I've played Dota (which is the same), and just like every competitive game, mechanics easy to learn, hard to master

I don't think that LoL mechanics are the hardest part of the game, especially if you watch and learn from good players

Most players don't get better after winning internationals like Faker

Only big big upgrade I can think of is Aspas, his Leviatán form was much better than his LOUD form

And some players just keep the same form/don't improve a lot: Chronicle, TenZ (if you ignore his 2023 season for obvious reasons), Derke, etc...

The more the years pass in LoL the higher the cealing gets. So it's actually more impressive that Faker managed to win the amount of internationals he has. Same goes to Val. Players tend to get worse after winning because they can't keep up with the meta/higher skill

Boaster is the prime example of this. 2024 has been his best year individually speaking, but he looked like crap, because everyone else got much better. If you put 2024 Boaster in 2021, he'd be a middle of the pack player, instead of bottom

To add, players change of team too much. At the end of the day, this a team game, and it doesn't matter if you have the best player in the world playing for you, you can still finish last or be mediocre

If a Faker of Valorant to you is who gets the most titles: Probably Chronicle

If a Faker of Valorant to you is who's the the best the most consistently: Impossible to know. Meta changes too much. Demon1 came out of nowhere and had the most dominant performance we've seen of a rookie and a duelist, and completely flopped the next season. Cealing of the game is too low compared to LoL, so I think that there will never be a Faker of Valorant

The gap between sym and zekken is so big it's painful to watch

He had consistency problems in tier 2, but I wasn't expecting him to play like this

kamo got signed by a major tier 1 org while being mid so I think that it makes you lucky yes

should've been corey

Normally, you give the benefit of the doubt to those who do not do well in the off-season

Is almost like... Players play good... When they have a good... Team environment??

I don't think so

I think that Sentinels will actually get more viewership now that TenZ is a content creator for SEN

And Sentinels is only the biggest fanbase in the west. Biggest fanbase title goes to EDG

I agree

Nvm I thought that Sayonara would replace Kaajak in the off-season

But he will be standing-in for Leo instead

Nah bro, no agent was able to reposition like Chamber could

His rotation capacity was insane too (only matched by Yoru TP, but he was the worst agent by far when the Chamber meta was around)

You could leave any area on the map open and still have your trip up (it was even more broken when it was two trips)

I'm sayin. She isn't that good in maps like Split, Abyss, Ascent

She is really good in Lotus, Fracture, Haven, Sunset. But half of those maps are out of the pool

She is decently viable/replaceable in the rest

you look like you are bisexual and listen to radiohead

I've seen a lot of discussion about this

I personally don't think that current Neon is better than prime Chamber

People tend to forget how dominant and irreplaceable he was as a sentinel. You pretty much didn't need Cypher or KJ if you had a good Chamber player on your team

Neon is more replaceable and you can replace her with Raze and Jett in most maps. However, she is a must pick in some maps

Thoughts?

Yeah, I agree

He might've as well rebrand entirely, or only keep the "Chulo"

Or do something similar to cgrs. Maybe something like papcl? I have no clue

Maybe IGN PatWat would've been nice. But the aura is not the same as PatrickWatson

And PapiChulo I can understand, nickname has too much sex appeal

Sayonara will compete with DVM in the 2025 France VCL, and will play with the Fnatic boys for the off-season

Kaajak is not signed yet because Fnatic is waiting for his contract to expire

That's why you have so many turkish migrants in Germany

There a lot of succesful/cracked players from underdeveloped countries

Johnqt, avez, sayonara, most turkish players, ANGE1, dos9. And that's only Valorant players

don't leave school

that's my only advice

If they got a real igl and a smokes players that can actually shoot, I could see EG getting far

With this current roster, not so much

No

But I do think that only 12 teams is not enough

You can't be that stupid and so good at making people think you are

Stupid people think they are smart, and say the wrong things thinking they're right. But dort just misses all the time, every take or opinion he has, is the worst one possible

It's like having a 5% wr in ranked. You are either the worst player in the world, or the best thrower

dort

I can't tell if he's just a master baiter or just mentally retarded

ange1

AMERICAS clásicos: NRG/OPTC LOUD, KRÜ LEV, SEN 100T
EMEA clásicos: FNC TL, KOI TH, VIT FUT
APAC/CN clásicos: PRX/EDG, PRX/DRX, RRQ GENG, T1 GENG, EDG FPX
Historical clásicos: FNC/LOUD, SEN/G2, can't think of anything else

There's several clásicos that are strong because of the clubs and not because of the Valorant teams, for example:
KOI KC, KOI TH, KC VIT, M8 VIT, FNC G2, TL EG, etc

had me until controller

yoman for lakia is an upgrade
but foxy9 for meteor is a dowgrande

I think that Meteor is a much bigger loss, and top 5 korean players, so I think that no player rn is an upgrade

B+ is a reasonable tier?

And I think he will be a much better player now that he's a full time sentinel

Individually, most aren't great

they have no team, they will be added once the roster gets confirmed

I really want to see yay play on a functional team

DSG and BLD and serious internal issues

Hope the same doesn't happen in EG

Really? I thought that Pacific was the most competitive

I think they have the strongest VCL when you compare them to Tier-1

I think that either China or EMEA has the biggest gap between the worst and the best team

AMERICAS template: https://tiermaker.com/create/vct-2025-americas-player-ranking-924719
EMEA template: https://tiermaker.com/create/vct-2025-emea-player-ranking-924719-3

My tierlists if you care
AMERICAS https://imgur.com/a/m3ivMfV
EMEA https://imgur.com/a/etX7n70

I probably won't do a Pacific template, so don't request

2025-2026 might be the last time we see Boaster competing

If Chronicle or Leo take the IGL role, and with Sayonara on the team (when he's 18), Fnatic will be really really strong

This roster will be better long term

do people tryhard to reach ascendant?

fraudpas

0/8

Because a lot of EMEA teams still think that this game is CS

I think that the Yay sym Derrek core is good

I'm not conviced with supamen and NaturE

skuba, thief, seven, stellar, corey, brawk, NiSMO... Were better options

You should make an account in LinkedIn (if you chase more "professional" jobs)

Brother, you are asking for job advice, in VLR. This is like asking the blind how to see

Just because Polaris had 2 orgs doesn't mean that NA is fine

You can hate FaZe (like I do), but I would rather have a org like them investing in a VCL roster than not at all

G2 is debatable

And I wouldn't trust M80 to stay another year. VCL sucks and M80 already lost almost 1 million dollars just trying to ascend (money which they haven't recovered), and will lose more if they fail to qualify in 2025. This is precisely why Leo Fahria's system sucks, you decide to trust that orgs will invest and pickup teams. DarkZero pickup Turtle Troop for only one month, and even assuming the TT players were paid decently for that month, that doesn't make up for all the time in the season they didn't get a single cent

With this system, tier-2 will only get worse and players will stop trying to chase a career

It's almost funny, how the only decent org in Polaris, won Ascension. You can't ask unpaid players to perform

I'm sure that Ludwig said in one of his streams "we'll give it another year"

Implying that Moist might leave Valorant if they fail to qualify in 2025

An G2 is only in tier 1 because Guard didn't want the spot and Carlos lost his mind. They would have to wait until 2026 to have a chance to get in

I seriously doubt that G2 would invest in VCL if they weren't in VCT

G2 left the league

And they got lucky that Guard didn't want the spot

I doubt they would keep to invest in VCL if they didn't get to play in partnerships

I'm talking about leaving VCL

FaZe left
Disguised left
G2 left
DarkZero left
Oxygen left
M80 left
TSM comes and goes
Moist might leave if they don't qualify next season

Apart from TSM, the biggest orgs in NA VCL right now are Fluffy Aimers and QoR gaming

This league is cooked unless Riot does something

Would be true