i hope you know what you said is mutually exclusive from what i said. i said nothing about "his role", i said he brings value beyond just a role player

you cant say something like that when it's objectively not true. he brings far more to the team than fragging power, and he's able to play whatever agent necessary

Everyone severely underrates the experience Ethan brings to every team he's been on. Every team he's been on had a significant uptick in performance after he joined

Interesting they kept elmapuddy

maybe sacy, but the others? zekken is funny but not necessarily charismatic, tenz..

spotted the tenz bootlicker

ill take Zellsis > zekken, they need more hype players not less

they seemed a lot more composed, enzo was playing smarter, alfa and derke were back in form, boaster wasnt triggered/nervous, mistic still in good form. if they keep it up, i can totally see a world where they stomp their way to a win. but whenever fnatic looks the best seems to be when they crumble, so... tbd

u really revived this just to shit on their grave huh? feelsbadman

Didn't watch the game but they lost two close maps with their top player having an off game and their flex having 17 kills? Seems like an off day for them but idk, someone with more insight probably knows better

this is a poor take

How fucking boring is your life that you get pleasure shitting on other people? Actual loser

So many weirdos on this site get hard when teams lose just so they can try to shit on other people. Get a life

Peanut brain

LOL huh?

when else do u want them to do it exactly

more likely shaz would than have tenz lie on his stream. bc if it's true, then shaz looks like an asshole and that he's holding the team back even. so lying to save face makes more sense

i hope your 2 brain cells can process this- you're contributing nothing to this conversation. your ego is in the way of you having an actual discussion as to why you disagree with me.
ill bring crayons next time you want to discuss anything so i can draw it out for you.

i dont know the reason why you need to understand why they pushed- that's their decision making. assuming your utility is set up correctly and you're watching the angle, it should not matter what they are doing- you are stopping their push, unless they use an ability to get around it. so you shouldn't care about what they're thinking. that's my perspective, everyone has a different opinion
your point about not wanting to use a third party app makes a lot of sense, imo that's the most important reason to add VODs to val

solid argument! classic NA val user

So watch your own VOD back and extrapolate- is the trip jumpable? Could he have TPed past? Regardless, you don't need to see his POV to get useful info from it

1. This is a waste of time; if I'm watching a VOD back, I want to know what I can do to improve, not to worry when someone crossed to site
2. This is the definition of a player's tendencies, the way they habitually act/things they do

Before graduating a month ago, I was captain for my university's Valorant team- we just recorded our own individual VODs to review our gameplay with a third party program. It makes sense to watch yourself back, so you can see bad tendencies, I definitely agree; but I don't know about the need to watch other teams from their perspectives. I think it makes it too easy for your strategies to get broken down and copied, but it still happens anyways

If you want general lineups, go to YouTube and find some general lineups. There's a lot everywhere. It wasn't meant to be easy to figure lineups out
I get what you're saying, that it's easier to have VODs so people can just watch where they are, but if that's the only reason to implement VODs in Valorant, that's kinda a shit reason

Ok, so then why do you need to watch their VODs then? If it isn't to know their tendencies, since you just said it doesn't matter that much, what is the point of watching a VOD back?

Nah- if an analyst wants to hard counter yay in their matchup, he can just watch 10 VODs of one map and figure out his tendencies and counter them specifically. Also, if you can’t take the time to make your own lineups and you need to just copy off of other pros, you clearly have a work ethic issue

Your logic is to make sure it becomes crystal clear how every single pro player plays every single match, every single tendency can be determined and every single lineup found with ease. How exactly is countering something you have complete information on making it a more competitive game? It makes it easier, if anything

you wont know how to counter them, thats the point of making it more competitive. by disallowing people to essentially mold themselves solely around the playstyle of pros by watching them, this makes it slower for skill caps to rapidly increase

why are people so mad about this? imo it makes the game more competitive when you cant definitively rewind every single round and see every player's perspective + individual lineups. makes the game a lot more reliant on you actually using your brain to figure out what's going on

braindead take

what is your point? TSM already qualified

wtf LMAO

being good at analysis =/= being good at coaching

you must be new to esports

since... any esport existed? use your brain man.

you must have poor eyesight. check out the twitch chat for... all of ascent + icebox

child, where is your mother?

he kinda did throw A LOT of rounds against optic and TL

no one would push without tapping bomb though? it would have to be an insane read for surf to just run at him. smart play by fns, you don't know what you're talking about

^^ actually a good take for once

if you've got time, check out M3C vs fnatic from VCT playoffs; they looked like the best team in the world from the depth of strategy and skill that they had to pull from. this is a completely different look

this roster needs more time, is the correct way to say what you're getting at

im happy for nip, but fnatic dont look good. nip are definitely playing better than they have been in BR, but this is only so much of a win considering the lack of cohesion and teamplay from fnatic

considering that vlr is a derivative of hltv, it's always gonna be like this unfortunately. thank god there aren't dozens of threads calling BR fans monkeys anymore... that shit was cancer.
may the better roster win :)

you clearly understand the game

you just said you disagreed with him, then made the same point he made... he just said if a cs pro put in the work, they could prob be at the top of val

are people not allowed to be happy that one of their idols is well? i agree with you regarding what covid is, but you're completely missing out on human psychology...

good shit anderzz

coach kyle is pretty solid as well; Stirling Cooper puts out good general sex/attitude content

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