The ‘best’ VALORANT agent in Radiant has one of the lowest pick rates

In VALORANT‘s competitive in-game ecosystem, the Radiant rank reigns supreme, representing the highest tier a player can achieve. The agent pick rate data we can acquire from Radiant gives us a good idea of how high-level players are navigating the meta, but there’s one anomaly that really stands out.

Phoenix is the ‘best’ agent in Radiant from a statistical standpoint, and yet has the fourth lowest pick rate of any agent, just narrowly beating out Harbor, Yoru, and the least-picked agent Neon. Yet, he leads in every major stats category, according to data from Blitz.gg.