Placement matches are not just for newVALORANTaccounts: All players get their Act rank “hard reset” once every three Acts. They then have to play five placement matches for the ranked system to decide where they belong. This is calculated based on a player’s MMR, as explained earlier. H...
Riot Games thinks it’s a great idea to demote players down two ranks every Episode and have them prove their last achieved rank yet again. Not for me it isn’t. It messes up my MMR, leading to chaotic matchmaking in the first few weeks of an Episode. Some players get lucky in that...