Valorant glossary
Valorant jargon in plain English: CT, FF, ACS and the rest. Look a term up, or browse it all from A to Z.
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KAST
KAST stands for Kill, Assist, Survived, Traded. It measures the percentage of rounds where you did at least one of those four things, which makes it the clearest single number for...
Counter-Strafing
Counter-strafing means tapping the opposite movement key to stop your character instantly before firing. Valorant applies a heavy accuracy penalty while moving, so stopping fully i...
Trading
Trading means killing the enemy who just killed your teammate, turning a lost duel into an even exchange. Valorant is a five versus five game where numbers decide rounds, so a deat...
Duelist
Duelist is the Valorant agent role built to take opening duels and enter sites first. Duelists have self sufficient abilities that create their own space, they are expected to carr...
Ace
An ace means one player killing all five enemies in a single round. Valorant marks it on the scoreboard and in the round summary, and it counts only if every elimination is yours,...
VP
VP stands for Valorant Points, the paid currency in Valorant. It buys weapon skin bundles, the battle pass, agent unlocks and Radianite Points, it cannot be earned by playing, and...
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Ace
An ace means one player killing all five enemies in a single round. Valorant marks it on the scoreboard and in the round summary, and it counts only if every elimination is yours,...
ACS
ACS stands for Average Combat Score in Valorant. It is your total combat score divided by the number of rounds played, and it sits as the first stat column on the scoreboard. ACS r...
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Counter-Strafing
Counter-strafing means tapping the opposite movement key to stop your character instantly before firing. Valorant applies a heavy accuracy penalty while moving, so stopping fully i...
CT
CT stands for Counter-Terrorist and means the defending side. Valorant officially calls that team the Defenders, but the CS terminology carried over with the players, so callouts l...
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Deathmatch
Deathmatch in Valorant is a free for all mode where 14 players fight without abilities and the first to 40 kills, or the highest score when the timer ends, wins. Everyone respawns...
Duelist
Duelist is the Valorant agent role built to take opening duels and enter sites first. Duelists have self sufficient abilities that create their own space, they are expected to carr...
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Radiant
Radiant is the highest rank in Valorant, sitting above Immortal and reserved for roughly the top 500 players on each regional leaderboard. It is a position rather than a threshold,...
RR
RR stands for Rank Rating, the points that move you up and down the Valorant ladder. Each rank holds 100 RR, winning adds points and losing removes them, and reaching 100 promotes...