Can Gekko keep up with the VALORANT meta?

VALORANT’s newest agent, Gekko, made his VCT debut but doesn’t quite live up to the hype.

Gekko has made his spectacular debut in the VCT, and many professional VALORANT teams have included him in their team comps. But it can’t quite live up to the expectations built up around its release. Is it even worth being ranked?

Gekko release was hyped

When released in Episode 6 of VALORANT, the Agent caused quite a stir as many professional and high-level players immediately called the Agent overpowered. And when he made his debut in the game, he quickly dominated the leaderboard.

When he was released, he had the second-highest win rate of any agent in the game, surpassed only by Killjoy. That didn’t last long though, as while KJ remains at the top to date, Gekko has quickly dropped to sixth place.

This trend seems to reflect its status in pro play as well. The first weeks of the VCT EMEA and Americas are over and the second week of the VCT Pacific is also over. We’ve often seen Gekko in action – with very different results.

Gekko’s Winrate in Pro VALORANT

Looking at the VLR stats on the agent, Gekko’s win rate across all three pro leagues so far is 10.6%, which is the lowest of any initiator in the agent pool.

The VCT Pacific saw Talon Esports’ Patiphan “patt” Chaiwong become the first player in week two to eventually lose the map to a deadly T1. They tried again on the second map with Itthirit “foxz” Ngamsaard but quickly lost that map as well. Because of these failures, Gekko has a 0% win rate in the Pacific region.

In America, it was a little better. Loud in particular adopted the new initiator early on, while Matias “Saadhak” Delipetro played with Gekko on the first two maps. Loud played great and showed that the agent has great potential in the right hands. But unfortunately, things didn’t go so well for EG when they played Gekko on a map and they got overwhelmed by Cloud9 causing them to lose the series as well.