based off history, aspas has won all his first matches of champs playoffs. surely mibr beat th based off the aspas prophecy.
based off history, aspas has won all his first matches of champs playoffs. surely mibr beat th based off the aspas prophecy.
TH should be the heavy overdogs and they have a tendency to crumble when the pressure is on
whoever wins this matchup gets top 3. i think both teams win gx/nrg to get to upper finals
i think mibr having shown both corrode and abyss might hurt them here, TH can either ban abyss and hard focus anti corrode with almost a 100% guarantee mibr pick it, or they do have an abyss and mibr have no footage on them, on top of that i do think TH have a crazy strong map pool rn, their haven, ascent and bind were all super strong before the playoffs crashout, and lotus and corrode were the 2 maps they needed to work on most, and TH are 3/3 on new comps rn so mibr cant even be sure that the footage they do have will be correct.
eric_5008 [#5]TH should be the heavy overdogs and they have a tendency to crumble when the pressure is on
TH either crumble or dont tbh, they have never won a game at an international and not made the grand finals, they either bomb out 0-2 (madrid, toronto) or go to finals (shanghai, champs, ewc if you count it))
eric_5008 [#5]TH should be the heavy overdogs and they have a tendency to crumble when the pressure is on
ig there's no pressure to win arguable one of the biggest esports events in the world and 500k?
HIMNIJ [#7]i think mibr having shown both corrode and abyss might hurt them here, TH can either ban abyss and hard focus anti corrode with almost a 100% guarantee mibr pick it, or they do have an abyss and mibr have no footage on them, on top of that i do think TH have a crazy strong map pool rn, their haven, ascent and bind were all super strong before the playoffs crashout, and lotus and corrode were the 2 maps they needed to work on most, and TH are 3/3 on new comps rn so mibr cant even be sure that the footage they do have will be correct.
mibr will pick and try to antistrat sunset. they haven't played it yet but seemingly prefer it over bind (https://www.vlr.gg/542200/bilibili-gaming-vs-mibr-valorant-champions-2025-opening-b/?game=233413&tab=overview) even when their bind looks great
lotus is their permaban, they seemingly like haven more than ascent but im thinking they will choose ascent to avoid antistrat since they played it twice now
TH is apparently permabanning abyss and bind and will likely ban both if mibr doesn't pick it. if it does they are prob banning sunset? i guess they like ascent or haven more but its difficult to know
im guessing:
th bans abyss
mibr bans lotus
th picks corrode
mibr picks sunset/bind
th bans bind/sunset
mibr bans haven
ascent remains
troy [#9]ig there's no pressure to win arguable one of the biggest esports events in the world and 500k?
More like when people expect them to win, they don't but then go to the lowers where no one thinks they can win but go on a run like last year at champs. No one believed in them when they went down 0-2 against FNC then played the best valorant of their lives the last 3 maps. I do think there is some weird psychology behind it
foythvlr [#10]mibr will pick and try to antistrat sunset. they haven't played it yet but seemingly prefer it over bind (https://www.vlr.gg/542200/bilibili-gaming-vs-mibr-valorant-champions-2025-opening-b/?game=233413&tab=overview) even when their bind looks great
lotus is their permaban, they seemingly like haven more than ascent but im thinking they will choose ascent to avoid antistrat since they played it twice now
TH is apparently permabanning abyss and bind and will likely ban both if mibr doesn't pick it. if it does they are prob banning sunset? i guess they like ascent or haven more but its difficult to know
im guessing:
th bans abyss
mibr bans lotus
th picks corrode
mibr picks sunset/bind
th bans bind/sunset
mibr bans haven
ascent remains
i think its unlikely TH pick into corrode, they can either force mibr to pick it or force them to ban it and go insta to bind or haven, cause if MIBR dont pick it they basically have 0 prep vs TH and if they ban it TH get a free pick basically
foythvlr [#6]whoever wins this matchup gets top 3. i think both teams win gx/nrg to get to upper finals
actually I feel that NRG are favored to win against MIBR, but that won't matter if they lose to GX lol.