u/Rolltidestiv

Hello all,

I'm relatively new to the game, but I've sunk a ton of time into the game trying to improve and I basically immediately hit a wall as soon as I started playing ranked.

I'm roughly 150 games deep into ranked this act, probably 250 hours put into actually playing the game between ranked, deathmatches, swiftplay, and the range. I was placed Iron 3 and am still iron 3 (with a sub 40% winrate).

I've gone as far as paying for coaching and it's been discouraging to say the least. From everyone that's watched my recent gameplay, I'm more or less told my aim is nowhere near a bottleneck (usually hover around a 30% headshot rate in recent games) at this point but that my game sense is like I've never played a video game before. Even after me spending a ton of time trying to find information that teaches about positioning and general game sense, as well as watching about 50 hours of pro players playing ranked, none of it is clicking with me whatsoever and the way I've been talked to about it by my coach and friends that also play the game just makes me feel like I'm broken mentally.

I've never been as lost or frustrated with anything in my life as I have been with this game. I've really enjoyed the game so far but I just loathe that I haven't been able to improve results wise because I just can't understand game sense at even a base level.

Please send help.

Edit: forgot to link my tracker: https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/RollTideStivers%23NA1/overview?platform=pc&playlist=competitive&season=4f0864e2-40af-28a4-de2c-0e9e64e75f23

Hey everyone, I’m looking for someone who might be down to look over a couple of my VODs. I’ve put a lot of time into my mechanics and I'm at the point where I don't feel like I'm dying because my aim is bad, but because I’m making poor decisions that I just don't know how to fix yet. I’m honestly tired of hearing 'just play games' because I want to actually understand the logic behind the game.

I’m really just trying to find someone who can help me understand the why behind my deaths, as I need help spotting the patterns in my decision-making that I'm currently too inexperienced to see. I want to move away from just guessing what the right play is and start actually diagnosing my own rounds so I can play with more purpose.

For context, I feel I have a solid mechanical base (I'm hitting 25–27/30 on medium bots while strafing between spawns, I know that's a bit of a controlled environment, but it's something), but I feel like I'm still at square one regarding everything else. I’m not looking for any shortcuts, just someone who can help me break down the logic of the game so I can stop guessing. If anyone is down to chat or look at a clip, let me know!

For VODs I'm not really sure what games to send so if you'll send a DM I'll just send a friend request to you so you can just watch replays at your convenience.

Here's my tracker for reference:

https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/RollTideStivers%23NA1/overview?playlist=swiftplay&season=4f0864e2-40af-28a4-de2c-0e9e64e75f23&platform=pc

Hey everyone,

Currently a new player to Valorant and am looking for someone that could provide some structured coaching.

Some background:

I'm effectively completely new to shooter games, the last time I played a shooter game was roughly 2010 or so. Valorant really interests me as a game as someone who has a decent amount of time in MOBAs.

I'm a former college golfer, so it was drilled into my head from a young age that the way of improving/learning something is to have structured and purposeful practice and I'm looking to implement that type of structure into learning Valorant so I can prevent myself from developing bad habits early on.

If you're a coach or experienced player that is willing to work with someone more or less from scratch with a learning style oriented around structure and growth, I'd love to work with you!

Thanks in advance!