Since Episode 4 Act 1, you need to have an account level of at least 20 to earn ranks in Valorant’s competitive mode. Once you’ve hit that threshold, you can engage in ranked play. At the ...

VALORANT Ranked Shields apply to every rank below radiant: Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Ascendant and Immortal players can all use them. VALORANT's newest Initiator agent Tejo ...

Deranking in VALORANT isn't a pleasant experience and Riot Games introduced Rank Shields to easen the pain with Patch 10.01. Rank shields, also known as derank protection, give players a second chance ...

You also need to keep playing to hold your rank or you will start losing points. The system is quite similar to other titles like Valorant and Overwatch. Gold or less can be enjoyed together ...

Our Valorant Agent tier list for ... to hunker down and hold a site on defense can be excellent too. Coming to Controllers, Brimstone's ease of play makes picking it an easy choice for most ...

Riot does, however, offer tier-loss prevention, meaning that you can play a few ... Shields, Valorant’s equivalent of those aforementioned buffer games. Available in all ranks except Radiant ...

The Valorant Rank Shield was introduced with patch 10. ... For instance, if you are at 0 RR in Platinum 1, you can play two more matches before you drop down to Gold 3. If you lose a game at ...

Smurfing has long plagued the tactical FPS shooter Valorant from Riot Games ... players create new accounts to play at lower ranks. These Smurf accounts can often be recognized by missing skins ...

The latest Valorant agent, Iso, is set to launch later today but after a few days of playing as and against Iso I can safely say that they will become one of the most frustrating agents in the ...

Valorant’s head of anti-cheat has admitted it is “inevitable” that you’ll run into a cheater at some point, despite a record number of bans being handed out.