japan looks so far behind since forever.. kinda feel bad.. what can they do??
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how to help japan?
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And Japan has always had the second best environment in APAC in terms of the size of the orgs, the big tournaments, the tier 2 salaries, Riot's interest, everything. Since the game launched.
It took just three years for the LPL to go from a trash league that Koreans laughed at to sweep LCK. Before that, In my eyes, Japan is no different from the level of China at that time winning Worlds was easier than winning the LCK.
Bro you are even comparing china who has a very long history with mobas where is japan whos player base started playing with mice and keyboard maybe in like early 2019 for apex and even that, the majority of them played in console versions. its only when the pandemic started where pc games were gaining popular.
i feel like japan have the esports privilege but not the talent its because of the culture of their organization.
theres not a single game that japan is good at esports except for fighting games, even that is individual esports. their orgs tend to be pragmatic when it comes to winning and not as ambitious as korean and chinese orgs where they have the guts to import players just for the sake of winning culture
Forget the winning culture, they don't even have the "i am the best player" culture/mindset. They all play like chickens on Tokyo server competitive.
9 out of 10 games no one autolocks , which looks good at first but is also a proof that they don't have confidence in their pick.
I always play on Singapore server and on a 1v5 situation, 90% of the time the last player will try to win the round.
In Tokyo server they instantly run and hide to the other site on a 3v5 postplant.
Yeah if you auto lock and didn't perform they will talk trash to you either verbally or with some good old pinging. And they want to avoid that to be done that to themselves that is why they dont auto lock. Theres not much shown agressive toxicity in tokyo server like in sea but too much passive ones they dont say it in your face.
It's easy if you have patience. I have Ascendant 3 and Silver account, both ranks play the same way.
Just don't pick duelist or you will lose your shit. On attack, yourJapanese teammates will just sit on A main or B main until 30 secs remaining. Even if you get 2 entry kills, they won't enter the site lmao.
Gather the 4 or 5 best Japanese talents on one team and import an outstanding coach, then maybe there will be a great Japanese team. Language would be an issue though. Nothing can help the region as a whole. Esports isn't really apart of Japanese culture like it is in China or Korea. Current DFM is the best we're going to see anytime soon. Maybe the Riddle core is better than Fennel but I doubt they'd perform highly in t1.
The level of strategy that other teams in Pacific have has overtaken ZETA. ZETA on their miracle-run were relatively creative whilst maintaining discipline. Unfortunately, when your specialism of strategy is quickly overtaken like it is now, it's a very bleak future for Japanese Valorant. We can see how Korean teams are improving constantly and developing new strategies that work very often against many teams. Teams like PRX who look at a glance like they just run it down are very creative with their aggression and it makes ZETA very uncomfortable.
If I had to pinpoint their needed improvements, it's their willingness to risk-take and have those agent-synergies that Korean and Chinese teams have found. Vyselock has been so pivotal in changing how some maps are played. If Japan can find that sort of unique development and have deep strategies with it, they will be a lot more dangerous.
Beyond this, they definitely need to level up their mechanics. I cannot say exactly how the Radiant Japanese players weigh up against other regions, but on a bigger picture, Thai, Korean and Indonesian players seem to have a higher mechanical ceiling now. Dep looked good on Neon today against PRX, but it's not feasible to have one player who can take over a map. Syouta and Xdll showed some glimpses of greatness too. But as it stands, Japanese Valorant is a few steps behind the pack. The positive I can say is that this ZETA looks much better than last year's mess. Hiroronn being on the wrong role for the majority of the year and Yuran being the biggest flop definitely did not help their case, but the FENNEL reinforcements look so much better. They just need to innovate something and run with it.
ZETA Academy producing all the sentinels, but it's good to see him finding that improvement. He definitely needed some more Tier 2 exposure since he just had extremely poor decision making. Hope he continues to improve since I won't forget all the confidence he had in himself during the "Know Your Enemy" content VCT Pacific produced. I like confidence, but it definitely needs to be backed up by mechanical or tactical skill.
Learn F'ing english... The only reason goated player from VCJ like smth,jemkin,kr1stal,etc not playing on their team is their inability and unwillingness to speak and learn english.
Korean and Chinese despite having the same struggle as other east asian are much more accepting to learning english so they can easily adapt to other team/region (not like they need to import any player from other region).
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