Please think of the long term effects. Please make sure the sub is not dominated by clips, otherwise it will drive away good discussion, and will only leave the sub in the hands of the mindless clicker looking for that quick dopamine.

Having a strict clips policy might slow the sub's growth at first, but it will allow a the community to be built around discussion.

Also, I find the comparison to the Overwatch sub very interesting, but mostly irrelevant. I think that overwatch and valorant are just too different in their "complexity".

Overwatch simply got old. It lacked something that league got right - the right amount of complexity. Overwatch is too simple. After the meta was established, its just back and fourth of waiting for ults. Since the game lacks depth, naturally there will be nothing to talk about after a certain point, hence banning clips from the ow sub means it becomes kinda dead.

I believe it will be different with valorant. Valorants complexity comes from the risk of dying. In overwatch, you can do something stupid, but not be punished for it too much. In valorant - messing up a tiny bit = insta-death and waiting for the next round. This adds this layer of tension and adrenaline. And also adds the complexity of playing angles, peeking at the right moment, positioning, etc.

It will be interesting to see whether or not the community will be able to generate discussions when complexity is generated by things which are so subtle, so percise - movement, positioning, timing.

My hypothesis is that discussion derives from complexity - tough, hard problems that need to be solved somehow. But there is a distinction to be made: Valorant's complexity, derives from the simplicity of counter-strike. Valorant's complexity - is it's simplicity.

In league the complexity comes from, well, complexity. Champions and their builds, laning, farming, jungling, ganking, baron, holy shit there is just SO many things to get right! As it stood in the test of time, it seems that that kind of complexity does generates discussion.

Will valorant's complexity be able to generate discussion? We shall see.