99 USD. For real, I really hope Valorant ditches the preciseness with just shift or shift walking. The 30-year-old Counter-Strike legend is now an active. VALORANT developers recognized that smurfing was popular in competitive matches because friends of different ranks still wanted to play with each other. In Patch 2. 0 introduced the new Ascendant rank to help fix the rank distribution since there were too many players in Bronze and Silver. 5 stack should have its own mmr and rank different from the regular one. Some context about myself so you can (maybe) understand…Is rank disparity in duos punished? I am currently gold 3 and steadily climbing. Except for Radiant. If at least one member is Diamond 3 or higher, however, a minimum reduction of 50% in RR will be applied per match. The whole squad will now have a 50% reduction to RR gains and losses; A penalty that is applied to any 5-stack in Diamond 3. We enrolled with 5 players in premier: - immo 1. . 883%) players. It is worth mentioning that rank distribution in Valorant looks more or less the same for every region, including the rule that Radiant is in the top 500 of all players. They are selected to match both what's usually used for silver, gold, platinum, etc. If rank discrepancies are outside the allotted bounds (ie a 4 golds with an immortal) the RR gained and lost is significantly reduced (you go down/up like 2-10 RR for a loss/win) 2. Image via Respawn Entertainment. its because of Hidden MMR. All Valorant rank tiers have three sub-ranks, but Radiant doesn’t. SMFC equivalent to Diamond 2 till Immortal. 10. Valorant currently has nine ranks: Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Ascendant, Immortal, and finally, Radiant. The long answer is still no, but for those of you hanging out in the Immortal and Radiant ranks, you can drop on the leaderboard. Valorant patch 4. 10 patch notes reveal new changes applied to 5-stack competitive matchmaking as well as some. If everyone in your 5-stack group is Ascendant 3 or below , the team will receive a 25% RR reduction if any players are Ranked outside of normal party restriction ranges. If this difference exceeds 9 rank tiers, the matchmaking search system will not let you find the game. 10 is doing away with this system. The expected ranks you will place in are currently outside the acceptable queue range of one another. Playing with a 5 stack may alleviate this problem, but most people don't have a consistent 5 stack, especially now that the rank disparity is 3. To learn more about Valorant, visit the links below: Valorant Agents Guide. Skill disparity is too high in silver/gold/plat . How big is the Gap? ️ ️ Wanna join our games? Join the discord! all ranks in the Premier might create a disparity between skill levels, resulting in only high-ranked players winning the finals. Valorant is a game that tries to promote competitive play between teams, although Riot has also tried to be generous with allowing friends to play with each other, even if there is a rank disparity. 07%. Top 1% is high immortal. IS a joke. The team at Riot has not just pulled a rank system out of their ass. For example, as a Platinum 4 you are in the top 1. Be happy and enjoy the game as your rank isn't some big shoe to fill. 1. Same as 30% or cs didn’t give a fuck. Groups of friends want to be able to play with each other without leaving someone behind or having people solo queue in off-hours. For example, Iron players can queue with players up to two tiers their senior! But ascend to Diamond, and your buddy must be within two divisions to join your party. support/utility heroes would end up having a gap with you and eventually you wouldn't be able to queue together due to rank disparity. If you can imagine; between bronze 2 and iron 3 is 4 ranks. comp isn't designed to play with friends, its for a competitive experience thats why they changed the rank gap. There are eight ranks in Valorant and, aside from the highest rank, each one consists of three tiers - numbered one, two and three. Maybe instead of averaging out the mmr, the matchmaking system could find opponents from each players individual mmr. Please just allow 5. This means Silver players have the most amount of spread across the ranks, being able to play with four different ranks, being Iron, Bronze, Silver and Gold. There's just a lot of individual variance in someone's skill, especially at low mmr. and more interesting when people are really comming and trying to make plans to beat the enemy. Unlike ranked, Premier participants can create teams regardless of rank disparity. 0. I am not a VALORANT hater, nor have I really ever been. We had a fun 5-man team going in ranked, ranging from Iron 2 to Silver 1, and had a blast playing together each night after work. Its the same for Cs:go but the rules on valorant are much strict :3. Unfortunately, we can't, because apparantly the skill disparity is too high, even though he doesnt have a rank. The only way would be if he deranked on purpose or u ranked up solo. The rank disparity in Rocket League limits anyone over three ranks apart from playing with a friend. TLDR; Iron -> Silver Silver -> Gold Gold -> Platinum Then it changes to exactly 1 tier (i. Riot came out and said this at the beginning of last season, that your MMR and Rank were almost always 1:1. ( TL;DR - Ranks are unbalanced and have different elos all mixed together creating an unenjoyable experience and sometimes downright impossible-to-win/insanely unbalanced teams/games. Riot Games is introducing a new rank called Ascendant, which sits between Diamond and Immortal. 3% of the player base. VALORANT's skill disparity evaluations are causing players to not be able to queue up with their friends after only a few games of Competitive mode. Insert rank feels like a hellhole. Previously, players could queue up with a. Valorant. Thanks in advance. Valorant has seven ranks (Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Immortal), with the top 500 players ranked as Radiant. We loved to play Valorant, but at the moment we're not playing it anymore because we can't play together. You will not be able to play with one another while these ranks are too far apart. When you are gone from VALORANT for an extended period of we do lower your MMR. Valorant tank won’t be max rank technically. But, if player two was in Champion 3, they would be too far apart in ranks to be allowed to play together. i don’t have the same disparity between ranks that you have but i totally get that coordination aspect that’s not very present in solo/duo queue. Valorant’s matchmaking system takes into account the rank disparity between players in a party to ensure that games are balanced and fair. This is the table of what ranks can play together in Valorant’s competitive queue: The same rank disparity rules apply to Platinum and higher ranks. - diamond 2. In Valorant, you can queue with up to five people of any rank. Credit: Riot Games. Gekko. All of these tiers, except for Radiant, have three sub-ranks within them, with 1 as the lowest and 3 as the highest. Groups of 4 and lower should always be limited to play with similar ranks because att that point you affect one or more random players in your team. Since the devs are planning to implement a system to boost smurfs quicker to higher ranks to discourage smurfing, wouldn't…1. - diamond 1. So you’re basically in a rank with a mix of people who are actually immortal on their main and people that happened to get carried to silver but deserve to be in bronze. The current VALORANT rank distribution in Episode 6 (as of February 2023) has 42. Starting in Act III, the VALORANT team will be tightening the rank disparity restrictions for competitive matchmaking. These bad players are more often than not gold 3s which are supposedly supposed to be 4 ranks above me. Can’t play with friends Ranked Disparity. However, there is a difference the last season, and that is because before, the MMR and fornula used for it deviated from your visible rank much left often. I wouldn't say high immortal because over half of immortal (0. Its possible to balance the queue around the average of 2 players ranks and call a silver 1 and a plat 1 queued together gold 2 or 3 instead of the actual average of gold 1. So if a global queues with 4 silvers they face a global team. There is very little ' holding' the players rank back. Need to know the ranks of Valorant and the way the rating system works? We took a deep dive into Valorant's rating system to point out you the way they work . This disparity shows how players improve over time as they climb the ranks to compete against better players. Valorant queues parties considering their party sizes so there are standards set for players with certain ranks to queue up together. Overtime rules will be win-by-2 (up to 3 sets of Overtime), then Sudden Death. For more extreme examples play unrated: one immortal playing with a bronce is making the lobby gold for some reason. Meaning about 32% of the playerbase is condensed into four ranks. Hidden MMR System ruining matchmaking experience, it should just be +/- 1rank vs +/-1 rank. I'll have 35+ frags 9/10 dm maps, but I can't improve by playing against low rank people who walk around and crouch in the corners. In fact, at launch, it only had 22. I’m struggling a lot in ascendent 2 as well. Closed beta rank does not carry over to launch. According to the players in this thread on Reddit, it takes as little as a single game for the system to assign. Reduced 5-stack Rank Rating (RR) penalty. First and foremost you need to understand that if you can queue with them in comp lobbies, the rank disparity is not that great. Hello everyone! :) I've noticed something in SoloQ that annoys me a little bit and I haven't seen anyone talk about it: So I play around D1 - D2 and of course depending on how good my MMR currently is the ranks in my lobby vary BUT I noticed that as soon as someone dodges, the game seems to prioritize me finding a match as quickly as possible over. Up to 5 players in a party (stack) can queue for a game in Competitive except for 4-player parties. 476. Table (CSGO as reference). VALORANT uses a two-pronged approach to matchmaking: hidden Matchmaking Rating (MMR) and your visible Rank Rating (RR). There are some cases where if the system believes it's unconfident in your rank it can loosen where it thinks you belong, and that leads to faster rank up/down. Here are the full details on which ranks can play together in Valorant. Seasoned players get frustrated when their teammates make these common mistakes, and new players don't deserve this treatment just because they haven't played CS for 5k+ hours. A silver 3 player and a gold 1 player are basically the same for me. Unfortunately, the high-risk, high-pressure environment in. There's a high rank disparity between us, so we were just having some fun in unrated. It goes from 0 to 100 points, and you will gain or lose points depending on your performance. Huge skill disparity, it's more or less useless for highest rank players. Iron 1: 74,808 (0. In a 5-stack you can queue with anyone and the game tries to give you as close to a fair game against another 5-stack as possible. Valorant is a sport that tries to promote aggressive play between teams, though Riot has additionally tried to be beneficial by permitting buddies to play with every other, even if there is a rank disparity. Ascendant is a fairly new rank introduced in Episode 5 Act 1, as Riot Games wanted to ensure that the higher competitive lobby faced less disparity. If you don’t buy skins then your game is just subsidized by the people that do. Only players with a maximum of 2 rank difference can play within a team. VALORANT’s Competitive is a serious mode, and queuing with that much rank disparity shouldn’t be allowed—friendship isn’t the top priority in a competitive tac shooter of this kind. 01%. chuckit2yaboi • 2 yr. With Episode Three of VALORANT beginning on June 22, a plethora of changes are coming to the ranked competitive mode. In Valorant, competitive players will have a rank of Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Immortal, or Radiant. Current and target rank distributions. Find out the Act rank, rank rating, and rank disparity restrictions for competitive play. who simply enjoy the game as it is and don’t think about all this rank disparity/mmr business. I think it becomes more important in the higher ranks. The only major downside to this approach is that rank disparity is penalized by fewer points awarded for winning. 3 rank competitive band is too restrictive. Added Tactical Voice OverThe rank disparity in CS2 can be seen when comparing the 6 lowest ranks with the 6 highest ranks. My friends just started playing this game recently and they both just hit level 20 but they have a rank disparity… two new accounts never been ranked have a rank disparity. 9. Match Making Ranking, or MMR, is a separately assigned skill-based number that analyzes the player’s stats and round. Skill disparity doesn’t matter in 5 stacks. Going forward, Riot has expanded the rank disparity for players queueing together in the lower levels. One of Valorant’s biggest issues is that when players go to play Ranked, they are often matched up against players at the very edges of the allowed skill disparity, leading to scenarios where players in Bronze are constantly up against players in Gold, and so forth. Even though the rank restrictions Psyonix has put up may seem too strict at first, almost every other esport title such as League of Legends, VALORANT, CS2 or Rainbow: Six Siege have a rank restriction system built in for their ranked/competitive game modes. The minimum reduction for this disparity is 75% and the maximum reduction is 90%. MM heavily weights the highest ranked player. 264. But the update is also introducing changes to “mitigate against competitive. In fact, at launch, it only had 22. The changes rolled out in Valorant patch 6. But in a 5-Stack Party, there are no such restrictions. And the amount of RR you receive depends tremendously on the rank disparity in your group. But we're still just scratching the surface of VALORANT's competitive potential. I even miss the old font and the menu. VALORANT players can look forward to enjoying five stacks with their friends regardless of rank in Patch 3. We collect your questions and select a few to get answered every other week. Convergence is the multiplier that gives you more, or less, Rank Rating (RR) if your MMR is not equal to your rank. 4688. Iron—Diamond. By using our Valorant tracker, you can keep an eye on the top players and analyze their gameplay. I think we need a better way to sort the "low level" players, because Iron 1 is including too much disparities. If you’re seeing the rank disparity message when playing with friends, that means one of you is at least three ranks away from one another. Their performance in each. After today’s patch (1. 5% of players can boast of one of these prized Valorant ranks. If at least one member is Diamond 3 or higher, however, a minimum reduction of 50% in RR will be applied per match. For example, someone in Diamond 2 can play with a friend in Champion 2. Imo the best option is to find a 5th person to queue with, But it’s not always possible. 1. Slurple7 • 3 yr. One of the most common reasons is that players want to team up with friends of different ranks — which is why Riot made it possible to 5-stack regardless of rank disparity in patch 3. If your aim is as bad as you say it is, (which I am pretty sure it isn't) then you must have some tactical ability usage. This means a Bronze player will not be able to play with a. I think it'll make the game much more balanced with one drawback being a longer. 2 gold 2 players should probably be able to handle 1 plat 1 player and a silver 1 more easily than the two queued together could handle the two gold players. Those are the default colours I use for the rank distributions of any game. Valorant Rank Distribution For Valorant Episode 7 Act 2. Their primary complaint is that the reset is excessively punitive, forcing players to grind through lower ranks once again. Your team grinds until your Diamond 2 friend reaches Diamond 3. The whole squad will now have a 50% reduction to RR gains and losses; A penalty that is applied to any 5-stack in Diamond 3. Solo queueing is allowed in ranked games, but party queueing has restrictions. Iron1-Radiant feels like shit. Ascendant is like top 4-5%. 9M Members. It just simply means that your position on the leaderboard has shifted. Members Online. RANKING SYSTEM IN VALORANT IS AWFUL RN IM SEEING PEOPLE WHO COULDNT. These are the global numbers for the rank distribution in Valorant. The rank distribution across various competitive games can be useful or interesting to know, especially if you regularly play competitive matches in such games. The whole squad has a 75% reduction to RR gains and losses due to rank disparity. Each tier has three ranks with the first being the lowest and the highest being the third. He clearly had an edge throughout the. Just like a regular Premier match. Rank disparity for deathmatch should be limited to one rank above and one below and if that increases queue times, then that sucks for a game that just came out a year ago. We're starting Episode 5 Act 3 with the following rank distribution: Please note. Please fix the fucking disparity. Their performance in each. At least that way groups are not permanently split from playing together. Gameplay Systems. Below are eight reasons why you might be dropping rank in VALORANT. Riot employs “proven skill” to measure Act Rank, which is determined by the highest. For a rank, a player has to play five matches. Here's what Valorant ranks can play together if there are maximum 3 members of your group: That said, Silver and Gold players can be members of your group if you're sitting in one of those ranks. 10 brought to 5-stack ranked matchmaking. advertisement For players that want to obtain the coveted Radiant rank, players must first achieve the minimum cut-off of 450RR in Immortal to promote. VALORANT Patch 3. It's discouraging for everyone. VALORANT resets everyone’s ranks with every new Act. Imagine that in Plat 3 vs Immortal 1 -- seems like a bigger difference right? The point of this rule is to maintain consistency with ranks at all levels!. Valorant queues parties considering their party sizes so there are. Valorant First-person shooter Shooter game Gaming. This thread is archived. 6 ranks apart doesn't equate to as insane a difference as you. For example, a Platinum 2 player can queue with someone within one tier above them, up to Ascendant 2. My friend is silver 2 and she honestly plays as good as I do. Yes, might be a tough pill to swallow for some people, but yes. If your MMR exceeds your displayed rank, you’ll gain bonus RR per win until your rank matches your MMR. Valorant has seven ranks (Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Immortal), with the top 500 players ranked as Radiant. I’m struggling a lot in ascendent 2 as well. Yes, im wrong in my comment, the maximum disparity from gold-plat is one rank, iron 1-silver can all queue together and radiants are isolated with immortals, but still op wouldn't be able to play with bronzes (here is the official distribution as. VALORANT™ is a free to play 5v5, character-based tactical shooter by Riot Games. The only solutions to this is A) play on a Smurf. I live on the east coast, they’re all on about 100 ping so the logic makes sense. Going from the lowest to the highest, the ranks in Valorant are. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. The rank disparity in Valorant Valorant players are assigned a rank based on their performance in a ranked match. That would be everything you need to know about rank disparity in RL. B) play unrated. Also in the opposite way, there's not a big difference between a Bronze1 or Silver1 player at all, whereas a Silver3 and Gold3 are sooo different. If 70% of the player base can all play together, what’s the point on even playing ranked. However, to ensure fair competition, the game has some rules about team formation and rank disparity. VALORANT™ is a free to play 5v5, character-based tactical shooter by Riot Games. ”. 1. Oh well. The skill disparity is really noticeable. The disparity-restriction riot implemented is totally broken and should be fixed or the game end up unplayable for most people who want to game with their friends. We played the first 3 rounds normally, going 3-0 when all of the sudden our raze dc'd. Fixed a bug where vision cones would flicker at the start of a round on Sunset. PigDog4 • 3 yr. Go to VALORANT r/VALORANT •. 5 Unranked People, but Skill Disparity too High. r/VALORANT • 18 days ago. Youre right, but a rank takes 10 placement games, enough that someone's a rank is at least decently apparent. See a list of Valorant ranks from Iron to Radiant and their requirements. If you are all Diamond 2 rank or lower, the amount of RR you get depends on the ranked disparity of the group. That's literally why people care about ranks, it's the entire basis of a ranking system. Let’s dive in and learn more. Rating Greatly decreased on a 11:13 loss, with rank disparity between teams . 31 votes, 10 comments. Discover everything you need to know about Valorant ranking at 1337pro. They are selected to match both what's usually used for silver, gold, platinum, etc. Riot said personal ranking doesnt matter in Valorant Rank, but in lower ranks it does. Like if you won a bunch of Gold 2 games, 7 gold 3 games and 1 Plat one game, the triangle would have a plat 1 icon, the top triangle would have a plat 1 triangle, then 7 gold 3 triangles, and the lower right would be a gold 2 triangle. What was common throughout these games was the higher ranked player would easily top frag because ultimately the rank disparity was large. Maybe you have got really good aim and thats what puts you into those high skilled lobbies. You can expect changes to the rank distribution in Episode 5 Act I, as Riot works to redistribute players to take into account. The expected ranks you will place in are currently outside the acceptable queue range of one another. That rank is hard to get out of because the skill disparity is so vast because people can by change get out of iron and bronze and most smurfs will place in silver to start. Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Immortal and Radiant. Iron1-Radiant feels like shit. 44. Moreover, the top 500 players in each region will reach Radiant rank, and the top 1% in. However, if you're Bronze, for example, Gold players are out of the question. Source of the data. 0 as there are right now. whatacoolwitch. Basically every game of Valorant is filled with people with crazily mismatched elo (hidden and visible). Challenger: 0. Valorant First-person shooter Shooter game Gaming. Before you say it is because I have the least kills, I was tagging people, stopping pushes, doing all the utility stuff that cypher needs to do to get value (plus, the devs already said that rating weight changes depending on the. maxpayne> 4. All I meant was if you want to play with your friends with rank disparity play unrated. And before people say that is what. . 4 of your party members are Immortal and one of your friends is Diamond 2. I play against immortals, and I play against silvers and sometimes I get equally dominated. This surprised me because I specifically remember looking at the rank allocation a couple months ago and Gold used to be by far the biggest bracket. Valorant Maps GuideWelcome to the ESPN VALORANT North America Rankings. As Valorant continues to skyrocket in popularity, Riot gun buddies become an ever rarer commodity. You can't simply progress to this highest accolade by playing the game. 02 CHANGES. Rank Disparity in Valorant. If it says party is restricted that means there is a rank disparity with another player. Its possible to balance the queue around the average of 2 players ranks and call a silver 1 and a plat 1 queued together gold 2 or 3 instead of the actual average of gold 1. Ranked Fact Friday!!!!! Decay!!!!! Yes, we have decay, and it does two things. ago. My buddies and I have been queuing all beta up until now. Again, due to the segmentation differences, we will see some ranks being shifted, thus: SMFC. The rank tiers expanded when Riot introduced an additional rank between Diamond and Immortal, resulting in further rank disparities and filtering out a percentage of the player base. Go to VALORANT r/VALORANT •. Rank restrictions on parties now removed if the party is a 5-stack Rank Rating gains and losses will be reduced by 50-90% if the ranks within the stack are outside the rank restrictions rules applied to all other parties, depending on the rank disparity within the group (larger disparity results in a larger RR reduction). ago. Top percentage indicates what percentage of top players you are a part of depending on your rank for example if your rank in Platinum 2, you are. 16 that will be a celebratory lookback at the year. Convergence is the multiplier that gives you more, or less, Rank Rating (RR) if your MMR is not equal to your rank. People say this about LITERALLY every single rank. Archived post. A look at the ranks in Valorant Episode 3. Imo the best option is to find a 5th person to. r/VALORANT • 11 days ago. SucksForYouGeek • 1 yr. If I’m gold stop putting me vs plat 2s and 3s I don’t give a flying fuck what the mmr says. Gold can only play with ranks as high as. Updated on Oct 19, 2023. ago. Overall, understanding the. Wins: 10 - 50 RR (5+ RR for Diamond ranks and up) Losses: Minus 0 - 30 RR (50 RR max drop for Diamond ranks and up) Draws: 20 RR, based on performance (Iron through Diamond) Your MMR and RR are different. Practice Matches are BO1 format on the same designated Map of the Week. This update will combat a lot of smurfing that happens because of friends with rank disparities. 7%. We know we can't add anyone that would change our division so we tried to add a Plat 3 player since that is below the top 5 in our team, but. Riot should bring in something similar, it's super annoying. It's arguably the hardest rank to get out off. In fact, at launch, it only had 22. Rank Disparity is a system in Rocket League's competitive mode that sets specific criteria for those who can enter a Competitive Mode Tournament, based on Player Ranks. r/CoDCompetitive. There are currently nine tiers in VALORANT’s ranking system, with Iron being the lowest and Radiant being the highest. Your rank doesn’t matter it’s the mmr. New players may benefit from this Valorant rank badge guide. Match Making Ranking, or MMR, is a separately assigned skill-based number that analyzes the player’s stats and round. While your rank resets every Episode, your MMR stays the same, which is how Riot knows roughly where to place you in each new. 0 coins. Here's how Valorant's ranking system works in 2023. So even tho you are getting the same matchmaking, you FEEL like it's unfair," EvrMoar added. VALORANT™ is a free to play 5v5, character-based tactical shooter by Riot Games. Those are the default colours I use for the rank distributions of any game. 2000 2000 0 Details 2d ago vs. For example, if one of the members is in the Silver bracket, the highest rank player can’t be more than Gold. Valorant Episode 7 Ranked Changes. To be able to play in Competitive mode,. 6. The amount that your RR is adjusted. Business, Economics, and Finance. Earlier in the Patch that introduced. 0. The 5 of us are now split into 3 and 2. Premium Powerups Explore Gaming. Groups of four are not permitted at any rank level to ensure a level playing field for solo players. Only obtainable via communication with the developers, many have been asking how they. So i think in about 2 weeks time all the ranks will be properly reset. You will not be able to play with one another while these ranks are too far apart. Reason: example of 2 players, one high, one low partied together, the low player could be detrimental to the game and ruin the experience for 3 other players. Groups of 4 and lower should always be limited to play with similar ranks because att that point you affect one or more random players in your team. Find out the requirements, restrictions, and rewards for different rank tiers and act ranks. Valorant players have been wanting an option to 5-stack teams for Ranked. gold etc from winning matches, that makes it so i am in a different skill tier?The total that your RR is adjusted depends on the rank disparity in the group. Your in-game performance, win/loss records, and leave rate will impact how much points earn or lose in your rank. Reply Shacrow •. VALORANT Esports. If the ranks didn’t reset many more people would be able to hit the highest ranks, while the best of the best players who already are the highest rank can’t get any higher. Valorant. I know that doesn’t fix your probably here since your teammate is the same level as you, but as others have said, it’s probably because your teammate and you don’t have the same “tournament rank”Valorant's senior competitive designer, Jon "Evermoar" Walker, recently responded to statements made by Valorant pro players on the ranking system. Normally by playing ranked, players can earn many rewards. Groups of two or three have rank disparity requirements: The highest-ranked player in a group of two or three must not exceed a certain rank difference based on the lowest-ranked player’s rank. Allow 5 queuing with rank disparity. Valorant Champions Tour Stage 2: Masters Reykjavík Win +0 – 2092 vs. Furthermore, the disparity between the two games is quite evident. This is different from “Act Rank” which is a different unit to measure a player’s rank across an entire Act of Valorant. Always remember that VALORANT isn't requiring you to always. In order to maintain competitive integrity, players will now only be able to queue with others who stand within three ranks of them. There are a total of eight ranks in Valorant. The wide rank disparity has caused many to question VALORANT ‘s competitive integrity since there are often players in matches that they don’t belong in. Gold (1-3) Platinum (1-3) Diamond (1-3) Ascendant (1-3) Immortal (1-3) Radiant. how on earth does that make sense?! how on earth is that fair? can someone explain this. VALORANT Ranks. Share: This is Ask VALORANT. If I’m unranked and my friends already have their ranks, can I be more than 2 ranks away from them and still be able to play with them?. 2. In one bronze game you can have a player who blows your head off with a one-tap sheriff if you peek him for even a millisecond. VALORANT players can look forward to enjoying five stacks with their friends regardless of rank in Patch 3. GrandMaster: 0.