There's no way I will be caught dead watching lothar omfg. I don't love mako enough for that

Your pickem for group a and b is exactly the same. D is very similar too..but literally everything in group c is flipped for me lol

no. flashback definitely stepped down before estrella was going to replace him. i think estrella was going to sub in for beyn to relieve mako of igl duties. this with flashback might have been a solid team if flashback locked in but he was already looking worse and worse in the beginning of stage 1 from last year.

i meant i dont think it was termi's fault that flashback left. mb, i didnt make that clear.

I don't think flashback leaving is his fault, but the constant lack of success from this team which always has had amazing players on the roster. Termi is literally the only common point between all of them. He is undeniably a good coach when it comes to building up and scouting potential rookies but something about the culture he creates in the team leads to the team falling apart in high stress situations. DRX at their worst chokes unbelievable leads. DRX at their best causes other teams to choke insanely.

what rank are you?

oh are you j*b-phobic like me? the word alone causes me grave distress

no one wants you here clearly so get off this site

AS HE SHOULD BE

once delighted has convinced his followers to switch to his flag and flair, australia should be number 1. just look at how many seychelles flags there are on this site all of a sudden.

i am petty and spiteful when someone disrespects me so I ragebait to make them feel how I feel about them. also i like to subvert expectations. irl, no one would ever expect me to ragebait others, so I have started doing it to keep everyone around me on their toes

oh i see i misunderstood your point. mb. you could hardly tell that this was the guy who got dropped for "being toxic". i thought you were agreeing with the first comment in this thread.

i think it's the pacific curse. every time they win an international tournament, they never do well going into the next one. GENG wins shanghai? bombs out in groups at champions. T1 wins bangkok? they don't make it to toronto. PRX wins toronto? perhaps they choke horribly in the GF at champions.

i put it in quotation marks because that is what the rumours are, and flashback has been on and off on this roster for other issues so I myself are doubtful that that is the actual reason. but those are the rumours and I am just emphasising that flashback asked to be put on the bench at a really bad time. its almost like you are incapable or reading between the lines. it doesnt matter why he said he wanted to be on the bench, all that matters is that HE ASKED FOR IT HIMSELF. TERMI DIDN'T CHOOSE TO TAKE HIM OFF THE TEAM. you are literally focusing on the wrong thing just because you want to blame termi for all of this team's problems. stop it.

idk if that the right one I can't find anything about him talking about trexx there

timestamp please

sorry. i get very defensive when i think anyone is insulting my controller goat

he deserves to be crashed out on. how come DRX has thrown MULTIPLE playoffs opportunities if all of the players are meant to be good? how do players leave the team and do better on other teams when DRX was never able to produce results better than a mere 5th-6th at internationals? there is simply no explanation for the number of times that team has choked apart from the coaching.

when has one singular player (that doesnt play the duelist role) carried an entire team to an international? never. look at every LAN stat for DRX's rosters. they all flop in playoffs except for mako. i am praying for the day he leaves that org. in fact, i hope that DRX get removed from franchising just so that mako is forced to join another team, a team that would actually use his talents to win a trophy for the pacific region :(

delighted gets to hit 10000 posts

#sylvanownsmako??? ok that is just simply not true. mako is still the korean controller goat just for his longevity, but even now he is still better than sylvan. sylvan is good but not THAT good.

Sylvan was imo the best player on that team in stage 1. I have no clue why they would drop him, especially considering they won a masters with him on the roster. I don't think T1 is making champions.

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20k steps is a lot. i think setting realistic expectations is much better than aiming high and not reaching it at all. my step target is 14,000 because it is challenging enough that I have to actually try to hit it and it also takes less time than 20k, while also being less physically taxing.

the igl role has been an issue since 2022. if DRX have not found a competent igl to lead this team in that long, then idk what they are doing. i understand why DRX signed estrella and that flashback put them in a bad position, but if they are just going to drop estrella to make mako igl again, i don't like this move. it's going backwards instead of forwards. perhaps freeing will pick up the igl role, but at the moment i am not impressed with the fact that termi is willing to drop both beyn and estrella for flashback and a new rookie from the academy roster so soon. this team with beyn has and had potential early this year, so what is the need in dropping beyn again? it makes no sense. why bring him back if he is the first on the chopping block? that isn't fair at all.

omfg just give mako to T1 and let this team crumble already. and its not like mako is the only good player on the team anymore, but he is the one who has to suffer the most from termi's shitty roster moves. I understand mako plays better when he isnt igling but is it that hard to find a better korean igl than estrella? surely we can do better than that?

even if we talk about the defender side though, there are still 2 options of duelists that are far and away better than the rest due to their fast travel around the map, and it is once again yoru and neon. without these 2 duelists, the round will be decided pretty much in the first minute because there isn't enough time for other agents to move around the map, and only 2 agents in the game can fake pressure on one side before very very quickly entering onto the other side. and once again there are only 2 agents in the game that can switch from holding A to holding B on defense very fast. and thats yoru and neon.

Win it all because the trexx slanderers exaggerate his supposedly weak mental too much.

i dont think this is a room temperature take. some of the duelists are far and away a much better pick due to corrode being a big map with long rotations. yoru and neon already stand out as better duelist options, especially because entry to site isn't simply by dashing into the site, but instead involves multiple layers to it and may involve gradually carving out map space as there are multiple choke points, especially on the entry to A. the other duelists don't have enough util to clear all of these spots as the entry as effectively as a yoru or neon (or raze to an extent) can, or will take a long time on the rotates which is not ideal.

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+meteor and GENG wins champions EASILY.

as a mako fan, it would be my dream to see a korean team that HAS won an international to poach mako from DRX but both karon and sylvan are too good to be replaced, even by mako.

you're the bot. the rest of us are rejecting the bot takeover on vlr.gg

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yeah this is also a decent solution

i remember this from years ago where every week there was an article on news almost missed which was just about roster moves in tier 2 leagues and results in leagues that not everyone has time to watch or pay attention to. i wish it would come back because without it I feel out of the loop on most tier 2 and below leagues.

oh it seems she swapped with jelly on mibr gc. that's insane aura farming, joining the team you just beat 3-0 while top fragging for your old team 🥶🥶🥶🥶

to see how good a player is, you simply have to account for the team they play on. a pro can't carry four tier 2 players to any tournament, and a player can look much better than other players if they have good teammates behind them who set them up well for success in their role. zekken has fantastic players surrounding him which multiplies his fragging ability because he is given those opportunities to show off his skill. aspas' previous teams have dropped dramatically in quality after he left, which suggests that his raw skill played a large role in the team's success, and his ability to do this with 3/4 rookies (idk if we count artzin as a rookie) only emphasises this further. aspas isn't doing this with 4 veteran or established players who know what they are doing. He is doing it with players who are far less experienced and may not be as good at giving him the chance to perform to his best and he is still doing well. sorry for the essay, i am just in a talkative mood today.

the issue i see is that most of the people who troll the game are doing so on other/secondary accounts instead of their main, so a ban on their account means nothing to them. this gives them the freedom to act however they like with minimal consequences and if riot cracks down on this issue, the antisocial behaviour will solve itself eventually. something like IP bans for a certain period of time on players that are banned for whatever reason would encourage people to act better by enforcing a punishment on a person, whether or not they are using multiple accounts.

i want to see DRX winning champions, but that is a delusional dream at this point. they are the only top team in pacific without a trophy now, and it is sad to see that especially FOR MY GOAT MAKO

perhaps, but why are they so afraid of something they don't experience often? this suggests that these types of players feel threatened by women in their game, so they have to act out to re-establish control over the situation. this is all speculation though. I am not a mind reader unfortunately so I can't truly know why they act like this. In fact, I don't even think the people themselves can explain why they behave like this because the behvaiour is so irrational and illogical that there can't be a sane explanation to explain the root cause of the problem. women don't comm because they experience exponentially more toxicity than men in a male dominated space like a video game, but why do they experience more toxicity than men when playing video games? i was proposing an answer to this question i posed at the end which is why my answer sounds so absurd.

my concern with this thinking, that i did not include initially in my comment (which i should have because i was thinking about this response too) is that not everyone will have the same abilities. to make another comparison, valorant is not cs where every player on either team has access to the same util, making it so that some agents, or all agents (which is what you are proposing) have abilities that are buffed which decreases the value of having a gun, something that every player on either team has access to as long as they have the money for it in game. being a one trick will be less valued with nerfing certain abilities, but is that a bad thing? also, no matter how much you buff an agent, there will always be a skill ceiling in terms of the ability usage. but this is where other aspects of your gameplay will link in with util usage. the power of an ability is not solely in its use, but also in the timing of usage, the placement, etc etc to maximise value from it. while theoretically you can master an agent's ability usage in terms of the tricks you can use the ability for, it would not matter if you become predictable or complacent just because you are able to exploit a certain trait of an ability. the skill ceiling of ability usage is not decreased when an ability is nerfed either, because by limitiing it's potential, using it at the right time in the right place becomes more impactful, thus raising the skill ceiling because you need to have a good understanding of the game to know timings and when to use util to get maximum benefit. there is a point where you can go too far in nerfing an agent though, when they fall severely far behind other agents with slightly similar but ultimately unique pieces of util, where there is no benefit to choosing one agent over another (examples: skye over something like kayo due to less util that skye has due to horrible nerfs). there is a very careful line that the devs have to balance on to ensure that one agent does not have extremely overpowered abilities at all levels of the game. in my opinion, every agent in the game needs to have some counterplay to their util because it's just not possible for every player in the lobby to have the same pieces of util in a match of valorant. and with more and more agents being added each year, making it so that the person who invests the most time to learn one specific agent gets such a large advantage over newer players who want to reach the top levels of the game is not a good idea at all. i hope I explained that correctly - everything I am saying makes much more sense in my head than typed out on screen.

the only reasonable (which ironically is not so reasonable) explanation for this is that they find joy in watching women suffer, even if it means that they have to suffer too. perhaps they want women to suffer to assert control or superiority over them, but whatever the reason, this behavious is extremely weird at best.

your understanding of "skill floor" and "skill ceiling" is inherently flawed. you think that the skill of using the specific abilities on an agent is what defines the "skill floor" and the "skill ceiling". but you forget that this entire game is about the gunplay, not about the abilities. we aren't playing overwatch out here. having a raze just pumping you in the face with double satchel judge undermines the value of skilled gunplay since a worse player can just grind raze double satchel lineups and beat better players with a gun that requires less skill. omen one ways make it so that you can shoot an opponent before they have any chance to see you, which means people who are worse at using their gun can win against players who have better aim. this will always be a problem in a game like valorant, but the devs try to target the most blatant and unavoidable instances of this to make sure that players reap the rewards of working on all aspects of their game, including gamesense and aim/mechanics. so in a way, this is evening out the skill levels in ranks and raising the skill floor by decreasing reliance on abilities being able to win several rounds alone by giving a massively unfair advantage to you or your opponent.

yeah i wish the worst upon the person who decided to massacre skye just because of her flashes being a little strong. now she is unplayable.

why do i think this team actually has a chance to make internationals in some franchising leagues (I won't say which ones but we all know which ones I am talking about)

how long do you think will it take for your "room temperature takes" to become boring? i hope you don't just start saying the valorant equivalent of "the sky is blue" or "grass is green".

please stop coping. i am getting second hand embarrassment.

at least we will be kept entertained as the audience (i like to see the bright side of things)

stop pushing this narrative. flashback left the team due to "mental health issues" midseason. do you think termi wanted to be in a spot where he had to integrate 2 players to the roster, one being a brand new player? not at all. no coach wants to have to do that mid season, and it isn't surprising that they didn't make toronto because they shouldn't have with such little practice. basically flashback sold the team's chances of making it to toronto.