I think he’ll probably be a breach replacement for teams that run flashes on other agents so maybe it’ll open up space for teams to play more yoru

Or on fracture specifically I can see people playing Kayo + Tejo

https://x.com/valorantukn/status/1876275067317063833?s=46&t=-ALQqf74jykY5Y3kUer12g

They’re calling it ‘flex’ the default one seems really mundane but the snowflake one they showed looks really cool

Yeah I watched it again and it looks more similar to an aftershock

So from what I can gather: signature and ult is similar to breach
He has a drone ability (C)
And an ability which looks similar to the aftershock but in a Molotov form (Q)

+1

damn I didn't know Derke was Turkish too

list passes the eye test

im not that high on grubinho tbh, but that might just be because of his teams performance
and idk if im ready to put ruxic at 1st
maybe I'm just a marteen glazer but I'd swap him with miniboo

and in terms of calling I think I'd drop Boo to 3rd

guys if you want more insight in to the teasers @esportsdoug has been doing some good stuff on his twitter

aerospace

as someone studying engineering that would be very much appreciated

I'd love a Spike Nations if it were to only include franchised players
But that might be too difficult to coordinate for a mid season tournament idk

I think most riot staff are on holiday rn, which is why there's been more cheaters recently (afaik anticheat development is sort of an ongoing process)
I think rivals competes more with OW2 and Deadlock, but yeah maybe it'll have a small hit on val
I somewhat agree, I feel like new agent + new map + occasional new gamemode is all the game itself is becoming, I seriously think they need to consider community maps, they could make it entirely in game to not mess with the AC (It would be limited this way but way better than nothing)
They've fixed the VCT scheduling next year, and hopefully for the years to come

another massive day for the unemployed
(im unemployed)

bronzil_enjoyer isnt from brazil or madagascar 😲😲
my world has changed

FNC (🥲) 'King of Icebox' Derke

holy shit I just opened this thread on my PC and bettervlr made it so much better 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

https://i.imgur.com/z81WEWN.png

He’s wearing fucking shorts in the snow 😭😭

Maybe I’m just a hater but the base classic design looks the exact same to me

There’s an app I use to track this, it’s called ‘been’

Here are the countries I’ve been to:
Mauritius
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Bahrain
Kuwait
Oman
Pakistan
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Thailand
Turkey
UK
Canada
USA

And here are the counties I 100% want to go to:

Egypt
Morocco
China
HK
Japan
Jordan
West Bank(*)
Russia
Singapore
South Korea
Austria
Belgium
Croatia
Denmark
Greece
Italy
Luxembourg
Monaco
Netherlands
Spain
Switzerland
New Zealand

There are some counties that I maybe would like to go to:

India
Brazil
Argentina
Kenya
Australia
Serbia
Poland
Cuba

https://i.imgur.com/Rwr53NW.png
hmm

i know, i spent 4 years living in Arabic speaking countries lol

only other word I know is al baab 🔥🔥🔥
oh and hammam, maybe a few more

batatas chibs and a bebsi 🔥🔥🔥

I tried it when it first came out
aiming with a joystick feels soo weird

is it from before kaajak?

someone will dig this thread up in a year (or later) and see which of you changed

he was comparing viewership for each game with EWC viewership from last year
he basically argued why he didn't think the EWC is a good use of the gap in the calendar for VCT

sayf $3
alfa $3
boaster $4
aspas $5

neilzinho $3

use the remaining $2 to buy a burger and bribe ardiis to come in

(imo)
to entry:
raze jett yoru (map dependant)
phoenix if you want non dive

to take second contact:
iso, reyna

say what you want about jinggg as a player but his raze vods are really useful
i watched a bind vod and it really helped me with my pathing

What ranks are you?
I'm tryna play more CS
I'm asc in val so I wanna know how far I can get with just mechanics (ik it'd be relatively lower since the avg CS player probably has better mechanics)

gulp

bump (I'm going to periodically bump this when I feel like it's relevant, I feel like the data is important)

How’s he gonna satchel like that in CS 😔

I broadly agree, a changing meta is what keeps this game unique.
That being said I also think it’s important that pros have the ability to voice their opinions

After being terrorised in ranked I think the neon one is valid

TSMC ever comes back (and is not a fraud) you'll get the VP
4 months and counting I believe in the comeback

I opened vlr at the EXACT perfect time 😭😭
like I'm literally ab to go to sleep and I was gonna see if anyone replied to me anywhere and then I saw this thread at like #28

4 months ago is crazy

I wish falcons didn't leave, I think they defo would've given him a shot

thank you so much for the buddy, i've been trying to get one for years

Sad that he won’t get a major

#3 describes it well

I’m so cooked
I thought you were talking about the Skye flash and was confused

Allow boaster
He had a bad 2024, give him another year with a proper second caller (crashies) and see how it pans out

I would not mind a surprise from APK

I suspect a henbabyh alt

A teams success is down to more than just their players.
Which is why I wrote that last sentence

It’s a recipe for success, they just have to cook right

Yeah fair enough I have a really bad habit of doing that. My digital footprint is cooked

FNS + Ethan (trophy level experience)
Made + Verno extremely cracked rookies

It’s a recipe for success, they just have to cook right

In order (imo):

CN for sure
APAC if no competition continues
AMER I feel like AMER would be most prone to a novel game coming along and stealing the spotlight, nothing objective to back this up, I think it’s just maybe because of streaming culture which is most common there
EMEA CS continues to be the FPS of choice and the league had the smallest viewership last year, I think it’s most at risk of falling severely behind unfortunately . Also I think riot really really messed up the region allocation: no German, no CIS or no MENA orgs

Ah I see that’s interesting, I have a kind of similar thing but not to the same extent since I’m not mixed ethnicity. Both of my parents are ethnically Indian (all of my grandparents moved to PK in 1947, so my technical ethnicity is “Muhajir”) then i was born and mostly raised in the UK, but I’ve never really felt like I’m properly engrained in either one of the cultures. I’m not religious like my parents and a religion is a big part of the culture. But at the same time I don’t really feel as “British” as some of my white friends. Especially with some of the political stuff going on recently (which I won’t elaborate on since you already know) it feels even worse.
It feels like a first world problem to be concerned about this kind of thing, like there are defo people that have worse going on but I still feel torn between identities