kiNgg is literally ranked 2nd in all of Americas, and he’s proven himself at a bunch of LAN events. Tuyz isn’t even looking like a top 8 controller in Americas rn, that’s how stacked it is.
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kiNgg is literally ranked 2nd in all of Americas, and he’s proven himself at a bunch of LAN events. Tuyz isn’t even looking like a top 8 controller in Americas rn, that’s how stacked it is.
It’s really just statistics from this year. I explained this above w archetype, but basically since I’m not counting anything igl related, he hasn’t been good enough to justify that status.
For initiators, I’d say the greatest concentration contenders is in Americas but the best two are in EMEA (Leo and Shao) rn. In Americas, Crashies is the only WORLDCLASS player I counted, but Xeppaa, Runi, Nzr, cauanzin, and zekken (when he’s playing them) all have the ability to make that top tier of player on initiators. I also think Sacy and Mwzera ARE WORLDCLASS players already, but they didn’t make the top 25 by vlr rating bc rough team performances recently.
Buzz hasn’t touched duelists since this season began (aside from one map on raze). Thus I didn’t consider him a duelist and instead called him KJ/Kayo flex.
Yeah I mean he’s literally just a viper main but in the current meta I’d call that secondary controller. Some of these players were really hard to place (like sheydos/trexx/leaf/zellsis, etc). I usually differentiated them by pure flex/duelist flex, and if they used to main a certain role, I kept them in it, that’s why crashies is still initiator and Victor is still duelist despite all the flexing NRG has been doing recently.
I did not factor in IGLing at all, hence why Saadhak and FNS weren't considered WORLDCLASS. It's not good practice to give guys like Stax an exception without doing that for everyone. Even if Stax is the best player itw mechanically when he's not IGLing, I can't consider that for this list.
F0rsaken is still playing duelist every once and a while, and Foxy9 isn't worthy of being called top tier when he's never played on an international stage. The only guy I call WORLDCLASS who hasn't proven himself on LAN internationally is Something and that's just bc his numbers are unignorably insane. After Foxy9 dominates on LAN, then I'll promote him.
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Including his IGL abilities yes, but mechanically and statistically; no he's not right now.
kiNgg is a better controller on Lev rn (or at least secondary controller). Mazino isn't an up and comer true, but he's also not top 3 controller material at the moment; that's why I put him in the category with Khalil and Jakee
sadly I know my audience
Boaster actually appears but he doesn't count
DISCLAIMER: This is a super subjective post; obviously it does not account for every player and makes large generalizations. It also only considers franchise players because I'm too ignorant about APAC and EMEA ascension teams. I'm going to put results first because I know everyone loves that, but I'll put my methods below. Enjoy!!
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Even though they're missing the arguably greatest controller player right now (Mako) a surplus of insane controllers saturates the Americas franchising league, with more undoubtedly incoming after Ascension.
WORLDCLASS Controllers in Americas include:
leading the way with upcomers,
having a bit more to prove.
Honorable mentions in this category, consisting of WORLDCLASS players who have been shafted this season by less inspired teams or role switches, are:
In the wake of the chamber meta, EMEA's lethargic adaptation of the agent proved to be in their advantage as they currently hold a monopoly on top sentinels.
WORLDCLASS Sentinels in EMEA include:
with,
also appearing on the top 25 players in EMEA franchising.
Pacific's top 25 list is much more rounded than EMEA or Americas, and their WORLDCLASS player list doesn't indicate any major numerical strength or weakness. However, typical of some of the Pacific league's fondness for ultrafast pace, high intensity playstyles, the duelist roles stand proud here, counting more primary duelists than any other region. And yes, the three current top proven duelists in Pacific are all on the same team. Take a guess which one.
WORLDCLASS Duelists in Pacific include:
with,
capable of becoming WORLDCLASS players in the near future.
Honorable mentions here include:
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Now of course, we must do the flipside.
The end of the chamber meta hit the Americas hard, and these days only one pure duelist can be considered WORLDCLASS, that duelist of course being Aspas of Loud, an absolute demon. Zekken of Sentinels and Leaf of Cloud9 are WORLDCLASS players as well, but fulfil a flex duelist function. Moreover, in the top 25 players ranked by VLR rating in the Americas, only 5 of them are pure duelists and 3 are flex duelists compared to 7 duelists and 2 flex duelists in EMEA, and 7 duelists and 1 flex duelist in the Pacific. The Americas lacks in pure duelists.
EMEA suffers from a massive drought of top tier controllers. In their top 25, the highest rated controller is Boaster, mainly due to Fnatic's dominance over the League. They have 0 WORLDCLASS controllers compared to 1 for Pacific, and 3 for the Americas. Part of this is due to EMEA IGLs, usually the bottom fraggers, preferring the controller position while Americas and Pacific IGLs have recently taken over the flex/initiator positions most prominently. Hopefully, ascension brings new life into the EMEA controller scene.
The Pacific league has 9 initiators in their top 25, more than any other region with Americas possessing 8 and EMEA possessing 6. Despite this statistic, only one of those initiators can be considered WORLDCLASS: xeta of T1. None of the others except perhaps stax of DRX approach the same tier. On the other hand, Americas has one initiator in WORLDCLASS with two being snubbed by their team's performances and another five within spitting reach of that mark. EMEA has two WORLDCLASS initiators, Leo of Fnatic, and Shao of Navi, with another three close behind. Many of Pacific's initiators might be deserving of the WORLDCLASS title, but until they prove it on LAN, we'll never know.
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That concludes the essay! I gathered this data by taking the top 25 players from each region ranked by VLR rating, then color coded them based on role (Duelist, Initiator, Sentinel, Controller, or Flex), and then took the top 7 or 8 players I thought were deserving of the WORLDCLASS label. I then italicized the other players I thought approached that label but needed to prove themselves a bit more to earn it.
If you would like my color coded Excel sheet that I gathered this data on, feel free to dm me. If you're insane and read this whole thing, thank you for reading :)
This comment ruined the bait, made it wayyy too obvious
Nah actually though. In a few weeks I think I'm just gonna delete my login and leave forever. This place is so fucking annoying sometimes even though there's some good people.
Tf kinda argument is this, imagine fnatic without derke or navi without Shao? They wouldn’t be nearly as good with t2 players in those spots.
MISTIC?????
Bro just get Valyn + Trent and you’re golden. That covers IGL and initiators. You do not want sick playing for this org rn with all his mental health problems (hope he gets the help he needs)
Of course of course. I'm in the same boat, you've seen some of my longer posts I'm sure.
allat shit slaps
Great post and W analysis!
Just for future reference, some of the tenses were a bit confusing like in this line: "They're actually in a brink of elimination until they pull off an upset win against Gen.G that put them back in the contention for playoffs".
I think in this case, you'd want to use past tense, and say "they were" instead of they are and "pulled" instead of "put". More fluidly, it would read "They were on the brink of elimination until they pulled off an upset win against Gen.G that put them back in contention in playoffs". Also just make sure to use future tense (so "win", "would be", etc) when describing possible future scenarios with if.
This is all super nitpicky, so I'm sorry about that, but I figured it might help you in the future. Really great writing and really great information, thank you dude!!
Not boF7ooM telling nutable he hasn’t been here long enough 💀
Respect the second best (and only other) EG fan
AND I TOO HAVE THIS DREAM
He did pack up and move out of his girlfriends house after throwing a tantrum, and then came back the next morning tho
That's kinda wack ngl.
What’s crazy is he isn’t even a baiter, he’s just a moronic asshole with some wack ideas about women.
No way. Babysauske is by far the better person out of the two. He's unintentionally dropped the façade once or twice; shownu has always been an insufferable prick. It's the difference between an awful person and a goated baiter. Do not disrespect my Faze copium goat like this
Wait this is actually super interesting; I gotta look into this identification pattern, and if it holds up in a general case.
LMFAOOO this is one of your better posts ash. Glad I caught it.
Is this "ours" in the room right now?
Actually mce clears but they’re both good
Come here to apologize to Potter and EG. They just beat a contender for Tokyo after having a close match with Loud so I can't wait for you to admit that you were wrong yet again
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Just woke up, did not expect to see a 2-0 global against geng and a 1.44 rated Skrossi. What happened?
Also RRQ 13-8’d DRX on haven???
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