Boom vs Xerxia

People said the same about yay when he first tried chamber.

I think TenZ is a great duelist, the stats show him being a great chamber but he wasn't getting as much impact as other chambers when it came to lurks and the slow-style chambers play. Maybe it was just a lack of reps on chamber but I saw many times where he would forget to trip certain spots and lack of tp usage for excessive lurking like what yay and other chambers in NA do(dicey, yay, bdog,) and some chambers in eu(nats, sayf, there are more just don't watch eu that much).

Prolly Zellsis being the main entry most maps.

He said it's hard to igl from the role and it would mess with other role issues, with Dapr being out of place. I just think with good vision and people getting out of comfort zones these roles are literally the most ideal roles for them to frag individually and also support each other. Imagine how much more impact Shahzam can when he has an op, he proved it against Optic on Bind for a couple of rounds. If dapr or someone else on the team got comfortable and took up his role it would be just great. Not saying TenZ is a bad chamber but we've seen in 2020/2021 what Shahz can do on Jett, TenZ can do on being a second entry, Sick being the main entry on phoenix.

I just think the biggest issue from Sentinels is just the roles, if they figure their shit down they will all be at max potential. TenZ was great on reyna now all reyna players are on kayo/skye(sheydos,mada, zeek,asuna, more people). Shahzam was a great jett opper and passive like yay in a way and now all jett oppers are on chamber(I don't need to list). List can really go on for all players on that core roster having most sentinels switch to initiator or smokes while dapr kept playing chamber for stage 1 and stage 2. Sick also being a primary entry not playing the entry roles while TenZ a second entry was forced onto the entry role just because of terrible role decisions.

Ideal Sentinels(with zombs and sick)

Shahz - Chamber
TenZ- skye/kayo
Sick - Neon/Raze
Dapr - Sova/Fade
Zombs - Controller

This is what I expected them to do in the beginning, not saying dapr's style is selfish but I think he thrives being the controller with lurks and stuff(we saw this on viper). Fragging smokes players are the meta rn also and Shroud is just better off on a role which is all about setting up people(fade, kayo, sova). And if you disagree with fragging smokes not being meta look at all the teams that have won in these LCQ matches, most of them have a smokes player that is second or 3rd on acs(purely frags not counting other forms of impact).

I edited, I meant breeze.

That's what people said about ascent and now the correct triple initiator comp on ascent can work. Not saying it is the ONLY option but saying somethinng doesn't work in valorant is so bs, we've seen PRX run no viper on breeze and Sentinels and OGLU run 0 duelist on breeze.

I think no duelist is fine as long as you replace breach with sova

They had more success on T side their CT was terrible.

A lot of of heroics from 100t, and clean rounds/retakes from them. Some moments from SEN players that costed them rounds and a lot of heroics but their fracture looked really nice.

parasocial fr get help

rat debuff but 100t can't win a series since first strike?

no shit he is washed bro he hasn't played in like 4-5 years.

curry fragged against t3 players not saying he isn't terrible but he's just gonna be a role player on this team not a fragger like xeppa and leaf, and when you're gonna be a role player you might as well have xeta over curry.

idk how people can hate random people online who you don't even really know

Split will be played in LCQ, and Pearl will take its place in Champs.

if they nerf chamber jett will come back in meta, rn the reason why neon/raze are being used so much is because they can still have a awper as a chamber. I do think though chamber breaks all fundamentals of awping and makes the role way too easy so we might also see a future where jett awping might not exist because people play agents like neon/raze/kayo/breach so it makes Jett awping impossible as compared to awping on chamber. Pros always prove these takes wrong though so I wouldn't be surprised to see TenZ or yay go back to awping on jett.

Too early to tell how PRX FPX and Optic will do in the long run. Remember how gambit/sen/acend barely had any roster changes last year and they still managed to fall off so they have to make roster moves now. If Optic continues a top 3 pace for the next 2-3 events this will be correct.

shahz was on kayo and dapr was on fade

Move dapr to smokes so dapr fits in this meta. This allows for either shahzam to full time chamber or tenz to full time chamber. Kanpeki can go perma duelist(neon,raze) or go kayo for tenz to go full time entry duelist while shahz is the primary op on sentinels. What made sentinels good in the past was how good their opping is and when chamber came out it was dapr playing who isn’t an awper compared to shahz/tenz. This move also allows you to invest into a really solid igl if shahz wants to stop doing the role since it’s hard on chamber or smthn.

Also, get Shahzam an analyst and 2 coaches, it will help so much with this team. The chances of this happening are slim but they need it for LCQ.

I think they change roles, actually play towards the meta with TenZ on the chamber and dapr learning a second initiator and moving kanpeki to hardcore entry because he super effective at making space on neon. I think with this move they will be much more flexible, if the meta changes again they still have kanpeki on initiator and dapr back on original sentinel, I just feel like they aren't using the tenz and kanpeki duo to it's full potential like babybay and dicey.

you know nothing about basketball if you deny Lebron James success and no shit lebron james won't thrive in golden state system, so many players won't succeed in that system because it's a different type of basketball golden state play.

Not even ENVY at their best, envy didn't have that much practice with yay and their coach was stuck at home because of visa issues.

tenz on chamber would mess up roles since they haven't got a flex player. Kanpeki moves to raze then who is gonna play kayo/skye. I think tenz on chamber is best for them but knowing like the history of Sentinels roles, dapr will always be a sentinel on the team and won't play initiator which isn't good since all the ex-cypher/kj players have now adopted smokes or initiator. It's just a team decision and they want tenz on duelist but don't set him up well. He's perfect on lurks during iceland era and being that second entry.

tier 2

age don't matter too much this guy is owning a bunch of teenagers and players in their early 20s.

He's always been pretty good, his aim was insane on TSM it's just he was never put in situations to succeed in, he was like an ultra flex for TSM meaning he played like 4 different roles constantly for 3-4 months straight.

You don't know what franchising is huh

I think TenZ hurts the team because of how it makes star players like Shahz, Sick, Dapr have to play around him. TenZ on a team like EG would be great or even a team like LG. Both EG and LG work around their star players and the main issue is Sentinels have always been known to each individual frag and take those 1 on 1 confident fights, but with TenZ and this current meta they aren't the right players to set him up for frags. That's just my thoughts, TenZ is great but this team today had some rounds that just looked so fluid and reactive although they ended up getting stomped by the best team in the world.

Sentinels barely scrimmed when they were winning things, zombs said this multiple times. People shouldn't be surprised that sentinels still aren't scriming as much even if it's tournament life.

That makes a lot of sense now.

Is it not weird that sentinels are banning out maps that they win on and are comfortable on in the vetos against EG and LG? Sentinels ban Breeze against EG which they won against LG(although tenz had 40) but they didn't ban Icebox when EG took c9 with xeta to OT. I also noticed they banned haven when they had the chance to pick it against LG, just feels a little odd. There might be something in scrimbux we don't know but haven and breeze, sentinels actually can get an 8-4 half and not choke as hard as bind or other maps in their pool.

I just looked at his first 5 messages in this forum and holy fuck this guy is a dedicated FAN.

Weird I used to see you during the Iceland days being a devoted sentinels and shahz fan.

Sentinels need to get their roles down first, Sick has so much potential on flex, and shahz's op won them so many games during their prime. Zombs mentioning that Shahz doesn't even schedule scrims shows the dedication of the whole team. They need to just have structured coaching staff and analysts and they will be a good team again, they have the mechanics they just need to execute it.

10 pages of you defending Shahzam and sentinels with your life. People switch up and just make hate threads, at least switch up and not say anything no?

He over-extends but with discipline, he can be much better than what he is right now. I feel like he isn't set up as much compared to other top talent in the region.

I think Shahz's igl can work if he has the right coach to work around, he's always been very anti strat heavy but if he had c9's coaching structure around him or what 100t has it can honestly improve the team. Rawkus feels like an analyst rn and not like the coach which puts more on Shahzam which leads to them losing more.

You have like at least 10 pages defending Shahzam LMFAO, I just find these posts so lame and unnecessary. Like why are you stalking this guy's games against a pug team that he is playing for fun? Yeah shahz recently hasn't been playing up to his 2021 level and sentinels have massively fallen off but these posts are just so cringe and weird.

5k forum posts, this is your life LMFAO

brain damage

yeah you're right shahz's playstyle isn't as loose as it used to be. I remember originally when tenz wasn't in the roster shahz was the one being set up for everything but now that's changed a lot and it impacts his frags.

c9 has leaf and xeppa and they are insane. xset has cryo and zekken always doing well also.

Trust me all the pros you see have egos, anybody who competes has an ego.

Obviously, he'll have an ego it's a pro player. But is the extreme amount of hate worth it though? He's not like zombs who was literally trolling during champions on twitter.

Shahzam has always done fine it’s just he’s had a rough series these past 2-3 games. The pressure and the hate is definitely getting to him you can see it so easily.

Ratzam is not criticism. I haven’t seen one post on this site giving criticism it’s all just hate posts. Got to realize these guys are human also outside of pro.