Either derank back to Diamond or get good.

Getting good means you need to be more mindful of how you’re playing — consistent mechanics practice and only queueing when you’re in a good mental space and comm’ing.

You can try VOD reviewing to identify your poor decision making as well. Winning or losing a round doesn’t mean anything; you need to learn how to evaluate the odds for each decision for the scenarios you’re met with.

Practice anticipation by going into a dm and not shooting back. Just practice swinging and visualizing kill confirmation and get a feel for how much time you really have in a fight.

If you’re a duelist, identify optimal pathing and positioning to make sure you’re traded on swings — hint: make sure you’re closer to the wall with double swings to give your teammates space.

If you’re any other role, look up pro VODs for playbooks on your maps to learn better utility management depending on how you want to play the round. It took me a s0m VOD to get comfortable anchoring on Ascent A as Omen and to really understand how to use site and flood smokes.

GL my guy!

Viable if LEV also gets a new IGL so KiNgg can pair with Demon1.

KiNgg: Raze | Neon | Omen | Viper

Demon1: Jett | Astra | Brim

c0m can still flex to Viper on double smokes maps but then you’d need a Fade+Flash IGL. Mitch is your best option.

KiNgg | c0m | Mitch/Poised/Flyuh | Demon1 | Tex

KiNgg and Demon1 run Duelist/Smokes Flex with the new igl taking on Mazino’s role?

It would be interesting if LEV picked up Demon1 and Mitch/Flyuh.

You could have Demon1 and KiNgg run a Duelist/Smokes duo. Mitch/Flyuh would fill Mazino’s role while taking on the burden of IGL’ing which would be important when KiNgg is on Raze/Neon.

Edit: Forgot Poised is an option too

I honestly don’t mind it too much. Just wish the kick off qualifier was double elim all the way through so that we can be sure we send our best two teams. Seeing high quality Valorant at the start of the year when rosters have just reformed is difficult — unless you only pull from the top echelon.

They also need to award championship points for second and third place at Masters so that teams that don’t win aren’t burned by showing off all their preparation prior to Champs.

Some speculation of course

G2: Jawgemo | Trent | JonahP | Valyn | Leaf

SEN: Zekken | N4rrate | Zellsis | Zander | JohnQT

NRG: Derke | Verno | Ethan | s0m | FNS

100T: Cryo | eeiu | Asuna | Bang | Boostio

C9: Oxy | Rossy | Mitch | Skuba | XIFF

EG: Mada | Derrek | NaturE | Supamen | Yay

It bothers me how the out-of-ammo animation for the skins looks better than when they have ammo — all the fragments are exploded outward and the colors pop like it’s overheated. They should have reversed the animation so the fragments close up as your run out of bullet and have to reload.

Also, they should have added the newer variants to the older guns. I want that gold and white on my phantom so bad.

Aspas is way too selfish of a duelist for G2’s system. They need someone used to structure but able to absolutely send it for them. That is not Aspas.

Jawgemo, Derke, Oxy, and Mada would all be better options.

News just dropped that Aspas leaving LEV.

Demon1 | c0m | Mazino | KiNgg | Tex
Demon1 and KiNgg pair as a duelist/smokes flex?

Wait, Mazino is out too. Is this roster going majority NA??

Bangkok: TH | Clean Sweep, Uncontested

Toronto: G2 | Lower Bracket Run with Jawgemo MVP

Paris: G2 | Close finals with Vitality, Trent returns to form

Oxy | Rossy | Mitch | Skuba | XXIF

Need the KRUpium. Saadhak is off the table and they dropped heat right? How do you see them improving?

OXY | Rossy | Mitch | Skuba | Moose

OXY | BCJ | Nismo | neT | v1c

Which do you think is more likely? XXIF is also on the table to replace Moose since he’s had a great showing this season.

Dude, league affiliation is tied to your permanent residency. You can change your affiliation prior to the start of the season if you change residency, otherwise you’re considered an import. If you have dual citizenship, you can choose which region to be affiliated with but it’s obviously optimal to affiliate with the one you’re going to be living in so that your team doesn’t have to deal with import limitations.

That’s what happened with Talon Ban when he moved from Knights in NA to T1 in Pacific for the beginning of franchising.

This is the Global Contract Database. All players with a resident status as “non-resident” are considered imports to the region.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRmmWiBmMMD43m5VtZq54nKlmj0ZtythsA1qCpegwx-iRptx2HEsG0T3cQlG1r2AIiKxBWnaurJZQ9Q/pubhtml#

JohnQT is the only Import in Americas but he’s also a special case since he’s been in the NA scene for 3.5 years and was developed here. He disallows Sen from importing players from other regions though.

He’s the same case as Tex. Reps his ethnicity and heritage but is an American.

Good to see a win from Brazil when their T1 Orgs stopped putting in effort to scout honest talent. I thought the region lacked IGLs and Zap is a pretty good response. Excited for next year!

RIP M80. I doubt the roster stays together but they had a good run.

Only Zander is guaranteed. SEN will want him.

Nismo is competing with Mitch, Poised, and Flyuh who are all IGLs.

BCJ is competing with Rossy, Seven, and Brawk. He’s just not the best option.

NeT is competing with XXif, Aproto, and Thief. He might have a chance to replace Aproth or Moose, especially if teams think they can make him into an IGL.

Koala is competing with Derke, Mada, Sym, and Corey who can all play Raze/Neon on top of Jett. He’s not getting in.

I can see C9 grabbing the core and v1c under the promise that neT becomes a full time igl. It’s more likely that they just pick up Mitch, Skuba, and Rossy though, keeping Oxy and Moose.

2G just won ascension sure but G2 is literally top 3 in the Americas region as a whole. Not really a competition, especially if G2 pick up Jawgemo/Derke.

AMER: Duelists, Controllers, and IGLs

EMEA: Initiators and Sentinels

APAC: Controllers and Flexes

CHINA: Edward

Maybe: Keznit | Heat | Saadhak | Pancada | Shyy | frod ?

Yeah it would create a segmentation within the league between the mediocre and elite teams but I don’t think that disqualifies these rosters from the moniker of “superteam.” Throw any one of these single rosters into the current scene and they could take a trophy with 3+ star fraggers and extremely balanced roles. The only team I’d be worried about would be NRG with FNS but Mada, Ethan, and s0m are so good that I think it’d work.

A true international “superteam” would probably be:
Zekken | Leo | Chronicle | Valyn | Meteor | Potter

G2’s playstyle with Tex was a good bit more explosive than it is now with icy. Their current weakness is actually their inability to explosively punish people disrespecting their space with instant re-clears — something that Oxy would help with immensely. I’d argue that while Derke would be more seemless, Oxy would make them more balanced and their structure would temper him into a world class duelist like Zekken.

Also, this was a list to showcase Americas talent. JohnQT was the only import exception because he was literally forged in NA tier 2 for the past 3.5 years.

Jawgemo has been spotted duoing a ton with Valyn this act on his streams and tracker — something he hasn’t done since Episode 7 Act 2. That was around the time that G2 picked up the TGRD core and began searching for a Duelist replacement for Tex and rumors were swirling around them trialing Jawgemo. For whatever reason (likely on Jawg’s part), it didn’t go through and G2 went with Leaf.

They played 15 games that act and they’re already at 32 this current one with over a month left before it finishes. It could be elaborate bait but I don’t see why G2 wouldn’t extend the offer; they should be aiming for Jawg or Derke if they want to win trophies next year.

I think Americas could form at least 5 Superteams, strong enough to be international trophy contenders if they just consolidated their players a bit better. Did I cook?

SEN: Zekken | N4rrate | Zellsis | Zander | JohnQT | Kaplan

100T: Jawgemo | eeiu | Asuna | Demon1 | Boostio | Zikz

LEV: Aspas | Cauanzin | Mazino | Kingg | Less | Itopata

G2: Oxy | Trent | JonahP | Valyn | Leaf | JoshRT

NRG: Mada | Verno | Ethan | s0m | FNS | Potter

They have a 6th man in Curry if they're not settled by then.

He’s got 30 games duoing with Valyn and 40 with s0m. Him playing with JohnQT rn doesn’t necessarily indicate anything except that he’s considering every option.

I don’t know if it’s my favorite but I doubt it’ll drop out of my top 5 anytime soon.

The Mask (Stripped) | Matt Maeson

First Tac FPS

• Started Iron 2
• Peaked Immo2
• Current A2 cuz rough Act

Tracker: https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/Ultia%230001/overview

They only run the harbor on Icebox and Abyss, both maps that struggle with securing plant and defusing it. Most other teams would run the Gekko for this but LEV’s Gekko player also happens to be their primary sentinel. Those two maps also heavily benefit from double smokes since their chokes aren’t as small, making them both easy to entry through and hard to stall.

Mazino has played Kayo on Ascent to much success and on breeze to a bit less. It’s definitely not his best agent because they had Kingg on it back in Kickoff and I’d say their shift to deadlock on Ascent probably reinforces that.

Mazino’s roles on each Map:

• Ascent: Deadlock
• Icebox: Harbor
• Abyss: Harbor
• Bind: Skye
• Haven: Breach
• Sunset: Breach
• Lotus: Breach

Imo, Aspas plays like he doesn’t trust his team though and it’s not really because of a lack of supportive utility.

Tenz Replacements

1. Zander
2. Jawgemo
3. Skuba
4. Marved
5. v1c

Sacy Replacements

1. N4rrate
2. Eeiu
3. Verno
4. Brawk
5. Seven

Sen will be fine if they grab one of the top 3 in each role. Anything less and it’s fair question.

Edit: Swapped Eeiu and Verno since Sen need a Fade player.

Ah, I suppose they are just rumors that he’s unsatisfied with LEV.

Guess Aspas is going to McDonalds then?

I wanted to put lukxo and Sato in but they’re both turning 18 next year in the middle of the seasons. Sato has a chance if he’s in a Wo0t situation since his birthday is in early Feb but Lukxo’s is in June.

That’s a fair point but I figured it’d be good to maintain synergy with the MxS core when picking a flex igl since I think v1c and Brawk have a fair shot of getting picked up. Mitch would probably a good upgrade for EG to pick up since I see them keeping both Derrek and Supamen.

You’re right. Thief is a great pick but I’m not sure how strong his Viper is. I don’t have any good impressions of Victor ngl.

Yeah, Cauanzin has apparently received offers from both Furia and MIBR while Tuyz is redundant when you have Pancada.

Is there some drama there that I’m not aware of?

I started with Less and Pancada and glued them to the Galorys core except Sato is underaged.

I dunno. Would Aspas realistically ever return to LOUD? The reasons he left and his desire to play with Nzr is why I had him in Furia but they already had Mwzera. Just a mess overall.

How so?

They’re both italicized because they split IGL role by the half.

I mean he’s been pretty open about wanting to play with Nzr and it would get him playing in his native language again. At the same time, LOUD is definitely losing its allure and MIBR is a more budget org. It was either Furia or an EMEA team.

SEN: Zekken | N4rrate | Zellsis | JohnQT | Skuba

NRG: Demon1 | Verno | Ethan | FNS | s0m

G2: Derke | Trent | JonahP | Leaf | Valyn

100T: Cryocells | eeiu | Asuna | Boostio | Bang

M80: Koalanoob | BCJ | Nismo | neT | Zander

C9: Oxy | Brawk | Flyuh | Aproto | v1c

EG: Mada | Derrek | NaturE | Yay | Supamen

LEV: Jawgemo | c0m | Mazino | Tex | KiNgg

KRU: Keznit | Adverso | Saadhak | Shyy | Melser

LOUD: Mwzera | Evilkyk | Urango | Less | Pancada

FUR: Aspas | Nzr | Heat | Havoc | Khalil - maybe pick up Lukxo mid season

MIBR: Silentzz | Cauanzin | liazzi | Artzin | Mazin

Thoughts?

Edit: Just to be clear, I know MIBR is sticking to their roster to build synergy except for approaching Cauanzin. Furia is also likely to stick with Mwzera because he’s their poster boy but I just didn’t see Aspas returning to LOUD so I kinda swapped them. A man can dream D:

It’s extremely stable and not form dependent. Even if one or two players are off they can still force advantages and convert them through macro and trades. It means that the pressure of having to carry is nonexistent and you just have to do your job.

He practically pioneered harbor at the T1 level. He doesn’t play Dome smokes though since Mindfreak covers that role. Maybe that’ll change with the Astra buffs where teams might start running both Omen and Astra?

I’d consider most consistent 2-role players as flex. Playing three different roles on a stable roster usually means that your teammates have small agent pools.

Players that qualify as Flex:
Chronicle
JonahP
Zellsis
Munchkin
Wo0t
Forsaken
Mazino
d4v4i
Saadhak

Yo how do I delete I post I didn’t finish D:<

SEN:

• Zekken | Primary Entry + Sova
• N4rrate | Initiator + Jett
• Zellsis | Flex
• JohnQT | Sentinel + Viper
• Skuba | Smokes

NRG:

• Jawgemo | Primary Entry
• Ethan | Flash Initiator + Yoru
• Verno | Recon Initiator
• s0m | Smokes
• FNS | Sentinel + Viper

100T:

• Asuna |

Zekken is undoubtably a better entry than Aspas. I would only ever consider swapping him off that role in his team if their initiator wasn’t a Sova player and had a world class Jett — only N4rrate and Something fulfill those conditions.

My roster would go as follows:

Zekken: Entry + Sova
N4rrate: Initiator + Jett
Zellsis: Flash + Sentinel Flex
JohnQT: Sentinel + Viper
Skuba: Smokes

I’ve seen some rumors about Jawgemo scrims but I really want a Jawgemo + Demon1 reunion since they fill each other’s gaps as a Duelist/Smokes duo perfectly.

But the children yearn for the mines.