NA is looking at its strongest this year
EMEA already has the talent but they finally have more than Ange1 in terms of good IGLs

GenG was a superteam and they already look like they're being broken apart. China might win again but I don't think EDG can replicate their performance consistently--especially since I think riot's probs gonna nerf Neon in the coming year

Wait we should play guilty gear strive, nobody in my friend group plays it

SEN better be playing troll comps bc imagine if Team Tarik wins 💀

the snake whisperer 😳

That's a stupid plan

do you mean to tell me they originally intended to make zero changes this year

Idk I prefer when teams keep players locked on certain roles.

In my flawed and biased ascendant POV, having a player flex duelist on some maps then flex initiator on some maps results in overall wasted pracc time.

I imagine it goes something like this:

-Duelist 1 has tendencies that need to be corrected on Map1, Map2, and Map3
-Duelist 2 has tendencies that need to be corrected on Map4, Map5, Map6

-Rest of team at the start has synergy issues playing off of Duelist1 on Map1,Map2,Map3 since they're new additions to the roster.
-Rest of the team at the start has synergy issues playing off of Duelist2 on Map4, Map5, Map6.

-Duelist1 disagrees with coach about something he does being bad, they clash about it throughout a week of pracc until either the coach sees Duelist1's vision and changes his mind, or Duelist1 realizes that the coach was right and makes a correction to his playstyle. Improves the team's performance on all 3 maps that he plays duelist for.

-Duelist2 might have the same original tendency as Duelist1 on Maps 4, 5, and 6, but what if he disagrees? Now they have to spend another week convincing him that their system is a better way to go about things. Or maybe Duelist2 actually ends up convincing the coach that his original correction was wrong and now he has to change gears with Duelist1 again, and keep the entire team updated on what they ultimately decide is the best course of action.

-Now repeat this whole process for their respective initiator roles

It's a principle of economics that specialization is ultimately better for both parties in an exchange anyways, even if one party is better at both roles than the other

exactly, thats why its a 'might' based on an 'if'

They might actually if N4rrate can only play fade as far as scan initiators go

Okay but of all the changes they made why replace Bang?

I would've been satisfied with just replacing Cryo for sym or smth

didn't translate it, written portugese is intelligible to spanish speakers--idk wtf you guys are saying when you talk tho

i just find it funny that platchat is just known as "Analistas Gringos" in Brazil

the title to these translation videos always makes me laugh

KOI

unironically a top 3 team in the league if their lineup consists of Flyuh Sheydos and Grubinho

https://imgur.com/a/ysh3qTh

brainrot too strong idek what this means anymore

800+ tracker rating on plats/diamonds does not mean you deserve ascendent.

If you start getting full diamond/asc lobbies then sure

you're also not getting nearly as many first bloods as a duelist should. https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/Lucy%23Faust/overview This is my tracker, this is the amount of first bloods you should be getting per game while also fragging out if you wanna be asc.

If I can get this many FBs on Yoru then you should be able to get them on Neon

now is your time to shine

He would still count as an import

bros a 17/hour curator

idk what other clipping software have but i use medal which constantly records your game and lets you select between 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 minutes back of footage to save permanently whenever you press f7--so if i have no memory or space I usually change it to only keep the last 1 min saved

ill break it tommorrow

lets q, illl break it

really? I remember billie eilish was popular when I was still in highschool, i didn't realize she was still popular with late gen z

Rossy's actually a good player though it looks like he got past his rage issues

If we're considering the OG Talon roster as the continuation of XERXIA then technically their best placement was in 2022

Flyuh. The lowest NA salaries are still on par with EU salaries

If budget isn't an issue I don't see why he wouldn't. The roster they're rumored to have is actually goated

KOI is already spending their entire budget I doubt they can pay his buyout

nitr0
Crashies
Victor
Marved
Yay

nitr0 retires from CS for the 20th time

Low skill: sign multi-year contracts to play it safe and make the most out of your esports career

Mid skill: sign 1 year contracts because everyone's gonna want you and you can jump ship easily in order to choose winning rosters which will only pad out your resume for higher salaries

High skill: sign multi-year contracts because you're so good that teams will pay your buyout anyways

especially since theres like 5 people that actually bought it lol

Bleed bundle accounts might be worth something in the future

Does it stay in the game or does it get removed from player's inventories?

I think "common" and "sense" are the words you're looking for

2023 had potential, but 2024 was never gonna win anything--only delusional fans thought that

Inflexible, like every single duelist NAVI has signed up to this point

I think if you take into account that bang can play all smoke agents while TenZ was really only comfortable on Omen then Bang is still slightly better

he's nice with it, but he isn't a top smokes player in the region.

Tbf Saadhak and Flyuh makes sense because they're IGLs and EMEA has really bad midrounders

But they have incredible talent in every other role

Fr they're acting like SEN just signed v1c

Controversial take but bang's always been a better smokes player than TenZ.

TenZ just has a flashier playstyle that ends up feeding the community with insane clips every now and then

Meanwhile Bang is a workhorse who consistently gets 2ks and 3ks

The only aspect in which TenZ is better is mental

Perkele...

Agua de jamaica

Fart

But yes, with this roster NRG isn't going to lose next year

Victor and Crashies, once they're finished with their current lovers spat, will choose to retire from competing and move in together into a nice, beachside condo in Miami, where they will finally have their wedding in private--living out the rest of their days in bittersweet bliss by each others' side, and reminiscing at their glory days atop yay's back

because rocket put it on the sheet

Talk about the blind leading the blind

-Keznit already plays jett/raze/neon and is the best duelist in LATAM

-Nobody in LATAM wants keznit to be replaced

-Double duelist hasn't been meta for 2 years (excluding yoru comps, an agent that neither of them play)

-most importantly, dantedeu5 isn't even old enough to play in VCT

This is the first time I've heard of this "rumor", so I'm confident this guy is just inserting his own personal theories into spreadsheet form

This guy has Dantedeu5 as rumored for KRU, which is the biggest giveaway that he doesnt have sources or knows ball

just a fan putting his theories in spreadsheet form, so not credible

YELLOWSUPERCAR13

Lol. 90% of T2 is full of pre-2023 T1 players

Whether they've been in franchising for the past one or a million years does nothing to change the point that T2 players aren't some inherently worse pool to pick from like the guy I replied to thinks they are