Twitch / TenZTenZ has mocked Valorant’s ‘precise gunplay’ mechanics, calling for Counter-Strike 2-style improvements to shift the focus back to skill-based shooting over ability-spamming.
The former Valorant pro player and Sentinels content creator has continued to stream the game regularly since retiring from competing in September 2024.
During a Twitch stream on March 14, TenZ discussed the state of Valorant in 2025, comparing how its aiming mechanics and meta have changed since it was first showcased in 2019.
TenZ roasts Valorant’s ‘precise gunplay’ and meta in 2025
“This is my favorite thing,” he said before playing a clip on stream of the announcement video first revealing Valorant and its gameplay, which at that time was known as Project A.
“We’re making new games and this one’s different, Project A is our character-based tactical shooter, it’s competitive, it has precise gunplay,” a senior developer stated.
“Okay ‘precise gunplay,’ and then you know what precise gunplay looks like in 2025. This is precise gunplay by the way. Look at this f**kin s**t. Bro, what’s going on? Red green blue dead, dead, orb,” Tenz said.
He continued: “Do you know what happens to a pro player when they’re playing this game? This. This right here bro did you see that? The f**king Power Rangers bro. They used all their f**king special moves at the same s**t.”
“If they want the site, they’re going to take the site. There’s nothing you can do to stop them from taking the site so you might as well fall back, play retake and play numbers,” the former pro player added.
When asked: “‘How do you counter it?'” he replied, “That’s the only way you can do that.”
TenZ wants Valorant to implement Counter-Strike 2 features
“‘Just play Counter-Strike,” one more said, “But I don’t want to play CS, I want to play Valorant. That’s the thing, Valorant was not like this before,” Tenz responded.
He continued, “Obviously there are some elements. Honestly, okay, getting moving shot and getting jumping killed, that will happen every so often, getting spammed, that will also happen.
“My issue is this s**t right here, like I don’t know I feel like utility should help you. Use the ‘precise gunplay’ rather than just give you trauma in my opinion.”
“I have another bone to pick,” he said, explaining, “People are able to ban maps [in CS2’s competitive mode Premier] and so, there’s two reasons why I think map bans are good, and one reason why map bans are bad.”
“For one, it allows people to play maps they actually want to play instead of queuing up, hitting a map, and they’re like f**k. For example I get into Icebox and i’m just depressed.”
“Another really good thing, and this is from a development standpoint. You get data on what maps are banned more frequently… that means players do not like it as much as the other maps. And what does that mean? Oh s**t maybe we should rework it, maybe we should bring it out of the rotation.”
Despite these points, he did state, “One of the reasons why map bans might not be good is for one, people won’t play the map, that is just literally why map bans don’t exist, they are afraid that players won’t play the map.”
Riot Games released the Valorant patch 10.05 on March 18, featuring competitive updates focused on bug fixes for several Agents and the return of Ranked Rollbacks, enabling players to be refunded for lost RR due to confirmed cheaters.
