In Valorant patch 9.06, the developers introduced a much-requested feature, blocking, so here’s everything you need to know about how it works.
As with any competitive multiplayer game, there are bound to be toxic players you don’t want to hear about in Valorant. However, for the longest time, there was no way to permanently block players, other than only muting them during the match.
But with patch 9.06 live, players will be able to block malicious individuals from every message or harassing you.
So here’s how to do it and everything you need to know about this feature.
What is blocking for in Valorant?
When you block a player in Valorant, they will not be able to message you via text chat, communicate with you via voice chat, or send party invitations and friend requests.
Blocking a player basically means they will never be able to communicate with you unless you unblock them. There is no limit to the number of players you can block.
Blocking players in Valorant
The process of blocking players in Valorant is simple. You can follow the steps below to learn how to do this.
- Go to your careers and click on the match they played in
- Access the dashboard
- Right click on the players name and click block
- Press confirm
Find the match they were in
You will need to go to the Careers page on the main page to see all your recent matches. You will need to find the match they were in.
Find their profile
Once you click on the match they are participating in, you will land on the match summary page. You need to go to the dashboard page and find their profile.
Click to block
Once you find his profile, all you have to do is right-click on his name and press “block player”.
Press confirm
Once you click block, you will need to press block to confirm that you don’t want anything to do with them.
Is there a way to avoid players in Valorant?
There is currently no way to avoid players in Valorant.
If you think that blocking will ensure that the player does not appear in your games, that is not true. Even if you block a player, you might still land in the same lobby and even on the same team.
So if you find yourself targeted or even the victim of a stream sniped, there is no way to completely avoid them other than blocking.
If you’ve ever played Overwatch 2, you’ll know about its avoidance system and how you can decide not to queue up against them.
In Blizzard’s system, you can avoid up to 15 players, being able to pin three to permanently avoid them. In their system, the developers have implemented several checks and balances to ensure that you will always be able to find a game with the avoided player not on your team.
So far, Overwatch 2 is the only competitive game with this feature, and Valorant doesn’t have it.
Riot has not yet announced whether it is working on an avoidance system in any of its games.
You can check out our guides on how to rematch in Valorant to not lose any RR or even how to uninstall the game completely.
