Its such a bad ult in 2 v 1. Gives xavi too much space and freedom. If you look at xavi's cam after patmen dies he sighs as if he lost hope but after hearing foxy's ult he stops wasting time clearing spawn and just wins the round

Its no coincidence VCT's peak viewership occured between late 2022 and 2024. Pro games were actually interesting to watch, igls actually had big impact on teams with their calls, smarter teams won, you actually learned something when watching the game. OPTIC vs LOUD rivalry was more about saadhak vs fns than Aspas vs yay. All the top teams during that era, Optic, LOUD, FPX, FNC, EG, SEN, GENG, TH and even DRX were all slow midroundy teams, PRX were only exception.

What is getting 0-2 ed by championship team in the opening week of Premier League in Valorant terms? My guess is like C9 losing 2-0 to Bestia

Mechanically it isnt tho. Brim ult wastes much more time compare to techo ult. If you try to do the same with tejo ult, opponent ciuld get half, get off and defuse again. But with brim ult + molly it is pretty much like 15s gone off spike.

It is easy to dodge tho and it doesnt guarantee space like KJ ult does.
Your point about brim ult is kinda wrong tho because brim ult is much better at postplants vompared to tejo ult.

It isnt hating if it is the truth tho. If FNS dropped suygetsu numbers we would say its expected but we naturally expect much more from suygetsu because we have seen how high hid peak can be. It is a praise if anything

It is probably the best ult in ranked below inmortal but in pro level other ults are much better. For example, kj ult is guarenteed bombsite but breach ult isnt necessarily, there might be guys in the smoke with shotguns, pros hit hs even stunned in like 30-40% of the time anyway. I would argue even Fade ult is better cuz you get info+more combos with no sound + 2 body shot kill.

Why is suygetsu getting hate again? What did i miss

Is it the neon ult now? I feel like neon ult 5v5 retake is almost a guarenteed win everytime with how good pro neons are rn. Other candidates are Viper ult (best postplant ult imo), kj lockdown and phx ult. But I wouldnt personally count phx ult because phx wouldnt be played in pro level if ult costed 8 or 9 orbs so it shows it isnt necessarily the best ult in the game

After getting destroyed by demon1 and babybay/leaf in the last week, I think I get why they perform so well against mid to ass teams like us and struggle against Pacific teams, especially against PRX. (I know demon1 in his prime demolished everyone but I would argue com and jawgemo had much more impact against PRX)
Pacific teams just dont give space for these players to breathe. They always fight as group of 3/4 against those star players who shine holding angles and they are pretty much forced to sit in their spawn. It also helps that every player on PRX can hold their own in 1v1s but still fighting everywhere and denying them space is the reason why G2 is struggling against Pacific teams lately

Demon1 shouldnt be able to walk into sites every round and hold spawn in an off angle. My point is if they dont play retake every round, demon1 wouldnt have that much space to shine

It is annoying how its the same problem that cost us every game. We just let our opponents fo whatever they want, play retake on both sites on every map and get caught off guard with our util on both attack and defense. When will our team just grow some balls and fight the opponent in chokes/mains? At least lose with dignity if you are gonna lose.

I sound like broken clock when I say this but any team thats gonna win plays their game and dont give their opponents respect. They gave Babybay and heat all the space and respect they want when they wanted to lurk against us on group stage and now the same thing happened with demon1.

Oh man bring me back to old times when zekken just dry peeks mid and diffs opponents star player and tenz just gives 3k/4k hero rounds when we need it.

I dont know much about comics version of Secret Wars. I just need you to tell me one thing, does molecule man play a big role in the story or is Loki gonna get just 3 minutes of screen time just for Doom to get another mcguffin.

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Apparently fans at D23 were showed the footage of Doctor Doom Destroying TVA and claiming the throne Loki was sitting on. This to me feels so bad because it doesnt make any sense given the powers they gave to Loki in the TV show. Loki can basically timeslip to any time in any universe and he can see everything thats gonna happen. So him losing any fight to any individual just seems out of logic.

Are Russos trying to pull of the same move they did in Infinity war by killing Loki at the start of the Avengers movie just to introduce the villain? I am so disappointed if thats the case cause I love Hiddleston's Loki.

Has it been this baf for past 2 maps as well. Both teams look horrid. So sad som&fns ranked session ended

Dictator and the whistleblower Koalanoob goes 0-8 in First kills to First death in yhe decider map in one of the most important series at the end of the year. They didnt listen to him i guess

I feel like tier 2 of Americas and Pacific isnt that much worse than T2 of EMEA despite the results. Its just that EMEA T1 teams are much worse than Americas and Apac.
You can just see from yesterdays game, suddenly NV roste looks like superteam against decent tier 2 team.
Its true that sub 18 year old prospects look really good in EU but other regions have that talents as well. I mean you can just look at LEV roster and that says it all

NAVI and FNC will be de facto the worst teams at the end of the franchising. Now just imagine telling this to someone in 2022/2023.

I dont think Riot will care about that. I thinm MENA will have a slot next year and only stable org from that region I know is Falcons

I didnt count them because we havent seen how they respond when they have bad results. So its tough to know if they are actually good. All the talent scouting and signing could all be down to just boaster and mini not the GM ing

List 4 teams that will make partnership that were not partnered before. (Ascencion teams like DRG, NS and G2 dont count as partnership teams before)

My preds: G2, Eternal Fire, Falcons, NS

There are lots of talks rn and we will se a lot more talks about how orgs manage their team after we say goodbye to many VCT orgs in the upcoming weeks. I think to actually measure how good the management is you need to look at the org when they are losing because its when the actual side of the org comes out.

For me, best managed orgs in partnership: NRG ( I dont think they ever made a bad roster move, almost every move made sense given the context), PRX (not giving up on the playstyle and the team even when they were 0-3 and losing 1-13 to DFM), TH (even tho they had some bad results, I dont think its because of roster moves).

Worst orgs: C9, Furia, Loud, GE (bit controversial given their recent results but lets be honest they just rolled the dice and blew up the roster every stage and luckily ended up with Patmen, xavi and autumn), TS, M8, NAVI, KOI

Furia exists brother. They went 0-5 pretty much every stage except 2026 stage 1 and they kicked 3 players of the only team who actually had any wins for the org

Alfa is way better player than him and he never looked this good on initiator. FNC were right to let him go

Leaf doesnt deserve the Niko praise lmao. Niko at least performed in Major playoffs/finals and was just ublucky to not have a major. Leaf on the other hand just goes missing in the important games. I dont remember him ever having a good game against PRX since icy left and he always gling missing in top 4 games

I do and I have seen this movie before and 100T unsurprisingly fucking lost against KRU last year in stage 1 and we got 2nd seed instead of 1st. I am never gonna count on 100T to beat a team

Best team itw my ass. Couldnt even beat C9 with a turmoil and they think they are the best in the world. I can already see 100T losing out in playoffs 0-2 and disappointing every fan as usual

There is still a miracle world we can make it to playoffs directly. For that to happen, we need LOUD to win vs G2 (either 2-1 or close 2-0) and LOUD to lose to 100T. We also need to beat KRU.

If I had to say 100T beating LOUD and us beating KRU seems possible but G2 game is unlikely.

But still its looking like we are still gonna go thru playins. We just need to dodge M80 and whoever the 3rd seed is from the other group

Idk man i am getting so frustrated with pretty much everyone rn. Jonahp is making some kind of round losing mistake every round

Serious question

Its so frustrating man they throw every fcking round for the fun of it. It should be 4-2 rn but no they just threw

What tf are we waiting for? Just retake for gods sake

Speaking from experience I assume

I see those shots at the end of the map. He got like 6 kills in 3 rounds ir smth. Hit up man we need to win this series.

I am not saying he needs to be out, its just that he has to turn up now

Its 5 maps in a row Reduxx isnt performing to his level against a better competetion now. We cant win any games against top teams looking like this

I hate this man I haaaaateeeee this. Now after they threw that they tilt forced and now its already 3-0 and nobody is even hitting body shots. Fuck man

True, even if both could do that SEN would still be in playoffs. That was my point

Yeah but if its a 3-way tie in the scenario LOUD wins both of their games next week, there will be 3-way tie between SEN, 100T and LOUD. Tiebreaker is gonna be H2H maps between 3 teams and SEN have the best tiebreaker because of 2-0 vs LOUD

There is no way 100T lose both with their form. Their game vs C9 doesnt matter at all. We just need LOUD to beat them. 3-way tie I am talking about is between 100T, SEN and LOUD and because SEN beat LOUD 2-0, SEN will have the best tiebreaker in every 4-1 3-way tied scenario

Supporting LOUD might be better idea. If LOUD beat 100T and G2 and go 4-1, (assuming we also win) there will be 3-way tie for 1st and SEN will have the best tiebreaker and we might get 1st

Yeah but its imagining the worst scenario. My point was If we win today we are locking playoffs no matter what

If we win today we will lock playoffs no matter what happens vs KRU.
In every scenario we lose to KRU:
1st scenario: 100T go 5-0, SEN and G2 3-2, Sen will have H2H
2nd scenario: 100T go 4-1, LOUD, G2 and SEN tied 3-2, SEN still have H2H over LOUD and G2.

In any scenario 100T go 3-2 we have a chance to be 1st but its just unrealistic

Last time FNS actively supported SEN we won Madrid. Come on Pujan keep it up

You mean the fake on B with shift walking pheonix? Lmaooo

Its last round, 20s left and my guy is on phenoix lurking B heaven when the team is hitting A. Its getting too obvious man lmaoo

I saw that but surely you gotta learn after the backlash you get from that round.

How tf is he 4th guy in everytime when he is on pheonix? Dante, saadhak and mw sometimes even less is going in before heat when they ate execing and retaking. They dropped slientzz for that??

Why?

Has he always been like this? Why does he heavy bait in every situation? I feel like he is the player who plays for kills the most in tier 1. Its like he knows this team is not gonna work out and is trying to secure his job for next year