Does kr have a deep enough and diverse enough talent pool for 3 kr teams?
i dont think so. (atleast not right now)
maybe its too early to say but the likes of geng/t1 have not looked great so far.
Or is the issue something else?
"but it showed it can be done" do you think ts and meteor will always have this performance to carry them? and also rely on rb, stax and mako playing bad? like literally, mako playing badly is literally one of the most rare sights of pro valorant (he literally played insane the next map :skull:) stax too.
i agree they have great potential but saying they arent bad because of 1 map is stupid. if they played like that against any other franchising team in the world except the worst ones like bbl or fut they would lose.
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get off my dick broski, it's not necessarily a substitution for because - you just misinterpreted it that way lol
T1 doesn't even look like they have strats
just saya running it down brainlessly hoping to get a pick
also carpe does not look comfortable on valorant yet.
Gen.G took a map off DRX so we'll see if they get better with time similar to T1 but T1 look really rough right now
why do they have Saya on neon on literally every map, put him on jett
Xeta looks great, ban looks uncomfortable on controller and munchkin has been whiffing
There's 4 good Korean players on other teams in the Pacific league, also, it will take some time, but I truly believe there will be a large number of Korean talents in this game in a few years, especially if the most succesful one, DRX can continue to bring attention to Valorant in Korea, hopefully by winning an event
they like to talk about 2021 LCQ but 2/3 kr teams made top 4, 2nd place was carried the entire tourney by seoldam, and 1st place got exposed on LAN
it's really not the gotcha they think it is. better to just agree all asian teams are decent but none of them have won trophies, PRX being the closest to bringing glory home to the continent.
In my personal opinion, I think KR has the developing talent pool in becoming a decent top tier region in APAC. However, that time might not be now (if we were to talk about T2-T3 below).
DRX, NU, Damwon (Dplus), F4Q, and ex-ONS were the only ones who had inter-regional and international experiences.
NU became a fossil. ex-ONS has since been gone and some went to Damwon. Damwon alone didn't have the best of times in the EA LCQ. F4Q did decent, but it was clearly not long term. Out of all four, DRX had the management, resources, talent, and experience, to hold the hegemony that is "Korea's Best Team" just because they didn't change out their roster for the majority and they went to the most intl tournaments.
However, reminder that it took even VS until Masters Berlin 2021 to get here. It took a while. Valorant wasn't that rising game thay is currently ranked 3rd in PC-Bangs across South Korea. Just look at the current VCL KR open qualifiers!
New talents and old talents coming in, new ONS got knocked out, mid-T2 players in Rio Company are having a resurgence. New names and new teams are popping up (62 registered for the open quals.)
Besides the hodge-podge teams of Gen.G and T1 (who spent the majority of their time in NA and barely competing in KR maybe except Munchkin), DRX is the only one that maintained their status quo.
I believe before talent, stability will come first into the KR scene. The T2 scene is recovering from losing DRX, but they still have Dplus, NS, CNJ, WGS, Maru, and SPEAR, all local and proven domestic names.
When that T2 stability finally comes, I believe talent will flourish.
yeah now that valorant is popular in Korea it'll probably be at least a year before some really good kr teams start turning up. it's possible that with the new partnered leagues and VCT format that the development accelerates even within the tier 1 scene, but that's likely just a pipe dream. i figure the pacific league will have to play catch up during 2023 again, the emea/na leagues just look stronger overall.
For last 2.5 years they got every help they possibly could , from the highest prize pools to playing their challengers on LAN and getting a direct slot to the highest stage in Valorant and still barely got any decent players in T2.
This is what happens when all of your players regardless they shit or not all go into franchising teams .
Like it tells you all when players like carpe get a direct spot in a partner team
LCQ was the funniest part of the whole 2.5year timeline when their teams got shit on by EDG and KONE lmao
None of that matters but what makes me angry is all these kr users have alw tried to belittle sea fans and acting superior like they did something
JiangLi is notorious for being a delusional APAC fan to the point where some other APAC fans don't like him too. I just gave up on arguing with him, shit's not worth it bro.
Notice how you talked about DRX getting disrespected by APAC fans first and he starts spewing shit about how PRX got flamed before instead? Crazy strawman.
proceeds to call me a "delusional apac fans" when bro dont have any arguments against .
You think DRX is only disrespected by APAC fans ? Everyone makes fun of them and why would they not ?
PRX played so bad at champs and everyone made fun of them but who cares ? They played shit
Like PRX with shiba literally went out with 0 kills and it was so funny and everyone made fun of them
You suddenly get the victim mentality whenever theres anything Korean related . just shut up bro
Also who are these apac users who hate me man ? I didnt come here in vlr to make friends lmao . You needa go out bro if you care about those things . I only say what i see for the time im following esports
To be fair this thread was made before lock//in and for the sake of trying to make a discussion because i wanted more insight about the korean valorant landscape.
Mainly because t1/geng did not perform during off/season events, which we know now doesn't matter.
Every team in korea has made numerous changes from that point, with gen.g having a complete rebuild, T1 switching to english and even drx giving the youth players opportunities.
but yeah the thread has aged like milk, although a lot of what the comments said has aged well.
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