VALORANT players criticize Riot’s increased dodge penalties in Patch 6.07

Riot Games has implemented new punishing measures through Patch 6.07 yesterday to reduce the number of queue dodgers in VALORANT, which has been found as the “most common offense” affecting gameplay. Although Riot has the numbers to back it up, the players don’t necessarily agree this will solve the problem. In fact, there are players thinking this change will only bring more problems to VALORANT.

“I’d rather someone dodge my game than troll or go AFK, or just not play as well on a different agent cause they didn’t get their agent,” one Redditor said. “Maybe they want some communication on the comp, maybe their agent for that map is already taken and they aren’t in the correct mindset to play another agent, or they are focusing on a specific agent and don’t want to use that game time not practicing that specific agent,” another Redditor said, expanding on the idea on why someone might dodge games in VALORANT.