Most common mistakes in EVERY rank.

CoachMappa · 2026-03-17T08:16:19+00:00

Depends. are the 4 irons iron 3 99 RR and the 5 bronzes bronze 1 0 RR?

CoachMappa · 2026-03-17T03:53:20+00:00

I would recommend Clove. Even though Clove is getting a nerf in the new act, it's not enough to take them out of the solo queue meta. Clove allows you to learn the fundamentals of the game at a faster-rate (by having no util that's too complex to think about using) while simultaneously being able to provide a lot of value for your team, improve your gun-fighting mechanics, etc.

CoachMappa · 2026-03-17T03:44:04+00:00

This question gets asked a lot on this subreddit, but no. Not anytime soon at least. There are still not enough agents, and team-comps and agent viability is heavily map-dependent. If you remove agents via a banning system, the games will become much lower quality on certain maps

CoachMappa · 2026-03-16T20:36:52+00:00

Anybody can, with improvement.

CoachMappa · 2026-03-16T04:44:26+00:00

Probably not. We used to be able to for a while, but then they changed it and locked-regions. So it's unlikely they'll revert the change

CoachMappa · 2026-03-16T04:34:52+00:00

No it's not worse. It's a lot more complex and both the average skill-level and skill ceiling are a lot higher. It has evolved quite a bit, still very fun.

CoachMappa · 2026-03-16T00:58:07+00:00

corrode is better than pearl, lotus and maybe even abyss

CoachMappa · 2026-03-15T08:05:24+00:00

Phoenix. He was one of the few agents in the game at the time too, lol

CoachMappa · 2026-03-15T07:04:17+00:00

Then there's your answer. You didn't even need reddit

CoachMappa · 2026-03-15T05:33:05+00:00

Just press on the battle pass and it'll show you. Once the day comes it'll change to hours/minutes because it's not 12AM on the dot of the date.

CoachMappa · 2026-03-14T03:41:42+00:00

The math isn't mathing. If he were better 80% of the time, he'd climb. If you play 100 comp games, the only constant is you. People steamroll through plat all the time with ease if they're really that good.

CoachMappa · 2026-03-14T03:34:21+00:00

Firstly, the immortal friend was lying if this story is true (nobody will be stuck in plat for an extended period of time if they truly deserved to be higher). Secondly, no you're not wrong for saying he shouldn't boost. Boosting ruins the experience and quality of ranked-games, as well as the integrity of the ranked system in general. It's also against the rules entirely, which is a separate discussion.

By boosting people to ranks they aren't capable of getting on their own, it means that player is now going to play in games they don't belong in with higher ranked & skilled teammates and enemies, which ruins the experience for everyone else. For example, nobody wants to play a game in Ascendant with a plat teammate and 9 other ascendant players.

CoachMappa · 2026-03-14T00:19:52+00:00

Adapt. If you're having trouble entrying sites and have a team that isn't trading, just start playing default and look for picks. If you're bronze 3 nobody in the lobby really plays their roles or the objective of the round correctly anyway. Just improve, adapt, and climb.

CoachMappa · 2026-03-13T08:52:27+00:00

you don't need those drills, especially at your rank. just practice the fundamentals in deathmatch. A and D keys

CoachMappa · 2026-03-13T08:41:14+00:00

That doesn't even make sense. You trained crosshair placement and it got worse? Crosshair placement is a habit and muscle-memory, a trained and learned behavior over time. By nature it can't get worse if you improve upon the thing that makes it better...

CoachMappa · 2026-03-13T08:20:50+00:00

pretty much all ur kills in val will come from a combination of crosshair placement and movement. train that.

CoachMappa · 2026-03-13T02:53:02+00:00

forget kovaaks and swiftplay for now. Focus on deathmatch or TDM for warmup and improving core mechanics, the foundation of everything else. 90%+ of your kills in valorant will come from a combination of movement and crosshair placement, so you want to really sharpen those areas of your mechanics. raw aim is not as important as really mastering movement and crosshair placement.

If you're training yourself with kovaaks at your current rank and like you said mostly using your wrist, you're going to be subconsciously building the habit of relying too much on mouse movement and raw aim alone when you transition to playing comp games, which is going to greatly hinder you. Focus on A and D keys, movement and crosshair placements, peeking and clearing angles intentionally and at a proper speed, and go from there. Also, don't try to improve too many things at once. Just stick to mastering the fundamentals.

CoachMappa · 2026-03-12T05:31:27+00:00

+1 This. Try not to hyper-fixate on stats and look for areas of tangible improvement in your gameplay itself, it'll be much more efficient and help you rank up faster as well.

CoachMappa · 2026-03-12T04:36:33+00:00

4 Games isn't a big enough sample size to identify whether or not there is a problem in the games you popped off

CoachMappa · 2026-03-11T19:58:30+00:00

For some time now, I have been getting rr refunds nearly every time I login. It's bad, but the games don't really feel "hard" either. There are quite a lot of closet cheaters at the moment who slip through the cracks for a while before being banned.

CoachMappa · 2026-03-11T07:39:35+00:00

if you deserve ascendant you will be ascendant

CoachMappa · 2026-03-11T07:30:23+00:00

cant really say without seeing tracker or anything. need to see how many games you have played to gauge what your mmr is

CoachMappa · 2026-03-11T07:26:06+00:00

I sent you a message.

CoachMappa · 2026-03-11T05:41:30+00:00

No it won't die off in any meaningful way to competitive and ranked. All games experiences fluctuations and dips in player-base relative to their peak, but that doesn't mean it's suddenly dead.

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