I think you underestimate the player base. It might be uncomfortable at first but people would adapt rather quickly. It’s kinda like how people have to remember whether an enemy clove died within range of the spike because of the risk of a defuse in a clutch. Also, I think it’s a good thing to raise the skill floor by rewarding players who can anticipate risk and prepare for it accordingly. The game already expects you to do that with Ult cycles and I don’t believe that we should try to reduce complexity for the comfort of the casuals.

The C is meant to be an initiation/stall tool primarily with the added benefit of giving Miks a slight movement option as a mix up. It gives him the option of playing more like an initiator or a duelist, making him competitive with Omen who has a chokehold on the class.

If you’re team oriented, you’ll probably use the heal/stim of Harmonize as well as the stun of Banger. If you’re more aggressive though, I can imagine a synergy between the reveal and the Banger bounce which would let you scale on someone you’ve pinged before they can react to you. I just wanted to increase skill expression while forcing the player to decide which direction was better.

I don’t see how that’s an issue. Every agent has counterplay and all you’d have to do is play on site and keep them at the chokes, rather than letting them get to the spike. At the same time, if they smoke the bomb and you’re in it, they won’t hear you and you can kill people entering it without them immediately reacting.

Also, it counters the timing of post-plant util but doesn’t actually block any of it or bullets. It also makes it impossible for the player who’s inside trying to defuse to hear you scale so you could just run at them? It’s just another layer to consider that could both hurt or benefit Miks depending on how they choose to play.

What’s the issue with the smokes?

I think the Q has some interesting play patterns because it requires you to shoot it accurately to deploy so it’s not guaranteed. If you land it on a teammate then you both get rewarded but heals get interrupted if you take damage so you have to decide whether you wanna slow down to get the complete heal or to keep fighting with the stim. The double recon tag is my favorite part because it acts as soft info for your team (hard to play off yourself cuz the person you ping sees you) or as hard info in a clutch scenario that goes both ways. Do you take the risk of giving your location away but also getting theirs?

Omen, Veto, Chamber all have movement abilities. Hell, you can even use Sova, Breach, and Harbor ult to boost up too.

His smoke is shorter than Brim and Harbor’s. His stun can be used for lineups but they’re breakable and have a slight delay before going off. Only perk is that they can go through walls but so can all of the other stuns?? His ult is weaker than all of the other AOE site exec ones given it knock backs, deafens, and slows but doesn’t decay, stun, blind, or hinder. It’ll also only be relevant 2 rounds a half.

You are not a knower, sorry dude.

Don’t need to. They slapped all of the worst util in the game on him and called it good.

Stuns are cosmetic and his can be broken before it goes off.

Heals are reliant on teammates surviving duels and rendezvousing with you.

Stims are decent but it’s not even team wide so it’s not great for rushes, only rotations.

Ult only comes by twice a half and is worse than Waylay, Fade and Harbor’s.

He won’t even feel good to play because he’s got zero outplay potential outside of normal smoke stuff. Just gonna replace Sage as the boosted duo’s pick to help out smurfing Neons snowball.

Yeah, I don’t know why his smokes don’t have an individual quirk like the rest of the cast.

Signature: Interference (2) Miks summons an orb smoke that silences any audio between the interior and exterior of it.

C: Banger (1) Miks fires a miniature speaker that lands before exploding after a small delay, knocking back anyone to the edge of its radius. Any enemy who impacts a wall will be stunned. Miks can also use it to boost himself similar to a Raze Satchel. (Has 60 hp)

Q: Harmonize (2) With a finger snap, Miks fires off a very narrow sound wave that can be bounced once. If it hits an ally, both them and Miks will receive a stim and slow heal. If it hits an enemy, both players will receive a reveal of each other, similar to a Sova scan.

Ultimate: Bass Drop (8 pt) : Miks crouches and slams both hands into the ground, creating an ascending pressure wave that momentarily anchors anyone it hits in place. Anyone hit by it will be deafened and give off a bass audio cue at their location.

Thoughts?

He should but they should make his drone the signature and make that rechargeable instead. Give it a minute cooldown and he’ll be able to properly default like the other initiators as well.

Nah, we beat teams from every region. Just happened to beat ourselves in the end too

PRX never beat an EMEA team and NS never beat a CN team.
Can you really say they’re the best itw?

3/10

GF was predictable and slop. Too many 2-0s and my region got absolutely cooked by Pacific Meta. Only plus was the crowd.

Look at the whole tournament and the main factor in their playstyle and Dambi is the easy pick

They also only barely lost OT map 3

VCT Korea + PRX

1. G2
2. NRG
3. M8
4. PRX

Buff the sentinels and give Neon a minor nerf and NS run the T1 special

They got Dambi off Neon on a map that they’re just one of the best on

No, they’re not using set strats with their ults on swing rounds

Why are these EMEA frogs talking like this Meta isn’t the worst thing for them? You guys are horrible at double duelist.

It’s not cope lmao. I’m just talking about the general meta shift that favors Neon because Vyse and Cypher have no stopping power. The Neon makes shotguns unbelievably strong and Nongshim leverage that synergy the best. It’s the same way NRG used the Odin during their champs run to highlight how paper-thin all the maps were.

Individual form is based on the day but general gameplay and comps is meta dependent and will favor the team that adapts to it best.

It’s their perma because they didn’t want to put any prep into it and use that time instead to strengthen their other maps.

They’re just good in this meta. Not sure why it’s surprising but I guess the idea of winning is foreign to you.

This is what you get when you gut the sentinels and make defaulting weaker than site executes.

It’s not Nongshim’s fault though. If not them, it would have been someone else.

Pacific owns Masters

Americas owns Champions

EMEA owns Micky Mouse Tournaments (Lock-In and EWC)

China owns flukes and round-trip flight tickets

Brained your way into second place

I’m not surprised it’s a Pacific GF

Makes yah wonder if teams threw corrode scrims against G2 to make them think they were good

Why? Just lock in bro

Valyn is literally him tho

Either way, Jingg has the weakest Phoenix so far lmao

Win the GF so we get the proper Sentinel buffs we deserve so that we can go back to Champs 2025 meta instead of this horrendous double duelist shit.

Pretty much. It’ll force more defaulting, making initiators more valuable again. On the other hand, teams may start running triple duelist to brute force it.

Neon | Yoru | Waylay | Fade | Astra

Only the best at Raze. Worst Phoenix at the event. Weaker Neon than Dambi and potentially Mada. His Omen is good but it’s a coin flip against Keiko’s just because they have different playstyles.

Ay that doesn’t sound too bad

You’ve choked 4 GF while we’ve only choked 1

Straight up considering supporting SEN for JonahP cuz an underdog is better than a serial choker.

Done

In their post-match interview, Valyn said that they had good scrim results that just didn’t translate to on stage against the Pacific teams.

Says the bandwagon lmao

The change is good. The team is shit.

Bangkok was choke. We’re just shit this tournament.

If this is how it’s gonna be, I’d rather G2 never make an international again. All we’re doing is reducing the number of teams that can win a trophy from our region and securing disappointment instead.

Drop that fraud JoshRT who insists on fucking our map veto every single tournament. We have a top 2 Pearl and Bind and we keep insisting on losing a map in Corrode every damn match. Offer Mini the bag.

Drop Babybay and pick up Seven or Patmen. Whole team needs to improve their mental instead of praying for a Honeymoon period with a Vibes Merchant.

Whole new meta brother. The Pacific meta apparently.

Sick of this Veto terrorist we have for a coach. Can’t win pistols and toss easy rounds with just enough clutches to make me believe we’re good. This Babybay guy is a such a fraud too.

What is this EMEA bum waffling about

PRX are dealing with a first time Vyse with a solo duelist. Should be difficult for them

Celebrate after we win

If only G2 could have gotten Zekken. That would have been so good