I finished #6. Also finished top 30 at Champs.

I may be the best VFL player of all time

Except Neon is a space creator agent. Saying you stopped Neon because they didn't have a 1.4 rating like Dambi completely misunderstands the role and point of the agent.

The reason people bring up that point about sentinels isn't because it's the only way to kill a Neon. It's because it's the only way to not allow Neon to freely create space

People who only know how to consume the game via stats pages will never understand the problem people have with Neon. Which is that she completely shifts how you have to play.

I'm sure you could've done the same thing with Astra when she was broken. She wasn't putting up crazy stats but she completely changed how every team had to play the game.

They still are abusing shotguns.

Nongshin were shooting but the power of Dambi shotguns changes how every team has to play. There was a round where PRX brought double judge on defense, something they never do, just to counter Dambi.

Flex: Chronicle
Sentinel: Alfajer
Controller: Valyn
Duelist: Mada
Initiator: Eeiu
HC: Sliggy
team name: Nepotism Esports

I mean it has happened. There is even a current semi-famous twitch streamer who got banned because of it.

Which sucks because it just makes it worse for the actual trans players.

It's just a really good meta for them. It's why Sliggy predicted at the beginning of the season APAC would win 2 trophies this year

I'll be sure to track you pickems for next event and pick the opposite of you

I get what you mean but it's funny to phrase it like that when NRG won Champs last year with 3/5 of them being rookies having their first experience on an international stage

Furia played better it's just impossible to win when you go 0-6 on pistols

Veto's -
NS ban Pearl
M8 ban Breeze
NS pick Bind
M8 pick Abyss
NS ban Haven
M8 ban Corrode
Split decider

None of this is confusing. 90% of people who are good enough to go pro in Val grew up playing CS to develop their aim and mechanics.

Will be more interesting in 10 or so years when the league is full of people who grew up with Val as their primary FPS game.

https://www.valorantfantasyleague.net/team/5030

Viper doesn't need a nerf they just need to buff sentinels and her pick rate will go down

I'm not sure why it says PPG when that's definitely total points instead

40%

Marteen.

I have Marteen, Brawk, Wayne, Skuba, Trent, Starxo

I'm at 130 and #1002

C9, Furia, Team Secret, GE

If you've been in since partnership and haven't made an international you should be kicked, with the exception of DFM.

I know Furia just made Masters but it's like when a player has a career year in the last year of his contract. They've been the worst franchised team for 99% of VCT and were able to luckily complete a hail mary right before they almost certainly got kicked.

I'll disagree with this. At least in traditional sports, owners meddling almost never works. The point is for them to hire guys who actually know what they're doing. If you don't trust the decisions of the person you hire to make decisions, you shouldn't have hired them.

The only issue here is usually the roster move guy and the head coach are two different people. But I think it's understandable for Kaplan to have a lot of power given how long he's been in the org + he won them a trophy.

He was already getting slandered for those by the fans.

The roster decisions is just on top of that, since fans didn't know how much power he had in the org

Just put the fries in the bag Zellsis

The game is stale and nobody enjoys grinding it anymore.

A lot of the Radiants these days who aren't pro just play out of habit. And even the pros only play because it's their job

if she was so casual dropping it in a DM she obviously wasn't shy about using it.

I'm not falling for the bait that he didn't know she used that word. I don't think that means Skuba himself is racist

As an anything.

JohnQT was a significantly better fragger while IGLing than Zellsis who wasn't IGLing. He had a 1.08 rating last year while Zellsis had a 0.93 . Taking John off IGL just means he can focus on his individual aim more, which was already among the best in NA.

The only argument to not keep John was if he demanded to be IGL. Otherwise it's not like a guy who was IGLing can't midround.

I genuinely don't see a single scenario where they choose Zellsis over John, despite what Zellsis may say in his youtube video.

They will get 0 internationals once again.

Like they are at best the 4th best team in Americas after G2, MIBR and NRG. So they are already cooked for Kickoff and Masters. Their only chance is to make it through playoffs for Champs

Maybe I'm lower on Zellsis than most but I really don't believe there is a single coach or org outside of Immi who would pick Zellsis over JohnQT.

Like I genuinely don't think he's better at a single thing Valorant-related besides selling bundles

If I were Liquid I'd be running to trial Okeanos to replace Keiko.

I'd do something like

Nats senti
Kamo recon
+Okeanos controller
+Sayf duelist
+Kicks flex

I was the OG Reduxx doubter but it just makes more sense to have him play duelist.

You do
Reduxx duelist
Kyu scan
John senti
Cortezia controller
N4rrate flex

And everyone on the team is on their most played role by far, and the ceiling IMO is way higher as Reduxx doesn't look like Icy out there.

So a couple of things. First, benching isn't really just how strong you are.

Bench presses specifically uses some stabilizers muscles that most other workouts (especially machines) aren't gonna build. So there is a chance you are strong enough overall to bench 80kg, but aren't strong enough to keep the bar balanced for that weight, if that makes sense. That will only be fixed by continuing to bench, but you'll see fast improvements.

Otherwise, you probably aren't eating enough protein. Muscles need protein to grow. For your height/weight, you probably want to eat around 65kg of protein per day for muscle growth. At least try to hit 60kg daily.

I think they for sure pick up Rossy to replace Ion

It's true that he doesn't owe TSM anything. But it's equally true that fans can criticize him for performing poorly after signing to another org.

Since he already had his T1 spot secured, he obviously didn't want it as bad as his teammates did.

Alfa isn't included in the 6. He and Kaajak were already under contract until 2026. The 6 were Boaster, Crashies, Chronicle, Milan, Scutt and Szed, because those were the 6 who's contracts expired.

We know Boaster, Crashies and Milan have already re-signed and are 3 of the green checks. We know one of the red x's is Scutt, who is going to Vitality. And in that same report, it was said that Szed is remaining at Fnatic as pefromance coach

https://www.sheepesports.com/en/articles/sources-valorant-scuttt-set-to-join-team-vitality-as-assistant-coach/en

So that only left Chronicle for the last red x

https://x.com/CoJoPM/status/1981982956815069401

Cojo

It would be (IMO)

Aspas (Duelist)
Verno (Initiator)
Valyn (Controller)
Chronicle (Sentinel)
Zekken (Flex)

Duelist - Aspas
Initiator - Trent
Controller - Valyn
Sentinel - Alfajer
Flex - Zekken

Hard deciding between Trent Alfa or Lukxo Chronicle.

TSM dropping Sym was like when Rock Lee took off his ankle weights

Cryo if he counts, if not it's Leaf easily IMO.

south africa dominating americas? how so?

First TenZ now Zekken

scrim watchers a month early on every Sen move

If we keep Cortezia or get Less this is a superteam regardless of who the 5th is.

Sen have never won Champs though.

At most they're winning a Masters.

https://www.vlr.gg/post/5588945/mibr-is-retarded

I tried to give MIBR free game two weeks ago. Instead theyre dropping Cortezia for some reason.

Someone hire me I'll straighten your org out

Sen could be one depending on what they do (ie drop Bang and Zellsis and pick up Cortezia + someone who isn't Reduxx).

MIBR could be one depending on who they get, since Aspas and Verno would be qualify to be on a superteam.

I disagree with anyone saying N4rrate was a problem in Sen. IMO, he was their best player for most of the year, outside of Split 1 where they had him on a completely new role.

The real problem with Sen this year is simply that their read on the meta sucked. 90% of good teams this year heavily leaned into the Yoru meta. You get the best flashes in the game, with global map presence and a great ult.

Sen for some reason, decided to lean away from Yoru in Split 2. Which is fine if that's their read. But they didn't replace Yoru with another flash initiator, instead, leaning into double senti or double smokes instead. So Zekken was going in dry and getting owned.

And even still that's fine if double senti and double smokes made it so that their defense side was elite like NRG's. But it wasn't, because they kept trying to retake without flushing out util first during the initial site hit.

Adding to that they took Zellsis off his best role which is flash initiator, and put him on Senti. But in 2025 Valorant, Sentinel players need elite mechanics and the ability to hold a site by themselves and at least get 1 or 2 before dying. Which Zellsis isn't capable of.

So Sen had three options this year: put John back on senti and have Zellsis run flash initiator, run double duelist with N4rrate and Zekken with one of them playing Yoru, or drop Zellsis for an elite sentinel player. They chose option D and got stomped for Stage 2 + Champs.

Does South NA superteam mean a team of players from South NA or just one of the South NA teams making a superteam?

Because the only (IMO) actual south NA superteam needs either KiNgg as IGL or you have Less IGL.

Either way I'm making Keznit my 5th player. Going to lean into a lot of double duelist with him and Aspas

Yeah Zekken would be a great flex. He started as an initiator and IMO is one of those players who can adapt to any agent and role. I could lean into the double duelist Yoru meta with him and Aspas, and also if I need to I could have Trent play Viper and Zekken play Sova, his 2nd most played agent of all time.

I'm never making an Americas team without the best player in the world, Aspas.

I actually do think one of Sen's problems is lack of a good OPer. I think a good OP can fix some of their defensive issues, especially the GenG comp they stole on Haven. Zekken is not a good oper and never gets value from it. But in the right hands an OP with that comp is very oppressive.

I still think Cortezia is a better pickup. But if he shows out in trials/scrims as being good on senti I'd take him over Cortezia just for the OP factor.

NA:
Duelist: Aspas
Initiator: Trent
Controller: Valyn
Sentinel: Lukxo
Flex: Zekken
6th man: N4rrate
Coach: Bonkar

EMEA:
Duelist: Kaajak
Initiator: RieNs
Controller: Keiko
Sentinel: Nats
Flex: Chronicle
6th man: Alfajer
Coach: Sliggy

APAC:
Duelist: Something
Initiator: Kushy
Controller: Karon
Sentinel: Primmie
Flex: F0rsaken
6th man: T3xture
Coach: Solo

China:
Duelist: Whzy
Initiator: Nobody
Controller: Ezeir
Sentinel: V00kashu
Flex: Slowly
6th man: Smoggy
Coach: LEGIJA