Your act rank will take the form of a triangular badge with nine spaces that will show your top-ranked victories. This means that your badge reflects the peak of your personality and allows you to sneak away from the gaps below your first range. If you win nine games on, say, Gold 3 before moving on to Silver, your writing rank will reflect the gains in Gold 3. His badge also gains new frontiers to succeed at the win thresholds in nine, 25, 50, 75 and one hundred wins.
Your rating will likely slowly be minimized between each act (Riot says get a “conservative location”), but you only want 3 location games instead of the same five as always. Investments will also allow you to return more temporarily to your previous rank, as the formula “will refer to your MMR from the previous law, so that we can temporarily evaluate your existing law skills.”
As Riot explains on the official website, “As a general rule, your consistent rating with the game will be a few degrees below where the previous act ended, however, we will increase the weighting of the functionality in your first games so that you can temporarily match it. qualifies if you play well and win.”
You can also get a broader review of Valorant ranked through our friends at The Loadout.