Is there a queue for Smurfs? How much Rank Rating (RR) you gain or lose depends on the agent you play, right? Why are you winning the same game with a friend but getting less RR? Fortunately, Senior Competitive Designer on Valorant Jonathan "EvrMoar" Walker volunteered to respond to these challenging inquiries.
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The crowded queue at Valorant is frequently extremely annoying. Riot Games previously explained why you might feel difficulty stuck in your rank, but there are still many uncertainties regarding the precise operation of ranked MMR.
Is there a queue for Smurfs? How much Rank Rating (RR) you gain or lose depends on the agent you play, right? Why are you winning the same game with a friend but getting less RR?
Fortunately, Senior Competitive Designer on Valorant Jonathan “EvrMoar” Walker volunteered to respond to these challenging inquiries. If you need more information about According to Riot’s senior developer, and how your Valorant ranked MMR is calculated, then read carefully, and don’t forget to share with your friends.
EvrMoar went into great detail in posts on Reddit and Twitter about how Valorant determines your ranked MMR as well as how Riot is constantly enhancing and fine-tuning the system for more precise matchmaking.
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Valorant selects the games you play for you based on your visible rank rating (RR) and a hidden MMR. It’s crucial to keep in mind that your MMR is independent of the rank you see in-game. Riot knows roughly where to place you in each new Episode because, while your rank resets every Episode, your MMR does not.
Riot wants to make sure that your rank corresponds to your MMR. If your rank is higher than your MMR, you might lose more RR and gain less in an effort to lower your rank to that which the system believes to be your actual rank. In contrast, you’ll win more often and lose less often if your rank is lower than your MMR, which will help you move up the ranks.
Encounter and Win/Loss are the other two parts of your MMR. Encounter MMR evaluates your performance against members of the opposing team. This includes metrics like the number of duels won, damage done, assists, and the efficiency with which you use your abilities. When it comes to duels, the game also considers your rank in relation to your adversaries to reward or punish you for the result of engagements.
Win/Loss MMR is much simpler and just looks at who you win matches against. We can determine how effective you are in games against players in your MMR’s vicinity as well as how frequently you win by combining the two, which is nice. We benefit from the strengths of both systems,” EvrMoar said.
The game puts more emphasis on Encounter MMR at lower ranks, so your performance in each game matters more. On the other hand, at higher ranks, winning games is more important than winning duels. According to EvrMoar, “this is because at the high ranks reaction time and aim start to equal out, or become less impactful.”
Duelists are not favored to gain more MMR just because they are poised to get more kills, according to EvrMoar, as the agent you play has no bearing on your MMR in any way. The same is true for your Average Combat Score (ACS) at the conclusion of the game, which has no effect on your rank or MMR. EvrMoar clarified, “It’s just a stat used to frame the game.
How does Valorant, however, even know that your MMR is reliable? According to EvrMoar, the system always tries to place players in contests where they have a 50% chance of winning. But if the data reveals that these players are, for some reason, losing on average more often than they are winning, he continued, “we would then know these players are rated incorrectly based on something.”
Finally, EvrMoar made it clear that the game does not have any secret systems, such as the frequently conjectured winners’ and losers’ queue or even a smurf queue. EvrMoar stated that when looking into claims that a player found it easier to climb on particular accounts, it was typically because they “grouped with different people and played differently on both accounts.”
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