I could see flore being a solid player in t1 long term. That being said. This APEKS team is horrible. Soulcas is gone and even with soulcas people seem to forget the screenshots of APEKS getting steam rolled by t1 teams in scrims preparing for ascension. I hope that they aren't nearly as bad as I expect them to be, but my expectations are not high.

Started watching liquid when they lost to Luminosity in CSGO with my cousin in 2016. I was 9. Now I am watching them in CS, and Valorant. As well as a brief time in fortnite. We haven't won shit besides cologne and IEM sydney. Pls make this be our year

They need to give LATAM 2 slots. MIBR and Liquid in the same region and only 1 slot for it is crazy. They might be the best two teams or atleast top 5

vlr should add HSEL playoff matches. Cool way to promote the scene

Hold your horses there partner. Wait till you see this guy cane play and then talk about the highest ceiling. A young prodigy that needs some respect. Also disrespecting sym after a bad entry performance with a lot of time to improve is crazy

Liquid fan here. None of the players we lost in the off season were "our best or above average"

https://tracker.gg/valorant/match/ff8b3924-e3d2-4ccb-b402-49c9915958f3

Look at the fucking rank disparity of these teams on my rank up. I am Iso btw.

Also all 5 of us were solo queued when they had 2 duo stacks. How is this fair?

Thanks man! I appreciate

Thank you!

Saw that. Kinda pisses me off that someone with a known bad rep is on the roster, but If he can prove hes changed and seems like a genuine person, I'll give him another chance

Im a liquid fan, but I deleted X/Twitter to quit spending so much time on Social Media. What's the current rumors or situation going around them? paTiTek? Ruxic? Elite? someone said ScreaM was a possible option which Idk about. Just curious. Thanks

swtg I queued with this dude on my team a little while back. The name seems familiar and I don't think he way anything super special. Just an average no comm instalock reyna player. Could be cheating but I dont know

Imma be real. I do not think about pronouns when I am fighting someone in valorant and have no idea if I call them she/her or they/them/their

The throwing no comm infamous cheater in pros comp lobbies is back from the dead and is clearly walling but throwing at the same time lol. He was just in my game here is the tracker

https://tracker.gg/valorant/match/d3d1adeb-34a7-4f6d-b42e-900b30c0d113

Will I get my rr back for throwers or is the system not like that?

Clove is the best agent overall for comp. She can fight like a duelist and then heal, smoke like a controller and use her made to slow down a push. For solo queuing, clove is broken

I’ve met a couple of old pros that went back to college and now play collegiate Val for fun and still play every now and then. A lot of them made decent money for them to go to college aswell as get scholarships for playing esports.

Not true. It was a bad game for liquid 100% but your forgetting that Liquid Curb Stomped Acend 1 month earlier in Red Bull Homeground in a B05. 1 more chance for both teams to fix strategy and liquid don't have a bad game and I think liquid beat KRU, then beat M3/Gambit, and then win it all. They dominated every other team they played that tournament and Acend lost in the first game but had it called back because of a cypher cam

What would you say is better? I'm curious

What do you mean? Double-Elimination changed a lot of things in champs and other tournaments. Giving the best overall team another chance at life would have changed the result 100%

really? I thought a lot of these would be pretty controversial. mb

I'm bored as fuck so let's get controversial and piss people off... These are my opinion btw

• Release Date Killjoy is a top 5 agent of all time and criminally underrated

• Your peak rank doesn't count if it was before episode 7 act 3 (basically a year ago)

• If there was double elimination in the 2021 Valorant Champions, Liquid would have won it instead of Acend

• MMR is inherently flawed as there are so many people stuck in Ascendant right now with extremely different skill sets ranging from avg rank games of plat to avg rank games of imm3 (atleast in NA this is true)

• The evori dreamwings bundle is mid as fuck

• Minima sheriff is so fucking stupid that it is actually clean asf

• The currently halloween bundle is a giant fucking scam

• Hitting Immortal 1 in NA servers now is more impressive than it was to hit Immortal 3 Before Ascendant was a rank

• Neon ult is the best ult in the game by far right now (idk if this one is really that controversial)

• Movement is 90% of aim and thats why having a low sens is better

• Different people should gain less/lose more based on the agents they play, for example: it's really hard to do anything playing sentinel such as KJ if your team can't entry and your playing retake simulator the whole game, so you shouldn't lose 20-30rr for a 13-2 game that you played mid in

• 1v1s don't mean jack shit

• Riot adding phone number verification would pretty much eliminate the smurf situation in silver/gold/plat

I’ve supported liquid in every game since I was 7. Let me tell you, it’s disappointing and heart breaking watching us suck so badly and choke on water. It’s not worth your time

This is an insane take and there’s absolutely nothing other than my gut saying this. But he’s gonna join Liquid

Hitting immortal 3 from immortal 1 was easier than hitting immortal 1 from ascendant 1. However, if its your first time hitting immortal 3 and you've never been playing at that level or been radiant before, the mmr system fucks you. You can match mvp win and gain like 15-16, sometimes a little less and maybe a little more, and if you lose in like a team mvp scenario, you will lose up to 30, mainly 24-25. It helps with a good duo, but Immo 1-2 and ascendant aren't that different. More comms, and people care more about the game. However, the egos get way bigger.

I respect that he came back and I feel sorry for him considering all that happened and the amount of hate thrown his way. Still doesn’t change the fact that 90% of his “rumors” were total bullshit

Liquid

Dude it’s rocket bullets. 1. Reddux is 17 so that’s legit not possible. 2 he had Liquid having 3 imports at one point. Dude has no idea wtf he is talking about

Okay well he’s wasn’t wrong about reddux but he’s only a sub

"I peaked Imm3/Radiant in episode (1-6) but I'm hardstuck Ascendant right now because of my team and how bad the rank system is"

Translates to

"I got worse and others got better and now I'm washed AF ngl"

I’m not in college, but I am getting recruited by a lot of colleges to play collegiate Valorant. It depends on your school obviously, some take it really seriously, like Mary’sville and Winthrop. Others are like a giant club and it’s a really good way to make friends and still be competitive. Lots of former pros, washed immortals, cracked ascendants, and radiants play collegiate esports. It’s a really cool thing and at a lot of schools you can even get scholarships up to a full ride.

For reference, I have a friend thats currently ASC3, but was radiant last episode and the episode before that, and every game he queues avg rank is immo2/3 with 2-3 radiants and rest high immos. I also have a friend that asc 1 33rr gaining 10-12 per win and losing 20-30 per loss as his avg rank hes queuing is p3/d1. The MMR scaling is just so fucked

So can someone explain how NA has so many fucking ascendants in such different MMR and only like 8000 immortals. Legit I hit Immo 1 again today and I am top 6500 without playing a game. But in EU, there is so many fucking Immortals, and a normal level of ascendants. Game is supposedly at its peak for players playing comp, so is everyone in NA getting fucked or What is going on that the leaderboard is still not full?

correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't Demon1 on 800 .2 which is the exact same as .1 1600? Or is that like totally incorrect

Franchising has its flaws for sure, the biggest being that there is a very long off season and not a whole lot of outside tournaments. In general though I don't think the system is that bad. Its sorta like the NBA. 10 players to a roster, 30 teams, and a T2 league. A lot of great talent in the G-League similar to tier 2. People go up and down a lot. There really is no "perfect" system tho

Honestly, I don't know if its just me or not, but this game is slowly becoming less and less fun to play. I have a 38% win rate this act, and a 720 tracker score with every category besides winrate in A-S. I feel like I'm consistently playing at high level but can't win and more and more people are throwing games. I'm Asc 3 rn, Immo 2 last act, and legit every single game I play is against washed Immortal 3 and Radiants that don't care any more. Feels like you play every game by yourself without comms and almost everyday you come across a toxic thrower.

I didn't really watch much pro play because of the time zones, but it didn't feel nearly as hype as it did last year, and I have less and less players on my friends list. First time in a while where I really haven't felt like playing the game much anymore and I've been more social and playing story games. Just seems impossible to go back to Immortal 2 right now. If there's any games any one recommends let me know. But, I really hope riot does something to make the game more enjoyable. Like a major update or something. But right now the game feels so stale. Maybe its just me

1. We never really looked even decent LOL keep coping
2. He had a few great games and a few terrible games, He was decent on a shitty team and has potential yes, but he wasn't a star

Reminds me of Soulcas. Demon in ranked and scrims, come game day he played mid

BYE BYE EMIL

TOOK YOU LONG ENOUGH LIQUID

bro had a trick up his sleave

sayf benjy wo0t nats scarecrow

zekken reins less johnqt pizza

I refuse to believe this guy isn't pulling shit out of his ass

Bro has Liquid being

naTs
Keiko
Soulcas
Vanity
Cryo

LMFAO

Soulcas is the most confusing player ever. Dominate in T1 scrims, very good skye player in 21-22. Then sucks later on in T1 and gets dropped. Then dominates in T2.

Why does everyone think scream is going to be on the liquid roster all the sudden and not Derke? Am I missing something

So sometimes I know what I’m talking about and others I really don’t and I just want to know what are the chances of liquid being

Nats
Keiko
Derke
Hiro/leo
Cloud/patittek

Roles might be wonky but I’ve seen every player be rumored for possibly joining here

Liquid will build around the rookie and nats. I’ve seen a couple of rumors that liquid want to try Keiko out on initiator and secondary duelist and try to bring in Derke. Which is very smart in my opinion

Will Derke go to liquid? Pretty pretty please 🥺

Steak
Donut
Pizza

100% hot take for you guys

Liquid are the new heretics and a new roster built around nats and Keiko with a new coach will save them

Not at all biased btw

except the problem is, more and more people are playing the game, not less. Despite the popular belief that less people are, stats show more people are playing the game.

I read sayf at number one and was super excited for the list. I read #2 and #3 and I was no longer excited for the list.

Time For A Rant

Its trending on Twitter/X so I figured I'd talk about it and give my opinion. 1 day away from a new act and there isn't 10,000 immortals NA. Why is that? Its because of Ascendant.

Ascendant right now is the biggest cluster fuck ever. You have ascendants queueing against immo3/radiants, ascendants queueing against platinums, ascendants queueing their own rank and beyond. There is so many damn ascendants its not even funny. I'm currently Immo 2, but almost every game I queue is into Current Asc 2-3 players that were immo 2-3 last act. I don't really have an explanation to why there is so many damn ascendants, but there is. Every DM, swiftplay, any mode is filled with ascendants. I would say like 60% of my friends on val are ascendant and the skill gap is so wide it's not even funny. Last episode peak radiants to last episode peak platinum with a .9k. Everyone is in the damn green rank. It's elo hell

My recommendation is that riot increases the rr gained for ascendants queueing their rr and above by a significant chunk per game like 7-10 (ex: instead of 18 you would get 26), and lowers it for those playing in lobbies below their mmr by a similar chunk of 5-8. Basically, ascendant mmr rework. But that may not fit shit, so lmk what yall think riot should do or if it's just going to take time.