Complexity Gaming is another major esports organization that has invested in a female valorant roster. How is it that so many all-female rosters are now being formed in Valorant esports?

Some of you may remember that Nerd Street Gamers, along with Riot Games, announced the VCT Game Changers initiative earlier this year – a series of esports tournaments exclusively for women. At the time, most people assumed that there wouldn’t be enough all-female teams for this project to have much of an impact on the Valorant Esports scene. As it turned out, they were wrong! More and more Esports organizations are investing in all-female teams, including Complexity Gaming. So who is in their lineup?

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Complexity Female Valorant Team.

Complexity has basically signed a female GX3 Valorant team, which you may know from previous Valorant tournaments that were held for women only. The team was put together because of the upcoming VCT Game Changers tournament, which we’ll cover below. So far, the team consists of 4 female players:

• anniechanhee
• alimonstr
• maddiesuun
• akal4ACE

You probably have no idea how strong this team is. Last year they showed really outstanding gameplay in several online tournaments (including VCT Game Changers). They are considered one of the strongest female Valorant teams. The most famous person from this team is probably “alimonstr”, a six-time ESWC champion in Counter-Strike.

However, they need to find a replacement player, for which they have only three weeks. Previously they played with Christine Chi, but now it was announced that she will be one of the casters for the VCT Game Changers tournament, so she is no longer an option. Who do you think will be the last female player on the Complexity Valorant squad?

VCT Game Changers

VCT Game Changers is a series of official Valorant tournaments exclusively for women. It was launched in March this year and has since become very successful. Quote Vera Wienken from Riot Games:

If we want to inspire more women to pursue their esports dreams, we need to take direct action to make these games more accessible and create a level playing field for them to participate in the years to come. We want VCT Game Changers EMEA to be the springboard for women in the EU to prove their VALORANT skills and compete in a fair, safe environment, but still within the Valorant Bubble.

In addition to Complexity, the following organizations have already assembled their female Valorant cadres thanks to this initiative:

• TSM
• Cloud9
• CLG
• Dignitas
• Shopify

How can you participate in VCT Game Changers?

The only thing you need to sign up for a VCT Game Changers is…. A team of 5 women with a Valorant Rank higher than Platinum 1. That’s it! These official tournaments are completely free, even if the prize money reaches tens of thousands of dollars. You don’t even have to be part of a major organization. So if you meet these requirements, sign up for one of the VCT Game Changers tournaments here:

• North America (09/25)
• Europe (27.09)

Valorant: How to put together the optimal team

Which roles do you need to fill? How do you divide up the positions? And who is the in-game leader? We have the answers!

Many roles for five positions in the team

You can roughly divide the roles and responsibilities in a team. There is the solo defender, who can hold a point alone. The Support, who makes room with skills that need to be respected. The In-Game Lead makes the calls and works with the information of his teammates. The Entry Fragger and the Secondary are the players who go together on a point and are not afraid of enemy contact. The Sniper, who preferably holds certain angles with an Operator and can get a big advantage for the round with a First Blood, can also be beneficial to the team. Last but not least, there is the Lurker, who preferably keeps opponents busy at the other end of the map and comes from an unexpected side after enemy rotations.

The individual roles can also partially overlap or can be left out entirely or can change from round to round. An in-game leader can also be a solo defender and can also focus on minimap and communication due to defensive play. A balanced team with the assignment of such roles has the advantage that the team members know what their tasks are in the current round and can thus also build on the strengths of their agents.

The Spearhead: Entry Fragger & Secondary

The Entry Fragger is optimally the first player to make contact with the opponents around the Objective being targeted by the team. This can also be an important place on a map as a defender, e.g. to gain some control over the center in Ascent. By his push he makes room for the other mates, passes on the positions of the opponents and has the chance to get the point alone by nimble kills. The best agents for this role are Phoenix and Reyna.

As a secondary, you try to build on the moves, information and kills from the entry fragger. At a certain point, it pays to take a different position, hold different angles, or get behind enemy lines very quickly to take opponents who are rotating out of the action. Jett, Raze, Omen and Breach are particularly suitable for this role.

The Solo Defender

Since most maps have 3 main lanes, only two of them can be defended with a duo, the third “lane” then belongs to the solo defender. On Attack the role is obsolete, but an agent made for this role can here protect the team from flanks or focus on making sure the spike is well placed and defend them additionally with appropriate skills. Those who like this style of play might be satisfied with Cypher, Sage and Sova.

The Support

The main task of the support player is the optimal use of his abilities to make it easier for his own team to attack a point. This includes for example optimal placement of Smokes and the use of Flashes. As supports, many agents are suitable for this role: The solo defender agents can support well in the offense to get information or to cover some angles. Other agents are suitable as supports thanks to their sight-blocking abilities, like Brimstone and Viper, which can make it very easy to access a point. But Sova or Skye are also welcome in the role, as they can scout ahead with their Recon abilities.

The In-Game Leader

No team can function without an IGL. The game starts with the operator choice: Who plays which agent? How should the team split up on the map by default? Which agents do the opponents have? What do we have to pay attention to? How do we time the round? All this information and more have to be communicated to the team. If you want to take the role of the IGL, you should look for an agent who supports this role additionally like all agents who can get additional information by ability like Cypher, Sova and Raze.

The Sniper

Do you have an operator god in your team? Then let him take the role of the Sniper. Defensively, the Sniper can hold many angles where he can stand faster than the enemy team and get free kills especially against slow peeks. If it goes a bit offensive, he tries to move out after the spearhead, gradually covering positions where opponents can come. Good agents to support the sniper’s playstyle are for example Jett to play more offensive angles without risk or Cypher who rotates to other points after building up camera and tripwires to stay unpredictable.

The Lurker

Last but not least, there are the Lone Wolfs, who don’t like to hang out with the team, also called Lurker. This role is also useful in a team to avoid giving half the map to the opponents or to get impatient opponents when they don’t expect it because they rotate through their own spawn. Omen, Reyna and Jett are especially useful for playing off the enemy team, as their abilities make them less likely to fall victim to refrags or to escape from a bad position after a successful kill.

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