Exizephyr
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Registered: April 28, 2024
Last post: July 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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yes, there's a reason everyone who plays continues playing

its fun

posted 2 days ago

its mostly fine

league isn't even particularly toxic anymore

yes occasionally you will get a thrower or a troll but its maybe like 1/20 games

posted 2 days ago

well...

posted 3 days ago

Apparently winning 14-12 with double pistol on another team's worst map in a BO1 is destroying them now

posted 3 days ago

Here's what I would recommend

  1. Watch a beginner video (like the basics of the game, so that you understand how it generally flows)
  2. Watch a video breaking down the roles, and try to narrow your focus to 2-3 roles that look interesting (playing feels very different than watching, obviously).
  3. Do NOT skip the inbuilt tutorial
  4. Play bot matches until account level 10. Bots are very bad in league, you need to consistently be able to farm them. Play 1 game of intro bots, then jump to intermediate bots. Focus on trying the 2-3 interesting roles on 1-2 champions, try to get some reps and mechanical comfort on each champion and get used to the unique MOBA control scheme.
  5. After your bot matches, decide which role you enjoyed most (its okay to play a few more matches if you need to decide this, but don't try to find the "best" role or go shopping around---find a role you enjoy). Play swiftplay (SP) games with a champion you liked for that role get reps on them. Generally play safe to avoid dying too much (inting).
  6. Before you play SP, watch videos from a few creators on your role. As a Jungle main, I watched PerryJG. Alois is very popular for top lane. You might not understand everything, but as you watch and play more you will.
  7. After playing some SP games, play normal draft mode. Don't be afraid to change things up (you most likely will change champions, maybe you will change your role too) if you don't like them, but don't go around shopping for which champion/role you like best: there are many fun options. Champion competence is most important, and the similar conditions will help you get a better feel and understanding for the game.
  8. Play until level 30, unlock competitive queue. Unlike Valorant you can climb very fast in League, or very slowly, because you have a lot of agency in games (hence the whole 1v9 culture).
posted 4 days ago

people play their first game immediately against real players skipping all the bot games that are recommended first and expect to not get destroyed/flamed, and suddenly get upset when they lose.

imagine playing your first fps and immediately playing an unrated game, yeah you'll be traumatized too.

there's a reason comp doesn't unlock until you've played ~60 hours of games

posted 4 days ago

nah don't listen to the community its fun to play

pros: very fun w/ friends, interesting to learn, winning gives you huge dopamine hits, much less deadtime than valorant, much less luck involved, more 1v9 agency

cons: steep learning curve

league isn't even that toxic anymore, just /mute if anyone gives you trouble

posted 4 days ago

I agree TH should change their roster, when a good pickup is available.

But SEN actually won in 2021, so the storyline of choking and then eventually winning doesn't really work imo. It's close, but not exact.

posted 5 days ago

nah cuz they haven't missed an int'l yet and never choked (aka got second) at an int'l and won in 2021 its not close enough

g2 on the other hand...

posted 5 days ago

If it makes you feel better, it's a common arc in Valorant:

PRX choke Champs 23, look bad (people think its over) in 2024, win a masters in 2025
TH choke at Champs 24, look bad (people think its over --- WE ARE HERE), win a masters in 2026??

posted 5 days ago

realistically i think all they need is -boostio, his fragging is just too weak, but he's also the vibes guy + igl on the team so idk

the team did better than I expected, their maps were at least close and they were given a hard group, they really lost b/c they couldn't ever win a pistol to save their life.

some of the plays were really funny, like asuna dumping all his util for a fake and the prx-esque plays against fnatic, I think the more chaotic this team gets the better they are.

the frustrating thing about 100t is that every player provides decent value but is so inconsistent, and like 4/5 need to be playing well for them to win.

posted 5 days ago

five paycheck stealers better

posted 5 days ago

ngl ai could probably do a better job atp

posted 6 days ago

never seen a more useless player, only reason geng is losing

literally throwing every possible round possible, turns every man advantage into a disadvantage, the real reason geng keep choking

i feel so bad for foxy9

posted 6 days ago

yes, please look below

AME is 15-12 to EMEA clown

posted 6 days ago

so confidently wrong

posted 6 days ago

yet they'll always say they're better and confidently proclaim they're ahead in h2h
its embarrassing atp tbh

posted 6 days ago

TL don't have their best player = "they should've won EMEA is better"
G2 don't have their best player = "you guys are the worst region, very embarrassing"

take a look in the mirror, please

posted 6 days ago

fr, kinda crazy how EMEA is, along with China, the only region where only 1 team has won a trophy

posted 6 days ago

apparently being the best loser is the new stat we're using

in that case emea is first place

also kinda funny how you chose 4, coincidentally excluding the last NA win. you ain't slick.
in the past two years NA (yes, NA, not Americas) has attended 3 finals, just as many as EMEA.

posted 6 days ago

thank you for posting 2021 stats in a thread asking about

the last two years

no one is debating the fact that emea farmed the game when no one knew how to play

posted 6 days ago

at least were competitive

lmao the ego of emea fans is unmatched

americas this year: top 8, top 2, top 4, top 6, top 12
emea this year: top 6, top 4, top 12, top 10, top 2

aka, americas has placed better than emea this year, like all years

keep coping bro

posted 6 days ago

keep winning meaningless games and losing trophies lmao

posted 6 days ago

maybe i missed groups on one event...

i know i counted groups for most of them

posted 6 days ago

I thought it was 12-12, from Champs LA 2023 - Masters Toronto 2025

posted 6 days ago

Buddy NA has won more games against EMEA in the past two years

A peak example of EMEA projection + superiority complex

posted 6 days ago

even if 100T lost they made icebox look interesting it felt like watching budget prx and that's a win in my book

posted 6 days ago

is so bad why tf did every team play it

creative idea = lose the round

posted 6 days ago

bro can't be mad at asuna with this fraud boostio on the team

posted 6 days ago

omg im tired of my job and burning out bc i actually have to show up for more than 1 day a week

get a grip these guys literally play video games for a living

posted 6 days ago

well yeah bc of virtue signaling sideshow

but literally anyone else would've been better, these guys always sound like they don't even play valorant

i'd rather listen to tarik being clueless than these guys

posted 6 days ago

na t2 casters couldn't they have found anyone else

calling them talent should call them devoid of talent

posted 6 days ago

kinda like drx huh

posted 6 days ago

when I said he was GenG's best player everyone laughed

where's all the haters now?

posted 1 week ago

I don't really know the details of pre-franchising APAC, to be honest.
But I'm just glad that every event has had an Eastern v. Western team in the grand finals, it makes the stakes, competitiveness, and viewership a lot higher. The fact that APAC won the past four events doesn't really matter when each GF was so close, and the fact that the GF's have been so close is a symptom of all four regions becoming extremely competitive in general.

posted 3 weeks ago

and the west won the previous 10 events in a row...
happy for APAC it makes the game a lot more exciting when all regions are competitive

posted 3 weeks ago

mini
guy has 3 trophies now

posted 3 weeks ago

No point in discussing this with someone intentionally misunderstanding the post and clearly taking things to be biased toward their own region.

You came in here dissing "low IQ Americans" unprovoked, and you've clearly continued that as you claim I try to "kick down". The only one doing that is you to make yourself feel better, and projecting that onto others, and you know it. I'm happy that APAC and China continue to dominate Valorant, they're easily the most entertaining teams to watch.

posted 3 weeks ago

EMEA won in Masters 2 2023
AMER won in Masters 1 2024
That's a two event gap (unless your statement is because EMEA still has a chance at Toronto, so you're not adding that event for EMEA but you are for AMER, which is a little misleading).
The grand finals point is fair, but if you want to do that, why not take grand final appearances in the last six events (two years): EMEA 2-3 (if FNC win) and AMER 3.

posted 3 weeks ago

At least this is an honest take. Discussions like these make VLR a lot more fun than the knuckleheads who bash each other about regions. I posted my take to provoke discussion / reflection, but this forum is so biased and people so unwilling to discuss or even banter that all they see is "Americas did well bwahaha onga bunga fake news".

I agree, don't take region rivalries too far. It's ultimately meant to enhance the viewing experience, not detract from it.

In terms of TL performance—they definitely had an unfortunate hand dealt to them, but I think it's unfair to suggest that they're better than other teams when they ultimately didn't deliver. It's like rewarding an unfortunate team for doing poorly, and punishing a fortunate one for doing relatively well. It's the same reason I won't say FPX "deserved" a win at Copenhagen despite visa issues, for example.

Regarding your TH logic—you could use this, but then you can't discount, for example, SEN's win against Wolves. You can't say SEN beat a weak Wolves (which seems to be the narrative) or are "China farmers" and that TH's loses aren't that bad, because they lost to top 3 toronto teams.

Again, just food for thought.

posted 3 weeks ago

Does this change whether one region was better than the other?

It's not Americas fault that EMEA messed up their calendar and had tech issues, though I do sympathize with the region. At the end of the day, I want to watch good, fair Valorant and it was messed up that EMEA had less time to prepare.

posted 3 weeks ago

Of course, a European lashes out for no reason. The insecurity truly is palpable, especially when they try to cosplay as someone who understands math.

There's so many contradictions here, so I'll try to highlight them for your smooth European brain:

The actual test, which is the games

If you want to use the games as logic, then this statement is clearly false:

Heretics might be the 4th best team at Toronto

Possibly the worst performance I've ever seen at an international, in terms of how well they played. At least MIBR lost to GenG, who was playing very well during Swiss.

You could have the worst team be the first seed and get 5 points for free.

They'd get 4 points, bucko. 1 point is awarded for attending. Maybe learn math, or is 5 - 1 = 4 too difficult?

By the way, all of this assumes that there exists a total order between all teams, which does not reflect the truth of sports.

I'm well aware of the fact that playoffs don't guarantee a linear order. There isn't a true linear order. Perhaps you should look into cyclic order (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_order) and intransitivity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intransitivity). Assigning points based on playoff performance was never to say X was better than Y, but that X placed better than Y, which is the only non-subjective way of looking at performance.

The actual test, which is the games, clearly show that EMEA has had NA in their pocket for the last year since Shanghai.

At least it's better than this. NA has clearly played better than EMEA for over two years, including last year. The RNG you're claiming led to higher point totals for Americas would surely have become negligible over such a long timeframe, as EMEA and Americas would've both gotten lucky and unlucky at respective tournaments. That's probably a bit confusing for you, so you might need to look into the Law of Large Numbers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers). Yet Americas has a significantly better mean placement (higher mean score) than EMEA over the course of these tournaments.

tl;dr learn math bro

posted 3 weeks ago

yes, using the most notoriously inconsistent team as a benchmark seems to be a good idea.
Even so, I'll humor it. Here's my perspective:

Liquid were down 1-11, with most of those rounds them being flawlessed and getting absolutely cooked. PRX were playing against their own demons, not a competent team. They also got 13-5ed on Sunset. The bottom line: Liquid were down significant rounds at match point on every map (12-8, 12-5, 12-3); just because they came back does not mean they ever had control of the series.

Meanwhile, SEN might have gotten 13-3ed on split, but many of those rounds came down to clutches, milliseconds of time, or very close fights. And Sunset was especially close: an 11-13 loss with many clutches by PRX, including the forsaken helicopter defuse. Sentinels were absolutely in control of Sunset, got a bit unlucky, and could've pushed it to a map 3 and won.

That's using "gameplay" for you. It's subjective by nature, and that's fine, but it wasn't the purpose of this entire thread.

posted 3 weeks ago

your region's been on life support for two years buddy
no viewership, no wins, no stories

posted 3 weeks ago

bro is following me around everywhere lol
really that mad?

posted 3 weeks ago

you realize he's referring to eu = 0, na = 10, right?
eu + na = 0 + 10
not such a great post now, is it?

posted 3 weeks ago

you can't look at the gameplay and say FNC was miles ahead of SEN and G2
but you can look at the gameplay and say SEN and G2 were miles ahead of TH & TL.

the thing is, gameplay is subjective, especially when it comes to a whole region—and people absolutely forget the worst performers. Sure, FNC played well—but did the rest of Europe? That's what stats attempt to resolve—a more objective take.

posted 3 weeks ago

i agree w this
people seem to equate top team with overall region
apac is probably a two team region (rrq looked pretty bad tbf) but their two teams are stronger than americas two teams.

posted 3 weeks ago

region ≠ team
"dominant fashion"

posted 3 weeks ago
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