Short answer: most Valorant players who aim well sit somewhere between 200 and 400 eDPI, and a common, safe starting point is 800 DPI with about 0.35–0.45 in-game sens (roughly 280–360 eDPI). That gives you enough precision for tap and burst duels without sacrificing the ability to flick onto a target that swings wide. Lock your DPI at 800, pick a sens inside that band, then refine it with the one-week test below rather than chasing whatever number a streamer used last patch.
eDPI = DPI × sens. At 800 DPI, a sens of 0.4 is 320 eDPI. If you keep DPI fixed, your in-game sens is your sensitivity dial — every comparison in this guide reduces to eDPI and cm/360.Valorant sensitivity is a multiplier applied to a fixed engine yaw value. Each whole unit of sensitivity rotates your view a set number of degrees per "count" the mouse reports, and your DPI decides how many counts a centimetre of physical movement produces. Multiply the two and you get eDPI, the effective sensitivity that actually matters. Two players on wildly different mice — one at 400 DPI / 0.8 sens, another at 1600 DPI / 0.2 sens — have the identical 320 eDPI and the identical physical aim. That is why eDPI, not raw sens, is the language of sensitivity discussion.
Because the relationship is linear, you never need to touch DPI again once it is set. Pros overwhelmingly use 400 or 800 DPI for a clean, well-tracked sensor signal, then tune the in-game number. This guide assumes 800 DPI as the reference; if you run 400 DPI, double every sens value to hit the same eDPI.
There is no single "best" sensitivity, but there is a well-populated band that the vast majority of strong players live inside. Use this table as a map, not a rule:
| Band | eDPI | 800 DPI sens | Approx cm/360 | Feel & who it suits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low | 150–250 | 0.19–0.31 | ~45–75 cm | Maximum precision, big arm sweeps. Great for tap-heavy Sentinels/anchors and players with desk space. |
| Medium | 250–350 | 0.31–0.44 | ~32–45 cm | The popular sweet spot. Balanced flick + micro-correction. Best default for most players. |
| High | 350–450 | 0.44–0.56 | ~25–32 cm | Quick repositioning and wrist-led aim. Suits duelists and small mousepads, harder to keep crosshair calm. |
Many Radiant and high-Immortal players land in the 200–350 eDPI zone — that is a generic tendency across the ranked ladder, not an endorsement of any one player's exact config. If you are unsure, start dead-centre at 320 eDPI (0.4 at 800 DPI) and adjust from there.
If you are coming from Counter-Strike, you do not have to relearn your aim from scratch. The two games use different yaw constants, but the ratio between them is fixed. At the same DPI:
Valorant sens = CS2 sens × 3.18CS2 sens = Valorant sens ÷ 3.18The 3.18 figure comes from the yaw difference: CS2's per-unit turn is larger, so each Valorant unit "moves less", and you need ~3.18 of them to match. Worked examples at the same DPI:
| CS2 sens (800 DPI) | CS2 eDPI | Valorant sens (800 DPI) | Matched eDPI / cm/360 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5 | 1200 | ~0.47 | ~377 eDPI / ~38 cm |
| 2.0 | 1600 | ~0.63 | ~503 eDPI / ~29 cm |
| 0.9 | 720 | ~0.29 | ~226 eDPI / ~64 cm |
Note that CS players often run higher eDPI than Valorant players because CS rewards wide spray and movement, while Valorant rewards still, precise taps — so even a perfect conversion may feel slightly fast, and many CS migrants drop another 10–15% after a week. To match the physical motion exactly rather than the unit, confirm the result with our sensitivity converter and cm/360 calculator.
▶ Convert your sens & cm/360Valorant duels are won by the player whose crosshair is already near the head and who can place a precise tap. Lower sensitivity stretches each degree of in-game rotation across more physical mouse travel, so a 2–3 pixel correction onto a head becomes a deliberate, repeatable hand motion instead of a twitch your wrist can overshoot. That is the core reason the ranked ladder skews toward the low-to-medium band: precision compounds in a game built around standing still and tapping.
The trade-off is real, though. Too low and you cannot turn to clear a flank or react to a wide swing without lifting and repositioning the mouse mid-fight. The goal is the slowest sensitivity at which you can still do a 180 comfortably in one motion — that is usually the medium band for most desks.
cm/360 is how many centimetres you slide the mouse to spin a full circle in game. It is the one sensitivity measure that survives across DPI, engine and title, because it describes the physical world, not engine units. If your Valorant cm/360 is 35 cm and you set your aim trainer and CS2 to the same 35 cm, a single muscle memory carries across all three. That is the entire point of cm/360: it lets you train in one place and compete in another without re-learning the rotation.
To find yours, either use a converter or measure it directly: mark a spot, do a controlled in-game 360, and measure how far the mouse travelled. Then keep that number constant. Our cm/360 calculator and eDPI calculator turn DPI and sens into cm/360 for you.
Valorant has a separate scoped sensitivity multiplier for ADS weapons (Operator, Marshal, Guardian zoom). The default of 1.0 tries to keep angular speed roughly consistent when zoomed, but many players prefer to lower it slightly — commonly 0.9–1.0 — so the Operator feels heavier and easier to hold steady on a long angle. Avoid going far below that range unless you AWP-main, because a sluggish scope makes re-peeking and quick re-scopes awkward. Set it once, test it on a long sightline, and leave it.
Picking a number is easy; committing to it is the hard part. Use this structured test instead of swapping sens every bad game:
The deliberate-practice research (Ericsson, Krampe & Tesch-Römer, 1993) is blunt on this: skill consolidates only under consistent task conditions. Every time you change sens you reset part of your calibration, so the players who improve fastest are the ones who pick a reasonable value and stop fiddling. For a structured way to build that warm-up, see our best aim training routine.
A safe, popular starting point is 800 DPI with about 0.35–0.45 sens, roughly 280–360 eDPI. Many high-rank and Radiant players land between 200 and 350 eDPI. Pick a value inside that band, keep DPI fixed, and only change the in-game number so your muscle memory has one variable to learn.
eDPI (effective DPI) is DPI × sens — the only number that compares sensitivity fairly across different mice. For example 800 DPI × 0.4 sens = 320 eDPI, the same physical aim as 1600 DPI × 0.2 sens.
At the same DPI, Valorant sens = CS2 sens × 3.18, because Valorant uses a different yaw per sensitivity unit. So CS2 2.0 becomes ~0.63 in Valorant for the same cm/360. Confirm the exact match with a cm/360 converter.
Lower sens gives more mouse travel per degree, which makes precise micro-corrections and taps easier — and Valorant is a tap-and-burst game. The trade-off is needing more desk space and a faster flick to clear flanks. Most players settle in a low-to-medium band, not at the extremes.
cm/360 is the centimetres of mouse movement needed to spin a full 360 in game. It is the truest cross-game sensitivity measure because it ignores DPI and engine units, so matching it between Valorant, CS2 and your trainer keeps one muscle memory intact.