First shot accuracy, second shot accuracy, bullet spread, recoil recovery, number of rounds fired, number of hits, etc. Spray and PrayĪ weapon’s spray pattern in a tactical shooter is a complex discussion. While the Vandal still has plenty of stopping power at close range, the Phantom seems to be the short-range specialist for a few reasons we’ll discuss. Nearly half of all Phantom kills took place within 15m. This is where the Phantom’s close-range advantage starts to become apparent. To show this kill distribution a little more simply, we can also put these kills into the three range buckets we’ll be using throughout this article, 0-15 meters, 15-30 meters, 30+ meters. Phantom numbers are shown in red and Vandal numbers are shown in blue, contrary to the legend. From this, we saw that a majority of the Phantom's kills occurred within a range of 15 meters while the Vandal’s kills have a more consistent arch across all ranges.įor reference, 15 meters is about the distance when peeking the corner from the end of the attacker-side hallway on Ascent’s B main to the defender’s main entrance.ĭisclaimer: The weapons in the graph above are labeled incorrectly. Each point on each line represents a discrete distance bucket and its correlating percentage of kills. In this line graph, we see the total number of each weapon’s kills broken out by distance in 5 meter increments. If you find yourself taking a lot of close-to-medium-range gunfights, the Phantom might be your friend…or gun buddy?

And lots of data to back it up.įor this article, our team of numbers wizards, better known as the VALORANT Insights Team, pulled detailed queries from a mix of more than 4 million unrated and competitive matches across all ranks. Well, as you might have guessed, we’ve got some ‘splaining to do. Which rifle reigns supreme-Phantom or Vandal? The VALORANT Data Drop (A.K.A., the article formerly known as Data Breach) is back! And this time we’re taking aim at an always hot topic of debate within the community.

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