best team to never win an international team

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maximumthehormone

I meant tournament not team. gotta be heretics no?

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Paper Rex maybe?

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2-1 dfm

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Reflexxfv

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it was 2-0 and what does this have do with them being the best team to never win an international?

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Take a guess

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2-1 dfm

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Reflexxfv

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it was 2-0 and what does this have do with them being the best team to never win an international?

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Deja vu

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noem

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koi, no? jk, it's either heretics or prx

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heretics feels a little recency bias, i'd go with prx

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heretics accomplished everything PRX did in just 2024 (2nd Masters, 2nd Champions) kekwww

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localkoolkid

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downvoted for the truth, PRX fans are mentally slow

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sentinelmain377

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cant do anything about biased fks on this site lol. PRX players are toxic ppl and their fans are too slow to realize

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while th did it in one year, wouldn't it be harder to do it across two years with quite different metas?

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grisx23

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I would argue it's harder because almost every teams can expect what you are planning

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sentinelmain377

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????

in that one year, everyone's looking at you too...

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Steel, hiko, nitro, Asuna, Ethan

Beat prime acend, gambit, who won the next two events

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them or envy in 2021 both were very good that year but never made it to a title

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NV won under Optic so I don’t consider them

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that was the boomer roster but they were a very solid team that always showed consistency and good form

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Prx

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2021 we had NV, 100T, Liquid, FNATIC as the best teams who didnt win
2022 PRX, DRX, XSET!!!!!!! (joke) as the best teams who didnt end up winning
2023 LOUD, PRX again, as the best teams who didnt win
2024 Heretics, and basically no one else

from these I'd say 2023 LOUD is the best team who didn't win an international in the same year, otherwise I'd say it's heretics for highest peak while not winning. If we are talking about all time, then easily PRX

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zfmarvin42

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Loud holding fnatic back from a chance at a 3 peat twice after loosing to them at the lockin finals was cinema

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BrasilianGentle

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Every day i wake up and watch the Tuyz 1v3 Clutch in haven, I instantly feel better.

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yeah

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kiyuri

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prx th drx

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cameran

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100t

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DRX TH

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Tooker

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G2 or heretics

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shoutout to LOUD 23 that should have won lockin if tuyz didnt go -10 in the last map

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Definitely Heretics cuz at least PRX won regionals

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Yuh_aye

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wouldn't this be the reverse then?

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G2 & TH, easily
honorable mention to FPX

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FPX?

If you're talking about EMEA FPX, no, since they've won an IL during 2022 Masters 2 Copenhagen.
If you're talking about CN FPX, just no.

TH is valid (but questionable depending on if we can see their performance continue in '25), G2 is questionable, considering that:

2025 AMER - Good start domestically so far, can't wait to see G2 dominate in Masters Bangkok
2024 Champs Seoul - Good starts during groups, absolutely bombed out of KO stage going 0-4 on maps
2024 Masters Shanghai - Only actual good placement for G2, went on a round to secure 3rd place, but shaky end, going 0-5 on two losses against a Bo3 against GEN in UF and Bo5 against TH in LF respectively.
2024 Masters Madrid - Did not qual
2023 Year - Won Ascension, props to them, but this wasn't at the t1 caliber. still, a nice performance from a team that was supposed to be in franchising.
2022 Masters Reykjavik - Bombed out with b2b losses against OPTC + PRX, 1 for 5 on maps.

overall, while it might hurt to say that G2 isn't a candidate to never win an IL, it only makes sense that they're missing a few cents to make the dollar count.

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Aayan

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there's the obv answers like TH, G2, PRX
but I wanna go for Guild, since they aren't a roster anymore
imo they're the best roster that no longer exists to not win anything

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G2 is not an obv answer bro wtf u on

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KingHeadasz

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One really big cope i have is ZETA, felt like if they stayed in form they had a chance during their miracle run.
just remembered they ran into prime optic, unlucky scenes.

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prx AND drx

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1ski

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EG winning 2023 champions and not LOUD, was a script error by riot.

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I agree that Loud should've won but it wasn't really an error tbh EG had an amazing run and Loud played too inexperienced sometimes
While they were the "better team" overall they didn't deserve it

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Drx maybe?

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DRX imo cause they ALWAYS look better than 5-6th and choke there anyway, they could've won a couple if they had the clutch gene instead of choke gene

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Vision strikers

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Prob prx drx or 2023 loud

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Raftlot

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Prob prx drx or 2023 loud