How to Get Better at Valorant (2023)

Riot Games opened its new online FPS game Valorant to worldwide access on June 2, 2020. Previously, it was open to a limited audience of players, especially publishers, in the closed beta. Today, we tried to prepare a list of tactics that will take you forward in this article, in which we answered your question "How to play Valorant better" in 7 steps.

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How do I get better at VALORANT?

To improve yourself, you don't need to just play VALORANT. Apart from the game, there are aim apps that you can use to improve yourself, get better reflexes and increase your trigger discipline. Some of them are as follows:

• Aim Lab
• Aim Expert
• Aim Hero
• KovaaK's
• Aimtastic

By using these third-party apps, you can aim better and easily overcome your opponents. Training in these applications at regular intervals will improve your aiming ability over time.

Don't run, walk

In Valorant, agents run forward and naturally make noises, so nearby enemies can easily learn their location. The distance at which the footsteps can be heard is also indicated by a circle on the minimap. So you can walk instead of run by pressing Shift.

Although walking causes you to move slower, it prevents you from being heard and allows you to shoot more accurately. If there is no enemy around, if the enemy does not know where you are, or if you do not need to go somewhere quickly, it will always be a better choice to walk. On the other hand, you need to take a knife in your hand to advance as fast as possible.

Shoot Without Running

If you shoot while running in Valorant, the chances of hitting enemies are pretty slim unless you're very lucky. If you see an enemy while running, you can try to stop completely before firing. It may take some time for you to aim during this move, but once you get used to the transition you'll definitely get better results.

The widening and narrowing of the circle around the crosshair also gives you a clue about the accuracy. If standing doesn't make sense to you during combat, walking may be an alternative. When you switch to walking speed by pressing shift, accuracy of the bullets increases considerably - although not as much as in the standstill.

Accumulate Your Credits

Credits are spent to purchase weapons and abilities before each round in Valorant, but it is necessary to act with the team when spending. For example, buying a gun alone while your teammates don't have the credit to buy a gun risks the next rounds with that round.

In such cases, it would be better to save your credits for the next rounds. On the other hand, in each round survived, the weapons, abilities and armor are preserved, it is even possible to take the weapons of the dead enemies and carry them to the next rounds.

The scenarios that can be followed according to the different situations you will be in regarding credit management can be listed as follows:

• Eco Round: Everyone on the team does not buy anything and accumulates credits to buy better weapons for the next round. A good pistol and a skill can be bought with a chance.
• Full Gear Round: Everyone on the team spends all their credits to become fully equipped. Assault and sniper rifles are generally preferred, the best armor is bought, all abilities are filled.
• Mandatory Gear Round: If there are not enough credits for the full gear round, the best weapons and armor available will be bought. This scenario applies when there is no time left to wait to accumulate credits and the competitor is considered relatively weak.
• Partial Rig Round: One or two people on the team spend all their credits, and it is predicted that everyone will have enough credits in the full gear round.

Buy an Armor

Of course, it is important to use the abilities of the agents correctly or to aim very well with the weapons. However, it is also necessary to have enough armor to be victorious in conflicts. If you have enough credits and can manage the credit economy for the next rounds, you should definitely buy armor at the beginning of each round.

Unarmored health is 100, which can be reset with one or two bullets. The armors to be purchased are of two types; The first, Light Shield, is purchased for 400 credits and gives 25 additional health, while the second, Heavy Shield, gives 50 health for 1000 credits.

Aim to heads

The less you move the mouse, the easier and faster it will be for you to aim and shoot. While advancing, you must always keep your crosshair in the places where the enemy's head is likely to be. Not only in Valorant, but in almost all games of the same genre, players tend to look down.

With such a perspective, you have to raise your weapon when you encounter an enemy, which means a huge waste of time. However, if you keep your aim at the level it should be and at the level of the enemy's head, your chances of making the finishing shot increase.

Spend more time in Polygon

If you want to strengthen your aim and improve your shooting skills, be sure to use "Polygon", one of the greatest blessings Valorant offers you. If you think your aim is insufficient, you can warm up in the Range for 15-20 minutes before your regular daily ranked matches and move forward to strengthen your aim.

Play Deathmatch

If it's your first time during the day to boot into Valorant and enter a competitive match right away, forget about progressing and rank up anyway. Because getting into the game without warming up really takes heart and is quite risky. Instead of taking such a risk, you can warm up for 15-20 minutes before a ranked match, then play 2-3 games in Deathmatch mode and prepare yourself for the game.

This mode is designed to help players improve themselves, sharpen weapon game mechanics, learn new maps and abilities. The first person to reach 40 kills in 9 minutes is the winner. However, your goal should not be to get 40 kills immediately, but try to play with the reticle at the level of the players' heads throughout the match. In this way, you can develop what we call “crosshair placement” yourself.

Communicate With Your Teammates

If you want to play in the best team in the world, whether your teammates are the best 4 players in the world, if you cannot communicate properly during the match, you can lose. In the same way, be in a team that does not play very well, has significant goals, but has excellent communication in the game, your probability of winning that match is really high.

Communication is a must in a team game. All things in life are like that. If you do not act as a team, you may be disappointed in a job you do. In Valorant, too, victory will be inevitable if you are an open player and communicate with your team as much as possible. The more you shut yourself up and “be annoying”, the farther victory will be.