Played for an entire year, only ever experienced one blatant cheater.

A sage took a guardian on bind and killed 5 people through the tp door with 1 tap headshots.

Pretty much the entire game summarized.

I must have met many other cheaters using wallhacks but they were not unbeatable. I could have beat them if only I played better/ my shots connected.

In general cheaters in Valorant are pretty much nonexistent. There are too many smurfs in silver-gold though.

You can definitely solo Queue as long as you don't get tilted/angry at the game.

My experience so far - Opened silver, took ages to go to Gold, then climbed quickly from Gold to high plat, stayed there a while, then reached Diamond.

You can easily get to silver 3 by solo queue if you get good. Grind the game as much as you can. Don't mind throwers/people not having a good day. That is just part of the game. Get to silver 2-3. Honestly, you will be able to as it's not a huge difference in ranks. Once you are in silver 2-3, you can actually play with friends.

Also, I do not know about NA (judging from your flag) but if you play 20 games in Asia, you should be able to find decent people to play with if you just send friend requests to them. This list grows slowly. Should be the same for every part of the world.

It is true though that getting out of silver is very tough. You should queue with friends to get out of gold.

I definitely believe that your "high elo" friends only recommended you this assuming you had friends to play with you.

In Short - Don't be afraid of playing solo queue if you are not concerned about gaining elo. It's ok to be playing alone in your squad in Bronze as people are not very synchronized anyways. Solo plays can win you rounds at least till silver 3. You will learn teamwork along the way.

Taking advice is good, but advice that prevents you from playing the game in the first place should not be taken.

I will try to frame my answer from the perspective of a foreign tourist visiting India to take the best out of this trip and avoid any problems on the way.

Honestly, if you come to India, I would recommend just go to one of these beach destinations like Kerala and Goa. The ideal visiting time is around winter where there is not much humidity and the temps are really good.

Both these spots are really tourist-friendly with people whom you can communicate easily (Obvio they talk english but you can also find people speaking french, spanish, portugese etc to help you out)

The food in both these parts is great, you can also find Beef dishes in Kerala which tbh, you cannot find in the majority of India and many foreigners really crave this meat when coming to India, just so that you know.

The Christmas party in Goa is very famous and hundreds of thousands of tourists visit Goa during that time of the year. It is a very unique experience to celebrate Christmas in 30 degrees Celcius for many Europeans and North Americans.

This is the easiest and effortless route you can take to enjoy and not get yourself tired. Ideal for a vacation.

If you are more into India's culture then ohh boy, prepare to do some trekking and traveling.

I suggest you land in New Delhi rather than Mumbai, go explore Old Delhi. Some posts above have mentioned some popular spots, Chandni Chowk, Qutub Minar, Red Fort and other places which I am sure the place where you stay (your hotel) will be more than happy to help you out with.

Then proceed towards Agra and visit the Taj Mahal and other places near it including Fatehpur Sikri.

This is usually enough for a normal person visiting India for the first time. After this, you can proceed to either Goa or Kerala. Goa is strictly for enjoyment (atleast as a tourist) while Kerala has both culture and good beaches. You can decide likewise.

Some things to note out for in India -

India gets very hot and humid, make sure to drink lots of water and only packaged water or water that you are used to drinking for at least 7-8 days on your arrival. Indians get sick when they go abroad and others when they come to India cause of the different microbiology in different areas.

As much as India gets hot, it also gets cold. Make sure to bring winterwear if you are ever visiting anything that is in the northern half of India during the winter season (November - February). If you arrive (and leave) from Goa or Kerala, you won't need winterwear as they are mostly warm during the winters.

Always make sure you do things that tourists normally do and visit places where tourists normally visit. If at any point you feel like you do not see "white faces" for a while, make sure to return to a place with more tourists or your hotel.

India is safer than it is portrayed but still, it is advised to be at guard regardless.

Shopkeepers like to engage you to buy something and it can get quite hectic. Find a way to deal with them.

Keep talking to your driver/hotel managers/waiters at restaurants, they can let our some unique places to visit and some good food on the menu.

PS - I did not write this whole thing down. Parts of it are copied from a convo I had with someone else visiting India a while ago.

I am not personally saying they are bad.

I am just rephrasing what Benkai said and what the community as a whole expects.

You can, and the ping is decent as well. I live in Jodhpur so the physical location is close to Pakistan.

I get 70+ms in Singapore and 67-70ms in Bahrain.

All you need to do is create an account from an EMEA country.

I asked a friend from Pakistan with who I played CSGO to do so.

1 bad apple does not make a country look bad. Chill

True, winning one game can be called a fluke but getting to the finals? Not really.

By overperformed I meant the fact that NTH was literally not the team we were expecting to do well.

Benkai has said that they knife teams from JP in scrims (slight point towards how bad JP is), but Nth, a low seed team from JP actually beat PRX 2-0 to shut them up.

I don't remember his name, the first two letters were Ez though if I recall from memory correctly.

Met another radiant on the Bahrain servers, he was pretty average though. Was 3rd or 4th on the leaderboards.

Diamond 2 here. I think plats are not very good and immortal 1 is pretty similar to diamond 1. But as soon as you go up against Immo3 and similar ranks, you feel the difference. Immo3's just destroy you if you are in diamond or similar ranks. While my silver friends on good days and beat plat players. Diamond is kind of like a middle ground where you won't get beat by a silver anytime but you will also get destroyed by immo3.

Also, radiants are, well,

wayyyyy above immo3.

Especially if you go up against the top 100s.
Got one on my team when an act starts and I was winning some games. So I matched with him. The game was just ridiculous. Man is carrying us with Sova.

I think Northception overperformed.

We should not expect Zeta Div to do the same as Nth was pretty much the only JP team that did not get out of the tournament in the first 2 games.

In local tournaments, in the APAC I felt everyone stepped up.

Just compare this to local tournaments within India where the entire team sits at 6 kills while Rossi is fragging out at 20 kills or something.

But at least when they scrim against SEA they all step up. Same for LCQ and VCC playoffs.

This introduces another problem and that is genuine players who are playing for the first time may not be at the skill level of a iron player.

EG - my friend who plays CSGO opened silver 1 in valorant only on the basis of aim and almost no utility awareness. He did not even know what a yoru TP is or common cypher trip setups.

When he goes against teams in ranked where people are not good with util, he top frags, while if you get those annoying util users, he barely manages to get 10 kills or any impact in the game.

If let's say, he was boosted quickly to gold or plat, he would just ruin so many games while valorant manages to derank him to the current level.

Even right now, his skills are very disproportionate where his aim is like platinum, game sense is like silver gold (owing to the fact that there are still some similarities in maps of CSGO and valorant) but util awareness is like a low bronze. He does not even know that a Jett can dash at you if you hold certain angles and the same with raze satchels.

Sure bro, just rides a bandwagon. Sentinels definitely got overconfident and lost games but they made out of the group stage in an international event like Berlin and won Iceland. That definitely puts them in the top 8 teams in the world. If you think that even 8 teams in the world are not decent then I don't know what to tell you.

Also despite the fact that I appreciate Paper Rex and other Singapore teams, by your logic, even Paper Rex is just trash and highly dependent on Forsaken to frag and Jingg to go aggro.

I don't see any team in the world which you can't point something against.

At this point, more than half of them are fake flaggers or acting as Indians in chat.

I believe a lot of them already stopped when Indian players and org managers themselves asked them to not spam their names.

They are children and don't know any better. When they were told not to do so they stopped.

If anyone is still continuing, it's just trolls. Then why are you judging a team based on the fake hype up by trolls?

If GE lost all games it would still have made sense. Did Rossi putting up decent numbers against a region like Korea really not do anything for his reputation?

This same team made it to Berlin and took a map off split (Sentinel's good map) despite the fact sentinels had a flawless run all through iceland.

All SEA teams comm in English IG.

Paper Rex has released a Berlin voice comms video if you want to see those.

Its not just every country having different languages. I think even in 1 country people speak multiple languages.

India (not in SEA but still has similar culture) for example speaks several dozen languages but English is common to all.

When I was in silver3-gold2 about 8 months ago, I played a tournament against Diamond players.

We were down 5-0 then 7-0 and then I got a 3K using classic right click on an eco and won the round.

From then I guess they got tilted bad and we kinda snowballed them despite the clear skill diff.

Classic right click has to be the best mechanic in game. This prevents people going too crazy for eco frags or pushing an OP just cause you know it does not work on close range.

Remember, if the guy in front has the skill, he can still one shot you and get you down.

I guess people still disconnect on NA LCQ which is on LAN.

Riot tech KEKW.

In my opinion, they should just make the Valorant server software available to everyone. Its so hard to conduct 3rd party tournaments online.

Is Adobo a philipino dish?

I guess its from SEA. I tried it and its fucking amazing.

Really want to try more authentic versions so I guess I need to go to a restaurant that came from the same country Adobo is from.

Crazyguy is not Indian. He plays in SEA.

But he did play on Indian esports teams during the CSGO days in the past so it is not entirely impossible for him to play for India.

pls be less brutal next time.

If a player performs good on the international stage, despite his/her birthplace god comes down to earth itself to bless the player with Indian blood.

All good players are Indian pride at this point no cap.

Sure, glad to help.

I gave him 4000$ to support rural industries in his country. He promised to give the money back today with interest. Haven't heard from him still.

But I am sure there is just some technical difficulty like a bank holiday or online banking not working. He's a prince after all he won't run away with my money right?

Ok so the posts above were made by a ghost.

Here for the possible free 3080.

Trust me I will put it to good use.

Regards

At this point, all your pickems must have gone wrong. There is just no way there is still a pickem that has predicted everything so far?

True true.

Go to twitch and you will see the cringe fans.

If salt merchants discovered the amount of salt deposits in your posts, they would be fucking billionaires by now.

Nth has played VCT since year 1.

GE is playing VCT for the first time.

I mean they are arguably the best after Vision strikers but they still need to respect the other teams instead of Jingg just showing a really disrespectful attitude in-game.

GE was too respectful towards PRX and did not punish their 1head aggro pushes while PRX is too cocky and loses to Nth which should not even come close to them.

LMAO I can't----

Ouch

Nth has a strong mental. Their aim isn't shaking after being 10-2ed (Same scoreline as GE)

GE just gave up on icebox after the first half.

GE has to play dozens of international matches before they can get the same mental as Nth.

Fake flagger.

At this point, people not from India should also start to differentiate the difference between genuine support posts and such troll posts like this.

GMB jacket is pretty cool

^^ Title

I think the PRX jersey is dripping wet.

GGs to PRX.

What an aggro team.

I thought you already shaved your eyebrows?

TSM is truly an global org.

1) GE always competes in pro games on LAN like conditions (about 8ms ping)

2) DWG plays on 40ms ping.

3) DWG got 40ms ping throughout 2nd and 3rd map and the end of the first map. (Confirmed by SkRossi on stream)

SkRossi very clearly said on stream that GE got 75 ms and DWG got 40ms by the end of map 1 and the entire map 2 and 3.

GE 75ms KWG 40 ms throughout the second and third maps. No excuses.

This aged better than fine wine.

Yoo Happy BDay to me again.

Imagine competeting professionally after spending 30 hours per day on vlr.gg.

BTW happy BDay to me.

India has a huuuuuge population who belong to the same race to which the Chinese belong and all of them are respected.

These people who you are calling racist have a problem with China but are respectful towards people from the North East. These same people will also tend to hate Pakistanis as well who are the same race as us. How exactly are you calling this racism?

Probably look into Xenophobia and chauvinism. These are the words you are looking for. Not Racism. Yes, Indians are highly Xenophobic and Chauvinistic like many other Asian countries which include Korea, Japan, China and the South East Asian countries.

Then there are idiots who make fun of people for being Biharis/South Indian/NorthEast Indian and whatnot, but I don't think we are dealing with these people over here.

Once again, numerous coaches and players have done it in CSGO times.

I don't see Shinobi as an exception but still if he decides not to travel, I respect that.

This is just a suggestion guys.

yeah my bad will add it in the edits.