looking at his past, He's topfrag ACS in most of the matches i viewed (which were more recent than the guild game and he was usually playing viper, kj, sova, etc, support ops, he shouldn't be top on ACS as kj and he dropped 577 ACS as killjoy one match most recent match Team Heratics vs Rebels, With that in mind he could probably be in a much better team playing at much better levels tbh and he'd probably still be performing pretty well.

His team seems very weak compared to him just looking at kd's, When he doesn't perform, usually his team loses, when he does perform, they win, he should probably get a better team

The fact he's either mid or top ACS in a pro league team that has a jett and a reyna player, Is a joke and it shows he probably plays at a higher level than his team does, If u look at wins, u see every time his duelists may perform but even so he isn't far below them on the scoreboard

Never heard of him before this thread but if he doesn't have a brain he sure as hell makes up for it with aim

(I constantly say this shit about 100Thieves, TL, G2, Etc, Look at literally any other world class team, Sentinels, Acend, Gambit, They all don't have these problems, i feel like maybe with the slight unfairness of TL since they look to be ironing stuff out and not dropping anyone rn, but the problem is just that they don't work stuff out, they don't actually look enough into why they are losing, why they are winning and just focus on playing more, I think that's the issue)

kind of proves it isn't the players, it's the team they are on

At this state 100T's might be the most ridiculous team in NA, And that's saying something since TSM are in NA

holy shit that's a find if it's real

this is just saying, he played the best he could in the situation he put himself in, but he put himself in a shitty situation is my point which was more losable than any other situations i've just named, i just don't think mentally he was in the game tbh

I understand your point but my point is that any good player wouldn't have given himself a tragic positon or situation like that, they would be on site trading the skye as they kill your skye or killing the person holding them or at least trying to, idk what hiko was thinking tbh

He uses his dart right side of site only revealing one presuming the other is holding him or at long he can either take the chance on a 150 hp to 150 hp fight and win the fight or lose it either way giving ethan more time to fight his battle or he can play passive and let his 4 hp teammate keep getting into scuffed close combat fights with a spectre that he's never going to win due to his hp, Even after Ethan dies and the opportunity is up instead of taking the situation into his hands and like i probably would pushing to backsite when bomb is going down or trying to clear angles when i know only 1 single person can hold me, he just holds, waits for plant knowing sova has ult, knowing he has a miracle to work, he just doesn't pressure enough, with the whole time they are planting he could have instead of just peeking the drone and giving himself more reasons to play passive, he could of pushed garage and possibly caught the sova off guard while droning, he could have picked skye off and then killed the sova, chances are the sova calls hiko isn't spawn anymore before anything but it's still a chance, like there's just any other option in the world which would of been a better play from my pov

This isn't addressing anything i said, He shouldn't even be back off site in that situation, He should be either fighting left side of site while skye holds right or the other way around while pushing up, with skyes util if they use it properly hiko could rotate right side and get on top of the black box, preventing long from seeing him and maybe getting a free pick or he could of pushed left with a flash and got a free pick and made it winnable, my point was that he had literally so many other options in the situation and imo any of them would of been better due to the situation his team was in and the state of the game, It is 1-3 and 100thieves have just lost, this is their last buy before an eco anyway, why is he playing so passive, both have maximum 20 hp, His skye is pressuring them so hard, He DOESN'T end up saving so why is he playing so passive, IF he pushes with skye's pressure chances are with a bulldog he 1 or 2 taps both of them, Ethan worked miracles to get 2 kills there and instead of pushing anything after ethan dies, he stays back, lets them heal, lets them plant, gives them literally all the space they need to run up long and hold on a post plant, like how is that not a throw imo

u kids need to like go outside and get a job instead of doing this, i beg.

hiko just trolling by baiting so much kekw, making it interesting for the games yk

having Hiko on your team at least for 1 situation i saw in the haven map when he just sat in spawn while his teammate was sitting on site fighting, there's utterly no reason, he doesn't need to clear it, if one was holding it they are stupid because it'd be more value to just simply run and kill the Skye from behind, there's no reason for him taking his time, only angles i check there is left to b as i run to c and garage as i run to c once again, if Hiko is on the site on peeks the right side while his skye flashes long for him he could have gotten a pick, if he pushes left once again with his skye flashing for him, he once again could of gotten a pick, that'd make it a 2v2 and that makes it winnable, but instead he is shifting all the way along spawn waiting for his Skye to die the whole time so he has an excuse to save, if he had just pushed onto site with his Skye he could of made the round winnable with the util, and maybe he would of lost it but sitting in spawn is just guaranteeing the loss, U cannot have players like that on your "tier 1" team

what happened with haven is a review of what the hell happened in the first half, they realised they were playing dumb as hell and alone, they went back into 2nd half and actually PLAYED TOGETHER, that's why they had such a comeback, then going into the next map they forgot everything again, it's just like they cannot learn

at this stage with the history between everything that's happened it doesn't seem like 100T'S or the players are the problem, it seems to be the management, I think Ethan and Asuna should move on, they are much better and would be much better on other teams, they are team players and Hiko, Ec1s and babyj are all just not good enough for T1, Ec1s and babyj u can excuse due to not saying they were that good in the first place and not having that standard but hiko is just a joke at this point, idk what is happening here

Hiko probs only even on the team because of nadeshot tbh

i feel like that's the one thing that t1 and 100t's will just not figure out which other teams have, your problem isn't the players not performing, even if u have 5 of the best players in the world, they need chemistry or they can't play together, it's that simple, i kind of look at Team Liquid like this as well but i have to give them credit, recently they have been better with it, but teams like gambit, acend and c9 have it down to a T, They have their world class rosters and chemistry, and it works. simple

i disagree with scream here because of his potential on reyna on this map, it's all long distance fights where scream can just tap and dismiss away, i doubt they would give up that for soulcas' raze, on the contrary raze ult on this map is so overpowered it's insane, because u can just clear a path with raze ult, i think l1nk would be better on sage or viper scream on reyna, soul on raze and nivera on cypher or sage jamppi on skye or sova, i think personally that's their "best comp", that isn't considering the players themselves, some might be bad on the agent picks i said but it's not including that factor,

if tl actually thought like that they would never Qualify for anything ever

when

they sound like they need a reality check, maybe u shouldn't be bothered by them much if they mean so little in reality, they played in a big tourney and were confident because before they beat literally everyone they were up against, the fact they didn't win this time they will probably try to bounce back and work harder next time, they remind me of gambit but without the humble factor that gambit have, they know they don't always need to win because they know how good they are, akrew could do the same with time, they are just babies right now who need to grow up, their skill however has proven to get them through a lot alone, if they get a good team together and grow up a little bit just imagine their potential, that's what i notice when i look at akrew

you never say more than a line of insult and only ever insults why am i surprised your lurking here when u should be at a job being a useful human being

Ok so, There's 2 ways of valorant right, There's teams like, off my take Gambit, Acend, Then theirs teams like 100Thieves, TL, Sentinels,

Teams like Gambit and Acend i feel all practice 10 hours a day to get everything they do PERFECT, The environment in the squad is always nice, everyone knows and are probably friends with each other and they aren't toxic, That's a good atmosphere.

With 100Thieves TL, Sentinels, There's differences, Sentinels don't care much anymore about actual matches because they have been known as "the best team in the world", more focusing on streaming and other monetary gain rather than competing as a normal valorant team would do, in the matches i don't doubt because of zombs, stuffs naturally pretty toxic when someone else messes up, with sick and dapr they are pretty "i don't say anything to toxicity" in my view, then theirs tenz who will say nothing as well, shazzy will tell zombs to stfu and get into the next round clean slate, that toxicity holds onto them however and makes the attitude overall worse, that's a bad mindset and space to be in, therefore it's a bad atmosphere, this is all speculation (i don't know if there's any truth to it at all but it's my opinion), <--- this can be said to all about 100Thieves and TL as well, I don't know i'm just speculating

With TL i feel like it's looked very shaky with scream coming in, scream could get annoyed at his teammates doing dumb stuff because they just shouldn't be without realising they are new to the fps pro scene etc, pretty toxic atmosphere in games if scream is doing his name and screaming commands, saying what to do and basically getting annoyed when he shouldn't because while it's annoying his teammates may be new to the scene, he shouldn't probably be acting that way because it might just make them do worse, i was under the impression that scream was welcomed to TL's roster pretty well so i wouldn't be surprised if i was wrong

I feel like with 100Thieves they are just another one of those orgs which don't care much about playing and are more so there for monetary gain,

In total, I don't think CNed will leave acend Anytime soon, Nor will anyone else because the environment is a winners environment and while they may not of deserved to win anything at all, they still won it, the hardest game they had was against Gambit, With teams like Gambit and Acend they are the types of teams who for centuries do not ever change because changing to them seems impossible with the mould they have built and the friends they have made.

why am i even surprised

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/76609c55

yk the actually ironic part about this searching up Akrew to check stuff abt them because they might actually qualify is the fact that at one time sentinels was a completely random org with random players who no one had heard of before, idk abt the rest but zombs is hella toxic and has a massive ego, u support them, According to you Akrew are just the same as them they just don't try to hide it under good marketing, I think if they had qualified like imo they should have then losing to other teams in groups wouldn't have rattled them much, they are a good team period, just like any team can be, inside matchmaking or outside, apparently it doesn't matter to u how zombs acts if u support sentinels, so why should akrew lose because they have "big egos", any team who is a "nameless org" with "no relevancy" will get a "big ego" from winning in some of the largest qualifiers in the world comfortably against some pretty good teams, it's not their ego it's just them celebrating, their whining is them realising they can lose and now they will all put more effort into it and win the 2nd qualifier, if they don't then they are just a big bunch of babies who quit easily, if not they deserve to lose out on their spot, that simple imo, the first part of this was mostly just pointing out your hypocrisy since u support a team who has a player with a giant ego, maybe even a toxic player

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/c9fe4b2a

i mean it can be good, it forces teams like sentinels back into the pro scene more than anything imo because i remember them forcing tenz onto jett, if they focus tenz on something else he'd find a good replacement i think it can help teams who are more flexible like looking at shazam and tenz and maybe sick, but for zombs and dapr it might be death to their mains and they might not find a replacement, it's predictable in the sense that TL are just always gonna get Reyna banned against them or jett banned against them, which i feel is hella unfair but it also makes it fairer for other teams who have more flexibility, but it makes it hella unfair for people like scream because it must just feel like a complete counter to his just sort of skill period

If he switches, He will go to G2, 100T or TL, TL is out because they have a main duelist, 100T is out same reason and G2 are in a joker state rn, basically losing to unknown teams, waiting rn to see them lose to EXCEL, however even if he did switch, he can't make a big util impact right now, he would only have aim which would probably mean he'd just fall short due to his team, that's another reason why he won't switch

He's only considered the best because he's seen as a nice guy, he's got the girlfriend, he's got the life, he's got hella reasons for what he's done right, getting himself a good girlfriend before he gets involved, he can always be so much overly nice, people call him the best because a lot of them strive to be him rather than anything else

Well bro getting smurfed by radiants constantly in lower ranks defo makes it feel like the skill ceiling is higher xd

Factual

I'm kinda confused as to why u said kennyS when he literally doesn't play valorant, mention someone like Scream since his experience has showed and he has destroyed other people, clearly playing better than valorant pros in aim alone, TL work around him and they can win whole maps like that, if they learn another comp it could genuinely be TL's sentinels phase

this kind of shows people will find anything to complain about

he did on the 3rd map which is why TL won out

evidence for this, look at SEN's 2-0 loss vs ENVY in the quarterfinals of berlin, Tenz had a miniscule 16% headshot percentage, yet dropped 30 kills.

making an argument off hs% is dumb as is, u don't win a game off headshots, u win a game off tactics, general aim and gamesense, headshots are an added benefit which can easily let people win easier and clutch, the skill ceiling in valorant is not based off "headshot percentage", It's based off who can outplay the other team, and that's about tactics, arguments dumb in the first place.

they lost against liquid by 2 while tenz was doing probably the worst he's ever done in a LAN best of 3, meanwhile look at scream running through anything any 1 tapping everyone, if it was different and scream was doing badly while tenz was doing good, it'd be a different story, it's not about mechanics, SEN were focusing too much on tactics because they were basically 1 player down for most of the rounds, tenz doesn't normally do that bad, as long as tenz keeps performing then SEN should win, however i think tenz doesn't belong on jett, he looks much more comfortable on reyna, same with shaz with skye, he's a much better player on sova or jett meanwhile sick can play skye and dapr can play viper and cypher easily, the team in and of itself before were good, but what makes sentinals the best team is the willingness to test out new things that could work 10x better than what they did before, that's imo why they were the best team, the whole team just worked together well, they changed tenz to jett, shazam to skye, etc, those are their 2 main fraggers imo, it's not about mechanics they are just testing out different lineups before the proper matches actually start imo, look at the results of the TL vs SEN game, Tenz went 14-21 on jett meanwhile TL's team were all basically consistent 20's, the difference between that and the 3nd match is that on the 3rd match TL made the tactical change to switch off scream's jett and put him on reyna, meanwhile tenz was still feeding on jett, that's the only diff between the 3rd match and the 1st, the 2nd match was a whitewash because all of TL just played badly tbh, but another fact is that scream and tenz both performed on that map, tenz performing on jett if he can get to a level of consistency can give SEN the confidence to win 13-2 vs one of the best teams in the world rn imo, they are working for that consistency and if they can get it and mould the team around that tenz jett they will keep being the best imo, the results show when tenz performs that the skill ceiling of him on jett vs reyna is a lot higher, That's why they are playing him on jett rn, if they can't get that consistency i don't doubt that they will switch back to normal setups, but what sentinels have which other groups don't is the methods to constantly improve even when no one else sees it as possible, they find new setups which could work so much better, and that imo is why they will stay at the top for at least a good while, no disrespect to TL or other teams, I think they genuinely deserved the win against SEN, But at the same time it was down to tenz not performing imo