VALORANT's ranked ladder is in the worst state it has ever been since the game has came out. Every single game has alt account players who don't care, purchased accounts that players are playing on that don't care, wintraders who are boosting accounts to sell, some sort of new cheat comes out every single week that invades the queues. Streamers are sniped by repeat offenders with nothing being done, and Riot games has absolutely no one to work on this. The only employee I have ever seen to even attempt to work on ranked is Gamerdoc, and its not even his job's focus. Tier 2 players are selling accounts to make money, even selling their own accounts just to make profit. There's no ranked rewards besides the same gun buddy that no one cares about, and out of the top 5000, I would say only 500 of them are actual dedicated players on their main alias. It is genuinely sad that this is how the game has turned out, and every couple months, Riot will just fake that they care about ranked, and add some useless feature that will do absolutely nothing to ranked. Not a single riot games employee will ever address this publicly, and the game is just not fun. Hopefully something will be done one day, but for now this seems like the type of community and game they want to have