Valorant Sensitivity Guide: Find Your Best eDPI for 2026

DPI, In-Game Sens, and eDPI Explained

Three numbers decide how far your aim travels per inch of mouse movement, and people constantly mix them up. Getting the vocabulary straight is the first step to a stable, repeatable sensitivity.

• DPI (dots per inch): a hardware setting on your mouse. Higher DPI means the cursor moves further for the same physical motion.
• In-game sensitivity: the multiplier inside Valorant's settings, typically somewhere between 0.2 and 0.6 for most players.
• eDPI (effective DPI): DPI multiplied by in-game sens. This is the single number that describes your true sensitivity, and the only one worth comparing between players.

What eDPI Pros Actually Use

If you only take one number from this guide, take your target eDPI. The Valorant pro scene clusters in a fairly tight band, and it has barely moved across seasons because the math of holding crisp angles has not changed.

• Most pros sit roughly between 200 and 400 eDPI, with a heavy cluster around 250 to 320.
• 800 DPI is by far the most common hardware setting, used by a large majority of pros, paired with an in-game sens often around 0.3 to 0.4.
• A solid, pro-adjacent starting point is 800 DPI at 0.35 sens, which lands at 280 eDPI.
• There is no single correct value. Players with great wrist control can go lower for precision; aggressive entry players sometimes sit slightly higher for faster turns.

Treat these as ranges, not targets to copy exactly. Avoid chasing one specific pro's number; their sens is tuned to their arm, desk space, and monitor. Land somewhere sensible in the band, then commit. Plug your numbers into the sensitivity calculator to see your exact eDPI and how it compares.

Converting From CS2 or Apex

If you are coming from another shooter, you can carry over the exact muscle memory you already built instead of starting from zero. The CS2 to Valorant conversion in particular is a fixed, well-known number.

• CS2 to Valorant: keep the same DPI and multiply your CS2 sens by about 0.314. This comes from the engine yaw values (0.022 in CS2 versus 0.07 in Valorant), and it does not change with DPI.
• Example: a CS2 sens of 1.0 becomes 0.314 in Valorant; a CS2 sens of 2.0 becomes about 0.628.
• From Apex or other games, the cleanest method is to match eDPI feel using a converter or the cm-per-360 measurement rather than copying raw in-game numbers, since each engine scales sens differently.
• Whatever you convert, keep your DPI identical between games so the math holds.

How to Find and Lock In Your Sensitivity

Finding your sens is a short experiment, not a lifelong search. The mistake is changing it constantly, which resets your muscle memory every time. Pick a value, test it deliberately, and then leave it alone.

• Start in the pro band: 800 DPI, around 0.3 to 0.4 sens.
• Spend 10 to 15 minutes in the Range and Deathmatch. Check whether you consistently overshoot heads (sens too high) or struggle to turn and clear angles (sens too low).
• Adjust in small steps of 0.02 to 0.03, not big jumps.
• Once a value feels controllable for flicks and smooth for tracking, lock it for at least two weeks before reconsidering.
• Measure your cm-per-360 once and write it down. It is the easiest way to reproduce your exact feel if you ever change mice.

Common Sensitivity Mistakes

Most aim problems blamed on talent are actually settings problems. These are the errors that quietly cap how consistent you can be.

• Playing too high. Wrist-flick speed feels fun but wrecks micro-adjustment and spray control. When in doubt, go lower.
• Changing sens every few days. Your aim is muscle memory, and constant tweaking means you never actually build it.
• Confusing DPI with eDPI. Bumping DPI without lowering in-game sens silently doubles your real sensitivity.
• Not leaving desk space. A low eDPI is useless if your mouse hits the keyboard mid-turn; clear room for full arm sweeps.
• Copying a streamer's raw in-game number without matching their DPI, which gives you a completely different eDPI.