Okay, actually GENG might winning Champions for real. :P
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Okay, actually GENG might winning Champions for real. :P
No. But I also don't think that this game represents LOUD at all. 100T lost to FURIA and now they beat LOUD 13-1?
You almost can't tell what will happen anymore. Less is still a great player.
But Alfajer is the best Sentinel and there is a reason why players like TenZ, FNS, Boostio etc. name Alfajer as one of the best players in the world.
Honestly, Paper Rex is one of the few teams that could win against GENG - their problem during that type of 100% serious matches is always that they are not fully focussed all the time and that they don't play pure Meta comps. d4v41 said that in one of their last videos himself. They need to be 101% concentrated, serious etc. on every retake etc. - but they tend to improvise a lot.
I think Heretics, Sentinels, Fnatic and Paper Rex are the 4 teams that could beat GENG on a tournament (and GENG obviously can beat all of those teams, too). How important maps and comps are was shown in Shanghai.
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Pickems are like a Lottery.
LEV just gets better and better.
I want a Thai super team with Buakaw as owner and he yells at them before every match.
They would be Champs soon.
primmie arrived and delivered. What a dude!
Sayf x trexx = GUILD duo cooking again
He plays as a Initiator and is anchoring a lot. A bit selfish sometimes, but he's def. good. That team is way too self-oriented anyways... when they would play as during Kickoff when everyone was setting up their team mates, they would still be great.
Beside of f0rsakeN the best Flex in the world.
The thing is Sayf is not even on his "peak" right now, since he is struggling so much with his private life because of the death of his grandfather. He always was an insane player but when he has a good team that sets him up, he is without a doubt one of the best internationally.
Wasn't even NRG contacting him before ardiis? I think he said something like that once. But he wanted to stay close to his home or something like that. Maybe somebody remembers that / has more info.
Legacy wise no player reached Chronicle yet, since he is the only player in the world with 3 won majors.
N4RRATE is the better anchor, plays very Leo alike when he uses Fade - Phantom lover. eeiu is better with util, though. Both have different playstyles. I think N4RRATE is better mechanically, but eeiu is overall a bit ahead. But I think Verno is ahead of both in his variety as a Ini.
Leo is basically both styles combined... insane Phantom player, great in offensive plays and anchoring, but also util excellence and Verno seems to be the only one who might reach that level, since he is good on so many agents and insanely talented mechanically.
But i.g. great to see new Initiator talents having an impact on the "best talents" discussion... not only Duelists and Sentinels.
Sayf is a born entertainer for real. I highly recommend his stream as well... sometimes he plays Subnautica or WoW and stuff like that.
Maybe it's time for a all Russian team?!
Get nAts out of Liquid. He can play as a Controller, too (insane Viper and Astra). And then Shao, SUYGETSU, purp0 and B1SK or Cloud and purp0 or something like that?! I doubt sheydos will leave KOI after they now getting better and better and that KOI team def. has a future when they maybe upgrade the ShadoW position or so.
But it's a fact that Liquid, whose season is over already and NAVI need to change things. I think NAVIs players still are insane when they want, they just lost all their confidence and joy after d00mbr0s got fired.
And when nAts stays at TL, they should keep keiko as well and maybe Enzo as an IGL and bench Jamppi and Mistic and just get 2 top talents from Challengers.
It's so weird to see these normally insane players totally losing their confidence and abilities. It happened to Sentinels in 2023 and everyone was wondering why and now it happens to NAVI, NRG and Liquid.
Shao and SUYGETSU were stomping players like f0rsakeN and Jinggg in 2022. At Masters Copenhagen they were destroying an peak OpTic team with 3:1. After a difficult season during the end of 2023 you slowly had the feeling that NAVI getting stronger again. Split 1 2024 Shao was one of the best in the region. What happened after the org fired Erik aka d00mbr0s - the coach who was with these dudes since the beginning?! Since then it looks like they absolutely lost their joy to play this game. Sometimes you see their talent glimpse through... like Zyppan hitting every Sheriff shot, SUYGETSU flicking 3 headshots with the PtC Vandal or Shao clutching with 4 great kills - but then again they losing 5 rounds in a row with whiffing every shot.
I hope so much that NAVI, NRG and TL find their confidence back.
Leo. He carried Fnatic through the most difficult matches, he is Fnatics 2nd caller (listen to Boasters interview please).
Leo is even before aspas the best rated Valorant player since 2021 on VLR and other websites. He is performance wise the GOAT of this game. Leo always delivers, always wants to win, Leo is the best in his role and also a great caller - basically Fnatics upcoming IGL in the making, which has been announced for more than a year now (Boaster said again and again that he sees only Leo in following him as an IGL).
Also - Leo is just got 20. He is not old. It's the same with Derke and the others of Fnatic (except Boasty). The squad is simply still very young in international comparison.
People who pick hiro either have no clue about Fnatic and Leo or they simply forgot how insanely good Leo is and just pick a rookies few good matches now as an indicator for being better than a several times awarded MVP of Majors etc. - who (again) is the best rated pro player of this game in VCT when you combine all seasons.
hiro is a great player, though. He will have a great future - maybe even at Fnatic. Because nobody of us know how quickly Leo will be back or if he will be back at all, since life and health is much more important than being a pro player. Or maybe hiro will be back at some point replacing someone else forever then. It's simply nothing anyone can say yet. For now every FNC supporter should be happy that hiro is part of the team, doing his best do fill the role.
Alltime is crazy difficult to name.
Duelist: aspas / Derke / Jinggg / cNed / yay
Initiator: Leo / Sacy / d4v41 / Shao / crashies
Controller: MaKo / s0m / mindfreak / Mazino / Karon
Sentinel: Alfajer / Less / SUYGETSU / nAts / Rb
Flex: Chronicle / f0rsakeN / TenZ / Sayf / kiNgg
IGL: Boaster / saadhak / FNS / f0rsakeN / stax
Most promising upcoming players (max. since 2023): zekken / Wo0t / benjyfishy / something / eeiu
Most promising Challengers players: kaajak / Verno / Ruxic / mada / Minny
Overall (2021-2024): Leo / aspas / f0rsakeN / TenZ / Derke
You got destroyed by 100T and G2 and then TH destroyed both of them and got beaten 2:3 in the GF after their 2 best maps got banned and you are yapping... interesting.
Remember this?
https://www.vlr.gg/220445/paper-rex-vs-fnatic-champions-tour-2023-masters-tokyo-ubsf
I love PRX, but some of you guys are just so insanely retarded.
TC is not bad. marteen and N4RRATE are talented, but this youngsters learned their lesson. You never go Tier 1 from playing Challengers before and destroy a two times major winning team without the boomerang coming back somehow. TH learned that as well with being overconfident and teams in every region already experienced that.
01) Recon
02) Protocol
03) Oni
04) Prime 2.0
05) Reaver 2.0
Just happened in NA as well.
I think pati was just a very good 2nd caller and a great Initiator and Controller. I think he makes every team stronger and I guess people are not wrong when they say that the team incl. pati was more "perfect", since they got the best util during the major because of him and his insane experience seems to be more worth than simple fragging.
Also MiniBoo didn't find his best performance level yet and Wo0t is struggling with changing roles all the time. Wo0t is by far the best when you SEND him and make him take advantage of his crazy mechanics.
TH Shanghai was better than TH Split 2, yes. But it's not only based on MiniBoo.
benjy really has been TH's best player outside of Shanghai. His abilities are actually mindblowing. You can def. tell that he was playing Fortnite before where you need to have ADS alike reaction time as a pro.
But yeah, the recent interview with TenZ about the consistency in Valorant during the current Meta is so true. Probably also the reason why mechanically gifted players like Wo0t, Alfajer, Demon1 or TenZ etc. are struggling so heavy with showing their skills in every match. During Shanghai you could even see a player like aspas having no chance again certain comps.
It's one thing to make the game exciting with all the different possibilities that are offered through the different agents (comps) etc., but when Riot changes the game so heavily with every new Meta, no team in the world can't keep up with it to develope their own strats for every single map. And then you end up with GENG being able to ban TH's home maps and they los 2:3 because they play on GENG homeground mos of the time.
Competitive much better would be a game that stays 90% the same every season and when they change things it's only small stuff and not buffing Iso and Neon insanely crazy and destroying other agents just so the people see new agents on the screen. That's way too random and makes it impossible that certain players / teams become better and better. It's simply too much heavy changes in a small amount of time and overall randomness.
I like PRX, but they also played bad at tourneys. There is not a single consistent team this year, basically because of the current Meta. 2023 was kinda lit with Fnatic being dominant (as a FNC supporter obviously) and EG coming up strong the whole year until they won Champs. But it was already weird after Sentinels and NAVI / FPX won majors and began struggling, same with NRG / OpTic. And now? It's just random af.
Valorant and consistency: 💀💀💀
I think more that KOI, NAVI and or Gentle Mates will update their rosters for VCT 2025 with several Challenger talents. BBL might so as well, but only Turkish then.
alexiiik, Minny and PROFEK should be in VCT soon.
Where is the logic in this damn game? First C9 whiffs everything, they even got 3v1 trolled (that was the worst-best clutch ever) and then they win the series? Like WTF...
Was a crazy match.
Sentinels. They are def. going to be one of the "200% performance @ Champions" teams. But i.g. I think many teams are able to surprise - positive and negative.
I really don't understand Valorant anymore. Several teams struggling right now that destroyed everything during majors and those teams who struggled during majors are now super good in their regions.
What a series. APAC on the rise... I love it. TS look super crisp.
Champions going to be insane with 3 regions having a chance for the title.
Proud of tex. <3
LEV so strong, aspas still the ultimate Duelist.
100% just feelings. He's human and spent a long time with the LOUD dudes. Isn't it true that there was a bit bad blood with Less but aspas is super close with pAncada? That's what I've read.
He was amazing during Ascension and i.g. at The Guard, but he played as pure Duelist back then and before that he played KAY/O etc. at his old team (forgot the name). It's just a matter of getting used to the role. He still plays very aggressive lurks etc. - just like Alfajer, runneR or other former Duelists who now play as Sentinel.
His aim is top notch for sure. And still the only German / half German who plays in VCT. It's time that at least al0rante gets to VCT.
G2 will do it for sure.
Leosen 37 kills on Sunset was insane.
Stop talking nonsense. NRG is not good. KRÜ is not good. Stop yapping.
Vitality destroyed FURIA in the last match and they are not even close to be the best team in EU.
NRG would have no chance against TH, Fnatic or FUT. Maybe against #4 they would have a chance. FUT destroyed LEV.
3x Ace for Sayf says it all.
This man is insane.
When Vitality goes 100% and Sayf plays with full confidence again (against Fnatic he seemed a bit over careful), they should win.
Jemkin is so good. But glad that PRX won!
https://x.com/OfficialANGE1/status/1808921809233879464
Actually sad, tbh.
I think this org is doing something very wrong and it all started with firing d00mbr0s.
Bro, my pickems...
GGs.
NAVI... wake up guys. NRG won against KRÜ, now you can also plug-in your mice again. Let's go! Shao played an amazing Split 1. I dunno what happened to them. But this year is weird anyways. Nothing makes sense anymore.
Even KOI are better at the moment.
Nah, regarding benjy and MiniBoo TH just had a very bad day.
GX still had great scrims even during Split 1. They just throw way too much.
Actually crazy how crisp GX looked and how many mistakes on TH side happened. benjy played like a maniac, though.
But better for TH to now face some issues and to solve them instead of having that in playoffs or even at Champs.
What a match. But Sayonara is truly the biggest rookie in the U18 range. Dude just got 16 this year. Insane performances for that age.
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