yeah EXL is gonna be fine

no s1mon no win

Jemkin is the truth

Initiator is such an overrated role that too many teams try to crutch on because they think they can cook up the perfect preround play. And even then, Kay/o and Gekko are generally played so poorly relative to what they're capable of

Since Tejo is getting euthanized we should be seeing a lot more Deadlock, Viper, Harbor, maybe even Sage and Phoenix, but frankly most teams are not willing to experiment like that

post this take as its own thread and see how many people agree

don't they need a smokes or senti player if elite is out?

I guess saadhak can play senti if sevire goes ini but uh I'm not convinced

how much could LOI have possibly offered him

wait this is a super obvious move if M8 does that

natank if they were decisive enough to get him before k0i somehow did

start posting very strong opinions about G2 with cherry-picked stats to back them up

nah with how much the meta has leaned into countering sentinel setups it's actually pretty hard to find a sentinel that strikes the balance between playing proactively and also not going negative in FK/FD

Smokes on the other hand is not as difficult for the average pro to fill, especially when you have a very hands-on IGL and coach like on KC

man if only there was a cracked, experienced, and available french player who is known for flexing and playing aggressively

• S: XLG, TH
• A: RRQ, GEN, FNC
• B: G2, SEN, PRX
• C: BBL, MIBR
• glue: BLG, WOL, TL

bump

Heretics in a Bo5 though...

I ask cause I haven't been watching them as much but this makes a lot of sense. And it looks like Elite is fragging a lot worse than he was at kickoff which is strange?

I swear this is why G2's influence is gonna be bad for valorant. It's not sustainable to "solve" all your rounds ahead of time with valoplant diagrams when it's the best against the best. Maybe KC is the one team that needs more "go shoot" game plans idk

vro is suggesting liberté, égalité, fraternité

Harbor has been having success in Americas despite his current state so tbh it's kinda a user error

Lotus by far

Pearl, Bind, and Fracture can be goated if there's two good teams against each other

cooked

-elite +natank ?

they're france's last hope to make paris, so what are we working with here?

KC has #1 marteen and #10 suy actually

sleep

Okja

don't need to do all that vro

my goat once again done dirty

LOUD gonna be the most handsome team in history

wait he'd actually fry in Boostio's place lmao

BME cuz they're just so humble and positive after everything. Also 2G for the same reason

I low-key think new LOUD might have great vibes too

not n0deshit tho

Icebox doesn't really need a duelist anyway except for verticality/awping which omen covers well enough

-1000 aura for playing meta comps, losing to T1 double duelist, then running double duelist but worse

for them to ban it after watching RRQ get 2-13'd not even 24 hours ago

masters pandora maybe

yeah but they've been improving rapidly since then

RRQ beat PRX fair and square, don't get me wrong, but they were still 46-56 in rounds and relied too much on Jemkin

it unironically might help RRQ more to get international experience playing through groups than to get a bye into playoffs and immediately face the strongest competition

GEN 3-0 XLG

XLG then wins champs

age does not factor into reaction time until like 50

lately lady gaga's new album Mayhem cuz it's plain fun to listen to

gioli & assia, the xx, lorde, natalia lafourcade, sade, equador are some others. I read the term "epic minimalism" applied to music and that vibe about sums it up for me

and episode 6 acts I and III too

if riot put all the lobby music on spotify I'd stream the shit out of it

Chet got banned for much less.

Scrim sharing isn't even against riot's rules, so why would he get himself banned trying to prove a point? His entire goal is to get some kind of regulation in place (unlikely though)

Like the riot employee allegedly said, it opens a whole can of worms. It's different from the rule against publicly sharing VODs because it's very difficult to prove whether one was shared privately and intentionally, especially when tier 2 teams are involved and it becomes like a game of telephone.

And then would riot have to investigate every time a claim of scrim sharing is made? How does anyone draw the very subjective line between impressive counter-stratting, versus unfair reads obtained from scrim sharing? Not to mention all the potential breaches of privacy that could result from riot searching through teams' shared materials. It's just a lot.

being on v0tality does that to a mf

watch riot make a rule on scrim sharing next

off-season and kickoff never mean shit

0/8

lowkey pisses on shitquid next match

KC synergy is rotted somehow idk how they're still looking this uncomfortable halfway into the year and saadhak's calls are kinda sus I hate to say it

PRX 3-0
TH 2-1
FNC 2-0

You are what you eat

sharks in the water out here