na challengers doesnt represent the entire game thats why i have stats for emea league and pacific league too??????
the map rotation is a big part of why kjs pick rate is so high so u buff cypher to make him viable on more maps????????
cyphers pickrate at 20-30% is bad cuz one sentinel is much higher than all the others, u cant compare his pickrate to agents of a different role that would take up a different spot in the team comp???????
sentinels arent the only agents that dont have balanced pickrates thats why other roles need some balance changes too

one region doesnt represent the whole world?????? thats why when hes a little bit higher in emea but much higher in all the other regions theres an issue?????? if u base ur decisions on emea stats only ur gonna be very wrong

lets see sentinel pickrates in challengers na (kj - cypher - sage - chamber)
ascent: 81% - 6% - 3% - 0%
haven: 74% - 24% - 0% - 0%
pearl: 82% - 12% - 0% - 0%
lotus: 89% - 11% - 0% - 4%
fracture: 14% - 82% - 5% - 0%
split: 6% - 63% - 56% - 6%
icebox: 100% - 0% - 75% - 0%

killjoy is the preferred sentinel on 5 maps in the pool by a ridiculously large margin

cypher has a high pickrate on fracture and a decent pickrate on split losing his role to killjoy by a massive margin on every other map in the pool

sage has a high pickrate on icebox and a decent pickrate on split while not getting picked once on 3 maps in the active pool and having a single digit % pickrate on the two remaining maps in the pool

chamber is not picked at all on 5 maps and has a single digit % pickrate on the two remaining maps in the pool

the pacific league has not once touched chamber on any map, sage has an 8% overall pickrate, cypher has a 13% overall pickrate, and killjoy has a 75% overall pickrate

the ema league is a little more balanced but killjoy still leads at 47% overall, cypher has a 32% overall pickrate, sage has a 24% overall pickrate, and chamber once again has not been picked a single time

either u pulled ur info out of ur ass or ur just too ignorant to read the stats before talking abt them
cyphers pick rate is not fine
sages pick rate is not fine
and its nowhere near close to being fine
the sentinel class has 4 options and only 1 is being used frequently on more than 2 out of the 7 maps

so now tell me
are the pickrates fine?
are there not enough options?
or do u need to buff cypher? and chamber? and possibly sage too?

stop it already

crouch spray is not bad just situational

u dont win a masters by not being tier 1

he didnt switch to college val he played both collegiate and tier 2 at the same time before signing with c9

if hes nothing special in tier 2 then tier 1 teams wouldnt give him a trial??????

u not watching na tier 2 doenst mean other ppl dont know abt him

nah hes in franchise league hes technically tier 1 now

i mean its the same guns they use in scrims that they use in the match i dont think it will affect em that much
and if ur talking mental side of things jakee was able to handle his mental when trialing for c9 to be signed to his first org surely he can handle his mental decently enough to not shit the bucket in every match

jakee has lots of t2 exp not just collegiate

nsic players and coaches have been signed to soar, bbg acad, nyfu/abx, v1, kcp, dig, geng, mxm, luminosity, imt, rise, col, tsm acad, knights, oxg, eunited, sr, t1 acad, dz
reckaroo players and coaches have been signed to c9 acad, ssg, or, the guard, knights acad

how many more signed pro players have to go through those teams until u would count is at great experience?
playing with that many pros/coaches that have that much experience or have gone on to get signed after playing for reckaroo/nsic is probably some of the best t2 experience u can get

these players must have played well in scrims vs other franchise teams or challengers teams or they wouldnt get picked up
why do ppl think they wont hang

did u even click the link to his vlr? he has quite a bit of t2 experience

the skye solo initiator is picked so u dont need a seperate flash and recon initiator letting them play a second smoker

this guy would not replace skye in the least for their comps

both saves are good calls

the na franchised teams are paying all their players 40-50k a month abt salary is not the reason

20 assists has impact on more than two rounds but ok

its stupid that it can noscope so accurately and shoot so fast it makes it good at close and long range

i would make the no scope inaccurate so it stays a good long range option but isnt broken close

eu fans cry

i dont think s0m lacked confidence he seems very comfortable in front of an audience when streaming and he seems very outgoing irl i think he can handle pressure just fine

jimmy is the best smokes valorant has ever seen ofc hes better

so many said he would do bad and he isnt franchise level

he went +11 on first map hopefully he can keep it up

most recent patch map pool is just the old one until lock in i believe

the issue with a suprise comp from my experience running them with my team as well as watching pro matches is that the match is almost never close. Either the suprise comp will catch them off guard and they cant deal with it leading to u stomping them or u they will quickly adapt and the lack of meta util and agents will stop u from playing more towards the default way most teams play a map with the meta comps. Its a high risk, high reward type tactic that is very risky to use in a single elim bracket. My team only pulled out some suprise comps when playing on our worst few maps against teams that we knew liked those maps in hops of getting a cheese win where the risk is lower since were likely losing that map anyways and we have the rest of a bo3 or a lower bracket to fall back on.

dicey babybay rossy poised prolly supamen

it goes past his teams playstyle tho when his team slows down he doesnt

jinggg is prolly the most over extending peeking everything taking every fight player in all of valorant
out of game tho no ego
if we look purely at in game he is the biggest egoist in valorant

any proof cuz nearly 500k a year isnt very believeable

theres no way the salaries are that high

when u lurk u should be primarily trying to catch rotates and find open space to allow your team to rotate freely if they chose to do so and after they get site u pull attention to slow the retakers as they have to kill u before actually going to site not going into the opposite to kill an anchor

bro just copied my comment lmfao

im a jett main

jcstani is taking a break

nah one is food one is victor

xeppaa

restart game u should be good

ive tried many mousepads and some very expensive ones

nothing beats the good old 20$ steelseries qck

after a couple months the logo is fully off of mine, guess im just very destructive

after 5 years ur mousepad is definitely worn down

i replace my steelseries qck abt every 6 months whenever it starts to get visibly worn out

bro i was gonna make fun of u but then i felt bad cuz u where a nice guy when i played with u

i will frame a pic of u and keep it at my setup so i think of ur motivational speech every time i play the game

i will make it just for u

i believe in u

cant wait for adultsasuke

take ur own advice maybe u can get out of gold

thats crazy coming from u cuz ur tracker says ur gold

not hurting myself

only got collegiate offers from schools with not that good val teams so i might not be playing competitively next year

the final arc

since chamber nerf na tier 2 tourneys have seen jett be the most common duelist on icebox ascent haven pearl breeze which leaves 2 maps where she isnt the most picked duelist so jett meta is kinda coming back

when u look at map pool for next year we know of 6 maps that will be in it
icebox ascent haven pearl which are jett maps
fracture we prolly wont see jett
split changes make it impossible to accurately predict what the meta will be but if the map doesnt change much it could be raze, neon or jett considering theyve all been meta on that map before
and the new map could be a jett map

thats at worse 4/7 jett maps and at best 6/7 jett maps

its not just 100t that call it a major first strike was known as the first valorant major back then
the star also isnt for first strike

vanity has played sage before lmfao

keznit isnt on kru bro

hiko said on stream that nobody knows what the meta will be with chamber nerfs and he thinks that either chamber will be replaced by other sentinels or ppl will have 2 ini 2 duelist and play aggressive like in first strike/pre astra nerf times

guess liquid just trying 2 duelist and most other teams think other sentis will be good