Some people's pre match religious-esk things they do, even as simple as going to the toilet before a match can effect someones gameplay a lot, it will be something which just gets them in the zone, if u genuinely believe someone on a t1 team is this willing to use excuses like this your mad ngl.

neither

When sykko was there they spent 8 hours a day on practice/scrims/vod review/etc, go back to sitting on your bed in the basement eating Dorito's lil bro

i mean dude, zeek who won with acend got benched for "personality differences" clearly it means a lot

I'm trying to tell people to stop putting him in the spotlight so he stops what he's doing and betters himself, idk what u assumed lil bro

he is but why do people quote music lyrics, because they have meaning

he legit made a tweet saying "i blew up like i thought i would"
source: https://twitter.com/SicK_cs/status/1631708814629011463
meaning this was probably all on purpose to get the spotlight on him, if u wanna help take the spotlight off him and he'll stop acting like this

i get you, but most people like pansy because of how "weird" she is, so it'll just be you lil bro

i didn't talk about the map, protocols in general and specific map strats are completely different, but make my words completely different and believe it if u want

u mean the team which has 2 PRIOR LOUD MEMBERS who KNOW THEIR PROTOCOLS? HM I WONDER WHY

if anyone is saying anything but loud for ascent they are coping, bros are 23-2 on the map with a 92% overall win %

just don't gamble, shit is stupid period.

When i'm done Mob Psycho, Tokyo Ghoul, Beserk will watch

get good

Spent way too long tryna pass the #1 mfer in pixel gun for like an entire year in like 2014-15 (i gave up at #2 in the world, every time I'd pass him bro would get on and get like 200000 more trophies istg) i even spent money i was that committed, good times bruh

"after seeing his killjoy, i think sentinel role works best for him" Opinion
"he is a very calm player and forces his enemies into mistakes, and his lurking is insane" both facts, at least in his eyes
Thank you everyone for coming to this grade 1 English lesson.

they didn't "suck against c9", c9 looked like fnatic did in lock/in, it wasn't even a fair challenge

Mario tune clears anything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9bB7r0M9kg

i mean dude, your like bronze/silver, if u can't dry peek and win fights, don't focus on anything but aim/mechanics ngl, u need it

sounds like a skill issue then, but also acs /= kills/deaths, acs shows how good you actually played during the game (first kills and more valuable plays rather than just following someone and trading them, you have 1 FK, 100% kast, it's almost 90% of the time trade kills i'd guess, which are still good kills, but not nearly as valuable as reyna/neon's 4 and 5 FK's, there's also the DPR which has a point of value, i've topfragged easily in games before but because i didn't get as much value/impact i don't get top performance bonus, it's stats u don't normally notice which make up acs as well as just kda and stuff

It's less that they are bad and the fact they look honestly like they did when they had marved/yay and yet they aren't producing nearly the same results as with yay/marved, could also be recency bias.

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i feel this would still be fnatic winning tbh

u forgot Sentinels

unironically tenz and friends v2 but instead of tenz it's sayf

I understand this, i just do not follow it, if someone doesn't cheer for the team they are against who cares, bros are making drama out of nothing

I do regularly, I walk every day

u said so much, and yet it's all gibberish, unlucky.

Whether u like it or not, a hand injury is much more serious to a valorant player than a glorified cold or flu, covid can infect other people sure, they shouldn't play with it sure, but the point that was being made was that someone actually had a serious health issue and was forced to play, meanwhile people who had a much less "serious" health issue were allowed to have their match postponed, tenz didn't have anyone to sub for him either, fnatic didn't either, tenz's issue was much worse than fnatic's, but fnatic's game got postponed and sen's didn't. We shouldn't make someone play because if they don't, it doesn't "fit the schedule", that is beyond stupid

Lots of Fnatic members got positive covid tests back, it got cancelled for "health issues" which i find kinda ironic since tenz couldn't move his physical fingers IN A GAME WHERE U USE KEYBOARD AND MOUSE and he still had to play but if some of them got a cold "OH FUCK BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES WE'RE IN FOR A BAD ONE BOYS"

This is actually peak and i unironically see sacy doing a better job

people who do the 2nd and 3rd don't do it to get recognition, they do it because it was engrained into them

I've always said it, and i'll say it again, Sentinels have internal issues.

for context, it was on tarik's stream too but kyedae said that tenz had a bad infection in his hand and could hardly move his left index finger, if they let him play i would be surprised, but they also don't have another choice really, even if marved could play the only person who could really consider playing duelist is zekken

https://gyazo.com/99a35b950434c3fdac91f91486ecfa1e
Asuna has a contract locked for 2 years, i don't doubt he's smart enough to make it airtight
(For context, this is vct contract database, region, org name, ign, role on team, real name, contract left) there's more info but i left it out as it isn't relevent

Reminds me of when c9 picked yay up and then noticed "oh wait everything didn't fix" and then basically ruined bros career

To be fair Keloqz is a solid ass Duelist either way, Underrated asf.

People don't realise yay was still good when he wasn't using chamber, chamber only made him better, yay was easily on the level of other top duelists at the time, cryo, leaf, jing, forsaken, etc, i say this because even when c9 were falling apart against drx and when they bullied prx, yay was still sitting there positive on agents like sage, someone as consistent as yay no matter the role he's a good fucking player, and he also has better stats on jett than he does on chamber all time, chamber just got him noticed because it played into his playstyle a lot more

I wasn't talking about mocaxoxo, i was talking about you, you talk shit based off one game which u likely never even watched and say "BuT ThEy LoSt TO BaD TeEm", like damn bro, thieves are legit failing in every game, team secret beat prx, somehow furia has ended up the best looking team so far only just over levi and c9 right now, pick whatever team u want, everyone is losing lil bro, consistency is hard

I'd agree with this, unlucky though

Think of it not like "mikes is bad" and rather, blank other person is better, and not that "ardiis is bad", but that he cannot fit into nrg very well or he isn't playing very well currently, this is what i do to self translate all the braindamage

I don't think it's that opticrg fell off, you need to think, they lost marved and yay, 2 of arguably the best in their roles in the world when they were lost, and they are still making games incredibly competitive at a high tier 1 level, they aren't down and out, they are just adjusting to their new atmosphere, let them cook imo

I mean, i play like max 2 games a week and i'm still at diamond level going bare minimum neutral (i know it's not insanely good but it's not a bad rank for someone who plays twice a week), i think it's less based on how much u play and more based on how much you care when u do play to perform.

i feel like ardiis was always kinda overrated and not focused, as in spending too much time in drama, streaming etc rather than actually focusing on pro play, we've seen it especially recently i think

all i thought when i read this is "expectations rather than actually watching the games"

i don't wanna say he was the problem, he might of just had a different idea which worked for c9 before, now with mce and yay and zellsis and all the other changes made, his leadership style just didn't fit anymore, so they needed someone new

sad day for 100thieves when he left.

I've always said "Sentinels have internal issues" and 100% still agree, what i mean by internal issues is "igl, coach, analyst" type roles, u put fns on sen for deph and chet for sykko and they are world champions i don't doubt it, because fns and chet would make them better, they'd find players strengths and work on them and help find strats or ideas which work, sykko and the past coaches seem to of just been picked for their name rather than how good they are, but with a ceo which is a businessman and entrepreneur, they look at reputation and not who would actually be a good fit for the team, unlucky

Sure, but there's also the fact some teams are just good at some things, nrg haven't ever really been noted for their fast retakes while levi are so good at them that they are basically known for them at this stage, Just different types of teams explains why imo, You could also consider the fact nrg have the strats which will likely work for them to get to either the playoffs of na or tokyo right now, especially how they play in high intensity games, so i'd say they don't need to change that currently, and it'd only be a disadvantage if they tried to, look at navi trying comps for example, it made them look worse but they weren't actually worse

i think something important to look at is NRG vs Levi, and then NRG vs Sentinels this game is why i genuinely believe NRG are still gonna qualify, they got absolutely and utterly bullied on Lotus by levi, clearly their worse map at this point by far, and then in the sentinel game, they came in with a completely different comp and a completely different view on the map (Sentinels and their (""AMAZING COACH"" didn't expect a team KNOWN FOR ADAPTATION and KNOWN FOR DIFFERENT COMPS to adapt and swap comps)and how to play it, that level is what u need and that is how optic would always take a loss and then come back stronger, fns and chet are not to be underestimated, and i'd argue it will only be more effective against "the teams who look better" right now, such as Loud, C9, Furia, etc