In your opinion, Who is better of the two world champions in the history of Valorant?
In my opinion Loud is better but as the Loud X Navi game showed cNed destroyed Loud, who do you think that would win in a Bo5 game?
You should ask yourself would Loud have beaten that Gambit roster?
My answer is no but Acend shouldn't have either but they just played out of their minds that whole tournament after their first game and the Cypher cam incident which also showed how mentally resilient they were during that tournament.
Conclusion I don't fucking know it's way closer than people think
This is an interesting topic and since enough time has passed, I can share some of my thoughts on this
Considering this comparison would be in a vacuum, not taking into consideration that Valorant improves every year and so on, 2022 LOUD would be a hard matchup for 2021 Acend, main reason being a stylistic matchup difference.
Back in 2021 we matched up good versus teams that played 'proper Valorant': Your defaults, your executes, your team oriented strats etc.
We did, however, match up poorly into teams that relied heavily on high individual mechanical skill and played spread looking for duels. That's why it was usually quite tough for us to play vs TR and BR teams.
2022 LOUD was a BEAST of a team, but we were also VERY good in 2021.
P.S. I'm only gonna say it once - every single person saying that our victory was a fluke is completely and utterly clueless.