SEN fans are going to learn the hard way why mako is the best controller player in the world after he default dances all over SEN

Honestly I will take a DRX third place for this team's first international

DRX G2 Trace

cender is a fantastic igl so literally switching kicks for leo on vitality would make the team go really far.

navi deserved to die for this.

DRX literally has to go up against americas americas americas EMEA and china. i think americas wins this champions sadly.

high ceilings but if trexx or sayf dont shoot back at 120% potential, they lose. thats their win factor. runner and kicks need to go.

NOPE. russ sucked so hard its impossible to fathom how he was able to just tear apart what could have been the greatest team in valorant.

that is where you are wrong. leo sayf trexx and one other good player could win things

you dont even know half of it. they were walking ult orbs. im not lying. they would lose a 2v1 against fns.

I WIL SCREAM FROM THE ROOFTOPS FOREVER! SAYF TREXX LEO BEST TRIO CORE IN ALLL OF VALORANT HISTORY. YOU CANNOT BEAT THIS NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY

rare Lulkylettuce W.

yeah that was a FANTASTIC call from cender, even fns was impressed by that.

OMFG TREXX IS 3-0 AGAINST ASPAS, TRULY THE BEST

nope, trexx clears by a lot.

i TOLD YOU SO

trexx is the best player in the lobby and im not even trolling.

vitality will only win if trexx starts shooting back.

omg i actually want to see sayf get in someones face and jack them up, preferably aspas

AHHH AUTOCORRECT I MEANT TARIK

Sad because when they say they had a tough year, they are probably talking about the passing of daveeys affecting the team coming into 2024 :(

Fns solo watchpsrty clears basically everything else. I dislike tarik because he talks too much during games and Ardiis is a flaming racist so I would rather not watch him.

Ok so the plan is to perform omen into the ground and buff astra to an astronomically high degree. Cool sounds good to me. Excuse me while I become an astra main again.

I don't think any jinxes can work to save this version of prx. Edg is looking very sharp this champions

why are we bumping a thread out of 100 others about lakia???? the match was yesterday!

i think its that DRX winning something is such an alien thought to us given that they are the ultimate chokers. they have switched up the team though, and mako is only looking more and more comfortable as the igl. DRX also has flashback, who never fails to perform in a series, even if it is a bit. so if international LAN mako continues through playoffs, they have a very good chance even if buzz or foxy9 choke or something.

PRX suck, they are not the favourites. only delusional PRX fans (im looking at you LulkyLettuce) actually rate them higher than EDG.

NOOO i wanted VIT vs DRX to happen in the finals! two of my favourite teams this year battling it out immediately? idk what i would do.

its most initiators that are on good teams that go through this issue. i was just talking about this on another thread about DRX and their initiators "underperforming". stax "underperformed" but was actually doing his job, same with beyn. i am sure that there are other examples from other teams. not many players can both frag out and set up their team unless they are the best at what they do or if they are baiting.

i guess it never occurred to me that this was GENG's first international loss before the finals of a tournament. of course it would break their mental because its like what happened in pacific league, but they were able to recover there because the teams are worse. the loss to TH must have really broken their mental because they didnt expect to lose so early maybe? this roster will only get better with time because they already have such a strong mental game.

Leo deserves to be reunited with his fellow teammates sayf and trexx on vitality who he got so harshly ripped away from in franchising.

Spicy take, you should hope that vitality wins today because if they do then this ranking might actually be spot on.

LITERALLY DONT DO ANYTHING. this is a vlr try not to overract challenge: impossible. Lakia has perfect util and you can't deny it, and there's always a reason as to why he doesn't frag out. His util usage from 2021 is all I need to see to know that he is doing his job for the team.

B because texture and derke and buzz are three of the top duelists throughout the history of VCT for their entry ability. I get scared watching players get rushed by any of these three and that's a sign of a very good entry duelist.

Beyn is underrated. I have explained this before but on DRX it is often the initiator who takes the role of full support with util for the team. Before it was zest, then stax and now beyn. They have fragging ability but their role on the team doesn't allow them to frag out. It's different from baiting because they are still assisting and setting teammates up. Take a look at the number of assists that beyn gets and it's like 2023 mako numbers. It's crazy. Long story short, teams like DRX will always have the background support player that makes everything work smoothly. Mako is the only player on the team and in general who was able to do both at the same time which is why he's the best. But beyn is amazing when he needs to be.

It's only good if it suits you... KC absolutely didn't deserve to be at champions and if vitality didn't go on the run they did, KC would have made it to champions when they weren't just the worst team in playoffs, but also worse than teams like M8 and TL that missed out on playoffs. LCQ is better because it actually sends the team that is performing the best through to champions, especially if the lcq format is good like double elim. Also we saw that champs points were redundant in regions like pacific where the teams in the middle were evenly tied so it was like a 4th spot for whoever won the knockout match. RRQ is better than both TS and talon but because they lost to geng and didn't have a second chance like they might have had in an LCQ style format, they missed out because they unluckily got matched against the best team in pacific every time a single elimination or LAN qualification match came up.

I want my username rated

-vanity +vanity buff comes to an end.

no but can someone actually answer me as to why we think its ok to hate on geng for bombing out of champions, when LOUD and EG also sucked at some point in their best years?? this is proof that its very difficult for a team to stay consistent for an entire year, and in the 4 years that VCT has been going on, only one team has done it and even they are falling off now.

actually i really love vitality but trace and G2 recently have won my hearts...

SO REAL BECAUSE I WAS DOING THE EXACT SAME THING

wow, its almost like LOUD didnt do the exact same thing in 2022 and ended up winning champions and its not like we rated them as the best team of the year back then, right?? or like how EG almost didnt qual for masters tokyo but ended up coming second and winning champions, despite not even coming close to making it for masters 1 2023, right??

hijacking this post to ask everyone: what are your predictions for top 4 this champs?
i will go first:
TH, G2, DRX, Trace.

Honestly I thought the other geng players would get even more love considering lakia doesn't frag out. I think people don't realise that not everyone is meant to be a a fragger on a team. The initiators tend to not frag out when they are supposed to support. I know from his early days that he was always the type of initiator that solely works on setting up his teammates. Geng also did so well this year and that takes all 5 players stepping up, especially when you are against the best of the best players in the world.

no EDG will win.

not NUTURN, i would have remembered if it was a team like DK, F4Q, TNL, NUTURN or RIO or WGS but it was another team idk what it was. this was after masters 1 2021 so it wasnt T1 or C9 either.

GUILD vs FPX masters 1 2021 i think. it was so fun to watch. For NA is was GENG vs IMT in challengers at some point, and i know that for korea the first match i watched was VS against some random KR team that i cant remember the name of now.
edit: this is why i love guild and more specifically sayf and leo. and why i hate ange1. i was cheering for guild so hard and this boomer comes in and shoots their heads, and i thought who is this ange1 guy i hate him.

I haven't watched all the games so I can't say but trexx definitely deserves to be there.

Unless it's a grand final or 2024.

TOP4??????