Post-plant meta in IceLAN

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TinglyPiano

ppl will see how stupid strong the post-plant meta is during IceLAN.

viper line up, sova shock dart line up, KJ line up etc. will make defusing very difficult with how much time those line up can take away the precious 45 seconds of the clock.

when ppl see their favourite team getting fked by the no skill line up from spawn, I bet you can see plenty of reddit post complaining about it.

I know these are not 'new tactics' and been in the game for a while, but IceLAN will show the post-plant meta true potential and ppl will hate it (and pros will also say it on twitter, making the fans hate it even more).

That's my prediction. Feel free to say if u agree or not

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Ofc the post plant strats are strong, a weak post plant strat can lose you the round. Sova, Viper and KJ will obviously be the agents to devise such tactics.

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Na fans will mald their shit lmao

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kekw this aged well

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Gomes255

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It definitely did lmao oh well life goes on, let's see the big match

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props for acknowledging it! sen vs fnc will be the best game so far, gl champs

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V1 are probably the biggest abusers of it rn, they always use KJ/Viper and even effys uses post plant lineups on sova a lot

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i think we might see some underdog team abusing the sht out of this beating or knocking out the top teams and after that getting hated for that, my prediction.

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aged like wine so far lmao

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aged like wine so far lmao

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it's very rare to see post-plant lineups in pro play, and I've watched a little of most regions (mainly NA, but that's to be expected). I know a few lineups on Brim, but they're very situational. Perhaps teams value another player fighting on site to prevent a retake over a post plant "baiter" who watches their teammates die to buy time. or maybe we will start seeing post plant lineups in iceland, who knows.

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I don't know how it's no skill. You know the post plant positions and you can push them with correct strats. This game is not CS and was never meant to be. The post by no means is zero skill

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TinglyPiano

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i didn't say no skill, just saying I predicted ppl will complain about it

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Mortadelo

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It requires less skill than other play styles, it's not "just learning line ups", but it's easier. Also it has no counter besides not letting them plant. ("Pushing" is not a counter, you loose so much time, and you can throw the line up from your spawn if necessary)

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whycare

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If not pushing you can make your own lineups to the place from where they do their lineups. A team lost today because they were not good enough and not because this is some "unfair/low skill meta"

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Have you seen someone do that? A good player knows at least 3 different places to throw his line ups man. I'm not saying V1 didn't deserve top win, they did. I'm saying it is a low skilled meta, not an unfair meta it's different, Liquid could have done the same, they just were just worse at it

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No they weren't worse. In the match how many times did you actually see the post plant meta working? Most of times liquid lost gunfights because they were unprepared like the penny, vanity clutch vs kryptix and scream on ascent. Don't blame the loss on a meta

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They were unprepared because they had to play super fast, otherwise they can't defuse. You'll see in FNC vs SEN match

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whycare

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Neither jett or Astra has lineups and they were both very low. TL was just bad accept and move on.

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Actually couldn't be more right

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its actually the worse meta since the game started hope riot does something about it, this meta defeats every single shooter meaning, the easy thing
solve this is like in csgo make any type of damage utility have a max amount of time that can stay in the air till it breaks

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TinglyPiano

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im guess they will do something if it gets bad enough in the tournament (and players complain hard enough, especially pros complaining).

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whycare

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This is not CSGO. In CS you have the chance to have more util as everyone can throw a smoke, molly, etc. This make it so the retake has to be creative and not just teams baiting spike plant. Just because Liquid lost doesn't make this meta dogshit. Liquid were the worse team today. Accept and move on

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Lol

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i reckon they should have some kind of anti-utility thing on planted bombs. or maybe make long-range mollies not work on planted bombs. I think lineups are fun on executes etc. but i hate post plant lineups with a passion. And i main viper...

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Pretty sure they are adding a sentinel that has a trophy system that blocks projectiles.

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TinglyPiano

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then it will just become a 'must pick' for every game. I think they mentioned they don't want to do 'counter' agents before. But who knows, they also say utilities dont kill or something like that lol