What is ADR in VALORANT?
To improve at VALORANT you need to be constantly analysing your gameplay and figuring out how to get better at Riot Games' First Person Shooter.
Now whilst this might sound boring, looking at your stats really streamlines your ideas of what you need to improve on. It could be your headshot percentage or even your KDA, but we believe one of the best statistics to track in VALORANT for getting better is your ADR! But what does ADR mean in VALORANT?
What does ADR stand for in VALORANT?
ADR in VALORANT stands for Average Damage per Round, which is one of the best factors to seeing if you have an impact in every round of VALORANT you play!
Sure, there will be rounds where you are defending B Site on [Ascent]https://www.thespike.gg/news/securing-high-acs-points-on-valorant/2242) as Killjoy, and your team wipes the enemy full-rushing A Site, so you won’t do much then. But if you are dying instantly from trying to rush Mid on Split as Jett and dying all the time, then your ADR is almost nothing for a bad reason!
Your ADR tracks the average amount of damage you do in your rounds of VALORANT, which includes gunfire damage and ability damage, so don’t worry, both your Vandal one-shot headshots and Phoenix Hot Hands molly damage will increase your ADR!
Be careful fully relying on ADR exclusively as a statistic, however, as game to game the amount will change due to the nature of most of the agents. As we mentioned, Phoenix and his Hot Hands does not only do damage to others, but also heals him. This is also the same idea with his ultimate ability, Run It Back, which is another full health agent for the enemy to kill.
All of these factors alongside examples such as Reyna with her heal, devour, and Sage with her healing orb and ultimate, Resurrection, means that ADR can be inflated in certain games and rounds.
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Even KAY/O and his ultimate NULL/CMD means that if you kill him whilst he is downed, that round’s damage will be through the roof
The more enemies heal, gain health and even come back to life, the more your Average Damage per Round will increase. This is why ADR is not the best statistic to solely rely on if you want to learn where to get better!
What is a good ADR in VALORANT?
A good ADR in VALORANT is hard to judge, especially due to the external factors outside of just dealing raw damage. Other examples of this are Viper’s Toxin passives on her abilities. Enemies can heal from this Decay and then take the same amount of damage again.
We can safely say that an ADR of between 110 and 130 is a good ADR, essentially meaning you are killing an enemy at least every time you die, which takes armor, healing and shields out of account, but nonetheless, this is a good ADR to see.
Anything below 100 and you might need to focus on getting involved more in the action in your rounds! Whether this is actually being in the fights, or whether it is waiting for the fights to kick off before peeking Showers on Bind with your Yoru flash, you need to focus on getting your ADR above 100!
Good professional players have an ADR of around 140 to 160, which means they kill a full armor enemy agent roughly once per round. Whilst this might sound easy, you need to remember, half of the kills you get, you don’t kill them from 160hp all the way down to zero.
A lot of the time, enemies either don’t have full health and armor, and your teammates (or even their own) do damage to them before you can fully deplete their health bar yourself!
How to track my ADR in VALORANT?
You’ll need to use third-party websites, such as the ones listed below. This is because VALORANT does not have a way to track this yourself!
What other statistics should I track alongside ADR in VALORANT?
VALORANT prefers to focus on your ACS, which is your Average Combat Score. This can really tell you how much of an impact you are having in all of your rounds and games of VALORANT.
It takes into account utility, such as smokes, blinds and even walls, not just damage! For example, if Gekko blinds an enemy with his Dizzy, then he will get an assist if they die during the blind, even though he has done no damage.
In such a utility and ability-based game, knowing your worth is about so much more than just doing raw damage, so tracking your ACS alongside your ADR is the best way to figure out how to improve!
If your ADR is low, but your ACS is high, that means you are great for utility, but your gunplay and damage needs improving. If it is your ACS that is low and your ADR that is high, you need to improve how much you use your abilities to help your team!