Who are the top VALORANT teams heading into 2023?

Next year is shaping up to be the most exciting one of competitive VALORANT yet, with the start of the partnership era kicking off in grand fashion with February’s VCT 2023 Kickoff tournament in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The teams receiving partnership got a pass to the front of the line during the free agency/offseason period following Champions 2022, leading a ton of high-profile moves. Some teams opted to build almost entirely new teams, some re-tooled around the foundation they built, while others decided to run the whole team from last year back from 2023.