Oh no whatever will we do without agents spamming ults every round?

You mean, we have to... think carefully about whether to use it or not when we do get it?

add me on val i will carry you on yoru

hmm yeah maybe asuna is a better example

he's the best duelist, not initiator

Dogshit take, Yoru clears every other duelist and I will keep instalocking him to make sure some clown doesn't pick him instead and throw

I require a relevant degree and 5 years experience before I let anyone except myself lock in yoru

%Be good.

%Carry team.

%Make sure you don't win when it matters.

%Get paid 30k a month while doing nothing for 7 months while other teams are participating in champs

%Since you carried team, you get to stay on roster for next year.

%Repeat.

%Be 100T Asuna

Good advice. Just try not to do it if you're solo duelist (but that'll almost never happen) since your team will have no way to get on site on those rounds unless they're willing to play really slow

Now that Jett is gone, some of you may try to learn how to play Yoru.

It's easy to make the mistake of believing Yoru gets special treatment because of how unique his utility is. I better not see any of you lurking every round on yoru unless you have an awp on your hands

My one piece of advice is to remind you that you are still a duelist, and if you're not taking space or being the first one on site, then you're playing the agent wrong.

Learn entry and flash lineups. You should be your teams hypercarry.

Running double duelist with a raze is the best time you'll ever have

Always set a safety tp if you're pushing aggressively on defense or if you're not tping onto site on offense. learn to jump, turn around and look at the floor if you're going to tp away (it hides your head model from the enemy)

Awping on this agent is a lot more viable than you may think.

Flash based on where your enemies' attention is, not to where they or your tp are, and make sure to cover as much of an area as you can with it while minimizing the amount of time they can see it before it pops after its bounce (When you first throw it, it is invisible until it hits something and bounces)

That is all,
Good luck.

THANK YOU

Fuck you, don't buff him. He's OP as is

He doesn't know...

No. There is beauty in moderation.

This is the same thing everyone said when jett had 3 smokes an infinite lasting dash and rechargeable right clicks

The average pro became trash but it singled out the few diamonds in the rough able to take jett's higher skill ceiling to the next level and create equally incredible plays

I'd rather have 3 aspas level players spread across the world than 29 shanks

Hes a disgrace to my kind

They made the game more risky to play. You have to use your utility better to have the same impact as before

no more 6 second window to take site with sova dart, and no more ult spamming without there being consequences in the following rounds

nah the moment I stopped playing that shitty agent I ranked up https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1122828818793644123/1144271270515572837/image.png

I think they're trying to reduce visual clutter and increase the skill floor in terms of macro

A lot of teams and players have gotten really good at managing their ult economy to the point that they can basically ult once every round for 6 rounds in a row. Maybe they want to make it feel more special and risky to waste them

as for sova nerfs, i guess they want set executes to have a smaller window to be executed

TRUE

It's a tough pill to swallow...I know...but y'all better start learning japanese bitches

HAHAHAA YOU'RE FULL FLASHED? WATCHA GONNA DO BIG BOY? SMOKE UPDRAFT AND PRAY SOMEONE PEEKS TO TRADE YOU AS I SPRAY YOU IN THE AIR?

YORU STOCKS OVER THE ROOF.

EMBRACE THE SUPERIOR DUELIST

CRINGE JETT MAINS CAN CRY ALL THEY WANT. LEARN TO PLAY THE GAME

based name btw

IGLs aren't always micromanaging everything every player on their team does. It's up to the individual players to proceed or deviate from a pla if they see an opportunity or issue with what they're doing--taking into consideration their team's gameplan and intent

idk man some of his lurks were questionable but for the most part i agree

do you have a link to anywhere i can read up more on this? i wanna know more about this lol

go to 1:25:00 of the same vod. maybe im coping too much but the score of his custom doesnt change, it's stuck on 0-0 which might meann its just a glitch on shahz' screen https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1143976939456049194/1144004247868952606/image.png

can you send vod and timestamp i wannna verify something

was this taken just now

yes

theres only 1 alecks after all

yes

SEN OXG and C9 are the only teams scrimming in offseason rn and Yay and nitr0's PUG team disappeared all of a sudden 2 weeks ago

OXG was already doing good while that PUG was going on and C9 is scrimming with their full roster rn so the only possible place nitr0 could've gone to is sentinels. he plays sentinel role +flexes onto other roles

+nitr0 usually plays his first ranked game of the day right after SEN's scrims usually end

so SEN's 5th and new IGL is nitr0

dont belittle yourself :(

tyty

Kuuga

nah its u

one look at OXG's scrims says it all for me. Obviously yes, but it also wouldn't be sustainable without partnered teams getting those stipends from daddy riot

I'm glad you asked :) https://www.vlr.gg/264008/investigation-sentinels-5th-man-revealed/#10

coming from a liquid fan i think its ironic given permabans saved your asses from viper harbor more times than i can count

the only viable IGL team would be

FNS
Boostio
Flyuh
Valyn
xeta

Yes yes, the igl thats shitting on PRX and Fnatic in scrims is an L pickup

Bro he's already shitting on VCT teams in scrims with Sentinels; thats enough proof

Turkey be shooting at conga lines if this true; go fight real enemies

That's really valuable information actually

*like runi was

Who is Sentinels' new IGL?

Let me walk you through how I found out. To start off, I laid out a few assumptions to single out potential suspects.

Obviously, now that they have an entire off-season to rebuild, Sentinels is going to stop with the role swaps; therefore, we can assume 3 criteria for the potential suspects:

1. Since Marved hasn't been scrimming with them, then that means pANcada is now back on controller. This means that the new IGL must be someone comfortable with playing the Sentinel role/Viper.

2. Since the person scrimming with them is on an alt to hide their identity, they can't be some rando from Tier 2 like Runi, they're someone with a high profile.

3. They must be capable of IGLing, since nobody else on Sentinels, besides the guy who they're not scrimming with, wanted to do that.

Here is the initial list I came up with of players who fit these criteria:

-FNS
-Johnqt
-Flyuh
-Valyn
-Runi
-nitr0
-neT

I've been following james_ff's attempts to track down the 5th player, so by using the information he's collected (which you can look for yourself in his own threads), I could already cross off a few of these names without having to do much work.

So the list became:

-Flyuh
-nitr0
-neT

The first place I went to was all of the Sentinels' players trackers, hoping I could find some clue as to who they all are duoing with in ranked; I was hoping to find a common player that they all happen to duo with as of 2 weeks ago. Sadly, this was unsuccessful. I guess the guy really only does play with them on his alt.

So the next place I went to were the trackers of the players on the trimmed list above.

At first, I had my eyes set on neT; while not officially an IGL, I know he has experience doing so and even IGL'd for the Guard on certain maps way back when Breeze was still in the map pool, and, of course, he plays almost exclusively the Sentinel role. What ticked me off, however, was the fact that he and Zekken were on the same premiere team. I believe this to be a red herring, however, as for one I don't believe The Guard players are planning on splitting up after everything they've gone through together and after they resisted attempts to be poached individually last year. Secondly, Zekken is a little gremlin that does whatever he wants without rhyme or reason (and bless him for that) so I don't think there's any meaning to the people he chooses to play premiere with, especially when I looked at the trackers of the other Sentinels players and found nothing in terms of neT

Flyuh was tempting, but he doesn't necessarily main the Sentinel role; he flexes onto viper a lot but while I've found that he fills killjoy once in a while in ranked, he doesn't really match the roles that Sentinels are looking for.

So at last I ended up on nitr0. I was sketchy at first, but as I scrolled through his tracker, it all came to me when I saw one little thing: Yay.

What does Yay have to do with Sentinels' roster changes you ask? Everything, surprisingly enough.

Many of you may remember from james_ff's scrimbux posts that Yay and nitr0 were previously on a PUG team around 3 weeks ago, and they were scrimming VCT teams, and at times beating them (such as a notable scrim victory over LOUD)

If I look through nitr0's tracker, nitr0 has duoed with a lot of older CS players, like Stewie2k and Brax, but for some reason the person he has the most amount of games duoing with was Yay. If I look through his games from ~2+ weeks ago, he used to duo with Yay a lot. But then, all of a sudden, <2 weeks ago he stops duoing with Yay entirely. What's more, Yay's PUG team stopped surfacing in scrimbux. Why is that?

The answer is easy, the PUG team accomplished its namesake, one or multiple of its members, or at the very least the core that kept it together got picked up or started trialing over the course of multiple scrims with someone else, and not just in a one-off scrim either.

If it's nitr0, it would entirely make sense why he'd be scrimming on an alt, he's a well-known name both in Valorant and CS:GO, and he flexes between cypher, killjoy, and sova.

It would also explain why Yay's team disappeared so quickly. After nitr0 left their pug team then there was nobody left to IGL them and they just split up. usually pug teams dont just disintegrate when only one player leaves, but if it's the IGL then it makes sense.

So there's your answer. nitr0 is Sentinels' new IGL

EDIT: After teaming up with james_ff, he's discovered that nitr0 usually starts his first ranked game of the day right after SEN's scrims usually end. I would not have caught that if he didn't know SEN's scrim schedule for his scrimbux lol

Flyuh, nitr0, runi are the only good igls in NA not on this list. Try looking into them a bit further.

Heh... I guess the cat's out of the bag now...

Blame the spokesperson not the company, of course.

ill contribute 5 gifted to this cause

i find it funny how he puts you on "men likers" only as a rumour lol

nah its gotta be lepizig no?