VALORANT is a super competitive game which means sometimes you may have a bad day and want to quit the game. Generally, exiting the game leads to a temporary ban as it ruins the experience of other players. So, the best way to rescue yourself in such a situation is by surrendering the match, which won’t impose a ban on you. If that sounds interesting to you, here’s a guide on how to surrender matches in VALORANT.

Before we get into surrendering, if you face an AFK ally in the first round of a VALORANT match, you can also remake the game

How to surrender in a VALORANT match

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It’s no secret that you must call the surrender vote if you want to abandon a match in VALORANT. At this point, you have two options to do that.

First of all, you can enter special commands in the chat section – /surrender, /concede, or /ff and a surrender vote will be called.
The second method is to click the Surrender button in the Escape menu just below the team volume options.

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However, there are a few key points that you should bear in mind before initiating a vote:

You, or your teammates, can call for a surrender at any time past the start of the 4th round of both the attack and defense phases.

If a surrender is agreed on, the next round will be forfeit (meaning if you vote to surrender on Round 8, the start of Round 9 will be the end of the match).

The number of votes to surrender depends on which mode you happen to be playing.

If you’re playing in Unrated Mode, you’ll need 80% of the team to vote for surrendering. 

If you’re playing Ranked mode, you’ll need a 100% unanimous vote to surrender. 

You’ll only be able to make one surrender attempt per phase.

Thankfully, if you try to ask for a surrender, but someone on your team has gotten ahead of you, your surrender won’t count as your attempt for the phase. Finally, if you don’t vote during the voting phase, the system will assume you voted NO to surrender.


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