I've seen a bit of talk about headshot percentage in Valorant vs. CSGO, and while a bunch of people know the difference, there is still a lot of people in the dark. CSGO headshot percentages are much higher if you look at HLTV vs. if you look at any Valorant stats website. That is because it is not the same HS%.
CSGO counts the percentage of kills that were finished off by a headshot.
Most Valorant websites count the percentage of bullets hit that were a headshot.
If bullets are missed entirely, it doesn't affect HS% in either game. There are a lot of reasons why a player would miss a ton of bullets (spamming walls, shooting utility, bming dead bodies) that would make counting missed shots useless. Also, headshot % is a pretty useless statistic. The correlation between a high HS% and being a top player is pretty weak. Even if you think one way of counting HS is better, it can only really be used as a fun stat if someone does really good or really bad at it.
Which way of counting headshots do you prefer?
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