There are so many different teams with so many different playstyles that won championships in Valorant's history but one thing was common in all teams: their weak sites on defense felt like strong sites. If you count teams from Optic 2022, you didnt really want to go to yay's site(technically weaker site, usually he is alone or has only 1 people alongside), same with Suygetsu and Less that year, they always got 2+ when they had to or they played retake when they had to.
It was same with Alfajer in 2023, he aggro peeked in 1/4 rounds on defense and all the opponents were conditioned to overuse utility when they hit Alfa's site and FNC had always easier retakes. EG might be the only exception because Boostio was sentinel igl and he didnt frag as heavy as other players but their floods and set retakes offset that slight weakness.
But all the other teams continue with this trend, Tenz played agressive anchor on Sen, same with Meteor in Geng/T1 and smoggy/chichoo in EDG. You might even wanna add TH benjyfishy to this list with how successful and consistent year TH had and how hard it was to hit benjy's sites.
So overall, with how naturally good equal man post-plants are for attackers, you need agressive fragging anchor to have good defense half to win tournaments. Do you think any other team without agressive anchors will succeed again like EG did in 2023 or will this trend continue?
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oiiink [#2]isnt demon1 an aggressive anchor?
I think his roles were never suited for the definition that I am seeking which is agressive anchor on weak site. Demon1 either played jett on strong site with the pack or played astra/brim which are agents that never allowed him to be really agressive because how important the controller is on defense, he usually played rotator with ipad open or in astral mode
A1pha1 [#3]I think his roles were never suited for the definition that I am seeking which is agressive anchor on weak site. Demon1 either played jett on strong site with the pack or played astra/brim which are agents that never allowed him to be really agressive because how important the controller is on defense, he usually played rotator with ipad open or in astral mode
i feel like jetts that just ops and push up holding the site alone is like an aggressive anchor and demon1 also does that
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