something learning easier agents like gekko has been a good start and helped them find footing on maps previously thought to be outside their wheel house.

That being said, is Jinggg is your dedicated dive duelist he's gotta pick up Neon and potentially Jett to a higher level. Or have him learn an initiator role to switch out with something when he is needed to play dive Jett.

Or like how we saw with their Abyss match with DRX they throw forsaken on dive and have Jinggg and something play a more supportive role.

it should have been better pulls man this is awful :(

I semi agree, alecks biggest problem is how the conducts time outs and the energy on the team. From times we hear hotmics or during timeouts post game I'm not sure if they keep what they release intentionally vague to throw other teams off or not but he's always talking in vague terms and never pointing out real issues like solo peaking and trying to get them on the right mental track. It's not like he's enabling their behavior consciously but because he's not addressing issues precisely enough.

Honestly this has been a problem since 2022, the team has just been able to find success because they work so well together whenever their energy is up. They can synergize on the fly pretty well when they're on comfort picks but this becomes a problem when they are faced with their own inflexibility.

I think Fnatic should beat KRU but with how they played against DRX I don't know. I would love to see KRU vs Fnatic but we first need to see KRU vs BLG. BLG looked pretty good against Fnatic so maybe we'll see a much closer and exciting game between these 2 during the first elim match of group A.

For roaster changes I would really like to see a comp similar to Trace where we see Feng play sentinel and duelist. The versatility widening across all players to allow for interesting compositions and playstyles would be so fun and explosive to watch!

I love seeing hiro play both initiator and sentinel because it opened up Alfa on Iso (or literally any aggressive role) for Haven. So something with that in mind that would allow for players with volatile or differing playstyles to get their chance.

I feel like this decision is so close because I can see both sides of the argument and agree with both. The only problem I have with giving it to JohnQT over valyn is the fact that after Masters Madrid we saw valyn (and consequently G2) step up in a big way leading to them being the 3rd place team from NA headed to Shanghai. Not only going but placing 3rd in the international tournament over the NA winner's 100T.

At that point I would have still said JohnQT was IGL of the year considering they are both in their 1st year as tier 1 IGL's and JohnQT immediately helped his team to win a national and international title. But as we look at today's team rankings and how both Sentinels and G2 have played I'd take valyn over JohnQT.

Sen has slowed down as a team who was running through their opposition and looked like they could be the best NA while G2 has made the steady climb to being better and better with each series. Now yes they lost in the finals 3-1 but the fact that they were able to consistently place 2nd-3rd in 2 national tournaments and 3rd at an international while Sen has been more volatile is the reason I take valyn over John right now.

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/55289757

Please I just want to see Life and Berlin make it to playoffs, with that I will be happy ;(