Valorant popularity in your country (not esports)

Recently was travelling in a train along with two of my friends, we met another group of people our age on the train. We got to talking and I was surprised to know nearly all of them played or atleast knew about Valorant. Plus most of guys in my class know about it as well even if they arent aware about the esports side. I think its easily the most known pc game in india, what about your country?

WWW

No one is passionate about it too much. I know there's only 6 people playing in Immortal lobbies, and few people play sometimes here and there. Gaming in general here is yet to gain the popularity it has in the rest of the world.

doosean [#3]

No one is passionate about it too much. I know there's only 6 people playing in Immortal lobbies, and few people play sometimes here and there. Gaming in general here is yet to gain the popularity it has in the rest of the world.

What country do you live in, San Marino?

In my case most of my friends and schoolmates know about valorant......but the problem is more than 90% of them don't follow eSports at all

BraZen23 [#2]

WWW

In my class they only know pubg and free fire when I tell them about valorant they think I'm talking about Arena of Valor

FoechiGG [#4]

What country do you live in, San Marino?

Montenegro

deathlyclaws [#5]

In my case most of my friends and schoolmates know about valorant......but the problem is more than 90% of them don't follow eSports at all

Same bruh, sometimes they will watch finals of NA or smth but most aren't big esport fan

there's a lot of people here who knows about the game, but anybody gives a fuck about esports here

deathlyclaws [#5]

In my case most of my friends and schoolmates know about valorant......but the problem is more than 90% of them don't follow eSports at all

Isn't that usually a good thing? In my country as well the casual playerbase is huge as well. The more the casual playerbase the better it is for the game's health. If riot does things right from 2022 with T2 tourneys Esports fans will grow as well.

Most people know about Valorant but play cs. Cs is way more popular in finland even tho we have never really been good at the game

esports is for nerds

tonyhart7 [#12]

esports is for nerds

wow all of a sudden ur bri ish now. if i remember u were singaporean a month ago

Very popular. There are university tournaments, even municipalities set up valorant teams.

caoguo_jiu [#14]

Very popular. There are university tournaments, even municipalities set up valorant teams.

France, germany and spain?

Obviously everyone knows what Valorant is, but CS is way more popular game in comparison. Pretty much every person I know who have tried playing Valorant have eventually switched back to CSGO.

Elcatsu [#13]

wow all of a sudden ur bri ish now. if i remember u were singaporean a month ago

he is fake flagging the common bri ish fans

Kindler [#15]

France, germany and spain?

Turkiye

Elcatsu [#13]

wow all of a sudden ur bri ish now. if i remember u were singaporean a month ago

people changes

I found a guy from my region playing solo queue.

Also, I found a kid with the same lastname as mine (it's not common in here)

tonyhart7 [#19]

people changes

lmao

patuj [#16]

Obviously everyone knows what Valorant is, but CS is way more popular game in comparison. Pretty much every person I know who have tried playing Valorant have eventually switched back to CSGO.

I feel like its the same for France

JiangLi [#10]

Isn't that usually a good thing? In my country as well the casual playerbase is huge as well. The more the casual playerbase the better it is for the game's health. If riot does things right from 2022 with T2 tourneys Esports fans will grow as well.

But I want to discuss eSports with my friends lol.....that's the whole reason I joined this site I had no one to talk about it before that

very

deathlyclaws [#23]

But I want to discuss eSports with my friends lol.....that's the whole reason I joined this site I had no one to talk about it before that

i feel like most of us are here bc of that lol
only one of my friends kinda cares about it but not even half as much as i do

casual play is fairly popular. not as popular as CS i think but it's not that far off.
most of my friends who I played cs with switched to valorant at some point, some are switching rn.

Pro play i feel like almost no one cares about (probably since we don't have a Virtus.Pro'ish team for Valorant :/)

patuj [#16]

Obviously everyone knows what Valorant is, but CS is way more popular game in comparison. Pretty much every person I know who have tried playing Valorant have eventually switched back to CSGO.

Flag checks out ig

Casually almost as popular as pubgM but esports not so famous.

doosean [#7]

Montenegro

Do u know Ezio Auditore?

not so popular in UK and Belgium compared to many other games

caoguo_jiu [#18]

Turkiye

Hopefully Champions Istanbul would be a smash hit

So basically Val is Popular in Asia (SEA and APAC except Korea ig) Brazil, NA(?), Turkiye while the rest of Europe doesn't like it. I should also add South America to the list as I remember KRU Valorant having a crazy fan following

I introduced one of my friends to valorant esports during champions and he is a huge nats and gambit fan now

NwithanL [#28]

Casually almost as popular as pubgM but esports not so famous.

Nope. Mobile gaming in India is way too popular among the lower strata of society. Go to a govt school and everyone will know about pubgm but nobody would have heard about Valorant

it’s way more well known than CS and even almost League here in US, and most people who have PCs and play games play valorant, but they are just casual players and will maybe watch a sentinels match cuz they heckin love tenz

Sk00d [#25]

i feel like most of us are here bc of that lol
only one of my friends kinda cares about it but not even half as much as i do

Same

a lot of them know the game but barely anyone follows the pro scene as most of them are iron to silver

OzyMeister [#38]

a lot of them know the game but barely anyone follows the pro scene as most of them are iron to silver

I started following the esports scene when I was bronze, now im Diamond. I dont think its relevant tbh

wizardbot [#39]

I started following the esports scene when I was bronze, now im Diamond. I dont think its relevant tbh

exceptions like you don't invalidate my point since I'm talking about the majority
wanna verify it go play bronze elo again on mumbai server and ask people if they know anything about valo esports

also most known pc game in India is Minecraft followed by CS(all iterations combined)

Its pretty evident valorant pretty well known everywhere except Europe i would say.

In ASIA you will see more people know about the game but less people know about eSports scene
In NA and EU not much people know, but when they know most of them follow the eSports scene

the national university level tournament by Amazon had a grand total of 2 teams in there(my team included) , so yea, i think that says it all about italy and esports

Close to zero

Ullyr [#41]

Its pretty evident valorant pretty well known everywhere except Europe i would say.

its popular in EU as a casual game and well known but for esports its csgo but esports valorant in EU is not that popular as csgo EU

Ullyr [#41]

Its pretty evident valorant pretty well known everywhere except Europe i would say.

In Germany a lot of German streamers stream it every week (like EliasN 40k subs) but most of them are silvers and their fanbase is younger
So you find a lot more Germans on EU servers than 1-2 years ago but not many of them are into esport