I think your misunderstanding something here, being the face of valorant doesnt mean you'll have to be the greatest at it nor win the biggest tournament ever, personality, popularity and other things help, sen did play a big part in making tenz the face of valorant simply because they were the most popular org in NA and he was the most popular player in the world, let me take two examples (from cs cuz im a cs frog), you agreed about s1mple but he didnt win a major before 2021, you ask anyone before 2021 and after 2016 who's the face of CSGO they all say s1mple, even if he hadnt won a major yet, another example, who's the GOAT rifler, the face of rifling for csgo ? NiKo is (even if donk is making a solid case in cs2), NiKo in his now 10th year of playing at tier 1 has never won a major and he's still the face of rifling in cs, TenZ had flashy clips, was the greatest player in the world when valorant's rise started, remained an insanely popular streamer in the 2 years he was dogwater and came back to win another title before retirement, was he the best player in the world from 2020 to 2025 ? fuck no, if we want to talk about consistency aspas was, aspas is undoubtedly the most consistent player oat (alongside derke) but they arent as popular nor marketable as tenz, like i said being the face of something doesnt mean you're the best at it, i mean look at it this way, when cs2 came out and s1mple refused to play it people were talking about him more than better players than him (people talked more about s1mple who was on Na'Vi's bench than w0nderful who was way better than s1mple in the first year of cs2 cuz s1mple was ass at cs2)

in ur replies u mentioned he had only one game on sova which is completely irrelevant to the point since he isnt gonna play sova, yes your point was that he wasnt an initiator but still, and for bind like i said no problem at all and split is just a slight adjustment

So honestly ur the one who didnt bother thinking about this, Zekken will flex sova on sova maps exactly like he did for most of his t1 career (XSET had zekken on sova and cryo on jett now it will be n4rrate on jett and zekken on sova) for the breach part sacy litterally never played breach for SEN, Zellsis played breach for sen, now the only real question u can ask is what are they gonna play on split ? and the answer to that is that's a good ass question you can be genuinely worried about their split but at the same time its only one agent on one map, n4rrate never was an initiator he was a flex, but most of his flexes roles were initiator, see what im getting at ? it will litterally be easy asf for him to adapt since they're making him play ONE new agent not multiple

(thank you for coming to my ted talk)

maybe im biased cuz im a cs frog as you like to call them but what he's saying is usually valid criticism, idk what's wrong with this community but when s1mple took a break and shit on CS2 for days on stream and on twitter no one was mad at him, we all agreed

so i guess im gonna respond seriously to rage bait lmao, he's not the only one to complain, he just has a platform so big that you're the one only hearing his complaints, FNS complained about how t2 works compared to cs (you can't just grab 4 guys pay for your expenses and try to go all in and qualify for big tournaments) half of the fucking people in t2 complained about how riot treats it and more examples im sure u can find yourself, and complaining is actually good, look at the monitor situation he complained got backed up and now they're gonna have new monitors, how tf is it normalized that people have to play on such shit monitors lmao ESL would never