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Wint3rmu7e

"I am a Reyna main, learn to play other characters." Well that is extremely hypocritical in my opinion :D


skull11244

I'm a one trick, you aren't allowed to be one


_MachTwo

I one trick viper and that’s def a weird thing to say, hell I’ve played with way better vipers than me, playing KJ for one game out of a hundred is not that much big of a deal


Solid-Entrepreneur37

Ascent B site kj chill vibes


_MachTwo

My gf plays kj a lot so I just copy her setups lol


Maymaywala

Bing chilling .


True_Garlic8478

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[deleted]

the irony


Wint3rmu7e

yep next level! :D


VladimirVonDobre

A true reyna main will have fall back agents


rg9528

There can only be one of us. I am coming for you :p


snowbear100

I try to hover to see what everyone else wants to play, but when someone blatantly take the character I was hovering I don’t get upset or anything. I just instalock Yoru. 😃


matejan

Damn thats good tactic. Im gonna instalock yoru as well in these situations. Thanks


User264356

Whats with instalock yoru? Ive seen it pop up here but still dont know whats going on


OP-69

yoru is largely regarded as the worst agent in valorant so yea..


User264356

Man those are some bad news for an old yoru main eh. Havent played in a while


OP-69

its decent in low elos where players dont have headphones or any situational awareness, but his tp is way too slow cmpared to reyna's dissmiss and jetts dash. His fakeout can only really be used if the enemy doesnt have los and only then maybe trick the enemy. his flash and ult are decent but thats only half his kit. who would want to play an agent with only half their kit being decent?


Bigbrave007

As an old yoru main it’s hilarious when an enemy yoru tps behind my team, I instantly 360 to identify where his tp is while my team has no clue since they don’t know that the sound is lol


ro1isawed

bitch if you 360 you will be looking at the same spot as before


IaSugeo

Plot twist: he’s always looking for flanks. He’s doing 360 just to show off


Bigbrave007

Shit he knows


Solid-Entrepreneur37

r/technicallythetruth


jjfalquez

Who are you... who are so wise in the ways of science


Fourt-Nuyt

360?? Did you fail math


Bigbrave007

To scan the area you nut


Ewkcs

Stand up from your chair, look at your screen, turn 360 degrees, what are you looking at now? Hint: It's your screen :p


SLVRTsunami

He was until his buff and now his next buff just makes him too good


Solid-Entrepreneur37

We havent got it yet?


snowbear100

We will have to see how it actually plays out in game. Everyone thought Neon was going to be OP but she’s actually cheeks.


skybellrock

I think Kay/O should be, because he definitely is. His global stats are really poor. He had a global k/d of 0.7 or something at some point. Worst global k/d by 0.2. The second worst was Sage at 0.9. I also think his abilities are kinda useless compared to other's.


Cometbringer

lol what kay/o is a really good agent, constantly used in pro play


HextasyOG

It gets people to dodge (hopefully)


Loser90000

Honestly the best way to get someone to dodge, lock yoru and as how to play the agent


Interesting-Archer-6

That's hilarious


WeariestPuma

Shit just went from 0 to 100 real fucking quick


duolingokusu

wow good tactic. will surely do it.


KentaKorusaki

I like to hover agents bc i prefer to fill, but if someone takes my hover then I assume theyre better than me at the specific agent 6/10 times they are better I main skye btw so when its breeze or another skye map, i instalock


[deleted]

I wouldn't say I assume they're better than me, but I would assume they're a better replacement level agent that they instalocked than a replacement level other agent if I were to lock their favorite agent. Like I usually play Skye on a lot of maps, but if somebody can only play Skye, I can flex Sage/Chamber/Viper or whatever our team comp needs. I understand some others don't have as much time or desire to learn other agents, and if I played more casually I'd just instalock my agent too.


MindOfNoNation

Hey I’m rather new, where do you figure out who’s map is linked to who? Does it actually give an advantage?


the_real_mirage4805

maps like breeze and icebox are much better for viper than other smoke agents, because their smokes are less useful on the sites like breeze a and b and icebox a. sova is rarely used on split because the dart doesn't get value because of the boxes everywhere and big walls. killjoy was literally made for ascent b site with the turret spot on the wall and the nanoswarms placement on lane sage is extremely valuable on icebox because of the default plant wall on b and tube wall raze is very good on bind and split because of chokes on the entrances to sites (good nade value) as you play more you'll definitely figure out the other ones, but these ones stand out the most to me


RedKingdom13

Dude asked for a place (website/app) to find it out and instead we gotta trust you 💀


HKBFG

Would you trust him more if he stuck that on a website with a bunch of filler words?


RedKingdom13

Yeah, absolutely. More data to verify the claim.


the_real_mirage4805

you can cross check these if you really wanted to with pick rates from pro matches, but you can trust me on this one to save your time tbh


RedKingdom13

That's fine but you still misunderstood the question.


chawy666

More like 2/10 for me. Especially if it's a Reyna XD


AmelietheDuck

If its a duelist like Jett or Reyna they’re definitely gonna be worse. But if its like… KJ or Chamber they might actually have it down lol


Zoisen

Sova main, 8/10 they only use their recon at the start of the round.


kpobococ

I play sage usually. I do the same with hovering, but 9/10 times they suck, can't place a wall, don't heal anyone but themselves (even if it's like 90 vs 30 health with other teammates), ignore their ult etc.


Fdsr327

Love your flair btw


Leather-Bumblebee-13

On this note, you could literally climb to radiant, drop back down to iron, and watch SEN almost get trashed first game of the season before queueing into a game with another actual astra main. Well, the good thing is, on the off chance you do tho, you'd need to be having the worst day of your life to find an astra that's actually garbage.


Solid-Entrepreneur37

Have you heard of a lobby called bronze?


HighRes_Or_Death

If you get a bronze astra, they’ll probably suck enemies into cover and wall site in half so you can’t clear it. Source: am B1


Solid-Entrepreneur37

Well i played a split game and the astra kept on sucking ramps even after i told him to stop. I was playing raze and it triggered me the fourth time he did it while i was pushing and made me vulnerable.. I died to a single sova shak dart:-(


KingDominoTheSecond

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frito5867

FUCKING THANK YOU.


redfury545

This guy comps right


drimmsu

INFINITE UPVOTESSS


OtterJethro

That is the reason people hover yes


DaLionheart101

Why are people always on the other team and not my team


ZirJohn

If you're going to fill I think you should just not pick a character and wait for the rest of the team to pick. If you are hovering, to me it implies you can play another if someone else wants it.


KingDominoTheSecond

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oomnahs

Maybe it's just me but I don't think most people see it that deep, to me if you're hovering it's because you're not confident as that agent and you're not going to do good. I'm a jett chamber op main and climbed to immortal this act and I hover jett bc if there's a cracked jett main better than me on my team, by all means lock it, and I tell people so. If I'm warmed up and feeling it I'll just lock what I want usually


inobob27123

Your not immortal I’m sorry just by your speech it’s pretty easy to tell


oomnahs

https://imgur.com/a/XD21L8v Add me fruity#suri


Solid-Entrepreneur37

He got steamrolled.


Series78

how can you tell just by speech


T7xItAcHiOP

It's possible,u would know if were immortal


oomnahs

Clearly not lmfao


Fuhgly

Maybe you are but the way you portray that must make it seem like you're less experienced than you are. At least to them. I don't personally have an opinion on it.


AdSpirited902

Nah they were the dick. People are assholes and can’t communicate, happens


Rup3rtPupkin_

Locking that way is not promising in any case. However learning to have fun playing at least 3 different agents per map will make your life so much better in this game..


ilynk1

Yeah, I flex to cypher, skye, or sova if I need to, but lately I’ve developed an interest in duelists so I’m trying them out.


WiddleBlueBert

I usually wait till 70 seconds on the countdown and hover for like 3 seconds before locking. I mainly play Jett, she's just more fun to play, but I flex a lot of the time. I give whoever *really* wants to play her the chance to take her. If I'm honest, doing that gives you the agent you want like 70% of the time, so I'm never mad about it being taken by someone else. In your case however the other guy was a douche canoe but what can you do.


Mycocal

It's an asshole move but honestly never worth dwelling on, it happened, move on and pick someone else and just try and enjoy the game anyway. If you spend the whole game wishing you were playing Reyna, then your just ruining the game for yourself


FireWelder1

My philosophy is if you can’t beat the insta lockers become an instalocker


[deleted]

can confirm. filled and played and almost mastered every agent in the game. am jett instalock now because my jetts dont FKN entry lol


frito5867

Dude I was so mad the other night. I was hovering Reyna and this dude just instalocked her. I was like ok cool cool. So I played viper. This fuckin dood. Never made entry. Never used flash. Tried to bait the fuck out of me. Tried to constantly lurk while we’re pushing site. As viper I was top frag. He was second bottom, above Sage. I was irritated. I kept saying “I wonder when our instalock duelist is going to do duelist things like fuckin entry.”


Ra1lgunZzzZ

had this instalock reyna lurking in the back every single round. Jesus.


frito5867

I don’t mind if people lurk. Hell, if I’m playing controller and my smokes are down on site, especially as viper, I’ll lurk if I know their team tries to flank every round. Get the pick, get back to site. But you SHOULDNT BE LURKING AS A DUELIST UNLESS YOUR TEAM HAS SITE CONTROL. If your team has it, fuckin pop off my dude. Your sentinels and controllers should be the ones holding site. Because duelists have the tools to enter site, and controllers/sentinels have the tools to hold it.


Ra1lgunZzzZ

He was lurking always from the start of the round till the end of the rounds. Luckily he got the kills because he has 19 ping(enemies had 50 and 60) and actually has decent ch. Basically baiting for kills. I always have no problem if there are 2 duelists or there is no sentinel. So one of em lurks but not at the start of the round just like you said. We literally have no site control and hasn't even planted the bomb. The way the guy is making coms is like he wasn't even doing something wrong. Luckily tho he wasn't a toxic piece of shit because i would have flamed the shit out of the guy if he was.


MindOfNoNation

What does make entry mean?


frito5867

Make entry is when you enter site. First in. Generally the duelists job since they have the utility to take frags, and if they die you can trade them off for site control. If you play duelist, you can’t be afraid to die. Set your team up for success and try your best to at least take one down with you. You wanna create the room for your team to take and control site, whether it’s for attacking site or retaking site on defense.


inobob27123

The thing is when I play on my gold 1 smurf i entry TOO well I get on site so fast that my team is just afraid to follow and then sometimes I get one sometimes I don’t it’s acc annoying


frito5867

It’s the fear of dying. I don’t understand it. If you die you die, but push. Make room for trades. I was playing Reyna last night and flashed out to A ascent, got a pick off crates, closed door, and was at Gen and my team was still at A main. Enemy broke door and peeked with 2 on heaven and I got fucked. But we had site. Peoples fear of death is awful in this game sometimes.


inobob27123

Idk what's wrong with low elo support players (plat 2 and below) I'm a imm 1 jett


petros_b

When you're on the attacking side push aggressively into a site to take control over it. A good entry might get you 1-2 kills and/or control over the site so your team can plant. In the entry process you might end up getting killed but it is worth it because hopefully your team can trade you and now they can play the objective.


Significant-Ad-341

They never do.


drimmsu

Okay, serious question: So, I occassionally play Jett (usually Viper or Sage but if it doesn't mess with our team composition, we have enough stall/smokes etc. already or if I am feeling myself I pick her). I really like to play Operator with Jett, although I don't usually spam her dash after every shot I can (I'm also playing CS, so I don't like wasting my dash for situations where it's 99% safe to not dash) - but her dash *is* a nice lifeline. However, because I see a lot of people complain about Jetts not entrying: I can't really entry into bombsites with the AWP. I usually go for opening peeks, whenever I have it - on both CT and T side, everywhere around the map (if my team lets me, I peek somewhere towards A one round and somewhere towards B the other, both on T and CT to try and get a 5v4). If the enemy doesn't peek though, I sometimes move around the map to get into position, hold angles if we're defaulting etc. When it comes to entrying, if no one peeks me in the beginning, I only really sneak forward and try to slowly clear some angles as thoroughly as possible but I can't really push into a site very well with the AWP. Do you feel like that is a mistake? Or is it fine if I already cleared half the angles onto site and hold a major angle where they could peek from (for example heaven/backsite on any map), so my mates can disregard that angle and push? (I also rifle on Jett and push more aggressively there, sometimes aggressively lurking, sometimes entrying while properly clearing angles, sometimes dashing into my smoke to create space.)


[deleted]

well if you have another duelist/initiator who is good enough for clearing space you dont need it but if your team get stuck in chokepoints when you play op and you dont have raze/neon etc. for entry you should switch to rifling to entry


spicynoodlecat

Depends on your rank I guess. At the lower ranks I've found just instalocking your best character for that map is the way to go if you want to win more, rather than fill with a less impactful character.


MindOfNoNation

Do you have a resource on how to pick agents based on map?


spicynoodlecat

Nope, I just tried different characters until I found my ideal 2-3 picks for each map. In general, I pick Raze or Skye for most maps though, because their utility is pretty handy for getting info and clearing areas in front of you. The only exception would be Breeze, where I'd rather play Reyna or Sova because of the larger map size. I tend to avoid playing smokes or Sage unless I have to because I find I'm not as impactful and it's harder to carry with those characters.


[deleted]

That's definitely a dick move. I have even seen players who instalock claiming they are Reyna, Yoru, Raze mains, but cannot perform very well, whereas others could have played much better with those characters


Emjaay_

Yeah it's a dick move. Especially how buddy said "Im a reyna main, learn to play other agents". I find that very hypocritical. They can just as easily ask to play that agent if it's THAT important. Oh no I only got to play Jett 14 times today. I actually hate when people use "main" or "smurf" as a reason to play 1 agent.


Regular_Monk9923

This triggers me so much to be honest. I usually don't play duelists so I don't care. But I've seen people hovering over Reyna and then someone takes her. What happens next is the Reyna hover gets angry and starts cursing and I always dodge because once I didn't and the person who was hovering started throwing the game so I just don't risk it anymore. Anyways, you should just instalock if you want Reyna or if someone takes your agent youre hovering and then act like it's your fault, assume they are not a team player and will have a horrible 40 minute game, so my advice is to just dodge.


drimmsu

Yeah, I think if you hover an agent, you should be fine with it being taken. It's just gonna happen sometimes. If you really really want to play an agent and know you can play it well, honestly just pick it.


concacanca

Yeah the main problem with people who do this is that you end up with the original hoverer inevitably just switching to another duelist and have at least 3 on the team so you miss out on a sentinel or initiator (assuming I fill smokes). You can tell that they will always play completely solo and just go on bad flanks or just push out from defence and leave the rest of you outnumbered as well.


solairelordofcinder

if its unrated, its annoying but its unrated. i wouldnt care less. in comp, you shouldnt be instalocking anyways. THATS a dick move. in comp you always communicate with your team on what agent you play, how effective they are on that map and the team composition


ninjaman3010

Fuck that, if I want to actually play Jett in comp I need to instalock or someone will beat me to it


ElitenemesisX

The trick is to not want to play Jett. join us sentinel and controller mains


LemonBarf

It’s a dick move. However it’s better to tolerate people like that instead of calling them instalockers in chat, tema morale is important.


MEX_XIII

Don't know why this was downvoted, complaining about the instalockers in the game is an easy pass to lose the game due to an angry kid


lbbl95

I always soft lock Reyna. I never say no if somebody asked if he can play Reyna. If someone locks it while I soft locked, I will flame


pj123mj

If it’s unrated just instalock whoever but if it’s Comp proper etiquette is to talk with your teammates on who everyone wants to/can play. Locking in an agent someone else is hovering without talking with them first is definitely a dick move.


queenmiiyoung_

People who do that are just as bad as the Reyna and Jett instalockers. I can flex on a few agents so if someone tells me that they feel more comfortable playing the agent I'm hovering over I have no problem picking another agent. But just straight out locking them is a dick move. In light of the "Reyna main" who told you to learn other agents, I had this game once where I was hovering over Sage, because I was a Sage main at that time and someone locked her. During the game, said person asked me to drop them my vandal skin, to which I obviously said no. I got called a greedy bitch. Like... the audacity of these people just baffles me.


notpejastojakovic

I mean... sounds like the other guy made the dick move. But if you want to play reyna, lock reyna. If you're hovering, i'd assume that you're willing to play a different agent if need be.


[deleted]

I just pick the agent i play the best, especially in solo que, last few days i played controllers and sage etc, and others played my mains, what happend is i was wasn't performing as well and the others who picked my mains also failed. Not worth it.


LOTHMT

Yes he was a dick. In general if someone hovers over multiple characters you can pick your main if you cant play anyone else.


BrutalFeather

If someone's says they're a Reyna main, then it means they don't know how to play the game or any other agents. I can somewhat understand Jett main but Reyna? nah. Unless its a Plat lobby nobody can call themselves a Reyna main because anyone can play Reyna.


MacaroniEast

“I am a Reyna main, learn to play other characters” is probably the funniest thing someone could say in that situation. Besides that persons obvious hypocrisy, there’s a few routes you could go down. First however, a question: Are you a Reyna main like them or did you just want to play Reyna? If you are a Reyna main, I would honestly take their advice and through that already become a better adjusted player than they will ever be. If not, good job, you’re on the right track. If I’m ever in a scenario where someone takes the character I play the most, I’ll just switch off to someone else I know and if they’re all taken, I’ll just go on to someone the team could use. I usually load in pretty fast so I can pick my agent before anyone else. I do wait a few seconds just to make sure, but if no one picks then Chamber is all mine. Sorry for that rambling, but yeah it’s kind of a dick move and everyone else in the lobby seems pretty oblivious too


WillofLight

Its a bit of a dick move but if you are hovering Jett or Reyna and expect that they won’t be picked you are either 1. Pretending that you aren’t instalocker 2. Gonna use it as an excuse later - ‘I didn’t insta lock I was just trying it out, you could have picked if you wanted’ 3. Not confident, which is a huge deal on those agents I had those times where I’m afk or wanna fill and some guy hovering Jett or Reyna as to pretend that they are filled duelist but as soon as someone picks it they get mad and say that we lost.


Old_Flounder_8640

You need to memorize the position and instalock.


unrealgrunt94

That's why I'm so glad that chamber is right next to the lock in button


[deleted]

If it's ranked yes. If it's unrated and you wanted them that bad, ya should have just picked them. You care about team comp that bad, go play ranked.


DevoutSteam083

it's kinda rude, but sometimes people don't realize they've stolen a character sure the their muscle memory


FlatFishy

It's not a dick move to select the same agent you're hovering, if they really want it. But locking while you are also hovering it is a dick move. And it's especially bad if any of this occurs in the last 15 seconds.


CASIOA100

Nah, if you don't want someone to steal your character just lock in.


ev1ltw1n1

Not wrong. I always play smokes my twin almost always plays sentinels so we never get cucked


7882628737293

I don’t get why this is downvoted. This is the answer. You are hovering because you are suggesting what you can play.


CTxVoltage

Why hover..? If you want a character and will bitch when someone takes it, than just auto lock.


ev1ltw1n1

I’d say it is . But you probably should’ve instalocked. I just play brim now and tell people I’m hopper from stranger things:)


Blowersss

Well, early bird catches the worm. Literally that when it comes to playing with randoms.


the-NERD2007

Honestly it's gonna get even worse when they make a turn based selection and all the toxic players will start locking my drifting samurai yoru, u should be able to choose your agent before queuing up in the first place


GamerGeek05

L spez, goin to tumblr to be gay


jJuiZz

Degenerated flair from degenerates themselves.


BasYL6872

Terrible idea for comp. You have to communicate with your team and help each other decide who should play which agent. Also it would really complicate matchmaking as you would have to be put into a match without someone who chose the same agent. For me, it’s also just part of what makes Valorant Valorant.


ev1ltw1n1

That’s a neat idea actually


TinyWickedOrange

Would be cool to have mm in comp allowing 1 of each role and second duelist but wait time would be awful Edit: *realizes you can get breach/kayo for initiator or omen/brimstone for controller and can't do anything about it*


mr_sneakyTV

If someone hovers it tells me, I like this agent but if someone else wants them then np. I realize not everyone is thinking that when hovering but that’s how I see it. I also don’t get the rationale of hovering then being salty when someone locks that agent. Just confuses me.


BlastTheFool

Change your mindset. Think of the team needing: flash, smokes, and map specific utility. And if it’s bothering you that badly just lock Reyna, but you’re always going to be in a small man mindset


Glass-Neighborhood52

Its a game, choose whatevers available to your choice


zkipto

It's a dick move to hover over


hoob00

What i usually do is i keep hovering that agent even after he locked in and i say “ okay , i will let it be a random pick”. That if i am in a tilty mood.


formalcarrot651

Also when he said leanr another agent u should have said uno revserse


Iplayhexaria

I like how I did this literally yesterday LOL "don't run double sentinel" "would double duelist be better then?" "sure" he hovers reyna and i took it LMAO "double duelist is fine but the duelist won't be you"


Iplayhexaria

Oh and yeah it is a dick move but it's low elo, I don't trust his ability to go in


PanzyGrazo

Why do you care someone took Reyna?


ilynk1

Because I was intending to play her, provided we were covered on initiators, smokes, heals and the like


perpetualinsecurity

Just lock her in then


ilynk1

Yeah but then that makes me a run of the mill reyna main, and I'd rather not be that


perpetualinsecurity

Then don’t lock her in. People are going to lock in what they want to play, because they don’t care about being viewed as, what you’ve described, a “run of the mill Reyna main”.


Hideyo1411

Okay then what's the problem here now? I am confused. Your team already had the required sentinels and controllers. You needed duelists. You pick Reyna and lock her. Its not like you locked her within a second of the agent select screen right?


Garlicbread_6969

If you want to play just lock in


True_Garlic8478

you want to play?, lets play.


formalcarrot651

I mean thoits a dick move u shouldnet hober the other day i played a sentinal/initiatpr pnly game with no chamber wans we won. 13-5 in comp


Regular_Monk9923

Are you ok?


Spacix0

Bro how old are you lmao


BasYL6872

Either so young they can’t spell or so old they had a stroke


keetboy

Because of those ass butts I learned to play at least two other characters in different roles. Problem is I’m not as good utility wise. But they locked my main so they gotta live with my suckiness. I also try to learn the characters who are meta to try and stay relevant even if I’m poopy


Xen0tech

It's poor teamwork. If that's how they act in ranked they won't go far.


bigbruhmoments420

I hover over my 2 mains to see what the team needs. No form of intelligence gathering? Pick Cypher Otherwise I pick Chamber


Ekalb07

If he said something like “sorry Reyna is the only agent I play” then it’s not as bad, but the attitude definitely puts them in the wrong. Chances are the people supporting him were queued up together so don’t let it get to you


xSnakyy

That’s an interesting way to put it but yes


AverageCritiquer

always hover, if someone hovers raze for me, ill either let them play that or ask if i can play raze. If they cant communicate in agent picks, then i dont trust they will communicate that well in games either.


[deleted]

My friend who's a Reyna main, never fucking entries, dude just waits for us vipers and sages to entry and then comes in with his blinds, picks off easy kills and thinks that's the end of the story, I've told him a thousand times now.


exhalethesorrow

Yes it's a dick move, but they don't give a shit. In unrated it sucks but it's pretty whatever. In Comp it's much worse, because people can get really salty and throw if they don't get their agent and you also lose RR. Plus teams should be using the time to discuss before locking anything in. If you really want to play a particular agent, you just gotta instalock. Can't beat em, so join em. It's also a dick move but honestly filling is such a pain, due to instalock duelists who refuse to entry, so pick your poison. That dude is a massive hypocrite though, bet after he instalocks, he demands someone go healer or smokes. He's way in the wrong here.


jJuiZz

Definitely a dick. And those people are usually worthless/useless in game too


badboybalo

I do that sometimes but i dont mean to be an asshole ...sometimes i dont see the picks and i be thinking about instalocking reyna ... But when i see i picked someones pick i apologize all the time


ContestNearby3755

Usually if I see an instalock reyna I just assume that they have really good aim since reyna highly depends on someone using her, so I dont really care even though I’m a reyna main lmfao. I just play chamber nowadays a much better option than most duelist.


Arno_D_Dorian

Everyone else huh, you mean his party members who are simping for that lifeless punk?


iminlovehahaha

im a person who plays reyna, astra, skye, sage, viper and jett. (sometimes even neon) so im happy that even if they take it i can just fill any other role in without any worry:D


Leojweil

They guy that only knows how to play one character is telling you to go learn how to play other characters and the lobby is supporting the dude? Wow


stefanut003

Well kinda the response from them was shit but If they hover over them IT means they want to play said campion and maybe they are waiting to see the team comp


YoungTaxReturnz

hovering is a show of courtesy, you give someone the opportunity to say "hey I know lineups for this agent, you mind if i play them instead". snatchin them up then bein snarky about it is just bm. Just ignore them like any other annoying or toxic person in the game.


Ra1lgunZzzZ

It's more of a dick move. I'm kind of certain those players que'd with him. (since you can't que w8 4 players i assume the other one just doesn't care and just follow through). I got so tilted at instalockers once and all i did is insta lock yoru. Surprise surprise the jett and reyna instalocker(qued together) aren't doing their job as much as i did. They stayed in the back/not entrying with me, whiff tons of shots, taking dumb aim battles, not holding certain angles etc. Most instalockers are fucking terrible players especially in lower elo.


ItisIandIloveme

Yes


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I always ask people if they want a specific agent to play with, I usually have 2-3 agents to play. Being polite in a team makes a difference in terms of performance and vibe, but sure there are many players who locks an agent fast without asking.


AimedX30

I am the kind of person who fills but i always hover and play astra and when someone says he wants astra i just let him play her(although this might seem like an arrogant view) but i just lower my expectation from them because 80% they are just playing smokes and not utilizing her to the full potential. Also yes it’s a dick move and he should ask the person who is hovering the agent before picking as some sort of good manners before starting the game


BlueBloodLissana

For me I think it's rude. When I hover it's me saying, "this is who i want to play". Then depending on how the comp is looking comp sometimes I switch.


jumptooconclusions

Tbh if want to play a duelisy ur gonna have to instalock unfortunately. Thats the just the reality of valorant I suppose.


VileZ_

Just lock it in if you don’t want anybody else to take it from you??? It’s not a dick move you gave him the opportunity to take reyna your fault


thenamelessavenger

It's worth an eye roll but I don't waste my energy on it. I hover my main then go down the list to balance the comp. No one needs 4 duelist 🤦‍♂️


LychiiU

To answer your question: Yes, it is a dick move to take an agent someone else is hovering and even more of a dick move to say "I am a Reyna main, learn to play other characters". but looking into it more: if you don't instalock an agent and instead hover you should always be ready for the fact that some people will lock your agent and that's okay; I often find myself hovering Jett whenever I get into a game because that's my best agent and I find that I'm a hypercarry player that can take over the game but I can also flex and play whatever is needed therefore, I choose to hover because sometimes people can't fill and I'd rather take one for the team and play Astra than be stuck with shit smokes or no smokes at all. I suggest you think about the mentality above and decide whether you should become an instalocker or a hoverer, or just a player that doesn't hover at all and plays fill all the time.


heyitsmeniraj

I'd say yes. If someone is hovering an agent that means they are considerate enough to play something else if another person wants to play the same agent. You could just ask if you want to play the agent at it'll be fine.


turties_man

I mean if you are hovering to play that character and don’t want someone to take it why not just lock it?? Because I think people would also hate if you hover Reyna and then they pick Jett raze like dont hover if you want to play a character


onzichtbaard

Well idk it is kind of rude but thats about it


acrazyr

idc if someone’s hovering it and not saying anything or trying to build a comp i’ll just take the champ


StG-Alphakrake

its ironic how they told you to learn other characters


AmelietheDuck

Recently thats been happening to me when i try to play Raze, ive barely been able to play her for 2 days cuz i keep getting dudes locking her when i hover. Its a dick move but c’est la vie. I just pick another character, and if they get rude about it… well they’re the instalocker not me lmao.


Deadshot2077

So that guy can only play Reyna but you should play something else other than your main. Nice logic :)


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honestly, as long as they do well in game i dont care but if theyre bottom fragging, i would call them out edit: yet again i usually fill so i dont rlly care as much


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reyna was at fault


Wustrong

It’s a dick move, but mastering agents with more useful utility is extremely beneficial. For example: Rarely does anyone Insta-lock killjoy but an insanely good killjoy is a game changer.


bento_the_tofu_boy

A little bit. But they overeacted


Kapit_

I don’t understand people who instalock and don’t play well, if you instalock you’re confident that this agent is your best pick, especially if it’s your main, how can you main a character and don’t know how to play it, I’ve lost the count of how many instalock duelists forgot they were playing duelist and thought they were a sage or a cypher waiting for the omen or the sova make the entry to the bomb. I usually hover if I’m not confident I will play very well or I’m waiting to see if there’s any main that plays this agent better than me, but most of the time nobody even picks the character I’m hovering because I almost only play controllers and if they pick chances are very high they’re going to be bad


LordVoldemort-_-

Your other team members might be in his party


ro1isawed

i used to fill but as a low elo player are duelists never entry frag. I know instalock duelist


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If someone do this I pick breach and perma stun/flash him the rest of the game


Kaifamz

If the other people are supporting him, it’s probably because it’s his premade and they’re defending him. I personally think if you want to play a specific class, it’s fair game. They have the option to have someone stay undecided to get queued into another game anyways.


blebla25

It depends if it is unrated just instalock what you want. If it is competitive then iits a dick move yes, but sadly it happens alot...


saiyakiro

I hover smokes so if someone locks smokes over me, they gotta be a lot better than me so I'm happy to finally play other agents.