- Tenz
- Yay
- Chronicle
- Saadhak
- Rb
These players have had the greatest impact on competitive valorant, if you disagree, you're wrong
In no order:
Nats - dude's impact was so massive in 2021 that made top teams like Envy, 100T, VS look like Tier 3 teams with his lurks.
Tenz - abused the early competitive meta where there are still not many teams having actual structured strats and comps and aim diffing them every match.
Yay and FNS - abused the chamber meta. I put both of them together because I don't think yay could have used the agent that great without FNS's big brain strats and comps. Although I think Optic would have been good without Yay, he was the final piece for them to dominate the 2022 competitive scene.
Saadhak - the reason why Loud is the other dominant team of 2022. Instead of trying to abuse chamber with aspas and less, they decided to counter the meta with agents like killjoy and cypher which led them winning Champions 2022. Also him and FNS are both the best igls the game has seen up to this day. Making strats and comps that soon other teams will copy and adapt.
Cned - although he fell off (specifically Acend) in 2022, he was probably the most dominant user of the operator in both Berlin and Champions. Teams avoided his site whenever he has an op.