paTiTek. It's almost certainly not gonna happen, but just imagine how funny it would be if it did

Can't believe you're dropping these awful takes while he's on the exam grindset. Put some respect on his name

Common side effect of using the SEN classic btw

Bad rng. Really all there is to it

What's your source on pAncada? I thought the rumour was FURIA wanted to pick him up

Seeing them run the NIP Deadlock Ascent comp is really interesting. Feels like it has some untapped potential, crazy as that sounds

What's wrong with qck?

Fair enough, but like... what would you expect from a replacement?

...what...? Dude, that's first person... what are you talking about?

https://i.imgur.com/vGKt0iS.png

Yeah mb, thought you meant they should negotiate with those teams instead of Hero Base

Oh ok

I mean... it's not like he wasn't doing his job. He was entrying. He died on that entry really really often, but it's not like that stat alone can discredit his performance.

Seriously, what do you have against qck?

None of them have Portuguese-speaking players

W

NRG does need a proper igl, that's 100% true. But either pick doesn't solve the other huge problem with the team: their vibes. They need a vibes guy. They either need their IGL to fill that role as well, or they need to add a second player, in place of literally anyone. They'd still have a bit of a problem then (their sentinel player is also their Raze player so they're kinda screwed on some maps) but it would do wonders for them regardless.

...I'm sorry, but if you respect someone like Curry or JOLLZ, for example, for smurfing in lower elo lobbies purely for content, MORE than people who genuinely want to help you improve at the game in a morally correct way, then I don't know what to tell ya, man.

...?

Yeah, that's my main concern. He doesn't see anything wrong with it.

Didn't know he stopped. Did he apologize at all, though? Or did he just slowly ease it out because people stopped watching it or something

Mb, prolly should've just elaborated. The whole smurfing thing... he doesn't see anything wrong with it, and he's still doing it, therefore encouraging his viewers to do it as well. Just puts a bad taste in my mouth.

SEN Curry. Don't think I need to elaborate

My agent pool differs depending on the map.
Ascent: Omen, KAY/O, Cypher
Bind: Harbor, Gekko, Fade, Viper, Cypher, Skye
Breeze: Harbor, KAY/O, Cypher
Icebox: Harbor, Gekko
Lotus: Fade, Gekko, Harbor, Skye
Split: Harbor, Omen, Cypher, Gekko
Sunset: Harbor, Cypher, Fade, Gekko, Omen

I'm in.

They not only placed top 4, but also topped their group. Even considering how well they did in kickoff, when you compare it to last year, I wouldn't call it flopping

Harbor in a nutshell

How the hell is Karmine Corp in your top 6 flops of the year? They went from having a player leave because they were such a big joke as a team it was giving them mental issues, to completely reforming and going into kickoff as the most dominant winners in any region, and that's still not enough for you to call them flops?

You're definitely underestimating G2. They're a really good team, and to say they suck because they lost 3-0 to 100T is a tad overreactionary, especially considering they played 5 days in a row against four different teams.

Agreed. It won't benefit Sentinels because they already have really good synergy. If anything, all it'll do is negatively impact LOUD. Which I guess is a good thing for Sentinels, but not good enough to spend all that money.

What do you have against paTiTek?

Not confirmed

Education > video games

Click link, head empty

Goes without saying that it's EDG, FPX, TE, and DRG for China.

"Stop being a hentai" is an absolutely wild thing to say

As good as they've looked on Breeze with the solo Yoru, last year's meta was definitely a lot better for them (double controller, solo Initiator)

Jett/Secondary Controller - 100T Cryo
Initiator - RRQ Lmemore
Raze/Secondary Initiator - KC NARR4TE
Primary Controller/IGL - G2 Valyn
Sentinel - DRG vo0kashu

That's kinda uncalled for, no?

Boostio can probably just play Gekko on every map honestly. If Wingman doesn't add to the hype, I don't know what does.

Saadhak has looked the most comfortable on Deadlock so far

I honestly think both teams played really well. Call me naive but I genuinely enjoyed the series.

I think maybe get a good amount of sleep and watch the Pacific VOD later

FPX have beat EDG twice this month already. I have a feeling they'll do it again.

DRG has consistently been top 4 in their region all year, and are also the 4th Chinese team to make a major LAN since franchising. I think that's pretty decent.

Idk, but that was really fun to watch regardless. Even if neither team does well, their games are still really entertaining.

Kinda surprised they didn't include sprays. I get the orgs didn't have time to design player cards, but the VALORANT art team could probably make all 11 sprays in 10 minutes if they wanted to.

Go watch any of FNATIC's voice comms videos. If you still think Boaster doesn't take this seriously afterward, then I don't know what to tell you.

Kaplan then went on to get outclassed by the nervous dog. Context matters, man.