It was just reply for the guy who said that ACE can only play one map. Even though their Breeze is really good as well.

Acend is good team and great fit for cNed IMO. The fact that he can dominate as much as he does just shows that he gets all the support needed. They have great synergy on average as well and seem to be good friends.

and Breeze

Both of these teams have looked bad so far in Berlin. Especially when you compare this to their EMEA gameplay. There is still a chance that team like Acend could activate and start showing their true potential, but it doesn't look good. While 100T looks even better than what they did in NA. If Acend wins they could make it hard for 100T on Bind or Breeze IMO. But, outside of that it doesn't look good.

idk but Acend looks weaker than usual IMO

Yeah that's crazy. They looked so good in EMEA even if they lost their seeding games. Just feels like individually they are lacking, their decision making has been pretty bad, they constantly have wrong reads etc. Its so weird especially from team like Acend that is really reactive and good at adaptation. Now it feels like they have no idea what to do. And the think is that SMB isn't playing that great either and they are still struggling. Still not sure are they worse than Paper Rex though.

I mean its pretty clear that they banned Haven, because they got fked by VS there. Trauma. Like I know that they have their reasons, but if you think about it that's terrible ban from Acend unless they prepped Ascent/Split like crazy.

These map bans are terrible from Acend. Like why would they let Ascent and Split slip through against SMB? Acend's 2 worst map and SMB's 2 best map.

cNed hasn't been performing that well outside of their first game against SMB. Same can be said about most of Acend tbh.

What? If Gambit doesn't choke and their mental stays good they have all the chances to win against VS and vice versa. I don't understand how out of nowhere VS became this super team who will go to finals without any problems in some people's heads. They had great read on Acend while Acend had bad read on them. That is what decided the match between the two.

Acend would almost certainly pick Breeze over Icebox if it went that way. Breeze is like their best or 2nd best map.

How is that copium? Gambit could win against VS and they could even match up pretty well, and ACE could make it to finals if they play to their fullest. People are really underrating them after one bad game. Having to win against 100T and then SEN is really really hard, but its not impossible.

I know and that's why I don't think they have a chance against other teams than VK/KRU and maybe Envy. And maybe against EMEA teams if they haven't changed too much.

I believe in Acend. They also won Masters 1 EU as the underdogs. Beating Team Heretics in the finals who were at the time undoubtedly best team in EU and most likely one of the bests in the world. They can do it again.

I think G2 is type of team that will not perform that well first time around they face new team, but will unleash their full power 2nd time with godtier prep work. I think we saw this with F4Q and SEN. So, I'm not sure how far they will go. I think I would rate them higher than VK/KRU anyway, but I don't know how they would do against Gambit or Acend/SMB. They have faced against those teams not that long time ago, so they could potentially have good prep, but I'm not sure how relevant those games are anymore. And I think they would lose against 100T and VS, because of this, but has potential of beating nV if they get that far.

But at the same time they might eliminate 100T or Envy first round.

Avova is really good controller player. Plus his aim is good and sometimes he is really clutch player.

Who is your pick?

I don't know are G2 just this good, but this looks so weird from Sentinels. Maybe we aren't just used to see them getting aim diffed left and right? Kind of sussy

2-0 for Acend

respect

So why bring it up when its literally irrelevant? Anyone who follows different Valorant regions knew from the start that Vision Strikers could make a deep run. In my head they were A tier team with pretty much every EMEA and NA team outside of G2 (Sentinels being only S tier team).

I hope you realize that these odds are just made by some system that uses it's own ways of counting the odds of each team winning the whole thing? Those numbers are irrelevant outside of showing which regions might be the strongest and which might be the weakest. If I'm not wrong they had F4Q at like last or 2nd last and that doesn't make any sense for anyone who follows different regions. And even that order makes complete sense if you look at Iceland placements NA#1, EMEA#2 and KR#3. They can't detect how teams from different regions actually match up.

If you only watch region's wins and loses then yes. But, if you actually watch the individual matches then not. I've said many times that SMB is struggling, but outside of that Gambit, Acend and G2 really aren't.

Sentinels NA #1 winning over G2 EMEA #4 is expected. Gambit were dominating 100T, but ended up choking 10-3 lead on match point map. And their mental was just boomed on Split. Vision Strikers played really really well against Acend and they were super prepared for every move Acend made. Both teams played really high level of Valorant, but VS had the better read and were able to win. I didn't predict this to happen, but it was completely possible. SMB is performing bad and that is what I'm going to say. We literally only had 1 proper NA vs EU matchup, since you really can't count SEN vs G2. And 3 KR vs EU matches were G2 won over F4Q twice and VS won over ACE. And Envy is in pretty free group tbh and they were expected to get 1st seed. That is not copium.

Outside of SMB not really. Unless PRX or CR pulls the biggest upset ever there's going to be 3 EMEA teams in the playoffs and the games there are going to be single elims. 100T had all the chances of winning over Gambit (I actually predicted them to win) and VS had all the chances of winning over Acend (they were clearly underrated based on predictions and their gameplay against ACE). G2 was put into same group with Sentinels, but managed to win both of their games against F4Q. EMEA isn't struggling unless you expected them to dominate every region. OUTSIDE OF SMB!!

I'm not too sure about that. There is reason why NA, KR and EMEA were and still are the favorites. If you watch domestic games SEA looked way weaker than these 3 regions. Same for LATAM, BR and JP. You just simply can't say "SEA is better or as good as EMEA" after watching Bren vs Paper Rex and Gambit vs Acend domestic games for example. This time around SMB didn't quite meet their EMEA performance for a reason or another while Paper Rex looks way better than what they did domestically.

Nah. Everyone was expecting NA to be the strongest region this time around even based on the fact that they have Sentinels. Gambit could have won their game against 100T and were dominant on first half of the game. Sadly they choked and 100T clutched. Acend had bad read on VS while VS knew exactly what Acend was going to do. Bad individual performances from majority of Acend players as well. G2 isn't the greatest, but they would win against most of the teams outside of NA, EMEA and VS. Huge overreacting from people. And LAN SMB seems to be pretty weak.

SMB are onliners and PRX are playing pretty well. EMEA will make comeback you will see. Gambit and even Acend still has great potential.

If SMB played like this during EMEA they wouldn't have made it far. Like wtf is this level of gameplay?

I never run so I don't have data

You need to take the groups into consideration and the amount of games and against who.
Heat vs Envy, ZETA
F0rsaken vs VS (weaker VS)
TenZ vs G2, F4Q
Yay vs VK, KRU
Asuna vs HL, Gambit

post useless shiet and get upvotes

Acend, VK, Gambit

No hate towards PRX, but I think people are really overrating them after their close game against VS. VS were doing pretty default stuff against PRX and still managed to take the win. It was clear that VS had spend most of their time studying Acend and making strats against them instead of focusing on PRX. SMB also struggled a little against Acend, but as long as their players are somewhat awake they should just be able to team diff PRX without much of difficulty in my opinion.

Currently maybe T1 and Team Liquid. FaZe, G2, FPX and Fnatic are good candidates as well.

can't go wrong with nitr0 or zombs

SMB 2-0 PRX (VS didn't care for PRX that's why it was closer than we thought)
VK 2-0 KRU (Close game, but Heat diff)
SEN 2-0 G2 (G2 could take a map, if Sentinels play too similar to their past matchup or if Sentinels doesn't care that much)

I come from future
:
----[nV vs ACE]
----------------------- [ACE vs SEN]
[SEN vs GMB]
------------------------------------------- [ACE vs 100T] ------- [ACE]
---[100T vs VK]
----------------------- [100T vs VS]
-------[VS vs G2]

MVP: Cned

that's true. SEA > LATAM makes sense.

NA > EMEA > KR > BR > LATAM > SEA > JP (maybe swap LATAM and SEA). KR only has VS, so that's why they are below EMEA.

I mean they could have a shot against Envy. Realistically they either want to face against Vivo Keyd/Kru as #1 seed or against Envy as #2 seed.

Koldamenta is the IGL of G2 and used to be the IGL of Acend. Also Soulcas was the main IGL of Team Liquid with Scream, and now he is secondary IGL on Team Liquid. Also Soulcas is still young and I feel like he will just get better and better at IGLing. He is smart player. Soulcas is best candidate for the initiator/IGL role IMO.

Boaster is good because he is IGL and his Sova is decent, but I'm not too sure about his fragging power. He looked good on that field during Iceland, but domestically he hasn't looked that good fragging wise. Now when I look back at it I would most likely take Soulcas over anyone else. He can frag, still has one of the best Skyes and he has even played Sova on maps like Ascent. He would need to play and learn Sova more, but I think he has potential. He also used to IGL for TL and at least to my knowledge he calls quite a lot in TL to even this day.

ScreaM has better aim and he is more carry than Nukkye, but Nukkye's agent pool is better. ScreaM never plays Raze and I feel like its essential for flex player to be able to play that agent. And I feel like learning Phoenix for Nukkye is easier than learning Raze for ScreaM.

Why not? He is one of the best sentinel players EU has. The fact that Fnatic signed him for 3 years tells a lot. Only someone like nAts would top him. pAura is good contender as well, but I see more potential in Magnum.

EU super team:
Entry - Cned
Rifler/flex - Scream/Nukkye (Phoenix or Raze)
Controller - Avova
Sentinel - Magnum
Initiator - Koldamenta/Starxo/Soulcas (depending do you want Sova or Skye specialist, Soulcas best fit IMO)
I would pick Chronicle for initiator role if he speaks good enough English
And even though I think nAts is best sentinel player EMEA, I would still pick Magnum, because I don't know how nAts would work on this team. Also some of the players would need to learn new agents. For example they don't have proper Viper player.

NOT TRUE
COPIUM

G2 win over nV, GMB win over Sentinels and Acend win over 100T
....
GG

Going according to plan