yea but unlike G2 Edg heavily rely on their insane firepower to make it work whereas G2 has amazing mid rounds and reads as well as trap plays.
Im convinced that the coaches are responsible for it cause in the rounds i really dont see anything special from nobody other than hes a fragging IGL. Im not saying hes bad but he just isnt a top 5 candidate even if were talking just for this year considering he had 2 events to be measured off of and one was in a mickey mouse region

You can say that for any non english speaking player. Look at how people treat lakia for not being a fragger, hell even sacy gets insane amounts of slander.
Truth is if nobody was that good at calling they never wouldve needed to get rid of haodong

how tf do you put nobody in the top 5 igls??? They ran simple strats, id sooner give their coach a top 5 IGL spot than nobody

bro really got 10 down votes, man you gotta stop with this dumb ahh bait

Yall gotta hear me out
Origin is number 1 istg, it gets way too much hate for the recoil sound but if youre a 1 tapper (like me cough cough) this gun is sublime

then the other two are like
Champs 21
Prelude

i have finally found a man of culture, only the real ones know how fire the origin is

EX.O stinks man, shits a skin in progress man

it ruins the exclusivity of it and that means we wont be getting a new or unique champions skin for that year which might cause controversy since it would most definitely mean less sales

bro put flor at the bottom, my guy have you watched a single apeks game?

I mean thats what they said about fortnite and low and behold theres almost not a single exclusive skin anymore.
Idk what riots history is with League and their other games with battle pass or limited time/event skins but i dont assume theyd cave in making exclusive things stay that way or else no one is able to have anything special anymore. It would help a bit with buying accounts tho

ong i cant fucking handle it, all of PRX completely being oblivious and purposefully ignoring flank is the reason com is glazed as much as he is

I mean they make trailers for international tournaments. I personally wouldnt really want to watch a 1 and a half hour video by riot ngl

im not a dumbass that i cant tell when a player is hitting good shots and when its just because the opponents are moving like bots

Com was never good in the first place tho and people still glazed him. Watch all of his "crazy clips" from all the matches hes played in VCT and EVERY SINGLE CLUTCH or even clip in general is just filled with mistakes from the opponents and isnt even Com making a crazy play.
Compared to everything hes done in the past his game against Furia was genuinely impressive in terms of his decision making, shots hit, and clutches

Everytime ppl EVERYTIME. We know they always lose the first match but somehow EVERY SINGLE TIME yall be doubting

3 sentinels is kind of a new meta brought up by M80

oh makes sense honestly. I was gonna ask why do we have to wait AAAAGESS for our matches after watching a few games and chinas already done AND they started first

truly a masterclass 🙌

100T arent all that tho, theyre good but the only reason they did so well against sen map 1 was the insanely lucky rounds and sen not having any momentum with their kills or rounds (also on bind to an extent in the early rounds).
Theyre heavily momentum based and FNS on a good day eats up teams like that for breakfast

the support probably wasnt what it was like on AE, on AE he was their star player and all support went towards helping him, similar to how forsaken was supported when he was on neon.
On boom there were bigger fish and so berserx couldnt take up all the resources for himself, he needed to learn to be self sufficient and honestly thats one of the hardest things to do as an entry duelist. Thats why players like aspas and jawgemo are absolute world class players

Som is easily top 3 smokes itw now that tenz is gone and karon has been slowing down on this new geng, could even be argued to be top 1 cause i dont know any other smokes players that have the potential like he does, Pancada has been having horrible luck with his team, Marved isnt even playing, Mako fell off hard, bang is good but hasnt been the world class kind of player in a while.

Verno has the potential he said, not that verno is anywhere close to what riens was last year. Either way tho riens was hella overrated, I was rooting for the guy cause i love turks but the glaze everyone was giving him was crazy.

FNS has been fragging more this season that he ever has been. He literally had a match mvp game on the 1 map that they beat rapid lofi on in the first game. THAT NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, FNS looks actually really comfortable aiming and taking 1v1s when hes feeling it now

as a FNC fan imma just say that year was literally a smurf year. The whole year saw every single prominent team fall to absolute shit even the ones that attended Lock In and reached top 4 bowed out in the first 2 games of tokyo and one of them couldnt even win 1 game in groups.
People give FNC so much credit for that year but in reality every other team was just suffering from the start of franchising. You saw how poorly their fundamentals crumbled when actually challenged during champs and they couldnt fall back on anything because their whole thing was that they had world class players that all just could win multiple gunfights each round

Im gonna put this here cause i dont want my post to get buried

This team has 1 of the same players and staff that the previous NRG had. Why are you comparing the two as if theyd be the same team at all? Som is FAR better a controller than Marved has been recently in both frags and util timings, FNS is a world class caller thats attended almost every VCT international event that he was in the running for even though his stats are almost always subpar, Ethan is a world class initiator and was arguably the best player of 2023 and now he doesnt have to be held down by IGLing, Verno is and has been a major prospect ever since he started in T2, Mada is an alright duelist but hes been shining a lot more than his prior teams now that hes under FNS.

Unless you just havent been made aware of any of the changes this season then idk why youd ask such a dumb question

idk, zander was kinda absent the whole MIBR game and p much every game in the off season. Bang was always consistently a good player on 100T and he anchors a lot better than zander

Im genuinely confused as to why people were so high on MIBR, these guys genuinely look horrendous, Ive never seen Aspas play on such a bad roster that his performance tanked this hard

From day 1 hearing the rookies he was bringing in i felt like it would be clear theyd at most rise up over the season to be mid table but ppl were rating them like theyd be top masters contenders

RIOT IS DESTROYING CHALLENGERS
in all honesty i doubt anyone wouldve wanted the league anyway apart from soop

why the fuck would riot make a decision as dumb as partnering with SOOP???

No its because benjy was just far more consistent and was actually better. Meteor has so many matches where hes just playing like absolute dogshit and cant provide impact for the team on his flex roles and even sometimes on sentinel. Youre the one with recency bias because Meteor started playing far better towards the middle and end of the year but he was shitting the bed early on (not to mention they had an easy ass run in kickoff and in madrid)

Less did nothing the entirety of 2024, bro didnt even do anything when he reached an international and yet somehow people still glaze him like hes a king.
Meteor is the overall better player than benjy but thats because he plays flex, but on the sentinel role, especially once benjy had started getting more reps in val, benjy was easily the number 1 sentinel. This guy was one of the biggest reasons TH got 2 runner ups back to back, his duelists just couldnt close it out for him unlike every other top senti thats won the game (Meteor had Texture, Less had Aspas, Alfa had a stacked ass fucking team all doing their jobs, even nats when he was best in the world was only so good because D3ffo had crazy impact and he immediately fell off the moment that team failed).
Even if you disagree i think its just absolute snake behaviour to be so disingenuous as to not give benjy the crown he deserves, whether you think hes number 1 2 or 3 this guy has been playing at the top level for 1 year and even less in tier 2, he isnt a veteran by any means and is somehow managing to keep up and compete with an OG like Meteor and surpass a consistent world class player in Less

The Meteor playing in APAC argument makes absolutely no sense cause as someone who follows pacific closely and is from SEA I think Pacific is a garbage franchise league, at least for the past 2 years. GenG had absolutely 0 competition last year and was ALWAYS losing maps and matches that didnt need to be lost so idk where the fuck your delusions of him playing at a world class level in Pacific come from, cause no one on that team was, not even texture

benjy was far better than all of them in 2024 tho what are you on about??? Even Less did nothing remotely close to what hes done in the past years of being on sentinel, Benjy by no question was the best SENTINEL of 2024 but Meteor was definitely close and is overall the better player because of his capability to flex on pretty much any role

weird part is benjy was the whole reason TH made it so deep in shanghai

Idk man from what ive seen its the pros that hate it not the ranked andys

why do we care tho?

because hes hard at work putting everyone on his back. It is easier to ace when none of your teammates are killing people

Yea ive been thinking about going back and rewatching some of the matches that i skipped over but like, there are reasons i skipped over a lot of the matches in the first place.
Any recs for some hidden gems? Even just single map recommendations are fine

wtf did you expect? Every ranked reset youll be put 2 divisions down, have you played an episode of val before?
Every other diamond is also in gold my guy, it takes like a week to get back to your real rank because you get an insta double rank up if you do well in your first 3 games

No i use gigabit ethernet and somehow im still getting packet loss spikes and even ping spikes sometimes for the past 2 weeks. IVE NEVER experienced packet loss or ping spikes in any game including valorant ever since i switched to ethernet until now

Are they just gonna have V25 on them instead of Ep 10?

Why is it that sometimes people are so dumb to the point that its just hard to fathom how theyve gotten to that point in life?

tf bs am i covering myself up with??? you dont even know me bitch dont even try to pull that shit like you have any point at all
HOW AM I BEING MEAN BY CRITIQUING A TEAM??? Like bro come on be so fucking for real, the fact that youre getting pressed about someone talking about valorant teams is DEFINITELY snowflake behaviour. Im not insulting you, im not insulting the players, how is that being mean or toxic?

Holy shit ok i take back what i said, youre just retarded bro, ive mentioned nothing about boom and youre already pulling out the racist card and being the guy that is giving ridiculous unfair arguments and complete assumptions about my personality
IDC if you were praising boom or not, i dont hold your opinion in any regard, you can say whatever the fuck you wanna say im simply agreeing with the other guy that for some reason you people just ABSOLUTELY CAN NOT handle any sort of negativity about other teams. It isnt that deep, its just critique and if its anything more its almost always exaggeration and or jokes

Boom are good for sure, theres a reason i have their flair on, but to be fair when compared to SPG the playstyle isnt comparable at all. SPG are much closer to a tier 1 team whereas boom is a heavy fragging kind of team where if they go against any team that has better players than them they just automatically lose due to a lack of depth and strats.
Not to say i agree that theyre much worse than SPG nor do i agree with them being in 12th place but yea, its a lot easier to believe a disciplined team with good depth will reach further in the season

how tf is that desperate? Critiquing a team isnt automatically toxic, hes right yk, all of you people nowadays are just snowflakes and cant handle an iota of negativity or youll break down in tears that someone didnt agree that your team was good

Sentinels

the subclasses are just roles within roles like a duelist that leans towards initiator or sentinel, a sentinel that leans towards duelist or controller.
This guys subclasses dont even make any sense as they arent true subtypes but just design gimmicks that have nothing to do with the effectiveness of the utility or the role of a character

dont give this post any mind, its literally the epitome of dumb vlr takes. His classifications dont even have anything to do with role subtypes

this list is filled with mid ahh characters

ive never read it but from the anime his writing seems mediocre at best. I get the intention and in the hands of a better writer he could be peak but the writer of re zero isnt all that imo

it takes a lot more than aim and util to reach immortal

All yalls lists are whack asf, im a FNC fan but they were DEFINITELY not the best team to win. They were ahead of the competition cause every other franchising team had downgrades heading into the year.

1. EG 23 Champs
2. LOUD 23 Champs
3. SEN 24 Madrid
4. FNC 23 Tokyo
5. EDG 24 Champs/PRX (PRX are only so low cause their map pool and agent pool were horrendous, EDG is here cause lowkey they werent allat, they just went against a bunch of chokers)

Well i mean what can i say, if you came into it looking for action then whats more to be said. You just expected something that wasnt there.
I think its a great movie in rounding out toms spiderman, it also is an extremely somber and well executed movie. It teaches him important lessons and is very bittersweet.
I personally look for those tones in a movie and i absolutely adored this movie even though the previous two specifically the sequel werent very engaging to me.

The soundtrack, the concept, the execution, the character choices, they were all amazing and it felt like an endgame type movie for spiderman