As popular a competitive title as VALORANT is, it’s no surprise players try to emulate the cool plays pros pull off. Even if those plays are genius because they’re so stupid.
That’s how we get plays like one today from Team Vitality’s Derke, one of the best Duelist players in the world over the past several VCT seasons. Playing in the upper bracket final of the EMEA kick-off event, Derke pulled out his Yoru for Haven against last year’s VALORANT Champions runners-up. After Vitality took the first two rounds on attack against Heretics, the team pulled up for their bonus round attacking the C site, and Derke made one of the more unexpected decisions of the game: He simply walked down the middle of C long and right onto site without any smokes or flashes for cover, directly in line of sight of Heretics’ benjyfishy and Boo. That should be a death sentence for a Gold player, let alone someone playing at the highest level.