Well duh... FPX literally had a war to deal with during first half of 2022.
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Well duh... FPX literally had a war to deal with during first half of 2022.
It's because FPX were far more dominant before Iceland than Copenhagen. That team was going to win Iceland and they proved it by beating Optic in semi and winning Copenhagen
By that logic Loud should've won Iceland and Copenhagen but nah they only won Champs at the end.
Fnatic played far better teams than present in any of the Masters. Everyone built a new Superteam. Only difference is single elimination, high stakes.
Brazil has 1 Champs, NA has 2 Masters albeit Optic bring fluke and EMEA has 1 Champs, 2 Masters and the recent Lock In Trophy.
Sentinels played almost nobody. All 5 of those players today besides TenZ are in tier 2, they just dominated an undeveloped scene by switching from CSGO.
Summarising the early history till now
Gambit 2021, a team full of all stars when they entered into the scene winning Masters 3 and reaching Champions Final only to bested by Acend.
Fnatic 2023, current reigning champions of the most recent international event, a dynasty on the horizon with aim and strats loaded on all fronts, ready to make a statement after Brazil, this time in Tokyo.
Loud 2022, Brazil's strongest and most formidable team entered the scene in Iceland and gradually became a Superteam holding the current Champions Trophy.
Acend 2021, the first ever Valorant World Champions taking down prime Gambit in swift fashion in the finals at the end of the year.
FunPlus Phoenix 2022, domination in Copenhagen as the 4 core players and Acend's ace Duelist cNed form the current NAVI lineup looking to rival Fnatic in Tokyo.
FPX demolished Optic in Copenhagen and would also have won Iceland if they managed to attend so Optic will be replaced by FPX here due to degree of difficulty
He plays worse competition and still can't do what Alfa does
Always spamming kills through smokes and finally got put down by another team through smoke
???? Every roster has changed from Champions
Went to watch it with my uni boys and it was an experience for sure.
Wolf of Wall Street, 21 Jump Street and KGF 2 with Subtitles
Add a one trick Jett to the lineup
Foxy9 for DRX
Something for PRX
Choked away the last few rounds against Loud in LockIn and getting diffed by Dubstep in APAC. They need to remove him asap if they want to have any success in Tokyo.
S-Tier
A+Tier
A-Tier
B-Tier
BuZz became fraud and DubStep stole his lunch
Riot found a new fraud detector by nerfing Chamber so the result is being portrayed.
Nooo I wanted to laugh at his downfall even more /s
I will continue my nepotism opportunities with my buddy Ayrin in India
They haven't done anything internationally, let's chill
It's a constructive criticism. Winning or losing Vs Gen G doesn't change the flaws they need to improve on if they want success internationally
No dedicated IGL, they are too dependent on aim dueling every team and it's one of the main reasons they can't win at the international stage.
Gap is getting bigger between PRX and teams like Fnatic, Loud, NRG, DRX and NAVI that have insane fragging with top class strategies.
Competition, APAC teams besides DRX just don't have the fundamentals to improve PRX as they also play a very aggressive aim duel style similar to PRX and even if DRX plays them, they get destroyed before it even becomes a match they can learn from.
Duelist problem, something is an incredible addition but he is a Jett one-trick although he does play breach which is fine as long as PRX can manage around it but Forsaken and Jingg both play Duelists as well and it's one of the flaws in their comp where they cannot gauge proper tactics due to less stability in team comps over different maps.
Mentality, they are too happy go-lucky. Just for reference Alfajer despite winning 2-0 and going 21-5 on KJ was really upset on post-plant because they couldn't destroy KC in Lotus in a 13-5 fashion and he wanted to improve further because he wants to win Tokyo.
TLDR: PRX what doing?
Players with good aim tend to do well on supportive agents that can set their aim before taking fights and bait teammates.
They'll win a map or so but that's their peak. Fnatic, Loud, DRX, NRG and NAVI are already miles ahead in terms of strats and comp flexibility, you can also say a team like KOI who is last in EMEA despite a top roster can 2-0 them because Koldamenta is that much more valuable.
PRX also proved they won't win shit with their style of play.
They were about to 3-0 demolish them in Brazil. Momentum is huge and it shifted and got them 2 maps back to back.
Jindong Jaiyou!
MSI upper stage concludes tommorow with:
China #1 JDG vs NA #2 GOLDEN GUARDIANS
Nope. Derke got fully unlocked now that he can trust his teammates to not have to play his life and 1v9
I'm not even trying to be biased. Lock has proved that Boaster, Derke and Alfajer can match Less, Aspas and Saadhak. Adding Leo who is better than Sacy no debate and Chronicle the best flex itw is easy pickings.