Which teams created which metas?

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Mooony

Eg. Vision Strikers made stingers meta

Edit: thanks a lot for all the answers, seems pretty interesting

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DRX made Breach meta.
Optic (or maybe even Knights) made Neon meta. (edit: not true according to most people)
SEN made Astra meta.
PRX resurrected double duelist meta lol.
Gambit didn't necessarily pioneer an agent-specific meta but they definitely innovated lurking with how nAts plays.

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wizardbot

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Gambit was the first team to tinker with neon on split. It was copied by some na teams too, redgar made a tweet about it

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pretty sure Akrew actually used neon first on fracture
edit: this is the earliest one I could find https://www.vlr.gg/67361/tsm-vs-akrew-champions-tour-north-america-stage-1-challengers-lr5

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Fregs99

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He said on split no fracture

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nutab1e

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I'm replying to the first guy I'm not saying gambit didn't do that

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FoechiGG

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ay what da leafs doing

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nutab1e

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I forgot one day lmfao but imma still continue anyways. Day 8 tonight.

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its not about who did it first

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ItsMeDio

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VS
DRX
Gambit
Optic (recently with chamber)
PRX (double duelist, yoru) maybe
Vanity (judge, astra, viper post plant meta)

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kristof

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Kayo - EU(dont know which team, everyone picked it up when he got buffed)
omen one ways on split - Acend
Neon - Gambit, Liquid
Fade - Fnatic, FPX
Chamber - Liquid, G2

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ItsMeDio

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neon, & fade meta is not created by that teams
in APAC, some teams use them quite early

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kristof

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these teams used them early too

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williamm

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100t first used kayo

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kristof

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using an agent first doesnt mean creating meta
kayo was probably the worst initiator before the flash buff

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ItsMeDio

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NA is the first region that incorporating kayo to comp (im not sure if it's 100t or c9)

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C9 and xeppaa in particular were the first to do it in a way where other ppl took to it.

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Hewcho

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acend created bind meta

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SeulgiVLR

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v1 made astra and postplant meta or atleast maximized it

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nutab1e

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Ive played against him in ranked, but obv thats not the same thing. I think if there was no post plant, no judge, and no OP metas to abuse and the game properly balanced, he wouldnt be any sort of special IGL at all, open to being wrong on this one

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wizardbot

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I remember the Liquid vs V1 match, that shit was so annoying to watch as a liquid fan.

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Bonecold made omen split meta before controller changes

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wizardbot

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Bonecold running Omen on split and destroying during champions while everyone else stuck on astra was cool to see

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fadezis

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I think DavidP also used it in Giants

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thatpower

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eu created boring meta
sea created downvote meta
kr created one team region meta

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hellohello139

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Neon on fracture- OpTic

It wasn't created by OpTic, Chet himself said but it became meta and all the EU teams started copying when they won

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kristof

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https://www.vlr.gg/84374/kr-esports-vs-team-liquid-valorant-champions-tour-stage-1-masters-reykjav-k-opening-b/?game=77023&tab=overview

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DRX - breach on haven meta

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d00mbr0s

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Man people are so wrong in this thread

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Slashyiguess

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great insight

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archetype

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My apologies if I got it wrong, I know for sure though that DRX/VS definitely pioneered Breach on Haven.

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zardinez

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Let us know what actually happened 👀?

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ItsMeDio

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tell us which one is wrong

#38

fadezis

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Ange1 created viper meta on Bind before even first strike started and never used his creation after it, it was painful :c

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archetype

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it appears not even he could foresee the impact of the monster he had created

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YvngKurry

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DRX - created the breach meta in general
Gambit - didnt exactly create this but they popularized have a lurking sentinel/viper on maps like bind and icebox
Optic - Once again they werent the first to use neon on maps but they used her the best and were the team to popularize her use on maps like fracture split and haven. I also think they were one of the few teams to adopt the chamber meta early and show how powerful he was.
Acend - Were using omen on split even when he was "shit" but showed the power he held with oneways
PRX - Revived the double duelist meta and probably popularized the use of Yoru on maps like bind.
c9 - First started using kayo on breeze during lcq and popularized his use heavily.
Acend - Made the "meta" bind comp and popualrized the use of a single initator, sage, and brim on the map

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DELUSIONAL_LAKIA_FAN

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akrew were the true pioneers of fracture

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trola

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nAts on how you should play your Viper

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Churr0s

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zeta brought astra back on some maps

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number1_100T_fan

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drxvs- breach meta
sen- same thing as prx but worse
prx- use of dual duelist
100T- triple initiator/use of kayo
gambit- default meta (astra viper meta)
v1- post plant
acend- bind comp

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fadezis

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Acend Bind
FNC Fracture
FPX with viper on bind in 2020
FPX with viper on split (very strong middle in defence)
FPX with their current Ascent
Giants in 2021 started use old 2020 Split meta (Raze Jett, Sage, Omen, Cypher)
G2 with current Icebox (Chamber+KJ)