We all know duelist is the most popular role in Valorant and by far the preferred role of up and coming young players. The duelist role is the starting point for anyone who wants to consider going pro and it is much more important now because you want to catch the attention of the franchised teams. Doing that is much easier on duelist than it is for any other role.
I believe that having to import duelists from other regions only harms the local scene because it would plant the idea that "there is no talent in x region/country so lets just import"(kinda like what happened with the NA LCS where they started importing midlaners). Any future talent would start to reconsider their prospects because there is only a few spots for them and they'll have to compete with imports.
I don't have a problem if a team wants to import an IGL, coach, or a very talented Controller/Sentinel but please leave the duelist role for the local talent.
Do you guys think this is a bad opinion?
TLDR: Primary duelists should be from local talents and not imports
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