Bragging rights are all too important in Valorant but who actually stands atop the pack and truly leads on the global standings? From the longest match in Valorant history to the players with the most kills, here are the current world records for Riot’s tactical FPS.
In the grand scheme of competitive multiplayer games, Valorant is essentially a baby. Though barely three years into its release, it has become one of the biggest FPS shooters in the world. And its esports scene in turn has become large enough for Riot to create a whole new franchising system for the game.
Naturally, with its massive rise in popularity, many high-level players have set world records in the game’s formative years. From jaw-dropping kill counts, longest matches, fastest aces, and most used weapons, there’s plenty up for grabs.
Here’s a list of the most impressive world records for Valorant thus far. We’ll be keeping this updated as new players climb the rankings and new trends emerge.
Most kills in professional Valorant match
The most kills recorded in a pro Valorant match is by Caio ‘silentzz’ Moritta when he was playing for Peito Infinity vs RD E-SPORTS in the Liga Gamers Club – Serie A.
He holds the record for the most kills in a pro match at 52 kills. This makes him the only pro to hit a 50-bomb in a pro server. Playing Jett on Icebox, the map went through 10 rounds of Overtime. However, silentzz would go on to lose the map and series.
But if you would like to only count LAN matches, which is as high stakes as you can go, Leviatán’s Erick ‘aspas’ Santos holds the record for most kills in a single map on LAN, with 47 kills, just three from a 50 bomb.
What a performance.@aspaszin now holds the record for most kills in a map EVER in VCT history with 47! #VCTAmericas pic.twitter.com/cfV3UhjmB6
— VALORANT Esports NA (@valesports_na) April 14, 2024
The match was against Sentinels in VCT Americas Stage 1 Regular Season on Lotus. The map went through six rounds of Overtime. Leviatán would go on to win the map, and series.
Most kills in a professional Valorant series
However, Illya ‘something’ Petrov holds the record for most kills in a single series. Dropping a whopping 136 kills overall in a BO5 against FENNEL when he was still playing for Sengoku. Something was constantly at the top of the leaderboard on every single map.
However, Sengoku would go on to lose the series 2-3, getting knocked out from the first Split of the Challengers League Japan. His incredible performance would eventually land him a spot in Paper Rex.
If we’re only counting international VCT LAN matches, EDward Gaming’s Zheng ‘ZmjjKK’ Yongkang takes the prize. In the Valorant Champions 2024 Grand Finals against Team Heretics, he dropped 111 kills in the entire series, breaking the record.
Highest earning Valorant team and player
To earn the most money in Valorant’s pro scene says a lot about the legacy and performance of a team and player, considering you have to win a lot to earn it.
The team which has won the most is Evil Geniuses, which can largely be attributed to their fantastic 2023 season, getting runners up in Masters Tokyo and then winning Champions, when VCT’s prize pool was at an all-time high.
Paper Rex comes second. The team which has reached the most international podium finishes, has also historically come second the most at events. Although netting them a lot of money, an international trophy still eludes them.
As for the highest earning, Ethan, currently a player for NRG, takes number one. This is thanks to his time on Evil Geniuses in 2023.
In fact, because of EG’s fantastic 2023, all five players of that squad take up the top five of the list. Paper Rex and Fnatic players take up the rest of the top 10.
Longest match in Valorant history
When Valorant first came out, it started out with a simple “sudden death” rule. However, it eventually morphed into the OT system we know today. The first team to win two consecutive rounds wins the game.
What this meant is as long a draw isn’t called, a game theoretically can go forever. In fact, a YouTuber did an experiment but stopped at 200 rounds because he realized it would quite literally go on forever.
However, the longest match that has been publicly posted that we could find, was by Reddit user u/PerdoxEd1ting on April 11, 2022. Clocking in at a whopping one hour 29 minutes and 15 seconds, it beat the previous record holder by just a minute.
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Although, according to a tweet by the official Valorant Twitter account in 2020, the longest game (for the North America region) was a one-hour 29 minutes and 53 seconds game that ended in a 29-29 scoreline.
However, from what we can gather, that match hasn’t been publically posted online yet. Additionally, there might have been a much longer match, however, we will need to wait for Riot to reveal it.
Longest professional Valorant match
The longest professional Valorant match goes to TSM vs Gen.G in the VCT Stage 3 Challengers 2 closed qualifier.
On the second map of Split, the match ended at a scoreline of 23-21, which to this day is still the longest professional Valorant match on record.
At the time, custom Valorant lobbies couldn’t handle matches that went beyond 40 rounds, which meant the game had to be paused so they had to restart the lobby. Eventually, in the 10th overtime, TSM finally won the match.
Fastest time to ace in Valorant
Calculating the fastest ace can be quite hard. But if we are to go by from the moment the barrier drops, Reddit user, u/shidas_u, takes the cake.
In a clip, they can be seen blast packing down A short in Bind right as the barrier drops with Raze ult, scoring an ace. From the time the barriers dropped to getting the ace, it took them a whopping three seconds.
So far, we have not been able to find another faster ace. However, there may be faster ones out there, but until Riot publicly confirms any others, we will crown this speedy ace for now.
Most popular weapons in Valorant
It has been years since Valorant’s release, and in its early days, Riot confirmed the most used was the Vandal. And that has not changed.
Unfortunately, despite Riot not giving any new data on weapon usage, we can glean from VCT matches what the most used guns are, and there’s still no competition.
According to statistics from Spike.gg, the Vandal is still the most used by far. And the Phantom comes at a far second. But depending on the region, it may be almost on par.
The APAC region, especially its Korean teams, is known for their love of the Phantom, and their players have undoubtedly boosted its pick rate to almost being on par with the Vandal. However, other regions still heavily prefer the Vandal
The third and fourth spot is usually a toss-up between the Classic and Sherif. We can thank pistol and eco rounds for that, of which there are many in a single match.
Other weapons such as the Spectre, Operator, Frenzy, and Ghost usually hover around the fifth to tenth spot. As their usage is quite niche, only being picked up on rounds that need its usage.
However, it is important to note that Spike.gg only records stats from pro games, and it doesn’t reflect regular ranked, so we will need to wait for Riot to publically confirm it.
But it’s very unlikely that the Vandal has been overtaken as the most picked gun, as is the Phantom for the second most picked.
The world’s best players are always setting new personal bests, so we’ll be sure to keep you updated as these records change.
