nothing in particular I just think it would be neat

No trust I watched all of SEN 2023 this is still miles better

SEN gets 0 rounds after this timeout

Run Skye, Sage, or Miks every map the amount of damage these players take they could use a heal crutch atp

It took 3 years after the 2021 win to get another trophy so the fix is wait until 2027 where Sen will get a new trophy

It’s not even fun to watch SEN games anymore. I just turn off the game after the first map cause I already know what’s gonna happen.

Genuinely what am I watching? It’s like after losing 4 times in a row they have learned absolutely nothing and just play like it’s a ranked game.

heres the engagement you ordered sir

I think like 10 years ago it was for sure 30 unless you are a god level IGL or something, but nowadays tbh its pretty easy to go until like 33-35 if you play well/IGL/Coach

i dont think EMEA T2 is bad I think all of EMEA T1 is bad

the difference is all of EMEA is bad teams and some are worse teams, so if bad team loses to worse team they are double bad. Hence why MEMEA is losing to T2 rn

Assumes that the EG gets completely reverse swept in the champs grand finals against a mid team (not someone you'd actually expect to win)

its not that i think reduxx/cortezia/jerrwin are necessarily bad on their own I just want all bad juju gone so SEN needs a whole new team

If SEN can't get a win against 2G then genuinely blow the whole team up

I mean the whole team drop every person and just start over this clearly isn't gonna work

SEN is pro at getting beat by bad teams and causing them to go on runs

jesus how do you have 4 alive and not check hell like WHAT

4 alive no one checks hell wtf is SEN actually doing

be good for at least one jesus

I feel like this whole stage I've been seeing more rounds that come down to like the last 30 seconds before a team actually tries a hit.

idk why I even watch SEN games atp

that last round was terrible how did they slow a neon and just give him 2 free kills

true and real

one can hope

I didn't watch the games today but LOUD 2-0 G2?

did LOUD level up or did G2 just suck?

Edit:
AND C9 BEAT 100T of all the days to MISS

bro tex isnt that good but at least he has his moments. neT would just embarrass the team by standing up and losing and C0M would go 3-14 on the regular

vouch fun tourney

the more people the better

I'm not upset at ion and cane not being there, they were obv not going to ascend immediately with the age restriction. It was more, the people that replaced them (keznit and rossy) felt less like subs and more like permanent additions to the team. I can't explain the feeling per se but it felt like they were building a new team rather than waiting for ion and cane to turn 18.

Of course nothing could be done about cane that was his own fault, but that was after they already started gutting the team. I think they could have adapted to Tier 1 if they worked around their original ideas but put a twist on it to mold into what other teams were doing, but they were never really given the chance.

For the record I'm not cutting any slack for other orgs. C9 is a huge disappointment and the only reason nothing has happened is probably just because they're a big esports name. Honestly to be able to support ENVY again I would need them to just drop everyone and restart.

org still at some fault for letting stunner tear apart a perfectly good team they just signed, but dont get me wrong st0nner needs to be fired as well

Ban this org from ever competing in valorant ever again

It was some true evil how they destroyed the RANKERS team after ascending, and watching them do so painfully bad in every stage is just salt in the wound.
If we had OG RANKERS the ranked gameplay would at least be fun to watch, even if they did go 0-5.

well lets be clear here FURIA are bad. They dropped half their roster (that was doing good btw) and replaced them with subpar additions

LOUD is a bit worse than mid only because at one point in time they we're the best. So it's just sad to look at them now.

I've always thought dgzin was a pretty good duelist even when he was on furia, it's just a shame the teams he has had weren't ever very good

that one hurt they got completely outaimed

EG would be so much more interesting to watch than G2 or MIBR in an international

It's just unfortunate they are like barely not good enough to win important games

zerona and paincakes are good at the video game and i'd like to see them play more
also dgzin isn't a fraud I swear

Poosuna is not going into the Hall of Fame

Aspas/Ethan/Yay/Tenz/Boaster

All made their mark somewhere in the game's lifetime

HM: Kangkang/Chronicle

we must embrace the truth

The Riens round 1 ace is all you really need to understand how the map was gonna play out

edited to add the other stuff too

Omen)

1. This would feel bad in practice, omen already has to manually aim his smokes, place them, and then has to wait a few seconds for them to actually reach the destination and bloom, and your saying he shouldn't even be able to reach a good chunk of the map? He barely reaches the edges of some maps and others he can't even cross half of it.

2. I would be for this change even without other changes tbh, just a nice QoL.

3. Idk how I feel about reducing smoke durations. This might make Brim a more viable pick because of his absurdly long smoke duration but it might also affect absolutely nothing in the long run in terms of pick rates or win rates.

4. pls no I hate the trend of taking away charges all willy nilly, let an agent have some flexibility in their kit and not just a one and done piece of util. Taking away a shrouded step is basically taking away omen's identity as more of a lurker and secondary entry. Less room for him to maneuver and surprise.

5. Honestly I think it reaches a reasonable distance now. It's not a chamber teleport. It's supposed to be a good reposition tool, not a long jump.

6/7/8. These changes would just make the paranoia not good. It would be useful for clearing a single angle that someone might be holding. Less distance and only lasts a second = only one person of many hit and no reason someone should even reposition if they got hit by it.

9. This wouldn't really be an improvement to paranoia or a major downside. It would just make using paranoia a little more annoying.

Astra)

1. Basically the same as Omen 3, I feel like there is a good chance this would do nothing to the pick rates or win rates.

2. This is good, it would make Nova pulse align with the other util, rather than just being a last ditch effort from an astra with everything on cooldown.

3. Neutral change. Makes gravity well a bit faster but not like it wasn't already powerful anyways.

4. Good.

Harbor)

1. Yes. Please Rito I beg.

2. Meh slow is a big part of Harbor's kit and decreasing the amount of slowing would probably make his wall too easy to jump through

3. Nah, keep lingering slows to other characters like Waylay, contrary to what I said above this, I think a lingering slow from a wall would be a bit too powerful.

4. Bad idea, Astra should be the only controller (as of right now) with no distance limit. A big part of controller balancing is how far they can place a smoke and astra's downside is that you can see where she places the stars.

5. If we're reducing his cove duration at least give him two to use (make the shield part a one use thing)

6/7. This just seems excessive. Harbor is a controller, not an initiator. One storm surge already kinda muddied his identity, two would be a bit powerful for uses beyond a controller's purpose.

Viper)

1. Yes. Rito pls I beg

2. I personally want this back but in terms of pro scene expect viper to shoot to 80% pick rate.

3/4. Would put her in line with being more a controller than sentinel but refer to what was said above for what would happen

Brimstone)

1. Wouldn't change much in his overall gameplay, having the additional smoke is nice but it would take too long to regen for it to be meaningful in a round most of the time, additionally Brim's smokes are strong so getting another could be considered too strong.

2/3/4. idk man I just think Stim beacon isn't that great of an ability. Even with these buffs I feel like it would do nothing more to a round.

whats happening why is everyone taling about dasnerth rn can someone give me the cliffsnotes

I've been thinking C9 was the worst team in the Americas region. Didn't realize KRU had it like that

surely I wont regret saying this in 30 minutes right

get tilted

• they dont have util to clear
  shock darts/veto trip/ omen blind exist

also i'll give them a couple rounds of trying but if they keep getting mowed down by it why keep trying the same thing? Take mid bottom? force the odin fight with other util? rotate off after making some noise? There is a lot of solutions here other than "hey guys lets walk into the odin again"

Verno in tree every round with odin

EG gameplan: Lets rush tree without clearing

Verno gets 3

repeat 4 eg masterclass

its fraudmaxxing against a mid team, dw about it he'll be back to normal when a game that matters happens

Dear themaniel,

I appreciate the Mazino slander. I too also think Tex is a bum sneaking paychecks.
I thought your takes on aspas and verno were also interesting.

ts isnt even fair its just someone on MIBR getting a 3k or 4k to save every round

I’m sick of seeing this team make every international and then fall completely flat every time. I’d rather watch EG get 0-2’d than watch G2 slowly struggle at every international, at least if EG got close to winning a game it’d be interesting

G2 - Would go out 4th, not any better than what LEV will probably do
KRU - they started choking in americas groups and you think they won't choke against international matchups? Any Pacific team would stomp them in their form rn.
100T - They simply would crumble under the international pressure, only Cryo and Asuna would put up numbers and Timitino would turn into Timi2-0'd
SEN - If they were a full team for longer than 30 seconds they could maybe do as much as LEV, but given they have barely gotten a functional roster as of this stage, they probably would have been grouped.

the envy game was genuinely the best game of the whole split

GG SEN is gonna get bodied on breeze idk why they even picked it tbh

Honestly probably SEN 2 and every team in EMEA except Gentle Mates 1