I don't really know CS lore because I don't watch CS, but I have only heard of Ethan and Tarik having successful CS careers. I know both of them perform really well on CSGO internationals. Who else had a great CS career like Ethan and Tarik?
Which Val players were good in CS?
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Ethan unironically is the only correct answer. I genuinely think he was the only player to achieve good things in CS and in valorant. He may be the best tac FPS player in NA history by dominating two games to a degree (more so val).
IEM New York 2019. and Maybe a few others.
Edit: IEM shanghai 2018, Star league series 8, ESL one cologne 2020 (NA online bc of covid), Blast premier spring.
He was a top 20 player in 2019. This is a big honor in CS with regards to HLTV awards.
He and the rest of EG brought them to maintain the #1 team in CS for awhile right before COVID.
Solid solid player.
I would say someone like Nitr0 could be considered such, but he did not stay in valorant long enough or accomplish as much.
Starseries and ESL New York 2019 + Cologne 2020 NA. Honestly he didn’t get a fair chance to compete for more real trophies bc he reached his best form in 2019/2020 and the pandemic split up NA and EU competition. The New York win was a big deal tho bc they kinda owned an Astralis that just came off their fourth major win
The majority of NA Val pros were Tier 2/3 CS players, such as TenZ, ShahZ, Asuna, Bang, Demon1, Yay, BabyBay.
Nitro and Ethan were probably the best CS to Val players, which is funny because they are both NA.
I don't think any EU Val pros were ever CS pros
Babybay and demon1 were not t2/t3 cs pros and there were plenty eu val pros that were cs pros
Demon1 was a pro ut4 player and switched to val (never played cs)
Babybay was an overwatch pro and never played cs
No limits to the larp
Demon1 is a Tier 6 CS Surfer. The guy played CS he just wasn't good enough for pro level. He was thinking of going pro in CS2 before he joined Envy.
BabyBay literally got banned for cheating in CSGO in an ESEA match under a different name. Then he went to Overwatch 😂
When i say never played cs i meant he never played pro
Demon1 never thought of going pro in cs
Babybay got banned and i did know that but he got banned and he was never a prolific cs player
I was on Demon1’s stream when he was depressed about not being on a team. He told the stream he was thinking of trying to go pro in CS2 since he wasn’t getting any Val offers
Yeah that was probably a joke. He has repeatedly been asked to “play cs2” and he responds with “im a valorant pro not a cs pro, so i play valorant”
Also trying to is not the same as becoming a pro. Demon1 would much rather benefit from sticking to val than trying to enter the cs pro scene
babybay was an overwatch pro in the plumber era of owl
he also played esea CS
Ethan was the best player who switched in terms of their actual level when they switched and not their primes, Happy was probably the best player to have switched in terms of looking at the entire career
Your definition of "good" seems to be about "successful CS careers" so it would just be EMEA players cause CS is a 1 region game.
honestly? just ethan. 1leaf was a good prospect too though but he never developed. br comm schizo hackusated him and then he went to val
tarik has a major too but he was never pro in val. but that major was like the biggest fluke in gaming history
tarik, ethan. ange1 spent his entire career being an IGL for the second best CIS team at the time (hellraisers, back then Cis wasn't as dominant). leaf was a good prospect, xeppaa was on the infamous c9 collosus, zellsis attended a major
one of the two igls in cs history to mvp a major :D the other is jame who is an awper. tarik did this as a rifler
Happy mvped a major as an igl bro why do yall forget him like he isn’t the 2nd best French igl or are yall just newgens
understandable, guess another proof ''shit stats = igl'' is a myth. I started watching in 2018 when the french scene was just g2 and envy with scream, sixer, happy, kioshima and hadji
there's a reason people always go "happy from cs?" when they hear about him being on mibr, m80, navi, etc., especially watchpartiers
I was so surprised to see him be the coach for navi. Kinda sad I missed the peak of french cs, to me happy was a washed unc who alex replaced in vita
im sad i missed all of cs lol, the only thing i remotely know about france is kennys
hoping valorant pro scene goes long enough that we can look back on it fondly too
Ange1 and ethan if you want people who like actually competed
Jamppi if he wasn't banned could have been a prospect but that's what if territory
Scream was good at cs like over a decade ago ig
ethan was really good in cs, he's probably the best player i can think of to really be a world class pro in both, though there are others who technically played both and were decent.
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