-
2024 - The first half of the year with Gekko Kay/o was probably the most diverse moment in Valorant's history, with every role having multiple agents that saw play. The Neon meta that came afterwards was a bit of a dip in how interesting it was to watch but it was still better than a lot of previous metas
-
2022 - Chamber was the staple agent of 2022 and was pretty much in every game, but Chamber forced teams to be incredibly thorough on their attack side and the agents that were picked to counter him or support him were super diverse, and overall the level of play absolutely skyrocketed from because of it
-
2025 - Obviously we haven't seen the entirety of 2025 yet but so far it's seemed pretty stale. Tejo is nearing Chamber levels of unanimous pickrate and honestly I think he's a lot less interesting to watch. Alongside that the agents we see around Tejo are pretty stale as well. Vyse dominates the sentinel role, Yoru takes up the majority of the duelist pickrate and the controller role is just one of Omen or Astra
-
2021 - Astra, Viper and Jett pretty much held the meta in a stranglehold for the year, and paired with the lack of total agents in the game meant that the meta kind of inevitably had to end up being stale
-
2023 - Bit of a hot take but I think 2023 was the least interesting point in Valorant history. There were quite literally 2 comps. One of Jett or Raze, one of Omen or Brimstone, one of KJ or Cypher and then either Sova or Fade + Breach or Kay/o or Skye and Viper. Every single map.
Every year's meta ranked
Late 22 to 23 is best.
btw we don't know what the meta of 2025 will be yet. T1 considered an off-meta team, won this year's first tournament with double duelist. They didn't use Tejo outside of Fracture. according to Stax not because they couldn't handle it, but because autumn considered it was obviously not good.
Top 6 most by T1 (Equalized, meaning I try to not have a region that is too mush more represented than the other because the format where not the same for everyone) for each year :
2020 :
- Omen 90%
- Jett 75%
- Sova 73%
- Cypr 58%
- Raze 54%
- Brch 47%
2021 :
- Sova 74%
- Jett 70%
- Raze 41%
- Kjoy 39%
- Omen 39%
- Sage 38%
No Astra (She came thraw halw way, and peaked only at 59% in champions, and 53% in Split 3, was behind split 2 and non existant split 1)
No Viper (She was at 20% Half of the year, congrats you indeed names her worst year if we dont count 2020)
2022
- Chbr 57%
- Sova 47%
- Jett 47%
- Vipr 44%
- Kayo 38%
- Raze 35%
You are right on Chamber, but it was actually the year of Viper, not 2021
2023
- Kjoy 65%
- Jett 63%
- Skye 46%
- Vipr 45%
- Omen 45%
- Raze 40%
Finally a year where where we could see diversity on a lot of maps, it was good to have map with where it was a 50-50 where 2 archetype fight each other thanks to swamp that lived in some map that where really stale prior that (Haven for exemple)
2024
- Omen 65%
- Vipr 60%
- Raze 49%
- Sova 42%
- Cypr 40%
- Jett 37%
Gekko had less peak on the first half of the year, than on the 2nd
7/20, you need to work better on your val history, and not only rely on vague memory, but it's not catastrophic x)
Oh definitly not, Riot has nerfed her every year and always and she ever came stronger like in the Moe-Barney meme, but now it seems it's over for 2 reason :
- GIga nerf
- Riot will probably not doing the mistake to put Breeze and Icebox in the same mapool anymore
She is now (only T1) 25% pickrate, but 58% NMWR (If I take T2 she is MUSH lower in PR, and slightly under 50% NMWR) so we can never know
Discord