Cool. Now make the same list but for the other three regions

No offense, but G2 are not strategically subpar by any means, and the fact that you believe their results hinder on JonahP's performance tells me you know nothing about how the team works.

Now that you mention it, change already has worked for them. Change being Monyet.

For all intensive purposes, I feel like Paper Rex would rather give d4v41 the Ethan treatment than make roster changes. I fully agree with d4v41 initiator and f0rsakeN sentinel, though. Especially if f0rsakeN gets to transition off sentinel on double duelist maps like Meteor does on Gen.G.

I can't. I don't know Jinggg personally, and it's been said that it's a private matter. But if the organization he works for publish a statement themselves, then that's the best and most accurate thing we have to go off of. https://x.com/pprxteam/status/1773681552968610016

Prove it. Prove he doesn't have a life-long medical condition, prove he's not medically unfit for any form of service, and prove he's not undergoing treatment. Because I've read at least a dozen articles from trusted sources that say that exact thing.

Ehhh... maybe. I'd argue KICK//OFF Karmine Corp and Sentinels were near equivalent in skill and potential

"Can we put him back this 21 year old man into the military despite being exempt for life due to a medical condition just because I don't like the way he plays this video game?"

Listen to yourself for a second.

Sentinels finished 5-6th in Americas btw

They did NOT destroy KC. It was 13-8 13-11, and it was the most intense 2-0 of the entire tournament

s0m: come tp my kittens!

I'm gonna be honest with you, dude. I took one look at your tracker and thought "damn, this guy needs to take a breather". I don't know if it's tilt queue or not, but either way you're queuing games to no end.

Consistency comes with time, but you need to work for it. Try playing maximum 4 games a day, and make sure you're locked in for every game you play. You will climb—when you do well in a game, you do unbelievably well, which tells me you have what it takes. Sure, you can't always be on your A game, but the fewer games you play, the less time you need to focus, and the less time you have to lose focus. Put in all your effort into a few games instead of dividing it up sparsely between several.

Good luck on the climb!

I think it's pretty fair to expect G2 in the final, honestly. They've got the most solid teamplay fundamentals out of any team left in the tournament

FYI you can share your pickems with a link. There should be one near the top of your pickem

Kinda surprised no one's said Fenis yet

Oh I get what you mean. Makes her a lot better on defense, a lot worse on attack. Honestly yeah, I can see that. Is that a welcome change, though? I'm not sure. I'd have to rethink. Thanks

I like the thought process for the ult, but I don't feel it's too good for a 9 cost ult. If you compare it to Killjoy's Lockdown, you can see they're very similar in that they demand a massive ton of respect and are great to stall or guarantee space, but both have good counters—in Killjoy's case, it's molly/nade lineups and certain ultimates such as Sova and Killjoy, while in Viper's case, it's recon/angle clearning abilities and certain ultimates such as Killjoy, Harbor, and Gekko.

That being said, Viper doesn't really have much stopping power now that she has one molly. And if we're making her orb throwable then she's not gonna have it on the choke all the time, so you could even timing it.

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That's a pretty good idea, honestly. How long would you make the recharge, though? 60 seconds?

It's super fun to discuss this kind of stuff! Also yeah, I should be posting the sentinels thread soon.

Interesting that your top 4 is 2 Americas teams and 2 CN teams

He's 24

Haven, yes. Abyss, probably not

Their Lotus is better than their Bind, believe it or not

Great points. Maybe you should be making these threads 😅

LOUD but it's tier 2 EMEA

Does that make johnqt Pacific

You're right, I miss LOUD vs. OPTC too

G2 icy

100% agree with this

LMAO

That's very true, but at the same time, little tweaks and changes don't always help an agent see more play. Chamber, for example, hasn't exactly been used much in the current meta, even though he's been incrementally buffed over the past year or so, and some of those buffs are actually good. I think a better way to go about things is the approach they took with Neon—a quick load of changes, shaking up the meta but not too heavily. I feel Neon's reimplementation as a viable duelist was the smoothest meta change to date, because it helped Neon find her place so quickly while not negatively impacting the pick rate of the other duelists—not even Raze, who has been meta on most of the maps Neon's finding value on now. That's the kind of implementation I like, and that's the kind I'd go for it I was Riot.

• The thing about Omen's Dark Cover is you can't really find a good baseline number where his smokes still have good value as smokes, but aren't too oppressive as oneways. You could argue 11 or 12, but if there's one thing I've learned from playing with Clove, it's that 12 seconds isn't really long enough for a smoke to find full value, especially to stall or exec (Clove can stay the exception; I'm giving her a reduced cooldown to accommodate anyway). Besides, when I draft these threads, I'm not exactly considering the code side of things, and I think you can understand that.

• The Astra changes might be a little much, I'll admit, but the question I had in mind when buffing her was: how far do I need to take it before Astra becomes a 50/50 competitor to Omen? The way I see it, I'm highlighting Astra's strengths as a primary dome smoker in order to incentivize people to consider playing her, whether that be with or in spite of Omen.

• I explained the Brimstone change to 4 smokes in #26, so feel free to check that out.

• The Harbor changes only seem fair, in my honest opinion. He's been the weakest controller for quite a long time, which is quite insane considering how flexible and creative he can be. He has very clear disadvantages as-is and the changes I tried to implement seek to not only fix those gaps in his kit, but also help him find a better balance between baseline value and expected value, as well as to push him to see play on maps where he may not be as considered as he currently is.

Noted, thanks

...thank you?

Good to know, thank you

True. Shouldn't every team that qualified to Ascension have a flair? It's only fair, I'd assume

Unfortunately I don't think you can, no

I'm gonna be completely honest: the title isn't even that good. If it glowed or had a different colour or something, maybe, but there are just so many better titles than "100%". I wouldn't see myself using it

I appreciate that

Got it ty

I love LOUD's. The full green and black just works so well with the design of the classic.

We share the same braincell

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/5f7bd572

I love the format you went for with the tiles. Where would you put me, btw?

Keep your hopes up! Bind is very solid and Lotus is undefeated this split. Plus Sunset is getting better. We should still be good.

I expected better of you, K4ziuHa