valorant competitive rant
TLDR: I finally understood the definition of ‘ego-fragging duelist’ in one of my yesterday comp games. I need to rant, you don’t have to listen, but you can stick around.
agent select screen, I took Omen, my duo took KJ, and a random chose Gekko. So far so good, Player 4 and Player 5 were waiting till 1 second to instalock Jett and Reyna, no comms, no nothing. okay I guess? no heads-up on what you’re gonna play? nice.
it’s Pearl, we’re attacking. we got the site somehow (I’ll elaborate a bit later), only enemy KJ left alive, both our duelists died. I hear KJ, see her, whiff like I do sometimes. Jett immediately starts click-clacking his keyboard, “REP OMEN”, Reyna does the same thing. we won the round though, I dealt 120 on KJ and Gekko got the frag eventually.
Jett starts talking shit in voice chat, he speaks polish which I unfortunately don’t understand well, starts giving me shit not only for whiffing but also for not speaking polish. ok? sounds like a literal kid. I mute him and Reyna because they just straight up spam in text chat and give me shit for uhhh nothing, even though I’m playing my role, and I don’t see the point of listening to Jett whining because I don’t understand the language anyway.
now about us getting site control.
you know what our instalock duelists do?
Reyna, our 2nd and 3rd mass flash, lurks. sometimes he dies mid or another site, sometimes he gets frags. on attack. Reyna lurks. big brain moment.
what Jett does? anything but taking site. we stand B long waiting for her to dash, Gekko has flash ready for that, I have the smokes ready. but no, Jett just stands behind the pillar. so cute!
after we all die because defenders just pick us off while we wait for Jett to do something, he continues standing there. just chilling. then gets a pick or two, and dies. very impactful frags, good job, Jett.
now we’re on defence, finally! I wonder what our duelists do now?
can you guess?
both push out of site / mid / wherever they are, like they were supposed to on attack, get a kill or two, and die. the impact of these duelists is just... amazing.
in the meantime, enemy Neon is taking space amazingly: she absilutely destroys our team and knows how to push site properly. I was so upset with our shitty duelists that I honestly was cheering for the enemy team at this point.
I don’t have good and consistent aim, that’s exactly why I intentionally play support roles: more often initiator or controller. I can clutch if needed, but I struggle with reaction time and hitting my shots. and during this game I finally understood the definition of ego-fragging, too bad that it cost me a loss. but whatever, I’m glad these two kids had a bad game and now are wondering “WhY Did I LoSE mY KD waS ALmoSt 2 🤡🤡🤡 ”
and I bet they’re blaming me for the loss, even though I played my role exactly like I’m supposed to. what can you do lmao