So...TenZ was negative on Jett, his best agent, and Sacy might not have done well on Viper in those games, but he was positive on Omen.

Yeah so surely Sacy can practice smokes for a couple of maps during that time. Plus, TenZ is going to mainly be practicing the role he's switching to, flash initiators since he's only played a bit of kayo.

Let's put our previous aggressive duelist player with basically no experience, on smokes, instead of the guy who played some omen for us last season.

Sen would never choose TenZ over Sacy for smokes, either they'll switch TenZ to duelist and zekken to smokes, or Sacy will just play smokes. Also, I think you're vastly underestimating how good Sacy can be on smokes if it's just for a map or two.

TenZ just doesn't fit the smokes playstyle, and unless he wants to adapt his game to be able to play smokes, SEN will not put him on smokes.

If they need a second smokes player it'll either be Sacy, or johnqt if no sentinel is being played, like on Bind.

They have pancada for smokes, you know that right?

Nah TenZ just doesn't fit the smokes or sentinel playstyle.

He doesn't need to play Raze because zekken can, so really it's just flash initiators, chamber, and maybe duelist if they need it. He's already a top-tier talent, but hopefully, he'll be able to develop more as a flex for next year.

I think I saw somewhere that TenZ was playing some breach in scrims, and if it's true, he's completely fine on the roster. His agent pool was the only glaring issue in his game, and if he's able to add some initiators to it, he'd be easily T1 worthy.

EG is right, SEN/NRG are probably right, 100T I think is making no changes, and who tf knows what C9 is doing? As for TGRD, it probably depends somewhat on the org that picks them up, but most of them, at least, will stay together.

All they really need is the core 5 and a sports psychologist to improve their mental. But they could benefit from a new coach.

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That might be true, but PRX nor EG really takes themselves that serious and yet those were the champs finalists. So in valorant, that point is kind of irrelevant.

Yes, don't let Shahz haters tell you otherwise. He has always had good mechanics and he gets too much hate for the Sen situation.

Yeah thats true they lost twice, but one, only a few teams have made it two or more international lan finals, and two, they were actually put under significant pressure for once due to jinggg leaving.

See prx operates by not putting pressure on themselves with a kind of go next attitude, if they lose. But you can't just go next when Jinggg is leaving.

Nah it's correlated, if you're having fun you're more likely to be relaxed, and if you're relaxed, you're less likely to make mistakes, and thus you end up playing better.

Tbh idk EMEA cal super well but:

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Well it's mostly that having fun by nature makes most people play better. Like outside of FNC, the two teams who did the best this year, have the most fun of any team, PRX and EG. Plus as an upside, it's fun to watch as fans.

Ok that's fair, and Asuna Raze, Cryo Chamber, would lowkey go hard.

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What mentality? That you can have fun and also win at the same time?

Well...not saying it won't work, but that Yoru Chamber Bind comp was exactly this, and it did not turn out well.

Bro what? They make val look fun af, not cringe. They make it feel like 5 friends just loaded up the game and are having fun just running it down. It actually works too, which is the best part, and it's why PRX get away with it. They win, and if you can consistently place top 4 with your style, you're on the right track.

Tbh, maybe 100t just needs confidence. At one point they were pretty good, but idk if we'll ever get that 100T back.

Like, bruh what happened to lcq Derrek? Bro was putting up Shao numbers in the clutch, then dipped.

Idk if I'd say that yet, but zekken looks very promising, and I'd argue he's the most valuable player in NA currently. He has great firepower, insane flexibility, is vocal/helps with calls, and is young which gives him a lot of time to grow.

Tbh they could've beaten EG, they just probably felt a lot of pressure due to them losing Jinggg. PRX is easily a top 4 team at worst, even with them being not that serious.

W for SEN if true

Change one was Marved for TenZ, then TenZ for dephh, but these moves happened like weeks apart. How is a team supposed to build chemistry if a roster is changing during the season?

Also, the Shahzam analogy makes perfect sense since your reasoning in the original post was because of his chemistry with Sacy and pancada, not his results with Loud. Also, Shahzam cannot be blamed entirely for SEN being bad in 2022, and tbh when they actually got a chance to bootcamp they didn't do that bad.

You're reasoning makes literally no sense because teams can't all start with previous cores, but they can still succeed. Like C9 only had leaf and xeppaa from the old C9, and yet they did pretty well. Conversely, 100T only changed will for Cryo and did really bad. If a team makes a change even if it's just one, the team will need time to build chemistry no matter what.

The change that makes the most sense is johnqt and it's not close. If pancada is going to switch back to smokes, which he's more comfortable with, SEN needs a sentinel IGL, which johnqt is. Plus, if you wanna talk about chemistry, Kaplan used to coach johnqt on Ghost gaming.

Breaking News: Team gets use out of 10-Man roster!

Dephh didn't work because of constant roster changes. Literally, it makes no sense to say that since dephh couldn't produce results, no other igl aside from saadhak would. With Marved we don't know how good he will be as an igl because he's still new at it. Also, if team chemistry is being judged on previous teammates, would Shahzam be the next best fit because of his chemistry with TenZ? Like bruh, what is this logic?

It needs to be said that you're a dumbass tbh.

Well, they did have a dip in performance between champs 2022 and lockin, but aside from that they've been pretty good.

Tbh it's DRX, from last year to this year, they got: 5-6, 5-6, 3, 3-4, 7-8, 5-6. Always managing to do a little damage but not enough.

Naw they're both good, zekken plays more duelist and Trent plays more initiator, so it's hard to compare.

W, Astra is fun to play imo.

Canadian Navi fans really taking L's on this one lmao.

In all seriousness though, chill. Bro is just trying to break into the journalism scene. Let him do his thing.

dawg what?

He has though, his daily scrimbux threads kind of count as that. It's trials and potential roster moves through scrims, backed up with some pictures of those said scrims. It's up to you whether that counts as enough information, but it doesn't seem like he's really been that wrong thus far.

Here's one: You don't need a degree to be a journalist though. All journalism is, is reporting factual or potential information to the public with supporting evidence. Which means, that if you have good enough linguistic capabilities to convey your information, evidence to back up your information, and regularly present this information as news, then you're a journalist.

I swear there was a post several hours ago about it, but I might be wrong.

Edit: https://www.vlr.gg/269876/g2-part-ways-with-mary - It was a day ago

For the next patch:

Duelist: Jawgemo
Initiator: nobody
Sentinel: Alfajer
Controller: MaKo
Flex: kiNgg (IGL)

The language barrier here is crazy lmao.

Sen easily, you have 4 top level players to igl with + you gain more following as a result of Sen's popularity.

Also, Kaplan is the coach which is an added bonus.

I think C9 wants to keep jakee so I don't think they would pick up bang. Also, 100t's core of Cryo, Asuna, and bang, is actually pretty good. They just need an upgrade over derrek, and stellar.

If that's true skuba would be a great replacement, but I actually think 100t should keep bang.

skuba and verno definitely deserve it, but verno is too young and no team really needs an upgrade at controller.

flor has consistently been the player to step up for V1 in games against T2/T3 teams.

Nah bro has W aim, and igled PRX to a top 2 team in the world, fym mid?

Bro NA does not need the, wait until 30 seconds to hit a site, slow and boring af EMEA gameplay.

We got the same flair, friendly fire fr. Also, mixwell would get diffed by cgrs, let alone any of the other prx players.

Bro please let this be real, it would be funny af.