Honestly despite me wanting to buff astra too, she seems to be in a good state: the dome controller pickrates are largely similar to each other(viper is wall controller so she doesn't count). Brim dominates bind and fracture, breeze and icebox is viper maps, and omen and astra fights for the last 3 maps(2 if you exclude split, and no one knows the meta for pearl). Omen and astra are on equal footing on ascent and split with astra being picked more slightly. On haven, despite omen seeing far more picks than astra, astra has a far superior round win and map win rate % than omen.

Tldr: controllers are balanced(other than viper who honestly just needs another wall controller to be added) and pls stop asking for controller changes.

My prediction: 2nd at lcq again, liquid win with big brain igl.

They did the -draken +draken roster move and cane second. Let's see if the curse still stands or not

Guild is the masters of roster changes

+Draken
-Draken
2nd at lcq(yes ik draken left later on)

+Yacine
-Yacine
Are they going to repeat their result by going 2nd in lcq again?

number1_Scream_fan let's be friends? Liquid win lcq easily and win champs hopium+scream #1 acs/kd in champions

KRU TALKING LMAFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Liquid owns Kru easily(Kru never took a map off Liquid once)💀💀💀💀💀

In dach region you knucklehead. Navi is better than gambit(in terms of org+politics), bbl is better than smb, and fpx really isn't known in Europe until valorant and even then they couldn't bring big viewerships(as shown by the record-low viewership of masters Copenhagen)

Obviously it's Benkai

As long a team can consistently make playoffs, they are a team worth investing in. In this case both liquid and m3c are teams worth investing in and one roster change might be the change needed for either team to succeed(like fnatic's dominance in emea if you ignore the fluke Copenhagen run)

Why are you like this? Couldn't you have just told me the right answer?

Ok I see now. Ty for info

In their new video, they got a 5th called harmii to play with them. Could he be the 5th and if so, why?

My prediction:
The nerf is not enough.
-Trademark rarely gets activated so the slow field reduction does nothing
-The ult point increase is alright if you disregard the fact that chamber players already has an op when they get the ult, and when they use the ult is when they're on an eco, which rarely happens. Also the slow field nerf is alright if you disregard the fact that teams will not push into a chamber anyways regardless of slow field.
-sheriff nerf is alright. Now chamber players has to either buy no bullets and trip+gun/shields or 4 bullets+trip on pistol and they can't consistently pull out their pocket guardians anymore on save rounds.
-tp nerf is nothing. As long as chamber still gets that free tp out of sticky situations, he still is op and will still get consistently picked.

Chamber's synergy with the op needs to be severed if he is to be balanced at all. In my eyes, buffing the op so other agents can also use it along with these nerfs will finally pick chamber back to his place.

2 trips is stupid. Why would anyone use cypher if chamber offers the same but excels at every other part of his utility compared to cypher?

Wall=smokes

Rn the agent pick rates of smokers are balanced, with brim, astra and omen all sitting around 25% pick rate. Viper, however, has an unbalanced 40-50% pick rate since she is a must pick on 2 maps, basically a must pick on bind, and decent usage on fracture and split. Since her wall is so unique, we need another smoker that does wall smokes too so she could be replaced on some of these maps, reducing her pickrate.

The new agent ideally should have:
-a unique mechanic that allows him to bend the wall while casting(however, unable to reactivate the wall again)
-a flash that is specifically for pop flashes around corners/going through walls
-a molly that does a lot of damage to delay enemies(controllers all have some sort of aoe ability and this is no exception)
-a duelist ult for him to be more flexible and making this controller a lot more fun to play. Maybe something like a 6 point cost ult that allows him to have a second life?

To spice it all up, make it so that his wall and Molly heal him. Could be a fun mechanic that allows surprise pushes through his new utility.

Wait a minute... This sounds exactly like Phoenix!

Tldr: #MakePhoenixController

Make it so that the 2 anchors each have an individual timer. If an anchor gets broken, it goes on a 45 sec cool down(the other one remains placed/ready to be used), and if it's taken back, then it goes on a 20 sec cool down(similar to killjoy). If the tp gets used, then both anchors goes on a 45 sec cool down. However, killing someone instantly refreshes the ability.

nerf the head hunter so the stats completely matches the sheriff's stats(pull out time, ads, drop off, all of that) with it having ads as the only difference.

Nerf the ult so that it shoots as slow as the op, have 2 bullet only(but adds 1 bullet per kill), no slow, and costs 8 ult points.

When people consider nerfing chamber, you can't take away the uniqueness of chamber since that would just make him overshadowed. Chamber locks down site by killing people, sage/killjoy locks down site by aoe utility, and cypher locks down site by getting info early on. That was one of the reasons one of chamber's trip got removed so that he can't lock down site by getting info early on and has to lock down site by actually aiming at people.

I doubt it's bs. Bonecold left prob bc he wanted his team to play a completely different playstyle (like Benkai asking paper Rex to play like guild), and zeek prob don't want to play support but wants to be their star player(obv not possible if cned exists). Link left for the same reason: he wants to play anchor and not flex, but he can't do that if nivera is equally a good anchor(and in parts, better anchor).

Unconfirmed but llikely

I think bonecold left by himself cuz his vision of how the team should grow didn't match his. Bonecold was unfortunate, but they fucked it up by benching zeek and kiles.

Chile people has the easiest choice: pick lev

Diamond 1
APAC(Singapore)

Na: sentinels(jump on the send hype train)/c9 redemption arc
Emea: team liquid(hopium)/m3c
SA: Kru(must qualify to every tournament). Would be funny if furia qualify too and we get a group that has liquid, send, furia, and kru

And somehow sugyetsu and nats has the highest acs in their team despite not maining chamber/duelist and mostly playing sentinels+viper

Also marved+sugarzero+sscary was there as some of the best controller that can out-acs their main duelists as a smoker

At least liquid never lost to flukru + Iceland fluke run

Surprised you didn't include RIP_BOZO in the emea baiters, makes good baits about emea and quite unfunny

I asked

I believe in Scream supremacy

At least they had the skill to be the next in line to receive the slot, unlike sentinels + bronzil owns you

Tbf they did beat fpx, the world champ rn(yes ik they had a sub).

Now time for liquid champion winners hopium. I BELIEVE IN DADDY SCREAM SUPREMACY!!!

Make it to masters 1/playoffs first

L take + 100t fan talking Abt shit pickups when their roster swapped like 10 players on the span of 1 month + liquid owns you

Leviatan, and even then they barely beat them.

Imagine if Fnatic beat fpx again and lost to optic. 3rd place by only beating 1 non-emea team? Nice

Dreamas is a sub filling in such short notice so they couldn't change much Abt it. plus dreamas made sure they make playoffs and made it very close with fpx, the best team in the world rn.

I agree with kanpeki but jcstani didn't have a chance to built a good team chem with 100t before 100t's manager had a brain aneurysm and kicked him out

Xeta and curry exchange

Changed one of the best teams in the world into a t2 team that couldn't even make playoffs

Shithole win masters 2, meanwhile geng couldn't even get past challengers or franchise

Isn't quake arena shooter instead of tac fps?

Idk feels like quake is just too unrealistic

Acend: l1nk for sure, can't think of anyone else
Liquid: honestly any igl. Maybe ec1s return?(I have no idea how good he is, but he was the igl for liquid, and his time in 100t was too short to make any real impact+team chemistry)

I think from my personal experience this is the best comp:
Sage
Viper
Fade
Omen/astra
Raze/kayo
Omen if using kayo, and astra if using raze.

(Fade over sova cuz there is a billion rooftops+prowler too good for mid/a main control)

General strat:
Defense: sage wall mid doors+ slow, raze/kayo+fade seize nade combo lock down a main, viper wall b and play retake, and astra/omen play at mid paintings.

Or swap raze/kayo and sage around for raze to take mid with astra/omen while sage and fade take early a control with wall+slow+sieze.

Attack:
Viper default lurk wall b and lurk, sage+fade+kayo/astra support while raze+omen entry. (Execute)

Despite the execute potential, This comp is default-heavy due to having 2 controllers/1 sentinel only. However if you want, you can replace sage/fade with Skye for better execute potential.

You might have noticed it is literally a bind/split comp and you are absolutely right.

Unconfirmed though

I pray for it though+extremely likely

Did you not even consider tenz?

Prob l1nk

Bald buff ez w

Vs vivo keyd if it weren't for the glitch they'd lost already

I'll give it to acend for the envy and team secret matchup, they won quite convincing against ok teams

Against team liquid team liquid had a really bad day(proof: team liquid literally beat acend a month ago 3-1)

Gambit just threw

Fluke team couldnt even make it to playoffs in challengers 1

c9, g2, loud, fnatic, liquid, zeta, drx, prx, order, kru, leviatan, c9, nrg, faze....

Honestly any abstract logo that shows their name is decent(which is why out of all the regions apac has the shittiest logos overall. xerxia, paper rex, bleed, team secret, and order is like the only good ones out of the hundreds of teams)

Sen
Kru/(nip/vivo keyd/furia)
Liquid(cope), Acend/M3C/Guild
Northception/EDG
Team Secret

I did say teams improved, but optic actually went backwards as they sometimes forgot the basic concepts of pro valorant(they've consistently thrown multiple 5v3s and 3v1s in this tournament already and Iceland optic would not have allowed that to happen at all).

I admit the match against loud both teams played well, but it was just a slaughter against Kru: Kru got tilted from it against Guild and none of their players showed up massively. Against xset I'dk what happened but they xset lost their form entirely and decided to play like ranked, and DRX is just DRX: chokers

I did address it, but the difference between matches that optic won in Iceland and Copenhagen is that in Iceland optic showed that they are literally better(optic vs tgrd) while in Copenhagen they won because they played less shit than the other team(optic vs xset) and the moment they went against a team that actually uses their brain they got absolutely destroyed. Iceland optic would mop the floor with Copenhagen optic for sure.

Get sliggy and zeek ez w

Did optic lost their form after Iceland? I swear Iceland optic would beat fpx and potentially beat paper Rex on the rematch. And ik everyone else improved along with eu not getting nerfed but still optic played worse than before.

Still better than sentiluls who placed 5-8th in the second round, losing to their second seed and gold 2 right after winning Iceland. Let's see if optic would follow sentiluls and go out in group stage in champs

Lev just have to beat Fnatic to be paper Rex. Bc zeta fought all the way from group stage rather than getting a group stage skip like Lev. Fpx in that regard is a lot more similar to zeta