he's asking a question unrelated to his skill. I think you might need to improve your comprehension skills, but we already knew that considering you think anyone gives a singular fuck about ranking up to an elo that's filled with literal toddlers without object permanence and 70 year old senile veterans with parkinsons. maybe next time go and read a book, buddy!

only way is account verification through linking some sort of identification that's not easily forgeable. but i don't think people in countries where it's not already required would be too happy to need to link their phone number or id in order to play a video game. any other way would be inefficient unless they install something that hard locks your actual pc to a singular account, but that'd get a lot of flak too

Throughout my experience playing valorant, I have found that queueing into games diamond or above has negatively impacted my fun. This simply could not stand, due to the ringing in my ears that comes from people getting tilted at actually close games where everyone is trying. As a result, I have formulated a strategy to preserve my low mmr and have learned to be grateful for what I had in bottom elo.

1. "Lurk" every round. Playing separated from the team gives you a better chance at making the round losing play, and maintaining bottom leaderboard stats. This also decreases the chance of you accidentally getting traded.
2. Unbind your walk button. I have been in situations where walking around the map in a fugue trance has unintentionally benefited my team through collecting info late into the round for a rotate. In order to ensure that the enemy knows where you are at all times, run for at least more than a single second for your footsteps to be heard.
3. Desync your economy immediately. In combination with the previous two points, it allows you to disrupt any possible economic advantage your team might formulate. Always make sure you die in positions where it is impossible for your teammates to retrieve your rifle during their saves.
4. Always lock smokes. Bonus points if you smoke in areas that make it impossible for your team to play the game normally. If someone complains simply claim that you've never filled smokes before and you didn't have a dodge left.
5. Last but most importantly, if your teammates ever address your obvious inting, provide some plausible deniability by claiming that you are new to the game. Never resort to counter-flaming or any sort of legitimate rebuttal, due to the possibility that you could get reported and punished for running it down. Surprisingly, from my experience this has also contributed immensely to teammate tilting, which significantly increases the chance at losing horribly due to them accepting the situation they are forced to endure.

Let me know if this helps!

xlg? I was talking about LOUD at madrid!

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why'd you ping me for ts bruh you're banned

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beat opponents previously seen as worse than them = too easy of a run
beat opponents previously seen as better than them = wouldn't win against them again
beat opponents in close fashion = pure luck won't happen again

man, all these lucky teams sure showcasing how VCT's gotten worse am I right? I sure do hope we could go back to 2022 when the REAL teams played AMIRIGHT!??

they're pissed scared of playing LEV on ascent and floated Split. Breeze is a perma ban so it's not like they could go for that. but atp actively picking a map you're 1-4 on is ridiculously troll no matter how you slice it

he's already declared cn so yeah

Which would add to FUT's image as long as they don't shit the bed

That grand final would be oozing aura all over the stage

The meta's been pretty dynamic and we've seen some absolutely beautiful games. Most of the stomps are due to good play on one side more than it is a slopfest all around

he's probably the smartest when it comes to on the fly utility. his util on all of his agents is sublime

They're a top 3 org in Crossfire, have a top performing league team, a top team in honor of kings, have a top team in mobile legends. they're absolutely massive and have expanded to a fuck ton of games

they were still top 10 itw last year iirc with their middle-pack performance. they're absolutely massive

Highest rating against XLG. Let's go Jieni!

Atp it's EDG just being good at producing role players

Beautiful game. That split was a masterful showcase of how to play double duelist from EDG. JIAYOU CHINA

platchat said this and all the teams so far have done the literal opposite

when that mf sees his teammates getting shot at he swings so quickly it's not even a trade atp he turns it into a 2v1 before the opponent can react

he's the only player on EDG rn who's consistent with his util fundamentals it's so beautiful watching him play

Crazy what happens when he's not forced to change agents every map every 2 weeks

Blame Gflu for the lights being too bright for them. We're SEATED and paying FULL attention to this glorious gift we've received

FUCK no they WILL go triple ot EVERY map

Should've beaten them in the first round LMFAOOO we're watching PEAK now and you WILL LIKE IT

FUCK that good valorant shit. We LIVE for the slop

WE'RE BACK TO THE REGIONALS WITH THIS ONE BABYYYYYYYYY

Vindicated once again. Ripping heads SMOOVE off

It's mainly because he's seen as a weird player. Not bad or anything but just weird with how he makes his decisions. Most of the legitimate discussions around him revolve around his calling and reads, which is very deserved due to how well he can problem solve in-game whenever their actual curated gameplans aren't dogshit. His mechanical insanity is par for the course for a lot of fans & non-vct cn fans alike due to how long he's been in the spotlight by now & how some of his rare dumbass decisions tend to outweigh his good qualities in a lot of people's eyes (especially haters)

I get why that is since he performed pretty average domestically but what makes him such a pivotal piece is the fact that he is a very fundamentally sound player. He has good awareness and is very intelligent on the macro side of things. It's crazy how unfortunate some of his deaths were when he had a good position

On the watch-back of the game most of the kills Jieni7 was getting were outright game-winning. Most of the time whenever he died on defense it was due to a misstep in a peek or being caught while trying to reposition before a site hit. I know it's pretty bold to say he'd be top 30 but if he just becomes a bit more consistent his statline would increase to a point where there would be some conversations about him. And that itself makes him scary as far as performance goes imo

Against FUT he actually played high% most of the time and only made hero plays whenever EDG absolutely needed it. Even domestically he was a little average, if not above-average as far as EDG 5th players go (a bit better than how he did last year). Now he seems way more comfortable in his skin on the international stage compared to champs. He got the time he needed to properly melt into his roles without schizophrenic agent changes and he looks like a monstrous system player. Not a hard carry as far as x-factor goes, but his impact is essential to how EDG plays now.

The crazy thing is that he still made a sizable amount of simple but important mistakes on Pearl even with the amount of clutch anchoring and round-winning duels he was doing. If he straightens out some of his more gooberish moments and defines his round-by-round consistency he has an argument to be a shoe-in as a top 30 player itw.

AG's main problem is not having a consistent mechanically above average 5th player. Their main attack-side playstyle revolves around setting up F4ngeer to heavy frag on op with an entry fragger that can rip heads off to crack the site open for him during postplants and midround calls. On defense side they're more reliant on their site anchors to hold by themselves against whole execs while they rotate so they can get a more potent flood or retake with their entry duelist hard wkeying to clear the path. After Au1 left they haven't had anyone who can consistently fill that need on viper/sentinel and duelist no matter how they switch the roles around due to both Youze and Bai not necessarily being consistent in that metric (or consistently bad in Youze's case). Unless that's fixed I wouldn't necessarily like their odds of taking games against top 6-caliber opponents.

People saying they didn't look like it was affecting them when they drew XLG
How about bringing up how they were JUMPING UP and IMITATING NOMAN'S 3K???
they sure had a lot of energy in the game when they were winning!

LEV, FUT, and Vitality are all still in so anything could happen. The only guaranteed outcomes as far as region wars go is that China is guaranteed to out-place at least one region minimum

if a fanbase on a completely different platform is enough to ruin your viewing experience of a team then you're mentally delayed and lack a developing frontal lobe. it's a bunch of bot accounts and teenagers on twitter spamming ai images WHO THE FUCK CARES??

it'd be disappointing if FUT did all that bming just to bomb out. they need a run that matches their energy and meet EDG again. I'm sorry but G2 NEED to lose

in 2025 out of BLG, TE, DRG, XLG, WOL, and EDG, three of them experienced debilitating issues at some point in the season during their international appearances. EDG was a hot mess behind the scenes, XLG had to play with a language barrier & a last minute replacement in Toronto and still almost made playoffs in champs with Noman, DRG's only international appearance involved visa issues and yet another language barrier with their 5th. Only Wolves, TE and BLG could be said to have had "normal" experiences and out of the three Wolves actually amounted to something and BLG & TE shit the bed.

XLG lifting a trophy before G2 would be unfathomably funny
no one should ever take them seriously again if that happens

it's fun when it's at his expense

"vibes merchant" undersells his emotional impact & oversells his in-game impact. Zellsis wishes he was putting up NoMan's numbers on duelist while actively emoting

they won pearl due to his clutches, even if he was doing some weird shit that costed them some in return. but all that proves is that he WILL be the difference maker, since EDG's scoreline on Fracture was largely due to his late round impact and multi-frags. his site anchoring was insane against FUT

no
yes, no but they did make fun of their reactions in the press conference

they realized their biggest issue was confidence and once they grew self aware in that aspect they started gradually improving on-stage. great to see

HE'S THE BESTTTTTTTT
AND CUUUUUUTE

his fatherly maternal instinct rubs off onto all viewers, making us feel a deep love and respect towards him due to his kind nature

well that was more G2 getting blindsided by EDG's fracture. FUT 100% knew what they were gonna get going in and invited all the flak with the bm. I don't have a problem with shooting bodies n shi but doing this invites this type of attention so they gotta own it

i KNEW this reminded me of a game. How could I forget Monyet's fun in the sun at Madrid LOOOOL

now can't even muster up a smirk while fist bumping LMFAOOOOO WELCOME TO PLAYOFFS MOTHERFUCKERRRRRRS