Shroud calls Valorant ranked “hot garbage” for its queue restrictions

The most recent content material creator to criticize Valorant’s Aggressive ranked system, Michael ‘Shroud’ Grzesiek blasted the mode’s compelled solo and duo queues that stop gamers from persistently fielding a full workforce in greater ranks.

Valorant’s ranked mode, often known as Aggressive, has cemented itself as a mainstay for a lot of content material creators on Twitch and YouTube. Regardless of its reputation, nonetheless, the ranked mode has been hit with a gradual movement of criticism from the neighborhood since its launch.

Whereas streaming his ranked gameplay on Twitch, shroud known as out the compelled solo/duo queues put in place by Riot Video games in early 2021, and mentioned the choice to separate full groups of gamers aside at a sure level within the ranked climb has turned the mode into “sizzling rubbish”.

Shroud is only one of many content material creators and professional gamers to criticize Valorant’s ranked mode.

After one in every of his teammates commented that Riot ought to ease the constraints on full groups of gamers in ranked, Grzesiek rapidly jumped in to agree: “I’m certain they are going to quickly as a result of this s**t f**king blows.”

“Actually, ranked is sizzling rubbish due to this duo queue bulls**t. It’s such a foul dynamic,” the streamer mentioned, expressing his full distaste with the mode’s restrictions and the way being compelled to play with strangers negatively impacts the expertise.

“It’s not enjoyable whenever you’re enjoying with randoms, [and] it’s additionally awkward that it’s duo queue as a result of you might have a duo pair, one other duo pair, after which you might have a solo.”

Riot’s acknowledged purpose in including the compelled solo and duo queues to Valorant’s Aggressive mode was to forestall five-stacking amongst greater ranks to enhance the expertise for a wider viewers, however to date has been met with a good bit of pushback from execs and streamers alike.

It’s unclear if Riot has thought of any tweaks to the mechanic (or eradicating it fully) however they’ve pushed out adjustments to ranked queues so as to “tighten matchmaking ability,” which ought to hopefully ease the ache for gamers who aren’t thrilled with the present five-stack limitations.