Jake “Boaster” Howlett is a professional VALORANT player from the United Kingdom who is currently playing for Fnatic. He is known for his eccentric style and ingame leadership skills. He is a former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player, where he played (and later signed as a content creator) for EXCEL ESPORTS. He has a rather active Twitch stream where he often analyzes VODs, as well as a YouTube account with various guides and tips.
Boaster plays VALORANT at 800 DPI with 0.2 in-game sensitivity — an eDPI of 160, roughly 81.6 cm per 360°. That puts him in the 6 percentile of the professional distribution we track. His current mouse is the Fnatic x Lamzu Thorn. At 160 eDPI he runs one of the lowest sensitivities in our whole professional sample — Fnatic's longest-serving IGL, whose job is utility timing and mid-round calls rather than flick duels. He led Fnatic to the LOCK//IN and Masters Tokyo double in 2023.
Fnatic's British IGL who led the team to the LOCK//IN and Masters Tokyo double in 2023
Jake 'Boaster' Howlett is the long-serving in-game leader of Fnatic and one of the most influential captains in VCT EMEA history. He guided Fnatic to back-to-back international titles in 2023 and remains the only player to reach every Champions playoff.
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Boaster is a strong reference for controller and in-game-leader settings on a consistently top-tier EMEA roster. Because he is still active on Fnatic into 2026, his profile reflects a current, long-tenured pro rather than a retired name.
800 DPI at 0.2 sens = 160 eDPI. That is roughly 81.6 cm to turn 360° — in the bottom 6% of the 652 pro setups in our database, and more than 2.5× the arm-sweep of a typical duelist.
Big-picture roles live on angles, not flicks. Boaster pre-aims and defaults at pace; a low-sens crosshair rewards holding an angle as a promise rather than reacting to it — and it keeps his aim stable across a five-map series.
Yes — the Fnatic x Lamzu Thorn, his org's co-brand run on the Lamzu shell. It is a rare match: one of 656 pro setups in our database, versus the Superlight 2's 86.
Jake “Boaster” Howlett (born May 25, 1995), the British in-game leader who has called for Fnatic VALORANT since the organisation joined the scene in 2021 — and the oldest player in this first ProAiming batch.
31 at our September 2026 check. He is the counter-example to every “esports is over at 25” claim: leadership value compounds even as raw aim ages out.
Partly — he played CS:GO in the UK scene for EXCEL ESPORTS before transitioning, and later signed with EXCEL as a content creator; his VOD-analysis streams are a public masterclass in his calling style.
All the way to the grand final of Champions Paris, losing 3-2 in a best-of-five decider — the deepest of three consecutive international finals Fnatic reached in 2025.
