Best Valorant Players in 2025
cNed – Best Duelist
Acend signed cNed along with the remnants of the Raise Your Edge Gaming roster. He and his team quickly busted into the top level of competition, immediately finding success by placing first in the EU VCT Stage 1 Masters. The team also went on to win Valorant Champions, proving Acend as the best team in the world. While games were close, the deciding factor for many rounds were based on cNed. The primary number of rounds Acend lost had been due to teams completely deciding to play around and avoiding cNed, a duelist that brought fear to his enemies. With his high movement Jett pick on the Operator, cNed is able to fully utilize his agent to get early picks and has even shown to be capable of defending an entire push by himself.
Mehmet Yağız “cNed” İpek
Crashies – Best Initiator
While without a crown in a major global event, Crashies alongside Team Envy has consistently been a top team, placing top 4 in both the VCT NA Masters 1, and VCT Masters 3 in Berlin. Crashies awareness allows him to maximize the use of his utility, giving information and buying space for the rest of his team. He is best know for his Sova, saving his darts for key opportune moments to distract and displace enemies. Make no mistake, aside from being a core member to assist his team, Crashies can hold his own with his precise aim and play making potential.
Austin “Crashies” Roberts
Zombs – Best Controller
It comes as no surprise that Zombs is consider the best controller in Valorant. Zombs has demonstrated he can play all controllers to the highest level. However, he shines best when on Astra, arguably the hardest agent to play in Valorant. While he may fall behind in stats and kills compared to his high fragging teammates like Tenz, Zomb’s presence in any game can be felt. His awareness allows for some of the best timing plays and off angles.
Jared “zombs” Gitlin
Dapr – Best Sentinel
Dapr has time and again proved himself to be an invaluable part of his team, Sentinels, as a.. Sentinel. He is most frequently seen on Cypher and Killjoy, two Sentinels that have the potential to hold their site down, and gain significant information for his team. Dapr has widely always been regarded to be the best Cypher in the world, responsible for innovating many Cypher setups used in competitive and ranked play even today. Dapr is fully capable of holding his ground with his confidence and laser like aim. This forces enemies to constantly play around him and check every corner, with Dapr at times being able to take advantage of this to stall enemies and wait for his team to rotate.
Michael “dapr” Gulino
Chronicle – Best player in EMEA
With Gambit since the start, Chronicle has largely contributed to the team’s success, especially when he takes on the Sentinel role with his team. Chronicle is amongst the most consistent players in Valorant, a huge factor which allowed Gambit to stay as a top team in CIS, and compete at the highest levels globally.He is able to use his utility effectively not only in defense, but also as an attacker, priming his team to entry a site. Chronicle has proved himself to be an invaluable player.
The importance of his utility usage on top of simply world class aim has crowned Chronical the top player in EMEA. While many may have overlooked chronical before his appearance in Masters Berlin, having been over shadowed by his more charismatic teammates, he shines brightly on the biggest stages, being an anchor his team can always rely upon.
Timofey “Chronicle” Khromov
ShahZaM – Best Valorant player in North America
While Shazam may not be the best player in a specific role, he is the overall best player in North America due to his versatility. He is the in-game leader for Sentinels, one of the Top 3 teams in the world.
The ability to shot call and direct his team toward favorable situations has allowed the individually talented members on Sentinels to shine. When Tenz initially joined Sentinels, despite the short notice, Shazam had been credited for not only scouting the star out, but helping him settle seamlessly into the team. Aside from being a great in-game leader, Shazam has been known to be able to switch freely between Initiators and Duelists. It shows great versatility to improve the composition of a team’s lineup when they need it most.
Shahzeb “ShahZaM” Khan
BuZz – Best player in Korea
At the age of only 18, and without a strong CS background, Buzz has emerged to be one of the strongest individual players in Korea. Primarily maining Jett, Buzz constantly overachieves, scoring frag after frag for his team. While on Vision Strikers, the team had failed to advance past the quarterfinals of the 2025 VCT Masters in Berlin, Buzz had outperformed his team in all three series played.
Yu “BuZz” Byung-chul
Patiphan – Best player in Asia Pacific
While most would first associate Patiphan with his bubbly and fun personality, his skills are no laughing matter. Patiphan had formerly been a professional Overwatch player, arguably one of the best in the entire South East Asia. Despite being a major risk, Patiphan transferred to Valorant, where he found immediate success with X10. The team broke ground for Thai esports, a vastly underrepresented region across all games. Unfortunately, Patiphan had been forced to take a break from the competitive scene to recover from his wrist injury in Stage 3.
He is said to be returning to Overwatch, but might return to reclaim his position as Asia Pacific’s top player.
Patiphan Chaiwong
Klaus – Best player in Latin North America
Latin North America had widely been under represented in the top levels of play across a variety of games. This initially made many skeptical of KRÜ Esports when they stumbled into the 2025 Valorant Champions. Kru Esports, and the capabilities of Kluas were vastly underestimated. The squad took wins against top teams like Sentinels and Fnatic. Their success had in large part due to Klaus’s vast in game knowledge, with his calls leading to many favorable situations which turned in KRÜ Esport’s favor. While Klaus may not be the best performing on paper stat wise, his strategic ability differentiates himself, placing him as a top player in the global stage.
Nicolas “Klaus” Ferrari
Mwzera – Best player in Brazil
Mwzera is known mainly for his Sova and Kay/O, comfort picks the Brazilian can use to turn entire rounds while also supporting his team by providing them great information. With an R6 background, Mwzera consistently has some of the highest kill counts and k/d ratios in his team. Being a young star, Mwzera while already a strong player, has great growth potential to his Brazil to greater heights.
Leonardo “mwzera” Serrati
And there you have it. Our selection of the Top 10 Valorant players and our reasoning on why they excel in their role and region. We are aware that with limited cross regional play our rankings may be skewed one way or the other, but we will attempt to keep this list as accurate as possible given the circumstance.
