I was making a pause is my video on Split, and I was working on improving my bot since we are now in 12 team instead of 14 (Bot was confirgured for 14 teams)

And I was trying to make it more efficient for top 8 CN valorant team in 2022/2023 (prefranchised ERA) and harmonise with the same methodology than with other league (For exemple FPX transferring their slot to NAVI, OPTC to NAVI etc...)
And so I was investigating on top 8 team that wasnt franchied, ToS, NTER, WBG, and damn I think i've found the weirdest thing I ever see. I investigating the link between Weibo Gaiming 2022 and Totoro 2023 and I find the weirdest thing
https://www.vlr.gg/event/497/star-project-season-1/playoffs keep focus on YOU player

• in quarter final YOU was playing with Totoro https://www.vlr.gg/19605/totoro-gaming-vs-suning-gaming-star-project-season-1-qf
• in quarter final kawaii was playing with Weibo https://www.vlr.gg/19608/cbt-gaming-vs-team-weibo-star-project-season-1-qf
• in final YOU is now here playing with Weibo https://www.vlr.gg/19611/suning-gaming-vs-team-weibo-star-project-season-1-gf
  Next split YOU managed to hire in Totoro both Feng and ICE...
  What did it happen here ?

Also i'm trying to take track of coach, so please if some Chinese vlr user are willing to help me I would be glad caude GOD zis is a mess and i'm not sure I will be able to sort of this

No, on the "A version" push the left smoke (C direction) further

Shoulndt you push further the smoke in A to gain some space ? With that smoke you give the ability to create a strong popflash no ?

Thanks a lot Denji <333
Love talking with you about Val subject you are one of the most contructive on this website

Hey i'm doing my best :c

GSL : 3x5 = 15 games
RR : 3 games
PO : 5 games (2 games with the loser of RR and 3 2nd of GSL, 1 game with the 2 winner, 1 game with remaining team vs the 2nd of RR, grandfinal against winner of RR)
Total : 23 games

No, asymmetrical game aren't "random". Asymetrical game are just "symmetrical games", but adding creativity and imagination.

Iron, in every other rank you just have to play bad purposefully to get out your rank.

With this proposition we just have 1 BO more than this year, and the maximum game theory is also 8 (but since they are 2 BO the same day for first seed the maximum day of game theory is even lower than what we already have wish is helping for the schedule spacing)

I don't like the idea of making a RR for the 2nd of GSL, because it can lead to a useless BO (An option to solve this problem is to make fight the looser of game one in the 2nd game to maintain suspens), I prefer to it for the 1st, so the bracket is easier to solve

"Have more chance than almost 0" isn't praising my bro

It's ironic because DFM have more chance to win Kickoff than all Brasil united. Don't live in the past my bro

I didn't say "Stop thinking those team can win"

You say "Stop saying DFM have a chance" while having Brazil flag is ironic. I never blame smaller country, and I'm consistent with that, promoting every middle country have representation in T1 (Even Oceania and Vietnam)

Saying that with a Brazilian flag is mental :x

Hospital mocking charity here

58% NMWR in T1+T2 in Split 2 only : Pvalue : 0.2% (Meanning they are only0.2% of chance this good result is because becauise of randomness)

This was before her up.

She is the true hidden broken pick and Cypher murderer on Sunset

Day 1/2 (Round 1) : Winner bracket Round 1
Day 3 (Round 2) : Winner bracket Round 2
Day 4 (Round 2) : Loser bracket round 1
Day 5 (Round 3) : 3 games Round Robin 2
Day 6 (Round 3) : Loser bracket round 2 (Or Decider if GSL)
Day 7 (Round 4) : Loser bracket round 3
And then you have 3 remaining games in BO5 since they are only 1 game left
Day 8 (Round 4) : Semifinal loser
Day 9 (Round 5) : Final loser (2nd of RR vs winner of LB)
Day 10 (Round 6) : Grand final

Good point, the schedule spacing (At least in Americas), avoid this issues, I hope this will be the case for other region (I think it's more 1 week if I'm not mistaken reading the schedule), 4 day would not be enough to my eyes.

Even if it's less worst than 2024 schedule I really dislike giving a bye to a team that just loose and I want to see other format.

Do you have an opinion on the one i've proposed ? 3RS/ OR 3 group of 4 GSL, with the 3 team in 2-0 play against each other in a Round Robin for deciding who go in grandfinal (While the other go in looser bracket with team in 2-1)

Main problem of Sova is that he is the only "long range reveal" Skye and Fade were in competition for close range maps (Raze maps), Fade and Skye could have seens some pick on long range map even if Sova stay number 1, but now they get kinda nerfed it's dead Sova and sometime Gekko will be the only agent see on longrange map, while having some decent pick on shortrange maps.

I really hope next initiator is good on long range maps

Dont hesitate if you have the link
I've just found that https://x.com/Locati0ns/status/1869074346616217770 (India going full 5G this year), is that true ? If it is, do you think it can be kinda game changers for the future.

I really don't understand why so few indian took this opportunity, how do you explain only so few. "Laziness" doesnt sound enough to justify it :/

"Give them salary and they are okay with being mediocre all their life" If they are mediocre they will be replaced by someone with more motivation, we can find 5 player that "want to grow" in full india

Also, amount of good will come after some time in Tier1.

The story about the 10 Indian player that go to trial is intresting I have to say, to me it can have other exemple than juste "They are lazy"

I trust Indian player, I'm fully sure India willbe one way or another the future of the world in 10 years because on how big the country is, and how fast the country is and that they might peak in 2060 becoming more populated than Europe and Americas united. As nobody trust China at start of esport we not trust India for the future, but demographics and economical projection doesnt lie, India will be the next big thing, and we can develop in advance to be sure Valorant will also be carried by India, or we can do nothing and let India boom on a game that isn't out yet, and wee be release in few years when India will peak and be over dominant on that game, giving visibility to that game instead of Val

Thanks for the tip ! if I would lie I would say it was on purpose to make people post i'm always eager to have advice (especially in english)

It's unfair not after match 1, it's unfair after match 2, the 3rd BO (Or the 1st Bo of the loser bracket), will oppose a team that just play one more game versus a team that get full rest because of a lose, in classical double round-robin (8, 10 or 16 teams), it's winning enough game that grant you some bye in looser bracket, in 12 team bracket, it's loosing early that grant you a bye.

What do you think of the solution that was proposed ? (3 group with kinda the GSL format, with the 2nd going in loser bracket while the first team play a round robin one day before the last game of GSL with the 3rd going in loser bracket witht the 2nd, the 2nd team going in loser bracket final, while the first is in grandfinal

Did you like 2024 kickoff format that give a round of bye to a team that loose the first game ? No ?
Well thats exactly what we have in 2025 kickoff. Loosing your first game might give you an unfair advantage, because you more have time to prep, while the team you will face are preparing a game against a team that is far better and will half time compared than you to prepare their looser bracket game.

Maybe 2025 Kickoff format is bad, I want to hear your opinion about that.

Here is the problem I want to point at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvn-sRsuZTE

Sure, but uping her will make her play only on close range map, on map where Sova is usually already not played

but I agree with you she need a up

I'm not fully sure of that, Fade and Skye are nerfed on longrange map where Sova thrive

He is good, Skye just need a slight up and the reveal debate would be sane again. But before that we will need to wait the kit of the new Initiator.
Sova's problem is that historically he was in concurrence with Fade and Skye that was 2 reveal good on shortrange Razesque maps, while Sova is good on open map and have no concurrences, since Gekko is here it's a little bit better, but I didn't state my mind on if Gekko can be counted as a reveal or not and he doesnt seems more longrange than shortrange.

The new agent need to be a long range reveal to keep the state of initiator reveal sane

I, as a French, hate them for not having Indian player. They condemn a full region in the long term, not giving Indian player time in tier 1 to progress and make experience of this Indian player trickle down on the rest of the scene because they are afraid of having 0-11, yes this is a risk, especially the first year, but god this is thinking shortermwise, and I hate people that doesnt care about long term. Tanking few years to let Valorant grow in India is totally worth it.

Just imagine the effect that can have on Indian scene if you show that 5 Indian player can have a full salary in tier 1, that if you are good enough to be top 5 of India you can have a salary... Stop doing an inferiority complex, the only reason India is far worse than every other region is that they don't have esport culture, and you will not develop an esport culture by going on import route

Global esport was choosing to develop esport in India, and they are not doing this job, I can defend almost every T1 org and explain why I think they deserve T1 (Yes, even MIBR and C9), but GE is the only team I want genuinely be replaced by another Indian team, if Riot wanted another SEA team, they should have just pick another SEA team that proved themselves like BOOM. And god Oceania died for India to have a slot, Oceania have 5 players that have the T1 level as we can see in China (Maybe not top T1, but still T1).

GE is a barrier to the development of Val esport everywhere in the world.

1/ I'm not sure to get why you mean, why the yes and why the no ?
2/ Why you didn't like it ?
3/ https://www.vlr.gg/event/2146/champions-tour-2024-pacific-ascension/main-event

why half time I'm making a topic people answer about another topic T.T

Do you guys don't see any flaws with the current format of kickoff ?
Did you like the format of 2024 Kickoff group of 3 ?
Do you like the format of 10 team double elimination Bracket ?

Welcom to Valorant 2027 where we have the EMEA NORTH//EAST//SOUTH//WEST region

Yeah this become urgent... I'm fed up seeing every CIS talent flood in other region, ruining representativity of those regions

I'm also concerned about the fact they are no CIS team in T1 wish is also a great gatekeeping for a huge market Riot could have conquered better.
I've wrote that few days ago (that might deserve a full vid)
https://www.vlr.gg/post/4378262/fixing-leagues-for-leo-faria

Maybe when the war will be over Riot will consider creating a 5th region CEIO "Central Eurasia and Indian Ocean" centered around CIS but regrouping minor regions, like MENA India (Letting their spot to an OCE or a VN team in APAC and make GE stop stealing APAC talent), and maybe the TR teams and maybe, but only maybe one Subsaharian team for the symbol.

It can allow reducing the number of franchised team in other T1 to have more ascention team with also increasing the representation of region that are not represented (OCE, "India", MENA, Subsaharia). But also reduce the number of T2 in EMEA that starting to be too mush,

Wait... So we are all T4 league, I knew martian where that good in Valorant

Wait... Everyone ? I mean, this year they are so many team that have potential

Thanks for your feedback sir

2 Year doesnt mean that mush too

2G will have to go to ascention back I think :/ G2 will not be franchised before 2027

I don't like the hate on C9 T.T
This is the best organized org in NA LoL, and on Valorant they were really unlucky :

• Hire Yay right before the chamber nerf
• All of her player have ask the IGL to go (What would you do ? Keep 5 player with 4 hate the IGL ? Kick 4 player ? It's really sad for Rossy but as C9 their solution was probably the best sadfully, I dare people to find a better solution :/)
  C9 isn't perfect, but they are not that bad as people say, and I don't find +x -x +x -x that bad. It's not bad to use a player you already trust to be decent (but not enough good) in a urgency situation (It's just really dumb they didn't make an academic team with the blinking players)

DFM have already merge with CR
Malay speaking team have already 2 teams, 3 would be overkill, and India deserve representant (as OCE does)

In the last video Faria talk about reducing the number of partenered team, I wonder if we can go to 9 partenred team in every region, and 3 ascended team, but beside EG (that need to be replaced by G2) I dont really know how to kick.

Val is in a weird spot... The priority seems to be to augment the number of ascended team because T2 really need more carrot to survive. BUT in APAC we need more franchised slot because some of T2 region, arent represented. Maybe we need more T1 team, but not more team per T1 region, (12 is max) so maybe the solution would be to have a proper 5th region, probably a weaker one, but that represent more team from place that dont have representant yet. People gonna say "We need to split NA and SA", but lets be honnest 12 team is enough for both, NA cant have 12 team and BR cant have 7 or 8. In the world they are several places that don't have representant in the Tier 1 : CIS (!), Arabic, Africa, Oceania, Vietnam, LAN, Basically Central Eurasia and Indian Ocean (CEIO), it's basically every region that Riot didn't conquer yet but that can be a huge thing in the next 10 or 20 years

So maybe here is the fix :

• AMER : 1 BR team out (Prob Furia since they didn't invest in GC, but the 3 of them are really close), EG out replaced by G2, maybe another NA out
• EMEA : The 2 TR team out in CEIO, Fokus in (We have no German representant...)
• APAC : GE put in CEIO
• China : Nova out
  I would like to take out 2 team instead of one per region, but it's almost impossible... APAC already have a lack of team VN, isn't represented by example. It would require to put out C9 or LEV out (Because they don't represent LATAM anymore)

CEIO :

• Gambit
• CIS#2
• CIS#3
• BBL
• FUT
• Falcon (Or any Arabic team)
• GE
• OCE#1 (Would be fucked by timezone since almost everyone would be bewteen +3 and +6)
• Subsaharian representant
  Thanks to CIS and TR I don't think the region would be that weak, only problem here that it would be a huge loss for EMEA that would lose 25% of their player

Hi vlr, as usual since I know you hate read, I've made a complete analysis archetype by archetype agent per agent and archetype per archetype on Sunset, and it seems I've found a hidden broken pick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g49i_cMDXL8

As usual, don't hesitate to give feedback or counterargument on my video.

Also,'I've already prepare different script for the next video and i'm unsure wish one do you prefer first, so please vote :

• The sequel of Sunset Video about Cypher (Very cringe)
• How to make Champions more important than a master (Champions fix)
  If you hate both, they are also 2 other advanced script that have few problems :
• A video that explain why Head to Head is a bad rule
• A video that is kinda outdated about how to improve EU-East (Because now it kinda fused with North)

"Sentinels dont necessarily need to provide info."
I just take the definition of Riot in game :x They are other point, but Sage is also bad at that.

"The point of a sentinel is to be able to stall and hold space"
And so does controller, people just use the stall argument because thats allow them to call controller "sentinels", people get lost with the "0 sentinel meta" so they just took the decision, to call controller "Sentinel", they did it with Viper, and I also saw it with Astra, because people want absolutely want consider the 4 role are in each team even if 0-sentinel composition exist a lot. No a controller isnt a pseudo sentinel (Or thats mean every controller are a sentinel because they all have "stall power")

"deadlock doesnt hold flanks" she does, but in a inefficient way. And Deadlock has the other sentinel have "trap potential" (Kill people easy in defense thanks to their spell) it another thing every sentinels does and Sage cant. But if i'm just sticking to the definition of Riot I shouldnt consider this point.

Now lets just consider the "in game sentinel role", we expect a sentinel to :

• Create some deadly trap in defense (All of them does beside Sage)
• Cover flank (All of them does beside Sage, and potentially DL depending how you consider her)
• Lurk/Anchor = being alone (Sage is litterally the worst agent to do that)
• Wish what agent Sage is in concurrencies ? On the only map she was played (Icebox), she was never in competition with other sentinel

Sage isnt a Sentinel (You can counter argument on that)
she doesnt belong more to the of a Sentinel by Riot themself in the game, (It's impossible to give geniune counter argument to that part) she fit a little bit more to description of controller than the description or even an initiator

Sentinel

• emphasis on supporting the rest of the team through providing intel, (She dont, only wall but not gonna be use like that)
• anchoring down sites (prob the worst anchor in the game since anchoring mean usually be alone and half of her kit require to not be alone)
• preventing the enemy from flanking. (You have nothing in your kit to do that, and use the wall to do that is pure int)

Controller

• assist their teammates by cutting enemy vision, (In atk the wall is used to do that but also to block bullet)
• taking control of an area, (Slow orb, Wall)
• and forcing enemies into choke points. (Wall is the best spell ever to force that)

Initiator

• initiating attacks on site, flushing enemies out of hiding spots and corners in order to assist the team when charging into battle. (All her spell are good for that, Wall take space Orb lock trap people, heal and rez are more easier to make it work in atk because you tend to group more with team than in defense)

Note that the top 4 in NMWR is absolutely hilarious :

• Sage (pre-up) : 58%
• Clove : 56%
• Iso : 55%
• Astra (pre-up) : 54%
  Data of Stage 2 in T1 and T2
  2 of the top 4 have an up (I bet Sage will still not be played after few years, then people will realise she is broken especially in a postplant meta in probably 1 or 2 years, then will receive a massive nerf that will make her unplayable)

Pro take time to change their bad habit if something is not obviously totally broken. Pro will realize in 1 year she is broken, thats too early for their inertial brain, she still suffers from her soloQ image (And the fact she beside her passive, all of their kit is absolutely horribly useless)

And Yet in T1 it's the Agent in top 3 witht the biggest NMWR :X

Clove is really unrderestimate, and her passive might be the reason why she is really broken

You need to win 3 map for win a BO5

I kinda agree, but you pref a split 2 full round robin ? or a LCQ ?

Ah I thougt he were talking about the master relative to the kickoff (My dumbass consider winning master 1 is winning "kickoff" so it's no ambiguous when I say a team win master :c)

To me : Real for all of them, beside Neon

Doble elim 12 team for the 2 masters ? It is annouced ??

1 game more per team, so 11 games more

On my video on Bind, I did a tierlist that I think is pretty good and I ant some debate or at least some feedback, the tierlist is more based on "meaning of tier" than a poweranking (With a glimpse of Pokemon terminology)

• Strong : PR > 58% NMWR > 50%, pval <5% : Gekko
• Over-Use (aka meta) : WR > 50% : Raze, Brim, Viper, Skye
• Potential: PR 3% NMWR 65%, pval <10% : Clove, Sage, Astra (Astra is only 22% pval)
• Mid-Use : PR 8%/30%, NMWR <50% : Cypher, Fade, Omen, Yoru, Dlok
• Under-Use : PR 2%/8%, NMWR >50% : Kayo, Harbor, Neon
• Never-USe : PR < 2% : Iso, Pheonix, Kjoy, Vyze
• Seems-Bad : NMWR 37%, pval < 25% : Sova, Reyna, Jett, Breach
• Bad : PR 3%, NMWR 26%, pval 2% : Chamber