Kinda true you have a huge talent pool, probably biggest of the world after CN and USA, I'm trying to see wish of the 10 franchise can be removed for one for OCE but let's be honest this is pretty stack. Things would have been so mush easier if it was GEN or T1 that bough Vision Striker instead of DRX, hard to remove off JP team too since they got so mush hype, again if only DFM got the history of ZETA Riot would probably have only give them one spot... I can't obviously retire any other SEA team since they represent a captive market... And... Only RRQ remained. I don't really wanna RRQ out, it's right MY-SG-ID need a 2nd team, it will probably even a bigger market than JP and ID in 10 years, but that would probably be the least good choice actually (Because I don't really believe that Indonesian people prefer RRQ toward PRX, but you can tell me if i'm wrong and that your case).

So here what are the option for OCE :

• RRQ out, bad but not horrible choice
• GE out because the creation of T1 India : Not gonna happen before 10 years
• Drop an east Asian team : hard to imagine because of history of the 5 teams on LoL and Val
• Please riot to take out one of the noncloutedorg in China and accept Oceania being a part of China (WIsh make no sense geographically, but if OCE talent continue going in China well... It would end making sense historically)
• Separation of Americas and integration of OCE in NA (Hapenned few years ago in LoL, and in val 2021 LCQ), not really realist since SA can't have 8 franchised org with the crisis they are in.
• Expansion to 16 team, with 1 franchised org more or maybe 2 (4/5 ascension team that would make sense with new system, the actual system allow a possibility where you have to play against the finalist of champs to get ascended), would make sense in EMEA because MENA and CIS have no one to represent them, LAN have no one too, NA would like one team more. And about China... Well.. Complicated but I wont spit on more representative for MN, TW, HK and even East Russia. May happen at the end of Ukrainian war

What, to you would be the best solution for a T1 OCE team ? Remove DFM ?

PS : OCE cant beat BME because their talent did left T.T

Yea you are right sisski is too close from sissy

sisski :c

I hope so

Will it be a sentinel or a "fake senitnel" like DL ?
Last "real" sentinel was in 2020

Thats true lot of people said it was OP, because people cant make a difference between a toxic mecanic and an OP mecanic. DL ult was just a Weaken Raze Ult (No recoil to save you, no instant death, no more than one kill), that create more frustration in both camp than Raze ult.

yeah and thats not good mecanics x)

Not sure how they will handle that, if they find a new way to make it interesting, but I really dont think that what Val lack of.

totally disagree, when they releaved DL I consider it being the weakest ult in the whole game Cypher aside x)

Did I said she is too OP ?
Toxic mecanics are bad mecanics. The agent gonna be trash as every agent that get release since Fade, Toxic mecanics lead them to being pointless pointless lead to weak agent

Lockdown is so hard to balance, how could that even work T.T ?

https://x.com/ValorantUpdated/status/1826617525347778680

VYSE Ultimate will allow her to temporarily disable enemy Agents from using their weapons.
Her ultimate will cost 8 ability points | #VALORANT
⚠️ This information is not confirmed, but based on leaks.

PLEASE NO GOD PLEASE NO (and I'm no even beleiving in god T.T)

PS : i'm not complaining about being OP, I'm complaining about being a toxic mecanic, toxic mecanics usually lead to being bad and i'm fed up with bad agent, if tomorrow Riot would release a 80% PR agent I would be glad because i'm fed up with how stale the meta is, I suppose we need to see more detail before being sure this is gonna be bad, but now i'm kinda used to have trash agent with toxic mecanics x)

This is a malay speaking team, MY-SG-ID share the same language with regional varieties

B-b-but :c

2 of their player are ID, ID fan are probably fan of PRX x)

Wait... I'm not a baguette citizen ?? Where do I come from so ?

I think PRX got already the Indonesian market x)

They need one T1 team, since APAC is so stack, I would love Riot making an exception for China x)
Only hope for APAC in Oceania is GE going into a T1 South Asia... Or maybe RRQ that choose to drop x)

The fact this is the first post is a little bit sad :c

Well it was plan since 2023, only changement they announced is that we will not have 14 team in 2024 as it was planned at first

Still lack of data for this 2 maps. Come back when you reach 50

Wait, isn't democracy instead of commuism ?

The problem is lack of data, 12 isnt enough

Guys, I got a weird dream tonight, in this dream franchise ERA was over and something else take it places, they where still some team that couldn't be relegated, but the the team where not structure anymore. KC and Vita where gone, instead they where a french team owned by... Us ? It seems every people that have a level 100 acc have at least one voice in decision like choosing the coach, and if you where level 200 you got 2 voice, 3 voice in case you whree 300 etc... We had an equivalent of "Citizens' initiative referendum" and any of us could force a vote upon a decision in case the guy we pick to rule the team took a bad decision or if we want fire him or force him to take a decision he didn't took yet, leding to so many amazing and constructive debate.

AND IT WASNT ONLY FRANCE, every part of the world got a T1 team that represent them, usually based on language, but with the goal of having roughly the same size, one of the biggest rivalry was US-West vs US-East (right before US-East and US-South), and nobody in vlr kept US flag almost all of them have switched to US-W US-E or US-S flag, and insulting each other creating topic like "Only NA-East should be allowed on that site, fucking southernist saying Y'all" (Which the top commentary was obviously by famous user Magnolia4theWin saying "Yall"), While Canadian where still on the top of NA. The rivalry between BR and LAS team was probably the most racist one, but still enjoyable

Pacific rivalry was at is peak, Japanese unified team was lead by charismatic leader AbeLoverUwU that took iconic decision and make Japan have their first win of a master, while nepotism was over in SEA team (Even if the tam lack of stability the first year making it hard at first), the day of the creation of the T1 team in Oceania was a national day in Australia. I couldn't know if Korea have 1 team or 2, the dream was not enough detailed, sorry guys, i'll try to dream better next time.

China rivalry was a little bit weird, each server got their team and never flame each other and stay unite, but... Taiwanese Regionnal Team of Great Unified China (TRTOUC shorten into for obvious reason), got some weird dramas with the 4 other Regionnal team. Not a lot of Drama with Mongolian team that could finally play with a decent ping on Tianjin server.

Ascention was still here, we got a little bit more team ascended because we had a little bit less "Fan owned" team with the new system, LOUD and NRG is still a rivalry in the T1 since the 2 team managed to maintain themself, this year France is really hyped because KC managed to qualify a team in the T1, so many years that it didn't happen, and the team look promising.

Was it a dream or a nightmare ? (Only thing I know is this morning when I open vlr seing "Do you think Y0Y could make a great femboy with enough makup" with 200 comment, I felt a little bit weird.)

T1 have the same number of slot is perfect

Vive le Quebec libre in that case

Amer, and CIS doesnt have enough people in it, even in long term that might never happen, when MENA, India and Subsaharua will gap close their economical groth, they will have a population big enough to be a T1, and other region cant do it, hard to say when it will be, seems tings improving really fast in India

Maybe good is a little bit strong, but they are decent to me

Cant wait for the day when we have a 5th or a 6th T1 region, we will have more teams

M80 sure, on APAC maybe Riddle, BME or FS

Map team is to me good, Icebox and Breeze where bad, but FRC/PRL/LTS/SUN are good, not perfect, but I enjoy play this map countrary to when I draw Ascent and Icebox (Where I literally want to dodge), and I believe balancing team is the same team than agent team, I don't believe with so few change during the year they really have guys that are full time working on balance, to me it's jsut the agent team that make the balance and that explain while instead of realising every new agent is trash, they try to destroy other agent to make their new trash-agent viable.

Time : really look like a Zonya in LoL, as an ex main Zyra that usually flash --> Rollface --> Zonya, maybe this is a stasis ?

Rose : is probably her Cypher/KJ trap... I hope

Vandal : ??? I have a really bad feeling about it... since they are only 3 spell it's probably not a ultimate (Or maybe it is and some seed is another ability), please dont be a "you have a free Vandal when ult" or any weapon spell

Zyra <3

Technically every region got roughly 1G pop (1 000 000 000) if take apart the "non developped PC regio" that is India, ME and Africa

If it's not it will be a definite proof that the team that doing agent need to be formed to do their job

I need to see the format of both stage before taking a decision

Keep in mind Faker has some peak and some bottom, so the faker of Valorant will have year off, so it can be so many players

We have 3 french team so if none qual... We are really bad

Can't wait to play Zyra, she was my main in LoL before she was reworked and add random mecanics

As I always says
First strike was prehistory
Pre-franchised era was antiquity
franchised ERA is MIDdle ages

I think rolequeue is a good thing, few patch ago we were really close from an equivalent of Goats meta (No duelists, 2 ini, 2 smokes and sometimes even 3 smokes), at some point it will become a necessity as it was on OW, and as it was on LoL. But the actual game may have issue to work with 4 roles and 5 players, it may require to rework the role categories and/or just class some agent into 2 categories.

Also some people may be bored about having to fill smoke every single games, so it's another good reason to make a rolequeue.

Here is gonna be an unpopular opinion : Sentinels are bad for the game, Sage, DL and Chamber are even not real sentinels, and KJ and Cyph are horrible to play against and not really popular to play, I'm not even sure they can create a real sentinel anymore, last one was in season 1 (we will see if the next agent that will probably be a sent will change somethin). The game is basically planned for having 5 people that cover plus a bot, so reworking Sentinel into senitnels may mean the lack of bot, force us to go to 6v6, so after reworking Sage into a secondary smoker (Her wall is basically used as a supra smoke on icebox after all), give DL active vision (It would synergize a lot with her ult), Turn Chamber into a Real duelist, and probably rework KJ and Cypher into reveal

If you go 6v6 and put sentinels into other categories, then you can make a 2-2-2, if they are too many duelists, they you can force them to pick another of 2 roles once every 4/5 games, soloqueue will be healthier, and proplay will feature 2 duelist that may be more fun to watch, and allow more possibility since the site with sent is the site that nobody want to avoid.

You gonna say OW2 went to 5v5, but lets be honest it's a complete failure and may even be reverse, the 2-2-2 create some complicity between the people that share a role, and amazing interrations

I'm fully allowed to debate about this that is obviously hard to hear

What about 2-1-1-1 or a 2-3 ? (2 duelist and 3 others)

So you mean, people that only want to play duelist will be penalised for it, and people that dont play duelist wouldnt be rewarded for it ?

I see that as an absolute win.

(Also if you are afraid of queue time, you shall force them to pick another role once every 5 games, some kind of forced autofill)

2nd worst map after Icebox, every agent everymap, lack of option in atk, it's a map you like when the only thing you like to do is defense

Ascent did left the mapool during the playoffs and nobody noticed it D:

→ 1030

Round 6

• [2,05] EDG - LEV [1,95] (LEV 51%)

Pseudo-Quarter-Final

• [1,74] TH - SEN [2,36] (TH 58%)

→ 956

Round 6

• [2,05] EDG - LEV [1,95] (LEV 51%)

Pseudo-Quarter-Final

• [1,74] TH - SEN [2,36] (TH 58%)

→ 596

Round 6

• [2,05] EDG - LEV [1,95] (LEV 51%)

Pseudo-Quarter-Final

• [1,74] TH - SEN [2,36] (TH 58%)

→ 820

Round 6

• [2,05] EDG - LEV [1,95] (LEV 51%)

Pseudo-Quarter-Final

• [1,74] TH - SEN [2,36] (TH 58%)

→ 1302

Round 6

• [2,05] EDG - LEV [1,95] (LEV 51%)

Pseudo-Quarter-Final

• [1,74] TH - SEN [2,36] (TH 58%)

→ 673

Round 6

• [2,05] EDG - LEV [1,95] (LEV 51%)

Pseudo-Quarter-Final

• [1,74] TH - SEN [2,36] (TH 58%)

→ 1332

Round 6

• [2,05] EDG - LEV [1,95] (LEV 51%)

Pseudo-Quarter-Final

• [1,74] TH - SEN [2,36] (TH 58%)