Esports Pros Shouldn’t Switch to VALORANT Just Yet
Should esports pros leave CS:GO and Overwatch in the dust, and switch to VALORANT to continue honing their FPS skills? No, not quite yet.
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Riot Games’ upcoming 5v5 tactical FPS VALORANT is currently in closed beta, with a full release coming this summer. While this new take on the genre isn’t fully released, it’s gotten everyone talking, as it should, because it’s going into battle with some of the major players in the tactical FPS scene, such as Counter Strike: Global Offensive and, of course, Overwatch.
A quick little refresh on the VALORANT formula: after choosing your hero, referred to as an Agent in-game, you assume one of the five positions in either the defending or the attacking team, with a simple goal of defusing the opposing team’s bomb, named The Spike.
Bomb Defusal is a well-known game type in many competitive shooters, including CS:GO. This begs the question, should esports pros leave CS:GO and Overwatch in the dust, and switch to VALORANT to continue honing their FPS skills?
The answer to that, I’m afraid, would be a no. A lot of people have already made the switch to VALORANT, coming from CS:GO and Overwatch. While the newcomer from Riot Games is proving to be very popular, with millions watching content related to the closed-beta on YouTube and Twitch, at the end of the day, its competitive scene still isn’t out of the oven. Switching to a brand new game with a pretty much non-existent competitive scene, while also having invested a lot of your time to sharpen your skills in something like Overwatch or CS:GO, isn’t exactly well-advised.
While VALORANT definitely has the potential to establish itself as competitive FPS royalty, the truth is, it still hasn’t. Esports competitors should stick to the games that they know best, and keep advancing their careers and sharpening their skills in preparation for the incoming firestorm that is VALORANT, because it has everything going for it to become a genuine esports game.
So yes, while E-sports players definitely should slowly but surely start to gear up for the potential FPS esport revolution that VALORANT could be, they shouldn’t make the full switch to it just yet. There’s still a way to go before the tactical 5v5 shooter gets released properly, and until then, E-sports pros should stay on the games that they know best, the ones that possibly even helped them kickstart their careers, just to keep things going before making the proper switch.
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