Most Improved players [From 2024 to 2025]

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#1 IZU

Bro was extremely inconsistent in 2024 and now he has reached good level of consistency and won Masters Bangkok

#2 Derke

This is a hot Take but he was having stinkers in 2024 and in 2025 he is the best Duelist of EMEA and one of the top Duelist in the world

#3 Keiko

He was good but inconsistent, this year he looks better than ever, top 5 players in EMEA for sure

#4 Trent

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Huuuuugo

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Derke get better? He's just unstable.

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I think he is the only reason(along with less) that VIT qualified to playoffs, he is fragging heavy and quite vocal in the team

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He did the same thing at Fnatic, until the team got worse. He plays well when the team is good.

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Kaust

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GuanG: Was cracked out of his mind last year already but really cemented himself as a top CN player while also helping establish Nova as a strong Chinese team.

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The_Preacher

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From what I have seen

He was good last year as well

I didn't put him on the list as NOva bombed out early

I only remember few CN names who were good last year and he was one of the few names

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Good last year but this year he has truly become the oil that has separated from the water, the cream of the crop. Truly an outstanding player.

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It is more accurate to say that iZu has returned to his original performance rather than grown up.
In 2024 he was forced to play in English even though he could not speak English.
He signed a contract with T1 because he could play in Korean, but they changed it to English after he signed the contract.

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Derke having stinkers..? He only played bad in emea stage 1 and thats it

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The_Preacher

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The difference is quite visible

If derke played like this levels in 2024, he would not be kicked from FNC

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n1cf

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https://www.vlr.gg/event/stats/2097/valorant-champions-2024

https://www.vlr.gg/event/stats/2094/champions-tour-2024-emea-stage-2

https://www.vlr.gg/348468/fut-esports-vs-fnatic-champions-tour-2024-masters-shanghai-lr1

are you mentally ill or what

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The_Preacher

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I think Champs was good for him

Other tournaments he was inconsistent

Moreover he is in a new team and he has to comm more
Which he did and perform at better levels

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Buzz , Kicks , Levius , Nicc

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The_Preacher

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Buzz was somewhat same

Kicks is a good shoutout, but he ghosted vitality in Internationals

Levius oh hell nah, he and rushia are inconsistent and are only reasons Blg lost

Nicc who? Idk really

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DRG Nicc

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derke was the highest-rated player in Shanghai and 2nd highest-rated in Champions 24, his team was letting him down not the other way around. Clearly, the burden of carrying and abiding to b0aster & his system is too great a strain, he is unleashed under a strong former duelist IGL like sayf

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The_Preacher

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Even if he was good in 2024

I think this was close to his peak level or even better than his peak(2023?)

And the difference in impact is quite decent

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trent has also massively improved since last year, he was average ish before

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The_Preacher

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I agree with you

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