It's really unfair to regions like KR and BR where there is only one team and no others that could give them competition domesitcally, while NA and EU teams have a bunch of >1800 rating teams, which skews their ratings against elite teams. I can't accurately compare Buzz and Cryo's fragging stats because cryo's filtering will have NA teams in it while Buzz will only be at LAN, and if you filter down to domestic then Buzz is just stomping teams like WGS whereas cryo has to play optic. There's no win.

Also very good idea, it would be great to see which players struggle on certain sides and certain maps, there's obviously individual ways to locate this but the stats section should have all the features that the individual team and maps have.

I love doing research and looking at stats on this site, but some features are very behind/need updates. I'd love to propose some additional features for the stat section.

"Filter for LAN vs Online": This is something that should be principal on a site like this and the most important addition. It is basically impossible to see someones stats as a player over multiple LAN's because the opponent rating feature will leave out certain LAN teams or add online teams. I should be able to filter so that the only stats I see are from the 6 VCT LAN's we've had+ the franchising LAN's that are coming up.

Specific day range: The specific day range is in the stats section on teams maps, so why can't it be added to stats. Most of the time the 30-60-90 doesn't do justice for what you're looking for. If not a specific day range, then maybe add past 6 months, past year, etc.

Region updates: The regions don't really make sense, NA and EU are fine but Korea doesn't have a region but Japan does, while APAC is also it's own region. Brazil also isn't a region. It makes no sense.

Ability to choose multiple events/series: I should be able to filter players from only champions, or only certain LCQ's.

Restrictions: on a site like FUTBIN, you can filter out players based on mins or maxs of stats. Obviously we aren't talking about FIFA cards, but it would be nice to search for, for example, most FK's given you had less than .2 FDPR. This one would be more intuitive but would give fans a lot more to play around with. Could also work for searching highest rated kayo players at LAN excluding EMEA players, etc. There's tons of possibilities.

I know this is a lot of things and its not easy for a site like this to just up and fix a whole section during a very busy time of the year, but it would make the QOL when searching for stats so much better. VLR could be a lot more like Sports Reference with just a few tweaks, and sports reference is the most widely regarded and appreciated tool for most fans of stats based sports. Just some food for thought and would love some ideas from others.

Maybe try to have pati learn kayo and become more of a flex player? If he's this far removed from competitive it may be better to keep garnets on the role he's succeeding greatly on.

I'm not saying they should actually drop him, but that's 3 straight losses to Loud where he has drastically underperformed. He has many hero moments to him and a high ceiling, but his low is LOW sometimes. they won't replace him, nor should they, unless something crazy happens, but he's def the guy I'm most critical of on this NRG team.

I am a fan of Victor but he has been the weakest part of every elimination game they've been in. When he's on he's on and he was good against GIA but the most obvious difference in ability this game was between the ability of victor and less/cauan. s0m and tuyz were both playing cracked, the IGLs were coaching well, both awpers showed flashes of brilliance, and crashies, less, and cauan were great. Victor has gotta step it up IMO for NA league, as the rest of the team looks top tier.

But if I had to place money on anything it would be Marved with s0m moving to flex(he'd obviously have to improve his comfort on breach but apart from that he plays all flex agents). It could also just be whichever of Trent/jonahp, nismo, or v1c doesn't make franchising(by far the best flexs in t2 NA IMO, Sick would be there if he wasn't benched).

IIRC his KJ was really good in the deciding match but if you just look at the game you can see how little impact he had on fragging characters and how behind he was in fragging compared to Victor who was Optic's flex

if there's one thing u can give c9 over NRG it's mechanics LMFAO

yup that's exactly how that works lol

starxo is a weaker player than he used to be but he is probably still deserving
wolfen was the best vrl player last year, he deserved a chance
I like the rest of ur list, an unpopular I'll say is Tuyz but because he joined Loud he will probably succeed, but realistically based on his past performance he's not deserving IMO.
IDK if EG is cheating but C0m is good not great, same with than
jzz is also not very good but his new role could be complementary
keloqz, maybe mixwell
dep also kinda works for this

Dude is undeniably a good valorant player, but DRX has been gunning for a championship since 2021 and he's always been their worst player when it matters most. Like I'm being downvoted but pretty much everything I've said has been true. He shuts off at the end of tournies, whether its on entry, sova, or full flex. He has consistently made them a lower class team in firepower when competing against the top 6 teams in the world, and if you're trying to win champs this year, he is not ur best option. If they have to face a team like FNC, C9, Loud in the quarters that have crazy firepower 1-5, I'm not confident his lack of fragging in big moments will suddenly go away. I hope he proves me wrong because DRX are a likeable team and Stax and Mak0 are two of my fav players, but adding in foxy9 and putting buzz in the role that RB is in right now will be better in the longrun.

wow he was great against BBL!!!!! I really don't care how unpopular this opinion is but we're going through the same cycle with this guy. He is a high level player, no question, but he doesn't perform when it matters most. This happens every iteration of DRX, RB does very well against lower competition(open quals in the first stages, BBL an objectively lower level team) and people start calling him the best flex player in the game. Then when he plays against actually good competition he shits the bed and is by far the weakest link. He's consistently good when DRX is playing inferior teams but when they are challenged he is almost always the problem. Like look at his last 3 games at champs... or masters Copenhagen.... or master reijkavik...or last years champs. Starting to see a pattern? If championships and mvps were given to the first 2-3 games of a tourney DRX would be the champs with RB as the MVP, but until he performs consistently against higher competition he will stay as their weakest link.

D3ffo was pretty mediocre in every way possible outside of a good 3 game performance in the middle of 2021.

he's flexible to a degree. You're correct that since becoming a tier one pro he's played meaningful rounds on entry, smokes, skye sova sage and breach, but how many times have you seen him play these agents and actually wanted him on them? He can adapt to new agents quickly which is why I'd like him on sentinel agents, but he doesn't hit a high level on most agents. His duelists were all underwhelming(you saw their stage 2 and LCQ this past year) and he has only ever looked elite on sage and skye(with a few standout matches on astra and omen). I think at his peak he was a top 2 flex in EU, but that was when the meta allowed you to play sage and/or skye on every map. Since kayo and breach have become a staple for flex players, he has failed to really adapt to that role.

I mean he 100% should be on sentinels with sheydos on initiator but starxo is a lot less flexible so maybe not

He started in cs and played val for like 3 months that's a completely different scenario. He had already invested and gotten to a high level in CS(obviously not where he is now but u understand the sentiment)

If you can't compete at a medium high level in valorant ur not gonna be able to switch to CS and have crazy success

I mean at their peak they were top 8 ITW no? Fell to the eventual champs in Masters and had 3 of the brightest stars in EU at the time. I think it's reasonable to say if they added on of the best initiators in the world they'd be a top 2 emea team

They looked fine, a lot of things had to go perfectly for them to beat NRG and though it was an 0-2 it wasn't THAT far off. You gotta remember that Wolfen has never played in anything as big as an A Tier tourney online in EU, now he's gotta play on LAN against the best IGL of all time and awp against his regions best or second best awper next year. Kolda will get his igling back up and in there's still plenty to look forward to. Trexx looked like a star on sova, and IMO if they switch sheydos and starxo's roles after this tourney they'll be in a better spot, sheydos is too good at literally all 5 initiators to not have him playing them.

Prime Davidp was a top 5 IGL in EU but his prime lasted maybe 3 months. If we're talking about his peak 6 month performance he was not actually that good

Bro said TSM as if they have more than two good players lmfao

obviously he's a better fragger than Dephh but at his role specifically he's easily the weakest link. Dephh igled his team to top 2 in NA, sacy has been the most consistent player the past year, pancada was the MVP of champs, and Zekken was a top 2 entry in NA last year. Tenz hasn't been that level of good since midway through 2022. This is a pretty cold take.

This is the first time TenZ won't be the best player on his team. I'd even argue he's now the worst player on this team(which shows how good this team can be). Hopefully it works out but it'll be a big culture shift when he isn't expected to be the star of the team, which could bode very well for him honestly.Only expected to play Jett for duelists (no chamber or raze which he's struggled on) and can play a bit more passive on kayo or even skye on raze maps.

people won't like this but rb needs to be the one getting replaced and by this time next year the roster will likely be stax buzz mak0 foxy and a new initiator player(likely buying out Xeta or getting Lakia. TS is also really underrated but he'd be a sidegrade IMO.)

Yay is better than Cryo for sure, Cryo is great and its not wrong to label him as having a crazy high ceiling, but how much higher is his ceiling compared to what Yay has already done? I'd argue what we want Cryo to be is what Yay is.

At an IGLing standpoint I see Vanity as having a higher ceiling as both a fragger(look at this years LCQ and past tournaments) and as an actual IGL(lead two different teams to international success)

Leaf IMO has an equal or higher ceiling than Asuna. People forget he's still younger than Asuna and has more potential to flex. Asuna Raze>Leaf Raze but I trust leaf more on Jett if he needs to play it, plus he seems likely to be a star on sentinel agents. Asuna is still crazy and IMO they're 3a and 3b when it comes to potential between these teams.

Bang I think has the highest ceiling of the rest of the 4, but I'd say Xeppaa and Zellsis are 2-3. I think Derrek is great and currently on Sova which is meta he's above Xeppaa, but I think Xeppaa for sure has the ability to get ahead of him, and I personally think Derrek has shown to be fantastic but IDK how much better he's getting.

And lastly I think mCe deserves to be praised more than Mikes and took the Guard to higher success than any new team and coach ever had. He did that with an objectively weaker roster, which is why I have such high hopes for a C9 team that has pretty obvious team chemistry(only rivaled by 100T likely)

I agree, they both have very well built teams, but the ceiling of C9 seems much higher. I think Stellar out IGLed Vanity last year but in general I think Vanity is more likely to bring a team farther and has shown that he can do that. I rate Mce>Mikes as coaches and I think when C9 is on they have a better fragging squad overall than 100T. The problem is that they have less experience recently and Xeppaa will need to be able to perform on Sova. I personally see 100T as similar to C9 but a slight tier below if I'm putting money on who will be the champion by the end of the year.

I do my own personal rating systems for DOMESTIC(not counting international) play in NA and I had Yay as the best, Leaf top 5, and Zellsis and Xeppaa top 15. I don't think the argument with c9 flopping is their talent. For me they have far and away the most talented team. But of the 4 actual competitive teams in NA they have the least time played internationally in 2022 and Vanity has been the worst of the 4 IGLs since 2022. That's not to say they can't make up for that but saying that their players aren't the most elite is short selling them. The only team that really comes close for me is sentinels but I see such a huge gap between yay and tenz that it makes up for SEN having sacy and pancada.

As long as Yay is able/willing to pick up something like Sage and Breach on the more inside based maps they can succeed. IMO they have 4 of the 15 best players in NA and Vanity is the best fragging IGL up there with Boostio and Stellar.

By the start of 2024 he's on one of Sen or NRG for sure(I only say SEN because if they flop IMO some BR team picks up Sacy and Pancada and SEN rebuilds around Zekken)

izzy clears unfortunately

ima keep it real with u I haven't watched a single second of middle east valorant before but Falcons seem pretty good!

TR:
Izzy
WerlasS
Sasuke
Burzzy
Elite
HM: sociablEE

FR:
TakaS
nataNk
beyAz
MAGiK
memset
HM:kAdavra

Polaris:
Luzuh
ShadoW
Enzo
Mistic
Lime
HM: Keiko

Dach:
ellement
nico
eleo
Obnoks
al0rante
HM: ngiN

East:
alexiiik
musashi
Prti
al1en
MONSTEER
HM: runneeR

Spain:
B1SK
lowel
UNFAKE
GatsH
vo0kashu
HM: Yurii

Can't say I watch much italy or portugal but I'll try

Italy:
denzo
looM
caydeN
Lando
Z3RO
HM: feqew

Portugal:
tomaszy
k1zpawn
RobbieBk
DaviH
Fizzy
HM: mochi

possibly unpopular ratings but from a pure musical enjoyment its

GKMC
TPAB
MMATBS
DAMN

Damn has multiple more hits but MMATBS is a much more complete album with more "underrated songs" TPAB is good but GKMC is a 0 skip album with 3 of his best songs and his best song on it. Very few albums EVER can compete with having Money Trees, Maad City, and SAMIDOT

Vanity Stellar and Boostio all frag very well in comparison to many EU IGLs

Marved and Zombs are the most obvious, both went to LAN's and most recently played for UB in the qualifiers
(Nitr0 and Hiko are the only 2 other players not in at least ascension that played at an international LAN)

Tigg played for the nation and has been a staple since S3 2021

Effys is now the V1 HC but it's surprising him and Tigg didn't make an ascension team

Rawkus didn't make it after playing with Zacharee on City Bois(old Akr) but both are OG players

PureR and SQ just barely didn't qualify, he is the only one who didn't get dropped

Subroza and Shanks are both seemingly content creators for their orgs but are T1 vets who probably still have some left(subroza especially)

Shawn played with NSIC and failed to qualify despite being GenG's best player for pretty much their entirety

Curry and NFLO did not qualify

players like BabyJ and Frosty did not play but seem to still be willing to compete, BabyJ played at a high level for 2 stages with Faze in '21 and played for a tiny bit of time for 100T. Frosty IGLed Knights to top 8 in NA for the start of 2022 but failed to get them back and has been LFT since.

Wardell also played with the nation but hasn't really played at a top tier level since First Strike

Some other names that are no longer competing are:
Dre(now works at Riot but competed at a high level for two different teams and most recently played with NYFU)
Mummay and Kaboose(both seemingly retired but were great for the pre-Yay NV team)
Koosta(apparently still playing but hasn't been on a team since GenG)
Android(trying out collegiate but has been a staple in the scene for a while)
Jcstani(apparently taking a break but still very talented)
Sinatraa(tho he hasn't played in a big stage since First Strike I obviously had to mention him. Possibly the second best player on the list but apart from competing with UB for a bit he's not taking competitive seriously)

A lot of really high profile names here, the one that surprises me most is Tigg, he is for sure a top 17 controller in NA especially with Zombs and Marved not really taking competitive seriously. I was also surprised that Effys didn't get picked up by FaZe nor did he try to find a team to compete with.
The best team you could probably make of people that still compete(not counting the UB guys) is

PureR/Wardell
Shawn
Tigg
Zacharee
Rawkus/Curry

but i doubt a lot of these guys continue playing

Him Fireball and Cheatcode are top tier unsigned players, if they're controller wasn't a coach they would be one of the better unsigned teams in NA after the very obvious ones like Nation and DR

I would rather have seen SEN get them just so Trent Marved Sacy and Pancada were all in Franchising. LOUD would still be a super team and SEN would have 2 equally amazing players. I do wonder what that snowball effect would've looked like, maybe Guard Brawk and Caunazin to MIBR and Tuyz doesn't even make franchising?

Trent Nismo and Valyn imo are above the rest, after that I would say Jugi and Vo0kashu but I know very little about the SA and APAC scene in T2. I also know Lauress is pretty insane so add him in

This is not a curry fan post I know he massively underperformed on C9 but I just thought it was cool to see how many agents he's played so many rounds for. I was just wondering if anyone could name someone with that much diversity in their agents.

I saw Curry had 13/20 agents with over 200 rounds of playing time, can anyone top that? Obviously he's played quite a few T2 tournies and has been around for a while but that's quite an impressive number of agents to have learned enough of to play that many times at a pro level. It seems like tho he gets a lot of hate he's comfortable on pretty much every major role apart from controller and maybe awping.

fantastic Sova

RB has been a problem on that team since mid 2021 and they still have yet to find an adequate replacement. Mak0 Buzz and Stax are top tier players and zest is solid and brings secondary calling(from what we know) but RB is inconsistent and doesn't excel at any agent. I know they're grooming Foxy9 into the next star but they desperately need a better entry/kj player which I hope foxy can be, but they haven't had a star raze player ever and haven't had a really good kj(apart from buzz for one tourney) since early days K1ng.

If I was counting IGLing he would be over Skuba tbf

Duelist: Zeldris
Flash Initiator: Rossy
Info Initiator: Brawk
Controller: Skuba
Sentinel: Zexrow
HM: Wardell, Genghsta, and Nillyaz

This meta will be super friendly to a team like The Guard which I think not enough people are talking abt. NeT gets to play his best agents and not be forced on chamber or breach. Tex gets to play a multitude of agents and he's been good on anything from Kay/O to Chamber in the past. Jonah can still flex a lot and play sage, skye, and kayo while not being forced onto duelist roles

They're definitely similar levels right now but NFLIO core has been together for a while and probably has a lower ceiling. Obviously they got the best of them in that game but I think Clear is the highest ceiling fragger here and XXIF Genghsta and Steel are alltime the best of any of these guys.

They're one of the better constructed teams he could've made. Steel gets plenty of shit but what other F/A IGL has made a LAN or had the peak steel has had? He's for sure worse than before but he's a good building block. Genghsta and Xxif have been solid for over a year now and are reliable pickups. I'm not crazy abt Exalt but Clear is pretty good. Maybe a better kayo/breach/viper player would've been nice but these guys are a pretty solid squad

I have a pretty good feeling that if cypher is being played Dapr will be on it lol. It's just that on maps like Haven or fracture when chamber might still be favored it would be advantageous to have Dapr on initiators. It's not like he has to practice cypher or viper in ranked, they're by far his best agents. Same thing with Wippie and viper, it's likely that unless they're on bind where its double controller he'll be playing viper as much as possible with dapr playing initiators or even sage.

tbf Bonecold has shown that his peak as an IGL is for sure higher and lets not act like Vitality's roster, IGL aside, is anywhere close to what 100T's is.

1.FNS

2. Saadhak
   3.Ange1
3. Benkai
4. Redgar
5. Stax
6. Boaster
7. Dephh
8. Koldamenta
9. Bonecold
   HM Kingg