CIS players with the best skills and superior statistical indicators to other gamers – are the top CIS players in CS:GO. They are the elite of the gaming community: their earnings and advertising contracts are envied, their manner of play is imitated, their weaknesses are scrutinized and, of course, they are striving with all their might to throw them off the top. The strength of top players is not only in the fact that they personally know how to masterfully score frags, but also in the fact that at the right moment they are able to take the leadership role and get a victory for the team from a seemingly lost fight.
There is no separate rating of the best CIS players in CS:GO, so we have collected our top manually based on the analysis of the world ranking of players. Data is current as of May 2022
Number 5
The fifth position in the ranking of the best CIS players in CS:GO is occupied by gamer B1T (real name – Valery Vakhovsky) from the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, who is a member of the team NAVI.
Despite his young age (19 years old) and short career as a cybersportsman (since 2018), experts consider B1T to be one of the most promising gamers. Consider this:
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B1T played among professionals for only 1 year and after that was invited to join NAVI.
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At the end of 2021, he and his team triumphed at the Stockholm Major. It's a wonder how Valeri hasn't been nicknamed «the king of headshots», because he managed not only to finish the majors with the record absolute headshot rate in the history of these tournaments, but also to demonstrate the highest average value of headshots in one round.
Perhaps the moment is not far off when B1T will play the honorable and responsible role of NAVI captain.
Number 4
The next line of the rating of the best CIS players in CS:GO is occupied by Kazakh gamer Hobbit (Abay Hasenov), playing for C9. In Kazakhstan, he is the undisputed number one in Counter Strike. However,
The Hobbit belongs to the category of people whose biographies Hollywood producers like to make biopics based on. And it's no wonder: Abay had a stunning start to his career; winning the 2017 Krakow Major as part of Team Gambit -«a dark horse», which few believed in at the time; getting dizzy with success, leaving Gambit and going into a severe slump for 3 years; making a powerful comeback in 2021 back to Gambit and reaching personal bests.
According to Hobbit, a big help in his athletic resurgence was having a past winning record that helped him believe in himself and not give up in the face of numerous setbacks.
Number 3
Let's move on to the bronze medalist of the rating of the best CIS players in CS:GO. His name is Dmitry Sokolov, he is 20 years old, he plays under the nickname sh1ro in the C9 team.
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First of all Sh1ro is known in the professional environment as a player with great individual skills. He's definitely in the top 10 of the world's top snipers. His performance is so good that analysts predict a future exciting confrontation between sh1ro and s1mple, which may with a high probability end with the young sniper cybersport genius winning.
Since his transition to professionals in 2018 and until 2021, Dmitry has not achieved serious success in team competitions. It can be compared to bamboo, which practically does not grow for a very long time, and then literally overnight grows 60-80 cm. So it is with sh1ro: his talent was finally recognized only after Gambit won IEM Katowice in 2021, where Dmitriy was recognized as MVP.
Number 2
Silver in the ranking of the best CIS players in CS:GO goes to another Russian representative from Kazan under the nickname electronic (Denis Sharipov), who is a member of the NAVI team. Denis is a rare person in the world of cybersport, who can be responsible, focused only on victories and stamping them in packs, getting along well with team members and teaching them new tricks, and at the same time - an exemplary husband, combining family and playing professionally.
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The main quality of electronic – is stability of performances and amazing ability to keep the balance of personal and team. He hasn't allowed a single slump in his entire seven-year career. On the contrary, Denis' rating was growing, albeit slowly, but constantly.
As for achievements, during 4 years of performances with NAVI, Denis' collection was enriched with 5 championship titles. In addition, he has been in the world's top 10 in playing Counter Strike since 2018 without interruption.
Number 1
Finally, we come to the king of the mountain, a cybersport legend, the only gamer from the CIS who has twice topped the world ranking, and part-time dollar millionaire. His name is known even to some people who are far from cybersports battles.
Yes, it is s1mple (Alexander Kostylev) from Ukraine who tops the ranking of the best CIS players in CS:GO.
He is called incredible, his successes often cannot be explained even by experts. Although the clue is very simple: s1mple is not just a CS:GO fanatic, he is absolutely obsessed with the game.
Another secret of Simple's success, thanks to which he – first in the ranking of the best CIS players in CS:GO, is that he is not afraid of risk. In one 2016 performance, s1mple dared to pull a stunt in a 1-on-1 battle with his opponent, throwing his primary weapon into his field of vision. The opponent bought into the trickery and lost precious moments, and s1mple scored another frag.
The charisma of s1mple is so captivating that he has repeatedly received MVP of competitions, even when NAVI did not win them. It is striking that with such stunning personal achievements Simple won the first major only in the eighth year of his professional career, i.e. in 2021.
How the rating is considered
To compile a
ranking
of the best CIS players in CS:GO and other rankings, it is necessary to compare gamers among themselves and assess the strength of their game. The required result is achieved by calculating five key indicators. The first one, KPR shows how many kills a player averages in 1 round. DPR demonstrates how many own deaths a player allows on average in 1 round. The third important metric, ADR, captures how much health damage on average a gamer deals to their opponent in 1 round. Impact is a composite score based on which wins achieved in clutches (battling multiple opponents alone at the end of a round); opening frags, i.e. the number of first kills in a round; multikills, or multiple kills with a single shot. The last indicator, KAST, characterizes the survivability of the player, ie the number of rounds that he finished unkilled.It is quite natural that gamers in the ranking of the best CIS players in CS:GO, these indicators are at a very high level. For other players, – scores are benchmarks in which to improve their game.