Sorry, my sense of time is fked. Besides, he mentioned that he was studying Japanese 1 year ago, not that he started studying it a year ago, so it would make logical sense that he had been studying before that point in time. Additionally, he paid for a tutor, so I would hope that he didn't just throw the money in the bin.

tbf this is my personal preference and my ideal world, so I know it isn't going to happen :(. I think leviathan could be good seeing how he was frying on duelist when he played those like 4 games which means he has good aim, but his flexibility is probably a coinflip and imo DRX really need flexibility. Also, signing freeing is lowkey troll because they already have flashback. They're replacing foxy9 (a sentinel player) with freeing (a sentinel player).

I meant during the 2023 season for Dep. I still vividly remember his ace against FNC on KJ, so I have faith in him. Additionally, while the grammar is similar, the vocabulary + the particles are immensely different, so it still takes a while to learn Japanese anyway. Additionally, aspas has been learning Japanese for like 2 years now. Even if it is harder for him to learn Japanese compared to the Koreans in the scene, he still has a lot of experience in the language. Frankly, if he's been learning for 2 years and he COULDN'T com, I think he might as well give up.

I meant to have a /, as in DRX picks up one of them. Shoulda made it more clear mb

Dep showed that his sentinel was pretty good last last season, so he can play that while aspas plays duelist. Aspas is learning Japanese, so I assume that he speaks it at a proficient enough level to comm, especially since he probably is on the level of a lot of the Koreans in the JP scene anyway.

The Australian. He had a good showing in China (pretty much carrying his team) and he plays flex, often flexing into llmemore's roles, so it would be a good replacement. Best of all, he doesn't count as an import since Australia counts as PAC AND he speaks English fluently already.

This looks great. Keep up the good work!

he was igling on turtle troop and he led the team to like 4th overall as a fa team so

+xccurate, igl + sentinel = cook??? (they could -something or - jinggg and put the other on full time duelist)

it looks like you need a duo. soloq is not healthy (or at least that's what I heard)

btw, you should edit the main post and add the new things imo.

Personally:
DFM: +yatsuka/seoldam +caedye +joxjo +aace -ssess
DRX: +hyumin +yoman/munchkin
GENG: +freeing/gwangboong +lakia
GE: +YesICan +f1cio +(grumble or sultan/dos9) +kristal +sayaplayer
RRQ: +Maple
T1: +Meteor +Buzz
Talon: +sScary +PTC
Zeta: I would love +aspas or +akame tbh, +CLZ +Syouta
Boom: +xccurate

Every other roster is either good enough or probably not gonna change.

One of the reasons is that another team might have given him an offer. How am I supposed to know?

Didn't buzz choose to leave or am i going insane

I mean, ZETA has room for a cracked duelist player and Carlao is Brazilian. Also, I'm not sure what Chinese team aspas would end up on, since I think most rosters have either a cracked duelist, an arguably better import (in terms of flexibility), or are too broke

Imagine a world where he goes to ZETA. He would single handedly pull Japan out of the depths.

Bro went from playing in the second worst T2 NA team to landing the bag in sentinels.

As funny as it could be, I'm not a phoenix believer on this map (unless the upcoming buffs are crazy af). Personally, I expect:
raze/neon - zekken
bang - brim
viper - johnqt (however, if they end up running a neon, I could see a world where they run cypher over viper)
fade - n4rrate
gekko - zellsis

Alternatively, they could forgo the gekko, put zellsis on viper, and have johnqt on cypher.

phoneix (joke)

I remember runi cooking a while back, so it is sad to see him go (for good this time I think). Hope these two find new opportunities in life o7

keiko is like a coin flip: he's either good or at the bottom. So it's more like a 2.5 v 5 !!!

bro, we're valorant players. We can't read or use critical thinking.

Damn, I knew that the conflict would be with flashback but I think I was just sleep deprived

Xccurate was lowkey carrying his team on sentinel. The problem is grumble doesn’t igl. Most sentinel players in APAC haven’t igled afaik, so xccurate is a good middle option.

Why is this downvoted? This is genuinely a decent roster change if it does come to fruition. PRX problems include no igl and no dedicated sentinel player. Xccurate would cover both these issues.

It is because the roles are lowkey messed up. Foxy9 is good on sentinel and maybe duelist, but there is flashback and hyunmin. Beyn looked good on smokes/flex, but he was getting forced onto recon initiator, which he looked terrible on. However, signing freeing is a meh play since there will be another role incompatibility between him and mako. Jeez DRX does not learn from their mistakes

I think boaster just really needed a break to break out of his slump. His aim was good enough in 2023. Pressure def got to him this year.

I'm so iffy on JessieVash. istg his aim is so bad, but he is in the upper echelon of kills every time somehow

Miniboo was arguably one of the best duelists during split 1 and madrid imo. (not the best, but he was up there) During split 2 and champs, he was definitely struggling with pressure and expectations and whatnot (probably because people were constantly calling for his head), but then he locked in for the latter half of champs and lowkey carried his team to the second-place spot.

Wait, what’s the problem with attending third party cs tournaments? Isn’t that just like attending off season events or am I crazy?

Unfortunately, yeah, which is weird because isn't he from the siberia/border with mongolia area?

mf is coach AND plays raze? Bro is a bit too good at the video game

I mean, if he chases the bag, it is what it is yknow.

Unless EG doesn't pay their players, they'll probably live

There are like 3 weeks until roster lock tf you mean start searching now. Most rosters are almost finalized now

The players could have looked for new opportunities. Now they're just teamless a few weeks before roster lock...

https://x.com/LEGIJAcs/status/1842063519455281283

Bruh if the team was told that they were gonna get kicked out 30 minutes before the post, this is fked by Riot. At least give them time to find new teams or smthing :/

There are like so many more t1 teams that don't deserve their t1 spot. Bleed is new AND lost their star duelist when they ascended. Give them some time yknow

allegedly, free1ing was trialing for bleed and his performance was top notch in vct china. They'll be looking for a flex, not another sentinel player.

Well yeah, I'm predicting a roster with that in mind.

allegedly, jinggg/something are playing sentinels. I would not be shocked if they do what trace does if the roster does stay together. That or they say fuck all and put jinggg on full time duelist

they'll probably end up with something like:
sultan - smokes
grumble - senti
lmemore - initiator (I have faith from when he absolutely shit on bleed)
valydn - flex?
saya - duelist

tbf most of the trials are decent. Sultan, Valdyn, grumble, tomazy, kristal, and, hell, lear and saya are pretty good. They're probably just keeping their horizons open tbh. Like Derrek from 100t looked bad but looked cracked af on EG

I mean, they are rumors for a reason. Maybe it was actually in talks, but it never actually came into fruition. Also, he was new to the thing and people probably fed him a lot of false information, but he's getting better imo

Surely, they pick up some of Riddle's players. +yatsuka +joxjo instead of +art +jinboong would go hard

They pioneer "side dependent comps." Essentially, if they start on defense, they whip out the 3 senti, 1 controller, yoru comp. If they start on attack, they get fked.

tbf he averaged 1.0 rating back when he played on GE. His main issue is that he is VERY momentum based. He either runs over other teams or gets run over.

Pearl:
asuna - yoru
cryo - jett
skuba - astra
eeiu - Sova/Skye/gekko
boostio - kj

Ascent -
Asuna - yoru
cryo - chamber/jett
skuba - omen
eeiu - sova
boostio - kj

Haven -
Asuna - yoru/neon
cryo - chamber/jett
skuba - omen
eeiu - Sova/skye
boostio - cypher

split -
Asuna - raze/kayo/yoru (idk how'd yoru would work without anyone on raze, but ig Jett yoru is a play???)
cryo - jett/gekko/sage
skuba - omen
eeiu - skye/fade
boostio - cypher

Abyss
Asuna - yoru
cryo - jett
skuba - astra
eeiu - sova
boostio - cypher

sunset
Asuna - yoru/neon
cryo - Jett/gekko
skuba - omen
eeiu - sova
boostio - cypher

bind
Asuna - yoru/raze
cryo - chamber
skuba - omen/brim
eeiu - fade
boostio - viper/cypher

The idea behind each comp is to replace flash agents such as kayo or breach with yoru since yoru has similar roles to those two particular agents. However, there are a lot of comps that do struggle due to cryo lacking that ability to play raze tbh. I also tried putting cryo on either chamber or Jett on as many maps as I can, since he excels at those agents and chamber did get buffed recently. I could explain the deeper thought process as to why I chose each particular agent as I did, but I am sleep deprived af rn.

imo it's opportunity cost. As much as people like to dunk on Asuna for his weird aiming style and whatnot, he is actually surprisingly above average (with a 1.01 rating). He has one of the best kayos in NA, although people don't like to admit that. Assuming he gets paid a pretty average amount, there is little reason to risk dropping him. I think bang chose to leave for sen, stellar and Derrek looked pretty iffy during the 2023 season, and cryo was a clear upgrade to will, meanwhile Asuna probably hasn't shown signs of wanting to leave yet and he has played pretty decently across most if not all of the seasons + he probably performs in scrims.

This is probably overcooking but have curry play until reduxx can play. You're paying curry for a reason smh