They will drop Tejo entirely. His biggest value for them is space denial at round start and defuse denial in post plant. Having to choose one or the other makes him damn near useless

They've played each other a million times now so it's easier for G2 to counter-strat, as opposed to T1 who hardly anyone expected to make it that far and play a Bo5 against

it's the fans constantly yapping about how they play perfect valorant they perfected the meta they're unstoppable blah blah just to go and choke three internationals in a row against teams that all fell off anyway

they also play very passive and slow which often gets mistaken for being "correct" play

not many people hate the players themselves except to say they're ugly or dumb shit like that

here watch this stream

https://www.twitch.tv/valorant_americas

no fnc?

oh wow

you're so right lmaoo billy billy back at it then

so the 3rd best emea team still can't beat the two best Chinese teams...?

wdym "if"...

allat just to get grouped by XLG

Xtra Long Gaming is here to take Toronto!!

How are they the best team if they didn't pass the only objective measure of who the best team is

There is a policy against it. That's what chet got a ban for

How is it a coincidence and fluke that geng wasn't the best team at Madrid...? If you claim it's because they became better later, that's irrelevant to the results of that tournament.

Extremely unlikely, because a team that becomes that dominant is liable to get thoroughly counter-stratted by all of the other best teams.

If it ever happens, it'd probably be a team that is best itw at improvising calls and setting up favorable duels on the fly, and not necessarily the team that is most prepared and/or best at following the meta.

I know this is a wild concept for a G2 flair but maybe if a team chokes it means they deserved to lose.

If it's true that Gambit was forced to play on 4 hours of sleep before facing acend then that's kinda fraudulent

But other than that no none of them are flukes. It's all cope.

not too much on moggle...

bilibili glueing will bomb out I'm sure

XLG clears all

done

tired sick of watching fraudulent teams like that

ew why like 100t

idgaf about any of the teams likely to make toronot atp so which of these two should I root for to make it spicy

genuinely the recoil of the guardian is sometimes easier to control than fuckin vandal spray

Robbie will humble him.

EDG is out

now we wait on T1, V0T, and G2...

flair

this gets hard countered by the G2 comp. all of your utility is just mollies and recon which are terribly easy to bait out on a map like icebox, especially if you have a shitty chamber trip instead of KJ util

if any team loses to this it's on them. it's effectively a 4v5 in terms of util before the spike gets planted

stealth drone > dog
stun ~= heal (map dependant)
flash >>> salvo

there already weren't any solo Tejo maps. the agent is dead.

I say this as a hater but they'll probably be better without him. Overhyped ass agent made them play like pussies

most of them are fine

place your bets everyone what round will the first tech pause be?

I say round 6

allegedly

no because queue times for anything other than ascent and haven will be 12 fucking minutes. people who don't like maps because they suck at them can cope and get better

G2 is still favored but acting this tough without a trophy is why ur fanbase is so irritating. Stay humble

bro..... they can't be doing him like this

doesn't lukxo also not speak English? does it just not matter as much since he's senti...?

Yes

But that's the point - as much as I love watching cauanzin, he's only good at a handful of initiators and has really struggled with his utility since saadhak's departure. Maybe with Robbie he'll do better but I just feel like tuyz was the smarter player and could've picked up the perma ini role very quickly

Genuinely think long-term it'd be better to keep tuyz in the initiator role over cauanzin, and DGZ didn't need to go, but I get they're rushing for the short-term turnaround. Oh well

sunset is really easy to farm in ranked if you have good flanks and lurks

I didn't say it was the only map since breeze...?

Nah they're legit. He's been going crazy in their recent games

cope. abyss is the only bad map since breeze. community-made maps would overwhelmingly be worse CS copies

His team (EXL) hasn't lost an official match since July 2024 and regularly beats tier 1 teams in scrims so yes

I heard he played on a Portuguese team before and might actually know Portuguese?? No idea if that's true and also how it would work with virtyy anyway

I thought they were still trialing coaches

Did you read the thread?? OP is matching up images from the loading screen and trailers that show a location in France. It's not just "champs paris = french map"