Idk. I don't play Valorant much at all, because it isn't fun for me and prefer CSGO when it comes to these type of shooters. But I follow the esport scene really closely and enjoy watching it. Sometimes I would want to start playing bunch, but that lasts for 1 game. Valorant just isn't that enjoyable as game and the game doesn't feel good and I just feel really uncomfortable mechanics wise. And overall I don't play that much per day anyway.

maybe just take break until you feel like you would want to try again. But take break that actually lasts for weeks or so so you don't just instantly go back after 1 day and mald again. Take break until you don't really care about Valorant as much anymore and then go back. Also as someone said just make alt account and play like you don't care. Did that with Overwatch back then and it was way more stress free.

yep having same problem or at least had that is why I almost completely stopped playing Valorant. Tried disabling GPU acceleration scheduling or whatever and also went back to old simple tab out screen without animations but those didn't work.

its just issue that happens. I contacted Riot custom support and after everything they just said that its Windows problem and they can't do anything. Microsoft fixed bunch of similar freeze things with other games (like Destiny 2) but to my knowledge there haven't been any mentioning of Valorant.
I'm using Windows 11, but I have heard this is also problem in Windows 10.

but again I have only played 1 max game at time for couple month so don't know has the issue been fixed for me

Yeah arguably best western botline, arguably top 3 western mid, prodigy jungler with good split and top that was bit washed but had a lot of experience. At least that was how it looked before 2022. Kinda funny that both Fnatic and Vitality "super teams" failed, but then teams like Rogue and MAD who got rid of some of their good pieces have done well.

I had so high expectations for this Fnatic, but holy fuck did they turn up bad

no one who can compete in tier 1
maybe some OW pros if rumors are true and wouldn't be surprised because OW is pretty dead

I tried it but fuck the crown system or whatever also feels like you are constantly getting same words at least in basics. Like I understand repetition is good for learning, but how many times I had to translate mom, dad, sister and brother or milk, bread, water etc.

ofc it is I'm actually wondering how many take this as real tier list because I see it being shared a lot in these scrimbux threads

Pine is pretty washed and just started coaching in Valorant

Kind of agree, but tbh, even CSGO FaceIt doesn't have friendly fire.

idk because you would believe them doing well, but at the same time NA has only been OpTic for like past year. Last time any other NA team did anything was when C9 got out of groups.

thanks bro you too

I think I'm the best

Dear Valorant devs,

I'm just your average Valorant player and pro scene enthusiast who enjoys the game you have created and appreciates your continuous effort into making the game more enjoyable for us.

You've done a great job so far into observing the evolution of the game, changing things up so they don't get stale and non-dynamic. You've done a great job with newly added content and testing the boundaries of tac FPS genre.

But I feel like you forgot about me - an average player queueing up to enjoy the game. I'm, of course, not speaking about myself specifically, I'm speaking for the community outcries to introduce a better system for player reporting and penalty issuing.

In the Episode 5 Act 1, I would queue up with two great people I've met online and even with slimmer odds of some random person being toxic or disrespectful towards his team, we managed to stumble upon these kind of players too often. They stopped playing due to multitude of reasons, and simply do not want to go thru those kind of experiences.

In this act, I was mostly solo-queueing. Without exaggerating, 70% of the games (this may even be a lowered number) ends up in me muting someone due to their wildly toxic or disrespectful behavior. Amount of people destroying their team's mental with screaming in comms, telling people to "unlive themselves" and using disrespectful, hateful, offensive and derogative language is too high.

Little tilts here and there are fine, as they can easily end with one person on the team being supportive. I'm strictly talking about behavior that is (supposedly) banable. I'd wish to see more effort being put into creating the new system to help out with this obvious problem or see some welcoming changes to an existing one.

On behalf of majority in the community, as your great work with game balancing and adding in-game content continues, please address this issue. People left and right keep getting unpunished for their inhumane behavior. I'd hate to see more great people leave the game and for the remaining few to be left with players undeserving of their place in the community.

Many of us are on our last few remaining "gg go next" before we leave the game due to this.

Sincerely,
Just another Valorant enjoyer
Dear Valorant devs,

I'm just your average Valorant player and pro scene enthusiast who enjoys the game you have created and appreciates your continuous effort into making the game more enjoyable for us.

You've done a great job so far into observing the evolution of the game, changing things up so they don't get stale and non-dynamic. You've done a great job with newly added content and testing the boundaries of tac FPS genre.

But I feel like you forgot about me - an average player queueing up to enjoy the game. I'm, of course, not speaking about myself specifically, I'm speaking for the community outcries to introduce a better system for player reporting and penalty issuing.

In the Episode 5 Act 1, I would queue up with two great people I've met online and even with slimmer odds of some random person being toxic or disrespectful towards his team, we managed to stumble upon these kind of players too often. They stopped playing due to multitude of reasons, and simply do not want to go thru those kind of experiences.

In this act, I was mostly solo-queueing. Without exaggerating, 70% of the games (this may even be a lowered number) ends up in me muting someone due to their wildly toxic or disrespectful behavior. Amount of people destroying their team's mental with screaming in comms, telling people to "unlive themselves" and using disrespectful, hateful, offensive and derogative language is too high.

Little tilts here and there are fine, as they can easily end with one person on the team being supportive. I'm strictly talking about behavior that is (supposedly) banable. I'd wish to see more effort being put into creating the new system to help out with this obvious problem or see some welcoming changes to an existing one.

On behalf of majority in the community, as your great work with game balancing and adding in-game content continues, please address this issue. People left and right keep getting unpunished for their inhumane behavior. I'd hate to see more great people leave the game and for the remaining few to be left with players undeserving of their place in the community.

Many of us are on our last few remaining "gg go next" before we leave the game due to this.

Sincerely,
Just another Valorant enjoyer

EMEA is best for sentinels, initiators and flex in my opinion.
Leo, Shao, Enzo, Cloud, Sheydos/Chronicle etc. NA is strong for initiators as well. EA falls behind both.
and for flex EMEA has always had the most flexible players and many of them. APAC only having Jingg doesn't prove that they are best at that.

Realistically you can't name single other region for any of these other than EMEA or NA if you look at quality and quantity.

Duelist - NA because they rely on duelist more than EMEA
Smokes - NA because many top EMEA smokers are IGLs
Initiators - EMEA, but NA has good individuals as well
Flex - EMEA
Sentinel - EMEA

Best team in the world

life-haver numbers

ofc he is insane

Hate playing because I'm dogshit, but I like watching LoL esport

Jamppi, on stream always answering questions and welcomes and thanks chatters, hyping up team, isn't toxic most of time etc.

its all fun and cool until it isnt but nice to see that they are enjoying it for now

Russia would roll just pick anything between Redgar, nAts, Sheydos, Chronicle, Jady, purp0, Cloud, Suygetsu, Shao, Trexx etc

but Finland has chances of doing well as well: Derke, Jamppi, Hoody, Bonecold, Iluri/H1ber/someone else
Sweden and Lithuania would be my darkhorses with Finland.

cool picture

Yeah his fragging is quite concerning. G2 has insane individuals, but putting up 10 kills in BO3 (2-0) against team like BIG who isn't the best is pretty bad. Hard to judge his calling/IGLing yet because he has been there for short time.

common minte W

would be kinda cool ngl even as someone who doesn't play Valorant much

I mean yeah that is possibility, but I believe pretty strongly that they will make it. And if they didn't make it I feel like this team would almost certainly be picked up as whole unless they perform badly in Champions. Like people talk about M3C picked up as whole, but FPX Stage 1 EMEA winner, Masters 2 winner and now going to Champions.

No hate towards teams, but Sentinel and 100T fans are most delusional and majority of them don't know what they are talking about. The normie teams.

yeah but he is on FPX like Shao and aren't going anywhere

no

Realistically you would need to make a mixture of nAts, Sheydos, Redgar, Chronicle, Cloud, 7ssk7 and Jady.
Redgar would be must for IGL
nAts would be must for sentinel
but rest is kind of hard. I guess it would have to be nAts, Redgar, Sheydos, Chronicle and 7ssk7, but Cloud is insane as well. And Jady with some time could be really good as well.

NiKo or Twistzz IMO

all time Messi

Duelist:
Jingg - no need for explanation
zekken - did really well in Masters 2 and not the most stacked group(could be wrong)

Initiators:
soulcas - has been in pretty good form this year and I do believe in TL success
Ardiis - was beast last LAN (outside of last 2-3 games) and is in relatively easy group

Controllers:
mindfreak - had great Masters 2 and I believe in PRX
AYRIN - had to pick because cheap, but again I think XSET have decent chance at making it out of groups

Sentinel:
dimasick - kinda had to pick for price, but I think he could pop off in Champions and do believe in TL
stellar - cheap and had decent games in LCQ.

Reminder

Obviously some time has passed already, but when he got unbanned he got offers/talks from teams like Heroic and assumably G2. Like if he now went back and grinded the game for some time he would have pretty decent chance at getting offers from tier 1 teams. He was promising prodigy when his VAC situation became known, but never got the chance to prove his skills in good team. ENCE time was whatever because he was playing off role and ENCE was shit anyway. And now with his time in Liquid he has grown as player and teammate and gotten experience even if it is different game. Also I would imagine his rifling being bit better nowadays as well.

and I understand your point with many teams not in need of AWP player and not that many international teams, but still and maybe team like Fnatic could try to rebuild?

Chamber currently 100%. I feel exact same as you. The fact that you can stand in off angle and just kill someone and TP back to safety is so fucking bad. At least with Jett you had to be in line of sight to positions to escape and couldn't make it far. Also the ult felt more high skill than Chamber ultra fast OP with slowing effect. And as you said there are so many players who have only played Chamber when they have made their name and have no idea how they would perform if Chamber was nerfed.

and in normal games its reyna/jett/chamber instalocks who can't do anything with them

Consistency is literally what separates actually good from worse. He was arguably best/2nd best Chamber in Masters 2 until FPX's final 2-3 games where he wasn't putting up as good of numbers but he didn't even have to.

Same situation as with player like Sayf. People still don't talk about him that much even tho he put up best Chamber stats in Masters 2 and even EMEA LCQ just because he isn't super flashy. Its like in CSGO(if you know) where you have flashy players like s1mple, and then you have players like device who was way more passive/boring and didn't have as many flashy moments. Both are insane and top 2 in their roles during peak form, but both play really different style.

Also in Ardiis case add the fact that he played good Jett and KayO as well.

Good to see many EMEA players. Feel like EMEA players got hard screwed last "top 10 players" list. The underrating of certain individuals like Suygetsu was crazy.

PRX will get grouped

LEC production bestest Really hope we will see similar level on EMEA league at some point but doubt it sadly

cheap tickets, relatively small crowd so it isn't surprising why they sold out so quick. That usually happens even with bigger events.

$40 million

Carlos could build team with best players in each role and still wouldn't win anything in any game

I only upvote myself if I got downvoted for no reason or by known baiter

but overall I don't upvote or downvote that often

But the problem with this type of ideas is the roles. Mistic plays flex aka flash agents. Bringing in nAts as flex player wouldn't make any sense, so then someone else would have to take Mistic's role.

It would be really good on paper, but how would the roles work? They don't have proper sentinel player because Trexx and Sayf kind of share that, but with current meta Sayf is playing Chamber and Jett, while Trexx is playing Raze entry or flex depending on comp and 5th player. So if nAts joins then that means Trexx should play Russ' roles, but then again they would be missing Raze entry.

Why? They already have Alfajer.

That is soo sad, but understandable. Everything comes to an end I guess

Phoenix underrated. I disliked it at first, but when listening more I started appreciating it.

Yeah they are good too, but IMO top Worlds songs are still better. The music videos are really cool tho love Awaken music video its so good.

Warriors and Rise are so good IMO because not only do they sound good and unique (music video also top tier), but also make you want to be a pro. They have that hype grind factor that some songs miss. Like every time I hear "prove yourself and rise... make em rememeber you" it makes me want to grind.