now that your here girlgamer, to verify your credibility.
name your top 10 controllers of all time list, (must've played at the highest level for 2+ years)
HM: s0m, SugarZ3ro, Zander, Less, TenZ, Karon (s0m & SugarZ3ro are in mid team jail, Zander hasn't played tier 1 for two years, Less doesn't play enough primary smokes, retirement cutting tenz's career in smokes short means we won't see his longevity, Karon hasn't played in t1 for two years)
MaKo
Bang
Valyn
sScary
kiNgg
Mazino (I know he's flex, his smokes are still nice)
nAts
pANcada
Marved
Mindfreak
In loose order.
Truth is that competitive valorant is still at its baby steps. Franchising is not even 3 years old still. With that in mind the amount of players that won anything is very low so i mean Ange1 is there for lack of options since he won a masters so thats at least something. Looking back at it i would probably switch him and Tuyz thou
two years such a shit benchmark when 2021-24 are the seasons so dc
As players (including ability usage and rifling)
mako
smoggy
pancada
tenz
chichoo
marved
karon
s0m
kingg
zombs/sscary
Just controller ability usage
mako
zombs
marved
pancada
smoggy
tenz
chichoo
karon
sscary
s0m
botster and ange1 could be 11/12 but the ones above are just overall better at the actual controller part of the game once you remove the igling factor
who there has done it year after year lol
you can say marved is above tenz ig, youre right
the truth is most players are flex smokes
shao is definitely one of the best players to play smokes but hes not maining it
but tenz is still better than everyone below him besides for marved(rather have tenz legacy on smokes, marved was in 2022, and tenz playstyle isn't as lurky and more direct, you can argue that its more effective due to this), chichoo isnt the main smokes for edg, he just plays it alot
The utility was good... amongst a bunch of bums. And even then Id argue boaster had better util usage.
Boaster was better rated then zombs at every tournament they both played in and he was better rated at tokyo and sao paolo than zombs was at reykjavik, while IGLing too. There is quite literally 0 chance zombs is a better smokes player than him.
Shao at copenhagen was also leagues above anything zombs ever did.
It’s a tough ask since only Mako is the only smokes player with more than a year of consistent dominance among his peers.
Pancada, Marved, s0m, Tuyz, Demon1, Tenz, Karon, and Smoggy have had stunning single-year performances but are all hard to rank because of longevity. Mindfreak has the tenure but he’s always been one of the weakest players on his team — and you can’t argue for Boaster or Ange1 since they won trophies in spite of their poor individual performances and not because of it.
It’s a role that’s pretty much up for grabs if one of those players can step up and take 2025. My money is on Demon1 being the standout but there’s more competition when it comes to qualifying for internationals.