overrated by people who dont watch much, underrated/perfectly rated by people who watch a lot

its fun to fuck with people who bandwagon to the most popular players because they really idolise them for no reason other than theyre the most popular, nothing against the actual players

easily KK, aspas has no presence compared to him

havent watched since kaydop, scrub killa and fairy peak were the goats dont recognise anyone anymore

if sacy is leaving, you want another vocal player and I would probably take zander

N4RRATE - ini
Zander - smokes
johnqt - senti
zekken - duelist
covert mada to flex or (bias because he shouldve been in tier 1 last year) bdog

tried to watch AK vs 2G yesterday and I genuinely couldnt because it was just jail valorant, felt so bad for their coaches, every single round had a massive mistake for no reason

your mmr is fucked, game doesnt think you belong in the rank you're in

playing a second account to get back up to immortal again before going back to my main and im losing 12-16rr in ascendant while gaining 22-28rr

also depends on your performance that game, enemy rank, teammate's ranks etc.

someone check on these coaches I would be fucking fuming watching my team play like this

fun casually but sucks competitively, gets worse the more you play imo

yeah I like the game as well but none of my friends did lol

its fun but be aware its a MOBA, all of my friends were excited to play then realised it was a MOBA more than a hero shooter and they all quit after 2 games

was a straight a/a* student but had some issues when i was 16-17-18, ended up dropping out but worked pretty hard in my second half of being 18 and managed to work and get qualifications at a technical college to get into uni without losing a year, just entering my final year to get a degree in comp. scienece/AI

if apeks dont win then it will 100% be apeks

otherwise, probably a dach team

I said the same thing about wo0t last year btw

first map showed a lot of cracks, this map they just straight up look like the worse team

nieSoW

welcome to NAVI

i thought it couldnt get worse but then it did

aint no way derke will get wasted on KOI

also sayonara is 16 lol looks like someone is getting trolled

13/1 in 1v1's is kinda wild idk how he is so good in clutches but falls apart in team situations

brother you didnt make the clip

https://www.vlr.gg/24252/no-politics-religion

why does he tilt his head the same way dogs do when theyre confused

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEjZCwGcA0k

skim through the video and you can see hes always tilted off to the side

https://x.com/ValorINTEL/status/1831834224644755710?t=Umem0xI9XIrAFaSPnrXNGw&s=19

cs2 just doesnt feel the same, not as responsive and not as consistent

and the map pool aint it and it changes very very rarely

honestly the only fans i have seen kicking up about this are prx, th, edg and sen fans who all idolise their players in weird ways

especially prx parasocial fans, weird as fuck

game wasnt built with replay system in mind because it would probably delay the game very heavily, will take a while to find a way for it to work with the unique ways they developed valorant (systems to combat hacking and systems to reduce latency)

EU and NA are generally better at fps games, both have pretty deep talent pool for the moment

Valorant is a Riot game so Pacific and China will always have a deep talent pool

wont be dominated by a region for at least 10 years from what I see

thats supposed to be the things that were changed, he just cant figure out how to label things

also he has tanizhq as coach when every other source in the world is saying bonkar has verbally agreed to be HC of NRG

pancada did miss

he missed every international this year

mans just guessing

pulling out the 3 year old stats from before chamber released

web dev

thats sadly just the volatility of a diverse esports scene, you have to prove yourself when you get the chance or someone else will take the chance to prove themselves, one you get the chance you cant underperform

I do feel like there are some TOs that can be worked with to avoid that, I wish riot worked with ESL but they probably wont

there definitely is a chance that talent runs dry but at the same time young talent each year is getting better and proving itself in franchising, look at start of year KC, Karon on Gen.G, TH roster. Orgs are going to start taking punts at the younger players and hoping for crazy results in that way and I feel like that will be pretty good for the scene, especially when more teams are actually added to franchising and more slots are opened up on those weaker teams

its definitely rare but seemingly ok people can just snap and ruin the look of their brand along with anyone associated with them, look at twitter and what it did to tesla stocks

i think its mostly that riot want full control of the brand they make to make sure they can continue to have sponsors, if a TO fucks up and it becomes a big story, sponsors wont want to be involved with valorant anymore

at the end of the day, riot is a business

they need to care about franchising and really the only reason to run esports is for money, otherwise it does nothing but burn the pockets of the people in the company

they do put money into tier 2, although I do agree it isnt enough and they should look to slim down the amount of leagues across EMEA and Pacific, and also promote it more on social media, but at the end of the day theyre a business and they have to think about their way to make money and tier 2 isnt the way theyre going to make that money

if you actually watched the games, you could see keiko and nats were the only people actually shooting back this year, nats picked up igl and still kept super good, just because he isnt winning events doesnt mean that hes bad now

scream always said he loves CS and said he still enjoys CS more, was always a matter of what allows him to continue to play games at the top level and he hadnt been at that level in CS when he swapped over

you can hit radiant with 60hz but 144hz just feels more enjoyable to use plus 144hz monitors arent as expensive as they used to be

mouse hz and polling rate are the same, as long as you have 1k hz it doesnt matter

just asked rocket and he says he has no fucking clue but hes guessing 100t are being replaced by GE roster 👍

mans just guessing

personally think theres a 0% chance they keep ange1 after last year

funny enough i installed yakuza 0 yesterday but im not sure about them because they all seem very unserious from an outsiders perspective, are they serious most of the time or is that unseriousness common?

it is really crazy what the roster, both players and coaches, have done in less than a year

especially the redemtpion neilzinho got from last year, massive turnaround

derke and chron are the reason I like FNC rn, whatever team he moves to im 100% going to support as well

played through chapter 1 with downgraded drivers because the current AMD drivers are bugged and the game crashes a lot but had to upgrade again for some other games so im waiting to keep playing the game after the new drivers come out

played ghost of tsushima, played persona 5, played resident evil 8

is there any other resident eveil i should play? i know people love 4 but the stupid spin kick annoys me

funny enough i reinstalled persona 3 reload last week and i played a little bit but tartarus really bored me (same as last time), does it get better after a while? I never played enough to open any of it up