SEA play style

So I'm a dia/immortal player in NA and I've been here in Malaysia for about 2 weeks now and I can't believe the play style and meta difference that I have experienced so far.

First things off, with a new account my rank is Gold 3 (yeah wtf right? Can't believe it as well) and I can't believe the amount of Jett/ Reyna funnels in competitive. Literally 9/10 matches have a cracked Jett/ Reyna that gets 30ish kills and they do this without teamwork most of the time, just pure puggy frags here and there.

The second thing I noticed is that I don't think the rank system applies in SEA just as much in NA because sentinels/ supports cannot get rewarded as much as duelists in a competitive match when there is basically no teamplay most of the time. Unless a support player goes to entry or just goes yolo trying to get kills, I don't see how a sentinel main or even a controller can get to their well deserved rank without being selfish in a team without clear communication and sets. I've seen insane setups and good plays by sentinels/initiators but unless they top-frag, of course they won't rank up because the 'duelists' will get the highest ACS/ RR most of the time based on frags anyways.

Third- 80% of the time, I get killed because someone is holding a freaking weird angle that nobody does or 4 enemies rushes A site with the spike still in mid with 30 seconds remaining like wtffff? But it freaking works cuz all of my teammates gets killed before the time runs out anyway. An example would be holding B site as a defender with the spike dropped in Split but all remaining enemies would yolo rush A ramps and just goes everywhere just looking for kills. Bro, how does that meta even apply in a 'competitive'? No information gathering and no sets but it freaking works cuz who would expect a 4 man rush to CT with the spike still in mid for example right? It's just so freaking annoying to constantly change whatever dynamics/ fps logic that I have gotten in CSGO and in NA pugs considering how unpredictable and weird gold-plat elo here is and the surprising thing is- it works!

Fourth- You don't even need to think or play mind-games 90% of the time. I've noticed that the more that I think and try to tell my teammates on how we can analyze the enemy setups and try to pick-off a certain agent, the worse it gets cuz enemy team just wants to aim and shoot. It won't matter cause the less you think the more success you get for some reason lmao.

I have a couple of days left here and I could say I'm glad that I have witnessed FPS meta here in asia. I really do hope they perform well at Champions and get to that 'next level' in the future.

yes APAC servers are hard af, everyone demon. there is a reason i prefer eu servers with 120 ms ping

pretty sure that's bcs ur in a gold/plat match

Thanks

my dude Asia the most populated continent so no matter how different the play style might be there are going to be a lot cracked dudes here

Finally the NA Immortal = SEA Gold meme came true xD

The same translates to pro play, unfortunately.

In pugs, this is exactly the playstyle you should go for, my account in EU server is ranked higher (despite higher ping and less time given) than on Asia. However when you do this in professional matches, everything goes bad.

Just look at how many Asian teams rely on a "star duelist".

PRX has Forsaken (now Jingg)
X10 has Patiphan (or at least used to have)
GE has SkRossi
and the list goes on, of course, the other players are not trash they just don't get the limelight. PRX d4vai is also their star player but you could associate it with the fact that he is also a duelist main but plays other roles in pro play. GE lightningfast also has insane mechanics and is a very young player developing his skills and used to play a duelist in the early days of valorant and now shifted to a sentinel/controller.

while in NA/EU every player has a shining moment, take SEN for example where sick, dapr, tenz, shahzam, zombs, pretty much everyone is a star player. "TenZ" joining SEN was not there to carry them, but just a final piece of the puzzle.

Anyhow, yeah wtf, what is up with high ranked EU/NA people not being able to go beyond gold in Asia. I am pretty sure I met a person from EU immortal who could not go beyond plat 1 when he was in Asia.

sea is crack bro.. just wait for the next year, and u will see SEA will compete and at least finished top 4 in next master

Most people rely on aim rather than comms. Because most of the time the language barrier is too much. I met a wonderful Vietnamese player who added me and my trio, yet we couldn’t speak to each other because of the language barrier. Thats why even lower golds have insane aim but shitty strats. Executes are pretty much nonexistent, and people stacks up round in defending side for almost every map.

im pretty sure the spike at mid and rush a, they rush then dont know who bring spike, found out the spike at mid then get it lmao. we dont use com, and if we use it usually to joke around like spank me daddy

Lol. That is so true.
And GOLD in SEA is the worst rank possible.
There will always one person in your team that can jiggle peek sheriff/vandal 1 tap accurately. But he will whiff against not moving enemies.

thanks for informing me of a server that i might never play in

all AP servers including oce its just aim battle lmfao

Agree, When u Play in AP dont hope to much at Team Work until reach Plat-Radiant.
but when high Rank sometimes always Instalocker Duelist with Solo Style kill. not with teamwork
as a Sentinel, Initiator , If no Trade when duelist dead or No cover / help. the Duelist will blame u haha
Thats AP SERVER STYLE

That's APAC Best Strat tho
"Duelist Go Kill" & "Rush X Site" Best 2 Strat for sure

You gonna get teamwork on End Plat to Radiant so yeah....

SEA playstyle summed up

-Patiphan go Frag
-Forsaken go Frag
-SkRossi go Frag

‘Duelist dead boys, let's save’ when it doesn't work

Language barrier + extremely low average age in these countries. Hard to coordinate when your team is all under the age of 16 and dont speak good English. Unlike in NA where 99% of people speak fluently or even EU where almost all do unless you get Turks or Russki

I like when you said Ranking system doesn't apply in SEA which is so true. The best mentality you can have in Valorant is to accept the fact that smurfs will come (silver, gold, platinum, diamond and even in immortal), so keep your head up, don't be scared and just kill, it sounds obvious but mental boost should be there. I have seen many players scared of playing in diamond or in immortal which makes their gameplay even worse.

Also one thing which I do see is, there are less strats or team play in SEA
Few things which I do see is:

1. Duelist go and kill (Take first frag) = win (if you duelist and not taking frags, you bad, which should not be the case)
2. Only If duelist goes in, we get site
3. If we spend more than 10 second in any site entrance, we rotate (not always but most of the time)
4. If opponent team is not denying the push, then forget everything, just rush and go inside (this is the worst mm experience)
5. And most important, operator is way too abused here, if you can't counter it, trust me you are done

To be honest, half of the match is won because of huge skill difference, winning like 13-5 or 13-3. Sometimes you get good immortals/diamond players sometimes they are worse than plat, so ranking is shit

This guy literally just described low elo play.
If ur true immortal even diamond 3 (in which i don't trust) you would just press w and destroy them.

Otherwise the meme about Americans are true

People on Mumbai server / Singapore servers are all aim no brain. thats why its hard. u dont even get the chance to do brain plays cuz they just kill u.