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A Riot developer explains why leaving Valorant ranked games early can be detrimental to MMR, as competitive ranking can actually go up after a loss in the FPS

Five-stacks are back in Valorant ranked come patch 3.10, and while Riot have labeled the change "spicy", players are concerned.

Riot are completely revamping Valorant’s rank system from the ground up in Episode 2. Arrows are gone, replaced by a Rank Rating system that works on points. Leaderboards are also on their way, as well as big changes to Immortal and Radiant. Valorant’s ranked system is undergoing its third rework since launch in Episode 2, and this set of changes is the biggest one yet. No longer will players have to guess how close they are to ranking up ⁠⁠— Riot is doing away with the infamous arrow...

Valorant Episode 2, Act 1 kicks off later this week, adding a new agent named Yoru. Yoru is described by Riot Games as “an Infiltrating Duelist who uses an array of tools to reposition himself, or create fakeouts. Yoru players will be lurking around the map, causing chaos, and getting frags.” You can check out the character in a cinematic, below. Alongside Yoru, the update will add a new Run-It-Back skin bundle from Episode 1 alongside a new Episode 2 Battlepass, which will offer up goodie...