I wouldn't put it past 2G to be the best BR team, LOUD has been alright and MIBR/FURIA have been a joke for the last 2 years.

Honestly that's what I was thinking, I'm just hoping that BR actually puts up a fight in 2025, 2024 was pretty lackluster.

do we think 2G will outpace the other BR teams or will they become another MIBR/FURIA

There might be community tourneys for console but I dont see why Riot or Orgs would invest in valorant console esports when its the same game with very very minor changes. It'd cost too much for something no one would watch

I just want GOATitek to go to a good team, keeping him as a sub is tragic

EMEA
MIBR

Even ignoring my hater mentality on EMEA, TH is realistically the only team that performed really well this year, FNATIC/FUT/KC only did good in regional.

MIBR is by far the worst performing team. Yea BLEED did bad but have you seen MIBR's stats?

Chronicle has to be the GOAT in an unironic sense, he's put up numbers consistently for years now and he's a flex player

Its VLR, a team loses one match and they are the worst team in the tournament, doesn't matter what match, doesnt matter what team

Holy yap idk if this is even a copypasta but I aint reading ANY of that

That was a cool game, fun watch

The caster brought up a good point and I've noticed it as well, I see less OPs overall during the games and it seems like with Neon being more in use, duelists choose to use a vandal or phantom more often. Is this the new strat? Thinking at Tenz and Derke using it, both were shut down pretty well by the opposing team.

What is their defense?

They do the same like 3 strats and leave so many openings on the map

Its criminal that he isn't on a team tbh

Hes going to C9 or EG, maybe surprise crazy turnover and we end up with FUR yay

Id put Zekken above miniboo, Woot above Kicks, and Benjyfishy above Alfajer

the rest is ok

I feel like the SEN and LEV reasons are kinda weak but I get the rest

highkey if Trace made a run it'd be insaneee

I think there should be a relegation system for all bad teams if they really want to keep it,

All horribly performing teams (Looking at you MIBR) get relegated/have to fight for their spot

A nicer option might be an Ascension team stays for however long but if they place high enough in tourneys they get a perma spot. It's kinda messed up that teams that weren't chosen for franchising are just stuck without a permanent spot in franchising forever

y0y gotta be the best one of all time

semen1 is pretty funny tho

Single elim is terrible for a game like Valorant where teams consistently make lower bracket runs

Can't a man make the average VLR thread for fun

LET IT BE KNOWN GENG ONLY WON SHANGHAI BECAUSE SEN WASNT THERE

Demon1 is def not overrated, his greatness "only lasted 5 seconds" cause he was signed to a mid team in 2024 and then benched after like 2 games

The Haters Guide to Valorant Champions Seoul 2024 by Zeph Valorant

I had this exact same question and a video I watched recently explained it for me

They just play incredibly boring Valorant. They do the fundamentals, default, play retake, and have no crazy super stars on their team. Nothing they do stands out but that translates to winning a lot of the time. They are good just not really interesting.

If everyones a fluke then no one is

I wish they would adjust the start times of the matches to line up timezones better. The fact that they HAVE to do every match in the evening means that all Asia and European Tourneys are between 1am-8am :(

Just woke up to DRX 2-0 and TH 2-1

bruh I'm cooked

It makes me so sad that patitek has to sit on the bench when twice now hes proven that he can make the team so much better

Astra: Zombs (mainly because I never see astra played and I dont watch a lot of EMEA)
Breach: Mazino
Brimstone: Demon1
Chamber: yay
Clove: s0m
Cypher: nats
Deadlock: Johnqt
Fade: eeiu
Gekko: Boostio
Harbor: forsaken
Iso: Alfajer
Jett: Aspas
Kayo: Ethan
Killjoy: Zellsis
Neon: miniboo
Omen: Tenz
Phoenix: Food
Raze: Jawgemo
Reyna: something
Sage: ardiis
Skye: davai
Sova: c0m
Viper: Less
Yoru: marteen

Tad bit of bias as I watch mainly Americas with a tad bit of APAC sprinkled in. I only watch a few EMEA games besides the international tournaments.

I want SEN to win, but Id say GENG has the best chance of every team at winning

You say cringe zellsis and a bunch of drones but if you watch the actual videos you can see the vibes they have. Zellsis isnt doing anything more cringe than what 2021 sen was doing back in the day.

As for skill thats not entriely true, id say most of 2022/early 2023 SEN was just an overall downgrade from what they had originally.

By a mile the new team

They have way better chemistry and watchability. They also are just inherently better at the game because theyve been playing for longer. Coaches also add a ton of value to the team that 2021 did not have with only Shazam.

2021 SEN was awesome, they went on a crazy streak and the BM was really entertaining from zombs and dapr but it was infant valorant. The meta was running double duelists and hard rushing sites.

(Btw I started watching during NA Challengers 2021)

least obvious bait post

Honestly this years champs are hard to predict imo

If I had to take a guess at who wins it would be, in no particular order,

G2, LEV, SEN, TH, GENG

Honorable mention goes to VIT. I feel like they've been doing good but I don't think they'll go anywhere in champs

People always point to zellsis as a problem and i dont really get it. Hes obviously not gonna put out the biggest numbers but hes never necessarily been a detriment either. He plays well and hes been shown to provide a big part of keeping the team moral up significantly.

The outlaw is a good gun for its niche, it works well against ecos and broke buys while also not sacrificing as much money as a vandal or phantom. Its downside is it can only shoot twice before reloading, so unless you hit only headshots, you'll usually only kill one person per reload on full buy rounds with it.

I would say for me SEN and PRX content are pretty good, ive seen a bit of other teams and its not bad though.

Bro is not cooking

Also why do you capitalize every word

Fire Chet

I will say the 2023 EG roster was amazing and jawgemo and potter are both still great, but EG is not a good org. SEN is by far the better org in content and treatment of players

bro spent the time to type this out a month after groups ended
SEN livin rent free in your head
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

I doubt it, Kaplan wouldnt wanna put tenz on jett after the success they have with him on smokes and I cant see Sacy, Zellsis, or JohnQT playing duelist at all

What a terrible day to have eyes

I think it'll mostly remain the same. Vipers wall is super useful for how large breeze is and the fact that it can be put up several times throughout a round. Some teams might sub in another controller to help though.

Post-plant delay is an inevitable consequence of mollie abilities. There's no way to really nerf it other than taking the ability away as the geometry of a map will always allow for a lineup somewhere + abilities like KJ mollies exist. I think the post plant delays can get pretty oppressive but in a semi-coordinated team (i.e mid-high elo, pro, premier, etc.) it might work once before you just push/flank the person lining up to disrupt.

You could hypothetically nerf lineups by adding a projectile timer that either destroys the projectile when its been in the air for too long or give every projectile ability the phoenix mollie treatment where it falls after a short period of time. A problem from this I can see happening though is just all projectile abilities becoming super inconsistent with how they move/when they get destroyed.

delusional take KRU looks more in form now than the past year + EG clearly shows promise given potter's prev experience. In Madrid people swore it was gonna be a Pacific vs Pacific final and look how that turned out

something along the lines of:
-c0m bad init
this is the reason t0x wasnt carried over from the guard
aspas only good thing
that one person who'd say something dumb like -kingg +FNS

Nothin better than 👑 Derrek Overwatch 👑 styling on everyone in the server

Bruh 100T did better once they got rid of stellar, leave that man in T2

lite
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adjective
adjective: lite
relating to low-fat or low-sugar versions of manufactured food or drink products.
"lite beer"
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denoting a simpler or less challenging version of a particular thing or person.
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