I want to know what your definition of "better" is when determining if a region is better than others. Is it depth? Overall skill level? Or just how good the top teams are?

TROPHIES, EU CLEARS🗿

Imo it's a mix of that.

If you want to consider all time, I think trophies is the obvious metric.

If you want to talk about rn, I think there are many metrics that need to be used, together.
Ranked for importance:
1) strength of the top teams
2) strength of the top players
3) competitiveness of the league
4) strength of the middle teams
5) strength of the bottom teams

Average placement of a region matters more, because if you look at it, sure EMEA has a lot of trophies, but the thing about EMEA is, they always have that one team that's so good that they win the entire event. That doesn't mean the region as a whole is good. In Masters Tokyo, the average placement for Americas teams was 4.66, 6.33 for Pacific and 7 for EMEA. It gets even worse for EMEA when you remove FNC.

EMEA has the most trophies, sure. But that doesn't mean they're the undisputed "best region" in Valorant. They're just super top heavy.
Take a look in VCT EMEA as well. KC, KOI, TH and BBL are literally so bad compared to the 5th and 6th best team in EMEA.

adilKhan [#4]

Average placement of a region matters more, because if you look at it, sure EMEA has a lot of trophies, but the thing about EMEA is, they always have that one team that's so good that they win the entire event. That doesn't mean the region as a whole is good. In Masters Tokyo, the average placement for Americas teams was 4.66, 6.33 for Pacific and 7 for EMEA. It gets even worse for EMEA when you remove FNC.

EMEA has the most trophies, sure. But that doesn't mean they're the undisputed "best region" in Valorant. They're just super top heavy.
Take a look in VCT EMEA as well. KC, KOI, TH and BBL are literally so bad compared to the 5th and 6th best team in EMEA.

2021 shows otherwise

GreyDaze [#5]

2021 shows otherwise

Every region has their year
2021 was EMEA dominated
2022 was NA and BR dominated

And you can't even say that 2023 is EMEA's year because only one team from EMEA has won both the international events. The rest aren't even coming close.

adilKhan [#6]

Every region has their year
2021 was EMEA dominated
2022 was NA and BR dominated

And you can't even say that 2023 is EMEA's year because only one team from EMEA has won both the international events. The rest aren't even coming close.

Navi lost to fnc in semis at lockin and Liquid the second best eu team finished just one spot behind Americas 2nd best NRG at Masters.

On top of that FNC gaps everyone.

You dont want to face reality but EU is just better

Congo1 [#7]

Navi lost to fnc in semis at lockin and Liquid the second best eu team finished just one spot behind Americas 2nd best NRG at Masters.

On top of that FNC gaps everyone.

You dont want to face reality but EU is just better

Good take
I have taught you well i see

don’t care na better

hope this helps

Congo1 [#7]

Navi lost to fnc in semis at lockin and Liquid the second best eu team finished just one spot behind Americas 2nd best NRG at Masters.

On top of that FNC gaps everyone.

You dont want to face reality but EU is just better

the cherry picking is crazy

Congo1 [#7]

Navi lost to fnc in semis at lockin and Liquid the second best eu team finished just one spot behind Americas 2nd best NRG at Masters.

On top of that FNC gaps everyone.

You dont want to face reality but EU is just better

Where is NAVI now? Also Liquid played below average for a team that finished #1 in their region, 5th-6th is not impressive tbh

FNC gaps everyone, sure. But EMEA as a whole doesn't. If there's a match up between the 6th-9th placed teams from each region, EMEA would absolutely get rolled over.

adilKhan [#11]

Where is NAVI now? Also Liquid played below average for a team that finished #1 in their region, 5th-6th is not impressive tbh

FNC gaps everyone, sure. But EMEA as a whole doesn't. If there's a match up between the 6th-9th placed teams from each region, EMEA would absolutely get rolled over.

where is Loud???

Keep living in your delusions. Since FNC started dominating you gotta find something to cope about i guess