Still seeing smurfs in VALORANT? It looks like Riot delayed Patch 7.05’s competitive update
Riot Games isn’t the kind that usually backtracks on promises, but apparently, it recently has, with one crucial feature of VALORANT’s Patch 7.05 missing in the game. The competitive updates that were promised with the Sept. 6 patch haven’t yet been implemented.
Originally, the 7.05 update was supposed to bring improvements to ranked by blocking Ascendant players from queuing with players below Platinum One, and it was to target the ever-growing smurfing and botting problem in VALORANT.