Dont get me wrong he is playing insane right now but if you pay attention he is winning every 1v1 duel with just crouch spraying with a vandal almost everytime. Most impressive thing is he is always tagging his opponents with the 1st bullet so his spray is killing them faster.
This "superteam" cant adjust their aim fast enough to someone crouching everytime. Maybe MIBR are bit nervous idk

Its weird isnt it? Every roster thats been called superteam has slow playstyle whether its on their attack or their retakes. Every time. Whether its FNC 23, Vit 25, MIBR 26 and even LOUD 22 or LEV 24 if you count them. Only exception might be T1 but not everyone calls them supeeteam.

If you look at it from another POV, every superteam so far in Valorant has been built around either Aspas or Chronicle. Maybe they are the reason idk

M8 played the longest BO5 in EMEA history yesterday against BBL with 133 rounds total and today they played 2nd longest BO5 with 131 rounds total.
Now just imagine what wouldve happened to their energy tomorrow if they lost today, just crazy.
Anyway congrats on the win, very well deserved

I think this match is going to map 5 if M8 close out Split because their bind looked way too good against NAVI and I think M8 will take it after the momentum they gained with winning split.

But I doubt Alfajer in this form will get reverse swept so I expect FNC will take close map 5 with Alfa carry

Why is there 20 min break between maps instead of usual 10? Are we trying to make the gameday longer than it already is? For gods sake just start already everybody is waiting for MIBR game nobody gives a shit about this mid teams

Couldnt agree more. Just hate them for the love of it

I am gonna be the biggest NRG fan tomorrow

Yeah ig

I dont why but I hate this 100T team so much. I didnt have that muvh hatred when boostio and eeiu was on this roster but I dont know why I hate this lineup so much. Maybe its because cringe waylay shit and the fact that SEN tried to copy then and failed completeley and wasted their kickoff. I dont know bro even this sage shit is so annoying

He had really great kickoff so far but I feel like he lost at least 6-8 rounds by himself this match so far. C9 wouldve won Pearl 13-9 and wouldve been up 8-1 or something like that if penny played like a normal player even if he just went even

Usually Americas crowd is much more alive compared to EMEA especially but this C9 vs 100T game crowd feels like a library after that BO5. Maybe I am bit biased because I mostly watch SEN games and there crowd is usually loud.

You say thay but which operator lines are you talking about on Breeze? On B ledge and back A on top of the yellow are the only ones I could think of. If you are going to put your awp this passive you might as well not awp at all, awp should in the hands of yoru taking aggro lines imo.

Is Neon just much better version of Jett for pro play?
If you compare Neons kit pound for pound to Jett, Neon has very similar type of kit but just much better:

Neon slide equal or better than Jett Dash. Both are get out of jail for free cards/ entry tools and I would argue slide is better because you can kill someone while sliding. Even Oping with Neon has been proven so strong, just remember texture in Toronto

Wall=smokes. Wall is still slightly better because it is also more useful for team floods.

Stun>updraft.
Neon passive > Jett passive.

And now you must question every team who is playing Jett instead of Neon in any map especially if their player is comfortable on both.

Yeah babybay improved but my statement isnt still wrong. I said they got picked up because they are good chambers, this still applies for both demon1 and babybay. RRQ are winning Pacific with Jemkin perma chamber as well. Yay being teamless in this meta is just absurd

How is yay teamless when Babybay and demon1 are dominating the league and getting picked only because they are good chambers? I would honetly love to see him on SEN, not just to bring back clout but also he is just the best chamber ever.
Imagine the team:
Yay - chamber, jett
Reduxx - duelist
Narrate - scan
Cortezia - smokes
John - igl flex.

We are qualifying to next masters with this team

You know the 10-20s clip that they do for every team showing highlights from the tournament after they got eliminated with "GGWP bye X team" and stuff, Americas broadcast really missed the opportunity to make the GIGACHAD move and show only the inspire highlights after NV got eliminated. It wouldve been crazy

This is just not true because other teams are doing well without waylay. Its not like Tejo, chamber or skye meta before, you can play almost anything and win if tour team is comfortable and drilled.

I ve never hated 100T more in my life because why tf are SEN forcing waylay when no one on the team looks comfortable on it? Have you guys ever heard of the agent called Raze? Or neon? They are still not bad. Just look at the other teams who are succeeding, MIBR dont play that much waylay, BBL plays more Neon, NS and RRQ dont play any waylay and all of these teams are in Upper finals.
Kaplan needs to go for all the terrorism he has committed these 3 years, 1st deadlock stuff, then narrate breach and now waylay. Also if you listen to the comms videos every timeout he just says play with balls and swing for 30s every time.

You can clearly see Narrate isnt that bad as everyone thinks he is. And you also saw how good reduxx can be in other games. Its not the player problem, its clearly the coaching problem. Sure they just choked bind but I think this loss is much better for long term because they need changes, especially coaches

Kaplan has made so many mistakes since the Madrid win. He deserves to get kicked.

• He forces weird deadlock stuff in 2024 and team didnt perform at all when clearly they were still world class as we saw they came 4th at champs and were close to beating TH as well. Now imagine if they didnt waste time on that bs comps and focused on improving existing stuff, they couldve gone even deeper that champs

• Wasted Narrate in 2025: he put narrate to senti, then into breach flex and narrate underperformed, then finally he moved narrate to scan and narrate actually played well.
  Even this year he is playing ring around the rosie with Narrate.

• Signing both Kyu and Johnqt. Why tf are they both on the team. John is good enough igl. Some people might say he is fragging more but john used to do this stuff even when he was igling, he always had some pop-off games but he was inconsistent.

Sudd3nly they decided to play the most proactive defense half of their career against the slowest team in the world. Just stack sites mate, this team is gonna run out of time
I am so annoyed because SEN should beat this LEV team if they are playing like this

There has to be a rule from this point that a player cant play for more than 1 team at 1 competetion just like in regular sports. I like demon1 and I think he deserves a spot in tier 1 but not right now and not in Ascencion squad.
You have to feel bad for inspire whether you like him or hate him, all of his hardwork has been undone probably in 1 team meeting. I also wont be against the rule that doesnt allow Ascencion teams to make roster changes at least in Kiickoff because so many players worked so hard to get to this point and not even have chances to stay is so cruel

Maybe but going down 0-1 against pretty much every single team isnt a good sign. How are they meant to win a BO3 if other teams constantly pick one of Pearl or Corrode against them?

Yeah they do but map pool point still stands

I dont think EMEA team can win Santiago because of the map pool and meta read.
EMEA's waylay usage is way underutilized and there are so many double initator teams still.
Also EMEA's Corrode and Pearl looks bad across the board. Pearl has always been bad and Corrode has 72% defensive round winrate. Nobody knows how to attack on Corrode in EU.

Purpo is already the owner of that name mate

007 is incoming

0 kills
0 impact
7 deaths

Idk why Heretics picked him up at all. Because their best players have always been Woot and Riens and benjy sometimes has pop-off maps he carries. But other than that their duelist (Miniboo) was always hard dive player and other players fragged out.
Their playstyle on defense also was dependent on heavy reclears and team fights and that requires your duelist to be really good rifler. But Comeback doesnt fit any of this. He is only good with an awp, he cant play yoru, waylay or raze, his neon is ok but still baity on attack. He just doesnt fit their playstyle.

Oh thanks

What is confusing about this lol. Is it really LOUD speaking portugese

Jonahp has reportedly been spotted learning portugese to decline the offer from LOUD. LOUD was looking to acquire one of the best initators in the region after cauanzin had finished every round in Kickoff without using any util. Jonahp told the insider that he is afraid of getting replaced by the goats like Urango and Raafa if he doesnt qualify to the next Masters.

They shouldnt be in the lowest bracket with this stat. And still their attackside looks rough with all these pistols. Imagine they lose pistol on attackside against someone and they start getting farmed with sniper cuz they just walk around everywhere.
LEV shouldnt be #4 in rankings as everyone is hyping them up to be.

I am also thinking that as well but I didnt wanna sound so biased. This roster doesnt match the hype. They are winning 90% pistols against sub rosters and still struggling

LEV will get dismantled on their attackside against better team with this slow calling especially against teams who play chamber and sage stuff. They just walk around everywhere and good awper will punish them very hard.
This attackside also has 90%pistol winrate so you could imagine how this attackside will actually look like if they win pistol and go up against early sniper.

I dont think this run is possible as everyone is hyping up. They might even win against SEN but they arent winning any much more than that

Yeah just wanted to ragebait before he pops off, this kru sub roster isnt gonna win so

No wonder his stats are so good because just look at round 3 he is only playing for himself in a bonus round and not taking any risks. Instead of doing damage to enemy economy he is just saving his kda

G2 in the off-season really went "Nah lets remove the best breach player (util-wise) in the world and replace him with 30-year old inconsistent awp merchant and put our best player on breach instead"
This is on similar level witb Sacy on brim and pancada killjoy stuff

Imagine telling someone in 2024 that Grand finals of a stage will be FURIA vs MIBR. Just crazy

How is there either Abyss or Breeze in every goddamn series? So tired of watching this.

You have to admit johns rating might be little inflared but he is getting a lot of impact kills. He won like 7 rounds on corrode against 100t by himself

Koala went 17/14 and he is the lowest rated player om his team with 0.98. Yeah that makes sense

They only played Yoru on Split at Toronto and played only 1 yoru(zekken) on only Ascent in the 1st game against G2 in stage 2. Zekken didnt play single yoru after that game and SEN perma banned Ascent till the end of the season.

But Narrate could play raze, jett, yoru stuff because he played it on KC. And on KC Marteen was playing yoru and Narrate was playing dive duelist and it was working there. They just needed to replicate that on SEN

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How are you arguing me about what SEN played last year? I am saying they didnt put zekken on yoru after tejo nerfs and they did in fact play double duelist as you can see from the game above.

Narrate was playing Yoru at that time not zekken and they dont have to force waylay. Just put zekken on yoru and narrate on traditional dive duelist. This just works much better because zekken is more reserved player but narrate just sends it. It wouldve been much better

SEN didnt play yoru after tejo nerfs and when they played occasional double duelist it was Narrate on yoru instead of zekken.

He didnt play any yoru after stage 1. Thats why I am criticizing

I am really happy zekken and MIBR won today but this just reminded me of how bad the SEN comps were last year. Kaplan really saw everyone playing yoru and PRX turning around their season just because something learned yoru and just said "Nah we will not play any yoru, lets try narrate on breach and john on sova instead, surely this will work out".
Zekken dropped 1.35 rating on reigning world champions on Yoru and got like 15 first kills on 2 maps.

And now Kaplan is forcing NARRATE to play waylay on every map even when he looks so uncomfortable on it. SEN need coach change

Ara went 1-4 in first engagements on attack. I still think that Abyss comp isnt that good

I feel like they should change this playstyle tho. Valorant as a game is designed for duelists to frag more and take over, duelists have the best signature abilities and best ults imo, all the initiator util is to set them up for success, smokes are for them to enter sites safely and even sentis job is to stop duelists.
That might be the reason why EU hasnt won a trophy since 2023 cuz dounle duelist APAC and star-duelist NA playstyles are just better

How is solo yoru Haven ideal comp? Its not gonna get any rounds on attack if the opponent just holds chokes. Neon is good on defense anyway for fast floods, fast rotates and even oping (remember how texture awped with neon).
Solo waylay Abyss might work out but duelist is gonna have rough time compared to double duelist with yoru

EMEA duelists are rarely the best players in their team and usually they are ranked just above the igl in terms of fragging. You can just see across the board:
M8: Best: Minny duelists are 3rd and 4th
NAVI: Best: Hiro and Ruxic
TH: Best: Riens
GX: Best: Westside? Its certainly not ara tho
etc.
Only teams where you might argue their best players are duelists are VIT, FNC and BBL. Thats it.
Meanwhile in other regions almost every teams best player is their duelist.

Its not only duelists fault tho. EMEA have very weird read on the meta where duelists are not given chances to frag. Just look at GX Abyss solo waylay, so many teams solo Yoru on Haven, some teams solo waylay on Corrode.
If they want their solo duelist to succeed and frag more they have to play neon, raze or jett.