In sports like football, a player's "Prime" is usually 26 to early 30s, and that player starts to decline after 32-34, eventually retiring at 36 or more
For goalkeepers, this number is way higher and a GK's prime is usually 30+ to 35, some goalies even retire after 40+ years old.
But what about valorant pros?
From what I see most pros are 20+ years old right now. Zekken is undoubtly reaching his prime ages at 20ish years old. TenZ definitely hit his peak at 20/21 but still performed well at 23 before he retired. Sacy retired at 27 but his prime is definitely when he was 25 during his champions win with LOUD.
KangKang might've have already his his prime at 20 years old, having a godlike performance at champions grand final.
Players such as f0rsaken, davai, something, still perform pretty well with exceptional mechanical skill, with davai being in his mid 20s, forsaken and something still in early 20s.
Mindfreak is performing much better than his early years, performing better at 25 than when he was younger.
yay's peak was when he was 23/24 on the optic days. He's still got it but his probably past his prime
Aspas is 21 so he still has 3/4 years left before his mid 20's.
but these peaks only happens due to perfect conditions, such as the team getting better, better team environment, better coaches, different meta, the roles or role switching, etc.
A controller might have an older prime age mean compared to duelists. But we will see in 3 to 4 years time if the current youngsters will hit their prime ages or not.
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