We all know that sometimes you just get stuck in ELO hell whether it’s because of bad teammates or your own skill sometimes it can be really difficult to just push through those few ranks that is why today we here at pro guides are going to be going through and taking a look at what you need to do to escape ELO hell.
TEAMMATES
The first thing you need to know when you want to climb out of ELO hell is that there are four other people in the lobby that are on your team these teammates are more often than not your ticket to actually escaping your ELO hell. This is definitely one of the most important Valorant is a team game at the end of the day so communicating effectively and staying together as a team is very important so that means turn on your microphone if you haven’t already or go out and buy one if you don’t have one.
By just simply talking into your microphone to give call outs to your team you just increased your chance of winning the game by an easy 25 percent on average we found that the average player actually doesn’t use their microphone all that much and we get it there are people out there who will be toxic the second you toggle your microphone but if you want to climb you have to deal with the trolls the best way is to just ignore it.
MAP AWARENESS
Sometimes when you’re trapped in ELO hell you don’t have teammates that talk back or give call outs or you get a bunch of people who don’t know what they’re doing. So in that case you have to take control and feed them information. Without taking the first step to this is paying attention to your mini-map before you can track enemies you have to track your teammates. This is where you can start thinking about areas that are safe and the areas that are clear.
Any areas with your teammates are clear and any areas without your teammates aren’t clear simple right it is that is technically all you need to know. But let us expand just a little bit the reason that you get caught out and die even when you have teammates on either side of you is because of one of a few reasons you either exposed yourself to a dangerous angle, didn’t clear your corners properly or were further away from your teammates than you shouldn’t have been.
The common factor that solves all these problems is to constantly be sticking with your team so if you need to carry a bunch of teammates who don’t know what the heck is going on then the first step is to stay close to them this makes sure that you can trade kill them when they inevitably push up and die. If you’re paying attention to your mini-map you’ll be able to tell just how to spread out or disorganized your teammates are this will help guide you towards whether or not you should go for the trade kill or not. If your teammates are pretty spread out or on the other sides of the map don’t go for the trade kill.
MASTERING THE FEW AGENTS
Have you ever wondered how pro players seem to just know unimaginable things with their agents or make crazy plays that only a mad man can think of? That is because they have passed through the fires of the solo queue as well and they have their own ELO hell to climb for them that might involve countless hours of mastering trajectories or endless repetitions of a technique. For you it doesn’t have to be that difficult but the lesson of the story is stick to mastering just a few agents when you climb out of the depths of hell you will have learned some general techniques that you can then apply to any agent to be proficient but until then just try to stick to up to three agents.
Try to make at least two of these agents a class other than duelist. We get it duelists are fun and they can lead to some easy wins the problem is though if you want to climb out of hell you will need to learn more than just aim playing controllers and sentinels will help teach you game sense and you will overall be more useful to the team while still retaining the ability to frag part of the beauty of Valorant is that since most abilities are designed to just enable and not outright kill you can still be a very effective fragger on any agent
TRY GETTING A DUO
Now we get it finding someone to play with isn’t always easy. While I totally have enough friends to call on and definitely am not lonely I guess. So if you’re looking for someone to duo with a good way to find people is to just use our first tip and talk in your games try to send a friend request to the friendly people after your game and see if any of them are interested in being duo partners.
As long as you’re friendly on the microphone and hopefully not being toxic you should have at least one person say yes at some point if you are that unlucky though then you can always check out the official Valorant discord GOOGLE it for the link. But they have a looking for group section where you can look for teammates.
If you’re not interested in looking for group services or even maybe a permanent duo partner you could always just add people after a game and then just play for as long as they’re on it was a pretty common thing to see in other games like counter-strike or league of legends but it allows you to have some people that you already know will be okay in-game and have slightly better communication with them than random every time.
