OW vs CS

I’ve always heard, what if cs pros switch to Val, blah blah blah, but I never hear what about overwatch pros? I mean there’s so many who are top players around the world. I feel like top overwatch pros could do very well if they were to make a team. (Btw pros as in DPS). And I feel like they would do better than cs players.

faze is entirely made from ex-OW players

zula is the best. those who pass from zula to valorant become gods

why would they do better thanm csgo pros?

from an NA standpoint btw, the only ow pros that are at least half decent on t1 teams are zombs, sinatraa, corey. Sinatraa said it himself that if you're transitioning to play val, cs is miles better than ow as a starter game.

We will see when OW2 releases seen as it’s going to be 5v5, so a bunch of off-tanks will switch seen as the only viable tank will be shields

playing DPS in ow is much more mechanically demanding than any role you could play in csgo or valorant, you will never need that level of 360 degree flicking or tracking in a tactical fps. BUT

the two games are too different for their skills to transfer over reliably. while people like to pretend csgo and val are totally different games, they are functionally the same at the basic level. the skills that are rewarded first and foremost are your game sense, positioning, crosshair placement, and spatial awareness. quick flicks come later, and tracking is just altogether unnecessary

i wont even mention how fundamentally different val and ow are strategically, that's a whole another thing where ow pros have to literally remap how they view the game down to timing, map awareness, communication, etc. while these qualities are all basically 1:1 to cs.

solid dps mains would definitely do fine in valorant mechanically, we have players like corey and sinatraa who are obviously very skilled. but they had their own learning curves to overcome when they started that a experienced csgo player wouldn't even have to think about.

The difference between cs players switching and ow players switching (as said by ex ow players such as babybay) coming into a game like valorant with 5v5 bomb planting game experience, you will have such a big advantage sure valorant has agents but it’s literally Csgo with cool abilities ow players def have better aim than cs players but cs players have such a leg up it’s crazy

kabal cameback to gaming for competitive overwatch and STILL slapped some heads and he is CS1.0 old school(2000) which was a lower skill level period in counter-strike but still did some damage.

https://liquipedia.net/overwatch/KabaL/Results#Detailed_Results