ILL [#21]
breeze is excellent ascent and haven too... prestige is high ppl love it a lot everytime i go see twitch there will be atleast 30k more viewers than csgo ( not during a tourney) which means there a lot more valorant players who stream all day small ones 90%....prize pools aint low...600k for the first LAN tourney is good cuz in the first tourney there will teams who will jus dominate not enough competition ( eg sen in Iceland:- would u think SEN deserve more than 200K playing really shit teams where some qualifed by flukes like fnc TL NUTURN) the next one with acend, fpx, sen ,vision strikers , better Brazilian teams... better SEA teams cuz val has become huge in SEA (constant tourneys) "washed csgo pros" who else do u expect to join in a brand new game where the pros wont know wether to risk switching or not? Wait for a few years and there will be pure valorant pros...and the "washed pros" are kinda doing shit in val rn too... watching comp games aint boring lol... different strates with abilities aint boring...as i said once the MINOR gun issues get fixed i think val is set to become real huge
AND the first LAN tourney was without audience too so the prize relatively had to be low right?
Im pretty damn sure Berlin finna have 900k-1million prize pool...where winners take 400k
ascent is the only good map in the pool
breeze, icebox, haven, extremely gimmicky maps that require agents like viper and tons and tons of post plants
bind and split are just pure garbo
There is many problems with Valorant at the moment, abilities aren't really fun to watch, they're like the least fun aspect of the game because you always use them in the same way. People think there are more agents so there would be more interesting way to play the game, nope.
One thing you can do to check is hop on Asuna's stream, watch how pros play Icebox, it's literally the exact same way to play every single round, it's not remotely fun to watch or has any depth to it.
That's the real issue, despite having so many agents and so many abilities, you can't balance them all to be "good" at the same level, there's always MUST HAVE agents at the pro level (viper, sova/skye, jett) that basically locks in your play style. It's not like CS where each person has the same utility which makes tactics actually much more dynamic than in Val.
So, Riot needs to completely revamp their game to change this, minor balance patches will not do anything, but I don't see them doing it because they've never had a good track record of making ground breaking changes like these. (They're satisfied with bringing a lot of casual fanbase, but their games have depths of puddles)