Oh, right, forgot they played in Kickoff

Honestly feel like 100T vs. G2 and LOUD vs. EG are gonna be more exciting games to watch. Kinda sad we won't see KRU until week 2, though

I feel like a matchup has to happen at least a few times a year for it to be considered a rivalry. I'll be surprised if we get SEN vs. NRG more than once this year

That's perfectly fine. Just take it one step at a time.

I mean... to be completely fair, his Jett wasn't half bad

This point was made on Plat Chat, but I'm gonna relay it here because I think it deserves mentioning. yay definitely isn't happy with his current team—you can hear it in the comms. We don't know if he was trialed at all before joining the team and moving to APAC, and we don't know if there was even any reason for BLEED to pick him up besides the attention. In fact, we don't even know if yay was happy playing on DSG—there's a real possibility he hasn't been on a roster he enjoys playing on since OpTic, and there's a chance that it's affecting his mental and therefore his performance.

That being said, I do believe yay's already hit his peak. That's not to say he's a bad player by any means, but I just don't think he's the world breaker he used to be.

Definitely possible. fl1pzjder is pretty talented (I don't care that he had a 0 kill map one time, it happens, move on, he's still a good player and deserves to be on a tier 1 roster)

A few of them, yea.

They don't have player cards because orgs didn't have time to make any before the Masters Shanghai deadline. They'll get player cards + sprays later in the year for sure

Gekko's Mosh Pit is absolutely MASSIVE. The only reason it can be that big without being broken is the fact that it only explodes after a few seconds. Otherwise it's just insane

They addressed this in today's Dev Diaries video. Do suggest watching it

Try to stay conscious of only one mistake at a time. If you have several problems, then focus on only one of them while you're playing. For example, if you don't pay attention to minimap, then your primary focus for that entire game should be awareness of when to look at your minimap

So what now?

Based. DFM supporters rise up, we're winning another series this year

NIP played the Deadlock double senti comp way before Turtle Troop did, but I digress. Either way, though, I was talking about individual agents, not team comps.

Less is most likely getting benched, no?

Realistically, there's only one best comp on Ascent. The problem with Ascent is simply the dominance of that particular comp. But that doesn't mean the individual agents of the game aren't good on Ascent—in fact, I think you could make a solid case for playing any of them on Ascent, even if you can't argue building a comp around them.

Haters gonna hate. How you're able to handle haters as a collective is part of what defines a fanbase

"Neon-no fast running"
That's just not Neon anymore, then

That could be cool. Definitely would be helpful in a team setting, though not sure whether to much extent. It's an idea, though!

This is sick. Props to both of y'all

Eh. I think they'll be fine. They're actually more bad at Breeze than they are good at Ascent, so if anything this new rotation helps them

Fair. Forgot the lore aspect to it

Ascent is like Haven. Everyone likes it because no agent can really be bad on it. It has flaws, but for this reason alone it's well designed and enjoyable to all players

That could work. I personally see a world where they put c0m on Cypher and tex on Gekko, though, and have Mazino on either KAY/O or put him on Omen with kiNgg on Viper

I don't see anyone talking about the Reyna changes, or what they could be. Figured I'd give my own input on this, because I do have a pretty interesting idea:

• Reyna's Devour (Q) is completely removed and replaced with an entirely different ability (I don't have any ideas for what this could be)
• Reyna's Dismiss (E) has two charges (works exactly the same way, you just can't heal anymore)
• Reyna's Empress (X) still heals 100 HP every time you kill an enemy

Thoughts?

Leviatán, most likely. Split was their permaban and their Breeze doesn't look the best, but they do look pretty solid on the other five maps (relatively speaking).

6 map map pool

...what

On the one hand, yes it would've made sense. On the other hand, we get both Bind and Haven.

Dude, wdym? LOUD cooked that one up

DRX 13-2 on Icebox. Harbor is such a good agent he caused C9 to dismantle.

Source?

I asked

I'm not clicking that

Evil Geniuses

Imagine if EG got kicked out of franchising and we got two ascension teams, G2 and M80, instead

I don't usually go around hating, but I have to admit I kinda hate DRX for how they treated Zest last year

W Oilers. Been a fan since 2014, glad to see them going strong

Even if I give you the benefit of the doubt here... who's replacing Zellsis?

"Hmm... our vibes are way too high right now. Also we're selling far too many bundles. Guess we're gonna have to kick Zellsis, even though our 6th is rumoured to be headed to LOUD or FURIA."

...yeah, good one.

It's not confirmed, is it?

KDA is higher than 1 though. W support player

Kinda looks like a dude shrugging if you look at it a certain way

Np. Good luck in Split 2

I'm a believer in every team unless proven otherwise. TS has potential, I think they can go far

So what if TenZ prefers CS2? That doesn't automatically make it better

That would break a lot of the Phoenix molly lineups I know, actually

I don't think changing the physics or range of any molly is a good idea. Would break any and all lineups

10z