An age-old debate that pre-exists professional VALORANT<\/em> itself is the fierce competition between two rifles, the Phantom and the Vandal. While nearly everyone who has ever played VALORANT<\/em> can agree these two guns are the optimal choice for the game’s many possible scenarios, deciding which of the two is better continues to puzzle players.<\/p>
Most of the time the Vandal has historically taken the title of the best weapon in the game, with this statistic reflected in all levels of play, from Iron all the way up to the professional league. Dot Esports has, however, been closely following a trend that has seen the Phantom’s pick rate slowly rise.<\/p>
One league of the newly structured VCT, which is now broken into three circuits, has finally broken the Vandal’s dominance. For the first time, the Phantom is the No. 1 weapon in the game, but only in the Pacific league.<\/p>
Related: The Phantom continues to chase down the Vandal in pro VALORANT play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>
But now more than ever, longtime Vandal users are making the switch over.<\/p>
Through the first three weeks of the Pacific league, the Phantom was picked over the Vandal by an extremely small margin, just 14 more times, according to The Spike.gg<\/a>.<\/p>
According to The Spike.gg, EMEA players haven’t been using the Phantom nearly as much as players in Asia. Compared to the Phantom’s 14 picks over the Vandal in the Pacific, in EMEA the Vandal has been picked over a thousand times more<\/a><\/em> than the Phantom.<\/p>
