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Man why are Indian teams so hell bent on making friends and not doing what's best for the team
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meh, people expect a sova to frag when you have skrossi in your team. So this guy has a point.
SkRossi kills half the enemy team by the time you are in post plant. After that lightning fast and skillz are also really good players and they take the rest.
If ever they die, Hellranger and Kappa have some of the highest clutch rates in India. In the entire game, you only have an opportunity to get kills if you are in clutches (And GE rarely looses in India). How will you be at the top of the leaderboard like this?
When it mattered the most in APAC LCQ. Kappa top fragged in maps and played well in general.
In local games, their silver asses just cannot see the value his util provides to SkRossi and friends.
Some irons on this website really like crying about the decision making of the best teams in India as if they know anything about team management.
no one asked anti to retire lol Anti was a good jett for VLT and yes he did take some to adjust into his IGL+support role but he was always t1 meanwhile Kappa is bad at mechanical skills too sure GE will give him more than enough time but you cant expect him to perform like anti, anti is still in his prime meanwhile Kappa is 32? quite old for fps if you ask me
If there is ever a clutch situation the players I would go for (at least in the Indian scene) would be Kappa and Hellranger.
Kappa is an initiator, I do not see why you expect him to get kills. At the same time, he and hellranger have some of the best clutch plays the entirety of Indian valorant has seen.
I don't understand why you guys cannot see the value he adds to the team with his utility. People complaining about his breach util act as if they are radiant and playing at top levels of gameplay like LCQ.
Yes, someone like Crazyguy or another top Sova from SEA would be good addition but I don't see a better sova in India apart from Rite2Ace. The guy saying smx carried any team has to be kidding me. At the same time, solo is ardent on being a content creator and not a professional player (who plays sova really well). If GE gets a sova from another region, I am all in, replacing Kappa with any other South Asian sova apart from Rite2Ace or HsB (from TE) is just ridiculous. Also, I believe bootcamping in Mumbai has helped GE a lot. I am not sure if a foreign player will like to bootcamp in India. Especially since we already know Shinobi had time zone issues working with GE.
https://www.vlr.gg/event/stats/560/champions-tour-asia-pacific-last-chance-qualifier
Just scroll down and you'll see something. I understand the fact that he provides a lot to the team in the form of utility. An initiator's job is to create space like you said, but proper utility usage alone won't save the team when they're down bad. Hellranger is a really great player. He's really great in clutch situations and acts as the pillar for the team. His agent pool is also really good as he can play Breach, Viper and Astra really well. His overall impact in being the team's IGL is shown throughout the game.
Kappa on the other hand plays only Breach and Sova. Sova is the best initiator in the game and all the strong maps of GE are good Sova maps. He's got some good fraggers on the team in the form of LF, Skillz and Skrossi. However one thing that I've noticed is the fact that he can't use his utility for himself. When required, you should be able to use your utility for yourself and play aggressively. Missing out on easy kills just because you are a team player doesn't make sense. This explains the fact why Global aren't able to win rounds when either Rossi, Skillz, LF dies very early. They aren't able to convert 3v5s into 3v3s or 2v4s into 2v2s.
That's what hurt them against PRX on Split and AE on Breeze.
skillz has a higher ACS than SkRossi.
Should GE make him the main duelist and make SkRossi play Killjoy?
I agree that Kappa is the weakest link, but in a group of 5, there will always be one weakest.
I think people here are really overreacting to just how weak Kappa really is. He is perfectly fine for tournaments in India. Even in the SEA landscape, he is decent.
During LCQ, GE was easily in top 5 Korean teams and top 5 SEA teams at the time (Sleepy, the coach of Alter Ego mentions that GE are equal if not better than the old Alter Ego from his experience of scrimming and analyzing the games just before LCQ). They beat Damwon and just nearly beat F4Q if not for a 1v3 clutch by FiveK. GE already was the best team in South Asia. You absolutely cannot do that without a player who is exceptionally bad at the game.
If you want to replace Kappa, you need to find a player that would
1) Be more skilled than Kappa (TBH there are 2-3 players like this out there)
2) Be available and not locked into teams (TE HsB and VLT R2A)
3) Provide more value to the team than Kappa, (Kappa has decades of experience, helps with mental which players like Lightningfast, SkRossi and skillz practically do not have).
4) The team wins more games than with Kappa.
With Kappa gone, you just have a bunch of young adults with raging hormones who will shout at each others in the game.
Even if you get a foreign player, conditions 1 and 2 might be satisfied (maybe also 3) but communication will take a huge hit.
There are just too many problems to resolve. Can they not trust GE management (who has to make money btw) to make the best team they can instead of passing judgements.
Putting forward a recommendation is appreciated and shows your concern towards a team you follow, but at this point, it's just harassment.
PS: Hyeoni and Kaminari are also at the bottom of the list. Do you really think NUTURN should have not played with Hyeoni? Also, Kaminari is probably one of the best supports in Japan.
My whole arguement was not based on ACS only. You talked about overall impact on the game. Every team has a weak link but the weak link is usually the one linking the team. Bonkar on guild, FNS on Envy are such players and the weak links of their team. They provide value coz they are the IGLs of the team. Kappa has decades of experience but there are so many people who do his role better. I am not saying that GE must sack Kappa immediately but they must look into their performances and check where they are lacking against SEA teams.
Hellranger is the voice of the team and he IGLs + he helps keep everyone's mental in check. GE have good backroom staff and all of them are like family. They keep each other motivated and share their losses and happiness together. Therefore tilting and mental of the players is not a big problem in GE.
P.S : I am not saying Kappa is bad. Kappa is a really good player and gels together with the team fantastically. Every peak GE has climbed couldn't have been possible without him on the team. However, for GE as a team to move forward and to compete against the big wigs they need consider making some minor changes.
Nuturn didn't really have a plan for Hyeoni IMO. He wasn't comfortable at all in the Skye and every time he played on Jett he was never aggressive. Playing against bigwigs in such an important tourney without prior experience at a higher level could've also hurt his performances.
Reject arguably played against two of the toughest teams in the tourney. FS and DWG were really tough opponents and Reject were just unlucky they were drawn in a tough bracket.
Also please make your messages shorter so I don't need to type multiple paragraphs next time.
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