The Unwritten Rules of VALORANT

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[@Smallpriest]

Dude you missed the most important unwritten rule: always plant spike after winning

[@FLuluMist]

Gives some more money for next round, always good to do it when possible (the extra credit can allow a cypher to buy more trips, or a viper to fill up mollies...)

[@Glormbius]

​@@FLuluMistand an ult point

[@thememegod8685]

nah sometimes its not worth esp when u can save an op on the ground or get guns after winning on save

[@FLuluMist]

@@thememegod8685 I mean YEAH OBVIOUSLY if there's a gun to be picked, by all means, but if eco is already well enough on its way the extra ult point can be of some help as well

[@mynthics]

This isn’t an unwritten rule, this is what we all should be doing

[@larszen24]

Every damn time I play a different agent no one wants spike and by the time I pick Gekko suddenly someone is hogging the spike every start of the round

[@_destroyer08]

Then they will complain why our gekko is not planting ....

[@practixally]

I swear to God everytime I pick gecko to try and help the team someone on the team will race me after a couple rounds of planting to try and grab spike the moment we start the buy round

[@larszen24]

@@practixally its an unwritten rule in valorant i guess

[@moonlightsky4598]

NAH FR ITS SO STUPID

[@Autistic_Wooper]

Bro fr I thought it was just me

[@WildflowerBS]

I didnt even know there were snowmen to break in icebox prob why i always lose in icebox

[@PotatoHead1419]

High level tactic

[@aaronguavez]

same!

[@Itz_Pandaver]

I didn’t know you can break pots on bind but I knew the other ones

[@Smallfryalan]

Shoot the sky flash

[@itsjackson]

dont shoot the snowmen you will be cursed and lose

[@historicalanomalies4035]

honorable mention: zip it during clutches unless your comm is absolutely crucial. i cant tell you how many times unnecessary comms have distracted me from saving a round.

[@Geheimnis-c2e]

On that Sova ult tip during defuses: If you have a high enough hp, TANK THE FIRST HIT AND HALVE THE SPIKE TIMER.

[@edthewizard9315]

a lot of times you wont get tet half unless the sova ult was late and you will die most of the time and you prob wont even get half, what I do is tap bait out 2 shots then stick the last one so you cannot die and you save the same amount of time\

[@ShadowSkull1240]

Like the other guy said, let the first two fire, and if you have 40+ HP, tank the last one. You’ll have half by the time the Sova’s animation is finished, and if the Sova was confident, he will be positioned a little too far aaay to stop you.

[@naserabu6444]

Very low elo unwritten rule: Don't take the spike if you are going to go to weird places instead of site. It is insanely hard to recover if you die with the spike. I have lost quite a lot of rounds because of a teammate doing that. 😂

[@Trespacd]

Dude, nearly every game someone will grab the spike and we’ll go to the site just to hold a peek when they’re all the way at the other site losing all that time advantage.

[@Llama_charmer]

By some miracle your team has cleared B but for some reason your Jett is mid with spike

[@PaulHoleybatch]

When you're Chamber or Jett, buy the gun for someone else since your ult is a weapon. Bold of you to assume: 1) I can build up my ult altogether 2) I can hit anything with the ult even if I have one

[@red_flapple2]

skill issue

[@jordanalmady2145]

I can’t tell u how many times I’ve been smoked off while having chamber ult and I audibly say, welp I’m useless now. Thanks *insert smoke character*

[@nolanmiller1981]

Can’t tell you how often I play smokes and no chamber tells me when to put up smoke.

[@jordanalmady2145]

@@nolanmiller1981 yeah. Because I have a line of sight to get a pick

[@dt99022]

@@jordanalmady2145 Make sure you aren't expecting your team to be psychic. Deliberately ask for no smoke. They usually have more pressing matters than where you're looking at all times.

[@nafeh9574]

@@dt99022 as the controller player you're the one responsible to know when to smoke and when to not

[@massimovolpe1343]

​@@nafeh9574yeah just communicate which angle you're holding since it takes you one second

[@L0wSkiller]

One note about the ultimate points and distributing them, while in most cases yes i think giving it to the person closest to their ultimate is best, i find some scenarios where its less effective. Its round 3 (or 5 or 7), you won rifle round, enemy team needs to eco next round, your raze is 1 off ult, sova needs 4. If you give sova the defuse, fight for the easier defender orb and maybe even give him the defuse again, now instead of just a raze ult going into your next gun vs gun round your sova is 1 off ult while raze should have ult (unless she hasnt seen a person in 2 rounds, in which case... Damn.. gamble didnt pay off)

[@TheRealMar.]

4:55 helped me to climb to immortal, thanks so much

[@P34K74X]

No racism, im asian myself but at 0:27 when konpeki was laughing, his eyes disappeared. Found it funny cuz it's the same for me😂

[@speedymolasses3062]

nah fr they vanished 😭 (i am being racist because im white)

[@suprmeee-]

@@speedymolasses3062crazy shit

[@JasmineRachelle22]

As a hooded eyelid having Thai stoner, same bro lmao

[@Nikothecat564]

​@@speedymolasses3062 I'm also racist. (equally)

[@JackDarkFenix]

I dont know if it counts as a rule but when the enemy team says to report someone from their team for actually trolling (I dont count when the person is just having a bad match) or toxicity I always report them as I would like the same to happen to those that I think that should be reported

[@RocksyFox]

I usually don't do that, because there are often times they want us to report them for playing bad, wirhout saying that. And that is not a reason to be reported.

[@leaderstxt]

@@RocksyFox yeah that's why I always ask why and if they say "because they are bad" I'm not reporting lmao

[@RocksyFox]

@@leaderstxt yea

[@Josi_aka_JTheBi]

Im usually not doing that just because i had a few times where people tried to get others banned for no reason other then they felt like it

[@RocksyFox]

@@Josi_aka_JTheBi Exactly

[@isaacxiao4496]

another important rule: if someone drops their guns and pulls out knife, give them the knife fight. and if your teammates are knife fighting, you don't interfere. Similarly, if your teammate has a 4k, you bait for him to get his ace

[@FreakBobKingVonDiddy]

I buy shorties and judges for knife fights

[@ImProphet710]

This right here

[@emre_ez]

3:16 you got it exactly on point. Literally everyone in my rank says uHm bUt iF wE LoSe tHeN we WiLL be BroKe sO wE shouLd sAVe

[@notbubbsh]

2:54 True. However (sadly not really a common strat) is trading. One or all team member should back up with the vandal player (either to protect or get the gun). The idea is to WIN ur gunfights. not necessarily to win the round. if vandal player dies, the other team member has a better chance in winning the gunfight (vandal v vandal than sherrif v vandal) (or save the gun and win provide equal economy next round). Remember win the gunfight. not the round. (also dont buy sherrif if ur actually planning to eco) please think of ur next two rounds than ur 1st next round. if you lose ur first full buy (ur likely have half buy or half armor in the next round already which in other words economy shit already if you have to wait every two rounds to get credits for a full buy)

[@andre.drezus]

All those 30 times you showed off your picture sure were crucial for my understanding!

[@jlshinjinmontano651]

You forgot one unwritten rule on OP : when your teammate with OP dies, and you pick the OP then next round you need to give that back and ask for a vandal

[@jjlewis3723]

Bro just casually dropped two breakable I didn't know existed (the pot and that snowman up top there)

[@Kicky11]

Idk why but seeing this guys picture when he’s talking to us made me remember the info and also made it more enjoyable! Very nice fun pciture!

[@FLuluMist]

Unwritten rule #0: Be a decent human being by being respectful, thanking and congratulating good plays and encouraging the team despite the difficulty.

[@red_flapple2]

Sadly many people don’t follow this

[@Thrillowatt]

Even on the enemy team!

[@FreakBobKingVonDiddy]

Don’t forget encourage baiting teammates or bad smokes

[@Pacocatlovescats]

Even worse having a perfect vct comp but the reyna main decided to fill an agent just to compromise the game by having no clue wtf they are doing. DONT FILL! Stick to 1-2 Agents per map get really good at those and then instalock this agent. If someone picks them away which may happen once per session just dodge. 1 dodge a day won’t give you a penalty.

[@Geheimnis-c2e]

Me who onetricks Yoru: 👁️👄👁️

[@NH90de]

@@Geheimnis-c2e i dont onetrick him but im good (?)

[@0oKamiKatzeo0]

Dont write "ff" or "gg" into chat when your team have won a lot of rounds in a row. usually it will jinx the game and your team will lose.

[@AYouTubechannelthatIcreatedlol]

The only it’s locks that can complain are the insta lock on an agent with smokes… or cypher

[@NotoriousM.I.Z]

I’m here post ping update, can’t ping spike anymore 💀

[@ThicciJo]

I liked the concept of this video. Past tense is intentional

[@moonlightsky4598]

Much appreciated. I’ve moved from a duelist main to controller and am still figuring out the best ways to help my team as an omen for post plant and defuse scenarios so this definitely helped. However if my team doesn’t play off those smokes then it can backfire

[@DYLisDEAD]

the editing and shots are amazing

[@wibu69]

As a guy who's main role is initiators and controller, I felt the need to add that, if you're passing the OP to a player with low HP, prioritize the Jett or Chamber in your team as they are more likely to know how to maximize the gun's efficiently rather than passing it to a random player if they're simply low HP.

[@merlin2010]

In the low elo hell i can sit there saying "ping the spike please" only to get a ping a millisecond before the spike is defused

[@Axel20126]

For the planting one. I can confirm for higher elo butt for the low elo i have to plant myself cuz mh teammate to lazy

[@Wilsonblickify]

DON'T BREAK THE SNOWMAN

[@cxckadoodledude]

In low elo my teammates dont just safe after winning pistol, they even force after losing it

[@danshakuimo]

Lol my teammates save after winning, and lose to the losing team that forced it lol

[@embermars]

some other thing is that people dont know that you can walk into brim ult EARLY not when the beam is completely gone.

[@FlaraTsoi]

NIIiiCuuu! thank you for that video!

[@spy3s938]

3:35 i cant be the only one who thought there would be a breach stun a skye flash a deadlock net and a raze nade right?

[@spicymilk2685]

thank god idk why ppl or friends be mad at me when i smoke spike

[@judfps]

7:35 bogdans law, respect the man

[@funnypatties4403]

Just started playing on console and didnt even know half of these rules. Thanks a bunch m8 👍

[@danielpatkos3736]

NOT THE SNOWMEN 😭😭😭

[@andrrecraft]

The #18 rule is a HUGEEE PLUSSSS. I'm a main KAY/O player and I have knifes to some other sites main specially on Ascent, that saved me and my teammates a HUGE time to search for the enemies, as that knife covers the entire main and spots everybody or at least 4 of them. Btw love the video and I hope I can leave gold with my current skils and comms skills plus with some of this video unwritten rules

[@jinko17bro]

Nah- if anyone breaks that snowman on the right of Icebox, I instantly lose the ability to aim. Even if it was done by the enemy team without me seeing/knowing.

[@DaUltraInstinct]

POV: you have 4 kills and your teammate steal your last kill

[@세상이-z]

2:55 it is okay for one person to save say like buy a pistol of sort if: If you're going to lurk that is and only on attack it is so that if you die on lurk the enemy that is saving don't get a good weapon. But mostly its better to rush together with team if you're on buy and enemy is saving. This is for you silvers.

[@namelessronin6528]

Thanks man I just got the game yestarday and this helps!!

[@f4zbear_vlr]

When i tell my teammate to smoke the bomb they would say stop backseatting so yeah…

[@sina3d51]

4:40 O MY GOD I HAD A PLAYER THAT DID THAT TWO DAYS AGO Breeze: 3 people instalocket, a reyna, a jett, and a cypher (wich isn't that great i am a cypher main and wanted to play cypher but i guess screw that, i was prepared to just fill anyways) only me and another person left and we needed a controller and an initiator. i was picking (not locking) astra and fade (just switchign between these two to signalize to my aperetly not knowing what communication is teammates that i was willing to fill out either role) the only other not locket person picket (again not locket) brim, so i thought i could go with fade. so i lock fade. what does he do? HE LOCKS PHOENIX! But brothers and sisters, this aint the best. yk what our team decided to do first round? let me remind you, this was breeze. guess where they went! 3 2 1 ... THEY WENT MID ON PISTOL ROUND ON BREEZE WITH NO SMOKES WHATSOEVER when i pointed it out/ (to be honest i) complained, THEY ALL OF A SUDDEN HAD THE COMMUNICATION SKILLS TO TRASH ME. ALSO I GOT SHIT ON FOR GIVING CALLOUTS?!?!??! All i can say is: Don't queue at night. (please tell me someone gets it)

[@bubblepopgrm]

I DONT CARE IF YOU INSTALOCK JUST DONT TELL OTHERS WHAT TO PICK, thank you so much for saying that tbh some ppl lack basic manners

[@biebsnasa]

reyna insta locks are SO annoying 🙄

[@Bonk-]

Yeah i hate people who fk up the comp and someone else has to fill smokes, especially if they bottomfrag

[@VanessaM.88]

especially when they are bad or end up just being afk

[@CosmicDotEdits]

they suck ass fr

[@danshakuimo]

If someone does that they better be a Ascendant+ smurf

[@abigailkuiper7120]

Im pretty new to val BUT OML that 9-3 curse is so real ive lost multiples times 9-3 and i didnt know other people experienced that😂

[@DageLV]

if you save 600 bucks every round, you rarely really need save rounds. usually save rounds end on round 2, sometimes on round 1, if you fragged. id rather never have save rounds than extra 25 health which can be deleted by one shot from basically any gun anyways.

[@apricot8301]

Ehhh. Saving is good because you don't just insta lose the game if you force buy and lose. So yeah maybe people save too often, but I wouldn't say to never do it...

[@Congater]

Yeah I have use 25 extra shield so many times that I think I saved up more than hundred of thousands credits in total because enemy always use vandal or one tap when I half shield or full shield.

[@Geheimnis-c2e]

​@@apricot8301a full shield won't save you considering how addicted people are to headshotting. moreso if there's an oper, you just threw away 600 creds against something that can oneshot you anyway.

[@AnimeFan-wd5pq]

@@Geheimnis-c2eOnly one oper in the enemy sometimes versus 2-3 people always playing phantom which does 145 at mid range. Plus it gives your protection against a ton of things like stray wallbangs and save round guns.

[@iandestroyerofworlds576]

I like playing Yoru with spike when I'm not confident in my team lol

[@lilbrogamer12]

2:24 also neon she has her lightning thing

[@retachi8398]

2:26 I feel attacked as a neon main😢

[@kunalpaul3069]

The snowman in icebox works aa a luck for me, if someone breaks it, then i will definitely lose the match.

[@harleycollins5541]

one thing I don't totally agree with is the fill picking an agent, that perfect vct team comp will do jack squat for you if someone doesn't know how to play the character they are filling, if they are comfortable with said character, its fine, but if you main duelist but have to fill controller or sentinel, you're going to be a bigger hindrance than an advantage

[@zait_0]

And the most important rule is, if someone want to knife mid and say it in ennemis chat and they kill him with a weapon, the ennemis can't complain for the rest of the game.

[@shiiro_lh]

2:24 the 4th rule also applies to Neon btw

[@mrearl8064]

cheers to editor or whoever choose homm3 soundtrack for this video upd: and from hearthstone

[@Smallpriest]

Dude i was thinking like "wait this sounds so familiar, am i watching the right game" 😂

[@mrearl8064]

@@Smallpriest truuuuue

[@1nonlymarvin]

Do you buy chance know where that first song is from I can’t figure it out but it sounds so familiar

[@mrearl8064]

​me too porosad

[@mrearl8064]

im too casual to figure it out or maybe its typical DMCA free track without proper title?

[@babiegorilla]

i broke the snowman first ystd and ended up bottom fragging with 2/19

[@zoe-ql3lh]

6:52 me, an intellectual >uses ult >dies anyway

[@zoe-ql3lh]

"COME ON LET'S GO" [gets shot] [gets shot again]

[@UkkuBoi]

you made a video on unwritten rules it means the rules are now written

[@TiiqawxHD]

They should ad an unlock button, if you lock in you can still change

[@yasp-killazin]

MAN WHENEVER I GET 20+ KILLS I GET A BAD TEAM,WHEN I PLAY BAD,I GET THE BEST TEAMS.WAT'S THIS MAN ;-;

[@Nitrox1109]

kills doesn’t equals impact bro, 20+ kills can prove u good at the game but can’t help u win the game

[@steem_punk]

Thanks :D

[@DageLV]

15 seconds in and i must say... i play only with criminals. Never has anyone pinged a bomb.... never. if im the last guy alive and they're defusing, i have to do the pinging and the shooting.

[@stormdivision617]

Funnily enough my teammate always seem to be asleep when I am left in a post plant situation. They forget to ping way more times than you’d think. Sooo annoying.

[@daviddifranco]

It drives me crazy when a Gekko player doesn’t take spike. That’s literally your job.

[@Rosekwarka]

i wish my teammates would understand this, i knew everything from there, and im suprised half of my elo doesnt understand this, im hardstuck plat and when i tell my teammate to play eco cuz 4 other people cant play full i get laughed at or told to shut up or told "ill clutch this" and then we lose. Or yesterday i got called countless names and told i have 0iq cuz i told sova to use his ult on 1v1 while the enemy was defusing the spike, he lost and screamed at me that he wont waste his ult on 1v1

[@LiveFishCurry]

My omen smokes the spike, enemy jett pings the spike and omen dead

[@strikefreedomgundam6446]

locking reyna last 5 sec vs instalocking reyna pepega

[@RudranshPratap-qe5jl]

Hello konpeki Lots of love from India ❤ My friend recommended me watching you for getting better and now I understand why I am now getting better Can u tell me an aim routine vid pls?

[@Cplayz08]

I love this video, the only problem I have with it is that my teamates are too stupid to do any of the things requiring more than one person. They don't even tap the defuse. ever.

[@Mittshu]

In my opinion they should add kicking from the match like in cs2. You play with e.g. 4 normal players and there is one cheater, so you kick. It will also work on instalockers. For example, he instalocks and then does 0/5 and can't even do anything well with the character, so kick and then he gets negative points and we can try to win in 4 because he was useless and didn't do anything. He didn't even use pings to give information.

[@Trespacd]

do not take the spike if you’re not gonna set it. Idc if you can get an ace or go 23/9/4, i’m going for objective on top of kills

[@rubychandler5620]

great video

[@Sulphyrous]

Personally after a pistol round win I always buy a marshal, as its cheap and precise.

[@ayoromanchik]

4:53 *I HATE THAT POT I HATE THAT POT I HATE THAT POT*

[@martadomingues1691]

About the beggining, I ping the spike because a teammate once told us to do that, so now I always do it. I don't think that one is unwritten.

[@ngapik6985]

Number one unwritten rule. Knives out at the start of round and punch the shields.

[@shouriscazuxianz]

It showed 3 weeks exactly after posting the vid TT no way i could subscribe now

[@Zixle]

I swear lower elo players follow the opposite eco rules for pistol. They’ll buy after losing pistol and save after winning pistol.

[@danshakuimo]

Low elo be like: Losing round 2 after winning round 1 because your team decided to save and the other team forced an outlaw

[@ravimishra4677]

No coaching for people in India 😢😢😢 we need help as well bro

[@MotmoRacing]

BOGDAN lol i was waiting for that

[@lafillemysterieuse6641]

Pov: uk the unwritten rules but u still lose cz ur teamates don't

[@tiffanitis]

I’m a gecko main and every single game the duelists or omen always takes spike and I just assumed everybody knew the unwritten rule to make wingman plant?!?!?

[@VienrizzLabog]

idk why people refuse to play omen, the outplays literally go hard when you play aggressive

[@danshakuimo]

Idk, in low elo nowadays we can usually consistently get an omen. He's like a staple of the game now. I remember in Season 5 where I was also in low elo getting a smoker was a challenge though

[@NathanLu-v5s]

may i know what's the song, sounds great!!! Well done video btw

[@atiqueyousaf1490]

this guy is a G!!!, he never opens his eyes and still managed to get Radiant in Valo 🤣🤣 here is me with 4 eyes 👓 and still bronze lol

[@GTRoseTTV]

Our team was losing 9-2 then we won the whole game

[@nayvlek5678]

for some reason whenever my team break the snowman, i keep losing

[@rhobson]

Baiting the spike and miss the chance to trash-talk on chat that PROS DONT FAKE? Nah, I'm good. :D

[@Fonix21]

1:21 Thats the worst spot for planting the spike in this map.

[@merlin2010]

Regarding the callout unwritten rule, it annoys the living hell out of me. Im incredibly meticulous at counting the footsteps/util to guarantee a callout of "atleast 3 b/a" etc. And also listing off the agents. Then my teamate will say "full rushed b theyre all on site" for me to turn a corner and see 3 of them at a in my face frustrates me so much

[@ReasonRaider]

This is why I kinda hate e-sport ridden games like this, don’t take it personally it’s just my opinion but just like LOL there is so many goddamn unwritten rules that new players are just expected to know even in lower ranked games. Because there is always that one guy who already started working towards his fantasy of becoming the worlds best valorant player. I just wanna shoot some heads and improve my aim for other games that I enjoy more and some people be yelling at me like everything I’m doing is wrong when there litterally shouldn’t be a right or wrong way to do things in those almost base tier ranks. The only e-sports games I can get behind is rocket league and fortnight for actually playing for enjoyment, just my opinion though.

[@matijaaa]

it would take you a maximum of 30 games to learn most of this stuff, if you can't handle the stress of esport titles and if you cant be bothered to learn basic stuff like this then i suggest trying out stardew valley, it'd be right up your alley

[@kadabarVIM]

A rule that is seemingly unwritten for duelists: PLAY ENTRY

[@ismailsalih1299]

but in lower if u lose the pistol everyone just force buys guns, some times they even end up with vandal, idk how is that even possible

[@nugget-or2mt]

only brake the mid and def snowmen the one behind the gate is chill

[@Autistic_Wooper]

4:08 all my teammates suck. They always take the spike when I play gekko