Ain't no way Derke will even score one goal against Kevin Trapp

Yeah, I like Vit! Twisten was my favourite player from the BIG days, and I like the current roster as well. What about it?

Actually insane how much people are overhyping G2

Eintracht Frankfurt

can play any agent at its max potential

He definitely did not play Astra or Brim to "max potential". He clearly is very flexible, and he clearly did well in terms of gunfights while on those agents, but his util was pretty basic and compared to actual smokes players he did not have the same amount of impact purely in terms of util.

Yeah, going from owning in tier 1 to owning in tier 2 is falling off

Brother if Reddit is silver and gold takes, vlr is iron and bronze takes. If you want actual good takes, no public internet forum in the world will give them to you.

I mean there were definitely complaints and posts saying how they will still choke and not win anything and how they're overrated etc.

Either way posts like this one are annoying and cringe.

I speak for everyone literally any vlr user clears TheAceGamer30 anyday

Honestly at this point I wouldn't even consider FUT an upset. They were the #2 EMEA team at champs (although NAVI had a tougher group and didn't look that bad), and they have clearly upgraded the roster and looked pretty strong in the off season so far.

I mean, they look great on paper, it's obvious why people are getting hyped. It's not like they don't have the potential to become the best team in Americas or even the world. They could also crash and fail horrendously.

There's just so many question marks on the team, Marved in general, Ethan as IGL, crashies and Victor in terms of consistency. They could land anywhere between 1st to 10th (not landing below mibr, sorry) in Americas, so I dont really blame people for speculating either way. They're probably one of the harder teams to accurately predict.

Breloof

No fucking way EU's best tier 2 team is kpi

Yeah, because they're not

Yeah but then 2 teams are gonna be promoted. In the very big announcement at the end of 2022, Riot did say that the leagues were gonna expand until there are 14 teams per league. I'm gonna see if i can find the article

Problem is there's now 40 partnered teams, and 44 teams total in the leagues, which will go up to at 56 total in 2027. With 30 teams + 2 wild cards it was doable. With 56, you probably need to invite 8 extra teams and do 64 teams single elim, but that's a very big amount of hotel rooms, visas, etc, and would also double the amount of matches played in the tournament, even if you stick to single elim.

Lock//in was definitely a fun tourney to watch but I don't think it can happen again

Also KC vs FPX

Fair, guess they're 1-1 in important trophies.

I didn't see TenZ winning EMEA Ascension

Ex6tenz > Tenz

He's still with Fokus I believe. As far as I'm aware they only dropped Lime

Shalaby will be EMEA's saviour

Eintracht Valorant will sweep

Always sad when such a longstanding member eventually leaves, but probably for the best.

More volatility in the game, constantly changing metas. Some players just work extremely well in certain metas (e.g. yay Chamber).

Yeah it uses vlr rating, which is based on subjective criteria which measure specific, arbitrarily chosen things that supposedly reflect how good a player is. It's not a bad metric by any means, but it's also extremely subjective, and in the end, nobody gives a shit. It's interesting to look at, that's all.

Nobody gives a shit about Modric's pass completion rate in the 2018 world cup final. France scored more goals, they won the game, that's what matters. Griezmann is a world champion, Modric isn't.

top 20 on willminder list on twitter >>>>>>> champs trophy, obviously

Shouldn't it be Leviatán instead of Leviatàn?

I mean I get the point you're trying to make, but surely you acknowledge that while Lev's decision to sign C0m over nzr may be justified, it still really sucks for nzr. He's a great player, had a pretty solid year in 2023, actually looked like the second best player behind aspas on the new roster in the few games they played, and was now dropped way after orgs like mibr and Fúria finalised their rosters, making it impossible for him to still find a team. Kinda like what happened to yay and vanity last year (a bit of a different situation, but he's now in a similar position). It's a shitty situation, and wishing downfall on Loud because Brazilians aren't happy with how he was treated is pretty absurd tbh.

s0mple

Bookmarking this so I can come back in 17 years

I love FUT and I think they improved their roster and will do well, but I don't think I'd put them all the way in S tbh

I'd probably make some changes personally but nothing too drastic, so I'd say this is pretty reasonable. Bleed in A is pretty optimistic but I don't blame you given the flair

India brings more viewership though

bro just straight up denies krü's existence

ez for bonkar, OXG 26-0

Gratitude? What for? What has EG done for him?

You're not a dumbass, dw

If you wanna learn, there's nobody better than Zander. Boaster is also great for learning but he doesn't stream as regularly and also flexes a lot in ranked, but you can definitely check out his vods for specific agents.

Any pro is always gonna be better to watch than any content creator if your goal is to improve your gameplay.

Nobody's blaming the citizens. How is asking them to remove the flag blaming them? It's asking them to not endorse what Russia is doing.

EMEA

S - FNC
A - FUT, NAVI, Vit
B - Giantx, KC, TL
C - M8, TH, BBL, KOI

AMER

S - NRG, Loud
A - SEN, Lev, Fúria,
B - G2, C9, 100T
C - KRÜ, mibr
D -
E - G

PAC

God tier - DFM
S - PRX
A - DRX, T1, Zeta
B - Bleed, Gen.G, TS, RRQ
C - GE, Talon

I only have three and a half braincells though so take that into account

D0rke is also acceptable imo

Honestly Lemon1 clears

Major k0rya L, not even in the top 3 earliest comments? Fake fan.

Could be either a ninja defuse or a bomb exploding. 1v5 doesn't mean killing all 5, just winning the round against 5.

I think the fact that the best own you can think of for runner and kicks is "they haven't played tier 1 yet" says it all

I mean, this is hard to judge from the outside, but from the comms videos it seems like Derke has a lot more impact in the team besides performance. This was especially noticeable in the Icebox vs Loud at LOCK//IN when Boaster seemed completely defeated and Derke was the one hyping the team up. Team synergy is important, and someone who can be an effective emotional leader/hype man can be incredibly important to a team's success. Just look at how much better SEN look with Zellsis on the team compared to pAncada. Sayf I could see performing a similar role to Derke, but aspas seems more like a calm, laid back personality, and I just don't think he would fit into the current FNC roster. And Sayf doesn't really want to play duelist either, so he wouldn't even really be an option in theory. Also while aspas and Sayf might be better than Derke overall, he is at least as good as them, if not better, as a pure entryfragger.

And as for the IGL point, I think there is an argument to be made that saadhak might be better than Boaster, but Boaster practically coaches the team as well. mini has said this many times, Boaster is the main drive behind most of FNC's strats, mini's job was basically just to tell him off when he overcooked. Obviously this is a bit of an exaggeration, but the team is literally built around Boaster, and you can't really just replace him and expect any world class IGL to just slot in perfectly.

Not saying Boaster and Derke are untouchable and should never be questioned, but FNC without either of them wouldn't be FNC, and if you cut either of them, you'd probably have to rethink the whole team structure.

how are you supposed to counter this gun?

Buy full shield and then counter it the exact same way you would counter a marshal

How do you go through life this angry, Jesus. I was literally just cracking a joke about how EMEA clearly had a shit year against NA besides FNC

Probably on KOI for contract jailing trexx tbh

valarante child game.... look to cartoon grapfix to make kid player happy like children show.. valarante cartoon world with rainbow unlike counter strike chad with dark corridorr and raelistic gun.. valarante like playhouse. valarant playor run from csgo fear of dark world and realism

Ackchually it was 3-13 (against Americas) 🤓🤓

NAVI beat KRÜ and Lev at LOCK//IN and Giants beat KRÜ at Champs. (We don't talk about the NA matchup)