What the Valorant devs have to say about MMR vs SR (replace “RR” with “SR” in this thread):
Yeah it’s not OW, but it looks a lot like what many people complain about in OW: if you play really well, you get harder matches before you can rank-up; and people at higher ranks don’t necessarily have matches that difficult.
Unlike OW, the Valorant developers understand that this is a sucky feeling for players. Unfortunately Valorant is a boring game. We need to figure out how to get these two companies together on a date or something.