try to get the ace. You are just harassing for the sake of it.
@Ifirespondiamstupid No, what counts in the end is you win. Making your team stop playing just so you can be like "YEAH I KILLED ALL 5!!" is idiotic. It's not an accomplishment to do something if there was no competition. As for using my logic against me, nothing of what you just said makes sense nor applies to the situation. Also, if you're playing ranked and someone does quit midway then yes it's not really a loss. Unrated is the same way. Don't try to "use your logic against you" and then not use that person's logic whatsoever, you just look like an idiot. From the way you talk though I'd assume you're a child that doesn't understand what teamwork even is. You think the game is all about you and your personal accomplishments on that team.
@Eventide Ummm no. What counts as an ace is when YOU yes YOU kill all 5 of their teammates by YOURSELF. No Exceptions. Even if your teammates stop playing the game. You earnt that Ace. Let me use use your logic against you. So if I am playing a ranked game, and one of my team mates quit mid way, I can just say it's not a real loss right? Sinse it was a 4 v 5? I can just ignore the fact that I could have played around the other 3 teammates and played normally, loose and say to myself "Oh but it's not a REAL loss sinse I had one team mate missing". That's stupid.
If you wanna play music while playing I recommend playing it while in the buy phase. Your keyboard usually comes with one of the function keys being play/pause button so you can immediately play/pause without coming out the game
I've opened the Breeze door on defending side a lot. I've done that in case I need to circle back, push the hallway, or run to B to help teammates. The only thing is that you've gotta be careful as hell, as they'll hear it
7:30 this! I don’t play duelist, but I’ve had multiple rounds where everyone else instalocks a duelist and I play my normal sentinel to try and help. I’ll end up top dragging and they will still yell at me for not be able to hold a site by myself or take a 1v3. Especially with KJ. I know my lineups and do my part, now Jett, maybe you should be the first one to peak the angle!!
6:56 Just had a game of Valorant where I got 2 kills due to someone opening the door. If they wouldn't have opened the door then he would have killed me eventually when I saw him again, and when I wouldn't expect him. That's why you never open that door. It is very risky.
Please don't waste your walls like the ones around the 3:50 mark, I highly suggest waiting a minute because of how easily those walls can be destroyed and wasted. There are several walls you can use that are better than the basic ones (like just a side wall in a tunnel when you could easily make the wall long ways so it's more effective) There isn't really an "excuse" to be bottom but support shouldn't be peeking or being aggressive. If you're sage you watch flank, stay behind to give your team heals. If there is a sage and a skye the sage needs to stick with skye and keep them alive so they can group heal everyone else. I've seen several lobbies of people making the healers go first and just lagging behind and it ruins everyones effectiveness
If someone's planting u must cover him, it's stressful enough to get kill and not even traded, also check always who has the spike, you don't wanna be rushing solo and realizing your team already took B and you lost the spike on A
2:30 I don't entirely agree with this. There are a lot of games where my team doesnt really care about winning and is just playing to play and talk. Those rounds are always some of my favorite even tho we never normally win. Although it is in unrated. Dont do that in ranked. 4:17 another example of something fine in unrated but a terrible in ranked.
2:48 in a knife fight someone on the enemy team oped one of my teammates, so I shot back. The enemy team blamed me for breaking the truce. I love Valorant.
5:50 I noticed this too, not that I am a bad awp player but when I started playing with jett I felt powerful, maybe because it is hard to move around with this weapon and with jett I can just shoot and fly
I really like this video, as a new player I learned a lot about manners like not stealing somebodys ace. That seems like common knowledge but now I’ve started paying more attention to who kills who and the mini map
One game the guy who was carrying us got his ace stolen and proceeded to throw the entire match. I definitely try to accommodate people who want aces just for the sake of their mental, and sometimes follow them around to trade just in case they die (which they frequently do).
I open the door in Breeze at site A when defending. If the enemies are in tubes, they'll be caught by surprise and gives me a vantage point. Also they get distracted by sound of the door and rush it. Sometimes, be creative with it.
Another rule: dont blame bottom fragger when they still have some kills. Ofcourse when they have like 0-4 by round 15 and give no info or troll thats something else, but as someone who isnt a total crackhead in the game its frustrating when people start blaming you for doing nothing without a real reason.
@Cryth There is not really a substitute for a mic I do not think really, I just have like a cheaper $35 Ampligame that sounds good for the price, but you can go even cheaper if you have to.
2:38 everyone agreed to a knife fight and the guy on the other team (who was losing and asked for knife) got me with a phantom and our Reyna with his hand laser, but we still won lol
I know I’m late but never do this with a vandal, with a phantom you bullets don’t leave trail/tracer thing, the vandal does though, and it can reveal you to your enemies.
2:24 I don't entirely agree with this comment, other than Chamber, sentinels don't have much fragging abilities/utilities like a duelist does, this is why a duelist should always find a way to get the most kills because that's what your utility is best used for. that's why i think its perfectly fine to be a bottom frag as a sentinel. BUT STILL, DONT RAGE NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE
Personally I pick an agent and wait about 5-10 seconds before locking so if someone else wants that agent they can quickly lock them in. I play multiple and don't really care which ones I play so it's to show I'm thinking about using that agent so they can make up their mind.
"Don't push through the smoke without flashing or using util, you might get one tapped" Pushes through smoke without flashing or using util in next clip
Also about the not blaming teammates part, I totally agree! I had some annoying guy who blamed everything on us even tho he was at like 2nd to bottom frag, but sometimes it's actually true and your teammate(s) are acting toxic/feeding/giving locations.
Instead of looking at your KDA on the scoreboard, look at your money and your opponent's money. This way you can plan your holds or pushes according to the weapons you or the opponents have. The true scoreboard is the one on the very top of the screen, and that's where you should focus on.
I was playing with my friends and one of em just got 4 kills and we all were pretty exited that he will get a ace but out of no where my kj’s turret killed the last guy and stole the ace. We all laughed so hard on him. But he was pissed of and tried to kill me and flash me.
One more rule: Don't tell Sage to push into A 5 sec in the round when your entire team is with you on A and you don't have any information yet. Don't be that idiot that just commands everyone to do things that gets them killed.
If you are in a game, keep the morale of the team up. Whether you are top frag or bot frag, always communicate well and give callouts when necessary. It is better to fight a 5v5 than a 1v5
Thank god someone gets this. It doesn't matter if you can top frag. If you're not working with your team, communicating, using utils, watching flanks, etc. You're useless, plain and simple. You can aim, but you cant do jack shit else
4:38 I dont agree with this one. The scoreboard gives a lot of info: what ults you and your enemy have ready, what your teammates and enemies economy looks like. You can use this info to your advantage and adjust your playstyle based on it.
2 more unwritten rules. if an enemy is up and down sneakin when u both are in the same spot,dont kill each other just run pass each other like you never saw each other and never talk about that moment ever again. and the other one if the enemy team ask for an cool knive battle round in mid,DO AN KNIVE BATTLE AT THE MID and dont camp somewere and kill them.
Btw if someone is switching between all of their agents on the agent select and they aren't locking in, I THINK it means they're waiting for you to pick so they don't steal your main. I do this so I think that's why other people might do it.
i use it as a way of saying like “these are all the people i feel like playing, i’m open to whatever.” and just let them pick who they want. it doesn’t always work but i try :/
I just pick my main and not lock and wait for the whole team to pick their agents as to not steal their mains unless its like 10 seconds then im going to lock
I used to look at the scoreboard a lot and it always made me play worse, so instead of binding it on tab i recommend binding it on a button that you cant press while playing, for example I have the scoreboard on +, so i never check the scoreboard.
Little note on these rules: half of them ( except the ones specific to the games mechanics) originate from CS GO, since well the games are very similar and a lot of the players from CS carry these rules over to Valorant (not all)
i once accidentally stole an ace from someone and I am a new player so i didnt know what aces were, but they were so kind to me and cheered me up for killing someone
This is why I never get upset over my aces getting stolen. Everyone is usually in the moment, and trying to focus. If people don't comm about the ace specifically then I don't blame them for taking a kill.
i do open the door at the start of the round while defending in breeze.....i usually take sage.......wall halls and hold angle from the door so i get cover as well as angle and height advantage while defending and use slow orbs when they rush....it helps the guy who is present near pyramids to get kills as well
opening the door in breeze as a sage to put the wall further in so the attackers cant open it without having to break the wall better than to wall the double doors in tube/hallway
A lot of my teammates open the door on breeze when defending and it makes me so mad sometimes cuz its giving the enemies another place to push without having to make sounds
Disappointed no friendly fire wasn't here but last match I was planting the spike on pearl B and my team's Phoenix walks up to me uses his floor fire ability and just stands there so I can't move dropping me from heavy shields and max HP to 62 HP, he did it two more times to me and and others then threw on the last round by killing me while I was defusing ._.
Someone on my team was about to ace in spike rush, i found the last guy (we had sheriff) and i distracted the guy until the guy came and aced, and i felt helpfull because of it
the knife one is true but i had to break it once ;-;. the enemy agreed to do knifes and we did 3 rounds of knifes, loads of fun, my team kept winning. So the enemy agreed to another and pulled out 5 odins and killed our team. we agreed to one more knife and i killed 4 of them with a gun ;-; i feel the shame to this day.
A really good tip that people don’t pay attention to: we’ve all been in the situation where the enemy sees you and you see them and they have cover but you don’t, what normally happens is you don’t move from your spot waiting for them to re peak, and 8/10 times you get beamed, the way I see best to avoid this is when they spot you and go back into cover, move a few steps to a different location but still be able to see the same location you where aiming at before, it throws them off because before they where pre-aiming at the spot you where before, now that you e moved slightly it throws them off for half a second or less and in that time they try to adjust their aim at you they would either have to to hide again or shoot it out, if they go back to cover just rinse and repeat, not just a valorant strat by one for all shooter games.
"Don't instalock, and when you instalock dualist don't blame the team for not having smokes" Me who instalocks omen: my goals are beyond your understanding.
i was 1 away from an ace and someone took the last kill, last round of the game and my teammate got maddish at my other teammate because they took it but i didnt really care i was just in a good mood cause we won
For the Jett op thing, this is becuase Jett can dash out of the way if someone is already holding the angle or if Jett misses a shot. Therefore she's the best oping agent. Reyna is also good becuase of the dismiss but Reyna would have to get a kill first.
@Deleted true, but with a updraft dash into site you get much more intel / play potential then with a 1 kill entry jett that then proceeds to camp back behind their team. Check higher elo lobbies. Its starting to get normal to see sova's, astra's and all that with an OP instead of jett.
the rule where you shouldnt listen to music while playing should only be for games that are not being played casually since for casual games people always listen to music because its a calm game. so basically any game mode that is not comp or an intense 1v1.
Alright here an execption to 2:38 : there was a round where the enemy chat the last was afk and to end the game soon so we rush to their spawn and got camped, the next round was the switching round to my team mate chat knife only at mid and we kill them with pistols. They called us liars, how ironic
Rule: if you see a skin on the ground, pick it up Rule#2: If youre alive theres some guns on the floor and one of your teammates ask you to get it you get ir give it to that teammate and ask them for the gun you want
Unless you're holding garden with a one-way with viper. But in that case, if they kill you, do warn your team that garden is open and window is broken. I break the window before the round starts so that I can retreat quickly if they overwhelm me and I hold from there instead
On breeze i few times opened The door on The begining od The round.. Cuz my defending teammates were pushing The attackers- and i played sage- and all of my dumbass teammates got Löw really fast so i placed wall asap in The gap between The door and floor vůz it opens slow af
I was top fragging the whole lobby The bottom frag was cursing at me for clutching 3 times (my teammates helped me deal with him lmao, I had no mic at the time) The bottom frag is our only duelist *I was Sage*
I've been into the game for 4 days and went from not knowing anything to trial and error'ing through these unwritten rules and calling out better. The game is fun and constructive criticism during matches are needed but getting those few toxic people who act like the world will end because they died makes it uneasy. There's been a ton of character development between the teams I've had it's wild.
2 days in valo and luckily I haven't got any toxic teammates, in fact some of them are suprised and thinking I was smurfing, I just simply tell them that I have some experience on other fps games so that's why I have the core mechanics of an fps game. I rate this game 10/10, never felt this kind of excitement playing a game for a looooooooooong time.
I think the "You are a duelist you need more kills" IS TRUE, when you have 31 kills as cypher, and a reyna got 11. You cannot change my mind (it was compet on bind g2 [28 rounds]). (I did not flame her but I did say I "think u shud have way more frags")
I had a game where me and two people in front of me and two behind all pushed B on split and I decided to check that little box in the corner outside garage and Jett was waiting for all of us with a sheriff lol, she just stared at me then I killed her
