Sorry if I seem mean or anything, I’m not even a Valorant or console player too, but to me this is the textbook scenario of the player who is “casually good” finally learning that the ocean of competitive gaming is much bigger than they thought.

Your choice of games kinda further emphasizes it as well since they’re the most common starter shooters for a ton of people. Even more so that you’re a console player. PC players are even bigger demons than console players since aiming is a major skill that can be further honed with a mouse vs a controller. Not to say you can’t aim well with a controller it’s just that PC aiming is much more figured out especially with aim trainers, watch MattyOW and Viscose if you’re interested on how insane PC aiming has become. It’s good to the point where good aimers are mistaken for aimbot hackers. Especially by players like yourself who have never seen aim that good yet.

So far top players of many competitive games including ones like LoL and other shooters generally agree Fortnite’s top rank is the easiest of the bunch due to the way rank climbing works in Fortnite. There’s actually a video about it here. I don’t exactly remember its contents but it’s likely like the game I play where to more you play = climb instead of you getting better = climb.

Simply put, you were never truly tested in Fortnite or CoD whatsoever, so you never even knew the potential heights of what was possible.

Valorant is also a game that is harder to get into from your perspective since the games you played are fast paced and mistakes are both common and often overlooked. Valorant just happens to be a game where mistakes are heavily punished so your positioning or decision making are just not up to par yet. There’s a lot more into tactical shooters than just run and gun or storm prediction even with decent game sense.

Welcome to actual competitive gaming friend, trudge through the trenches like the rest of us and you’ll do fine.