In 2024, do you think that Yay will be in a franchising team? Or you think he will be in a tier 2 team?
For me: he goes to NRG (if Ardiis leave)
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Do Yay still have space on franchises?
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This question is gonna get asked a shit ton now post nrg's underwhelming performance isn't it. Yay, though he had a weak performance on dsg, is still a mechanically gifted player with a shit ton of potential. His DSG run can mostly be attributed to the team itself, where no star truly arose with the exception of singular pop off performances on individual maps by yay among others. The thing is, where is he gonna go besides nrg? Unless he changes his package as a duelist/chamber player, a lot of teams in americas at the very least have their duelist already. If he tries to package himself with nitro too, that will only serve to hurt him cause nitro, albeit another great player, hasn't played competitive valorant in two years at this point. No team wants that kind of risk. I know he's tried to market his potential to play other rules, namely sentinels -- considering his reputation for a more passive playstyle that he dominated with last year -- , but it's gonna be difficult when there are plenty more proven support players lying around in t2. The biggest drought in NA is for specifically igls so maybe, just maybe, nitro gets in that way with yay sentinel. That's either brilliant or a guarantee for failure.
For Americas:
Sentinels - Maybe if tenz leaves, but that would probably just mean zekken duelist. (Who knows tf is gonna go on with that roster though. sacy/pancada leaves, marved does whatever the fuck, aspas joins, babyj enters, etc.)
NRG - Most likely because ardiis performance
C9 - Yeahhhh, no. Leaf is still their star and the only changes this roster might make might include dropping their new young talents or maybe reshifting around zellsis. Probably not a lot of changes here.
KRU - Keznit is still great so no.
100t - cryo still great too so no.
mibr , furia, loud, lev - language barrier so no, and we saw how that turned out with sen.
EG - nope.
EMEA and Pacific
All teams: would be funny af
TLDR: Yay still has a decent chance to make it to tier 1, really depends on how he markets himself and whether or not other teams want to make significant changes. Rostermania goes hard though
if he were theoretically to replace stellar, who would igl? Derrek is probably gone too, so maybe nitro initiator? That would require an entire role shift from what he's used to playing. Though nitro played smokes a lot during his past tenure on 100t, I don't think they should drop bang. Dude's still nasty and has a shit ton of potential all things considered. Or just pick up an initiator igl so maybe vanity? I dunno tbh.
they could Flyuh to play initiator igl. imo the problem with cryo/yay would be who is the primary awp, both are very good awpers but one of them has to play more rifle. I'd assume they'd put yay on primary awp on chamber maps and then cryo on primary awp on jett maps but that still feels kind of weird, and unless cryo gets a better agent pool then he's gonna be a jett/chamber player, and that won't cut it with the way the duelist meta is evolving
Honestly the game has evolved so much that teams don’t want Jett one tricks. Flex players are the key if you’re looking for wider map pool. I don’t know if anyone noticed but Raze was probably one of the top selected agent in tokyo and LA, even beating Jett I think this time.
If Yay can play other roles, like a sentinel where victor can play raze, then I’d say he’d fit right into NRG or any other team. And By sentinel I don’t mean Sage, I mean maybe Kj, deadlock, if she gets a buff and or any other role, maybe a controller. Demon1 plays a controller in Fracture and jett in other maps
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