Life game from Furia, Pancada randomly decided to jump to prime form, Kru isn’t bad? Asuna can be consistent.

Asuna, Icy (though idk if it’s inconsistency or him just having life games and he actually just isn’t good.), Xeppa, Jawgemo (At least based on 2024), Jing, patitek (same as icy he might actually just not be good).

Nah just the best itw

Tbf it’s more than justified. Anyone who watches the game knows asuna has great peaks but has some of the worse consistency in vct. If he could play at this level consistently he’d be a top 3 duelist in NA.

Doubt they’ll fall off. 100T didn’t even really “fall off” last year imo. Didn’t do as good sure but they definitely didn’t fall off. One of the best igls itw, one of the best Jett players itw, a great controller, a great initiator, if asuna can keep up this level of play with consistency 100T is easily a top tier team.

If a singular pistol round is the difference maker and makes them look like my asc 2 teammates then they were never a team that would make it far anyways. The better team one and mibr gaslit people into thinking they were somehow now a top 4-5 team.

Can’t believe people even thought they’d win this.

In reality looks like a top 5 duelist in emea.

Rather see flor on 100T tbh just the better org. Think she’d improve cryo a lot too.

No org is looking at flor > zekken… now 100T? There’s conversations to be had.

What are you watching highlights?

That doesn't defeat what I just said, lmao. Like I said, lmao results based. Saadhak can keep those trophies Aspas and Less put him in their backpack for. Still won't make him better than Boostio John FNS or Valyn. Though I suppose if you're living in 2022 Saadhak is actually a good igl.

Yeah, if you think that inaccurate to do you're clueless.

Yeah well the both mean more than Navi doing literally nothing and kc doing nothing but beating koi. Cope.

M8 didn’t consistently do that Dfm did. Having a close game with boom doesn’t defeat that fact they STOMPED the two best team in emea in scrims when they were in CHAMPS FORM. Edg lost to wolve and drg prior to going to and winning champs lmao. So yes both dfm and nongshim have both proven they can compete internationally.

Ofc you would know? Your entire basis of comparison is result based lmao. Valyn is significantly better mechanically and individually. And utilizes his team in a system far better than saadhak ever has just lacks the literal best players in each role that saadhak had.

I couldn't possibly care less about what saadhak did in the 90s with one of the best if not the best duelist to touch the game, one of the best sentinels to touch the game and one of the best controllers in the game. AND one of the best initiators in their prime. Notice what happened when he didn't have those players.

Yeah I can say boom will do well internationally too except theirs no justification for that. Nongshim have been said to be destroying top teams in scrims and dfm has actually SHOWN in the off season they can compete with champs teams like trace and prx. All kc has shown is that can beat koi and navi... teams who also have no justification of being able to compete internationally.

absolutely

valyn led teams don't fall off a cliff either.

Prx T1 Geng Drx Dfm and Nongshim should all be competitive internationally. Emea has 3 at best. APAC is significantly more competitive.

Okay? Literally what does that even mean no one’s claiming everyone apac team is better than the ENTIRETY of emea… like what? That doesn’t have to be the case to be a better region overall.

Didn’t win with him so clearly he wasn’t a solution.

Wdym “better than Emea” yeah they’re not better than the entire region… is that??? Supposed to mean something?

No. Fns, Boostio, Johnqt probably Valyn too.

It’s bias nothing more. People are quick to say you shouldn’t use the off season when C9 absolutely obliterates G2 or when Furia beats Kru and Mibr back to back but will base NRG entirely off what they’ve done in the off season. NRG will be good but not nearly as good as people seem to think hopefully opens some eyes.

Never. Just put stocks into purp0 and he unfortunately underperformed this series.

Sure? Maybe last year with bleed ge dfm and zeta… but dfm looks significantly better zeta looks better boom looks better than bleed and ge looked better than they did last year at the very least. The majority of apac looks better than the majority of emea.

Only igls that are better than Saadhak are in NA

its clearly china... but then Emea

Nothing all that impressive in the slightest. Didn’t expect much of the other 3 but honestly thought GX would be a lot better.

Shao played fine??? This is entirely Ange1 and coaching. Everyone else is playing well or very impactful.

Did you seriously just name less as a top 3 sentinel contender for 2024? This is so unserious.

Seeing people say meteor is “so much better” is hilarious you would think Asuna and Aspas were being compared. Meteor is better but they’re both great and we’re both top 3 sentinels 2024. To act as if they’re not comparable is a more braindead take than saying benjy>

G2 doesn’t want to show everything but yeah sen does… they got destroyed let it go.

Icy > Oxy is certainly a take. Icy is like a slightly better and more consistent Asuna.

Very, and jaw has bad consistency problems. People just aren’t ready for those talks.

100T just suck at scrims or what? Feel like I never see these guys doing well in scrims.

Absolutely

Why not just have bonkar as ac if he’s like some requirement to having verno.

SEN 100T NRG

100T SEN TH T1 DFM EDG

Yeah yeah fpx 2-0

Guarantee you they don't even make top 4

Wardell

Who cares? Loud missed out on both following majors and didn't even do well in their own region, finished as a bottom 3 team, lmao. And heretics lost two grand finals. Geng can only win events when Sentinels aren't around. This is a terrible argument if that's the case none of them deserve anything they all fumbled at one point or another or many.

Sure, the “Year” doesn't encompass JUST champs, however champs is the most important period DURING that year. If a team drops off a cliff. At the most significant time period. Idk why chichoo over meteor would be hilarious, he won champs with some of the best stats in the event.

They played well the entire season and then got walked by Sentinels in the most important tournament at the end… EDG didn't and simply improved, getting better and better. If they did NOTHING relevant the entire season and then suddenly won champs in a relatively dominant fashion, where mind you they nearly went flawless, BARLEY losing out to G2 once, then yeah they deserve that praise. It's far more difficult to improve and surpass top teams starting from a low point than simply maintaining form. And champs will always matter far more than anything during the rest of the season. Not to mention, kangkang played well all year lmao. His team flopping doesn't mean he flopped.

Your points flawed… that's my point. You can beat the other team BECAUSE you have a better team… not inherently because you are individually better. And vise versa.

Sure he did… do you intend to address the actual point or just lean into keznit having a better year as if I didn't mention 5 other duelists. Doing off stats on VLR only PROVES my point, lmao Primmie was top 3 in champs top 6 in acd and was playing on par with Aspas against lev. Narrate in madrid, patitiek and woot in Shanghai etc.