actual vlr discussion

why does chinese val work so well internationally?

They play like amateurs in regional competition, come out and play much better when facing actual opponents

its not even an aim thing, their actual level of calling and strategy increased tenfold when they play big teams

they have been competitive and EDG will be even better

nah they are trash bro some of there player have cracked aim (not that special because every region has cracked aimers)
and thats about it.
they went 8-4 up because they are playing on the easiest attacking map in all of valorant.
EDG are decent but FPX straight ass.

They don’t need to try regionally cause the competition is so poor and then they lock in against good teams

It's better to make a bad play with confidence and make yourself as hard as possible to punish, than to make a good play nervously

They still play the same way, but they're so used to playing this way that it's difficult for international teams to counter them. They've done the same plays thousands of times already and they never thought to change their strat instead of perfecting the bad plays

That's the result of being isolated, and cut-off from the rest of the scene, for so long.

It's like, yes from a macro perspective the plays are bad, and there is a theoretical way to punish it, but when it comes to using those theoretical punishes, the international teams don't have as much experience punishing them as FPX have experience perfecting the micro of those plays--because no scrim partner in any other region ever does those plays lol