what classifies as a flex

ive heard ppl say chroni is a flex but he has less agents played in vlr than d4v41 (20 vs 22) ?
is d4v41 a flex?

Well he mainly plays sentinel now so not anymore, but yeah id call him a flex player

D4v41 isn’t a flex anymore but he used to be

PRX has pretty flexible players. 4 of them are duelists when you really look at it.

Gotta do yoga

PLaying every agent in the game. Wish doesnt happen. Flex is again a lie.
Role are

• Duelist,
• atk/pseudoduelist (Aka 2nd duel Chambre, Veto, Flashers, sometime KJ),
• Reveal,
• def/pseudocontroller (Aka controller, lurkers, Cypher, or just agent you use to take space like Sage, sometime KJ),
• Controller

Everyone on prx flexed at some point

i think if u regularly play at least 3 different roles ur a flex

In VIT, I would say chron is their senti meanwhile sayo will be their flex but generally chronicle has been regarded as a flex since he has historically been the player to fill multiple roles for FNC depending on whatever their take on the meta was and teammates' agent pools.

D4v41 isn't considered a flex since he is generally playing sentinel for PRX (also yes we consider viper a senti).

(Side tangent: Playing lots of agents doesn't necessarily mean someone to be a good flex, in fact it says more about the team than the player themselves. I think being a good flex isn't something you can just look at how many agents has X person played but rather how good they are across multiple roles)

a long long time ago, a flex usually played raze in one map then flash init on the next cause jett + raze was starting to get played in some maps like split and jett players realized they cant actually play anything else (other than chamber). Double init with flash was also more popular.

today, a "flex" might play just viper, like munchkin for geng last year cause the team ran the viper+senti comp on almost every map

a flex is prob just someone who fills that last slot on a team comp that no one else can play, but today more and more teams have players that play different roles between maps

Well flex is a role in itself, you could have been a flex and swapped to a different role. Chronicle was a flex on Fnatic but on Vitality he is most clearly a sentinel player

Flex is often the role for the person who isnt the primary role for the team.
For example in EDG

Smoggy is primarily controller
Chichoo is primarily senti
Zmjjkk is primarily duelist
Nobody is primarily recon inti
and CB just plays the role that is needed otherwise

different meta's have flexes play different things. Viper and Flash intiator is usually associated with flex as they are usually that 5th player role, this meta is stranger because most senti players moved to viper since senti is kinda shit rn and flex's dont play flash inti that much either since they are also kinda shit. Yoru is kinda the flex pick rn, but also depends on the team.

More agents doesnt necessarily mean more flex. It just depends what the team needs.

I think 0nzila is the ideal flex if we're talking about number of agents

if they play at least 2 roles and 2=<agents per role

I think if they can play all roles i guess

both of them have kinda standardised to playing sentinel (including viper) now

i think you could look at both as long-term flexes if that makes sense? they dont play more than two roles at a time but they have changed roles when needed many times throughout careers

PatMen is really a good definition of a player to look at when you wanna know what is playing flex means

an item in game that you hold in your hand by putting it on your spray wheel and selecting as if it was a spray

asuna

forsaken always been prx flex player davai roles always been filling in roles, currently he only playing senti but he still play smoke on some comp astra/brim this kickoff...

when mindfreak still on the team he probably more flexible playing senti/smoke/ini also jinggg now can play omen to fill in smokes on some comp

Not a flex tbf played sentinel role for more than a year now

I mean i simply differentiate it based on style
If you can play an aggro style only, thats that, but if you can oscillate styles between aggro or passive, lurking or with the team, that is what id call a flex.
Multirole is the one people use but i disagree, it is not flexing