fuck it im down

what are you on about, LxT 3 was literally like 4 days of good youtube content.
The only issue with the season right now is ITS FUCKING AN ENTIRE WEEK between each team playing their matches. Its an average of 10 days per sen game right now and goddamn is it so fucking boring

T1 are definitely a tier below DRX, GenG are kinda in limbo between the two tiers, theyre a decent amount better than T1 but also way worse than DRX

Also boom would definitely own PRX

do you not enjoy having to try to win? The most exciting games in my eyes is when the score is constantly neck and neck or I have to actually IGL for the team to win.
If anything ranked reset should be really easy if you play a day late since youre with all the double ranked up people who are typically almost an entire division below you.
For me it isnt harder but there are way too many throwers and bad teammates for me to realistically play without a 5 stack (and my 5 stack is barely available so i just pretty much stopped playing)

FNS' Igling isnt even bad right now, he said it himself that there are people overcalling and breaking the round down bit by bit. He has a lot of early round calls and predictions that are really solid but the mid rounding doesnt look like usual FNS midrounding which would be explained by what i just said.
In all honesty I think its an issue of being fucked over by the meta change and needing to adopt vyse on more maps than one in fears of people running tejo.
Either way give them time to build more chemistry cause we saw what they could do in the off season when they were all on the same page

The system wasnt made for Demon1 like EG was, he wont frag unless he significantly improves his util on agents other than jett and hell even his chamber needs work or if the team completely shifts their style to accommodate for D1s baity playstyle

I mean hes right though, its not like G2 have been tested, nor have we seen them in the off season to claim that theyre oh so perfect. They play "correct" valorant and it just looks really pretty so people tend to overrate them, i mean look at how much of a disappointment last year was for them, 1 for 1 replacements typically dont improve teams as much as it does on paper when were talking about valorant.
G2 have many holes and their playstyle is the kind of style John calls perfectly against, its really readable and predictable which is a huge asset for Johns calling style. Not to mention G2 relies a ton on individual heroics and against a team like SEN it wont be so easy to come away with a game just with that

Yea because lev is unable to play, you dont get to see the level of adaptation of a team when said team dont even get challenged, much less the issues that might arise once they go against top tier teams.
It was the same with FNC in 2023 where the whole year they had 0 challenge going through everyone until the one team that had just as much talent as them finally faced them again and by champs Loud had already had a ton of anti for FNCs strats. Before that game everyone was saying FNC were by far the most powerful team in VCT history (which even as a FNC fan I think was a ridiculous claim)

MIBR isnt even close to challenging SEN, either way tho its G2 SEN qualifying and frankly i dont think G2 are all that capable if leaf gets shut down and considering leaf is senti/anchor controller SEN can easily deal with him as theyve done for many other problem players (at least when theyre on the attacking side)

mindfreak is definitely not the best player of PRX, hes just the one next to forsaken with the least contested for spot on the team, he alongside forsaken fit like a glove and dont need to be switched out because theyre integral to the team (both in identity and in terms of fit)

Agreed Jing and Something are the only players you should look at changing, maybe just jingg and then get someone to help Alecks. Davai is lowkey the closest thing they have to a real igl

I think itll either be a banger or an absolute shit show (if SEN perform like a bunch of tier 2 players like they have so many times before).
Man I love this team but it hurts so much everytime they shoot themselves in the foot round after round. I genuinely think theyre gonna have the same problem again this year due to an abundance of callers. With the loss of Tenz and replacing him with a more vocal player its gone from 4 vocal players to 5 and I think it might just fuck up their chemistry when everything isnt clicking.
I do think this should be the top 2 of the region throughout the season tho, G2 will be more dominant in regionals, SEN in internationals

Idk abt swift, itll be swift if the ugly head of inconsistency rears up behind sentinels again just like that horrible champs ending

To be fair tho verno and redux have been getting hyped up for ages now, theyre some of the best in role and smartest players and theyre still so young. Mada is great but weve seen him in tier 1 pre franchising and he really wasnt that special back then; his last season of tier 2 tho he suddenly became amazing but no one was there to witness it because his team did nothing
Verno had a great off season, hell reach those levels again as long as NRG start adapting to the meta quick

Kush used to be a tier 1 player tho pre franchising (or at least Tier 1 of the region)

The most Foxy9 of highs and the lowest of lows

Fr for as much as GenG got nerfed PRX is an embarrassment. They dont even have any identity anymore

you need to realize that majority of the population are stupid, youll find more people with bad or surface level takes than youll ever find those with nuanced and deep opinions

nah im just not a mindless sheep that orgasms whenever i see players that can shoot

because ppl get horny when they see players that can shoot.

t1 are straight dog man

flair checks out

vit really dont look that good bro, its just fragging, yall eu cucks be crazy for any promising team in that region

derke had 1 good split, that wasliterally it.
Also the year before that he wasnt special either, at least not as much as he used to be, it was the leo alfa show

pancada gotta be the most downplayed pro in the history of vct istg

TF yall mean meteor or flashback, tell me you only watch 1 apac team without telling me you only watch 1 apac team 💀

Forsaken, jing, davai, freeing, jemkin, Mako, kushy, Meiy, Buzz, all doing better than fucking meteor and flashback bro.

Id give top Apac rn to Mako or Meiy

Youre delusional for putting anyone above leaf rn.
Leaf (Locked in Cast Iron at 1st)
Riens
Alfa (mf carrying an entire team of grown men on his back)

HM:
Pancada gets so downplayed cause hes on smokes but hes probably the best smokes in the world rn
Derke lookin almost like hes back to peak form

Derke fell off pretty hard but imma be honest hes been looking like near prime derke on VIT

youre saying that like some of the best players in the world currently arent highschoolers

I think SEN are very obviously better than both DRX and TH rn. TH arent exactly playing spectacularly and DRX have a lot of holes but theyre not super obvious since the whole of Pacific is shit rn.
Arguably id say VIT are at the bottom of the list, they dont look amazing either especially considering the amount of glue being sniffed rn in EMEA

G2
SEN
EDG
VIT
LOUD (maybe DRX depends on how well they can keep up this play against actual good teams)

Loud 22 vs EG 23 would be a better call, FNC would get wiped by prime Loud

tf you on about this is one of the worst lists ive seen so far

yea but they never lost their games because their duelist was bad, they lost their games because theyre too reliant on the frags, perfect valorant doesnt exist. Their play has holes and theyre the kind of holes that doesnt need to be actively exploited. If G2 want to be the best in the world they need to be on a level of consistency that weve never seen before (and this is after seeing last year where they were already arguably the most consistent team in VCT history)

Imma be so for real rn, im not being biased here but in my eyes SEN were BY FAR the peak of the whole year. The way they played PERFECT utility combos and had amazing reads based on the areas of the map the opponents would play and referring back to their anti was just so much more impressive than any other team. I think maybe TH was close to that level but they were often carried by individual rounds by the players.
Out of the three teams SEN were by far with the least firepower and was still competing for the best team of the year and i think that says something really significant. Towards the end of the year we started seeing them implement the util combos and retake heavy style again and they managed to go super deep in champs right after an abysmal regionals.

Im a SEN fan but i still remember being so down on them for dropping pancada one of my favourite players for Zellsis and then seeing the perfection those fuckers were playing. I had to just shut up and watch, i remember the bombardment from the pancada haters telling me how wrong i was and seeing their madrid run confirmed that for me.

FNC 23 werent that good (this is coming from a day 1 FNC supporter)
Their competition was just so fucked cause everyone going into franchising was in complete shambles, the only competition they ever had was Loud and the only potential teams that could challenge them either had already fell off by the time they faced FNC or never faced them in teh first place.
DRX, Loud, Navi, NRG were all pretty ass in Tokyo, Lock In was a cesspool of mid teams and the only challenging match for FNC was Loud (and even then it was arguably because Boasters calling took a nosedive mid series). EG got 3-0ed being the only team to take a Fracture off FNC but still not able to challenge them on any other map, even the 2 split games for 11-13s didnt feel like FNC was in any position to lose it at any point in the games.

By the time Champs came around and teams were back in form, FNC was severely underprepared because their prior competition had poor anti strats, never managed to push FNC to any meaningful extent, and atp FNC were fumbling every round since they had nothing more than their playbook and fundamentals. Their calling wasnt anything special, their midrounding was at a lot of points HORRIBLE, the fragging was fucked because the trades werent there since they played the whole year as a default solo kind of team.

c0m never made him what he was, nor was ethan. It was specifically boostio jawg and potter. Those 3 helped to create a perfect system for the guy to completely turn off his brain and just frag

thats some extravagant glaze right there. If were talking about best teams for their time (as in how far ahead they were) id easily give it to 2022 Loud at Champs. They were by far the most dominant team with actual competitive opponents around them in the hardest champs to date (id say harder than last years since a few big teams bombed out early which made it the avg champs).

its not about shooting, its about the fact that individually Demon1 was never special. He had the perfect system around him to where he didnt have to think about anything and im not trying to take a dig at him but watch any interview from the guy and you can tell hes the brain off follow the calls kinda player.
He isnt particularly smart, hes not creative, nor is he flexible (probably because of his lack of creativity), hes just an aimer that was on a system made SPECIFICALLY for him.
If anything the only way for him to get back to his old form is to have either the players or the system around him to support his kind of baity play style

and just to be clear i dont mean to say EDG didnt deserve the win, i never said that even once. I just wouldnt give them credit for being the best team of the year nor did they reach the peaks TH SEN and GenG reached through the year.

I mean yea in a way thats what i mean, that is the reality of the situation when your opponents are all just throwing.
It was the same thing with acends champs, in a few years well look back on the EDG win and no one is gonna give them any credit cause EDG will be another 8-6th team. Its not that theyre bad, their opponents just played worse than their typical performances

yea but unlike G2 Edg heavily rely on their insane firepower to make it work whereas G2 has amazing mid rounds and reads as well as trap plays.
Im convinced that the coaches are responsible for it cause in the rounds i really dont see anything special from nobody other than hes a fragging IGL. Im not saying hes bad but he just isnt a top 5 candidate even if were talking just for this year considering he had 2 events to be measured off of and one was in a mickey mouse region

You can say that for any non english speaking player. Look at how people treat lakia for not being a fragger, hell even sacy gets insane amounts of slander.
Truth is if nobody was that good at calling they never wouldve needed to get rid of haodong

how tf do you put nobody in the top 5 igls??? They ran simple strats, id sooner give their coach a top 5 IGL spot than nobody

bro really got 10 down votes, man you gotta stop with this dumb ahh bait

Yall gotta hear me out
Origin is number 1 istg, it gets way too much hate for the recoil sound but if youre a 1 tapper (like me cough cough) this gun is sublime

then the other two are like
Champs 21
Prelude

i have finally found a man of culture, only the real ones know how fire the origin is

EX.O stinks man, shits a skin in progress man

it ruins the exclusivity of it and that means we wont be getting a new or unique champions skin for that year which might cause controversy since it would most definitely mean less sales

bro put flor at the bottom, my guy have you watched a single apeks game?

I mean thats what they said about fortnite and low and behold theres almost not a single exclusive skin anymore.
Idk what riots history is with League and their other games with battle pass or limited time/event skins but i dont assume theyd cave in making exclusive things stay that way or else no one is able to have anything special anymore. It would help a bit with buying accounts tho