someone who is by far and away the clear best itw mechanically, even if their team doesn't always win, and consistently puts up incredible numbers regardless of how the team places in tournaments
personally i doubt it because of how volatile valorant is as a game, but it's interesting to think about the future of the esport and if there are any up and coming players that may shock the scene with just how gifted they are at the game
This is the only correct answer here. Valorant skill ceiling is really low compared to CS, even Valorant utilities is hard to fuck up even if you're trying to fuck it up. In CS even throwing a self pop flash requires mastery, you can even tell someones skill level on pop flash alone, if you understand the game enough you'll appreciate the CS Pros utils even more, it's like a work of art.
mechanical skill ceiling in val not high enough for there to be 1 goated aimer of all time above all else. Players can be in hot form for a while, but beyond that, they're mostly very close together in skill.
Honorable mentions:
ScreaM in the First Strike Era.
TenZ Reyjkavik
Yay during optic Era
Demon 1 in the year EG won champs
the reason its hard to stay n top in val has nothing to do with skill ceiling and everything to do with low amount of internationals. for exaple aspas sucks at toronto and theres no pgl event or blast or iem dallas for him to play at to show that hes still good, instead he gets to play a pitiful amount of domestic games and then if he doesnt qual for champs his season ends in august and theres 4 months of doing nothing. plus donk is a phenom generational talent theres never been anyone like him in cs before either
any ascendant or even low immo player gets mechanically gapped in a rad lobby, let alone by pros. cs has a slightly higher skill ceiling but it doesn't really matter, the games are very similar in terms of skill curve because of low/instant ttk and having to stand still/almost still to shoot accurately
yay or one of prx boys had potential with f0rsaken and the others prx boys might've had it now that i think about it it was like a team full of donks aside from benkai fully depending on ur mechs and being a good ass team from for multiple years is disgusting
but if we are being real val's rifles dont have nearly enough skill expression for people to stand out if val had gun skill expression i still stand by my answer of one of the prx boys or yay or fnc Leo maybe but he didn't play this year when basically all thee teams are competitive so its harder to farm stats alfa maybe but fnc has always been good slight fall off made to look more severe cause they won 2 trophies the year before
most likely people were
1-f0rsaken i am biased but any of prx teeam can be here they were one of the best teams for years solely off mechs
2-prime yay fully mechs diffed every body for a year problem being it was farmers league
3-prime leo disgusting stats ut again 23 had like 4 good teams so it stains the performance
4-meteor imo the closest to the the desc but the problem with this list is if ur that insane ur usually on a good team and winning in val
5-alfa crazy upside might look better donk when he is online but lacks the consistency makes up for it by being a lan demon
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