most improved player this year?

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Who do you think it is?

Personally I would go with alfajer, I think hes gone from strength to strength from Surreal to FNC
hes been performing consistently throughout the year whilst playing against tougher and tougher opponents

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I'd say Bang tbh.

He always had latent potential but TSM kind of ruined his credibility and people wrote him off when 100T signed him.

Fast forward a top-twelve Champions appearance via LCQ and an offseason tournament win, people now regard him as the top NA Controller.

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no one wrote him off 💀

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he definitely got wrote off after getting kicked from TSM

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G2ShahZaM

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no he didnt lmaoooo stop making stuff up to help your own narrative smh.. and switch to 100T flair

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Mjtchell

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This isnt a narrative this is something that legit happened.

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idk if its just me
but whenever i saw him in t2 tournaments with b0i and the other bbg players i always thought he was still a good flex player
i didnt think he would be this good obv but he always had good performances in the t2 scene

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Bang has had a quite meteoric rise this year. from failing to qual for S1 challengers with bbg to qualifying to champions through lcq and taking down c9 at redbull home ground

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Uxind

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Bro got a better team and you consider him "improved"? kkkkkkkkk
Average braindead Near Airport fan.

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thjing

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??? He was kinda mid on TSM honestly

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people should stop replying to this uxind guy honestly

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i think most improved this year has to be mindfreak, he used to be really mid in '21 but now hes arguably top 1 controller in apac league (only competition imo being MaKo from DR ekis ekis)

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sScary?

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in apac league

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sscary is playing ascension with bleed

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thatpower

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nah he had one good tournament then became mid again

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WinterZ

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this

mindfreak overhyped imo

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Most improved: Bang and maybe Will? Will had a fantastic Champs, but was always considered the worst player on 100T.
Fallen off the most: Yacine

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Zephyros

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when was he ever rly that gud
he always had hot or cold games (mostly cold)

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bang 100% imo

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SugarZ3ro went from being a mediocre smokes player on NTH to being a top three controller in the world

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top 3????? wake up

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ur smoking lmfaooo
suygetsu
nats
mako
sscary
mindfreak
bang
vanity
valyn
marved???

sugarzero is not better than any of these players (- maybe vanity and valyn, which still doesnt put him in the top 5+ controller itw)

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Flyjin

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he is 400% better than sscary, valyn, vanity, mindfreak, and probably on par with bang and suygetsu

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KyLZi

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SugarZ3ro is hella underrated.

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Flyjin

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not underrated in asia lol, everyone knows hes a monster

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i disagree.
suygetsu has peaked alot higher that sugarz3ro and is overall just better imo

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true, maybe suy is better, but the rest is pretty accurate

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Marved
MaKo
SugarZ3ro

NAts and Suygetsu only plays Viper
sScary and Mindfreak are close but I’d still say SugarZ3ro is better
Valyn and Vanity LMFAO
Bang is valid but needs to prove himself more

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NAts and Suygetsu only plays Viper

nats is literally known for his cypher

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I’m only talking about smokes

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major champ didn't even make it 😹

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masterX

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Dude really forget pancada

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The person I was replying to didn’t mention Pancada bro

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Suygetsu isn't even a controller player...Shao and ANGE1 play more smokers than him...

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shao only plays controller because ange1s brain is old and he forgot that shao plays best on info initiators

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Flyjin

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guy was never mediocre on NTH lol, people who watched NTH saw it was him and seoldam carrying that team

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I remember Seoldam and TENNN carrying, SugarZ3ro was solid but no where near carrying like he does today

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"top three controller".
Smartest VLR user kkkkkkk.

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Pancada's the best in my opinion
Followed up by Marved/Mako
I couldn't put SugarZ3ro even on the next tier. Can't quite compete with players like Bang.

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Top 3?? Marved, Pancada, Mako is the top 3 no doubt bruh, and the other Bang, suygetsu

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BatChest Skrossi

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Gotta be Bang

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SigmaMale

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me. went from silver 3 to diamond 2

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W

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Uxind

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From garbage to still being garbage at the game.
Congrats!

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from rags to rags ☠️☠️☠️

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💀💀💀

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people saying Bang after one 3rd party tournament lmao

player who has actually achieved something like Suygetsu, Ardiis etc way more deserved for this title

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wdym? bang has been on 100T all year

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patuj

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So?

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?????
Bang went from mid and unrecognized in t2 (tsm) and even shit talked to being a top 5 maybe even top 3 smokes player
Besides this is for most improved player why include ardiis hes been pretty consistent all year

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I think Shao, Suygetsu, and ardiis should be considered.

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I agree on shao/suygetsu but i think ardiis had a decent 2021 but he has still improved on his performances from that year

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Shao was insane last year as well. He has always been. At least Ardiis fell off pretty hard considering his G2 days and proved everyone wrong this year. While Suygetsu was pretty mid player in forZe to my memory.

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Yeah you are right, shao was putting up good numbers for fpx in 2021
they just werent that successful yet

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I mean FPX were top EU team early 2021 and most expected them to make it to Masters 2 Reykjavik and even win it, but then something went wrong and they became a meme team for rest of 2021. They were playing weird comps etc.

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Suy wasn't mid himself, his team was mid, they had 2 good players, him and zeddy, so obviously they weren't good enough to be tier 1.

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Bro they have always been very good players.
It's clear you know nothing about valorant esports scene kkkkkkkk

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KyLZi

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kkkkkkk

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ALFAJER OFC

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lol easily buzz, went from random smokes player on c9k to best duelist in korea

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leo maybe?

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patuj

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Leo was considered as one of the bests in EMEA even in 2021.

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he was a strong player but i dont remember if he was considered one of EMEA's best back then, i could be wrong but i thought it was all chronicle and shao then that were considered the cracked sova players

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He was. He was literally the star of Guild and even at one point was considered as arguably the best controller player in EMEA. He was flexible as fuck and really good. Good amount of people were expecting him to take the duelist role on Guild 2022 because of how good he was, but he stick with initiator role.

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One of the best in 2021? Nonono

High rated player in 2021? Yes

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Uxind

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Smartest fnatic fan kkkkkkkk

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Shao,Bang,Alfajer,buzzy wuzzy,Mako,sscary,mindfreak,f0rsaken and jinggg

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^ Clearly doesn't watch much valorant esports and is silver max kkkkkkkk

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a lot of those pros were unproven last year

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Do you know what most improved means? kkkkkk

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all of those pros improved a lot, like bang going from t2 to literally being a top 3 controller in NA

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Less was only a 16 years old boy from a tier 2 team and become world champions in less than a year kkk

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i forgot abt less

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shao was good last year
mako wasnt bad last year either
ur smoking crack on sscary, 2021 was the only year in which he was good (super mid in '22 imo)

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alfajer, suygetsu, and bang

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Alfajer maybe.
The rest has always been good players...

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i don't think anyone knew who suygetsu was at his time on forze. and bang was just a typical rank demon until he joined 100t.

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Less was only a 16 years old boy from a tier 2 team and become world champions in less than a year

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thatpower

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yeah i forgot about him

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Less

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Alfajer👍🏻

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Less

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wronski fs

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jinggg

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Mindfreak

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Redgar, Alfajer, bang, suygetsu

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redgar?!?!?!?!?!?!?

major champ "improved" by not making lans this year xdddd

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He improved his aim, m3c was bad cuz of war situations

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ur coping
m3c was bad because of d3ffo throwing and 0 org support, not because of war
thats like saying s1mple could've played better if there was no war, like sure thats true but theres more important reasons as to why he didnt play as good this year as he did last year

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War situations made 0 org support, s1mple is playing good cuz navi still supports him and team if there was no war gambit could be top tier team easily

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yeah and if they actually had a good full time duelist/oper
chronicle is good but he's best on flashes/info. d3ffo is trash, Lady cant play duelist either.

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Pancada went from unknown outside of Brazil to the MVP of the biggest tournament all year, it has to be him. Plenty of other guys have been great but Cryo and Alfajer are IMO the only two who could compete with Pancada.

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Ardiis and bang

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Less was a young ranked talent, he is getting better every tournament.

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Bang, suygetsu, mindfreak but how are people forgetting about ardiis lol? People were like why the fuck is fpx signing this washed noob named ardiis. Infact, he performance was subpar compared to the best emea jetts like sayf and the russian jetts. Easily the most improved duelist/chamber.

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NAVI flair kkkkk
All those you listed are frauds KEKW.
Ardiis had to move to NA for easier competition
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

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True, but cant blame ardiis. He can farm bots in NA in arguably the best support system there. The choice wasnt tough at all, play in the most competitive and hardest region or farm free NA bots with no competition.

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anyone from leviatan, especially shyy
onur buff

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Ngl. Its Skrossi

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Less

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Most improved: Cryocells, bro went from playing kinda inconsistently on teams like SoaR and PUGSTARS last year to playing like a superstar on LAN with XSET and now franchised on 100T.

Most Fallen Off: Surf, bro started off this year looking like one of the best Opers in the world and ended it looking like a bot. (only including VCT games for these stats btw)

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Less, come from nowhere and became the best sentinel in the world

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its marved tbh

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Less, started from nothing to World Champion