is he actually likeable? i feel like he's more like an annoying brat than any professional players i've seen execpt like maybe zellsis

fnc masterclass incoming.
1-2 with fnc beating out sen in a dominant affair on the last maps

now that emea fans are listening. guys u suck. i hope sen beats u and then loses to g2 with prx later taking the trophy home.
until 3rd franchising, no eu team will win anything

leo over trent in big 2025 🥀
spring recency bias
texture over kaajak?
meteor/forsaken interchangeable but meteor def a bit better with more space
igl should be either nats/valyn simply because they have better vibes and are better role models in a team of big ego players

shouldn't be an initiator. he should either improve his agent pool or stick to sentinels with zellsis going flex and narrate as main initiator.

more like better for fnc to get some reps here. still 1-2 is on table, icebox is emea's best map in general

WHAT IS GOING RIGHT NOW!! HOW DOES HE DO THIS??!!! COLD HAS SAVED LUMINOSITY WITH THE AWP PLAY!! UNTHINKABLE SCENES FROM THE B APARTMENTS
god i remember this till date, this and niko's deage cache

is this a reference to coldzera the second greatest rifler to ever exist?

haha yes. i enjoy trent and leaf playing more than any flashes plays from zekken or kaajak

i love when people get triggered over their favourite player being a little worse than the current best player.
demon1 > statspas
trent >= leo 2023
yay > statspas any day of the year
meteor > buzz
lakia > karon
sayaplayer > hyunmin any day
suygetsu > ardiis
fns > johnqt
valyn > boaster 2025
kaajak > zekken
crashies > narrate (better team player + better util rating)
jingg > forsaken

why? highest rated in team, good in clutches, great win rate in opening duels, initiator main-sova, fade,
u could arguably put trent in leo's place and fnc woulda won 3-0 in lock/in

i have never seen a team this flexible since valorant started. call this glaze idc but they literally can not make mistakes? jawg works like the perfect duelist willing to just dive in site without fear, trent is basically the second coming of leo, valyn is very experienced in what his players expect of him in calling, and then there's leaf whom u could say is probably like a meteor type player.
it's like u watch 1 head and four limbs instead of 5 different bodies. their protocols are just too good, and i think that is why they can make massive comebacks like this.
it's like fnatic 2023 but in a more refined era of valorant where util and positioning needs to be perfect or u will get punished.

I mean after tenz left, there's nothing likeable anymore in sen

W jinx

yea maybe m just yapping bc m mad abt us going down 0-2

call me embarassing here, but going out without a series win as #1 of apac is much more embarassing. it was painful watching how easily chronicle could just stomp his way through b main.
did u see a single full buy round where rrq pushed any main?
i saw 7 rounds in a row where 2 players of rrq were sitting in ct watching tree and pizza.
it was like 5 players without comms instead of a team.
who cares u won a regional but u shit the bed completely in both of your series. drx/t1/boom would have won that, that's all i'm gonna say

with how much hate there is against my country on the internet, i'd expect people to believe that i'm indian. call me baiter sure, but i'd not like a different flag near my name

lowkey we of the holy apac region need more korean teams to save our asses because rrq def has not met the expectations. regional merchants who played good because of jemking lifegaming and kushy tejo buff. T1 won bangkok without tejo, rrq can't win a series without tejo

both teams were blundering tactically. fnc twice no plant time runs out.
but rrq just has no idea how to play meta. like you know they've gone ten rounds in a row to fake a main, go short take mid control.
what rrq did was give all the space away except for mains where fnc didn't even aim. how tf r u supposed to defend when fnc players are in ct backstabbing u all the time?
why is this team giving away a short? why not smoke top mid, smoke tiles recon top mid, aggress a main, why is jemkin never saving for an operator when u know alfa on the other side is awping? why are the cypher trips not being used as info trips instead of kill trips? this isn't bronze where they won' notice ur trips. bro just put a trip mid if u wanna play defensive and then aggress other side of the map. take more space. did the coach not tell them how to play a 5 year old map where ur going for the basic meta comp which isthe easiest to play?

TLDR- rrq's igl is probably brain farting and telling jemkin go kill but doesn't tell him how to kill. even if fnc fumbled everything they would still win. rrq haven merchants like T1.

one bad game doesn't mean shit. he's the most consistent player in th. if he were to go international, he'd be instantly picked like chronicle/crashies

Trent is a great player. don't make threads abt him in this way. respect best sova main + best fade main(after riens)

The time has arrived.
Paper Rex, a legendary team known for their creativity and unique way of playing valorant
Sentinels, a team known for being heavily carried by aim-gods, namely tenz, zekken etc.

The two teams will clash tomorrow and PRX will show why apac is the most developed and competitive region of valorant esports.
We shall see a quick 2 map affair on split and sunset with decider map lotus not being played due to PRX humbling s0n with a 13-10, 13-5 victory.

Econ rating is actually pretty misleading.
It doesn't work when someone else buys a gun for you, drops u a gun, utility damage and ultimate damage is considered tho even tho they shouldn't be?
It's a pretty biased statistic that boosts econ of star players who get rifle drops while being very low for players dropping the rifles.
+Rifles not bought in the next round are also added to the cost of round money so yeah, it's pretty bad.

1 good pistol and then statpadding again against eco buys. Yes terrible time.
He had his ultimate built for 8 rounds and used it in the 9th while coming out of a chokepoint.
Idk he just seems like a stupid all aim duelist who only knows to rush in

I can happily say this guy does not switch on his monitor. He used pistols for 3 rounds after he had his ultimate and didn't use it until the last round of the half. Surely if your stats are 3.9 RAR with 1.4 vlr, you can easily build another ultimate in the half no? Statspas 2.0 ahh player

nah it's more recency bias than calling donk top 10 oat. he's been statpadding his way to hltv multiple years by biting kyojin, misutaa and rpk 2019-2022 and only won a major when it was against plumbers of gamerlegion. they literally choked quarters against faze last year when the odds were 1.2 to 2.6 in their favour

unsigned team
name of unsigned team is GenG esports.
Karon joined GenG because of him 5 stacking with geng staff on 19-11-2023.
23-11-2023 he joined GenG esports on a contract for 6 months.
source- liquipedia.net/Valorant/Karon.
where's your source for him queueing with an unsigned team?

cs fans have more recency bias than vlr.
one good season and everyone's calling zywoo the goat even tho 2 18y/o russian kids were turning his world upside down last year.
this year everyone's calling niko bad, donk bad, monesy bad.
on hltv mezzi is better than niko because mezzi is backseating his way to victories.

u don't want to visit hltv. there's a trend of people calling niko and monesy gay duo + worshipping zywoo and offering to bear his children

LMAO
meteor started his career in pro play in 2021 before frachise even started. he played for TNL, a respectable t2 org that is on the same level as today's envy/yfp
Karon started playing pro in 2023 before champs.

Serial is an absolute rookie who's played literally 2 events in Tier 1(if emea can even be called Tier 1 now). and yo're comparing him to prodigies like meteor and karon.
that's like comparing rookie d3ffo to C9 tenz (no hate to deffo he my goat)

cmon guys really? you're looking at a rookie player who's played a total of 15 matches against t1 teams and calling him out?
He's a support player and so the expectations from him are basically nothing. on defense he plays very well considering he has to anchor sites + on attack he's the one given the least amount of space. most of the time he drops his rifle to keiko and playswith a sheriff or stinger. you can't expect him to play like meteor while being given dog food

nah 6 man roster is good. on maps where they'll go double senti/double controller more likely serial plays but on maps where double duelist is good like haven penny will hop in

the fact that apac hasn't lost a single team on the international stage shows which is the most competitve and well developed region(even though teams like drx, t1, bme couldn't make it).
AMER- mibr lost to TL #3 emea and gen.g #2 apac.

EMEA- TL lost to blg #2 CN and PRX #3 apac. won against mibr
TH- first team going 0-2 both matches by #3 apac and #3 CN.

CN- BLG lost to sentinels #2 amer and wovles #3 cn. won against TL.

in group stages (only counting maps lost and won against other regions)
APAC are 6-1
EMEA are 4-8
CN are 7-7
AMER are 4-5

TLDR; apac numba wone

he actually was pretty good at fragging. it seems like he used aim assist in 4 maps tht he played during the league. )(2 cache +1 overpass and mirage) optic dissolving the entire team was uncalled for tho, because titan with kqly didn't dissolve their team and scream, rpk, shox were still allowed to play internationals

ehh not really. turkish government is more biased towards players and so are just arresting the sponsors.
plus xantares is officially in a serbian org "aurora' so turkish laws do not apply to his contract

i said arguably better split because prx have more reps on the map but basically no reps since last time on sunset. tl can win a map if they pick sunset

there's a thing called hope and i don't have much of it left. prx are used to 6 man rosters + nats has never played or analysed them. it might be 0-2 loss. prx have all the advantage in the world. better icebox, better lotus, better ascent, arguably better split. sunset is 50-50

this is so fucked up. both are players who've been around for so long and watching one eliminate the other is kind of sad.not to mention liquid and prx are both entertaining to watch

big 4 doesn't mean big 4 duelists... @derkebetter plus underperformance because of bad igl isn't true. zekken performs even tho johnqt constantly runs into stack sites.

derke has fallen off like crazy tho. i'd say from eu, Leo/chronicle/nats are in the running more than derke

if u look closely something and forsaken's aim was not on point. that's clearly not an A-game day for prx. a bad day doesn't mean gen is leagues above prx.

in what world? apac dominated both emea and amer in 2 days lol

Last night, before verno's first match on the international stage, he was very nervous. he wakes up in the middle of the night and calls his hubby aspas. aspas, as the goat he is, anchors verno in his embrace. he slowly pats verno on the head saying "it'll be alright" as he locks his jett and dashes inside verno.

meh. sen pick shouldn't have been this close. wolves clearly did a lot of anti-strat. i'd say both are looking very weak tho. wolves are better on defense and they shit the bed. sen have like 52% wr on defense so 4-8 seemed like a disaster

flair. g2 fan talking about win/loss when all u experienced is all on international stage

brother brother. liquid don't have their igl, star player, lurker. they aren't like g2/prx who have a sixth player who knows strats. 2 days of prep and u make it that close is completely unexpected

u were saying? jingg gonna grape the heretical non-believers

I'd say Bind then split and ascent complex maps + very good fake potential.
bind is weirdly good because of it's 4 lane design and teleporters and the fact that there are many rat spots.
split because it's ct sided, old school 3 lane layout plus the lurking potential is very good.
if u can't play ascent u should be banned from valorant. ascent is the mirage of valorant. i'd say most people above plat should know kay/o and kj lineups for default,tetris etc.

As someone who's been watching CS scene since 2017, CS right now is so much worse than what it used to be. faceit is the only playable server. e-sportal nd all others are 64 tick server which are disgustingly bad. also faceit has been getting infested with cheaters since the last 3 months. there's no security in the game anymore except if you're gambling or skin trading.
Esports has been pretty bad too cause there's just vitality and their fans winning while the rest of the orgs are in a slump. nikonesy to falcons, elige to faze. broky benched, rain washed, donk not showing his top form.
but hey atleast s1mple will play at the major