Ayaz “nAts” Akhmetshin is a professional VALORANT player from Russia. With Gambit, he won the 2021 VALORANT Stage 3 Masters LAN tournament in Berlin (the second most prestigious official VALORANT title) and afterwards came second in VALORANT Champions 2021 (the most prestigious VALORANT tournament) where they lost to Acend in the finals.
nAts plays VALORANT at 800 DPI with 0.49 in-game sensitivity — an eDPI of 392, roughly 33.3 cm per 360°. That puts him in the 94 percentile of the professional distribution we track. His current mouse is the ZOWIE U2-DW Black. He plays with RAW input off, which is a genuine rarity on tour in 2026 — a reminder that a veteran's muscle memory can outrank a technical default. A Masters Berlin 2021 champion with Gambit, he now leads Team Liquid.
The Rat King — 2021's world-best sentinel turned Team Liquid's composed in-game leader
Ayaz 'nAts' Akhmetshin is a Russian sentinel-turned-IGL who rose to fame as Gambit's lurking anchor during the 2021 season. He has anchored Team Liquid's defense and leadership core since late 2022.
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For settings hunters, nAts is proof that elite sentinel play is built on positioning and patience rather than raw aim. His gear and sensitivity reflect a consistency carried across a five-year career.
Almost the entire pro field has moved to RAW input on. nAts stays at 800 DPI / 0.49 sens (392 eDPI, 33.3 cm/360) with it disabled — a CS-era holdover that predates the 1:1 mouse-speed norm. Copy it knowingly, not blindly.
The verified share code sits above — a green inner-line layout with outline on. The exact numbers, including his movement-error settings, are in the crosshair section.
Yes — 392 eDPI is the 94th percentile of the 652 pro setups we track, close to the Paper Rex spike squad rather than the control-oriented EMEA median.
The ZOWIE U2-DW Black — a wireless ambidextrous shell. Only 2 of 656 pro setups in our database run it, making it the rarest gear choice in this batch outside signature mice.
Ayaz “nAts” Akhmetshin (born July 1, 2002), the Russian flex who won VALORANT's second-ever international title, Masters Berlin 2021, with Gambit.
Stage 3 Masters Berlin 2021 — then reached the grand final of Champions 2021, falling to Acend. That Gambit core (nAts, Chronicle's early peer group) defined EMEA VALORANT's first year.
He captains Team Liquid as IGL in the EMEA league per our September 2026 roster check — the move from prodigy flex to shot-caller that his Berlin-era teammates predicted.
