of course it is if boaster wasn't popping off today FNC would already have lost

If you go 12-12 it's not a fluke lmao

talking to them is a good start over whatever tf juvi was doing 😭

edit lol

The read into punish the default does go hard ngl

don't call it before the 5th round adjustment you know how this works you'll jinx it

Given they said they flipped all the arrows and yet that one isn't flipped, I think it's just a mistake.

you're right literally every game today will be an upset totally reasonable mhm

no.

otome games exist for this.

we do not need VLR posts to fulfill anime boyfriend quotas.

also, I'll take the obsessed murder one, thanks.

that he hates the disabled

asking multiple women to fly out for non-con in your first message to them is decidedly harassment and not just L rizz

The Chet vods were very old too.

urgh

the saying refers to basketball, not shooting yourself in the foot with a shotgun

well yeah why would you bet on team secret they're awful

Innovation has been proven to be what actually wins games, especially for teams that aren't necessarily the best of the best players.

That being said, some of these choices for innovation are stupid as hell. Dropping KJ or Viper on Icebox: Obviously trolling. Dropping info Sentinel on the most defense sided map in the game: Obviously Trolling. Dropping Brim on Fracture, and I say this as an Astra main: Obviously fucking trolling.

There have been plenty of good innovations too, but holy shit stop changing the obviously mandatory shit - you're not innovating on those. Actually good Innovations like KC's Omen > Duelist Icebox or Apeks' Deadlock Yoru Ascent, that mix up flex slots and make up for their introduced weaknesses in playstyles, are excellent.

the actual hot take is that as much as it sucks and people hate it (me included), it's perfectly reasonable to increase the price in line with inflation. In real terms, games have been getting cheaper for a long time and still are.

but people don't care, of course. Can't blame them.

For now.

Depends what you mean.

Verno, Flor, Dos9 and Cyv0ph have been the new T1 players that have stood out to me, but i can't say i keep up enough to be certain they're the top new names.

Definitely up there and presumably what sparked the thread. Aces are at their best when they have crazy flicks and game sense without too much opponent trolling.

This is the obvious one because it's literally most recent, but I'm sure if you went through them there'd be 2-3 better ones. Still very high on the list imo.

can we ban flor discussion but specifically for this guy

I was thinking it lol

he has promise but no experience

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he's funny he can stay

"flor can't keep up in T1"

performs against T1 teams

"not those T1 teams they're bad"

goalposts -> moved

you falling for the obvious bait threads does not count as people actually saying that

the difference in player quality 😭

unless the plan is Jing perma smokes and Something preferred duelist this makes very little sense

so criminal it got showcased in the reel part, but it was pretty funny

much easier to automate banning you being a dumbass in chat

good evening chat

Doubt it's from that, guy has been behaving bad in other threads already tbf

this would also be my less troll-y answer

Stealth Drone, Undercut, ZERO/point, Orbital Strike

honestly think you're underrating plat players

bro what about FNS

Tbf you can make the argument he's inexperienced on Yoru. And it's not exactly looking like BOOM are pushovers.

They're probably already getting tossed. I just wonder what happens to the current Ascension teams if they genuinely do open up more ascension slots.

I literally told you all that was wrong bro wtf

you have more info than him and yet are doing WORSE 😭😭😭

???

you missed but at least you guessed in the north

these look too good besides the error they're totally fanmade no way the rest look so bad but the ascension teams go 5/5

you're not doing very well so far

Outside of Paris and Stockholm in exactly French and Russian respectively EMEA is mostly fine, actually.

I've heard parts of Pacific can be pretty bad... if you actually know what's being said.

Vyse nerfs seem unnecessary given KJ and Cypher are still seeing lots of use, but i guess she'll probably not drop off from them either, so it might just be to make her less overbearing on her maps???

Yoru clone to 200 makes literally 0 sense, why??? 850 cost kit???

Kay-O buffs are probably fine, the bounce pop change is a decent way to make him easier for the average solo queue ranked teammate, but it might also mess up some stuff.

Where Tejo? Harbor?

We haven't really had any proper upsets yet, everything has either been "a team in what should've been a close matchup loses for trolling somehow" or "public perception of the team has lagged behind despite evidence to the contrary being very available".

they gotta get an igl that isn't scared of fights otherwise they'll need the 4 best shooters in the world to keep up. FNS just isn't practical even if you still think highly of his calling and strats.

posted it again award

Too early to say.

At least it's obvious what needs drilling is Lotus postplants.

Your imports are consistently the worst players on their teams. You can argue that's excusable for some as IGLs, but they're not performing in that regard at the moment either.

Additionally, EMEA is competitive within itself. The difference between the perceived bottom table (Apeks M8) and the perceived top (VIT TH TL) is still very competitive, which cannot be said of America's where nearly every game is an expectable result as orgs take turns investing in different years. Also, your best team is an European org.

GX is selling but not as hard as Amer's low table, who are more numerous and try less. They are nigh guaranteed to lose their franchise slot to M8 now anyhow. KOI brings in a huge influx of Spanish and Spanish speaking interest in the scene. Unless there is a better Spanish org to replace them, they will be kept.

That is all that matters for franchising. Not how many trophies or overall performance but viewership, investment and competitiveness across the board within the league. EMEA is consistent in that regard while America's will have SEN + which ever two orgs invest that year (Krü MIBR this year) while the rest hard sell. G2 may have made themselves a staple in performance, but they're not driving investment or viewership especially.

most of us have food standards so that isn't an issue, but i hope you get some soon too.