I hear this way too much...

"EU would be better than NA if the CS scene moved over."

Frankly. This stage of Valorant will prob never show who will be dominant over the next 5, 10 years or so. The reason being is that. CS imports will never be as good as someone who became good at Valorant because they were grown in Valorant. Idk. You could see this in League. I guess that the first couple of years Dota imports were still important. But the eventual superstars will be people who became good in this game not because they were superstars in a game before, but superstars in this game.

I mean we could say that EU would dominate for the first few years if their CS scene died. But the problem is. That it didn't. The important thing though is for there to be enough new talent to dominate in years to come rather than just winning at the beginning because of imports.

I really want this game to stay relevant in all countries though because there is a substantial international playerbase which is something that Valorant has over most games. Even over League a little. It has footholds in NA, EU, TR, BR, KR, JP, IND, and SEA. I didn't list CIS, LATAM, CN, and MENA because their playerbase is still pretty small and their watch numbers are pretty dissapointing. It's much less but it is more spread out. The surprising ones are TR, JP, SEA, and IND. Those countries don't show that much interest in games like these except for TR. But they do have some of the strongest and loyal fanbases. SEA is not quite large but it's quite large considering how small it's PC gaming playerbase is. JP and IND barely have PC FPS gaming players anyways. Most Indians play mobile games because PC's are not as popular as other countries and Japanese people usually do console games like nintendo or more casual games. And TR just have a large fanbase in this game for no particular reason. Probably streamers. I guess.

If I keep seeing this bullshit argument that won't matter in the grand scheme of things. I won't really care. But it just annoys me.

Thank you for reading.

Fr bro like, they type “would” for a reason, like nobody cares and nobody will truly know until they choose to switch games but as of rn NA is better as of right now not no “would” “if” bs these guys keep talking about.

Valid point
But Bro KR would be better than NA if OW and OW2 died and all the OWL pros moved to Valorant

tl dr

Valorants meta will change and it’s gonna be a team’s adaptability which will prove the best in the region and the world, unlike csgo which metas really wherent much of a thing, maybe a gun was op for a bit and people found line ups that where really good but it’s nothing like a new agents comp which can break open a game. Valorant is showing more variety and I love the game for that and how it’s always going to be interesting how teams adapt and I don’t think a team or region will be dominant for over years like Astralis did at all their majors, I honestly think regions will take their turns with their metas and who will be more dominant, Now I think eu may have an advantage with Ascend going to Berlin but you can’t tell really who’s better until they play in Berlin against sentinels or even Vs