Razer’s new AI coach could make you an esports superstar

Artificial intelligence continues to prove its worth as Razer just demonstrated at CES 2025 this week, announcing a Razer AI gaming coach called Project AVA.

Yes, it seems that apart from morphing badly drawn stick figures into portraits worthy of Picasso and giving you someone kind to chat to when your cat runs away, AI bots can also make you a better gamer, or even an esports superstar – you better believe it!

Razer has dubbed Project AVA the “ultimate AI gaming copilot, promising to deliver real-time insights from esports coaches.” But it’s not the first AI gaming coach we’ve encountered. Gamers may already be familiar with the likes of SenpAI that uses AI to analyze and coach player performance in games like League of Legends and Valorant.

These tools can be extremely useful for helping break competitive players out of stagnate ruts, for honing skills, or just tweaking hardware settings for optimal gaming performance.

Project AVA can do all those things from what we can gather from the scant details available. Razer’s AI coach allows players to interact with an unobtrusive virtual interface as they play, listen to AVA provide advice through their headsets, or use a chatbot similarly for advice. Players can choose how they’d like to interact too, which means there’s still a lot of control at their fingertips.

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While you’re gaming, the AI coach will analyze your performance and metrics and offer insights and advice in real time as you play. You’ll also be able to analyze your performance retrospectively via a personalized post-match recap that can highlight your key plays and areas for improvement.

Most importantly, the advice you get from AVA comes from real pro players and esports coaches from Team Razer — which gives the AI a certain amount of pro-grade credibility.

It also means that if you’re serious about becoming an esports star you can forget about paying costly fees to a real life coach.

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Additionally, the AI will provide a single-click game setup optimization that fine tunes your PC to your specific hardware and game requirements so that you get the best performance possible – boosted frames, short load times, and maximum graphics – if it all works, it sounds fantastic!

Razer promises AVA will also provide players with an All-knowing AI Game Guide preventing them from having to tab out if they just want to know how to get through the next challenge, puzzle, or beat the next boss.

Right now, that’s all the details we have on Project AVA. Be sure to check in at Razer.com to register your interest and be notified by Razer when the beta lands sometime in the near future.