Unironically, this play had my jaw dropped when I watched it live.

Can't disrespect unc like that. Supamen is generally speaking underrated considering his aim is super crisp and it makes him more of a threat in head-to-head gunfights.

Derrek is probably a better aimer than c0m for the most part, but they seem to want: 1) an IGL and 2) a storyline to keep EG in some of the discussions and fan favourites. Hopefully some of c0m's out-of-the-box thinking can translate to calls and decisions.

Icy is unfortunately the most mid player with the most goated in-game name. Yay is fairly past his prime, but has some glimmers of quality. However, EG is probably opting for the model where their players can be flexible and play as many roles and agents without compromise.

MIBR Scream would be the most mind-boggling thing.

ZETA beating PRX in a fairly impressive way at the end of 2025 season.
BLG beating NRG twice. Trace beating Leviatan to make it out of groups.

That glorious feeling knowing I'm on no lists (my name will never need to be redacted)

Fair enough. I'm sorry that all of that chaos was going on during an emergency. I still stand by what I said - just take a break to reset the mind. Valorant ranked will not be going anywhere unless we encounter Nuclear winter in January for our 2026 Bingo Card.

Thank you :D

I know you don't explicitly mention it, but I just want to clarify if you asked them to remake because you had an emergency and couldn't play before you left.

Asides that, I think it's best not to focus your energy on a Val game where you lost a little more RR than usual. Whether the emergency has passed or is still latently going on, you should focus your mind on that. Valorant won't be going anywhere and you can always get that Immo3 next act or the one after that.

People will be dumb in the game, yes. It's definitely coming after a long spiral of emotions from your loss streak plus the emergency, but you probably should let it go now.

Hope you have a better start to the new year.

Fair enough - the ranks aren't distributed in a way that should on-paper give you a lower RR gain, but they probably have relatively lower hidden MMR is my guess if you want something to cope on. That would basically be based on how well those individual players actually do (i.e.: if they don't get amazing ACS frequently then they are probably overestimated on their rank and vice versa). There are definitely players who are even overestimated in their rank at the lower ranks because people boost them a little.

Honestly, this makes me think of how Rocket League has a mod which allows you to see the MMR of each player regardless of what their rank might say. This level of transparency would at least give players a more accurate sense of how well they are doing in lobbies.

The short of it all: your RR isn't fucked, but the transparency of Valorant's ranked/MMR system might be. Keep grinding and you will get to where you want to be in your long-term plan.

I think you need a bit more protein. Seeing your hipbones and ribs protrude reminds me of tumblr girls from 10 years ago

Show the rest of the lobby's ranks.

Account made 3 days ago just to cause a bit of fuss with some low-tier bait discussions. The PRX thread itself is just mediocre since it ignores the efforts F0rsaken is making to be more of a leader in calling whilst maintaining some of the integral PRX identity. One of the most consistent org in all of Valorant at this point alongside FNC. Also, your username, flag and flair do feel like a bait account combination especially since the X geo-location reveal that pro-Israel accounts stemmed from places like India.

Louisiana wouldn't be the worst out of the southern states, but it's understandably still risky. Alabama, Oklahoma or Arkansas would probably be more freaky

Until you discover Skid Row at night

Hope you don't mind the occasional alligator on your Long Beach quest for a baddie

Most: Hawaii for vibes or Louisiana for the food.
Least: Alabama

-gyen is kind of rough given he was starting to feel a bit more consistent at the tail end of the season. Meanwhile SSeeS is still in the team for now - he is an alright player who can hold his own, but it would be better to have a fresh IGL whilst keeping some of these cracked out Japanese players.

So many good options for replacements like Aace, Hals, Yatsuka, Caedye or, if they are going to take up an IGL, Gon. I saw someone mention Persia and if he can comm in Japanese and IGL, that would make him a pretty underrated shout since he has quality that he hasn't quite recovered since Ascension of last year.

SIUUUUUUUUU, DODGED THE LIST AGAIN (I won't ever need to be redacted)

hello

facts, spit your shit indeed

Let's be very honest - there is way more to improving than just your pure aim and you are tunnel-visioned on the superficial aspects of aim such as HS% and KDA. You don't see or feel improvement because you think you're already improved in what you think is important rather than looking at the bigger picture.

Any professional or high-rank analyst would see how you highlighted on those two stats and probably tell you the same thing that you care about things which don't matter in the grand scheme of the game. Consider your decision making, your map awareness and your communication as well. These qualitative factors which impact your game will be constantly changing and something you will feel like you can always improve upon.

I can understand that this might sound hypocritical in a sense given how many pros and coaches say you can get to ascendant or diamond with aim alone. But they are talking about aim which can carry a team of clueless players and AFKs - if you can't do that then you aren't at the mechanical aim level these people talk about which can get you in the mid-region of the ranked space.

You definitely have a lot more to think about and I think a short break from the game to help reset your mental is well-deserved and perhaps even required to get back into ranked with a better idea of how to climb. I can understand playing without your friends sucks and it's way harder - trust me, I've been there. However, if you can prove to yourself you can climb, they will see your efforts and stack with you.

Your name alone deserves to be up there.

<insert that one gif of Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems saying an expletive and that he is about to pop hid molly>

Erased - revived my desire to watch anime. I am a big fan of crime/thriller and the time-travel concept is something that is fun. Summertime Rendering is up there and Steins;Gate was great after getting through the slow start.

Yay and cNed definitely struggled in 2025. Demon1 struggled too, but arguably has better mechanics, but lacks in team cohesion.

This guy is the biggest journeyman. Honestly, was the least impressive out of the whole GAMBIT roster. Went from EMEA to China back to EMEA and then back to China. Now he wants to stand in for an APAC team. Just needs to join an Americas team and he will have covered four regions, albeit with very underwhelming results to show for aside his GAMBIT period.

He was a good caller early doors considering he won a Masters and 2023 EMEA trophy. Definitely fell off. Would have probably been a bigger fall-off if GAMBIT won Champs 2021.

Definitely don't hate dreaming, but I always have either absurd dreams or hyper-realistic scenarios that end up somehow occurring in real life. The latter feels like deja vu, but in a more confusing and predictive way. As for absurd dreams, they seem to always be tied to the general area where I live or parts of my life but then elements of fears like being late to school/work make time speed up or my body movements feel stuck.

Lowkey, I kind of like these dreams because my mind feels active.

Consider it a blessing in disguise. I know I'm relieved

The best player for Norway is Rhyme who played for GIANTS before retiring to focus on studies. Sweden definitely needs a little more love since Creamydreamy is a decent player who deserves a Tier 1 opportunity. Players like Leo and Sayf will have a lasting impression so hopefully more Swedes follow in their shoes.

LEV yay with Chamber picks rising and ability bloat reduced sounds like a potential cook to revive his career. Icy could also get the chance, but it would be more satisfying to get a last chance for yay.

Can't forget the CN Asuna (AAAAY is actually kinda nice with it but just has the most inconsistent team of all time)

Who is Jieber and why did you bust in them?

Honestly, if Wikipedia goes, then that is a major L. I read somewhere that the government is proposing to make Apple and Google force mobile devices to verify users if they want to access anything age gated.

Would you like a cuppa tea?

Basically 18+ gifs - there are a few sites like this who have chosen not to comply with the verification processes and as such resulted in a geo-block

Honestly, not being able to use imgur is pain. So many VLR users post their screenshots there and I can't even know what's going on without using a VPN.

I can understand a bit of the protection sentiment, but it is still so shoddily set up. At least in the UK, it seems to be that third party companies do the verification process which feels a little concerning in terms of user safety against data leaks.

Taj Mahal
Cuisine/Spices
Shah Rukh Khan

Xeppaa always stuck me as more of an aggro agent player - usually playing Skye, Raze and KAYO so his adjustment to full scan will hopefully not be too difficult if he can tailor that to his new agent pool.

C9 definitely will be underwhelming but not worst in Americas - that will most likely be FURIA considering that their mishmash roster probably still doesn't have quality coaching.

TS are arguably the worst considering how many blundered opportunities they had to sign Filipino talent or any APAC talent to their roster. I love JessieVash as a vet of esports, but he needs to become a coach and let the new blood take over. Sylvan and TenTen aren't awful, but they really need a standout player to balance out the other players who aren't gonna be making crazy plays round after round.

PCFIC is poor management, but they could at least be fun to witness if they cook up an interesting mixed roster. Still, I can't expect much from them since it will most likely be how APEKS were last season. Honourable mention to ULF as they have terrible management who aren't paying the players and staff.

Don't forget PatrickWatson/yokam, yuran, NDG, lenne, beyaz, koldamenta and Apoth. Newzera is definitely one of the worst. Seoldam was disappointing.

I think xms, whilst on that terrible KC roster wasn't as bad as Newzera, but still relatively below par. The Brazilian/LATAM players were pretty inconsistent. Vanity and Dephh are IGLs who are a lot older so their mechanics pretty much waned as soon as franchising went into full swing. Wippie is heavily inconsistent and probably another worthy name for the Top 10.

Bangladeshi is the nationality. Bengali is the language and the ethnic group from the region of Bengal which includes Bengal in India and Bangladesh - just so anyone who might not know the difference can understand.

My guess is that he saw LEV's potential after they got to 3rd in Champs and he thought that it could be replicable if he was slotted in with a few adjustments. Clearly, he did not adjust well and then lost one of the few players he seemed to get on with visibly (Natank). This was followed by the role fiasco where Kingg took up duelist even though tex could have ran that .

As I mentioned, he definitely needs a coach like Potter or JoshRT who can properly accommodate to his playstyle and agent pool, but that is pretty rare in this ecosystem.

From my perspective, Demon1 needs a coach and team that can accommodate to his agent pool without drastically changing a lot. Demon1 should be mainly playing smokes like Astra and Brim. Omen is strong in a lot of maps, but Astra can be viable. As for Viper, that could be saved for someone else to flex on especially if Breeze and/or Icebox come back where Demon1 can play Jett. In rare situations, maybe have him on Chamber.

Really and truly, Demon1 is going through what a lot of players have endured with niche or tricky agent pools (yay, Jinggg, etc.) and the outcomes can vary widely with Jinggg having consistent success still whilst yay is struggling to get back to his peak. Such pros definitely need the team to basically be built around them with highly flexible players (pretty much how PRX function). The other thing is Demon1 is basically stuck with NA or nothing because his partner has a lot of health issues and being away for too long could be risky.

I do recall Cane saying Keznit is his preferred replacement due to how similarly they play. Though Cane is genuinely absurd at times. I wouldn't be surprised if ENVY still struggle with Keznit. Rossy definitely could run into issues if he and P0PPIN clash on calls, but I think that ENVY will probably try to go with the flow like their Ascension run.

• G2 have a core that's stuck together for years, but they have slowly eroded to just valyn and trent.
• 100T is just a rebuild around Asuna and Cryo with Cryo being the closest in agent pool to Demon1.
• SEN were focusing their roster around when Reduxx would become available.
• EG is team Vietnam.
• MIBR basically went with all of Aspas' favourites.
• NRG won champs so no need to change.

All-in-all, agree mostly that Americas teams aren't nepo/friend groups. They probably want to rebuild around a young player with a good few years of promise.

Rossy is flexible and can help with calling. It's gonna be difficult to really fill out the gap that ion2x and Cane have in their pure fragging power, but it could be supplemented with decision makers. Demon1 is definitely limited, but could work with Brim/Astra/Sentinel-Agents.

He is probably hesitant to go abroad due to his partner's health issues. Can't imagine it would be easy to be away for long.

W course, but I pray for your mental the purer the maths gets. I have a feeling I could guess which uni you go to since I had a friend who went to a uni with a very high number of Chinese international students.

Ahhh okay, this is the full clip. I just saw the bit where he says he will retire in 2027 if he doesn't get a roster in 2026. Honestly though, he is right about how a lot of rosters work on the basis of the network of friends that they have.

However, I think the big issue with Demon1 is that he needs a very detail-oriented coach who will know how to highlight Demon1's strengths without forcing him to play agents that do not fit his playstyle or comfort picks. He was great on Astra, Brim and Jett whilst capable to play sentinel. Someone like Potter or JoshRT could honestly cook with that, but G2 and EG have locked in their rosters.

Any other team would feel like a repeat of his LEV period where the roles will be either forced to fit the meta or hopeful that they can run with what they like. But he definitely needs to humble himself because his reputation will just sink more and more the further his diva act goes on.

What course are you studying?