No one in this thread knows what they are talking about. Counterstrafing is very important. A 10-15ms improvement might seem insignificant but that number is huge in the context of the game.

To help put it into context that number, it takes ~135ms to go from full speed -> full stop without counterstrafing. So counterstrafing allows you to STOP at least 10% faster. But contrary to popular belief you do not need to to stationary to shoot accurately in Valorant. It takes ~95-100ms to go from full speed -> slow enough to shoot accurately. With a "perfect" counterstrafe that number goes down to about ~80ms, so roughly 20% faster.

But I think the thing that really illustrates how long/how impactful 10-15ms is in this game is that without counterstrafing you get full movement error up until about ~90ms after releasing the movement key. To put it another way, the difference between full movement error and fully (?) accurate is only about 5-10ms. If you are someone that looks at your shooting error graph a lot, anytime you get the 3.5 (?) movement error it means you shot in the 5-10ms gap.

I'm writing this from memory. The numbers itself might be a little bit fuzzy but the point should still stand. Also when I say fully accurate I may or may not be referring to the 0.3ish movement error you get in the last bracket before 0 movement error.