Valorant’s data drop reveals intresting insights about VCT 2023

Riot has just released VALORANT Data Drop to reveal exciting insights into the 2023 VCT season. 

Having completed the 2023 VCT season and preparing for the new one, it’s time for us to reflect on how the season went. Riot has made the stage more exciting with a Data Drop, revealing interesting stats of the season in various categories. These categories include the player with the most kills, top K/D one every Agent, map dominance, most impactful ultimate usage, and more. While the drop contains a lot of data on different parameters, the most noteworthy of them are

Top K/D on every Agent

This category top player with the best cumulative K/D ratio on a specific Agent. Pro players had to have picked an Agent in at least five games in 2023 to qualify. The list includes all the Agents except Deadlock since she hasn’t seen any Pro play.

A K/D of 1.59 ranked Paper Rex’s Ilya “something” Petrov at the top of Reyna’s list in terms of K/D. Moreover, this was the highest K/D on the list, with NAVI’s Andrey “Shao” Kiprsky on Astra and Fnatic’s Emir “Alfajer” Beder on Cypher tied for second with 1.46 K/D. Alfajer proved to be an excellent Sentinel throughout the season, appearing twice on the list with 1.40 K/D on Killjoy and as mentioned above 1.46 K/D on Cypher.

His teammate Leo “Leo” Jannesson ruled the Initiator role, boasting the highest K/D ratio on Skye(1.30), Sova(1.41), and Fade(1.41). Timofey “Chronicle” Khromov was not far behind, playing his versatile role perfectly for the team to culminate with K/D of 1.30 on Sage and 1.17 on Breach. Shao’s former Mehmet “cNed” İpek also made a place in the list with a 1.03 K/D on Yoru,

Though LOUD failed to add any International title this year, two players of its players outplayed every other player who picked Neon and Viper in terms of K/D/. Felipe “Less” Basso Matias picked up 642 kills with a K/D of 1.32 and Erick “aspas” Santos racked up a 1.22 K/D on his unorthodox pick of Neon. For the World Champions, Max “Demon1” Mazanov, was the only one to appear on the list, ruling his pick of Chamber and Brimstone.

Map Domination

Fnatic’s domination throughout the year can be seen in the Map Domination as the team had the best Win Rate in

Split (82% Win Rate), Lotus (87% Win Rate), and Haven (85% Win Rate). The Word Champions Evil Geniuses ruled Fracture with a 79% Win Rate and an 11-3 record, while the runners-up Paper Rex dominated Bind with a 75 % Win Rate and Pearl with the most wins on the Pearl map. Ascent was dominated by BBL Esports, who picked the map six times and emerged victorious in five with a win rate of 83 percent.

Most Kills in 2023

LOUD and Evil Geniuses, two of the best teams in the Americas League, dominated the list for most kills in 2023, with seven out of 10 players in the list coming from these two teams. The Brazillian player Aspastopped the chart with a total of 1402 kills, followed by his Brazillian teammate Less, who racked up 1308 kills in 2023 to secure the second spot. EG’s Demon1 and Kelden “Boostio” Pupello were next in the list, followed by Fnatic’s star player Nikita “Derke” Sirmitev, who capped off his 2023 season with a total of1182 kills

Hardest players to fully flash in VCT

The insights team evaluated a player’s ability to turn a flash by calculating the average flash duration of players who were impacted by an opponent’s flash at least 20 times throughout the 2023 season. Sentinel’s Tyson “TenZ” Ngo was the hardest player to completely flash in the VCT 2023 season. He was hit 164 times by Flash but his Average Duration Flashed is merely 0.56 seconds. The South Korean team DRX’s Jung “Foxy9” Jae-sung and Byung-chul “BuZz” Yu were also among the fastest to react against Flashes with an Average Duration of 0.66 and 0.719 respectively.

Top teams in Pistol rounds

Surprisingly, Global Esports, India’s sole representative at VCT, had the most effective performance in Pistol rounds, winning 34 rounds out of the 52 rounds they played in 2023 with a Win Rate of 65.4. Global Esports dominance in pistol rounds can be partly attributed to its player Jordan “AYRIN” He, who topped the list for the highest K/D in Pistol rounds with a K/D of 1.72.  Fnatic is second on the list with a 61.4 percent Win Rate in the 132 matches they played in 2023, followed by FURIA, LOUD, and EG.

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