To me it never fell off as it was never that good

This team will be absolute cinema

Boo for sure.
Breakout player of the Year, RieNs for me with Karon being the rookie of the year

I guess the hate exists because initiators like RieNs, Leo, Trexx, Verno exist
And I do get your point and agree, perhaps Lakia helps the team in ways beyond the game as well with other preparations and mental but the point just has been that there are other initiators that shoot back too.
And if the emphasis is on utility then Leo was the best player of 2023 with near perfect utility and RieNs (for me) was the best player of 2024 with again, near perfect utility while shooting back.

Lakia does lack that firepower on a consistent basis but there are games when he doesn't miss

That's actually true though like from what we could see
Babybay was one of my favourite duelists, he would smeag all over the map and at that time TiGG wasn't the best and Rossy has multiple anger related reports

Now though, different story

For real lmao
Prime Leo was the best player in the world for a very long time

Yeah lmao prime chronicle clears Sayf IGL smokes
If he's not on smokes or IGLing that's a debatable comparison but here Chronicle clears

Na bruv, N4rrate and Bang are probably the best options right now, I might argue this roster could be an upgrade from the previous with the amount of potential

This roster is better than previous if I'm being honest with the amount of potential

O7 Bang
https://youtu.be/-ngiMVT4fmc?si=8xI33Kaz7vZs_RKA
Sen Bang incoming...

Liquid

Get in touch with the riot devs by submitting a ticket.
They'll most likely ask you to download the Riot Repair Tool and share the logs generated. From that they can let you know if anything is an issue from the dependencies or if anything is bottlenecking

I mean none from Nivera - Scream or Boo - Miniboo were bad and only got signed because their brothers were signed
They are all talented and stood there because of their talent I'd say

Özil + Ronaldo goat duo back then

Ironic how the 2 best players on their 2 tac FPS rosters are IGLing and had not done it before and both when off IGLing can be absolute demons

Ikr
I genuinely don't know how they won with Snax throwing that much (whatever happened to Snax man :(()

Liquid and Winning in any FPS based eSports😭☠️

NiKo and M0nesy
Amazing showing

R7 left something on them lmao

He's a very good duelist sharing the same team as a prodigy Initiators (Verno)
So it'll be interesting to see how he performs without Verno
Reduxx and Verno were like prime Victor + Crashies duo

ABSOLUTE CINEMA

If by nothing you mean make Yay go negative for the first time in almost a year and defeat Optic when they were on the hot run, then you'd be correct

Then again would rather them not rush it and actually make a good competitive roster than hurry and fumble

Imagine if they do bring him back.
They already have chemistry from Guild.
Might be a top 3 team in EMEA

Trust me, Trexx, Leo and Sayf was even more deadly back on Guild.
If they could have made through back then, they honestly might have won an international

Only time will tell ahh moment
They might fumble a bit but I think they'll still have a strong year

PRX vs An international grand finals victory
Heretics vs Any grand finals victory

And lock in which is listed as an S tier event by liquidepedia which also has been the most difficult one to win statistically.
Just saying

Not to forget from a pretty much lost game
Like the first 2 maps they lost were a domination and making a comeback after that is mad impressive

You know another reason being this
I really like M80 players but we need some trash talk which Zap can bring on tier 1
2G ftw

Damn
We got JingggsFamilyLawyer switching sides before GTA 6

He is a troll as well so I wouldn't take it seriously atleast for now

If you mail them within few hours and you did not upgrade it then you can get the refund

South NA ☠️☠️☠️

Exactly, there should be mutual respect for everyone

Currently he's tryna reinvent himself but he is the first ever Valorant Champions MVP so that should speak for itself, his peak is pretty high but recently he hasn't been able to achieve the same levels I'd say but he has it in him

Yeah I honestly think it'll be either a Turkish or someone from around the Russian region

Nah I really liked them but this was the best outcome.
Only 2/5 would be allowed to play the rest 3 would simply not be eligible meaning a new roster would compete.

And with 4 ex tier 1 pros fighting their way back also does give hope to others as well, this is a route you can commit to!

Apeks winning really was the best case scenario.
Now only if PCF players were all 18 or above, I'd have a bit different opinion

Bro found a loophole lmaooo I wanna see how Babysasuke will actually react if this happens

Sliggy and Ardiis

Most probably. I mean crowd strike itself was so deadly for them so they might leverage other alternatives.
Or might make it similar to how Google does it whenever you deploy an application on GCP, have a thorough validation process and only after that approval you're allowed to go through with it

Still the highest hs percentage so a true GOAT 🐐

Well, to be fair, the last time he played tier 1 was like back in early 2021 when initiators only consisted of Breach, Sova and Skye.
He played a good amount of Sova, raze, phoenix and a bit of Skye.
I'm pretty sure, someone of his calibre can definitely own on Fade / Gekko / KayO as well

Chichoo was ridiculous the entire tournament.
It's just KangKang popped off the one game where it mattered the most and more than anyone and hence bagged the MVP

Dawgemo dismantling NRG is easily the best clip for me.
It had everything and the crowd reaction made it even better

Yep
Apeks ran it yesterday and destroyed with Deadlock utility actually winning them 3 rounds just by itself and having great value throughout
Raze + deadlock go well rather than neon + deadlock

Insane.
So many good tier 2 prospects but him especially

Absolute Cinema, peak entertainment

So does that mean your skill is still higher than bronze?
If yes then you should rank up pretty fast

For me, die for you will forever be THE Valorant song / theme
Grabbitz is insane