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The ranked mode is a central part of Valorant’s design. While there are several more casual game options, at the end of the day, it is the competitive element that attracts players to this shooter. Ranked play offers seasoned competitors a chance to show off their skills, work their way up the ladder, and face enemies of comparable ability. The systems used to ensure a fair and challenging ranked mode can be rather complex, making them difficult to understand at times. To complicate matters further, they receive frequent finetuning, not to mention the major updates carried out earlier in this Episode. However, the core principles behind those systems remain mostly the same and are not difficult to grasp.