Honestly his aim is really crisp, I want to say that's kinda the only thing I give him credit for, not saying everything else is bad, but because it feels like his team plays very well in general such that he doesn't steal the spotlight besides his crisp aim

Also blue Gaia vengeance skin is the goat, I think he's the only pro player to use it consistently?

I think so, pretty insane "group of death" rounds that was for sure

Christmas came abit early but here we are

Susanto family feud for us to watch

That doesn't really make sense. Are you saying have 2 people in sync is better than a 5 man team playing off one another and being in sync? I wrote my previous comment in a kinda joking way, but we could see Jinggg and Forsaken were the anchor for most of 2022, which is where I agree their double duelist looked very good.

But in 2023 everyone stepped up. Forsaken went to flex, and I don't think there was more synergy between him and Jinggg, than him supporting the whole team? And in this DRX match on lotus/breeze without Jinggg, they were trading and covering fire for one another.

They looked good in groups for Champs, beating Navi and Loud, two very strong teams. Even came back from a large deficit against Bilibili I believe?

do you need to find a duo synergy when you can have a 5 man swing and kill team? They look very good swinging together and trading one another against DRX

Always the last moment he shows he's actually a flex player after all...

Forsaken Yoru is an absolute beast...literally going into ult almost every other round.

Monyet Raze. Forsaken Yoru. Mindfreak Omen. Who else????

One region being competitive doesn't mean anything if the teams that got top seeds through this competitiveness still lose to PRX in international games. With Jinggg on the team, PRX won against KRÜ, NRG, Loud and even EG once during the international events this year, so I feel they are just better than America teams in general.

With all that said, Sentinel's new team looks good this off season, and it looks like PRX's firepower is gonna hurt with Jinggg gone, unless they manage to fit Monyet into the W gaming system.

As a PRX fan there was a chance to see them face off against Sentinels in Lock in, and sadly that didn't happen - but we get to see it at the end of the year now! Even the PRX players said so - "I heckin love Tenz"

AGAIN I'M SUPER LATE, mainly because I was on some PRX loss recovery period and steered clear of VLR.

Thanks for this latest explanation, I see what you mean now.

Their latest addition is Monyet, who played duelist previously before playing controller for GE this year - and being damn good at it. So hopefully they can cook up more stuff with Monyet being a more flexible player.

As a Singaporean fan I don't really care lmao just bring us the W gaming and we're all good to go, doesn't matter who's playing. Besides, we're a country with a lot of foreigners living here, and we already had foreigners representing our team in sports as well.

My comment will just be based off what I saw - without ratings and stats:

Besides his own skills - which I give credit to - another point I feel to take into consideration yay's success is the Optic team that he was on. I feel FNS and the team managed to set him up to play really well, whether be it Jett or Chamber based on the plays. You mentioned DSG not being able to set him up for success - which kind of prove my point that the team is very important to how the player shines too.

Hopefully next year he's able to be set up for success too.

I'm quite late with the reply, but who forces them? Alecks? Forsaken? Their bosses? Nobody's forcing them to play double duelist, it's just how they roll. For something on breach, I don't think he knows how to play other duelists besides Jett and Reyna as well, and if you have a great Neon and Raze player already in your team, why fix what's broken?

I'm not sure if you realised but even Forsaken played Skye this champs in group stage (Iirc), and they went with Jinggg as the solo duelist. It's just how they want to play the maps

Well well well, we have a rematch of PRX vs EG again. PRX gonna ban Fracture and Haven I suppose.

LOUD is their nightmare holy

You mean his OP on the last round won this?

WHERE THE TOXIC NA FANS AT

Honestly they have been putting in effort to make it work. I believe it's the map with the most molly lineups prepared by the team (which isn't a lot since there's only phoenix and KJ but still), and one where they are super flexible and found a lot of success exploiting opponents. There's so many rounds where they managed to send KJ all the way to their spawn with a lurk easily.

With how much success they have found with phoenix, which I believe they took from C9 during lock//in and made it their own, I'm surprised why no other teams have tried replicating it. The flashes are almost impossible to dodge even by pros, and his ult on a mechanically cracked player provides so much value.

Not sure if he will go to uni after military service (if it has been confirmed by him) because he's taking online courses while playing Valorant according to some older interviews, so I would assume he would continue taking online courses and playing after the 2 years. It'll definitely be sad to see him go though

I don't think they are forced to play double duelist, they are playing double duelist because they can/want to? It's just how the way the team is structured around the players no? And it's funny you say double duelist isn't always the better option when their team is the one always breaking the meta. There isn't a "better" option for them, they just go with it, that's how prx is.

Learning from the villains

I really enjoyed seeing f0rsaken play Jett in Tokyo again (his Jett before the Chamber meta was an absolute menace with his raw aim and game sense), man showed why his Jett was still world class, but something's Jett feels more dynamic in his movement and the way he fluctuates between OP, vandal, knives and shotguns.

It's funny how something always say "don't die" to his teammates but he's always the first one to overheat and overextend, getting killed without being able to be traded. That being said, I think paper rex in general last year doesn't have that discipline compared to this year, so saying something doesn't have the discipline isn't fair when the whole team last year without him was mostly hitting W - even Jinggg is still swinging and pushing without actually needing to do so, and getting away with it.

As a PRX fan at this point I'm just preparing for heart attacks at 3am, PRX with their trolling (optional) keeping fans awake with sheer adrenaline

7 is still the best for me, idk how but somehow a crippled riding a horse is the best part so far

It's actually a buff at this point, PRX had multiple players getting covid during Masters Copenhagen last year and they managed to get top 2.

Nobody's talking about Rb? Granted his team plays very well as well but he's a flex too right, and a damn good one at that.

We Pacific fans had the pleasure to hear them cast the pacific games, glad that they came here to cast in an international event

They were experimenting with different comps back in Pacific and actually winning. You can check the games against Gen.G and Zeta in regular season, and this Reyna comp was the one for their pacific grand finals I think.

When facing a team like prx I guess the comp throws in a level of confusion because you aren't sure what's coming, and then suddenly they are in your face and you die without seeing a thing (either get blinded or spammed through smoke)

They finally crossed paths, gonna be another banger for sure. We are in for a treat this Champs*

PRX weak aim? 3/5????

They might do some trolling. A little bit. A teeeeeny bit. It's PRX after all

Kangkang stacking up his matchups against other duelists, this time it's against Demon1

They are frauds through and through

He decided to sleep to give EDG a chance (just kidding even he said he got Jett diffed)

I called T1 a fraud after their previous loss, prove me wrong this time

Or mindfreak raze

Something!!! Nobody!!! The casters are gonna have a hell of a game to cast. It's the third time both teams are facing off against each other but first time for something

WHO EXPECTED THIS MATCH UP

We shall come back if Zeta does win and ask for updates ma guy

Casters' energy, 2 OTs, amazing gameplay from both teams...great series, and it's just in group stage man

Thank goodness I didn't stay up watching this group, woke up to the score and yeah, T1 seems to struggle in international events. Feels like a fraud team, maybe putting Zeta here would have been better man.

Here's one upvote for you good sir

Seems like it. Since we currently only have 3 regions now with the top 3 getting into masters. Adding china as the 4th region will fill up the numbers just nice.

Time to stay up to watch the 3am Paper Rex game... what's new.

I suppose the picture is the accurate one, I saw some matches have a timing even before this official one was released

Nah man just stay up and watch the 2/3am match and feel like a zombie the next day

FNC is indeed expected to win this event (it's not even a curse or joke anymore, they're literally the best team right now)