yeah 2D 2v2 tag fighter

gm8s could probably keep the same roster and stay competitive next year, kadavra looked great though I am worried about takas' consitency and I am also very surprised that logaN is out, surely you have logaN instead of Wailers

navi fucked up by firing d00mbr0s, idk what they can do now tbh they need a top tier coach to keep ange1 in check or swap roles within the team, cant see how they can pick up players than are objectively better than the current roster

giantx need to get rid of redgar as much as it pains me to say, you cant be putting up koldamenta level perfomances anymore, pick up a young fragging IGL and work from there, if you need to rebuild around that IGL then take the chance because right now probably the worst in the league?

KOI looked pretty good against giantx, maybe pick up patitek for starxo but they could keep the same roster probably

they're only adapting comps to the new meta now and still run old ones along with individuals being worse in every way this year, though hiro does look to somewhat fill the gap that leo left

meta also shifted to double flash meta which is much more wild and less mind game focused, thats why IGLs at the top are all fragging IGLs (Munchkin, johnQT, Boo, Valyn)

also EMEA is much, much stronger this year with FUT looking better than last year, KC being competitive, TH are just incredible to watch, NaVi did look good until they got rid of d00mbr0s which I still don't understand

For anyone that didn't see, they're doing a playtest starting on August 8th and ending August 19th, sign ups are available here: https://alpha.2xko.riotgames.com/en-us/

is that worth the extra £20?

you think its worth to put an extra £30 into the build and have a 4060? was looking at reviews of the 4060 and theyre in no way positive lol

was checking out people testing that specific cooler with the 7600 and temps stayed around 65C which seemed good enough to me for an AMD cpu

also the ram is 6k unless im missing something?

oh yeah forgot to mention im taking over 2 nvme 1tb storages from my current pc, budget is 850

EMEA imo is GM8 especially with kadavra

So seen someone talking about a PC they want to build, currently working with this for myself this summer and want to make sure it is future proof with good upgrade paths as well as good enough for when I finish uni (going into IT, most likely machine intelligence). Not exactly good with building PC's only ever had prebuilts.

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/QGTKt7

make sure to get a cpu that can keep up with the 4060 (3060 is just bad), valorant is not a gpu intensive game and many games recently really need that extra cpu power

sentinels N/A

where has zekken been since madrid, didnt see him at shanghai

not publically available for pro matches yet but its called insight

why would he stop showing up to some prac days and then leave the best BR team?

makes no sense unless something happened on the inside

t3xture has looked good all year yes but not to the same level as woot across so many different agents

zekken just hasnt been at that level

saying that while having the worst duelist in NA is crazy

he didnt leave for no reason, he wont be going back

woot looks better stat-wise but purely looking at gameplay, miniboo fills the same role as icy does on g2 by being a world class entry and space maker which is more important on movement duelists imo

brother he has been incredible all year tf you mean recency?

making the best player on your team IGL is fucking absurd, should never have happened

there had to be a reason for him leaving loud because they were great last year, cant see him going back for whatever that reason is

brother, read the replies

who?

faceit lvl 10 is easy lmao, you just have to shoot back

holy shit im agreeing with babysasuke thats how bad drdisrespect fucked up

easily the guard, dropping that team was absurd

most likely accessed his whispers in a non-legal way, so cant show evidence and that is also why he was allowed his contract to be paid out along with not being charged with anything

sad to see all the people defending him though its so obvious he did it, no legal reason would prevent him from saying "I wasn't involved with sexting a minor"

you cannot tell me after watching this game that this is good gameplay, what the actual fuck am I watching?

you play too much and you look at your stats too much

dont think about the last game you played while playing the next, your mental will be on yay levels

i was honestly impressed with them, biggest issue now is to change the heavy reliance on ex6tenz because when they havent had a timeout for a while they start to look very sloppy

depends on the team, most of the team coaches are the teambuilders

gentlemates arent bad, picked up the EMEA version of karon and have potential but will probably need to be next season

they take a map, work on ideas with assistent coach(es) then test them in reality with the team during scrims, see how well they do and work on new strats constantly

work on individuals in the team, work on their player's mental and physical skills, work on their form

they mostly are the ones that do anti and generally understand the game to the highest level, thats why you see things like potter timeouts which make the team look completely different and much, much better

very hard to see the positive impact of coaches other than people like engh, potter, ex6tenz, mini, solo etc but a bad or mediocre coach is always painfully obvious to see and very, very had to fix

rn, EDG or PRX

FPX imo look straight up better in every way other than noting have KK

PRX dont look anywhere near the level they were playing champs last year and have serious competition in APAC this year

FPX are gonna run some wild shit like 3 or 4 controllers on abyss and just play HEAVY post plant, somehow will work because they can make any comp work and make the comp make sense

classic NRG fan trying to get rid of their igl

if it isnt hotfixed for vct then idk that shit will be dreadful to watch

ive always underrated them but i cant see them coming back to make champs with a roster change especially when americas have so many teams that can take that 3/4 slot

also fuck lev being on that list i forgot g2, should be 100t, g2, sen, kru

trace over wolves, lev over loud, fut over kc and maybe rrq over drx but not sure

would also change over of all of the regions to:

heretics, navi, fut, fnatic
100t, sen, kru, lev
gen.g, prx, t1, rrq/drx
fpx, edg, trace, drg

that is probably 90-95% of the player base, even when im playing in low-mid immo and I ask teams about vct they dont care because they dont watch

people get bored of Val really easily

that is purely anecdotal, the amount of people HOOKED on val is insane and its only because they dont rot away on vlr that you dont see them

this year is a tanked year for pro play because of bad schedule, shit map pool, stale meta for first half of year etc but next year is set up to be much better already with the schedule being changed to be less compact, breeze is gone and icebox is probably going next and changes being made to the most dull agent type

gotta say that im personally also not a fan of the new map because mid is useless, full hits to plant bomb and play from main will be constant and the overall design of both sites just aint it

certainly a ranking

PRX definitely werent favourites by a mile, was very tight between them and GEN.G for favourites

you cant leave out that tenz knew most of his teammates for years from cs and played with them a lot in FPL, it wasnt like it was his one of his first times interacting with them

game was also under a year old, most teams didnt play in any sort of standard or solid way and thats why duelists shined so much back then

imo it is much, MUCH harder for patitek than it was for tenz and would easily put him as a the better sub (considering the circumstances)

o7

had such potential and my favourite aura in EMEA

unless you are immo3+, peripherals like mouse pads, keyboards and any monitor better than 144hz 1ms does not matter

only get them under immo3+ if you want them, dont get them because you think they will make you improve overnight (i and many other people have made the same mistake)

test out a bunch of mousepads at a store and find what material feels good and buy it as long as it doesnt break the bank

even if working in china is contradictory, at least he isnt doing it in 2 countries

Disco Elysium or NieR Replicant

honestly think its an overall nerf to reyna, especially her snowball potential on pistol which was her strongest aspect imo

in no way is she more team oriented because nobody picks reyna without having a team built around her and that is not changing because she still brings next to 0 team util