1 - 4
OpTic, Guard, G2, LOUD
5-8
Fnatic, DRX, Paperrex, NIP
9-12
KRU, Liquid, Xerxia, Zeta division
Remember this is MY OPINION
Edit : Fnatic with derke is 1-5 but it's hard to place them specifically. And 1-4 is not placed in order
brave played for less than a month with them, so saying that they lose a lot of firepower with a sub on the team is just a false statement. Esp cause FNC is a strat based team which allows for player flexibility as proven by FPX time and time again. They just need to be able to teach the sub all their strats and set plays and it will be like brave never left.
Turret whiff is just him, that has nothign to do with team play or indiv skill cause i mean he proved it that very round that he is insane.
I think as well the fact that they have a few matches against quite mediocre teams allows for them to build up more chemistry so thats a good thing. Once they get to the final bracket play, they 100% have a really good shot at winning the event
G2 hasnt performed at all. All of their wins are questionable and the best they did against FPX was 3-1 and they got destroyed on icebox and again FPX didnt even have their A-game on show on the day with a vital player missing from the team.
TL has looked and continued to be garbage the past month. They could barely beat Navi (ofc theyre a good team but considering just a few months prior TL were slated to win Champs, this was just a super poor showing byt hem) and they werent able to beat any team except Guild and G2 earlier on in the stage.
DRX didnt get worse losing lakia cause he just didnt fit the style of the team, he was kindof like an ugly duckling in that group. Losing kking tho i would say would have been a hit, had they not had such a good replacement for him in Zest which id say is an overall better and more consistent player.
Again liquid is lookin like a pile of liquid shit, super inconsistent after champs, and constantly sabotaging themselves by running the most stupid comps ever, and having Jampi on a non fragging role (though his sova is cracked af)
FNC losing braveAF mightve been a hit, but Id say its not mainly because teams with setplays are usually very adaptable since they only need to apply it to their sub, and also Brave was also only on the team for like less than a month. If it was someone like derke that couldnt play then yea i agree, but Id say other than him they can just have a decent flex player fill his role.
All of you are wrong this is the one true ranking that is quite undeniable
1-4
FNC, DRX, The Guard (if they dont crumble under the pressure), PRX (yall actually sleeping on prx)
5-8
Optic (this is assuming that they play like they did in this challengers cause they are playing so poorly compared to what they used to be), G2, KRU, Loud
9-12
yea put the rest down here idrc
Honestly after 1-3 the rest of these teams are quite close in terms of skill, well at least most of them, id be able to move them around with each other no problem
Lookin at V1 vs Optic, C9 vs Optic, and V1 vs C9, I think its quite clear that you cant translate how good a team is by doing that.
100T beat both Acend and Gambit and were actually the only ones to beat them for that period of time all the way to masters (in an important match at least). Could you say that 100T were in fact at the time the best team in the world? Not by a long shot
I also mentioned that honestly i think the competition this time around (other than Zeta) are quite neck and neck. Id probably say you could move around the teams quite a bit and it would still be quite a valid list. I just thinkk the top 3 i put up there are solidly gonna have the highest chances to win Masters