Valorant Patch 2.02 Hits Hard at Run and Gun Strategy

Valorant developers, Riot Games finally ended the game’s major meta that has dogged them for months. In an effort to combat running and shooting metas, the developers in Patch 2.02, have increased errors for shooting during movement to finally nerf it.

The developers have also announced major changes for players with higher skill levels to rank faster. They have also fixed various bugs in this patch, such as the silent spike plant, Yoru getting stuck on the corners and the weird Omen getting stuck glitch.

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Valorant’s Patch 2.02 brings parity to movement shooting

Valorant finally answered the community’s prayers to nerf movement shooting by increasing the amount of errors in movement shooting. The error increase comes specifically in Rifles. This makes killing with movement much harder. The errors will be especially show it’s worth for longer distances, while close combat will still feel difficult for killing.

Errors for rifles during running have been bumped up from 3.75 to 5. They have also increased the error during walking from 0.8 to 1.1 while errors during crouch movement has rose from 0.3 to 0.8. This might effectively end the of run and gun and become more strategic than usual.

 Match Making Rank receives a new update

Patch 2.02 notes also included the revelation of changes in the leaderboard system. The new system will allow players to reach their match making rank (MMR) faster. This is because of the increase in the convergence so that players can prove their rank quicker with fewer matches.

Players who play exceptionally better than their average in games will receive bonus points. This will be helpful to players who have a higher skill rating to climb their leaderboards quicker. The cap for 2 friends to queue up in the same game will reach to Diamond 3 from Radiant. Developers believe that this allows them to maintain the prestige of Immortal.

The community should have a very positive outlook from this patch, even though they would have loved it if they introduced it much sooner. But, players wouldn’t mind it as long as they don’t find this issue still lingering. In one of the smaller patches, Riot Games have fixed a major problem.

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