I mean I don't think it was a fluke, I think it was more a they didn't go to any other events so they weren't nearly as burnt out as many of the other teams and they built crazy momentum in the group stage after beating both FUT and PRX and then that momentum just kept building as they kept winning.

I do agree with the tier list

But I will make the argument for vo0kashu to be moved into s-tier because he's basically keeping DRG from being one of the worst if not the worst Chinese team currently.

I think maybe make it so that instead of a 40 second recharge on the rockets, it should be you get 2 kills and get a refresh. I think maybe make the ult one more ult orb to make it more balanced. Only way I can see to really balance it without killing him.

Last time FNC was in a final was 2023 Tokyo

FNC fell off

I cannot believe this man is 21 year old

You have to bet on C9 to win for the rest of kickoff

or

Write a love story between you and someone like dort, kirya or henbabyh

32/34/13

He only plays good on one map and then he middle frags on the other ones he plays, he has shown this time and time again. In the sen game he played good on the 2nd map but was mid on the other 2. In the mibr game he played good map 1 but then middle fragged in the second game.

He is extremely inconsistent, and as the main duelist for his team he should not be getting consistently out fragged by his teammates who most the time aren't playing duelist.

I don't apologize for hating on asuna, he is the main duelist and still gets less kills than cryo, and he was only truly good on one map. The other maps he just had some lucky moments.

Because they're so used to they're bind comp that they just run it no matter what.

I don't know why they didn't use it on pearl though

We're going to need a lot of henbaby's to sacrifice

He needs some eggster coaching

Thats the condition the game is in sadly, its hard not to play that way.

lol
people thought asuna was back, but nope its just the same old inconsistent asuna

Just a worse cryo tbh

To abuse lan aim

true

I do agree playing kj in 2025 is a little bit of a troll, but kj does work well with tejo, like the alarm bot, rockets and nano swarms are oppressive.

If it looked like the sunset in the sin prisa gaming, it would be so much better looking

Cry about it

If it was an ace it would have been.

But at least you guys didn't loose to Clown9 and get fragged on by xeppaa

Red and Orange are literally a harmonious pairing of colors meaning that they naturally complement each other, tell me you don't know anything about colors without telling me you don't know anything about colors.

yes

I mean tbh most of them are probably asleep rn, but its funny to laugh at them so I won't intervene.

But oddly enough dort has been uncharacteristically inactive

This will age really poorly if t1 wins

At least zellsis has good util when he's not feeling it, asuna util is very mid.

They better win for my pick em's
My other pick em's are already fried

Sorry I meant to say first ace in americas.

Also the mibr one wasn't really surprising but NRG loosing to C9 was pretty surprising considering C9 late roster moves and the hype NRG had in the off season

No one expected EG to be good, but people expected them to be better than loud.

With how bad my other pick ems went because I chose the safe options I branched out and chose some less likely options for my pacific lets hope I cooked.

That's where util and crossfire comes into play. Unless you're a senti anchoring site and then you shouldn't have to worry about the shield anyways because you're util will almost counter iso's shield.

I mean he's really not that hard to play against, you just util him of an angle or double peak, or tap the shield and un-peak and then re-peak when you have an opportunity to kill him.

If you're getting killed before you can destroy the shield then you need to hold better angles and occasionally you will die as it is in the nature of the game.

Asuna has had team after team built around him and is still hasn't gotten any results. The most he does is aim really good in an occasional map, and then cryo still out frags him.

I hope so for my pick ems

get the better vlr extension, you can sort by events, and regions
https://bettervlr.com

Okay but the funniest thing is somehow NRG qualifies for masters and meets blg, looses, and then gets grouped in lower finals by a Chinese team

Loud beats EG
Furia wins with a tier 2 roster against 2G
BBL beat FNC
Boaster actually aimed back
C9 beat nrg
100T beat mibr
Xeppaa top Frags
Xeppaa gets the first ace
Oxy didn't really frag
Asuna is still inconsistent
NRG might not be as good as everyone thought

What other weird things have happened
Edit: Xeppaa gets the first ace in Americas

I mean mada did show potential, kind of fizzled out on lotus, but stilled showed he was a good pick-up, also the raze ult tech was interesting, and I haven't really seen anyone else do.

Mine looks oddly similar
https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/5e5b608f

Edit: Also I made the furia prediction before the visa issues so I don't think they'll go that far anymore

They made it even worse with the whole SOOP deal too

People just had 2025 nrg rated really highly because of the off season

On god

tbf he was a paycheck stealer in the previous seasons, but if he plays like this from now on he will no longer be a paycheck stealer.

I hate to say it but xeppaa actually kinda looks insane

Its just like when c9 came back against nrg but reversed.

Everyone clears icy

Well zekken is good at sova but not really good at the other recons, at least not enough to really play them in pro play. But he's too good at duelist to really swap him so I don't know why a bunch of sen fans want to see it.

I mean louds roster isn't exactly the best right now, I mean its not terrible but its not like its incredibly good either. I think that EG might be cooked.

They already have zekken they don't really need flor, there would be too many role issues