I don't think it's just that. SEN was also very ahead in the early 2024 meta in that they pretty much mastered the post-plant counter set retake strat. Early 2024 was super heavy on the postplant spam offsite meta so they capitalized on it. In 2025 they are still running this set retake style, but people understand this style of play now and don't really use as much util on their executes to counter this. On lotus, DRX had omen flash, breach stun, etc ready for the SEN flood retake and it paid off so many rounds on C. Playing hard anchor is more important than ever now, and it is even more viable with agents like vyse.

Just my two cents as an armchair vct analyst

I feel like international experience is a bit overrated. If you have t2 experience + domestic regional experience in LAN tournament environment with stakes its basically the same no?

true believers never doubted

His aim is so good that I think he will put up good numbers on any agent. It's only a matter of him getting used to the utility. He has been duoqueuing with hyunmin playing init so he is putting the work in to learn the role.

If you have any understanding of the game you would watch a singular G2 game and understand that teamplay wise G2 is the best in the world. Now add in insane individuals like leaf, jawgemo, and trent. This team is NOT overrated. Always SEN fans with the braindead takes, really not helping the stereotypes.

they are probably a top 1 Americas team vro

Free1ng is DRX initiator player since Flashback is senti main. He roleswapped after CN ascension. If you look at DRX offseason games he was playing sova, skye, etc.

I think SEN might be bottom 2 teams at this event, crazy how overrated they were by everyone. Also crazy how underrated DRX were.

me too!

Tenz coping about first game jitters after lotus wipe when the entire SEN roster is arguably more experienced at internationals

calling it now Americas looking like the weakest region

Became a SEN hater because nobody believed in DRX

LOL SEN IS THE MOST OVERRATED TEAM AT BANGKOK

WHO'S TALKING NOW S0N FANS UR TEAM JUST GOT CLEARED

he also has insane stun usage tbh but its mostly his aim

why keep him stuck in chinese tier 2 when he is a top 5 tier 1 player?

yeah ur not crazy
I remember too and I thought he would be way better for SEN than he has been

literally everyone rated apac so low for no fucking reason even when DRX looked insane

Sen were rated too high, DRX clears

hyunmin drops 90

cultural ignorance

all in on it youre gonna win

I'm hoping foxy9 is right because he has so much potential as a player and has been role swapped everywhere for his whole career. It would be a shame to bench him when he is just starting to get used to the sentinel role.

why mith censored?

L move

wow way to shift the narrative. no, you are because of your shit takes on APAC and CN

koreans can speak japanese pretty fluently bc its basically super easy for them to learn

whole lotta talk for someone who legit knows nothing lmfao

nah he's full on

i swear saw this exact post like 2 weeks ago or smth

xeppaa's contract length must extend every time he ends an NRG player's career

tldr: platoon video summary

Having eggster on the team is lowkey an issue since he literally doesn't play anything besides yoru. If he can diversify his agent pool rankers will be insane

no hyunmin is insane

Low energy is an understatement, he literally admit he doesn't VOD review, aim train, or practice outside of scrims in an interview, and that his dream was just to not work ever. He literally just plays valorant professionally because he's gifted and can't be bothered to try working at anything else.

Was I wrong with any of these statements? G2 is the current best team regionally while EDG are the latest international title holders. FNC did nothing internationally all year while MIBR is barely looking ok with aspas hard carrying. These matches aren't even comparable. Not saying SEN suck, but I really don't understand this weird ass logic.

Aspas knife kill on Zellsis and subsequent desk slam

Org didn’t achieve anything, it’s the players

What bet did you lose?

L ragebait but sen fans will fall for it

SEN lost to G2 then lost to G2 again, are you braindead? You are comparing with objectively worse teams. MIBR gets cleared by G2, and EDG won champs so they clear FNC. Ofc SEN can win after losing since they are literally playing lower bracket, objectively worse teams.

he already had his life game vs aspas, it won't get any better from that

Yes ur on crack

free1ng played other initiators during the offseason and looked pretty good, plus he was playing senti during CN ascension and hard carrying every match. I'd argue he's even better than johnqt as a flex.

free1ng and johnqt have been tejo one-tricks for all of kickoff, wdym they aren't comparable?

I'm only coping about beyn, but I'm pretty sure individually the rest all clear in their respective roles atm.

Zekken has had less dominance this year while hyunmin is looking like thanos.
Free1ng is mechanically insane and insanely good with tejo. Woot reported him for cheating during champs seoul because his aim was that good.
Bang has been decent but nothing special all of kickoff, while Mako is hard fragging while IGLing.
Flashback clears zellsis mechanically and plays the lurk role way better than zellsis can.

korean zellsis clears

hyunmin >>> zekken
CURRENT BEST DUELIST APAC > TOP 3 DUELIST AMERICAS

free1ing >>> johnqt
BEST TEJO WORLD > BEST TEJO AMERICAS

mako >>> bang
MOST CONSISTENT SMOKES PLAYER OF ALL TIME > JUST ALRIGHT

flashback >>> zellsis
ONE OF THE APAC SENTI > BUNDLE MERCHANT

beyn >>> n4rrate
KOREAN ZELLSIS CLUTCH MASTER > OFFROLE INITATOR PLAYER

DRX win 2-0

iZu has been playing really solid on literally every role since last year, give this guy some attention

unordered top 5 of recent times

duel:
zmjjkk
aspas
hyunmin
derke
mada

init:
trexx
kicks
s1mon
mazino
trent

ctrl:
karon
mako
keiko
smoggy
s0m

senti:
berserx
leaf
chichoo
nAts
shyy

flex:
chronicle
iZu
sayf
meteor
kai/fengf duo