Giannero [#25]
Ok so, you literally say that Lakia is good because he did good in 1 tournament (1 cool round actually), then shat the bed when playing those few times with DRX and is currently shitting the bed in Japan, but no, he did good one time so he's good. I literally can judge sinatraa? He hasn't played pro for a year, he still streams regularly and he's literally the same he was when he played pro. What the fuck does the vitality shit mean? They're terrible rn you can't just say "it's a new team" well, Guard was a new team as well and they got 1 seed in their region. They're playing awfully and h1ber is doing trash as well, and he did too on FNC, trying to excuse his performance is just pathetic. Tenz is putting up good numbers? They literally only played 2 good teams rn, LG and EG, he did good against LG but totally shat the bed against EG, and he's been this inconsistent for too much time rn to say that he's anywhere near the top lmfao. Good aim means shit in valorant if you lack everything else
Lakia barely played on DRX as he was a 6th man, he played fine with them when given the chance as a flex/support. on his current team which looks pretty dogshit, he still top frags on agents like sova, what more do you want him to do? He can't magically make a t2 team t1. NUTURN was proof he can put up numbers, through KR qualifiers and the masters event he was at the top or near the top, it wasn't "1 cool round", he was a flex player who did his job, not a flashy player..
How on earth are you going to judge a player who hasn't been in the pro scene for over a year? SO much has changed in that time, you'd be braindead to say his ranked performance would be the same as his match performance. Ranked =/= Pro play, has this not been said a thousand times?
Vitality being a new team is a perfectly feasible excuse. you look at teams like Optic, Gambit, Acend etc who you could consider/would've considered the best in the world at some points and they didn't start off dominating everybody, they had rough patches but ultimately came out on top due to hard work. Not to say you don't have teams who start off dominating everyone like The Guard, Sentinels, arguably 100T. All teams start differently before finding their real place, judging them at the start of their creation is always gonna lead to disappointment.
Tenz does his job as a duelist, he was arguably the reason they even made it out of open quals. Like i said, he's not a no1 player but i would still place him among the top 10/15 BECAUSE of his mechanical skill which can make him a demon. If you're gonna make a list like this you might aswell have the entirety of Sentinels on here as their whole team is inconsistent. He has proven himself as a top tier player on multiple occasions but their entire team is in a rut right now.