Ranked is a daunting endeavor for any player in any tactical shooter and VALORANT is no exception. Wins are much sweeter, losses are so much heavier, and clutches are much sweatier when it comes to the Competitive mode and a good indication of this is VALORANT’s ranked distribution curve.
While Riot doesn’t release official information on distribution, popular third-party tracking site Tracker.gg provides reliable information for an ongoing Act, giving us an overarching view of how many and what percentage of players are at each rank.
So far, the VALORANT ranked distribution has been getting closer and closer to Riot’s goal. Here’s where it’s at in Episode Eight Act Two.
What is the current VALORANT ranked distribution?
This is the current distribution of ranks in VALORANT a month into Episode Eight, Act Two, according to VALORANT stat-tracking page Tracker.GG. These are global figures tracking a total of 10,416,875 players.
- Iron One: 0.93 percent of all players
- Iron Two: 2.16 percent
- Iron Three: 4.46 percent
- Bronze One: 5.01 percent
- Bronze Two: 6.29 percent
- Bronze Three: 6.24 percent
- Silver One: 7.51 percent
- Silver Two: 7.19 percent
- Silver Three: 7.8 percent
- Gold One: 8.17 percent
- Gold Two: 7.28 percent
- Gold Three: 6.67 percent
- Platinum One: 6.30 percent
- Platinum Two: 5.06 percent
- Platinum Three: 4.43 percent
- Diamond One: 4.09 percent
- Diamond Two: 3.16 percent
- Diamond Three: 2.45 percent
- Ascendant One: 1.95 percent
- Ascendant Two: 1.26 percent
- Ascendant Three: 0.78 percent
- Immortal One: 0.50 percent
- Immortal Two: 0.16 percent
- Immortal Three: 0.11 percent
- Radiant: 0.027 percent
Gold One seems to be holding the highest number of VALORANT players right now, while a little lower down, Silver is (still) the most populated rank.
Although, compared to the official Riot graph of ranked distribution from the summer of 2021 (see below), the curve is much more evenly distributed. The top of the ranked distribution—Ascendant, Immortal, and Radiant—is noticeably low on players, but that’s to be expected in a title as competitive as VALORANT.
Interestingly, with age, the ranked grind is seemingly getting easier in the tac shooter, with players finding it easier to rank up; exactly what Riot wanted in the first place.
In a dev diary from Aug. 2021, competitive designer Jon Walker relayed the team’s sentiment that there were too many players with lower ranks and not enough players with higher ranks. Their hopes for the future at that time were to reduce the number of players in Silver and move players to the ranks they belong in. While Silver is still the most-populated rank technically, players are managing to get past the Elo hell it was before.
We’ll update this article when the VALORANT ranked distribution changes again.
