coaches are just as important

that wasn’t the gameplan in loud 2022 and 2023, only lev 2024

aspas on talon wouldn’t make the team instantly better if their whole gameplan is scattered and their macro being 🐶 💧

geng lost a lot of fights that’s why they lost pearl

sen looked good, i wouldn’t say geng was bad since first map was somewhat close and second map was OT. their players were just shooting on all cylinders

yea he would

if you aspas (who’s the best duelist if not one of the best itw) that team would still be lost

second best right?

gatekeeping players is actually crazy

i mean in his defense americas did let TH get to the finals

both of those teams would own lulquid though

i agree

your fault

that’s true tbh

i think foxy9 can be aggressive since he used to be duelist player

it could still hold true since both teams retained their cores

gen usually wins the “least important” matches vs sen 😔 so there is that. with that being said i favor sen in this matchup slightly because neon is still meta at the moment but i am hoping for a good match

bulkylettuce is a sen fan, this guy is not

yeah a lot of people thought he was bulky lettuce so not your fault at all. it’s just that revenge_arc types exactly like how his other acc smartest_fan does so it was very easy to tell

his util wasnt that good on kru but that could probably be bc of poor comms, sentinel fits him more because he can take aggressive timings and get good value out of his lurks which results in better fragging compared to initiator. from his first game he was pretty good at it ngl

that’s what i’m saying, i liked him better when he was smartest_fan

https://www.vlr.gg/425017/team-liquid-vs-giantx-monsters-reloaded-2024-main-event-sf

your team got cooked by runner who proceeded to int against bbl, how does it feel?

IGL’s having an easier time calling on the initiator role, look at johnqt for example, he made the move because he lost that big voice in sacy who was a primary mid rounder for the team and all that

True, I just don’t think it’s exactly an ideal situation because depending on who’s picked up as the replacement, it’ll take time mentoring that player IF they’re new and getting them integrated into the teams system. It’s not something you can think off the rip, sure substitutes exist but chances are that the team has never practiced with the sub if they did at all. EDG are just that good considering they did all of that and won a world championship doing so, props to them.

Also can you clarify on what you mean by IGL’s are kind of bad at their “role”?

TS & international qualifiers

2g haven’t even played yet

edgs case is unique though, they had role issues with haodong moving to a weird flex role with smoggy taking over his role as controller, it was evident in how uncomfortable haodong was in shanghai. they also changed their old coach after, teams like NRG or FNATIC don’t have that kind of problem so there is no real reason to do an IGL swap

he said he’s gonna retire next year

got flag banned but still not starless

not even the nutorious pro is this faithful

shyy is just as good

bro gave up on his team, cmon it’s not over yet

yeah it’ll count

imo the issue with furia is that havoc has to main his consistency, if he can frag and get a lot of value then furia can go places

either team 2-1 but i might have to go with EG

13-11 EG
13-10 LOUD
15-13 EG

too lazy to link but search up geng vs fpx shanghai map 3 on youtube youll find it

lot of good latam talent but the issue is that they’re not old enough to play VCT yet, if levs season doesn’t go out well i’m sure they’ll take their academy players for main roster

post so bad it made azzelastia break gimmick 🐶 💔

should’ve watched the game vs FPX in shanghai. he truly shined there

true, i would’ve hoped they eyed for cebando in replacement of melser but it’s okay

and phantom player*

havoc will do good if he doesn’t look at social media

he can also be so much better than that though. he would unironically beat every player in a sheriff 1v1 maybe except for the goats meteor and benjy

they got screwed over with saadhak joining KC instead of KRU

they had comms issues with heat and no true IGL

it’s just that by coincidence the haters stopped hating and furia are bringing it back, that’s what i meant

furia is so back

wow you might be a prophet

mako gets a lot of multi frags so they based it off of that

bro got another sheriff multi kill

th play triple initiator = rizz
edg play triple sentinel no initiator = sexual harassment