What’s with all this coping about Fnatic being a super team, other teams have tried it and failed only reason ppl are calling em out for it is cos their fav teams are getting smoked
Boaster and Derke been there from like the start, they picked up Alfaer as a rising talent in the Turkish league where he wasn’t considered to be the best at his role even at Istanbul by a lot of ppl and I guarantee no na fans thought he was the best at his role, leo and cloud were both good but FNC got Leo and chronicle was the only proven one
leo literally hard carried guild to LANs and even beat OPTIC in group stage. he had sayf to help but leo was clearly the best pickup for fnc and it wasnt really close. and idk what your argument with boaster, derke and alfa is. just because they did good scouting n shit to pick them up early in valorants history and when alfa was an unknown player doesnt make the team less of a superteam. no one is taking that away from fnc but its still ridiculous that every other EMEA team let fnc get leo and chronicle on top of having an already insane roster
fnc was already insane before franchise and they just dropped their 2 worst players and picked up arguably their current 2 best players
Consider it from Navi's pov. They have insane players and they were considered better than Leo last year because Navi was winning, while Leo was stuck carrying a losing team with Sayf. So they won't drop anyone for Leo. They got cNed instead of ardiis, which seems fair enough.
TL is the team that messed up. They could have gotten Leo, Sheydos or Trexx instead of Soulcas and they would have had a superteam.
Even now, there are players like Leo stuck carrying average teams. We don't rate them higher than the players from top teams, just like everyone rated Navi, Optic, Loud players above Leo last year.
well obviously. i still think TL did just fine and NAVI would be stupid to not take fpx core at the time. its all the other teams that didnt pickup a superstar or two that fucked themselves. i cant see any team other than fnc, navi, and TL win anything out of EMEA cuz every other team is lacking fire power
Navi has similar firepower. You won't agree now because Fnatic plays better than Navi, but if you asked to compare these players last year, people would prefer the Navi players even though Leo was still playing well on Guild.
TL could have made a similar team by just picking up Sheydos or Trexx instead of Soulcas when they had the chance. (Yes, Cloud looks like a better option now, but back then, he wasn't considered better than Sheydos and Trexx).
These players still exist:
Shao, Suygetsu, Sayf, nAts, Trexx, Zyppan, cNed
Last year when Leo and Sayf were carrying Guild and still losing, nobody here called them the best in the world. They were just considered good players on bad teams. People still rated Marved, Pancada, Less, Sacy, Crashies, and other players from top teams above Leo. Now that Fnatic picked up Leo and Chronicle, "they are the best in the world". TL got nAts and Sayf. They could have had a superteam if they got Sheydos/Trexx instead of Soulcas, but they didn't. Navi still has 4 players of superteam caliber (these 4 players were considered above Leo by most people when Leo was stuck on Guild).
I am just happy that people are realizing how good Leo and Sayf are.
Trexx is also good. He is just on a team that isn't working.
Sheydos is in the same situation as Trexx.
At least now, we should realize that there are really good players on teams that are losing, but we don't pay attention to them because their teams are bad and they don't have results.
no shit people are gonna underrate people if they lose all the time lmao. guild was in a perma 4v5 because they had russ on their team. if they had a DECENT player to replace russ they wouldve been really good and leo wouldve been regarded as one of the best initiators itw. btw all the people you named left in groups, didnt make to tokyo, or only beat 1 team then got booted. fnc are shitting on every team they play against (especially EMEA) and b4 you say some dogshit about how TL beat fnc in finals, if fnc didnt hide strats and fully tried, it wouldve been a 3-0
I am trying to say that there are good underrated players still available. What matters is recognizing them and forming a good team, and we will start calling them a superteam too if they win consistently.
Yes, they left in groups and didn't make to Tokyo, just like Leo and Sayf when Guild was not making LANs.
I think Sentinels can beat Fnatic if they put in the effort. They just need a solid IGL, or Marved should evolve into a god IGL soon.
They have the firepower (Sacy, Pancada, Marved are all international winners, Zekken is a top flex and TenZ has great aim). It's weird when TenZ looks like the weakest link in a team.
People would call Sentinels a superteam if they win dominantly in a row, but it's harder in NA (the gap between teams is smaller in NA).