Valorant Best Players Ranked [Insights from 2600+ Hours Player]

First, he was a part of Cloud9 Blue, but later he joined the Sentinels. That’s when the trophies started coming in, and the team was unbeatable.

One after another, Sentinels won trophies such as “VCT 2021: North America Stage 1 Challengers 1” and “VCT 2021: North America Stage 1 Masters.” There is no doubt that even in this team game, TenZ deserved most of the credit. His entries and clutch moments were just too amazing.

In the North American region for Valorant, he is considered one of the best players and top fraggers in 2023.

Like cNed Yay has been playing Jett, but after Jett’s nerf, he is also playing Chamber due to better advantage at off angles. Yay played a major role for OpTic Gaming in winning the “VCT 2022: Stage 1 Masters – Reykjavík” tournament. He had the highest KD ratio of 1.32, along with the Average Combat Score of 252.3, the second highest. He got a total of 417 kills throughout the tournament.

He started off by playing duelists, mainly Jett and Reyna. However, recently, since June, we have seen him pick Chamber due to the character’s ultimate “Tour De Force.” He likes playing with the operator, and Chamber’s ultimate is like the most buffed operator.

cNed used to be a part of Acend’s initial Roster, and the team pretty much relied on him. He won the “VALORANT Champions 2021” against Gambit Esports due to his insane gameplay. The finals led to a best of 5, as in the third match, cNed could not give the performance that was expected of him, and the whole team just fell apart.

He is the main fragger of 100T, and he usually plays with Raze, Phoenix, and Reyna, but due to the new meta, he has switched to the initiator role for his team. We don’t get to see much of Phoenix in team compositions of VCT, but Asuna is not ordinary. He wants his plays to be unpredictable, and so he does what is not so common.

Asuna is probably the most aggressive player in Valorant; even in post-plant situations, he does not hold an angle. Rather, he chooses to keep on pushing and blocking the enemies who are rotating or trying to retake the site.

Even when his team is trailing, he manages to get 3 to 4 kills in a round again and again until the team’s morale is lifted again.

Leaf played for a long time with Skye, an initiator, and still managed to top frag for the team. In Cloud9’s team composition, there is no Sage, so the team relies on Leaf for health. Leaf does not have any healing support for himself, yet he chooses to play aggressively.

Moreover, ever since Valorant released the new duelist agent ‘Neon,’ Leaf changed his preference. Now, he has a 40.7% pick rate of Neon, 29.6% Chamber, and only 11.1% Jett. The statistics also support his preference, as his average combat score with Neon is 266.4, the highest.

The role of controller and sentinel was boring until nAts came. He introduced new metas in the game and played with agents many would not.

His game with Viper introduced a lot of setups that many teams picked and still use them. Moreover, people do not expect professional players to use an agent like Cypher in tournaments. The reason is that Cypher traps and cameras are placed in predictable positions, allowing opponents to break them easily.

However, nAts took on the challenge and did Cypher setups that would keep on changing. He gave in hours to find spots that would give the team as much information as possible while keeping the enemies bamboozled.

He is the main duelist of the team, and he loves to play with Raze. His movement with Raze satchels looks like someone just flying all across the map. He does not even fear if someone is sniping as he uses a satchel to wide peak to catch the opponent at an off angle, taking the first shot.

Like most of the other top players in Valorant, he has also mastered other agents who are not duelists. When there is a defensive strategy in team composition, Zyppan has no issue in playing with Sage. His slow orbs lineups are excellent, and he has mastered the skill of using Sage’s wall for both attack and defense.

He was also the top performing player in “VCT 2021 Stage 2 EU Challengers 1,” with an average combat score of 523 against Guild Esports in the Grand Finals.

Zeek right now is a part of GoNext Esports, mainly fragging with Reyna, Raze, and KAY/O.

Zeek used to be in G2 Esports, where he learned aggressive gameplay, and that is the reason why he keeps pushing the site with Reyna and Raze. Fans have been arguing since he came to Acend on who is the better player, him or cNed, and the answer is not so easy as they share a tight spot in Acend’s roster.

Raze’s ultimate, Showstopper, is basically a splash-damage rocket that needs to be hit on the surface. No matter how much Subroza tried, he always missed the target and would get killed instead. His struggle came to an end when Skye was introduced to Valorant.

With Skye’s Guiding Light, Subroza can easily flash all enemies who are pushing the site. Moreover, he knows how to spray transfer with Vandal, the gun with the most difficult recoil. Most players use Phantom so they can spray transfer easily, but Subroza is not one of them.

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Furthermore, Klaus used to be an Overwatch player, another FPS shooter game but with different game mechanics.

In Overwatch, the recoil is not so great, and players can easily spray. When Klaus switched to Valorant, he struggled with the recoil pattern of guns like Vandal and Phantom. There is still a lot to learn for him when it comes to aiming, but when it comes to game sense, he is the reason why KRÜ Esports got into all four international Valorant tournaments.

His In-Game Leading is top-class, and so are his setups. He plays with Viper, Sova, and Breach to be a helping hand for his team, especially Keznit, so that they can hold the site properly with complete information.