potter is really head and shoulders above the competition
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potter is really head and shoulders above the competition
If you want to use all the vct 2024 games:
This is just split 1 stats?
Doesn't include madrid or kick//off.
(not a sen fan but) Honestly, they havent been terrible just not as great as they were in madrid.
Split ban. Finally teams are respecting sentinels' split which really helped them at the start of the season. Having an "almost" guaranteed map win is super strong. Almost every team that has won an international event had a map like this in their arsenal.
Lotus defense side. With split being banned this required sentinels to find a new map pick, which was Lotus. Yes it is attack sided but the manner in which they are required to comeback to salvage their map pick is simply unsustainable. The flaws were shown versus Leviatan but individual brilliance helped to distract from the issues.
Unlucky?: I feel like Loud played their best valorant versus sentinels, the issues with the format is that dips in form can really influence the playoff picture. Loud had a tough start to the season with visa issues hurting their preparations and compositional question marks which they were struggling to resolve.
Bind choke vs EG: This is the game that will have probably cost them playoffs. Absolute mental breaker. This loss is why sentinels can only blame themselves.
Reminds me of a certain Belgian and his opinions on duelists.
I can understand thinking a role is overrated but flat out not using the agents is shooting yourself in the foot.
He's been overhated imo, as a rookie coming in midseason his performances has been about as expected.
I like his raze movement though.
His gekko util is great.
Will be interesting to see his jett.
Can definitely see him growing as the season progresses.
Competitive environments bring the worst out of people, especially when things are seemingly out of your control.
Besides, with the way a lot of other pros are reacting, this behaviour seems commonplace in T1/t2.
there was also a reddit account that posted a while back about the supposed "bribing to get a player kicked" from dsg.
So someone in the team/close to the team/players went out of their way to make burners talking about this stuff.
I believe this is correct:
What GE Needs:
What Bleed Needs:
What T1 needs:
GE round differential is so bad that T1 have to lose now.
Even if T1 wins 2-1, the gap in round differential is too large.
Nope, this game is purely for championship points for dfm.
wait let me think./
Seems like they use maps won as a tiebreaker, when teams have the same record and same map differential.
(its also like this for blg and wolves in CN, despite wolves having a better round differential).
Starxo is becoming the polish qraxs.
Koi looked a lot better today (maps 2 + 3), really could've won.
Koi actually managing to convert man advantages.
I wouldn't mind keeping Grubinho instead of profek.
I really like westside though, incredibly talented.
Reminds of less, especially in terms of his aim.
oh wait... we forgot about patitek.
Duelist: Kaajak
Flex: Kamyk
Initiator: Molsi (Igl)
Controller: Profek
Sentinel: Westside
Strats?: Polska gurom.
Right now the meta comps are really bad for chamber.
Buffing chamber could easily lead to some very bad power creep if they decide to nerf some of the meta agents.
Valorant is more exciting for viewers with the sacrifice being competitiveness.
Every game in VCT has so much weight to it, the pressure for every game is so high.
Losing a game is incredibly punishing and can derail your entire season.
I prefer the CS format because there is so many more events, matches and formats.
Teams aren't punished as hard for underperforming because they have the opportunity to perform at another event.
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Yeah I feel like he shouldve worded it differently.
The premise is that the individual talent of the roster was super high on furia 2023, they just failed to work as a cohesive unit.
With the mental aspect being the major flaw of furia.
nah wo0t has been the most hyped up prospect of the franchising era.
Demon1 was more of an unknown quantity to the masses.
Depends on the opponent + what side your are on + what happened in the pistol (planting bomb helps).
Being able to buy a sheriff really helps to increase your chances of causing an upset.
Loud's buy (atleast from what im looking at) is slightly different from the fpx/navi buy, opting for more guns on round 2.
Navi try to give ardiis the vandal, with him always dying in a position where the gun is recoverable.
Atleast from what I saw in the kru vs loud game, kru managed to pick off a player early using a sheriff.
Which required loud to either rotate over or quickly get more map control + space, which did not work well.
It's because their second round is so good.
3 rifles + 2 pistols.
Which normally results in them having almost an entire rifle buy for the bonus.
My conclusion is that Deryeon is chill af.
Because the guy who used to write those articles doesnt write articles anymore.
Riot's approach to pushing major changes so late into the off//season is so bad.
The chamber one hurt so many teams who failed to consider it.
This current one, the major skye nerf, hurt some of the old static teams that failed to adapt in time for kick//off.
Current NRG are not beating fnatic.
Once you ban breeze nrg are finished.
Things are just not flowing like they used to.
Getting caught too often.
I am going to have heart attack
It can matter a lot depending on other results.
Especially the map differential.
Well in 2023, saadhak and less rotated between viper or kj duty depending on the map.
We don't actually know why Saadhak decided to push towards these sentinel-less comps.
You could easily argue that it was in reaction to the map pool and how retake heavy the meta was becoming.
QCK has not been good enough but neither has the rest of Loud.
Also, dgzin? really.
Loud's issues are deeper than just QCK.
Although having aspas would help paper over the cracks.
I wouldn't be surprised if they increased its cost by 1.
Currently it's very easy, especially on attack side, to farm multiple ults per half and a ult for the bonus round.
Gekko's kit literally incentives teams to let gekko plant/defuse (wingman).
An ultimate on the bonus round, if correctly used, can really snowball in a larger lead.
A few teams have already created gameplans around farming orbs + plants to create this ult advantage for the bonus round.
Liquid would be more of a "undercook" , like the roster is just TL + apeks core.
An overcooked roster would be T1.
The calibre and frequency of top talent is still lower than last year, i'm not denying that there isn't talent in turkey.
Ruxic + hiro have been the most interesting ones in my opinion.
Xeus aswell considering it's his debut t2 season.
Sociablee is interesting as a fragging IGL but i'm waiting to see what he can do at ascension.
Definitely the league with the most mechanical players.
It does lack good igls + mental though.
I do think this years "graduates" aren't as good as last year (wo0t/riens/reazy/y2j/elite).
The talent pool for last year for ridiculous.
Sentinels were the best team in the world at the point in time, so no.
yeah probably wo0t or governor.
okay holy shit wo0t
What it does show is how good heretics' trading & spacing is.
3 first deaths from miniboo which were insta traded.
The rest of the rounds miniboo successfully won the first duel.
The heretics firepower is just too much for liquid to handle.
Half the atk rounds have just been a carbon copy with heretics just out trading and out aiming
heretics probably haven't even opened their strat book yet.
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