Today is the qualifier for Invite premier, Asia server got 6 different T2 league tied to the playoffs and it's kinda hard to guess what team is from where. So here is a list of every team that is 600point+ with their probabe nationality (All of them are not 100% sure, but most are doble checked)

• 1 No Org 78,6 % 1175 11 - 3 PH
• 2 XOXO01 91,7 % 1125 11 - 1 TH
• 3 TRINITY 76,9 % 1075 10 - 3 MN
• 4 BREAKPOINT 57,1 % 950 8 - 6 MN
• 5 ENYEBEH 61,5 % 925 8 - 5 ID
• 6 50K ESPORTS 61,5 % 925 8 - 5 MY
• 7 ChinggisWarrior 90,0 % 925 9 - 1 MN
• 8 Theghostradio 66,7 % 900 8 - 4 TH
• 9 SYNCHRO 50,0 % 875 7 - 7 ID
• 10 Altair Esports 50,0 % 875 7 - 7 TH
• 11 Mixcoatl 50,0 % 875 7 - 7 ID
• 12 DoaIbuSelamanya 80,0 % 850 8 - 2 ID
• 13 NUTSN 58,3 % 825 7 - 5 ID
• 14 Aim For Head 42,9 % 800 6 - 8 TW
• 15 akatsukii 70,0 % 775 7 - 3 TH
• 16 PHÉNIX TR 50,0 % 750 6 - 6 ID
• 17 Untapped 50,0 % 750 6 - 6 MY
• 18 AiM FortissyGod 35,7 % 725 5 - 9 ID
• 19 Future Greats 54,5 % 725 6 - 5 MY
• 20 SEPUH SLAYER 87,5 % 725 7 - 1 ID
• 21 DRoar 60,0 % 700 6 - 4 CB
• 22 BaseBetaEsport 41,7 % 675 5 - 7 TH
• 23 Kolokoy 66,7 % 675 6 - 3 PH
• 24 Hey hey hey 66,7 % 675 6 - 3 PH
• 25 EXIST 28,6 % 650 4 - 10 TH
• 26 Valiance 45,5 % 650 5 - 6 MN
• 27 LiveStrong 75,0 % 650 6 - 2 PH
• 28 Kumon 75,0 % 650 6 - 2 ID
• 29 OneOTwo 50,0 % 625 5 - 5 TH
• 30 Nefarious 50,0 % 625 5 - 5 TW
• 31 TaLang 50,0 % 625 5 - 5 VN
• 32 481 DECADE 50,0 % 625 5 - 5 TH
• 33 NEVER BACK DOWN 50,0 % 625 5 - 5 MY
• 34 ReigN 100,0 % 600 6 – 0 MY
• 35 KOCKHAIR 55,6 % 600 5 - 4 MY

Here is the repartition of team per T2 country :

• VN 1
• CB 1 (Part of VN or TH ?)
• TH 8
• SGMY 6
• ID 9
• PH 4
• TWHK 2
• MN 4 ('Part' of TWHK)

I still believe SEA have too many leagues :

• It's kinda fun to see that Mongolia have more team than TW, I'm really afraid in a near future all good TWHK team go to China while TW T2 league just become MN majority
• Valorant isn't popular enough to have a sane T2 region all alone in Vietnam, and TH demography are decreasing, plus we have no idea where CB is, so creating a "Mainland SEA" T2 fusing VN and TH would make the competitively increase and make things more clear, (Problem is ping, even if we put a server in Bangkok it seems ping in Ho Chi Minh and even Hanoi is trash in Bangkok, so it's not really feasible to be fair, so they better stay split for the moment)
• MY and ID have a lot of good players but not enough good structure, a merge would really make the region insanely good. Plus it baffles me that actual PRX couldn't even play in T2 because MY and ID are separated even if Indonesian mutually intelligible with "Malay"

Can't wait to see who will qualify

5 star was maybe too mush, 30s before a star come back is more balance in early round but can allow 6 in the round

That's really sad, it's the only Valorant forum, and it's almost impossible to have a constructive conversation here x)

I would love to debate with Sliggy and other analysts (<3 Lothar) but I doubt they would agree to debate.

I'm not pretending this is perfect, or even good. I just want to open the debate about a lot of problem about game design of agent. Tell me what you don't like and what would you do to solve agent problems

Why nobody gives argument, they are a lot of things to cover and yet nobody gives any argument x)

Do you really think the actual Iso is saner than the Iso I propose that might have some utility in proplay ?

It's obviously not a leak, I just try to rebalance agent that are soloQ stomper and are unplayable in proplay, and make only proplay agent playable in soloQ.

If you have more precise question I would love to answer them

Of course you need argument, I can argument any changes :

Iso + Reyna : Need to be nerf in soloQ, need to be up in proplay, those change allow them to take spaces, and nerf their duel power.
Flasher : Literally explained, the non standardization of flash make some agent unplayable in soloQ and other agent unplayable in proplay.
Slight up on every non top tier non-duelist to make them more viable in soloQ and allow they to compete about top pick in their role.

Unrank level 300, plus many hours doing spreadsheet to analysis the ranked meta, and making a lot of databases.

Don't hesitate to gives arguments.

What you like, what you dislike, I made a lot of changes, what are your argument about this

Bro is on Cook island

Mapool : ASC/HVN/LTS/SUN/ABY/FRC (-bind +fracture)

Radianite-Life-Vial (RLV) passive : Every kill on someone that have a 2nd life count as a kill and grant an orb, but team can no longer use more than one « 2nd life ult »per round, this will allow to see more 6k in proplay to hype. If 7k was possible, that would make 6k less hype, so this system only allow 6k (And let's be honest, having to kill people 8 people in a round may be frustrating). In lore : each team got one vial of life radianite that need to be used for rez or pre-rez people.

Flashers :
Initiator flasher’s kit is already good in proplay, Duelist Flasher’s kit is already good in soloQ.
We don’t need to make the flash of duelist worst in proplay than initiator flash, so now every flash stays the same amount of time. Initiator flasher struggle in soloQ, we don’t need to make them struggle even more by making their ekip time longer than duelist. We harmonized the smokes, we now do the same for flash to make flasher.
Flash : Every flash is now 2 second, and unekip time is now 0.5 for everyone

• Reyna : Dismiss/Devour charge 2 → 1,5, doesn’t need a soul to be used, harvesting a soul orb grant 0,5 Dismiss/Devour charge. Devour : Doesn’t need a soul to be used, she can use it on a teammate, if any ally under 50 come to Reyna, the spell is automatically consumed. Leer, max duration : 1,6s → 2s, unekip time: 0,5s → 0,5s. Dismiss: Doesn’t need a soul to be used 1.5s --> 2s. Ult : is now AOE for every agent that is less than 10m from Reyna, no longer make dismiss invisible.
• Yoru : Flash, max duration : 1,75 → 2s, unekip time : 0,5 → 0,5s. Teleport windup 0.5s → 0.3s.
• Phoenix : Ult : Apply RLV. Wall : 1 → 2. Flash, max duration : 1,5s → 2s, unekip time: 0,5s → 0,5s
• Kayo : Ult : Apply RLV. Flash, max duration (primary) : 2,25s → 2s, max duration (alt) : 1,25s → 1,2s, unekip time: 0,85s → 0,5s
• Breach : Flash, max duration : 2s → 2s, unekip time: 0,7s → 0,5s
• Skye : Flash, max duration : 2s → 2s, unekip time: 0,85s → 0,5s

Vision :

• Skye (Yes she is here again) : flash : regenerate
• Fade : prawler : 2 → 3
• Gekko : Globules passive : 10s→ 15s, Mosh pit also affected by globule (He also deserves love).
• Sova : No change

Duelist :

• Raze : No change
• Jett : No change
• Neon : 8.10 up are removed. Relay bolt : no longer stun her team, bump her team instead. Ult : Stay the whole round
• Iso : Ult : Iso no longer die when he loose in his ult so it applies RLV, doesn’t remove spell that are weapon anymore. Iso can no longuer shot while double tap is active (but he keep is weapon, when sheid fall below 0HP, the shield disappear after 1second, giving 3 sound signal to both Iso and opposent so they know when they can shoot (One right at the moment the sheild fall under 0, one after 0,5s, one right when they can shoot).

Sentinels

• Deadlock : Sensor : notify that someone is walking but no stun
• Sage : Ult : Apply RLV. Wall 1 → 2, 30s cooldown.
• Cypher : Unbreakable trap with gun get fix, range on trap (Harmonization on sentinel passive vision). Ult : Can now be used on corpse of teammate.
• Killjoy : No changes
• Chamber : Rendezvous : anchor : 1→2. Tour De Force : Equip speed 0,667→ 1,0. Equip time 0,3 → 0,5s. Unequip time 0,5s → 0,75s.

Smoker

• Astra : regenerate one star every 30s
• Omen : No change
• Brim : Stim : regenerate every 30s
• Clove : Meddle : Windup 1,3s → 2s (Up in Proplay). Ult : Apply RLV
• Harbor : Cove → Can move the same way than Jett
• Viper : 8.10 nerf are removed. Nerf compared to 8.09 : -SPL -BRZ -ICB, +ABY, +HVN, +FRC

Though ?

Stop nerfing agent please T.T
We will end with soloQ end into 5 duelists

Astra need one star to come back after 30 second, if she use 4 smokes in the round that mean she have no spell, thats a nonsense

Beside India all of them where sooo close

Maybe the change where bad

Because he will not contract if not

Ranking before NA W1

• Maxine-bot 3599
• alsdhflkahflkajsdhlfhsadl 3450
• Liem 3346
• 7whanzussjwbsysbbejskaoao 3292
• Kirako 3274
• Cu55Ku55___ 3258
• flanador 3219
• Azzelastia 3200
• vreesey 3200
• highlyte 3200
• unknown_trash 3116
• Cu55Ku55___ 3107
• ButterflyEffect23 3100
• lucidity0000 3097
• Kaitou 3073
• scarlemange 2974
• SuperRoss 2939
• Cosmic_ 2916
• DSGFan 2909
• gamingtaming 2799
• L1NK_Lover 2736
• Minna-bot 2698
• PP12123213123 1897

Maxine is fucking OP, If that confirm I will need to changes some value, seems bot undersetimate the best team
Also, PP1 point is so low that I wonder if i didn't do a mistake. It's either my mistake or he is cursed

No problem it's just to be sure !

To be fair, NIP was by far the 2nd best BR team, Riot selected the 3rd and 4th team (they keep core of KS) and now we asks ourself "why does they struggle" x)

Last APAC game of week 2

• APAC-W2 [1,22] DRX - RRQ [5,50] (DRX 82%)

Please dont edit @.@ Make a repost instead
Shall i remove all the bet of this old post ?

They kinda finish last Split 1 so they where contenders for the title of "Worst CN team", but thats true therent last on my datas, if you think you can beat my ELO bot don't hesitate to bet here (No money involved) https://www.vlr.gg/360523/bet-on-odd-stage-2-megathread/ !

Fair point

Is the the start of the end of EDG ? Losing against worst CN team right after being destoy during the master may cause a lot of emotional damage, or do you thing they will come back stronger ? Or maybe they are just chilling since they are already in champ ?

-100 + 131 = +31 !

I already have a vote for you on NAVI (vs TH), GX (vs M8) and FUT (vs NAVI), is it a mistake of me (wish mean I have to find who does belong this bet) or a deleted post ?

Peloton has cut in 2, the top 6 is kinda well defined, beside Zeta and RRQ I don't see how can any change can occur

Also an option, but it's better if they can access to Colombian server, to mush in south mean less people able to practice with T1 team

They are too many visa problems with playing in the USA, it's either team that have no idea how to organize themself or, it's just americas rules that are bad. Fusion of Americas is a good thing but USA hosting it doesn't work. Sao Paulo could host it, Canada could host it, Mexico could host it and even Colombia would be a better choice at this point.

If in 3 year we still have the same visa issues Riot will really have to do something to solve this important issue.

Does VPN increase ping ?

Valorant is allowed in Iran ?

EMEA W2 :

• EMEA-W2 [2,81] KOI - GX [1,55] (GX 64%)
• EMEA-W2 [1,41] FNC - VIT [3,46] (FNC 71%)
• EMEA-W2 [1,60] TH - FUT [2,66] (TH 62%)
• EMEA-W2 [3,29] BBL - TL [1,44] (TL 70%)
• EMEA-W2 [TBD] NAVI - GX [TBD] (TBD)
• EMEA-W2 [TBD] KOI - M8 [TBD] (TBD)
• EMEA-W2 [TBD] FNC - KC [TBD] (TBD)

I really trust in "T1 middle east" in really long term, 3 TR team, 1 or 2 Iranian team, probably on Pakistanese team, (Can be also with INdia but that would make a too big country), and 5 Arabic team (Kinda like APAC structure)

Thats sad, Iran has so mush potential, it's such a big country that are so close from Occident values

People complaining about 2 things :

• 5 month off season
• Not enough game
• Unbalanced schedule with 11 teams

Going to 14 or even 16 teams would add few more game for bad teams, solve the unbalanced schedule (Yeah, we shall really avoid having 13 team I agree, going to 14 would be better), also we will have 2 mounth more next year, so no reason to panic about lack of time even with 4 games more

He is boht I think

Swerl too good, please give Australia a CN team :c

8 would be perfect especially for kickoff, 10 partener + 6 ascended seems really the best

W2.5 for China

CHIN-W2 [4,88] TYL - TE [1,26] (TE 79%)
CHIN-W2 [2,13] NV - BLG [1,89] (BLG 53%)

You are right for the 2nd answer, but I didn't see anything for the 1st one.

If that's true (And it is probably because I miss the 2nd answer so I might have missed the 2nd one) it's a bad change, we were promised more game in 2027 because of more teams, 2 ascended team isn't enough, and 12 teams isn't enough. x)

Are we still gonna have 13 teams in 2026 ? (Please no)

Also, what if every ascension team qualify to champions ? Ascention is cancelled ?

I hope we find a solution in the futur, it can be either take GE spot when India become a T1 region, or it can be by placing Oceania in China since lot of player go there

Thanks a lot !
Thats a good rule since the region are that big !

Do you have any sources ? I would be surprised (but not surprised in bad to be fair)

It's 2 import for everyone

I'm his biggest fan And is smile, seems i'm not that lesbian

I don't have tiktok, I barely use social media beside discord and VLR, and I can watch a full 80min of Rugby game without turning my head

I watch football since I was born, thats the first year I don't watch game (I only watched France 2nd half, and I was saying the game is fuking boring every 5min)

The format is horrible, a team that didn't win any game in group can qualigy because top 3/4 of majority of the group are qualified, you can even qualify going 1-2 and having no advantage.

Best format would have been 3 game of swiss round, after 3 game of swiss you have :

• 3 teams in 3-0 (that are already qualified)
• 5 teams in 2-1 (that have to play 1 game to earn a spot for the 5 remaining places)
  (You just have to pick either qualify directly the best 2-1 team and qualify the best team in 1-2 in the last chance game)
  Everything would have been so mush more hype where, while now half of the team will play half of the game for seeding (Wish doesn't mean anything, Portugal end 3rd in group when they won)

ADHD is probably in my case (I don't have tik tok, i'm a 28 old had that grew without social network). But that isn't an excuses for football, if I can be glued in Rugby (A game where they are so mush more pauses) thats not only an ADHD issues, in Rugby the score are huge buildup, sometime a team is on the verge of having a try for 10minutes where you cant move your eyes. While in football it's just counterattack, defense beating atk, rapid loss of ground advantage, penalty for dumb reason, and in some game it can even end 0-0.

I probably have more hype the last day of group when it gonna matter (In this format one win on 3 game and you are almost win, thats a nonsense)

First year I have absolutely no hype for this. Football in 2024 sounds to me like the most boring game ever (And the 24 format is absolutely 0 hype, 3 days of round Swiss instead would have been a BANGER), it's impossible to look a game of football and doing nothing else, compared to rugby where i'm littérally glued to every game (And I probably have seen more game of Foot than Rugby in my life)