PRX fans every year:

1. pre-season "we're the best team in pacific, our pookies are finally gonna win a trophy this year"
2. lose to a pacific team "well they're just the best"
3. have a good domestic split "we're back in form, we're favourites to win masters/champs"
4. get eliminated "we need an igl, drop jinggg, drop mindfreak, drop alecks, we can't just w gaming and aim diff anymore"

Rinse and repeat forever

you did not watch kru vs loud haven if you think they're not bottom 3 rn, that shit was embarrassing and I was a kru believer

I think it was a financial issue, if I had to guess vit probably spent a shitton this year and fnc couldn't match the offer

he seems like an onliner rn but he needs more time

I don't speak spanish/portugese enough to know how likeable the SA teams are but 100t are lower surely. Also demon1 and c0m have a lot of haters so idk about lev

zekken is chill, the fanbase is unbearable. Only prx fans are as bad

idk how you guys put up with a team this inconsistent it makes me mad and I don't even have skin in the game

prime fns numbers goddamn

Sucks but I think riot moved it because they were unhappy with viewership last year and figured they could get na viewers to watch before americas starts

Before I thought people were just trolling but this bind he was pretty invisible aside from the 1 A hold he did, asuna had way more impact for his team despite lower stats

literally nothing to do with what I said

no need to get so pressed, the 100t look good in 1 map then troll script is kicking in

1 map in and we're psychologically diagnosing a whole team?

I'd say fade combos better with tejo because of tether so probably her. Also sova takes alot of work compared to fade on fracture because if you don't come up with a bunch of good unique dart lineups he loses a lot of value

I'm an eg glazer but acting like figuring out fracture meta in 2025 is gonna be the same as in 2023 is kinda dumb, the game has changed too much. Its like saying fnc and vit are gonna have the best lotus because they have fnc 2023 members

EG and EDG vs LOUD at tokyo 2023
KC vs FNC at kickoff
FPX vs FUT at shanghai maybe even though I don't really rate matches that didn't end up meaning anything

people cope about this stuff by saying shit like "all teams have the same amount of time" or "this will test how quickly teams can adapt" when the issue is that the level of valorant will simply be lower than if tejo wasn't playable. I don't really care which team is the fastest to find/abuse a new meta every 3 months only to fall off as soon as people have time to antistrat them (like kc 2024), I wanna see teams have complete and refined playbooks and spend the year perfecting them. All these changes do is lower the rate at which the overall level of valorant rises because teams have less time to spend on improving the fundamentals

train's been out for months though, only reason it's controversial at all is because some pros say train is not competitive as it is now

them finally getting rid of foxy9 and selling him to a regional rival as a fucking sentinel of all things kinda makes me believe for the first time since like early 2023

the fact that people still care enough to litigate this is proof babysasuke won

because he's a selfless duelist who's flexible, likeable and has super flashy clips. Also people know his ceiling is trophy caliber, unlike a keznit. He gets glazed a bit too hard at times sure but I don't see how his year was too different from someone like less or cauanzin for example, both of them had mediocre stats on a team that didn't do anything of note (loud making madrid and farming china doesn't mean much to me) but are still widely considered top tier players

I'm never gonna be mad at no icebox and breeze

true, also an actually good organic storyline that made the annoying freaks who treat players like kpop idols mad as they won a trophy over their pookies

only thing brazil is good at is being annoying on vlr

100t vs mibr first match at kick off and also brazilians hate boostio

aspas touching the trophy in 2024: flirting
boostio touching the trophy in 2023: harassment

sen and g2 only trash talk if you care about the org’s social media manager more than the players, the players themselves never really do it

Icebox
Breeze
Sunset

observations can be opinion-based, those things aren’t mutually exclusive. I promise you this is not as deep as you’re trying to make it lol, I have no issues with them placing 2nd and didn’t mean to imply anything bad or offend anyone. All I was saying is how they did it doesn’t really seem replicable watching it back

it’s really not that serious man I’m just making an observation

I’m rewatching champs 2023 playoffs because I wanted to compare it to this year and I forgot how lucky prx were to even make it to grand finals. They literally pulled unreplicable wins out of their ass vs loud on lotus and eg on pearl, it was like a cruel god cursed them to make 2nd again

If I’m a riot employee scripting this event I have edg or sen win, gets them the most money

so just 2023 but with different teams?

to me at least the meta felt way less puggy when skye was op because info was so easy to get, idk if that means the skill ceiling was actually higher or not but it felt like teams were throwing rounds way less than they do now. Also the storylines culminating in champs were peak, eg underdog run, prx jingg last dance (at the time), loud running it back vs fnc and ultimately ending their dominance

skye nerf made every match feel like ranked compared to last year, plus the map pool has been dogshit all year, fuck icebox

your flair literally won champs in front of a home crowd last year so yeah I think it's a coincidence

which team do we support now? DRX look good but idk this tournament is too hard to predict

bro is reality shifting looking for a universe in which emea isn't dogshit kkkkkkk

counting regional trophies the same as international ones is actually embarrassing ngl

he’s making fun of the way fnc fans overhyped them going into champs saying derke was best duelist itw and boaster learned to frag

foxy9 missed a shot, died and then mako and buzz rotated and killed everyone. Repeat like 5 times

EG (unless potter leaves), Heretics, KRU

The law of EMEA states that whenever one team does well internationally, all others must suck ass. Some experts refer to this law as the law of the one team region.

if I ever get this acoustically obsessed with regional dick measuring contests in a video game just put me down

not only are the the storylines not as good as the past couple years, the map pool has been so ass all year long and I hate how puggy everything feels ever since the skye nerfs

2023 champs just had goated storylines tbh, fnc looking for the 3peat, prx with jinggg leaving, eg with the craziest underdog story in val history, loud coming back into form after a dogshit tokyo. This tournament doesn't really feel like a culmination of the year's storylines except for geng cementing themselves as the goats I guess

literally emea 2023 again lmao, geng are their fnc

what happened is that a team which literally started practicing together during last year’s champs and never really stopped peaked early on when other teams were still getting their shit together. Then once other teams got more familiar they fell off. Not that complicated

none of the cn teams except maybe fpx would make playoffs anyway, edg are fraudulent

no one should be surprised that prx get a lot of first kills, the problem is they throw the man advantages afterwards. Based on current form G2 probably beat them again unless they troll the map veto