Beginner's Guides

Riot Nu explained how the explosions work in Valorant. This helps to clarify some strange cases.

Discover all our Valorant Guides to learn and improve on Riot Games competitive FPS. For beginners and experts.

Given the competitive nature of Valorant, it is mandatory to play in the best conditions. This requires careful adjustment of your game settings. We guide you through the various menus and the most important points before you go into battle.

You haven't been able to get your access to the Valorant beta yet and you're afraid of falling behind the other players? Don't panic, there are many ways to train, even without having the game. Nothing beats a real game, of course, but here we explain how to prepare yourself efficiently and be operational as soon as your access is validated!

The Agents of Valorant are, of course, the first things to unlock in Riot Games' FPS. Without them, your gameplay strategies are bound to be more limited. Only 5 of them are playable when you first launch the game (Breach, Jett, Phoenix, Sage and Sova). The others must be unlocked in two different ways.

Before you dive into Valorant, or other FPS's such as CS:GO, finding the right sensitivity is crucial. A lifelong quest for some players who tweak their settings over and over again and often get their reflexes wrong. Here we will show you how to find the best possible sensitivity once and for all!

When you are looking to improve in a shooting game, you automatically think of aim. And while aim is important, it is not the only criteria. It is impossible to perform well in Valorant and most FPS's without good crosshair placement.

If you are new to the world of competition, or simply to FPS, it is possible that the vocabulary used by Valorant players is sometimes unknown to you. There are many terms specific to the genre, inherited from the Counter-Strike era, and understanding each of them will allow you to follow a competition in the game as well as to be more efficient in your teamwork.

Welcome to our presentation of Valorant. Valorant is the new competitive FPS from Riot Games. It is a Free to Play game, which is currently only available in closed beta.