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Well we have to see his gameplay 1st but in theory there's a lot of teams that would likely play Chamber like Liquid with Nivera or Jamppi, 100T with nitr0, Sen with Shahz or maybe teams with weaker Jett players or jett players who don't entry could use Chamber instead of Jett and have someone else play a duelist like raze. Even if no one else plays it, I'm 95% sure Liquid will run Chamber since it just makes sense for their team.
Obviously he wasn't that great of an IGL if they would rather team IGL than have him IGL on every map so I still think NRG Steel is the move unless FaZe want a legit IGL, after seeing LCQ, and sign Steel before NRG. NRG really need a good IGL and a sentinel main so Steel fits perfectly in terms of the roster.
NA: Crashies, Derrek, BCJ, xeta, eeiu and HiKo
EMEA: Chronicle, Leo, Russ, Cloud, Shao
BR: Sacy
KR: Lakia(Idk why VS refuse to put him on Sova) and Esperanza
JP: Laz
World:
ShahZaM is shit on sova and no Derrek or eeiu? eeiu I can understand cause NRG sucks but come on Derrek is easily 2nd or 3rd behind Crashies.
While I agree, b0i also stepped up big time which somewhat cancelled out the underperformance from nitr0 and Ethan. I mean the reason why I have C9B above 100T isn't cause they beat 100T but rather because I think C9B looks better right now than 100T with b0i. I don't think b0i is a shit player like some other 100T fans but he's not what the team needs imo. Any tier 2 org entering Valorant should look at b0i since he's a good player and probably would be a good IGL, given that he was an analyst before Steel was dropped. Plus, C9B is looking really good and imo that's because of Xeppaa. Xeppaa has really became a great player and even though he is probably the best kayo player in NA(sorry Steel), he was even better on Raze and his aim is really good. With Xeppaa playing the way he's playing, and with b0i being on 100T, C9B is a better team rn imo.
Alright mb I thought it was literally the exact results. Idk why you have Gen.G below FaZe and V1 but at least it's your opinion so it's whatever.
I'm saying you just copy and pasted results instead of putting your own thoughts on it.
So basically you put the 2 teams that qualified for Champs at 1 and 2 based on their Berlin performance and copy and pasted LCQ results for the other 8... Not much of an opinion but ok. Imo if we're talking about right now, it should be:
HiKo isn't the problem with 100T so bringing in the bad PR and completely changing the team's identity for someone who was an upgrade like a year ago(who knows how he compares to the pros now) makes 0 sense. HiKo is arguably a top 5 sova player in NA, brings in tons of fans and seemingly gives a boost to the team's morale. Add that to his experience and the value he brings to the team and there is no reason to drop him unless Crashies was available.
Asuna on jett with no other entry just makes it nearly impossible for him to pop off. His awping isn't great and he has to entry alone. Also b0i's Astra isn't the issue with their Haven so just switching him with nitr0 won't help much at all. Other than Breeze, Haven is the 2nd best map for jett so having nitr0 on jett would help so much more.
100T need to switch up their haven comp. nitr0 playing jett unlocks Asuna but when Asuna has the be the solo entry on jett, they rely on everyone else really. Imo they should put nitr0 on jett, Ethan on Omen, b0i on cypher, Asuna on raze(Or reyna or phoenix) and HiKo on sova as always. Either they need to do some shit like I said or just get good on Bind and make Haven their perma ban or something.
I mean they're right. Look at each map and you will see the inconsistency but when he's on, he's probably the best player in NA. I'm not saying he's better than guys like TenZ and Yay overall but when he's on, he looks better than them.
Sure he has a good amount of down maps but the last time he wasn't top 2 on the leaderboard for 100T(in a series) was this game in July: https://www.vlr.gg/25197/100-thieves-vs-envy-champions-tour-north-america-stage-3-challengers-1-ubsf
And the last time he wasn't top 3 was this game in April: https://www.vlr.gg/15622/100-thieves-vs-andbox-champions-tour-north-america-stage-2-challengers-1-ubqf
Why would anyone fucking blame the dude who is always top 2 on the leaderboard and single handedly wins maps for the team? He's inconsistent but come on now man. Also I don't get other 100T maps and I'm not gonna just blame b0i for everything, but he is the weakest link and if this team wants to win Champions, they are probably going to need an upgrade.
Wait so you used a clip of him getting a kill after being full blind for 5 seconds why?
Yeah but dephh and zekken made them able to compete with Sen, Envy and 100T. They beat old Envy once with their old roster and V1 but they definitely couldn't compete with Sen with their old roster and weren't a set top 4 team like they have been since. Although with Rise doing how good they are and C9B's new roster, the top 4 isn't nearly as dominant anymore, and now it's looking more like a clear top 6 teams. Also dephh was a huge reason Dig was as good as they were like a year ago and was crucial to them upsetting TSM twice in 1 tournament, when they were one of the best teams. He's a great IGL and is great individually too and his results back that up.
Dephh and his child POISED > steel and his child Vanity
I'll put it this way: zekken, dephh and BCJ are the clear strongest links on XSET and Zellsis is the clear strongest link on V1 with wippie being second. I would also put Penny as a strongest link but he's super inconsistent. Anyways, I don't think there's 1 clear weakest link for each team but it's mostly between Ayrin and PureR for Xset and Penny, Oderus and effys for V1. It really changes over time, like before Reykjavik, I would say Penny would be one of, if not the strongest link on V1 but now he's probably in the middle. As of right now, I'd say Oderus and PureR.
supamen was the defuser and he came off when the 2 guys covering him died. Not smart but it was just pure reactionary
G2 would be braindead if they made roster moves. keloqz carried them at Berlin and if they want to win a LAN, dropping keloqz would be a huge mistake. Obviously they aren't gonna drop nukkye or AvovA because you can't get an upgrade over them unless like ScreaM was available to replace nukkye. Mixwell brings in viewers and is a good support player who has only recently been underperforming and Koldamenta is a good IGL. If they make any changes, it should be on the coaching side of things because their roster is pretty much as good as it can get.
He is definitely a top 10 sentinel player. The only players that can be argued to be ahead of him would be dapr, fns, zellsis, Ayrin, aproto, XXiF, Oderus and steel. Some of those guys already are a stretch and in my eyes he's 4th behind dapr, fns and Zellsis. Maybe if you want to use the argument that he hasn't played in a while and stretch even more, you could say he's 11th by including mitch and BabyJ or something but, again, that's really stretching it.
Kinda like the guy above was saying, thwifo is a top 5 sentinel player in NA and also they already have Curry as their IGL so that isn't a concern. This is a great move for T1 but the only bad thing is that they are supposedly putting Ska on Jett and moving Auti to sova which seems like a braindead move to me.
He was pretty inconsistent and Autimatic was amazing on jett so, again, it doesn't make sense. Also it's way too late. I didn't like when they took Ska off of Jett in the first place but, at this point, why not just keep Autimatic on jett?
Maybe top 10 jett player in NA a year ago but definitely not top 10 player. Either way Autimatic was so damn good on jett and raze that it makes no sense why they would switch him off of the main duelist role when it was 1 of the only good things about their last roster.
Well that's fucking terrible then... Why take Auti off of duelists? I'm a lot less excited for this T1 team now...
Why leave once they start getting the best pieces. Autimatic is on the verge of being a top 10 duelist and could grow even more, Curry is great in pretty much every role and can only improve as an IGL, Spyder is returning after being inactive with his wrist injury and now they are getting thwifo who is one of the best sentinel players in NA. Then they can choose to bring back Ska as their 5th, who is solid and has a shit ton of experience in tac fps games or pick someone else up. Everything is starting to match up with this roster and this would be the worst time for them to leave.
They will be stronger with luckeRRR as their main duelist compared to kAdavraa? Support players can't help that much when they don't have a star player to support. kAda is one of the best duelists in EU and replacing him with Zik and Seider and moving luckeRRR back to jett(where he was super inconsistent on NiP) isn't going to make them stronger whatsoever.
kAdavraa left, there's not much more to say
G2 failed more than just to make Reykjavik. After they got eliminated by Heretics in First Strike(and won the Red Bull tournament thing), G2 did jack shit. They failed to make even main events of challengers after previously winning everything so don't act like it was such a sudden change. Carlos is not that dumb.
Yeah I saw he has some nice stats and same with lyNxi so maybe they will be considered or some Fin or Dane or something that speaks Swedish fluently because I genuinely believe that, even if the Guild guys can speak English, that it is so much better for a team to communicate in their first language and that switching it up for 1 player would ruin the team. Also I haven't watched any of supmah/lyNxi so I didn't want to say to add them because I don't know how good they really are, I just know they put up some good numbers. Also idk if either of them are IGLs or if anyone on Guild would be a good IGL so that would be a big question with the move as well.
These are the best available Swedish players for each role(For Bonkar it's IGL) so they shouldn't replace anyone unless they can either find a Swedish speaking player who is better or a better smoke main than Bonkar. Unless FPX drop their roster for a Chinese roster and Zyppan is available, the only roster move they should consider is moving Bonkar to coach and picking up a good, Swedish, controller main
Yay
SicK
Crashies
nitr0
Dapr
Sub: Ethan
Coach: FrosT(Honestly not too many good American coaches so it was really between like FrosT, Chet and MikesHD and FrosT has been the most successful so)
Why would they make changes? You can't win everything and there's no good reason to make changes after every loss unless some insane players like cNed or nAts are available. Mixwell had 1 down tournament and now people are saying to drop him, as this community always does, Koldamenta is a great IGL and keloqz is a very young, great player who just needs to be more consistent. Making any roster changes would be a huge mistake but luckily G2 isn't ran by the people on vlr.
I don't think there was anything wrong with their strats, I just think that the reason why their attacking side is weaker is because of the IGLing but their executes look good.
This dude switches over from cs, already is a good sova, killjoy and viper and is looking like the 3rd best player on Liquid already. Even if Liquid don't qualify to Champions this year, they are looking deadly for next year with Nivera adjusting to the game and Jamppi growing as an IGL. Also they just beat G2 even with Soulcas underperforming so this team when everyone is clicking is scary. Also Jamppi is looking really fucking good as well.
While their reads aren't great, the only thing that makes it obvious is that you can see both teams. Also Liquid has enough skill to get away with a lackluster IGL situation at least for now and I'm sure the calling will only get better over time.
Its almost as if you can see where the entire enemy team is and they can't
30 + (30.05)= 31.5
31.5 + (31.5.05)= 33.08
33.08 + (33.08.05)= 34.73
34.73 + (34.73.05)= 36.47
36.47 + (36.47*.05)= 38.29
I know someone above linked an answer but I'm 90% sure it's wrong. The answer that's like 153 or whatever is it going up by 105% every day instead of 5%.
I mean I haven't watched too much and when I have I've had it muted because I'm listening to music or doing something else so I never heard the casters but thanks.
Does each country have completely different languages or are some similar and others not. Like PRX has 2 Indonesians, 2 Singaporeans and 1 Malaysian while FS and X10 are exclusively Thai and Team Secret is exclusively Filipino. So is the Thai and Filipino language that much different or did the teams just sign the teams cause they though they were the best team?
There's a good 7 teams that have a chance to win imo but it'll probably come down to obviously the winner of FS and NTH and whoever wins between the loser of that game and the winner of the likely matchup of Nuturn vs PRX. Of course Damwon, GE or F4Q could also make it to the lower final but I really doubt it.
The whole Mike situation is fucked up but tbf Chet is a good coach(not as good as Mike tho). You say NRG and TSM performed poorly under him but NRG was a top 8 team with Chet coaching for a while(until Daps left) and TSM made it to Challengers Playoffs and almost beat Envy. Also in CS he coached NRG/EG to being a top team for a while and then coached 100T who were pretty good under him as well. Basically, he's a pretty good coach but paying him what he's probably getting paid while not even being in contact with Mike makes 0 sense.
Hey guys lets drop the coach who got us all the way to Berlin and helped the team get to the Grand Finals in Berlin(despite not being there) for someone who has only been mildly successful in Valorant and had a few good stretches in CS. Like wtf man why. I was really starting to like Envy since Mike is one of the Plat Chat guys and all and because of the talent on that team but now I can't root for them if they really dropped Mike for fucking Chet. No hate to Chet or anything but they completely did Mike wrong.
I mean you say every team needs an awper but did LG have success because Dre was awping or was it actually hindering their team? I didn't watch the whole series or anything but when I was watching it really felt like Dre wasn't even there most of the time and that his awp didn't have that much of a positive effect for how much it costs.
Eh I just said top 5 cause Asuna and TenZ are obviously 1 and 2 and then you have Dre, ShoT_UP. Actually nvm he's top 3 cause he's better than ShoT_UP and a lot of the other top duelists in NA aren't the best on Reyna like Victor and corey or mostly just play jett like Wardell, PureR(who now plays skye too), autimatic and yay is solid on Reyna too I guess.
No one said he's bad, they're just saying to keep him on reyna where he is a top 5 player on that agent in NA instead of putting him on jett and forcing him to awp when he's a godly rifler. Similar situation to Asuna when they had him on jett despite him being possibly the best Reyna in the world.
It's funny af but we didn't get to see gigabrain Sideshow
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