Wonder if having a secondary caller/midrounder on the team will finally allow Boaster to focus more on shooting instead of having to micromanage everything.

Tanks the fine for the hype. Respect

Bro cooked

OOOO AAAAA EEEE

I feel like Fnatic would win so much more if every match is a BO5. I swear they fall asleep map 1, wake up map 2, and cook map 3 onwards.

I think G2 as a team is great because they play slow and disciplined valorant that punishes mistakes. The issue is that Boaster's calling style feeds off of all the space and time G2 gives them. When he gets pushed by random aggressive plays or set plays is when Boaster fumbles his calls and g2 couldn't capitalise.

Really unlucky by G2 but still amazing showing from an ascension team.

You can't tell me there isnt some voodoo black magic shit. How is chron the only person firing against Kru

Absolutely goated. Nice that there are a few for Abyss already. Valoplant is still pretty barebones when it comes to that map.

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No matter what happens I want hiro on a tier 1 team. Bro has been insanely reliable and he's better than a lot of flexes in tier 1 EMEA.

Bro signed a binding pact to only start shooting when he's in a 1vX

If Alfa had any other gun he could have quite realistically won that.
Brother is on one.

Night before this whzy changes his name to Whzhfhd549 and Derke forgets it.

and so began the second BLG incident.

well uhhhh if they lose to BLG tonight then at least we know what happened.

Lowkey banging though?

I think 1:18 is Boaster (can kind of see the semblance), and then Sayf is sitting on the trophy to the right.
The green background is used to symbolise EMEA later on and that scene has the trophies that EMEA has won.

Kind of makes sense to have Boaster sitting on the the champs trophy since he's been to champs 4 times and hasn't won yet.

Maybe I just can't read but where does it say 'lower finals' in the tweet or where does it indicate that it's potentially DRX?

NOTHING HAPPENED IN GROUP C AT CHAMPS 2023

Goat showing from FNC. Love that they've found their own comp and I think Alfa Iso is genuinely untapped potentially that FNC can take far.

Congrats on the cactus too ig kekw.

I think Iso works if it's on Alfa. It lets him play that secondary entry position like Demon1 where he can use the space the primary duelist creates to just take duels and get value that way.

Him on Sentinels means that FNC is not actually using his firepower in entry positions.

Fnatic try to win on sunset without giving everyone a heart attack challenge: difficulty impossible.

Ethan looks so depressed at the half bruh. He's trying to impact frag and then theres little Pujan facechecking out of a smoke.

Commenting so I can come back in 2 hours

Pancada continues to carry despite Loud's best efforts

• The whole of heretics' restructure tbh
• +karon
• +JohnQT
• -Jingg + Jingg /s

I'm curious. People are saying Deadlock is being picked as an anti-Neon but I feel like Cypher still fits that role better. I get that his trips get broken more easily but Deadlock's kit just lacks the flexibility.

redgar is built different.

When FNS can go 13/38 and it's not the worst performance from a player in the past 2 weeks.

I think Boaster is the only one who's been somewhat able to adapt to the new zoomer meta. The best igls these days aren't ones that can call big brain macro plays but just aimers that can regroup the team in the midround.

Honestly FNS to coach might be the play here.

Old Loud with Sacy and Aspas was an example of an actual impressive brazillian roster. Right now i feel like the talent is being diluted among teams that don't know how to use them.
Aspas on LEV is not getting the same amount of support he did with LOUD, and Saadhak is not having the shooters that would enable his calling. It's like taking a sniper rifle away from a seasoned sniper and giving it to a rookie.

Mibr is just shitting the bed idk what's happening there.

I don't really like judging players just off of the scoreboard but after an 8/37 with no significantly impressive IGLing to back it up I think Redgar deserved the boot here.

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I'm curious

I think in 2023 the meta coincided with their players comfort picks, so on those two maps Fnatic had the best (or among the best) players for the best in slot agents on those maps (and Boaster), plus chronicle could just play whatever they needed well.

With the meta shift fnatic had to choose between comfort picks or adapting to the meta.

The real real ones don't really want to remember how they tried Neon on Pearl and just fell over

Yea exactly. Why force Hiro on initiators when you have a sova player there

The name...just checks out too well

Pearl Long B smoke spam simulator is actually less entertaining than watching paint dry.

I wonder if the Haven comp today is a direction they can follow with 2 duelists and Chron Sova. Chron is half decent on Sova and it frees up Hiro to play sentinels which he might be more comfortable with over initiators. Derke can stay on duelist as a primary entry and Alfa can maybe play as secondary entry like Demon1 or Cryo since he can reliably get the trades. Iso is getting nerfed after this week but I wonder if it's worth experimenting more with Alfa on Iso since he seemed quite comfortable on him today. Another idea might be to put him on sentinels like Sage or Deadlock that wants to get onto site, so he would be with the initial site hit?
One of the issues with FNC right now is that Derke is very hot and cold on the entry, and if he loses his opening gun duel then the round becomes very difficult for FNC. I wonder if putting Alfa in that entry space to at least reliably trade would make those rounds more winnable.

So comps would be like:
Ascent: Derke Jett, Boaster Omen, Chron Sova, Hiro KJ/Cypher, Alfa Deadlock
Bind: Derke Yoru, Boaster Brim, Chron Skye, Hiro Cypher, Alfa Raze
Haven: Comp as per today
Split: Derke Yoru, Boaster Omen, Chron Skye, Hiro Cypher, Alfa Raze
Icebox (I have no idea): Derke Jett, Boaster Viper, Chron Sova, Hiro KJ, Alfa Sage
Idk how lotus would work with this system. Maybe that's the one we keep as is or make Chron learn fade and put Alfa on Viper. Another idea is to move away from Viper entirely and run Alfa Neon/Iso and put Chron on Breach for trap plays.

Been living under a rock. Why is pansy casting with steel and not hypoc? Is hypoc still unwell?

I think it's a multifactorial problem. Boaster was definitely fragging during Tokyo and somewhat in champs, but that's partially because they had a really smooth running system back then when everyone knows what their job is, and Boaster doesn't really have to babysit the team. But I think from that new Fnatic video he's struggling with trying to find strats and plays that works with the team, and trying to keep the team hyped. You can tell that the cohesion is definitely worse with the overpeeking and people looking lost in the midround.

Long story short he's trying to take on too many things and nothing is working, so he's very distracted from actually shooting back.

It's not a knock. Its a battering ram and some swarthy dudes dragging you away

Ngl they make a good point. If you're drawing even from behind then it makes sense to talk shit.
But on round 1 or when you get your first round at 3-1? Like nah just fist bump and keep playing.

As easy as it is to be doomer about this, we've seen enough super-sub performances in recent valorant history for him to maybe pull off something crazy. He's probably not going to be a replacement for Leo but would be interested to see the shakeup.

I'm here to stare at my hot IGL Laz idk what you're here for

At least TS doesn't fall over and explode

Brother cope was dead by round 8. This is acceptance.

Strategic 13-0 so we win champs.

(this fucking team is cooked who am I kidding)

esports: 5 year career. MAX. IF YOU'RE LUCKY.
A job: Stable career and source of income for your whole adult life.

all these mfs agreeing with him are kids failing high school trying to justify their lives