


Once you receive your Valorant competitive rank, you will be matched only with players within two ranks of yourself. As Riot explains, the way Valorant determines your early rank puts much more scrutiny on your personal performance, but eventually, winning matches becomes the more important determining factor. It gets a little more complicated, though. Performing "exceptionally well" can help you rank up faster, while performing worse than you have in previous matches can hurt your competitive rank.
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Patch 1.02 renamed the top rank to "Radiant." How Does Ranking Work In Valorant?Īccording to an earlier blog post from Riot, "winning games is the most important factor in gaining rank," but your personal performance plays a big part in that too. Valorant Ranked TiersĪfter running Competitive mode through Valorant's beta stage, Riot came to the conclusion that the name of the pre-launch top rank, "Valorant," was causing confusion, and decided to change it. The competitive ranks and their corresponding ranked tiers are as follows. Riot has provided a handy graphic showing off its ranked system, which you can see below. That makes for a total of 22 possible ranked tiers, each represented by its own skill badge. Each has three ranked tiers except for Radiant, the top rank possible. There are a total of eight ranks in Valorant. Since beta, Riot has made it easier to play with your friends in these placement matches too, even if there is a "fairly large" gap in skill between teammates-however, Competitive matchmaking will still prevent players from queuing together if that skill discrepancy is too vast, to keep the game balanced and the ranks fair.
