everything will be double controller if you only buff other controllers

both tps are fine

he needs 35s smokes with the old deploy time at the very least, probably also breach's windup on his paranoia.

just cooling down from another heatwave here, thunderstorm on the way tho

no duelist is pretty much never the best thing you can be running outside of icebox and even there the most viable replacement is Omen who basically just does directly replace Jett stuff but better on the map

Its a mickey because it's single elim the quals were bo1 and half the quals and now groups aren't streamed

like open ours eyes please man

not even streaming full group stage

good luck watching even if you want to

Yoru, Neon, Raze.

Worth trying Waylay and Pheonix but I doubt they're standout good even if they seem okay.

Decay isn't a slow effect, there are much fewer decays than slows and post-buff Viper and Fade made them one-sided for like forever.

Although tbh id be interested to see if Viper could be meta nowadays with two-sided toxins. I don't think it'd be a good change but it'd be interesting.

Don't think they want to make any one-sided slow effects, so you'll probably have to change the effect entirely.

They're not naturally gimmicky, it's just the only instances of them are Viper's locked sentinel-style one and then two stuck on Pheonix and Harbor.

The entry part isn't the issue and is great for fun and viewership. The problem is his smokes got buffed to minimize his deploy time weakness when Astra's stun and suck were completely fucking broken despite his smokes already being better than Astra's even at that time. That and paranoia is the best ability in the game that can also be used reactively with little counterplay.

It's basically just because his downside compared to Brim and Astra was originally supposed to be cross-map deploy time. But they made Astra's stun and suck way too powerful and recharge too fast so she took over. And then for some reason they thought Omen's smokes were the problem??? Early val balancing was a fucking mess tbh.

You need to do both, can't just buff or we'll get double dome smokes meta and Omen will still be everywhere

who cantzerra or you

that's not false but given people insist Derke is goat status despite that (and that he's not properly shown up since cuz sayf is a joke) and Kaajak is on par with an even sometimes outperforming Derke (particularly in regionals), it's still a pretty ridiculous notion to claim that this in any way discredits Kaajak rather than just being copium for Primmie fans.

get him off the team

TP and ult are fine

Paranoia needs a breach charge up so you can't reactively use it at max range, and it probably also needs less duration at the sides.

His smokes also need something again. They're the most recharging AND the most flexible and best handling. They need their old pre-astra worse projectile speed and so worse deploy time at range back at a minimum and may also need a recharge nerf, 30s is too strong when Brim has no recharge, Clove has 40 and Astra has a scarce resource mechanic.

LMAOOO THIS EVENT

so true bro reaching masters grand final with everything stacked against you and an absolute domination in regionals as a rookie js super mid and overhyped

flair up before calling people names for theirs little bro

unless he was just lying about it he admitted it was so

even chron should be on vyse on more maps than Viper ngl

of course he is, his TP and trap are about holding space and punishing reclears with his body/gun. Very sentinel. He's just more fragging heavy than some of the more passive sentinels.

Absolutely, but that's also why it's not one you're gonna magically fix overnight by posting about it several times on vlr.gg

It takes generations of social and political progress to properly cut down, and even that will unfortunately never completely root it out.

HOW MANY THREADS ABOUT THIS TODAY

no, he was already dogshit for years outside Tejo comps (which he was STILL overrated in on multiple maps) and then they nerfed him.

He is now statistically unplayable.

But yeah like 25% of teams will continue to use him and lose 😀

?????

if you want people to stop thinking your country is dumb your country needs to stop projecting it's own marketed stupidity, especially from its dogass toxic joke of a political system, to literally every corner of the internet or world news.

It's punching up for literally everyone so noone cares, while third world countries would be punching down for many, that's the price of trying to be at the top.

not to do it in this thread but holy not beating the flag allegations

There's a lotta good options, pros will probably overall lean into Viper/Cypher/Yoru/Omen/Scans but there's also a lot of chance to cook for double sentinel, double scan initiator, Neon/Raze/Waylay + Yoru/Pheonix double duelist.

I think it's probably gonna be a bit like modern sunset where double senti and initiator look the strongest overall but everyone plays Viper instead for no reason but i do at least think Viper is actually good and not cope here, unlike sunset, even if she's probably not the strongest option for most teams; who should be leaning into their strengths.

For example, the top 4 of Toronto SHOULD be playing 4 entirely different styles of comps to their strengths on the map: PRX on Raze/Yoru built around Jingg and Something, FNC on Chamber/Vyse for Alfajer and Chronicle, WOL with Spring on Viper, G2 Fade + Sova/Tejo with Jonahp and Trent.

what the fuck

now that is ingenuity

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WE NEED HIGH QUALITY RAGEBAITS, MANY, AND FAST

WE CANNOT LET OURSELVES BE REPLACED

I thought it was too ridiculous a take to come from a human but I assumed that was just because it'd been written by a ragebaiter or a small possum or similar small animal.

I see now my error, it was instead AI generated by an amoeba.

literally why would you

it's all utter slop and drama content he abuses to stay relevant, milk for miniscule ad revenue and espouse his numerous ill informed hateful views through.

what on earth is there to gain through this content for anybody but himself

random uncalled for and unrelated rant about M8s not keeping it's players after ascension as if that isn't Riot's fault for exclusively penalizing Ascension teams and not franchised teams for poor investment and performance.

certainly not MY goat

not again...

ardees nu-

how could you...

Sure sure it's the players.

That'll be why Termi hasn't won shit with some of the best rosters possible and people keep being more successful after leaving DRX.

what a joke

"You are american" = "Racism" 💀

dont see how our flex player on flex and everyone else on their roles is bad

yeah Omen + 2nd inti is probably better overall but the Harbor comp is easily the most simple to pilot of the current popular icebox comps. Your duelist doesn't have to play anything unconventional, you still have scans, and you can re-smoke the same places to take the pressure of tight Viper wall timings off.

no, KJ is mandatory, next question

Imo flashback would be more willing to compete despite whatever issues he has if Termi built a team environment that was actually positive and supportive. People like Leaf have managed to play even to grand finals despite adversity thanks to their teams and friends. DRX can't be there for flashback when he needs them for some reason. And the environment Termi has created has got to be the main contributor to that. I'd even wager Flashback told him exactly that and it's why he got so mad afterwards 🤷

Flashback clearly going through shit

Other players go through shit and still play and do well with support from their team. There are examples THIS YEAR, such as Leaf.

Flashback can't for whatever reason. I'm suggesting that reason is most likely to be he's not comfortable on the team, something that is demonstrably Termi's job to foster and yet his teams always boom mentally to lose 5th/6th

consistent issues with different players same coach, gonna be the coach man

flashback's timing is piss but it's coach's job to help player play through his shit instead, clearly termi can't.

lol no unless they drop Termi in which case they're winning 3 events in a row

huge fraud

and T0rmi is a thrower

This is a VERY popular take if you're not a blind NA superfan who puts their region first against any and all circumstances. Americans in particular aren't big on truth either.

It's not ONLY NA that does this, Korea and CN also have issues like this, but only NA gets the full five miles of defense on this site cuz English-speaking.