Into thinking Americas would send more than 4 teams to a global event all year by being shit for 2 weeks but nah scripted region

farteen

Ruxic might be the most psychotic Valorant player on earth

Beat SEN and PRX, I'll take it

We going all the way back to replies from 2014 💀

Who do we think has been the better duelist for NAVI?

Imo alexiiik has shown a higher ceiling imo but he's prone to getting shut down by more experienced IGLs

This mf is last alive every round I swear

Have we found the most passive player OAT?

The new Alien show, I've been meaning to watch it

Holy based fellow Bring Me enjoyer

If you want something you may not already have Heathers by Surf Curse

I think that just falls under the passive flex type player

I was considering making a supportive smokes role for players like Boaster and Boo who tend to avoid lurking and isolating ones and usually play fast rotate rather than hard anchoring tho

AmEN! - Bring Me the Horizon

Idk I just think it's generally more useful to think about what specific positions a player is gonna play on their team beyond just doing the standard for the agent their playing

For example, Cryo and Keiko are both flexing duelist and smokes but in such radically different ways I don't think you can say they fill the same position in a team

Idk I feel like you can't really describe some players with just one role, like idk which of those 5 you'd classify Demon1, Keiko, Alfajer etc as

So obviously there's 4 roles in Valorant and then teams will usually have a 5th to plug gaps, but I feel like it's never usually that simple with what roles players will be playing in a team, so I thought I'd try and make a list of all the common player archetypes I've seen in VCT

Pure Duelist Players i.e zekken, Derke, aspas, MiniBoo, t3xture

Pure Sentinel Players i.e nAts, Less, benjyfishy
Will typically also play a lot of Viper or sometimes Omen or Astra

Pure Initiator Players i.e RieNs, trent, Leo, cauanzin

Pure Controller Players i.e Karon, MaKo, bang

Aggro Flex Players i.e Victor, zyppan, 2022 zekken, Wo0t
Kind of a product of the Chamber meta and a bit dated but players who will typically play aggressive flash initiator and hard entry roles like Raze and Neon

Passive Aim Demons i.e Demon1, Cryo, yay
Will always be put on the role that allows them to take isolated ones from passive positions, tend towards flexing Iso, Jett, Chamber and Controller, usually pick up the Op a lot

Senti Duelist Flex i.e Alfajer, Meteor, 2024 Kai
Players who are more aggressive than typical sentinels but less aggressive than a typical entry player, usually moved onto Iso and Jett when not on senti

Controller Entry Players i.e Keiko, 2023 Jawgemo, 2024 TenZ, modern cNed
Hyper aggressive players who are put on basically perma Omen duties whilst flexing some Duelist, basically a second entry player on smokes

Hard Support/Gap Filler i.e JonahP, paTiTek, Chronicle, Ethan
Players who are basically always put into support positions to enable other players to frag, tend to play a lot of Viper or second sentinel depending on what their team wants

f0rsakeN f0rsakeN
Plays literally anything

Anything I missed?

Idk, the arena would be empty if MIBR didn't make it or bombed out

1. Copenhagen
2. Champs 2024
3. LOCK//IN
4. Madrid
5. Champs 2022

If I gave a shit about either team Bangkok would probably be up there

Incredibly valid point, and that also puts Sultan on the table (tho I don't think he'd be better than vo0kasu)

Ethan, idk why but he just has an irritating aura to me

What players could they sign to make an Ascension winning roster? I feel like pretty much anyone not already on a successful T1 team would flock to them and I imagine they'd try and build a Russian speaking or just general Eastern European roster so with that in mind I feel like they'd have a pool of players that looks like:

chiwa
purp0
Kiles
rexxtoned
Razziss
SimonD4rk
B1SK
Insidser
Kr1stal
vo0kashu
f4ngeer
Anq
Jady

Of these players I'd say the best roster they could make is:

SimonD4rk - Duelist
purp0 - Flex
Kr1stal - Initiator IGL
Anq - Controller
vo0kasu - Sentinel

Would be an elite roster icl

EMEA

APKS
GM8
KOI
FUT

AMER

FUR
2G
EG
MIBR

PAC

ZETA
TS
BME
GE

CN

NOVA
TEC
JDG
WOL

Champs Format

Without leaf teams have stopped violently pissing all over the stage whenever they go against G2 and letting them dictate the game entirely because they're not as scared of the firepower diff anymore

Before Toronto it felt like half the teams in Americas just gave up on beating G2 before they even stepped on stage and thought it was physically impossible

But without the best senti in the league on the team anymore the other teams are way more willing to exploit any weaknesses in G2's comp and aren't as afraid of being punished for any risks

The only reason it hasn't been absolutely slapped with the nerf hammer is because the community thinks only dogshit players who can't aim use it

EMEA

FNC, TH, TL

Tier gap

BBL, NAVI, KC

Tier gap

GX, VIT, FUT

Tier gap

GM8, KOI, APKS

AMER

G2, SEN

Tier gap

100T

Tier gap

NRG, LEV, LOUD, C9

Tier gap

KRU, EG

Tier gap

MIBR, 2G

Tier gap

FUR

PAC

PRX

Tier gap

GEN.G, DRX, RRQ

Tier gap

T1, TLN

Tier gap

GE, DFM, NS, BME

Tier gap

ZETA, TS

CN

BLG, EDG, XLG

Tier gap

FPX, WOL, TE

Tier gap

TYL, AG, DRG

Tier gap

TEC, NOVA, JDG

Brother are these guys who literally just switched to Val from CS? Wtf is going on?

KOI and DFM kinda mog all these teams icl, would probably put ZETA instead of DFM

Ah, that's the pubic hair of a vlr user

What a wonderful day to be visually impaired

Who would win The Battle of Abysmal Dogshit That No One Cares About?

KOI being decent? Contenders for playoffs? We are reaching undiscovered territory gentlemen

Coinflip Corp vs Gluevistar KOI

Regardless of what team you expect it to be, they still 100% molest APKS this team couldn't even make M8 choke

Cuz Jesus Christ this is egregious

batu and AvovA need to go back to university bro

Deadass I think this makes them a better team

Get this bum back to his office job

PROFEK KNOWS BALL

Every single costreamer mogs Shanks he's a brainrotted loud = funny streamer who's there to react to clips

Sideshow, TMV and FNS are top 3 for me

Except starxo he's an eternal bum since 2021

He's him, he's that guy. When PCIFIC win Ascension he will be the greatest prospect in Valorant history

Him and sonofcar duo would be immense

Because there's zero reason to watch SEN vs Furia

If SEN lose disband

G2 bro it is NOT that deep

Or possibly drop the absolute bag and getting Less if he comes back to Americas

EWC is so Mickey Mouse but I still desperately wanna count it as a big win for my team

Maintaining consistency vs being a fanboy

Do NOT ask Smoggy what he was doing in the 1940's

Can they beat KOI and save their orgs last ever season of existence from being a complete and total failure with zero upside or are they destined to never win (they physically can't beat FNC or TL)?

I mean I think it'd technically be fine it'd just be a ton of extra logistics

cauanzin and Alfa were able to compete in Lock//In before turning 18

Tbf PCIFIC Ascending in 2024 would've been worst case scenario since their 3 best players weren't old enough to play in VCT, tho honestly I think the age limit should be reduced to 16 for Ascension winners

Coinflip Corp just wake up every morning with a 50/50 chance to push top 5 or nearly lose to APEKS

BBL and NAVI still good so I think EMEA is fine atm

Toronto, we were absolutely cooked gng

OG Guild is basically the poster boy for this question

The streets can only wonder what Guild could've done at LCQ and then Champs if the Twisten transfer went through and they didn't have to play with bum ahhh Yacine

Would've been generational, o7 Twisten

Get Meteor on DRX bro imagine DRX with Mako, Meteor, HYUNMIN, free1ng and Lakia bro I'd be creaming ong

Honestly I think Americas has by far the weakest average of all the leagues

Like in the battle of pond scum, KOI and TS would absolutely molest Furia

And in the battle of top 4, MIBR SEN and then like maybe KRU or C9 maybe are probably never pushing into the top 4 of an international in current form