Gambit is the most CS-dominated team in the top three teams in the world. They’ve consistently had great results and a decent finish at VCT: Champions as well. They also have Nabil “Nivera” Benrlitom and Elias “Jamppi” Olkkonen both of whom were establishing themselves in the best CS:GO teams before they switched. Team Liquid are a team with 5 proper CS:GO professionals- and one of the biggest CS names to switch so far- Adil “ScreaM” Benrlitom. Most top CS:GO pros have not switched in Europe, as the CS:GO ecosystem is far healthier in Europe. Tenstar, G2 and LDN UTD are all teams with established lower-tier CS:GO professionals, with an up and coming ex-CS player sprinkled among them like most European teams. Meanwhile, Team Vitality are the only team with a PUBG ex-pro. They have the only player with a Rainbow Six and Battalion 1944 past in the top ten in Europe.
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As well as Martin "Magnum" Peňkov, who’s had no professional esports past (but a lot of hours playing Rust.) Nikita "Derke" Sirmitev and Jake "Boaster" Howlett are the only ones with a CS past.įatih “gob b” Dayik is the IGL of BIG Clan and is the only established CS professional in BIG’s lineup. However, there is a small number of ex-Fortnite and PUBG players in the scene.įnatic, who’ve been a top-performing team in Europe throughout 2021, played with ex-Fortnite pros, Domagoj "Doma" Fancev and James "Mistic" Orfila. Most players who are Pure VALORANT players are in fact high-level CS players that didn’t get a shot on relevant semi-professional teams. The region contains 20 players, out of a possible 50 who have not had a pro-CS past. The other four teams consist of mixed compositions of players. Europeįrom the above infographic, we can see that six of the top ten teams in Europe consist of mainly ex-CS pros. The Pure VALORANT Players column is for players that played VALORANT as their first professional esport, or players with no competitive background, but includes players that played games like Counter-Strike or Overwatch and others at a high skill level but not in any professional capacity. The other games column includes games like Battalion 1944 (1944), Krunker.io, Crossfire (CF), etc. The Battle Royales (BR) section includes Fortnite (FN) and PUBG (P). Columns list games players have commonly switched from. If there’s no majority, we’ll classify this as a ‘mixed core’. We’ll assign each team a ‘core’ based on what game at least three players have had a professional past in. The rosters listed are current at the time of writing (VALORANT Champions and early January) or the last roster with relevant data available. In this article, we analyze the top ten ranked VALORANT teams in Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America (as per VLR.gg’s Team Rankings). And Patryk "starxo" Kopczyński had his feet in Fortnite waters too, before he switched to VALORANT.Įveryone’s been given a fresh chance at competition and with it, the players have seized the opportunity with both hands. Aleksander "zeek" Zygmunt was a decent Fortnite player in the Polish scene. Santeri "BONECOLD" Sassi and Vladyslav "Kiles" Shvets were upcoming players playing in the European sub-tiers of Counter-Strike. VALORANT is the first game Mehmet Yağız "cNed" İpek’s played at the professional level. It's beautiful.Īcend are a perfect example of exactly what that early influx brought with it. Acend has just beaten a young Gambit team in the Grand Finals to become the best team in the world. KRU Esports have just made a miracle run at Champions. SEA made a statement at Champions with both teams making it out of groups. Read more: Gekko Agent Valorant: Abilities, Analysis, Overviewįast forward to the end of 2021 the inaugural season of Valorant Champions Tour is at its climax. With VALORANT coming up at the perfect time, a lot of them made the switch and found what they missed in the FPS genre.
Feeling burnout this cohort of players had already exhausted the enjoyment they’d found in other titles. VALORANT was released in June of 2020, and it brought a massive influx of players from several games with unsatisfied player bases Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Fortnite, Overwatch, to name a few.
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