Expectation: I'm gonna employ these tips to improve my game and rank up! Reality: Get queued with insta lock Raze who decides to throw because you didn't pick sage, while someone goes AFK for the first 3 rounds to get their Uber Eats and another guy spamming "sheeeeesh" and "jett diff ongo" into the mic every 10 seconds
I didn't now toxic sweat e couples were a thing until I simply hopped into an unrated match solo queued (my team was nice though and they still lost anyway but jesus were they toxic)
@@choppings54 higher ranks are actually easier than low elo cuz higher elo actually have brains so you can guess their movements. Lower elo is when their brain dead players and do random stuff and you die from it randomly and all the time and you can never recover from this trauma and you’ll go to a mental hospital because of it and you will cry your heart out and wish you bought that diamond account from Craigslist…
Another thing to note: When building base habits (not crouching, tap firing, etc) you will see a drop in your performance, but it's for the better, as it is improvement from a skill that is better than spraying & praying. Keep pushing and good luck to everyone~
@@shaansingh6048 you are easier to hit. If u crouch during a fight your crosshair isnt on head level. If u have a bad habit of crouching to much just unbind your crouch.
i say crouch is good if you know how to utilize it properly, not just constantly crouching whenever you see someone but crouch when you are in a jiggle or counterstrafing position would be a good mix in variation
I feel one really important thing that could be said for iron, bronze, silver, and sometimes even gold players, is if you dont know where your enemy is, dont run into a room or corner with your knife or skills on your hands the biggest reason I see people dying on those ranks is because an enemy shows up when they are either running with the knife, or trying to figure out where to use a skill, and when its needed they dont have their weapons ready to shoot back
story of my Valorant life...i play best when i check every fcking corner and angle i know of. Usually if i perform bad it's pretty safe im rushing angles and assume nobody's there.
I actually take out my knife really often on rotates or even 1v X situations and I am an immortal. Taking out knifes when it normally wouldn't be the "right play" is a really good way to throw off your opponent timings for how long it would take for you to walk somewhere. Most of the time too you don't need to know exactly where your opponent is but like just run a risk reward analysis. If you getting a great timing could potentially get you to win a 1v3 that normally would be pretty hard to win do it. This honestly applies to walking to teamate/enemy mollies as well. Sometimes doing the wrong play works.
@@aminyapussi4740 That is very smart actually! I kinda do the same thing but I swap to my weapon right before I enter the corner so I still get there fast but I also dont get caught off gaurd
8:36 i agree. Personally when i counter strafe in low elos it becomes almost useless due to i get accidentally headshotted by those unbrained sprays all over the place. So it's better to stand still and asume they will miss their first bullet like 80% of the times
I like looking back at these videos to see how ranked was months ago. Where burst-strafing was a recommended skill for diamonds to hone, it’s now a skill that even silver players are familiar with using.
Love the video concept. In my opinion the best way to get through the low ranks (iron through silver) is just playing the game, I was able to get from Iron to Gold in the current act
This applies for higher elos as well. Im a global elite player in csgo with very few hours in valorant, and i find myself getting caught off guard a lot either by positions or plays that i've not seen before, something that i would have probably encountered (and therefore been more ready for) by playing the game more.
BEST PRACTICE to get through low ranks: PLAY WITH FRIENDS, at least party of 3, better if 5. If you don't have friends who are frequent players, then just add the guys which had the best scores in your, and enemy, team.
Don’t stack so much, you are most likely gonna face a team with boosted players and two smurfs boosting them. I personally ranked up from just solo q, it helped me get better and now all of my friends who have been 3 stacking constantly, are like 4 ranks behind me. You don’t wanna be the guy in a diamond lobby who still crouch sprays, and that can’t use util for shit.
People treat iron and bronze players like braindead people but I deadass could tell you that I peaked plat 1 last act and I've seen better plays in bronze than in silver/gold. The only advice I could tell someone hardstuck iron/bronze is to just duo with someone, play more and get a feel of how people play so you can adapt, trust me, I know the struggle of whenever you tell someone that you're hardstuck iron/bronze they never take you seriously and just laugh at you saying 'hold an angle' or 'click on head'
This is true as I’m stuck in iron because I get killed with instant headshot by the other team’s Reyna or Jett. There is no way that they are brain dead and I rarely find people who are genuinely within iron level.
My bad habits: Getting against smurfs in placement matches, only to be placed in bronze against even more smurfs and troll/afk teammates. Some of them even discuss politics for some reason.
Honestly if your whole team is just vibing and everyone's talking about it I don't think it would be that bad to talk about that kinda stuff. Only if everyone's fine with it though.
GOOD TIP: A lot of boxes and parts of the map are purposefully made to be head level, watch out for those ingame and eventually you will get a feel for it. Other than that, ping through smokes/before peeking to get an idea of the elevation and general position
Best habit for every rank not mentioned tbh... Start playing a LOT of deathmatch, you will see a drastic increase in your mechanics, movement, aim etc and dont be one of those players camping and only holding angles, shifting etc, make sure you move (that doesnt mean peak like an idiot, obviously its ideal to "slice the pie" when peaking).
Him: Get a feel for the game and how agents work to get out of iron Me (Who played so much as to have every agent in the game (except for neon)): well that was helpful
learn one or two agents at a time, i recommend one at a time. in lower elo u need to try ur best to master one agent so u can move on to learning the game itself
One more thing for low elo players like me, you can spray if you are up close to your enemy, I see way to many low elo players tap firing when a enemy is right in front of them, hope this helped😁
as a new player that is still unranked, this is so pleasing when after a game on a new map it becomes easy for you to navigate on it, best feeling when on the last rounds you actually start to understand where you're going
7:00 this is something ppl at all ranks should learn and do. im silver and im losing so many games just because ppl are scared to peak someone while a mate is dying to them
A good advice for Dimond and up, less is more, meaning that playing less games but your at the absolute Top of your game is a lot better than playing lots of games when your too tired to check corners
iron tip: stand still and tap fire me: stands still for a second and gets one tapped by a vandal Edit: almost silver now so no need to give me tips on jiggle peaking and counter strafe
Yeah good players kinda underestimate the aim some lower elo players have. Especially with all the Smurfs and trolls out there (who are actually good when they try). It's mostly the game sense that is absolutely dogshit with the lower elo
I feel like even Iron isn't "so bad that you can trust standing still and living". It's a shame, but in iron, you can get destroyed for not playing with silver utility and gold gun handling.
This is a really fantastic and well thought of video. However, even though i top frag or match mvp with viper, I'm still losing games. I'm a hardstuck iron even though i can go 1 on 1 with my platinum and diamond friends
going one on one isn’t how u rank up playing with your team and making their mistakes somehow benifits you or even communication to make them do things is how a 5v5 should go. maybe try looking at what other things u could be doing in game with ur teammates? but who knows
focus on your own improvement. everyone has bad teammates, everyone plays against smurfs, everyone has unluxky things happen. The only way to rank up is to get better yourself, and if you’re truly better than the rank you are at then eventually you will get it
it could be that your aim is not balanced with your game sense, I have this issue as well, as I came to valorant ranked after only playing other fps games casually, my aim improved over time but my game sense was left untrained
Being hardstuck on iron is really really really hard. Everything is aim at that elo. In fact not even aim,just good aiming fundementals and crosshair placement
the thing in eu plat lobbies is that my friends and me watch na pros and we learned to trade and double swing but the mates in duo q are always fighting alone,baiting,just caring bout the stats like its cod and never listen when i see peak of me or wait for me
my biggest mistake is playing to much search and destroy on cod😜 last good decision I made is picking up viper for icebox and breeze. I don't have lineups yet but good smokes are so much better than omen smokes
How about calling out wasted utilities on the enemy team, so you know that phoenix wont drop a flash from nowhere or something? And how about learning what type of ground there is, so when you hear footstep you know exactly where they are with the material?
I watched such videos when I was iron and now I'm silver but 1 tip i want to give to new FPS players is: invest in a good mouse and keyboard. I caped fps @90 otherwise my laptop will blast 😅
@@smahsan3431 from my experience with a mid range mouse (40euros) sensor never messes up, slides really well even without a mouse pad, usually lower input time, clicking sound is a lot better and it feels way better in the hand than just some cheap plastic
@@smahsan3431 same i used to use the red light mouse. Then I changed to Logitech G102 G sync gaming laser sensor mouse. Earlier when I fast move my mouse, in game it doesn't register my full movement. Now with gaming mouse it register my movements fully and talking about Keyboard, a good Keyboard with anti ghosting keys let u use multiple keys at the same time unlike office one.
@@smahsan3431 Trash mouse or really really bad ones will screw you up a lot. Anything that has a decent polling rate and will be able to register your movements 1:1 is good enough.
im in bronze- i learnt the crosshair place technique when i was iron2, hardstuck bc of smurfs, and just overall, braindead teammates (including me). One thing I've learnt overall is that people may be better than you- no matter it be game sense, aim, patience, confidence, etc. And if there's a smurf (teammate or enemy), just try learning something. It's much easier to realise that you aren't playing very well, and staying calm. Panic will only get you to derank, and cause panic for your teammates. also, one common thing i see in iron-silver lobbies: they dont use many comms. like in a 1v2 situation, i get a pick, 1v1 now, nobodies told me where they last saw the enemy, and how much health they've lost. It's extremely annoying. (Unless you don't know how to tell, which is when you die, you get a profile-sort of thing, which can tell you who you did damage to, who killed you, what weapon they used, and health.) Sorry for long comment- just a few notes :)
I was hard stuck silver for a year, this is my first season gold and I'm pushing plat. The difference maker for me this season was A) my crosshair placement and B) my positioning, being mindful of where I am and where I can get shot from. I used to get shot from behind / the side while in a gun fight all the time
Dude i am hardstuck silver and idk what is happening i always communicate i always top frag or 2nd frag my teammates are dogshit and my opponents are always better
I am immortal 2 with solo q best advice is play agents most people don’t play like controller , initiator because people always go for reyna and jett and don’t understand that we need someone to hold the site
When my crosshair is NEVER on the floor, know every map inside out, know how to use all my abilities, I stand still and one tap people, trade my team mates, and still stuck in iron 😭😭😭
some of this has to be a lie, if youre iron. Try to record your game once, and go over it after the game is done, to see what you did wrong. It might sounds boring but it doesnt have to take more than 20 minutes to go through since you can skip buy phase. I really reccomend doing this just once, it really helps - coming from someone who started in iron 1 and now is plat 3
@@grithhornshoej6487 nah I'm hardstuck bronze, and you simply feel like you're drowning in solo queue, teammates don't push and play together and bait you, I have pretty good crosshair placement and aim and I can play in silver 2-3 but still can't get out of bronze 1 this act.
My bad habits are (I’m bronze) : - Reloading every 5 shots - Crouching sometimes when shooting (I managed to stop that habit a few weeks ago but now I have it again) - Spraying too much every once in a while (not all the time, but sometimes I don’t think so I still do it cuz I’m scared to stop) - Not giving comms or giving comms in the chat but players can’t read them that quickly in quick/stressful situations - Mentality… I always start my games very motivated to win, but towards the end or the middle I get tired and more lazy to win
Guys when you play valorant dont play to win .. just play for fun .. and play your role as a teamate and if you have bad aim dont pick duelist .... and also the counter strafing need to be developed on silver ranks not diamond .
The thing about low elo like iron bronze and silver is the massive amount of smurfs and lower elo doesnt mean bad aim,most low elo players have decent aim but cant do anything with it seeing as the opponents have better aim and are to unpredictable.All of that makes climbing low elo extremely hard since its too unpredictable and chaotic to do good with.
Dude I’m bronze but I’ve known about crosshair placements in a looong while, I have a very good crosshair placement and got easy kills with it but I’m still bronze. I always keep losing because I have teammates who play like iron -2. Based on all of these tips that you gave I feel like I should be gold because I already have all those iron, bronze and silver habits ! I don’t know why I’m stuck there !
I just hit gold recently and it's a pain in the ass playing minimally correctly and see your teammates just throwing a lot. We do have bad days but bro I'm way more consistently getting 20+ kills every game and trying to help my teammates out than playing bad once a week. And I think this is something important because as soon as you realise you're having a bad day I think it is important jusf to play unrateds for the whole day before thinking about comps otherwise you will derank and tilt a lot.
honestly i wouldnt tell people at lower ranks to jus stop and spray or aim at head you should always practice perfectly and start working on your cross hair placement as soon as possible
One thing that happens to me is when I can’t hit my shots and we’re losing my friend is telling me to do better and I just stop talking cause I lost all confidence in myself
for improving from the bottom of iron this guide may help but movement and good aim are kind of there from plat1+ so the tip of movement for dia doesnt really make sense to me
i think the best tip is just to not tilt when loosing, remember the more you lose, the better you get and get ready for even higher ranks faster then others. not titlting got me from iron 3 to S1 in like 3 weeks and im not joking.
I have decent cross hair placement and team and match mvp normally I still don’t know why I’m stuck iron I even started to duo que it’s helping but I’m still stuck?
My problem is getting 500 spikes and my default ping is 80 but somehow i manage to hit gold 3 but i have feeling i can hit diamond with better internet
As a person who is currently in bronze, i can say that bronze/iron elo is literal hell. In iron and bronze, there are rarely any ppl who actually suck at the game. Usually in these ranks, there are lost silvers and bronzes but that doesnt even matter. The main reason why this elo is hell is because you cannot escape these ranks through solo queue
I pull my crosshair down way too much after the gun recoils, in the range its fine and i can get down the first 9 or so shots but ingame i pulll so down much that the 3-9th shot body/leg shot. How do i fix this
I'm bronze 3 and in my games there are some players that I think they are smurfing because they play with there abilities pretty well and even have line ups for every different situation, their aim is also great and they just headshot me every time I peak, so what to do with it ? :)
My rank varies from silver 1 to silver 3. I have days where I can hold my own against golds and I have days where I bottom frag in a bronze game. Silvers are soooo inconsistent. You might just be having bad luck and facing someone who's on an upswing.
just keep playing, those smurfs are most likely gold players so they arent that good. I used to be bronze for 2 acts and silver for 2 and the last 2 acts ive been stuck in g1 just keep in but also dont peak the same angles
First off, you get carried by smurfs exactly as often as they beat you. Don't even worry about how they affect your mmr because it's a wash. Second, top fragging doesn't mean you're good. See "Why Having Good Aim is Losing You Games!" You can never blame anything or anyone but yourself for your rank.
I know you wont see this comment, but if you do, i wanna ask, when i play with my duo, what can be the highest difference between our ranks for valorant to let us play competitive?
this is not a dig or anything but tbh i think the first three tips are all perfect for iron. irons are bad but there not as bad as you make them out to be. (and yes of course I am in iron)
As a player who just got into silver, I think for Radiants, some good advice would be to think about what you would do if you were in the enemies shoes, then counter play off that
Honestly the first habit you talked about isn't true I think since bronze players and plenty of iron players have good aim and especially bronze who have great crosshair placement. I think the thing they lack is gamesencse or commonsense and run around with utilities
yeah i'm iron and i always hear the same shit over and over again about not running n gunning and having good crosshair placement, i already do those things lol
Only Pros could say what Radiant players could incorporate because, the only next level step after becoming a Radiant, could be, going pro. And something I've hear many CS pro and coaches say, the thing really good players might lack even so they belong to the best players in the world, is the ability to adjust to their team. One pro coach said, some one might be the best player in the world, if he doesn't fit the team, he still will make the overall performance worse and wont be able to use his skill to full extend, that's why they some times choose pros who seem to be worse but suddenly start to shine as some of the best players, because they came into a team they actually can adjust to and vise versa. That was actually a big mistake with Alex "S1mple" one of the best CSGO players who touched that game, he often had issues with teams and even when he was in Navi, he was known for being a toxic diva, or gorden ramsey like and some times he was the reason they lost a majors. That's why he even had to go to a training, learning social skills and stuff, learning how to adapt to others ect.
I messed up the order of these lol. I came from RTS games so I focused a lot on utility usage, tactics and teamwork but my aim is shit so I'm silver 1 and dipping to bronze recently.
in fact, I ended up being a controler main because watching other people doing fucked up smokes or not doing them at all was such a pain for me, and I don't know how to play around my teammates bad smokes so I always try to pick smokes before anyone else.
My N.1 bad habit is reloading constantly after I shoot, because I played thousands of hours of apex (still play it) I'm too used to reloading constantly since apex is very fast paced compared to Valorant
about using comms, i would but i’ve had horrible experiences in many games’ voice chats just because i’m female so i get anxiety about using vc, idk what to do bc i wanna climb
I started at iron 1 and now i'm plat 2 and here are my few cents :- 1. iron - b3 or silver - get a really good mouse and a mousepad. trust me it make a shit ton of difference. an office mouse will get you to maybe b2 or b3 but thats about it. the sensors on those are horrendous. a good mouse offers an insane amount of consistency. 2. silver - gold :- learn anger management. This is a video game and there are a shit ton of variables that just aren't possible to guess like enemy positions in the dark. Accept the fact that you cannot win every single match and keep moving forward. Oh and also stop using the mic only to trash talk your own teammates. In every game i played, people were busy dissing me about my plays while mid round instead of updating me about the enemy positions. 3. Plat - can't say much about this rank cause i'm in it but i can definitely suggest that you get a good pc and more importantly, a good monitor which supports of upwards of 144hz of refresh rate, bonus point if it has a 1ms reaction time. I encounter many of the people in my team who couldn't react fast enough even when they were on their toes and those enemies were visible on my screen a few fractions of seconds before. I does manke a difference when people are more than willing to punish any bit of mistake you do.
I think it's delusional to tell people they need better hardware to get better... You don't need 1ms less delay on your monitor when your normal human reaction time is 200ms... If you're hardstuck, don't make the mistake of spending a lot of money just because you hope it'll help you get better. It won't.
@@l0ss322 i'm telling the things that arent mentioned in the video. I upgraded my mouse and i climbed from b3 to g2 in one single act so these tips are what worked for me.
@@SanglapNaha that may be a placebo, but if you consistently play with hardware you adapt to it, I played on a monitor with a 1 sec delay and didn't notice it until after I upgraded but it's not needed to improve
@@brycemoooney when you're at plat, you will definitely want to get to the better ranks and at better ranks, its like sports shoes, you need one to play the game. Not like you cannot play without it, but you'll definitely feel the effect of its absent. So i believe plat is like a good rank to consider a hardware upgrade. yeah 1 ms delay isnt necessary but that 144hz is.
@@SanglapNaha I mean I understand what you’re saying but you can’t feel the absence of what was never there, you won’t need to adjust if you’ve never known it was there it all comes down to mechanical skill, upgrading is always up to the person and it’s just training your body to react and adjust but for some an upgrade may be needed
All of these things are self explaining to me as someone coming from cs. I dont know what the problem about valorant is that so many players in low elo dont understand you shouldnt trade your teammates, shouldnt try to farm kills and should try to play more as team.
idk man. Im stuck in iron cause of the amount of smurfs, throwers, and all around toxic people. what am i supposed to do when people are being boosted by an imm 3 smurf. like ive been told i could definitely be a higher rank. but iron players are cracked. like my teammates are your normal iron who cant shoot, and the other team is the smurfs. i was 6 rr away from ranking up and then ofc theres a thrower and we lose the game. idk what to do
As a bronze 2 player that knows I’m way better than my rank, this guide would be a lot better if it wasn’t for the fact that diamond and immortal smurfs flood iron through silver
Lower your ego, first thing, cause if you deserved a better rank than bronze, why aren’t you there yet. Don’t blame it on teammates, (Smurfs are something that you can’t deal with, it’s just the game) If you wanna beat those immortal Smurfs, make sure that you don’t lose mentality, the reason people Smurf in the first place is to boost their ego even more.
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Im sorry but iron people uses utilities well and stragy and have okie aim at at least the people i play against
my bad habits : watch informative videos like this then forgets them as soon as im in the game
Sooo true😂
ayo thats me
Sameeeee
Relatable
Lol same
Tip for all ranks: accept that the some enemies will be better than you, acceptance will lessen your tilt.
i try to do this as much as possible this games bullet regs is what gets to me
i try but it is hard when " better " means 4-5 ranks above you
@@Bruno-dv3ym just win the duel
Thanks bro
Just dont get mad fam its a game
Iron - 1:01
Bronze - 2:09
Silver - 2:59
Gold - 4:45
Platinum - 6:28
Diamond - 7:35
Immortal+ - 8:52
legend
this video was useless
@@alexpfaff7654 true
Suggest that you don't skip it to your rank because each rank tips will help
hey you dropped this 👑
Expectation: I'm gonna employ these tips to improve my game and rank up!
Reality: Get queued with insta lock Raze who decides to throw because you didn't pick sage, while someone goes AFK for the first 3 rounds to get their Uber Eats and another guy spamming "sheeeeesh" and "jett diff ongo" into the mic every 10 seconds
jett diff lol😂
I didn't now toxic sweat e couples were a thing until I simply hopped into an unrated match solo queued (my team was nice though and they still lost anyway but jesus were they toxic)
@@choppings54 higher ranks are actually easier than low elo cuz higher elo actually have brains so you can guess their movements. Lower elo is when their brain dead players and do random stuff and you die from it randomly and all the time and you can never recover from this trauma and you’ll go to a mental hospital because of it and you will cry your heart out and wish you bought that diamond account from Craigslist…
Hahaha my classic Iron game
Mute them
Another thing to note: When building base habits (not crouching, tap firing, etc) you will see a drop in your performance, but it's for the better, as it is improvement from a skill that is better than spraying & praying. Keep pushing and good luck to everyone~
why shouldn't you crouch? I usually crouch for short amounts of time (1-2 seconds) just for accuracy.
@@shaansingh6048 you are easier to hit. If u crouch during a fight your crosshair isnt on head level. If u have a bad habit of crouching to much just unbind your crouch.
Tapping is not good u should always burst
@@benji.g2949 ok thanks
i say crouch is good if you know how to utilize it properly, not just constantly crouching whenever you see someone but crouch when you are in a jiggle or counterstrafing position would be a good mix in variation
I feel one really important thing that could be said for iron, bronze, silver, and sometimes even gold players, is if you dont know where your enemy is, dont run into a room or corner with your knife or skills on your hands
the biggest reason I see people dying on those ranks is because an enemy shows up when they are either running with the knife, or trying to figure out where to use a skill, and when its needed they dont have their weapons ready to shoot back
story of my Valorant life...i play best when i check every fcking corner and angle i know of. Usually if i perform bad it's pretty safe im rushing angles and assume nobody's there.
@@spakkx and never trust your teammates to check corners because 99% of the time they're blind
I actually take out my knife really often on rotates or even 1v X situations and I am an immortal. Taking out knifes when it normally wouldn't be the "right play" is a really good way to throw off your opponent timings for how long it would take for you to walk somewhere. Most of the time too you don't need to know exactly where your opponent is but like just run a risk reward analysis. If you getting a great timing could potentially get you to win a 1v3 that normally would be pretty hard to win do it. This honestly applies to walking to teamate/enemy mollies as well. Sometimes doing the wrong play works.
@@aminyapussi4740 That is very smart actually! I kinda do the same thing but I swap to my weapon right before I enter the corner so I still get there fast but I also dont get caught off gaurd
reload every 4 shots from the vandal
8:36 i agree. Personally when i counter strafe in low elos it becomes almost useless due to i get accidentally headshotted by those unbrained sprays all over the place. So it's better to stand still and asume they will miss their first bullet like 80% of the times
so true, im gonna try to counterstrafe and just run into a bullet
Exactly
Lmao I'm the guy u talkin about 😂
The moment I started communicating to my team I could tell the difference since they started doing their best and looking the right places
HAH
What a dream :,)
I like looking back at these videos to see how ranked was months ago. Where burst-strafing was a recommended skill for diamonds to hone, it’s now a skill that even silver players are familiar with using.
exactly literally staying still for a sec in silver lobby will get u dead its like im playing vs diamonds i swear
Everyone is getting better haha
Even irons are catching on
Love the video concept. In my opinion the best way to get through the low ranks (iron through silver) is just playing the game, I was able to get from Iron to Gold in the current act
Teach me your ways cuz damn, I went from iron 3 to bronze 3 to iron 3 on this act
Same except I'm plat and it took me 2 acts
This applies for higher elos as well. Im a global elite player in csgo with very few hours in valorant, and i find myself getting caught off guard a lot either by positions or plays that i've not seen before, something that i would have probably encountered (and therefore been more ready for) by playing the game more.
that’s great and all, but you still need someone to lay out some basics for you, otherwise you’ll end up like my sister who’s iron 2 for 2 acts
BEST PRACTICE to get through low ranks: PLAY WITH FRIENDS, at least party of 3, better if 5. If you don't have friends who are frequent players, then just add the guys which had the best scores in your, and enemy, team.
Don’t stack so much, you are most likely gonna face a team with boosted players and two smurfs boosting them. I personally ranked up from just solo q, it helped me get better and now all of my friends who have been 3 stacking constantly, are like 4 ranks behind me. You don’t wanna be the guy in a diamond lobby who still crouch sprays, and that can’t use util for shit.
Don’t 5 stack though, you’ll get out up with other 5 stacks that, for the most part, have smurfs in them
People treat iron and bronze players like braindead people but I deadass could tell you that I peaked plat 1 last act and I've seen better plays in bronze than in silver/gold.
The only advice I could tell someone hardstuck iron/bronze is to just duo with someone, play more and get a feel of how people play so you can adapt, trust me, I know the struggle of whenever you tell someone that you're hardstuck iron/bronze they never take you seriously and just laugh at you saying 'hold an angle' or 'click on head'
This is true as I’m stuck in iron because I get killed with instant headshot by the other team’s Reyna or Jett. There is no way that they are brain dead and I rarely find people who are genuinely within iron level.
@@PradeepKumar-nd1td learn how to tap like the Jett, and just because they have good aim, doesn’t mean they are good 💀
My bad habits: Getting against smurfs in placement matches, only to be placed in bronze against even more smurfs and troll/afk teammates.
Some of them even discuss politics for some reason.
Honestly if your whole team is just vibing and everyone's talking about it I don't think it would be that bad to talk about that kinda stuff. Only if everyone's fine with it though.
GOOD TIP: A lot of boxes and parts of the map are purposefully made to be head level, watch out for those ingame and eventually you will get a feel for it. Other than that, ping through smokes/before peeking to get an idea of the elevation and general position
Best habit for every rank not mentioned tbh... Start playing a LOT of deathmatch, you will see a drastic increase in your mechanics, movement, aim etc and dont be one of those players camping and only holding angles, shifting etc, make sure you move (that doesnt mean peak like an idiot, obviously its ideal to "slice the pie" when peaking).
Him: Get a feel for the game and how agents work to get out of iron
Me (Who played so much as to have every agent in the game (except for neon)): well that was helpful
if you have all the agents and are iron then you just suck
I just suck I’ve been in iron for a year and a half ;-;
learn one or two agents at a time, i recommend one at a time. in lower elo u need to try ur best to master one agent so u can move on to learning the game itself
One more thing for low elo players like me, you can spray if you are up close to your enemy, I see way to many low elo players tap firing when a enemy is right in front of them, hope this helped😁
and run too if very close
And even use scope
@@l3abol_uci191 don’t use ads at all unless ur an Odin/Ares
as a new player that is still unranked, this is so pleasing when after a game on a new map it becomes easy for you to navigate on it, best feeling when on the last rounds you actually start to understand where you're going
For everyone who needs help
Iron : 1:01
Bronze: 2:11
Silver 3:01
Gold : 4:45
Plat : 6:29
7:00 this is something ppl at all ranks should learn and do. im silver and im losing so many games just because ppl are scared to peak someone while a mate is dying to them
A good advice for Dimond and up, less is more, meaning that playing less games but your at the absolute Top of your game is a lot better than playing lots of games when your too tired to check corners
idk about that one of the rzns why I finally hit radiant after 3 acts of immortal 2 is bc I upped my daily playtime from 3-4 to 5-6
personally i think counterstrafeing and crosshair placement should be worked on even as low as bronze it is SUPER important
strafing in between bursts is definitely the hardest one for me to get used to coming from csgo, i got away with not doing that up til i reach diamond
iron tip: stand still and tap fire
me: stands still for a second and gets one tapped by a vandal
Edit: almost silver now so no need to give me tips on jiggle peaking and counter strafe
Yeah good players kinda underestimate the aim some lower elo players have. Especially with all the Smurfs and trolls out there (who are actually good when they try). It's mostly the game sense that is absolutely dogshit with the lower elo
Im an iron cause i dont usually play comp but i play with friends from gold to diamond so when im play comp im mostly always carrying and winning
I feel like even Iron isn't "so bad that you can trust standing still and living".
It's a shame, but in iron, you can get destroyed for not playing with silver utility and gold gun handling.
@@RoundShades yeah
@@RoundShades tbh it's sometimes just lucky shots ik I've hit some crazy vandal shots multiple times in the same game but I still would say it's luck
This is a really fantastic and well thought of video. However, even though i top frag or match mvp with viper, I'm still losing games. I'm a hardstuck iron even though i can go 1 on 1 with my platinum and diamond friends
going one on one isn’t how u rank up playing with your team and making their mistakes somehow benifits you or even communication to make them do things is how a 5v5 should go. maybe try looking at what other things u could be doing in game with ur teammates? but who knows
focus on your own improvement. everyone has bad teammates, everyone plays against smurfs, everyone has unluxky things happen. The only way to rank up is to get better yourself, and if you’re truly better than the rank you are at then eventually you will get it
it could be that your aim is not balanced with your game sense, I have this issue as well, as I came to valorant ranked after only playing other fps games casually, my aim improved over time but my game sense was left untrained
Being hardstuck on iron is really really really hard. Everything is aim at that elo. In fact not even aim,just good aiming fundementals and crosshair placement
the thing in eu plat lobbies is that my friends and me watch na pros and we learned to trade and double swing but the mates in duo q are always fighting alone,baiting,just caring bout the stats like its cod and never listen when i see peak of me or wait for me
my biggest mistake is playing to much search and destroy on cod😜
last good decision I made is picking up viper for icebox and breeze. I don't have lineups yet but good smokes are so much better than omen smokes
i think smoke lineups are more valuable than poison lineups. I like using viper on ascent and breeze but i aint no lineup larry
Not smart if you don’t use viper, she can be useful, but stick to an agent ur used to
@@setz7260 comment is 5 months old. we both should be used to viper by now. 70% winrate on icebox rn
How about calling out wasted utilities on the enemy team, so you know that phoenix wont drop a flash from nowhere or something? And how about learning what type of ground there is, so when you hear footstep you know exactly where they are with the material?
I watched such videos when I was iron and now I'm silver but 1 tip i want to give to new FPS players is: invest in a good mouse and keyboard. I caped fps @90 otherwise my laptop will blast 😅
just wanna know how much of a difference does a gud mouse brings to the table compared to a bad one
Currently running an A4 tech office mouse :))
@@smahsan3431 from my experience with a mid range mouse (40euros) sensor never messes up, slides really well even without a mouse pad, usually lower input time, clicking sound is a lot better and it feels way better in the hand than just some cheap plastic
@@smahsan3431 same i used to use the red light mouse. Then I changed to Logitech G102 G sync gaming laser sensor mouse. Earlier when I fast move my mouse, in game it doesn't register my full movement. Now with gaming mouse it register my movements fully and talking about Keyboard, a good Keyboard with anti ghosting keys let u use multiple keys at the same time unlike office one.
@@smahsan3431 Trash mouse or really really bad ones will screw you up a lot. Anything that has a decent polling rate and will be able to register your movements 1:1 is good enough.
The only UA-cam guide I didn't skip on my whole life.
im in bronze- i learnt the crosshair place technique when i was iron2, hardstuck bc of smurfs, and just overall, braindead teammates (including me).
One thing I've learnt overall is that people may be better than you- no matter it be game sense, aim, patience, confidence, etc. And if there's a smurf (teammate or enemy), just try learning something. It's much easier to realise that you aren't playing very well, and staying calm. Panic will only get you to derank, and cause panic for your teammates.
also, one common thing i see in iron-silver lobbies: they dont use many comms. like in a 1v2 situation, i get a pick, 1v1 now, nobodies told me where they last saw the enemy, and how much health they've lost. It's extremely annoying. (Unless you don't know how to tell, which is when you die, you get a profile-sort of thing, which can tell you who you did damage to, who killed you, what weapon they used, and health.)
Sorry for long comment- just a few notes :)
I was hard stuck silver for a year, this is my first season gold and I'm pushing plat. The difference maker for me this season was A) my crosshair placement and B) my positioning, being mindful of where I am and where I can get shot from. I used to get shot from behind / the side while in a gun fight all the time
Dude i am hardstuck silver and idk what is happening i always communicate i always top frag or 2nd frag my teammates are dogshit and my opponents are always better
I am immortal 2 with solo q best advice is play agents most people don’t play like controller , initiator because people always go for reyna and jett and don’t understand that we need someone to hold the site
When my crosshair is NEVER on the floor, know every map inside out, know how to use all my abilities, I stand still and one tap people, trade my team mates, and still stuck in iron 😭😭😭
Same problem here
Maybe we can duo together?
some of this has to be a lie, if youre iron. Try to record your game once, and go over it after the game is done, to see what you did wrong. It might sounds boring but it doesnt have to take more than 20 minutes to go through since you can skip buy phase. I really reccomend doing this just once, it really helps - coming from someone who started in iron 1 and now is plat 3
@@grithhornshoej6487 nah I'm hardstuck bronze, and you simply feel like you're drowning in solo queue, teammates don't push and play together and bait you, I have pretty good crosshair placement and aim and I can play in silver 2-3 but still can't get out of bronze 1 this act.
@@brycemoooney lol wanna 1v1
@Articfox wasnt asking you bozo
for me low elo its just get lucky your team is good enough to support everyone, comms etc, and the opposing team isnt smurfing
My bad habits are (I’m bronze) :
- Reloading every 5 shots
- Crouching sometimes when shooting (I managed to stop that habit a few weeks ago but now I have it again)
- Spraying too much every once in a while (not all the time, but sometimes I don’t think so I still do it cuz I’m scared to stop)
- Not giving comms or giving comms in the chat but players can’t read them that quickly in quick/stressful situations
- Mentality… I always start my games very motivated to win, but towards the end or the middle I get tired and more lazy to win
Guys when you play valorant dont play to win .. just play for fun .. and play your role as a teamate and if you have bad aim dont pick duelist .... and also the counter strafing need to be developed on silver ranks not diamond .
Just get a flash character and a shotgun. don’t stop when u shoot - sinatraa (paraphrase)
on jitt
That one dude was so mean to kirby 😰 3:23
Timestamps (thank me later)
Iron: 1:03
Bronze: 2:10
Silver: 3:00
Gold: 4:44
Plat: 6:29
Diamond: 7:37
Immortal +: 8:52
the worst bad habit I'm still doing: crouch and spray immediately seeing the enemy
What to do if im hardstuck radiant
Enter a match.
Stand in the spawn and keep giving ally locations to enemies.
Lose.
Get our of radiant ez.
Would it be good to use only sheriff/ guardian to break the habit of crouch spraying?
The thing about low elo like iron bronze and silver is the massive amount of smurfs and lower elo doesnt mean bad aim,most low elo players have decent aim but cant do anything with it seeing as the opponents have better aim and are to unpredictable.All of that makes climbing low elo extremely hard since its too unpredictable and chaotic to do good with.
Dude I’m bronze but I’ve known about crosshair placements in a looong while, I have a very good crosshair placement and got easy kills with it but I’m still bronze. I always keep losing because I have teammates who play like iron -2. Based on all of these tips that you gave I feel like I should be gold because I already have all those iron, bronze and silver habits ! I don’t know why I’m stuck there !
I did this, I am now Iron 2 for 7months, I usually upload when I feel like doing it.
is there any streamer that stream and coach at the same time? i mean, they are pointing out some do's and dont's in their game?
I just hit gold recently and it's a pain in the ass playing minimally correctly and see your teammates just throwing a lot. We do have bad days but bro I'm way more consistently getting 20+ kills every game and trying to help my teammates out than playing bad once a week. And I think this is something important because as soon as you realise you're having a bad day I think it is important jusf to play unrateds for the whole day before thinking about comps otherwise you will derank and tilt a lot.
Isn’t spraying with the phantom a good idea though?
pro tip: u can use the boxes all around the map as a guide for the head levels when you want to one tap or headshot enemies
Also holy shit dude, I tried to stand and shoot and damn I top fragged and carried the round, my aim also got 100x better
honestly i wouldnt tell people at lower ranks to jus stop and spray or aim at head you should always practice perfectly and start working on your cross hair placement as soon as possible
One thing that happens to me is when I can’t hit my shots and we’re losing my friend is telling me to do better and I just stop talking cause I lost all confidence in myself
Honestly below plat, crosshair placement and playing with you team/trading will get you SO far
for improving from the bottom of iron this guide may help
but movement and good aim are kind of there from plat1+ so the tip of movement for dia doesnt really make sense to me
Finally someone that understand
it should learning economy control, when to save, when to buy, not wasting money on utilities when not needed.
i think the best tip is just to not tilt when loosing, remember the more you lose, the better you get and get ready for even higher ranks faster then others. not titlting got me from iron 3 to S1 in like 3 weeks and im not joking.
the ability usage trick is actually huge for lower ranks
I have decent cross hair placement and team and match mvp normally I still don’t know why I’m stuck iron I even started to duo que it’s helping but I’m still stuck?
this actually helped me
bro my golds used to countertrafe. anyways thanks for the guides, they really do work and im diamond cause of them.
My problem is getting 500 spikes and my default ping is 80 but somehow i manage to hit gold 3 but i have feeling i can hit diamond with better internet
As a person who is currently in bronze, i can say that bronze/iron elo is literal hell. In iron and bronze, there are rarely any ppl who actually suck at the game. Usually in these ranks, there are lost silvers and bronzes but that doesnt even matter. The main reason why this elo is hell is because you cannot escape these ranks through solo queue
I pull my crosshair down way too much after the gun recoils, in the range its fine and i can get down the first 9 or so shots but ingame i pulll so down much that the 3-9th shot body/leg shot. How do i fix this
The people i play against in bronze curve bullets round walls into my head, how do i counter this?
I'm bronze 3 and in my games there are some players that I think they are smurfing because they play with there abilities pretty well and even have line ups for every different situation, their aim is also great and they just headshot me every time I peak, so what to do with it ? :)
Play more
Start recording your gameplays and see what you could’ve done better and just try to get more overall game knowledge
My rank varies from silver 1 to silver 3. I have days where I can hold my own against golds and I have days where I bottom frag in a bronze game. Silvers are soooo inconsistent. You might just be having bad luck and facing someone who's on an upswing.
just keep playing, those smurfs are most likely gold players so they arent that good. I used to be bronze for 2 acts and silver for 2 and the last 2 acts ive been stuck in g1 just keep in but also dont peak the same angles
First off, you get carried by smurfs exactly as often as they beat you. Don't even worry about how they affect your mmr because it's a wash. Second, top fragging doesn't mean you're good. See "Why Having Good Aim is Losing You Games!" You can never blame anything or anyone but yourself for your rank.
5:10 that’s why you should play with friends with same or just higher elo
I always solo q in every game I play any tips on how to communicate? I really wanna improve in this game
He,
Great video, but how should i enter site as sova when there is a smoke and my team doesn't enters and just stay back? I am Gold btw.
im b3 bc my pc is bad but im not the worst and things that make me get pissed is my team my team plays like 5 year old kids and the enemy is gold rank
Fun fact about Mumbai servers people start counter strafing from bronze or gold itself
I know you wont see this comment, but if you do, i wanna ask, when i play with my duo, what can be the highest difference between our ranks for valorant to let us play competitive?
this is not a dig or anything but tbh i think the first three tips are all perfect for iron. irons are bad but there not as bad as you make them out to be. (and yes of course I am in iron)
bro crosshair placement isnt my problem :( i have a 17% hs rate and b1. any other tips would be nice :)
I feel like people who make these types of videos haven't played one match in Iron..
Crosshair placement. This literally made me get out of iron until silver
Bro I am at Iron 1 and I completely able to control the recoil of vandal phantom should I spray bcoz my aim isn't that good for tap fire Pls reply
Just what I needed
As a player who just got into silver, I think for Radiants, some good advice would be to think about what you would do if you were in the enemies shoes, then counter play off that
Honestly the first habit you talked about isn't true I think since bronze players and plenty of iron players have good aim and especially bronze who have great crosshair placement. I think the thing they lack is gamesencse or commonsense and run around with utilities
Bruh?? What region r u xd, beonze players aim is so trash
yeah i'm iron and i always hear the same shit over and over again about not running n gunning and having good crosshair placement, i already do those things lol
@@manuelnervegna7254 EU 🗿
Only Pros could say what Radiant players could incorporate because, the only next level step after becoming a Radiant, could be, going pro.
And something I've hear many CS pro and coaches say, the thing really good players might lack even so they belong to the best players in the world, is the ability to adjust to their team. One pro coach said, some one might be the best player in the world, if he doesn't fit the team, he still will make the overall performance worse and wont be able to use his skill to full extend, that's why they some times choose pros who seem to be worse but suddenly start to shine as some of the best players, because they came into a team they actually can adjust to and vise versa. That was actually a big mistake with Alex "S1mple" one of the best CSGO players who touched that game, he often had issues with teams and even when he was in Navi, he was known for being a toxic diva, or gorden ramsey like and some times he was the reason they lost a majors. That's why he even had to go to a training, learning social skills and stuff, learning how to adapt to others ect.
I messed up the order of these lol. I came from RTS games so I focused a lot on utility usage, tactics and teamwork but my aim is shit so I'm silver 1 and dipping to bronze recently.
in fact, I ended up being a controler main because watching other people doing fucked up smokes or not doing them at all was such a pain for me, and I don't know how to play around my teammates bad smokes so I always try to pick smokes before anyone else.
Any advice for a Bronze Chamber main?
My N.1 bad habit is reloading constantly after I shoot, because I played thousands of hours of apex (still play it) I'm too used to reloading constantly since apex is very fast paced compared to Valorant
about using comms, i would but i’ve had horrible experiences in many games’ voice chats just because i’m female so i get anxiety about using vc, idk what to do bc i wanna climb
I started at iron 1 and now i'm plat 2 and here are my few cents :-
1. iron - b3 or silver - get a really good mouse and a mousepad. trust me it make a shit ton of difference. an office mouse will get you to maybe b2 or b3 but thats about it. the sensors on those are horrendous. a good mouse offers an insane amount of consistency.
2. silver - gold :- learn anger management. This is a video game and there are a shit ton of variables that just aren't possible to guess like enemy positions in the dark. Accept the fact that you cannot win every single match and keep moving forward. Oh and also stop using the mic only to trash talk your own teammates. In every game i played, people were busy dissing me about my plays while mid round instead of updating me about the enemy positions.
3. Plat - can't say much about this rank cause i'm in it but i can definitely suggest that you get a good pc and more importantly, a good monitor which supports of upwards of 144hz of refresh rate, bonus point if it has a 1ms reaction time. I encounter many of the people in my team who couldn't react fast enough even when they were on their toes and those enemies were visible on my screen a few fractions of seconds before. I does manke a difference when people are more than willing to punish any bit of mistake you do.
I think it's delusional to tell people they need better hardware to get better... You don't need 1ms less delay on your monitor when your normal human reaction time is 200ms... If you're hardstuck, don't make the mistake of spending a lot of money just because you hope it'll help you get better. It won't.
@@l0ss322 i'm telling the things that arent mentioned in the video. I upgraded my mouse and i climbed from b3 to g2 in one single act so these tips are what worked for me.
@@SanglapNaha that may be a placebo, but if you consistently play with hardware you adapt to it, I played on a monitor with a 1 sec delay and didn't notice it until after I upgraded but it's not needed to improve
@@brycemoooney when you're at plat, you will definitely want to get to the better ranks and at better ranks, its like sports shoes, you need one to play the game. Not like you cannot play without it, but you'll definitely feel the effect of its absent. So i believe plat is like a good rank to consider a hardware upgrade. yeah 1 ms delay isnt necessary but that 144hz is.
@@SanglapNaha I mean I understand what you’re saying but you can’t feel the absence of what was never there, you won’t need to adjust if you’ve never known it was there it all comes down to mechanical skill, upgrading is always up to the person and it’s just training your body to react and adjust but for some an upgrade may be needed
what mod do u use in valorant thats shown in 00:03
Me who is doing Counter Strafe on Iron and still on Iron 3 💀💀
when i watch these videos on how to climb out of every rank it sounds like what im experiencing in bronze are plat+ players
I’m kinda trying to use all the things you said and am also using them but I’m still iron?
0:13 I thought that guy is playing valorant on mobile 🤭. Can't wait for VM tho 🤗.
A very big problem in low to mid elo is consistency
All of these things are self explaining to me as someone coming from cs. I dont know what the problem about valorant is that so many players in low elo dont understand you shouldnt trade your teammates, shouldnt try to farm kills and should try to play more as team.
I think a lot of people pick up valorant as their first FPS ever, so a lot of these concepts are probably foreign to them
I'm focusing countervstrafing in Iron cause I'm fine with other things u told
one small issue if ur the only one to do these things and none of ur team does then U lose with ur team and get stuck in the rank
Cool vid but how can you explain how my bronze 2 enemy reyna is counterstrive one taping me from 100m
i have a bad habit , what can i do if i always focus on map ?
idk man. Im stuck in iron cause of the amount of smurfs, throwers, and all around toxic people. what am i supposed to do when people are being boosted by an imm 3 smurf. like ive been told i could definitely be a higher rank. but iron players are cracked. like my teammates are your normal iron who cant shoot, and the other team is the smurfs. i was 6 rr away from ranking up and then ofc theres a thrower and we lose the game. idk what to do
For silver don’t forget to do all the things listed ‘till diamon cuz there’s always someone smurfing
As a bronze 2 player that knows I’m way better than my rank, this guide would be a lot better if it wasn’t for the fact that diamond and immortal smurfs flood iron through silver
Lower your ego, first thing, cause if you deserved a better rank than bronze, why aren’t you there yet. Don’t blame it on teammates, (Smurfs are something that you can’t deal with, it’s just the game) If you wanna beat those immortal Smurfs, make sure that you don’t lose mentality, the reason people Smurf in the first place is to boost their ego even more.
whenever i play in iron-bronze games i alr know this stuff but still end up on like a 5 game loose streak