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That's not how it works man. I put off wearing mine as much as possible as a kid and it just makes it worse, your eyesight will deteriorate while aging anyways and constantly squinting only makes it go faster. They are prescribed so you can use them. And learn to accept how you look, I'm sure you look amazing.

(Although if you are an adult and then prescribed them maybe it's a different situation).

I don't really believe these ones but out of the ones not mentioned yet, next would probably be f0rsaken and Boaster

I agree. Maybe one reason is that back in the older days certain players played different roles, so when they have to fill a new role they learn only one or two agents, as needed for the team depending on comp and meta, rather than the entire role.

For example Cryo hasn't touched Killjoy and barely touched Vyse. His Cypher is pretty good though.

I'm not too sure that that is the reason they have Ethan Skye vs brawk Skye
What scenarios are you putting brawk on Skye? In all comps where Ethan played Skye she was either the solo initiator or brawk was playing Tejo. Depends on if you would rather brawk Skye Ethan Tejo but this was kickoff so I think they didn't know Ethan was comfortable on Tejo yet.

I think he's not that comfortable on Fade. Last year Bind was one of brawk's worst maps simply cause he couldn't play Sova. Lifetime his Fade rating in VCT is probably far lower than that of Sova despite Sova having so many more games. Skye is a different matter but he has no reps in tier 1 so who knows.

So far this season he has played:

• Tejo (on Split and Bind at kickoff, performed badly)
• Brimstone (on Fracture, performed okay)
• Deadlock (picked once, bad)
• Fade (picked once, bad)
• Vyse (Very good on Lotus, okay on Split, altho NRG hasn't touched that map for a bit)
• Sova (Best agent).

I think one of NRG's role issues is that brawk is kind of a one-trick Sova, and his next best agent is Vyse. As such on non-Sova maps either lots of roles have to be shifted around for him to play Vyse, or he has to play a different agent.
On Lotus the comp is completely fine, but in other non-Sova maps (i.e. Split) this may become an issue in the long run.

What do you guys think?

tyty

Me me me

First person in VLR to own up to their mistake

Are there any good Indian coaches?

I mean yeah, Masters winners are probably even worse off. My question was just like, how good do they have to be to be above average in terms of coming off a championship year, if you know what I mean, IDK if it's worded well.

Well so far Acend fell off, LOUD did good in 2023, EG fell off, EDG far subverted expectations, and NRG definitely did not do as good as they thought they good at Tokyo.

Maybe not a well-defined curse but it's undeniable that it's hard to stay at a world-class level across years.

How high does NRG need to place at Champions for them to "defeat" the Champs curse?

Obviously making it to Champs is I think the bare minimum. If they get top 8, are they fine? Top 6? Top 4?

oh shit, nvm, im tripping.

Do t1 teams usually get t2 players to sub on short notice? I can't think of an example off the top of my head.

The only reason is probably that john is going to mainly play smokes. With Victor they would've had to swap the roles a lot (probably Victor senti, cortez smokes, reduxx flex). With Marved you get a one-to-one swap and let cortez play sentinel like he has mostly.
Tarik is probably worse than Marved skill-wise and it's hard to get a tier 2 player on short notice when challengers is going on. + Marved is going to ENC, so there's that.

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i dont hate that either

Also, we can do keiko jett mada phoenix instead

the main strength of triple init was to counter chamber, you had so much util to take space, plus you didnt need a duelist because of all the spacetaking, and chamber could take fights like a duelist can on defense.

After the chamber nerf it became much more niche. DRX made it work by replacing chamber for jett and running no senti, but I think they mostly just did okay since their player calibre was so good.

W vyse fan

fairs

You can always try keiko Neon as well, he played it on Breeze near the beginning of the year

Not unplayable, but it's always been a bad map for them (well from last year's sample size at least), so I don't expect them to magically become world class at it. Maybe it can go to good.

I don't understand why not skuba Chamber, keiko/mada Phoenix/Neon, Ethan Omen, brawk Sova.

Seven Duelist
al0rante Sentinel
waddle Initiator
NINJA Smokes/Flex
qpert Flex/Smokes

(including EWC quals + ewc):

Lotus: 87% (13-2)
Haven: 71% (10-4)
Breeze: 60% (9-6)
Split: 25% (2-6)
Ascent: 17% (1-5)
Sunset: 0% (0-1)
Summit: ??

Currently we have 1 world-class map in Lotus, and 2 decent ones in Haven and Breeze (I actually like our Breeze better despite the numbers). We have 3 poor to unplayable maps in Split, Ascent, and Sunset, and one unknown in Summit.
I'm hoping that we have something cooked up for at least 2 of the last 4, otherwise our map pool is simply too poor.

very nice, i can see why you have exit
My favorite picks of yours are izu and ivy, honestly not too sure about meteor and hiro for their value but def not unreasonable

fairs, i just gotta rep my team somehow but ur right

thank you! what's yours?

https://www.valorantfantasyleague.net/team/2678

these are nice, nightz might surprise ppl i think, i like Boo and Profek as well

hes pretty expensive

Duelists: kaajak/Izzy/Xross
Initiators: Asuna/Vora/starxo
Controllers: keiko/PROFEK/xavi8k
Sentinels: skuba/Shyy

Ye I like the davih pick

All well and good until we go up 10-2 and choke 15-13 in OT

mada raid boss

I remember from their comms videos that keiko and mada are two of the more vocal players in midrounding as well. When they are on Phoenix and Chamber then they will be more focused on their own game, so skuba and brawk need to be stepping up more, but they are also more used to playing on their own.

bruh there is never a collective vlr agenda, it shifts depending on who’s awake, and which teams are in good form

cope

100T clear G2 just like BDE clear SGMA

EXACTLY

EWC IS NOT MICKEY
AN AMERICAS TEAM IS IN THE FINALS (MAYBE EVEN TWO)

you would have players baiting harder than aspas

ah

What was wrong with his Omen today?

oh hella nah thats haramball

which map?

bruh no one here knows what asinine means

They did, I was doing a web-scraping project with the VLR Dev API and it doesn't work anymore.

Omen