Players from the CIS with the best skills and statistical indicators superior to other gamers – These are the top CIS CS GO players. They are the elite of the gaming community: their earnings and advertising contracts are envied, their playing style is imitated, their weaknesses are carefully studied and, of course, they are being pushed from the top by all means. The strength of top players is not only that they personally know how to skillfully score frags, but also that at the right moment they are able to take on leadership functions and get a victory for the team from a seemingly lost match to smithereens.
There is no separate ranking of the best CIS players in CS GO, so we compiled our top manually based on an analysis of the world ranking of players. Data 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 Dnepr, who is a member of the NAVI team.
Despite his young age (19 years old) and short career as an eSports player (since 2018), experts consider B1T one of the most promising gamers. Judge for yourself:
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B1T played among professionals for only 1 year and after that received an invitation to join the ranks of NAVI.
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At the end of 2021, together with the team, he triumphantly won the Stockholm Major. It’s surprising that Valery has not yet received the nickname “king of headshots,” because he managed not only to finish the Major with a record absolute number of headshots in the history of these tournaments, but also demonstrate the highest average number 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 in the ranking of the best CIS players in CS GO is the Kazakh gamer Hobbit (Abai Khasenov), playing for C9. In Kazakhstan, he is the undisputed number one in Counter Strike. However
Hobbit belongs to the category of people whose biography Hollywood producers love to make biopics of. And this is not surprising: Abai had a stunning start to his career; victory at the Krakow Major in 2017 as part of the Gambit team, a “dark horse” that few people believed in at the time; dizziness from success, leaving Gambit and a severe decline for 3 years; a powerful return to Gambit in 2021 and achieving maximum personal performance.
According to Hobbit, a big help in his sports revival was the presence of past victorious experience, which helped him believe in himself and not give up despite numerous failures.
Number 3
Let's move on to the bronze medalist in the ranking of the best CIS players in CS GO. His name is Dmitry Sokolov, he is 20 years old, he plays under the nickname sh1ro as part of the C9 team.
First of all, Sh1ro is known in the professional community as a player with excellent individual skills. He is definitely among the top ten world rankings of the best snipers. His performance is so good that analysts are predicting a future exciting confrontation between sh1ro and s1mple, which could very likely end in a win for the young genius of sniper esports.
From the moment he turned professional in 2018 until 2021, Dmitry did not achieve 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 it grows by 60-80 cm. So is sh1ro: his talent was finally recognized only after Gambit won at IEM Katowice, which took place in 2021, where Dmitry was recognized as MVP.
Number 2
Silver in the ranking of the best CIS players in CS GO goes to another representative of Russia, originally 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 esports who can be responsible, focused only on victories and churning out lots of them, gets along well with team members and teaches them new tricks, and at the same time is an exemplary husband, combining family and playing at a professional level.
The main quality is electronic – stability of performances and an amazing ability to maintain a balance between personal and team. During his entire seven-year career, he did not allow a single decline. On the contrary, Denis’s rating grew, albeit slowly, but constantly.
As for achievements, over the 4 years of playing with NAVI, Denis’s collection was replenished with 5 champion titles. In addition, he has been in the world top ten in Counter Strike without interruption since 2018.
Number 1
Finally, we come to the king of the hill, an eSports legend, the only gamer from the CIS who twice topped the world rankings, and also a dollar millionaire. His name is known even to some people who are far from eSports battles.
Yes, it is s1mple (Alexander Kostylev) from Ukraine who heads the ranking of the best CIS players in CS GO.
He is called incredible; even experts often cannot explain his successes. Although the answer 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 CS GO players, is that he is not afraid of risk. In one of his performances in 2016, s1mple, in a 1v1 fight with an opponent, decided to do a trick by throwing his main weapon into his field of vision. The enemy bought into the trick and lost precious moments, and Simple got another kill.
The charisma of s1mple is so catchy that he repeatedly received the MVP of the competition, even when NAVI did not win them. It is amazing that with such stunning personal achievements, Simple won his first major only in the eighth year of his professional career, i.e. in 2021
How the rating is calculated
To compile a rating of the best CIS players in CS GO and other ratings, you need to compare gamers with each other and evaluate the strength of their games. The required result is achieved by calculating five main indicators. The first of these, KPR, shows how many kills a player averages in 1 round. DPR shows how many of your own deaths on average a player allows in 1 round. The third important indicator, ADR, records the average health damage a gamer inflicts on his opponent in 1 round. Impact is a comprehensive metric that evaluates victories achieved in clutch situations (fighting multiple opponents alone at the end of a round); opening frags, i.e. number of first kills in a round; multikills or multiple kills with one shot. The last indicator, KAST, characterizes the player’s survivability, i.e. number of rounds he finished unkilled.
It is quite natural that the gamers included in the ranking of the best CIS CS GO players have these indicators at a very high level. For other players, indicators – These are guidelines in which you should improve your game.
