I mean Faze(top3) or XSET(top5) - the same XSET who managed to win SEN... or Soniqs - the team who managed to take a map out of SEN. I mean, don't tell me you don't know who Andersin is.

Ok, thank you.

BTW there is no need to downfrag my replies. I am just having a normal conversation - not a bait.

No, bro... not disregarding at all. Just having a convo. Maybe it would have been better to add to main post that "if Zombs left the team, who would you like to see in his place" kind of question to clear sus.

Just to add, I've been watching all SEN games from the beginning and majority of Valorants VODs available. So, I believe that I know how teams typically play and build their strats, at least in EU and NA. And econ/math grad in past plus some rl stats projects, so I am aware on how not to pull the stats by its ears to make a point. Was just looking for some convo on the topic. thnx

I see... but if one day(god forbid) Zomb would have left the team due to personal circumstances, who would you like to see in his place?
Sorry for asking too much btw....

Nah, sure it'll be a top tier team who'd pick him up. He is a solid player after all and frags, finnishing MVP of the match some times.

Before you indirectly accuse Andersin of being selfish and the one who just +W and frag type of player, I want to say that it is alright that you feel like Zombs is irreplacable(or at least there is no need) as the topic is sensitive due to fans support their players etc. But I have to disagree with you on your indirect argument that Andersin is incapable of playing such role dynamics. I mean they both play smokes on a pro level and understand how die last is important aspect in their games. But Andersin is showing some consistency that play in favour of him defending that say A site on Haven due to his fragging ability. Again, not that Zombs is a bad player is the question, but more like if there anyone else better than Zombs to make SEN even stronger - a question.

Ohh trust me, I know very well what zomb's function is in the team. And you're right about anchors in teams as every team has an anchor - not only SEN. However, a team can only be as strong as its weakest link, and zombs is not quite the strongest link let alone an anchor, right? Whereas Andersin keep proving himself to be consistent on top of his fragging ability, and they both play smokes as Viper/.... btw.

If you think that Zombs is irreplaceable then it's totally fine - we can agree to disagree.

Disagree, but I can explain. You see, when SEN played XSET, zombs didn't look quite convincing there:

https://www.vlr.gg/25198/xset-vs-sentinels-champions-tour-north-america-stage-3-challengers-1-ubsf

Andersin doesn't need to frag the hell out of it. He would only add a better balnce to SEN when things are not going quite well. He is a good clutcher and can duel like top duelist while playing controller. SEN have their system tuned up perfectly which is reflected in their W/L ration so I woldn't go as far as comparing TSM to SEN yet. But, just thoughts.

Not trying to undermine Zomb's impact but what IF Andersin was playing for SENTINELS instead of Zombs....

Do you think SEN would have been a perfect team in this case scenario? I mean who can beat such a hell of a team in the world, let alone NA?

SOLID performance from him today, diffing Harmon(-6) + assists ofc.

So what?

Your V1 got whooped by PIONEERS which is RANKED 18 atm.

LMFAO

Seriously, teams compete and improve to win but by making such treads you are not any better in terms of "Head" counts.

Since when Faze is considered a smaller team who don't have any notable faces?

Sup y'all

FFS support your own players! Having 1Head ping-pong in chat on Bang's uselessness or no impact is no SPORT. Poor kid finnished as MVP, having +5 on Andersin which won you the map, after all.

Most cringe was seeing many TSM fans writting in chat Bang this... Bang that... Bang no impact and useless, putting their boi down like that. Whilst that boi had been winning them the map. Turned out that he even finished the match as MVP. Kind of cringe, not supporting their own players.

"i have relationship ....in case my relationship fails, i wanna try to get her THEN"

^^^This response has cringe written all over it, and please don't take it as an offence. What you need to do is to sort out your current relationship, so that it won't fail, and tell that girl that you're seeing someone. Trust me she is not going to back off, if she found you hot etc. She will be there at the time when you decide to split with your current gf.

What I really mean is you need to take charge in your relationships, otherwise they will always fail. If you're still young, let it sink deeply. You don't want to become one of those creeps who are undecisive and passive takers. This is not kind of qualities ladies like and fantasize about, you know?

Perfectly executed... they've read them good though

"this girl...she is so pretty...."

Why no do very pretty things with her together? You oooK?

Man he looked tilted af on that webcam .... even blushing n stuff at some point. Felt sorry for him really.

It's funny that TH don't even have another duelists for occasions like that as all other four teammates are playing sntinels/controllers. Only paTiTek maybe, but he doesn't have enough recent experience. After Breeze and given yesterday's vs TENSTAR, I'd have taken al0orante off main duelist role and put paTiTek because it's obv that teams took notice of al0rante popping off, right? But it didn't happen so all blame goes on their system management. Al0rante is still good and nothing wrong in that other teams locking him down. But in the long-run, I'd consider another proper duelist if I was TH. They need one like it's blood from the nose right now.

His hs% is still somewhat there at least on Breeze but looks like Vitality studied the guy pretty well. Bramz and ceNder made sure to keep him contolled. Same vs TENSTAR, Russ and Stanley came on top off him in their duels.

That's awesome!

• DZ231 vs 184TSM rounds played and too big of a diff in KDs between the two, favoring TSM - doesn't look good for DZ unfrt.
• Wardell is looking good while for past three games, DZ had some troubles in shuting down enemy's Jett.
• Hazed is in a good form and is a better kj/cyph DZ faced up to this point, let alone amazing clutcher. I think Hazed and Leviathan will be trying to shut down Andersin imho.
• For DZ, the fact that they have similar map pool could turn out to be interesting. Have they prepared other maps? We'll see....

Disregard me for leaving out other players from the quick glance though....
Will be interesting to go back after the match and see how thing have worked out based on your sheets. Thanks again for your time and work.

Nice one! Hope we're going to see more of this kind of threads from our comminity members.
If still bored, you can do the same for DarkZero and then compare them against each other on diff maps or just as kda. Also rounds played will add some depth.
Subroza needs to get his KD to 1.2 or at least over 1.1 for a tighter plays. Glad hazed is looking good.

bro plz... humanity won real life battles by using stats.

Edit: mb - PEPEfocus from me ... upfragged!

Valorant Mundi = INSANE... plz SUB if not already!
Shot out to Valorant Vods for exceptional work.

Thanks and I'm glad you think so.

But going further, I'd say that the article is not reliable in anyway towards Valorant. A typical PwC industry(even q1) analysis would include a good 100+ pages in it.... Meaning, a lot of data is simply absent from esportsobserver report, let alone sources. Riot doesn't share total players data per month or any, hence establishing GROWTH is impossible. And that's a very important indicator in such reports. Probably Riot share a lot of numbers in their reports behind the closed doors with potential sponsors and share holders but we have yet to see such annual report of their Valorant project. NGL I'd like to see that report too.

Advertising channels really.... At this point in time, for Riot, it doesn't matter who co-streams as long as the game gets out to the masses. However, there is only one but.... The higher a twitch streamer's impact over his or her viewers, the better for public acceptance, because that streamer(Shroud etc) is more likely to have a deeper influence on his or her viewers than official channels(mark101). Meaning, we're in the process of selling the product to potential customers, and the greater their loyalty to that streamer, the greater the effect, especially if the streamer enjoys the game. Therefore, we can see that spreading streams over different popular streamers has an actual meaning. And I assure you that Riot are taking this steps in a much more professional manner than Valve with CS as Valve's child had a way messed up(still is) history growing up.

Thanks, I didn't know that...

Well... 54% hs in 27 kills on icebox and over three maps 46% in 87 kills game is the highest hs% ever yet. So at least statswise al0rante is diff person then niesow as his stats looking insane even for niesow calibre.

How come other games don't have it on, like the ones from yesterday etc?

That's a new feature which is not implemented in other games stats yet.... thnx

You can't put a year old game like Valorant into category with games such LOL, Dota 2, CS or even Fortnite because the metric is not yet fully suitable for it. Remember it's an index, right? The metric include tournamnets and winning pool KPIs, besides Twitch views for the first quarter. CS wins ez over Valorant in this kpis because it's a developed game with it's own stable pro league and tournaments. Valorant is not there yet ffs... for valo the best kpis are Twitch viewership only atm! It acts as a public interest kpi, giving green light to corps such as Zowie, Razer and many many more to start puring $$$ into it. Given small tournaments and officials, Valorant still has a tiny total price pool history and way smaller than cs tournamnets numbers as market is not there yet - new game. As I said, twitch viewership and rest kpis associated with twitch are the most important kpis to watch at this stage, in order to judge its popularity and acceptance amongst the public.

Here's about the KPIs in the index... please take into account that the Distributed Esports Winnings and tournaments play very important part in the metric:

https://archive.esportsobserver.com/teo-impact-pc-games-index/

LAN will help.... Besides, why he can't be as good given he's talented, hungry and has exceptional dedication?

Ohh, last time I checked him on stream he was using g703 as well as what prosettings state. But I clearly remember he said it on stream.... though it was some long time ago.

No, in no way TR is a trash region. You have a new super team that might go far or Oxygen can surprise and upset some big teams EZ. But it's totally normal to look back and compare results and results didn't look good for TR back then, probabilistically and realistically speaking. Meaning that TR team had some blow and it can be a double blow if they fail this time too. Nothing wrong in trying to succeed after a fail and lots of us actually want to see TR put some real fight, despite being from other countries.

Same could be said about CIS and their teams- - they are actually strong. Be it Forze or Singularity, it won't be a walk in park in EMEA's playoffs. They all had time to prepare some strats and study their opponents, so old Gambit might look quite new and crisp, right? Though, Gambit has a little choking history and, I hope they won't repeat that tendency in their upcoming matches.

They're not DOGSHITs... It's just when you play against teams with a system, you will fall if you don't have any system to counteract them. PERIOD.
No matter how good you are you will always lose against teams with prepared and practiced systems(not only strats). Flukes are possible but let's be realistic.

Unlike rara(g703) he uses high sens - g pro wireless(not superlight) and also palm grip.

If you load his recent older matches, you'll find game with 62% but only on 11 kills.... seems like it was a stomp 13-2.

Yeah, as I stated he goes by the name DooMxx on twitch but in Russian. Yeah he is pretty good, nevermind his KD as he plays very aggressive Phoenix. What realy interesting for me that majority of his frags come from long distance duels like typical end to end Haven C type of duels so that high hs% is even more impressive. He used to play pro cs 1.6 in past and now has his team by the name feelmyhack.

FMH DooM has the highest hs% I've ever seen and has a tapping style:

https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/FMH%20DooM%23XXX/overview

So if you want to check him out, he plays quals and streams under name DooMxx but is in Russian unfortunately. The guy had 52% hs in 30k followed by 58% in 23k and If you wonder he play on gpw 0.5/800dpi. Others come to mind are ScreaM(0.393/800dpi steelseries heavy) and Alorante(0.35/400dpi on hardpad)

Judging by other ex-cs pros like ScreaM, Ange1, Nukkye or many others, they have a very good chance to shine. They both have top LAN experience and have performed equally and exceptionally good in cs pro scene top tier events in past. I personally very excited to see such calibre of players migrating to Valorant.

Come on bro, don't do them like that - JW is 26.

True about Shahz though.... I only mentioned about Wardell's individual level of playing Jett as it is still top Jett level as TenZ's or any other Jett around the world. I looked to me when TenZ arrived at SEN, they didn't know how to make him play so they left him on Jett letting Shahz play that Sinatraas Sova, right? And at the time TenZ couldn't play Raze.... Now it gets better in terms of TenZ Raze plays and his Reyna is pretty good. So SEN found the way to imploy TenZ in his best way anyway. But for me, it would be nice to see Shahz on Jett and TenZ on Raze or Reyna given Sick plays Sage or Skye at those times. I mean thats pretty much how they play icebox now.

I'd say babybay play faster Jett than Wardell similar to TenZ one. The closest Jett to what TSM and Wardell are trying to achieve would be cNed and Acend. You could se that reflected in their KD ratio plus first deaths and some more indicators. But it all lies in TSM strats really. If they want Wardell to play at faster pace on entries, they could build some plays for that. Or they could copy Acend plays cause it seems like they are reaching some perfection in their plays, given their winning record so far - nothing wrong in copying other teams strats/paced plays etc.

Wardell would need to change his style as he plays slower than TenZ at the entries. You could see that stat reflected in first deaths followed by first kills and assists left behind. Also Derke is trying to keep fast paced Jett plays similar to TenZ while cNed is slower similar to Wardell style. Obviously at time they change their paces but overall I'd say Wardell is way slower than TenZ which also could be something TSM might think of changing. Otherwise, I'd look at Acend play style if I were TSM as they look similar on comp to TSM or at least closest. Though, I personally liked more Shahz on Jett... Sorry for of topic.

If you point at the flag, it will display its country name.... They've added this function recently.

I'm feeling

left ALT key on 60% keyboard

Three medium hut pizzas pepperoni/farmhouse and vegetable + Ben & Jerry's cookie dough ... nap time

At the moment, Shahzam is the best option out of two because SEN still lacks a COACH, whilst Fnatik has Mini as a coach. Imagine having a top Sova/Jett player on your team who is also a coach/analyst and IGL, and who, based on his track record, is the best in the Valorant pro circuit. Consider how much effort Shahzam does at the highest level while other teams struggle and can't do much eventhough they have a separate roles for a coach and analyst within their teams. Imagine being SEN manager and how happy he/she is to have such a person in their roster. That's just mind boggling! Yet there're still 1Heads who shit on Shahz.