Valorant will soon let players surrender early in a match

Surrender is coming in patch 1.02, expected sometime this week.

In the first edition of Riot's Ask Valorant blog post series, the developer announced that patch 1.02 is bringing a much-needed feature for when all hope is lost—match surrender.

We've all been there. Your team is 10 rounds behind, the enemy is approaching match point, and you just want to be done with a crappy game already. Surrendering can be great for relieving a headache, especially when in-game communication is getting toxic. 

Some might say that players should just have to persist through a discouraging match, but surrendering has more practical uses too. If a teammate has to leave for a pressing issue or abandons the game without a word, it's useful to have the option to throw in the towel and jump in another game.