Honestly hes just adapting to his new stuff rn, if u go watch his highlights from september/october/november from 2024(u can find them in his youtube channel) when he had already switched from using only his wrist to now use his arm and a lil bit of movement from his wrist, he was playing really good and even got to top 20 in NA really fast if im not mistaken. But right now from what he has said in recent streams, hes just not as comfortable as he used to feel playing, not because of his gameplay specifically but because of things like mousepad positioning, keyboard positioning, etc. He even choosed to use a new mouse atm because of this so we'll see.

First shyy in his villain era, and now also Keznit? Americas isn't ready for this KRU.

Mazino has way more confidence and a better use of utility imo, you just have to compare that haven against LOUD or NRG with the matches that mta played as initiator in 2024. But mta has insane AIM that's why I think he was just not ready for VCT, because learning his role in that short period of time that they gave him and getting it ready to Champions level is impossible.

I don't feel MTA was ready for VCT tbh, being in KRU's affiliated team as initiator is probably the best for him rn, and Dante will for sure be in KRU's roster next year(unless KRU has a bad performance in stage 1), but I can see a world were they(as an affiliated team, not an academy) win ascension this year and participate next to KRU in the next year of VCT, seeing how Tier 2 teams in NA and BR are playing I see this as a very likely option.

Great post, hopefully this year this whole situation ends because I'm tired of seeing X full of shit of both communities(LATAM and BR) just fighting for no reason as soon as KRU loses or wins against any BR team, people just keep fighting over and over using the same memes and saying the same shit either to defend themselves or attack the other community.

He can, let's remember how he did against NRG in the first map(Abyss, -10), and then how he did the last map(Bind, +17). That's why right now it seems like KRU is better as a team compared to MIBR. Each one of them(without counting on Adverso) did MVP at least one map in this whole kick-off, and in NRG's match the player with the most kills in the team(Melser) its only 3 kills above from the player with less kills in the team(Mazino).

It's not about KRU, it's about NA fans just underrating SA teams every season and then saying things like "Sorry X team, i wasn't familiar with your gameplay" or some other quotes i've seen many times in this forum lol. Seems like no matter how many tourneys results, stage results, scrims results, etc. You all will still believe that teams like EG are favourites against teams like LOUD even tho they had a better run in this kick-off and even won against them 2-0. With that being said, i think only 2G is shit from all the SA teams.

You are ignoring that Kru were 5-0 last year in groups stage

KRU also won against them with spike in off-season 2-0 didnt they? lol

Revisa su ig, fue un dolor abdominal, por suerte no fue algo en el brazo o muñeca, esperemos que no sea nada grave y se recupere pronto

I dont think it's a wrist injury, from what i've heard in the few streams he has done lately its probably more related to fever or stomach illness, either way it sucks to be sick while needing to play not only 1 but 4 elimination matches in 2 weeks, and 2 of them being a day after the other.

I believe keznit said that someday he'd like to be in good terms with dgzin, so its up to dgzin by now

If 2G with spikezin and 10 ping wasn't able to beat KRU(who were playing at 50 ping) and got 2-0'd I cant find your 50% chances seriously

KRU ended like 20-4 against okeanos team I think, saw it y'day in shahzam's stream

I have a feeling that KRU either might win something this year(Americas kick-off/season or any Masters) but won't be able to qualify to champs or they qualify for champs but no trophy just like other years, if both do happen then it'd be an unbeatable year for KRU

Cortezia might be a headshot demon but yday against FURIA when the other guy was crouching, doing AD or when he missed the first shot he used to die, he's also a lurker so if half of his kills are lurking, already 50% of his kills were an instant headshot, so its not like he's god. Boostio is totally different, he doesnt give a fuck about KD he only wants to win the match and do the right calls while standing next to his team. Both are really different players it just depends if you want an IGL or a good sentinel.

Comms issue bro, it wasn't the best decision ever but it made sense, sometimes they had to repeat the calls for more than 1 time because he didn't understand at that time, you could also watch the comms and see that sometimes he doesn't trade his teammate or plays a 2v1 swinging alone because of the comms.

Yeah and you have been hating KRU for years as a common LEV fan, how hard is it to admit that FURIA is playing well lol, even tho it's an off season, they might have lost 2 maps to T2 teams but one of them was an Ascent that doesn't matter cuz it's getting out of the map pool for the 2025 VCT Season. I really hope that FURIA or any BR team has a good Kick-off just because of how much everyone underrates them.

Adverso has been an IGL for almost 2 years and recently ended 3rd in Ascension so yeah he's ready, Melser is staying and he was the one that carried that game against DRX with 2.45 rating as Omen while igling so he's good too

We gonna have another banger match between lev and kru academies, both teams looks so good

That was TBK from Brazil Tier 2

That'd mean that Melser had to do the IGL role again, and I can't remember how many times he did say this year that he hates to be the IGL, but prob around 40-50 times

NRG being on B while KRU's old logo being in last 4 in D is crazy

The thing with VALORANT is that the game updates are kinda repetitive over the months, its either a new agent or a new map or a new bundle of skins, i think they tried "new" stuff bringing a new shield but its kinda trash. The Outlaw on the other side imo is a big update for the game, that gun gets picked up every game for at least 4 rounds and sometimes its preferred to use it instead of the Operator. But there's no chance that they keep adding new guns every year so if the game stays in this way for the upcoming years it'll probably have the same future as Fortnite does(which isn't bad but it'll stop them from being head to head with CS).

Si nunca fue el problema ese, el problema es que los fans de LEV estan mas pendientes en pelearse con fans de KRU que disfrutar de sus logros, tu no ves a fans de KRU recordando todo el tiempo a los fans de LEV como les quitaron la clasificacion a champs. Ahora que Mazino se fue a KRU los fans de LEV estan mas preocupados en decir que KRU recicla jugadores, en ves de preguntarse como van las pracs, que torneos van a jugar o algo de ese estilo.

He's good but in 2023 he had a good team to get to masters or champs and he didn't, instead he got diffed that same year by teams like NRG(who got eliminated in champs by BLG) or KRU(who didn't win a single map in champs), he's obviously good but posting ranked highlights doesn't make him instantly top 5 of all time Americas duelists, not even top 8 imo

Putting Melser as the worst controller after how he performed in the year is crazy, when he was fragging KRU was unable to lose the map lol

If she wants to have a chance to get to a VCT team in the future that's the path she needs to follow but if she cares more about money(which is totally ok and understandable) she should just stay in GC and farm all the teams there

This happens every year, people think SR squad can beat any T2 team and get to VCT easily, and then they get 2-0'd by some random T2 team in qualifiers for VCL.
Just be happy because SR won GCC, and wish the best for Flor because she can get to a good Tier 2 team imo.

Dont get mad bro, i just realized after seeing this thread that i've been seeing u in every other thread in this forum for the past week and found it funny lol

Brother you talk a lot

There's some threads telling how good this KRU could be, literally there's 2 types of people in VLR typing in KRU's threads, the ones that doesn't know shit about the players and just like to trash talk and the ones that actually know how good this team could be, haven't seen a stronger KRU roster than this one

Yeah that record you mentioned has no value as they ended up being 4th best of Americas that year lol, I ain't saying that FURIA and MIBR are not able to win against KRU the next year but saying something like "FURIA and MIBR are much better than KRU", when they didn't even get to touch playoffs this year and KRU won against them the 2 times they faced each other + you havent even seen some of your players play in tier 1, it's kinda crazy. Remembers me the Havoc glaze and then the poor guy ended up 2 20 in a map and not being able to have a good map till stage 2

Because even tho KRU has a winning record against MIBR and FURIA with KRU having worse rosters those years you are too confident that those 2 are for sure better than KRU, so if you are too confident of that its better to say that brazil is winning it all this year just to glaze them a little more

Bases on your opinion brazil should win everything this year, good luck

I guess it depends on the roster and gameplan, because if you look at Kru's stage 1 with Klaus this year they had a lot of team play, so we'll see

Out of all America's teams you said KRU has no synergy, where all the players have been friends with each other for a long time

I can even see 2G doing better than C9 or EG

Every team besides C9, EG and prob 2G are looking scary for this season, any team besides those 3 has the chance to win a trophy

NA fans overrating their teams in off-season isnt gonna change apparently lol, y'all even overrated M80 and then they lost against an org with 1k followers on X

Well for Melser at this point is either to play in tier 2 or stay in KRU with a good roster lol, we'll see. And I agree that Klaus had a good read in the games, i wish Melser had those reads while he was IGLing, but sadly for Klaus if you are not in the same page with the team and you are not getting frags its like being 4v5 all the time. I hope we see him in a tier 1 BR team like MIBR or FURIA as IGL as he also speaks portuguese.

MTA is not staying in the roster, he has been playing duelist on ranked and it has been leaked that KRU is practicing with Melser, Keznit has been always top fragging and Shyy has been doing his role very well this year, idk how you talk about consistency and then see a better team with Klaus. I like Klaus, but he was way too inconsistent, either fragging or being the player with less kills in the map + he left because he wasn't in the same page with the team, so if you can't be an IGL and you are not killing I think it's the right decision to get out of the team

It does look good if you compare them to 2024 & 2023 rosters lol, 2023 they had Melser(who didnt want to be an IGL) as IGL and a roster with less firepower, and 2024 they had a roster with again no clear IGL(Melser didnt want to, and Klaus hadn't been doing it for 2 years) + they had mta at the start who only knew how to play 1 agent(Kayo) decently and then got heat(who was a true duelist and never played initiator before) to then go back to Melser as IGL and mta as flex(who bottom fragged like 80% of the maps in stage 2). Now you can see they got a true IGL as Adverso is, and one of the best initiators/flex in the world, Mazino.

Apparently Melser as he appeared on every KRU post where the 4 main players appeared and a few more posts when they were in the AGS

Idk I really don't think MTA could achieve Melser's impact as a smoker in the season, it'd be the same as this year where he was only able to play kayo and the time he started playing sova and others agents he bottom fragged all the maps, he for sure is a young talent but putting all your faith on him when it's a 50/50 that he makes a good year as a smoker, I believe keeping Melser as 5th and MTA as 6th player is more accurate

Adverso/IGL
Keznit
Shyy
Mazino
Melser/MTA

Most likely keeping Melser on the roster because he has been the main smoker of the team and one of the bests of LATAM with Kingg.

Nothing confirmed outside the Adverso IGL verbal agreement.

Keeping the core that did well the whole year, Keznit - Shyy - Melser and adding Mazino top 3 initiators/flex of 2024 and adding Adverso as IGL who did really well in Ascension, KRU looking really good

Forgot ab Palla, mb. LOUD Snwzin for sure then

Nah keznit isn't leaving, the manager of KRU already said things like "I believe keznit could become the best duelist in 2025" or when Lembo asked him about keznit staying "He still is under contract". Snw might be going to MIBR tbh, cuz LEV is trialing duelists like Demon1 or Mada in case Aspas leaves and LOUD idk i dont see him there

I don't believe that Melser's tweet was about KRU, there's literally no other better smokes in LATAM and putting MTA in smokes would be troll.

Keznit
Melser
Shyy
Adverso/Nzr
Mazino

This roster wins a trophy this year, make it happen KRU