He is taking a break

I agree, the former LG roster had some really good players, that could all play in T1

same is true for Mako, he is on the South Korean Super team with 4 other great players, but he is still by far their best player rn

I'd say ZETA and TS are still a bit better than them so I would put them somewhere in the middle

he is good but he is not playing against the best teams itw rn

mako is still the goat

it was close sure, but what we saw was far from the peak of valorant gameplay

When I clicked on this I thought it was an old thread from last year

I feel like omen worked decently on defense, attack on b might be kind difficult though

maybe they can show some cool stuff on attack, but I haven't been convinced by their sova util on defence.
They played well otherwise though.

I feel like you need a skye on pearl, it just has way more value than sova ever could, they are playing quite well though, I think they would be doing even better with a skye

i guess, but you can do that with a skye flash/dog, or some decent smokes as well

The sova is just not finding value/giving fake info
There is a reason everyone is playing skye here, they burned the kitchen

Boom will boom out of the tournament

you will get bonked

The one guy translating their streams is carrying their PR overseas ngl

Sen gambit and acend are the obvious answers ig

M80 can if they clean up their gameplay

he already looked great with ghost gaming, honestly just a great player

don't sleep on Fusion

readin

LEV Rubkkoide is coming

surely he gets picked up by another team when 9z go out

0/8

chinese teams don't need mid duelists they have way better players themselves

You don't have to be a GC hater to acknowledge that they have still ways to go before they can get close to tier 1

this is the tournament that will decide the orgs future,
if they bomb out I see them making a lot of changes (maybe even get rid of tenz)
I could see them going to champs though

yeah I feel like the chamber nerf really wasn't good for him

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/f378d23e

tbh I only watched the M80vUnion game, but the casters seemed more experienced and afaik there were no major tech issues like in pacific production.
also I found the replays to be pretty good in that game tbh

the whole production is a bit lacking to be honest,
compared with americas ascension it's way worse, but ig that was to be expected

still one of the best controllers in apac

SA is just a bot region, they have no good teams yet.
Anyone who had hope in Orangutan is coping.

No Xerxia will win against Boom making them the first.
One Team against Naos will be a close game, but i think one team could win this
As I see it they would still loose the three way tie though

did you watch a single game?

this is vlr...

fortunately you do not represent the average vlr user

well the round 3 pickems are kinda free

They have a pretty good chance to win against orang utan, so looks like they should get to playoffs

I would agree, but the toxic bronzil fans have made it really hard for me to be sympathetic to their region

I'm glad to see the OCE Scene getting better with bonkers performing well.
I hope there is more to come.

use the table

I just wanted to point out that pacific t1 teams are not far behind their EMEA/NA counterparts.
I do agree though that the t2 scene looks kinda bad so far.

Come again when SEN loses LCQ and can't qualify to champs

you could argue similarly for EMEA.
Only 2 good teams (one underperfomed at masters) and Fut are still too "unproven"

flair

Brazilians don't fall for the bait!

I would love for OCE to do well once
But their teams are just to free sadly

I did actually read all of that and I have to agree. While EMEA is not a 1 tier region I feel like the champions spot would be better if it went to furia/sen/100t or c9 as they are still better than huge parts of the EMEA league.
Ig unlucky that FNC won.

ardiis is not even the best player on NRG

we will see once they get grouped