Everything Is Gone ...

Summary

In this gaming vlog, the player recounts their experience after a two-week hiatus from 'Valorant', where they felt a loss of skills despite previous efforts. They share their journey back to form, including warm-up routines and gameplay highlights. The video also features a weekly giveaway, a big announcement, and a special 1K subscriber tournament with prizes. The player's stats are reviewed, showing slight improvements, and they conclude with a call to action for viewer engagement.

Takeaways

• 😔 The player experienced a significant loss of skill after taking a 2-week break from playing Valorant, feeling that their aim, rank, movement, and overall skill had deteriorated.
• 🚗 They took a vacation that included a road trip to Chicago and a canceled flight to Texas, which impacted their gaming routine.
• 🎁 The script mentions a weekly giveaway with a code scattered across a video, and encourages joining a Discord server for more giveaways.
• 🎮 The player's warm-up routine consists of 10 minutes of Valorant, range practice, and a few DMS (Deathmatch Scrims), which they believe is essential for maintaining skill.
• 📉 The player had a challenging time after their vacation, with a series of losses that dropped their rank significantly and affected their morale.
• 🎉 Despite the setbacks, they managed to win some games and even achieve match MVP status, showing improvement and determination.
• 🗣️ Communication and calling (Cals) are highlighted as crucial for team success, especially for players stuck in lower ranks like Gold and Silver.
• 🛫 The player discusses the issue of smurfing in Valorant, noting that Gold rank is particularly affected by high-skilled players on lower-ranked accounts.
• 🔝 After warming up and getting back into the game, the player managed to climb back to Platinum 1 rank and queue with friends.
• 🏆 The player is considering organizing a VCT-style tournament for subscribers as a 1K subscriber special, with prizes involved.
• 📊 The player's stats show a slight improvement in KD ratio and headshot percentage, indicating some progress despite the ups and downs.

Q & A

What happened to the player's skills in Valorant after a two-week break?

The player felt that all their hard work, including their aim, rank, movement, and skill in Valorant, seemed to be gone after they took a two-week break.

Why did the player take a break from playing Valorant?

The player took a break due to a vacation, which included a road trip to Chicago and a canceled flight to Texas, although the latter was revealed to be a joke.

What is the player's routine for warming up in Valorant?

The player's warm-up routine consists of 10 minutes of Valorant, followed by warming up in the range, and finishing with a few Deathmatch sessions.

How does the player organize their giveaways?

The player scatters the giveaway codes across a video for viewers to collect and find. The first one to get the code wins, but joining the player's Discord server offers weekly giveaways.

What was the player's experience after returning from vacation and not playing Valorant for a while?

After returning from vacation, the player felt their aim was off and the game felt weird, which made them mad. They believed they needed to warm up and get used to the game again.

What impact did the player's vacation have on their performance in Valorant?

The vacation seemed to have a negative impact on the player's performance, as they felt they were not playing well and struggled to regain their previous skill level.

How did the player feel about their rank and progress in Valorant during the described period?

The player felt frustrated and demotivated, as they ranked down to Gold 3 and felt like their efforts to improve were useless, especially when compared to friends who were already higher ranked.

What advice does the player give to players stuck in Gold and Silver ranks in Valorant?

The player suggests that calling (calming) can significantly help improve the team's morale and performance, which can lead to ranking up.

What was the player's strategy for the game on Haven?

The player felt warmed up and focused on communication and teamwork. They noticed the importance of calls in helping the team win rounds and gaining momentum.

How did the player's performance change after warming up properly?

After warming up with aim labs and Deathmatch, the player's shot felt better, and they started winning games, even becoming match MVP on Abyss with a 22-6 KD and a 41% headshot percentage.

What special event is the player considering for their 1K subscriber milestone?

The player is considering organizing a VCT-style tournament with prizes for subscribers as a way to give back to the community for their support.

Outlines

00:00

😔 Loss of Progress in Gaming

The speaker expresses frustration over losing their gaming progress in 'Valorant' after a two-week break. They recount their vacation travels and the impact on their gaming skills, including aim, rank, and movement. The video also introduces a giveaway for viewers, encouraging participation through a Discord server link provided in the description. The speaker then discusses their warm-up routine, consisting of 'Valorant' drills and 'Aimova' for aim training, and shares their experience of playing after a long break, highlighting the initial struggles and eventual adaptation.

05:19

🎮 Gaming Struggles and Recovery

This paragraph details the speaker's journey through a series of games in 'Valorant' after returning from vacation. They describe their initial poor performance and the emotional toll of losing rank and momentum. The speaker also talks about the importance of communication in the game, particularly the use of calls to improve teamwork and morale. They share specific game scenarios, including successful strategies and moments of individual skill, which contribute to their gradual recovery of confidence and rank.

10:20

🚀 Climbing the Ranks and Facing Setbacks

The speaker continues their narrative of gaming experiences, focusing on their efforts to climb back up the ranks in 'Valorant'. They discuss the challenges faced, such as smurfing in lower ranks and the difficulty of maintaining momentum after losses. The paragraph includes specific game moments, like a successful trip play and clutch situations, which illustrate the speaker's skill and decision-making under pressure. Despite setbacks and self-doubt, the speaker remains determined to improve and eventually achieves a higher rank.

15:22

🏆 Reflecting on Progress and Future Plans

In the final paragraph, the speaker reflects on their overall gaming experience, noting slight improvements in their stats despite the challenges. They express gratitude to their viewers and hint at a special event for reaching 1K subscribers, proposing a VCT-style tournament with prizes. The speaker invites interested viewers to join their Discord server for more information and concludes the video on a light-hearted note, acknowledging the ups and downs of the week.

Keywords

💡Valorant

Valorant is a first-person shooter game developed by Riot Games. It is central to the video's theme as the script discusses the player's experience and progress within the game. The player mentions taking a break from Valorant and the impact it had on their skills, highlighting the game's significance in the video.

💡Warm-up routine

A warm-up routine in gaming refers to a series of exercises or activities that a player performs to prepare for competitive gameplay. In the script, the player describes their warm-up routine, which includes 'Valorant once' and 'aim training' with 'Anova', indicating the importance of preparation for maintaining and improving gaming skills.

💡Rank

In the context of competitive gaming, 'rank' refers to a player's level or classification within a game's ranking system. The script discusses the player's fluctuating rank, such as dropping to 'Gold 3' and their aspirations to reach 'Ascendant', showing the player's journey and goals within the game.

💡Skill

Skill in gaming denotes the player's proficiency and ability to perform well in the game. The player laments the loss of their 'aim, rank, movement, [and] skill' after taking a break, emphasizing the importance of consistent practice to maintain these skills.

💡Giveaway

A giveaway in the context of online content creation refers to a contest or promotion where viewers can win prizes. The script mentions a 'weekly giveaway' and a '1K subscriber special', indicating the creator's engagement with their audience through such events.

💡Discord server

A Discord server is a chat community platform where gamers and content creators can interact with their audience. The script encourages viewers to join the creator's Discord server for 'weekly giveaways' and 'more information' about events, showing its role as a communication hub for the community.

💡Smurfing

Smurfing in gaming is when a highly skilled player creates a new account to play against less experienced players. The script mentions 'the worst smurfing problem' in 'Gold' rank, expressing a common issue where new or less skilled players face unfair competition.

💡Calming

In the context of team-based games, 'calming' refers to the act of providing a calm and supportive atmosphere, often through communication. The player suggests that 'calming every game' helped improve team morale and performance, underlining its importance in collaborative gameplay.

💡MVP

MVP stands for 'Most Valuable Player', an award given to the player who contributed the most to their team's success in a game. The script mentions the player becoming 'match MVP', indicating exceptional performance and a high level of skill.

💡Headshot percentage

Headshot percentage is a statistic in shooting games that measures the accuracy of a player's shots to the head, often resulting in more damage or instant kills. The player's 'headshot percentage' is mentioned as part of their performance stats, reflecting their aiming skill.

💡KD ratio

KD ratio, short for 'Kill-Death ratio', is a statistic used in gaming to measure a player's efficiency by comparing the number of kills to the number of deaths. The script provides the player's KD ratio before and after their gaming sessions, showing improvement and progress.

Highlights

The player stopped playing Valorant for two weeks and felt their skills had deteriorated.

Announcement of a weekly giveaway with a code scattered across a video.

Invitation to join the player's Discord server for weekly giveaways.

Feedback received on the ineffectiveness of Demon 1's routine.

Description of the player's warm-up routine involving Valorant and Avova.

Unusual gaming schedule due to the player's vacation.

The player's struggle with playing Valorant during their vacation and self-reflection on addiction.

First game back after vacation, with initial strong performance followed by a back-and-forth match.

Mistake made by the player in a 1v2 situation leading to a loss of momentum.

Player's poor performance on Ascent and decision to play more games before leaving for Texas.

Emotional struggle with ranking and feeling of uselessness in skill improvement.

Player's return from vacation and approach to warming up before competitive play.

Winning games post-vacation and regaining confidence with improved aim.

Importance of communication in games as observed by the player.

Player's strategy of solo queuing to rank up and their experience with smurfing issues in Valorant.

Player's successful Ace and double ranking in a game, contributing to a positive momentum.

Reflection on the player's overall performance and stats since the last video.

Proposed 1K subscriber special involving a VCT style tournament with prizes.

Closing remarks inviting viewers to like, comment, and subscribe.

Transcripts

guys I [ __ ] up I stopped playing

valant for Just 2 weeks and all my hard

work is gone everything I worked for my

aim my rank my movement my skill it's

all gone you guys are probably wondering

how just stay tuned you'll see okay it

all started with me taking a 2E vacation

I drove all the way up to Chicago and

drove all the way back to Florida then I

had a flight to Texas but it got

canceled I'm just kidding I know y'all

don't care week seven here we

go sh

let's start it off with this week's

giveaway I'm sticking to the usual this

time around the code will be scattered

across a video for you to collect and

find the first one to get it obviously

gets it but if you don't join my Discord

server I have weekly giveaways the link

will be in the description below stay

tuned to the end cuz I will be

announcing something big that everyone's

going to want to be a part of I had a

few comments telling me that demon 1's

routine is not really that effective so

we'll be sticking to the usual t

valerant for my warm-up and avova for

aim training I'll link both in the

description below my warm-up routine

usually consists of 10 Valor once which

is around 10 minutes then going to the

range warming up a little and finally I

do a few

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DMS the days for this week are a little

weird due to my vacation after my demon

1 video I didn't play for a week

straight so when I got back I was really

eager to start playing am I a loser for

thinking about valerant the whole time I

was on vacation I probably am I'm just

addicted okay first game we're starting

off strong after winning the first two

rounds we had nothing but High Hopes but

after that we were pretty much going

back and forth but after a while we

weren't able to keep

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up finally I caught them lacking with my

judge which won US the round ending

their seven round streak we ended up

catching up a little gaining a lot of

momentum and this round will make or

break this

game they've been flooding sight really

fast so I decided to go ahead and play

for retake

after KJ pops her old F's in a situation

where he can't leave so he Cals for me

to break the

old and I break it with 28 seconds left

it's insane he ended up dying anyways

jet left me at a 1v2 situation with 30

HP KJ's down raina's left and she was

last seen maze at this point my heart's

pumping fast if I lose this round we

lose momentum and hope I just have to

find

Raina we lost the next round and I

finished the game

neutral I did not play very well after

that we played a game on Ascent which I

forgot to record of course and good

thing because I played horribly that

would have been a waste of space I'm

leaving for Texas in less than 24 hours

I need to get as many games in as

possible I don't really know if that was

the best idea but what's done is done

okay game three of the day and by round

nine they already had two people DC this

is an easy win for us right we'll

see we gave them a little too many

rounds in my opinion everyone kind of

had the same amount of kills but I'll

take the W one of our friends left but

we kept on playing after that and we

lost game after game after game after

game four games in a row i d ranked all

the way back to goal 3 I'm not going to

lie I wanted to call it quits for valer

and YouTube I feel like everything I was

doing to get better at the game was

useless it seemed like I was making no

progress and the fact that my friends

were higher ranked than me already made

it even worse I was telling myself I

wasn't cut out for this and that I would

never reach ascendant then I had to

leave for my second half of the

vacation okay I'm back from Texas I

really tried to keep my mind off

valerant while I was on vacation so now

I'm back with the fresh canvas I warmed

up with some aim labs to dust off the

old cobwebs then hopped into the range

for a little then I finished off the

warm up with a couple DMS to be honest

if you're coming back from a long break

I feel like you should take your time

and actually warm up because I was

feeling absolutely horrendous but I

ended up playing comp anyways okay first

game back ice box my was feeling yeah

the game still felt a little weird to me

for some reason my aim was a little off

and it was making me really mad cuz I

couldn't figure out why but I'm pretty

sure I just have to warm up and get used

to the game again but in this game we

got carried like crazy and I was doing

my best to keep

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up we ended up winning 13 to six and I

was feeling pretty good all right this

next game is Haven and I feel pretty

much warmed up

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oh my God roon you're so

good oh

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Ro my God Roy you got your kill stolen

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ready 1 2 3

b

40 we absolutely killed those guys

winning 13 to four I was starting to get

my confidence

back all right we're going to set it up

how much are you going to get today wor

83 all right pods how much are you going

to get

87 okay next day next game it's Lotus

and I still have the confidence from

yesterday and this game was quite the

game I warmed up with the usual aim labs

and DM and my shot was feeling a lot

better than yesterday this game I was

solo queuing but my teammates were

calming pretty decently what I noticed

from gold and below is that people

usually don't calm and after being

hardstuck gold and silver for the

longest I found out that the lack of

Cals is what's holding a lot of players

back from ranking up once I started

calming every game everyone's morale was

up and I was able to give off

information that would win this numerous

rounds I'm no coach but if your heart

though gold and silver try calming trust

me it'll help I'm like 5 R from plat so

I decided to solo Q

again I know I've said this before but I

really love this trip Market it always

works works at least once every

game after getting this pig I see that

jet is mid and the spikes at marker door

so I'm try and reinforce it with the

strip and oh boy did that trip work and

the teams were pretty even so the rest

of the game we were pretty much back and

forth surprisingly I don't think anyone

was smurfing this game or at least on an

all account and I know everyone has said

us already but valer has the worst

smurfing problem gold is absolute hell

when it comes to

smurfing they ended up gaining the lead

on us two rounds away from them winning

so it's imperative for us to win this

round you see we flooded on the site

pretty easy after Ko's knife catching

Cipher but the other team rotated really

fast and picked off my team one by one

when they were trying to get backside

control I then got hit by this trip and

had a feeling someone was going to pick

me market I realized him by myself so I

run to be main for some cover I I know

that they know that I'm here so I'm

getting my Crosshair ready for someone

to push me jet ran into my trip and

Raina tried fing up I have four bullets

left and I'm whiffing on Wiman this

isn't good guys please don't get on me I

use scroll whe to change weapons that's

why I pulled out my knife on accident

but I see why people hate scroll wheel

anyways I'm waiting for gecko to peek

cuz he has no choice and thanks to close

smoke he couldn't pre-m where I was so I

got him winning us the round tying the

game and giving us momentum the next

round was a pretty close round raino was

the last one standing so it was all on

her she clutched it which finally gave

us the lead this next round was close as

well clove was the last one standing and

it's all up to

them I'm finally back to Plat one I'm

plat one now so I'm able to queue up

with my friends and I played another

game because I was feeling pretty good

now I haven't had pretty good success on

Abyss but my shot was feeling pretty

good so I have hope no rotates you R it

my sh the

rolling

nice for this round Comet suggested that

I go ahead and use my Al to catch them

off guard so I TP in spawn to try and

catch the Roseate no one was in spawn so

I lurked up and caught him off guard

I I

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just behind you behind you behind

you unfortunately that was the last

round that we won I finished third on

the scoreboard but we ended up losing

the

game I started off the next day ranking

on my alt and I got a pretty sick Ace

here

I'm so dead they going

toay I match mvpd and ended up double

ranking we together after that I felt

warmed up enough to play in my main I

started off with a typical Cipher lert

this round I went up B long to try and

get some space I then try to clear sight

so I can Comal for the

rotate once I caught Cipher off guard I

told the team to rotate fast they got

into sight and planted this Spike KJ's

AFK so Sky's left all alone to clutch

this round and that she

does the KJ comes back so we don't end

up

remaking we're down 47 and it's the last

round of the half getting this round

will help keep the other team's momentum

down I pick off Viper and whipped on

Raina I have a thing for you I have the

sping for you

and then whff on Raina again hitting her

for 144 you start the half winning two

rounds in a

row but I'm left to 1v3 this round I

know that both Cipher and Sila are

triple but my nervousness got me really

indecisive on which side he's going to

peek

from and of course he times me and picks

me off but hey look at his Ace by

comment

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that Ace was pretty sick gave us hope

for the rest of the game I forgot to say

this but this is my d rank back to Gold

if we lose so

yeah and we ended up losing I played

horribly this game I had a 30% head shot

percentage but my decisionmaking skills

were not good at

all I'm back in Gold three new game new

day let's see how it goes I'm CED up

with pods and we haven't won a game

together in a very long time let's see

if we can break that

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streak running

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than

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wall

nice it's the final round before

overtime so we need to win this round we

already flooded on the site and

wingman's already planting I'm watching

The Flame

just in case jet decides to updraft over

one of my trips Deo and Omen are down

and SOA tries to play for his

old I'm on I reposition because I know

they're going to peek out of the smoke I

catch the sage peeking out and I push

the smoke cuz I don't think they're

going to expect it the jet definitely

didn't but I probably should have waited

a little longer just so I can stall some

time but Phoenix and Silva got this

right he's on he's on he's on he's stop

nice indeed they do I ended up winning

all three of the games and even becoming

match MVP on Abyss with the 22 and6 KD

with the 41 headshot percentage I feel

like this is the perfect thing end the

video we're just going to be so mad okay

this week's video has been really weird

with all the vacation and trips I've

been taking it really just throws

everything a tad bit off but it doesn't

matter here are my stats these are my

stats from last video and here are the

ones for now as you can see I played a

total of 22 games since the last video

and my KD ratio has went up from 93 up

to 0.95 my hot percentage has gone up

from a 25.5 up to a 25.7 I know it's not

crazy Improvement but I'd say it's

pretty decent now I really appreciate

you guys for watching the videos and

supporting me so I'm thinking about

giving back some more for a 1K

subscriber special I was thinking about

getting some subscribers together to

play in a VCT style tournament and of

course there will be prizes don't worry

so if you're interested in that please

join my Discord server the link will be

in the description below I will be

providing more information about it

throughout the month and we'll be asking

you guys for your guys' thoughts so if

you want to participate the link will be

in the description below that's it for

this week please like the video comment

down below and subscribe or don't I

really don't

care well in the back alley sing me

en fight to Victory

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