It took two years, but VALORANT players might have found the first runboost on Ascent

For the longest time, VALORANT has been a chaotic tactical shooter thanks to its myriad of abilities and variety of weapons, and yet, using teammates to boost people onto higher ground is near impossible. VALORANT’s dev team has made sure to design the maps with no runboosting options, but it seems that two avid ranked players and popular streamers Grumpy and ZipTie have found the first true way to do so in VALORANT, on the map Ascent.

These players are fully focused on Neon and Yoru, respectively, using everything they can from their kits to get value at some of the higher ranks in competitive. ZipTie, in particular, is known for doing a form of self-runboost with a Yoru clone and a teleporter to reach high ground. This example of a runboost is a lot more standard, with each player helping the other get to high ground via each other’s shoulders.