Valorant is the first tactical shooter from Riot Games. The company announced the game on October 2019 as “Project A”, then started beta-testing in April of this year. 2020, and would eventually get its release on June 2, 2020. Even though the game was recently released, several esports tournaments have already passed in both Europe and North America. So today we are going to go over the Top 10 Valorant Players to look out for in the competitive space. Additionally, if you want to learn how to play Valorant as a pro, please check out Valorant Tracker as they have comprehensive guides that can help you on your game.
Without further ado, here are the Top 10 Valorant players to check out!
Top 10 Valorant Players
1. dafran
Real name: Daniel Francesca
Age: 26
Country: Denmark
Mostly playing: Overwatch, Valorant
Current team: none
Favorite Valorant agent: Viper
Daniel Francesca was born on 27 December 1993 in Copenhagen, Denmark. His gaming career started after he played CS:1.6 for the first time when he was 11 years old. Later, he fell in love with Blizzard’s popular game Overwatch, and started stream his games on Twitch. On January 31, 2017 he joined the “Selfless Gaming” team to play Overwatch as a pro-player. In 2019, he switched to “Atlanta Reign” to play the same game. Currently, he is not a member of any esports team and is just a streamer for the time being.
After the Riot Games announced Valorant beta-testing, dafran immediately joined (basically the first gamer in Europe). He is a talented gamer and showcases some interesting strategies during his gameplay. His streams are funny and exciting to watch and definitely a Valorant player to checkout.
2. draken
Real name: William Fant Sundin
Age: 24
Country: Sweden
Mostly playing: CS: GO, Valorant
Current team: Prodigy
Favorite Valorant agent: Sova, Jett
William Fant Sundin was born on October 5, 1995 in Sweden. He took part in many CS:GO tournaments as a member of the Prodigy team – one of the best CS teams in the world and started his career with them.
After Riot Games announced the start of the Valorant beta-testing, his team decided to try the new game which is very similar to CS:GO. In May 2020, Prodigy took part in the biggest European Valorant tournament called Solary Cup, playing against UK team Fish123. They lost the competition but have proved their skills and became the #2 strongest esport team in Europe. Except for this one, they also took part in other competitions, such as “LAVA Series #2”, “G2 Esports European Brawl (1st and 2nd tournaments)”, “Valorant Launch Showdowns Europe”, and many more.
3. ec1s
Real name: Adam Eccles
Age: 19
Country: The UK
Mostly playing: CS:GO, Valorant
Current team: Fish123
Favorite Valorant agent: Breach, Cypher, Brimstone
Adam Eccles was born in 2000 on June 26 in the UK. He’s a professional player who spent many years playing CS:GO. On April 18th, 2020, he quit so that he could focus entirely on Valorant.
As we all know Fish123 became the best Valorant team in Europe, after winning the Solary Cup in May 2020. Since then they’ve won 7/10 tournaments.
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4. JEROME
Real name: Jerome Coupez
Age: 30
Country: France
Mostly playing: CS:GO, Valorant
Current team: Prodigy
Favorite Valorant agent: Brimstone
Jerome Coupez is a member of the Prodigy team – the second strongest esports team in Europe (according to Solary Cup). He has a huge experience of playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive just like everybody on this list. At the same time, JEROME is the founder and CEO of Prodigy Agency.
5. mixwell
Real name: Oscar Canellas Colocho
Age: 24
Country: Spain
Mostly playing: CS: GO, Valorant
Current team: Prodigy
Favorite Valorant agent: Breach, Jett, Viper
Oscar Canellas Colocho is the professional CS: GO and Valorant player who was born on October 10, 1995 in Spain. You may have heard his name when he as a member of “OpTic Gaming” who won several CS: GO tournaments. Once this team took second place in the world ranking.
Right now he is playing in Valorant for the same team. They already took part in many tournaments, including the Solary Cup. He loves to play for Jett, Viper, and Breach.
6. ScreaM
Real name: Adil Benrlitom
Age: 25
Country: Belgium, Morocco
Mostly playing: CS: GO, Valorant
Current team: Prodigy
Favorite Valorant agent: Sage, Sova, Breach
Adil started his gaming career by playing Counter-Strike approximately in 2010 and kept playing for the next 10 years. He was a member of many French teams during his career. When he played for G2 Esports, Adil helped them to become #2 in the world. Also, he became the #7 best CS player in the world in 2013 and #9 place in 2016.
He started playing Valorant beta in 2020 with the rest of his team. For that short period, his team already won several tournaments and known as one of the strongest esport teams in Europe.
7. Brax
Real name: Braxton Pierce
Age: 23
Country: United States
Mostly playing: CS: GO, Valorant
Current team: T1
Favorite Valorant agent: Cypher, Omen, Raze
Braxton was born on September 20, 1996, in the US. He is one of the best professional Valorant players in Northern America who is playing for T1 at the moment. He has become a famous CS: GO player while playing in “compLexity Gaming” and “iBUYPOWER”. Many people thought he would become one of the best and youngest players in the U.S until the recent scandal in which he and 6 more gamers were banned from all the Valve events.
I’ll be interviewing @brax1wnl LIVE tonight on our @ESPN_Esports Twitch channel. Brax just joined @T1 the first in the world to sign with a top org as a @PlayVALORANT pro.
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On February 28 of this year, he wrote a post on Twitter where he said that he is leaving behind his CS career because he wants to focus on the new familiar game – Valorant. On March 9th, he joined the T1 as the Valorant player and content-maker for CS: GO.
8. Shroud
Real name: Michael Grzesiek
Age: 26
Country: Canada
Mostly playing: CS: GO, Minecraft, Call of Duty 4, Fortnite, Valorant
Current team: T1
Shroud started his gaming career as a CS:GO pro-player. During his few years as a pro-gamer, he switched many esports teams, such as Exertus, Manajuma, and lastly Cloud9 (since 2014). Thanks to him, Cloud9 took 1st place on ESL Pro League Season 4 and 2nd place in ESL One Cologne. On April 18th, 2018 he left the team and became a streamer for CS:GO, Minecraft, Apex Legends and now, Valorant.
He joined Valorant on its beta-testing and already became pretty much popular gamer. Shroud keeps recording streams while playing that game on Mixer where he’s an official partner, and has millions of followers and subscribers across his social channels and streaming platforms.
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— Michael Grzesiek (@shroud) June 9, 2020
9. Kryptix
Real name: James Affleck
Age: 25
Country: The UK
Mostly playing: CS: GO, Valorant
Current team: Fish123
Favorite Valorant agent: Cypher, Breach
In 2012 he joined his first professional CS: GO team called CodeRedGaming. He was switching teams each year until 2019. Sometimes he switched 2-5 teams during a year. In April he started playing Valorant beta. On April 18th, 2020, he joined British team Fish123 and helped them to win Solary Cup.
10. Hiko
Real name: Spencer Martin
Age: 30
Country: The U.S
Mostly playing: CS1.6, CS: GO, Valorant
Current team: 100 Thieves
Favorite Valorant agent: Cypher, Breach, Omen
Spencer Martin was born on 6 March 1990 in the US. When he was younger, he loved playing soccer and hockey, but after getting a serious injury while playing hockey, he had to stop any kind of sports activity. During the treatment, he started playing games on Nintendo 64 and then moved to PC. His favorite game was Counter-Strike (he played all the versions: 1.5, 1.6, and GO). In 2020 he quit competitive CS:GO and started playing Valorant in the team called 100 Thieves.
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