How the conversion works

Apex Legends turns you 0.022° per mouse count at sens 1; Valorant turns 0.07°. To keep the same physical movement, the sens scales by the ratio of those yaws: 0.022 ÷ 0.07 = 0.3143. Your DPI stays out of it as long as it's the same in both games.

Apex and CS2 share the same 0.022 yaw, so between those two the number transfers 1:1. The conversion that matters is getting into or out of that scale from Valorant's much coarser 0.07.

Assumes the same DPI in both games; the number that transfers between games is the physical distance (cm/360). Most pros land between 25 and 55 cm.

Quick reference (at 800 DPI)

Your Apex sens is probably fast by Valorant standards

The number drops to under a third, which sounds like slowing down. In physical terms it often lands the other way. Apex pros mostly play between 1.0 and 2.0 at 800 DPI, which is 52 cm to 26 cm per 360. Valorant pros mostly play between 0.25 and 0.45, which is 65 cm to 36 cm. The two groups overlap, but Apex players turn faster.

Run the middle of the Apex range through the converter and you can see it: 1.5 at 800 DPI becomes 0.471 in Valorant, a 34.6 cm turn, already quicker than the whole Valorant pro range. Anything above about 1.43 in Apex converts to a Valorant sens past the top of that range.

The conversion is still correct, because it gives you the turn your hand already knows. It just means you arrive as a fast player in a game that rewards stopping cleanly on the first shot. If your crosshair keeps sliding past heads, that is the likely reason, and a slightly lower value is worth trying in the trainer before a ranked game.

Valorant also narrows your view

Valorant has no FOV slider. It shows 103 degrees across 16:9, and that is that. If you played Apex at 110, which shows roughly 124 degrees on the same screen, Valorant will look zoomed in and targets will look bigger. With cm/360 matched, reaching a point on screen then takes less hand travel than it did in Apex, about a third less near the crosshair. So Valorant can feel quicker than Apex for two separate reasons, and neither one is a conversion error.

What changes between Apex Legends and Valorant

Apex stores mouse_sensitivity in settings.cfg and treats ADS as a multiplier of hipfire, with optional per-optic overrides. Pros mostly sit between 1.0 and 2.0 at 800 DPI.

Valorant's hipfire value is Sensitivity: Aim, kept to three decimals. Scopes are governed by the Scoped Sensitivity Multiplier (default 1.0), which scales off hipfire. Pros mostly sit between 0.25 and 0.45 at 800 DPI.

Your Apex number drops to under a third, and Valorant keeps only three decimals, so round the converted value and type it under Settings, General, Mouse Sensitivity: Aim. Keep the DPI and play a week before judging.

Questions

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All conversions live on the sensitivity converter. For finding a sens from scratch rather than porting one, read How to Find Your Ideal Mouse Sensitivity.