Shoulda done the 100T and picked up someone from T2 instead of….a caster

IMO he’s just not the same player this current duelist meta. The best duelists can fry on neon, yoru, Jett, and raze.

KOI C0M

Spike kinda seems like a one trick pony on the neon.

Hope I’m proved wrong. Sato is the truth though.

Idk why any teams insist on taking a chance on him atp.

Pre-nerf chamber > pre-nerf Jett

Shahzam was playing pro CS for 5-7 years before entering Val, and he accumulated a decent viewership on twitch.

However ppl feel about him, can’t blame him for retiring. He’s had a longer career in esports than most, not much of it at the top, to give this perspective some credit.

Does b00 bait or does he overpeek?

Make up your mind.

Brawk is a great player, but I wanna have what NRG management were smoking when they thought ‘FNS>Verno’

We’re talking about now, not a year ago.

Demon1 and Yay at their peaks ALSO had great solo duelist games. We’re talking about MIBR with aspas at his current level.

It’s almost like ur on a forum with a bunch of <20yo’s who haven’t left their family homes, countries, or interacted with people from other places outside of the internet.

Some ‘racist’ things people say have truth within them. Immanuel Kant would say it’s best to try to find the maxim of what it is you’re looking at. The maxim that can be drawn from your point, is that people are quite capable of ignorance, making rash assumptions about surface-level details.

End of the day, you can just turn the screen off, go out and talk to people, and you’ll realize it’s quite a mixed bag.

Pretty sure he wanted him to leave, not kicked.

Jingg on raze then? Sure the agent got nerfed but he’s still basically a one trick pony as far as duelists are concerned

Can’t have it both ways.

This is why MIBR’s best maps were w/ double duelist comps

100% correct

People probably said the same about EDG this time last year tho

And chamber on ascent from alfajer, waylay on ascent from SEN

Best fax I’ve read this week

I’m really happy to see Crashies playing his best Valorant in years. I wouldn’t be upset if they won.

That aside, them or wolves would be the dark horse, most impressive winners considering their lack of experience & the team not really being together all that long. I want G2 to win, but they’re always a contender.

-alecks

Still haven’t learned the basic ascent comp that people have played for 2+ years

I don’t think FNS is a good I’ll anymore.

Very little from his time on NRG from the past year and a bit has been underwhelming, and fairly 1d for such a celebrated igl

Like with boaster I at least get it. He makes the best use out of each player, but fns on the other hand, I don’t think the same could be said

watches The Interview once

He’s probs just glazing NRG’s abyss. Buddy would’ve post matches that actually mattered if this was serious.

Are there other Russian players that have had problems?

I’m guessing whoever applied for the visas did so all at once, not taking in factors like nats being from Russia, a country that commits espionage and is currently at war with a neighbouring country. Wouldn’t surprise me if other players not having issues just applied earlier.

He’s consistently been at the top of the scene in EMEA since before franchising. As a non-duelist, that shit’s hard to do off skill and achievements.

Fr penny is yet another former pre-franchising tier 1 player that has gotten slept on throughout the past couple years

Ik you were kind to reply, but that’s kinda like saying I want to go to a private restaurant in Texas. Where at? Big gaps between Dallas, Houston, San Ant, same for any province in Canada. Each is 1.5-3x larger than the average US state

E: it’s called Amir in some place in Valleyfield. Probably Lebanese food.

Depends, I think female viewers would like the relationship they have on screen. Esp because ender is pretty androgynous.

You’d be surprised. 2g wasn’t a heavy favorite heading into last ascension tournament.

But I do also agree, that’d be a low bar.

I’m not against the rapport the two have, can see why riot isn’t against it considering the generally younger gen Z probably find it personable/cute. They do, however, lack professionalism compared other duos like pansy/hypoc.

Ngl, they remind me of when I’m in a public place with my gf and we don’t care what people think. Fine at the grocery store, but not at work.

I haven’t checked birthdays for the other players, but as someone pointed out, most are 17. Ghoul33 has been frying in BR T2 for awhile, and he’ll be 18 in August.

Wouldn’t surprise me if they sell some of these players to interested T1 orgs. Especially if some players gain serious demand and bidding wars start.

Where at?

Cane and Ion win them games, and I honestly don’t see a yoru one trick having impact in Tier 1. It’d be worse than apeks’ ascension.

Hard to make an argument for Crashies being better than Leo. I will say he has experience and probably better comms than Leo, but I think the crashies resurgence was more so brought about because this was one of his last chances in T1 if he didn’t perform well.

Thereby diluting the level of professionalism each player is capable of exemplifying before making it to franchising.

By this logic, people shouldn’t invest into local hockey teams, basketball, among other things.

I just don’t understand why someone would try and make an argument for less jobs, as opposed to more. Do you go to Loblaws stores and tell the employees that there isn’t a need for them to work, because the larger store (I.e. Walmart) with lower prices is right down the road?

E: Like, do you think it’s by coincidence that TGRD/G2 had an org backing them and they ascended? You can’t waste your time/life on a bet. People need income in order to supplement their needs. I see a lot of dumb takes on this site, but this is one of the worst, exacerbated by the fact that this doesn’t seem like bait.

Dead ass, go to school and do something with your life before saying people just shouldn’t get paid to play because it isn’t franchised. By your logic, esports would have significantly less players competing. You’d have more people like RpK (counter strike) torn between working in their family business and playing.

I think that was auto-correct, I meant to say almost

He used to have a pretty good raze. Would be kind of wack with jawg on the team though

It was a bum team, but leaf was playing peak neon before the buff

Hot take, depending on who you ask, but DGZIN was a better duelist this year so far. Demon1 should just take the accelerated Tarik pathway to being a streamer.

Streaming culture is generally pretty lame, but ik what you mean. He’s built a good brand, so to speak. I still don’t know anything about him, other than the fact that he motivated lots of young gen z fans to vote trump. Was hilarious when he didn’t show up to his inauguration.

Cardinal rule of Brazilian valorant is that there can only be one decent team at a time

Thank you furia and loud for allowing MIBR to THRIVE

Guy has looked like that since he was an amateur CS player in FPLC lobbies

I wouldn’t ‘beat’ (physical abuse) my child because they have poor sleep habits.

Thinking like this is why CPS is a thing, and why people should have kids when they’re damn well ready (ie use protection until you want to have kids with a partner)

You’re justifying shitty, lazy, incompetent parenting.

I feel like it would have been okeanos, just because he’s been super cracked for the past year straight across a bunch of different agents.

But all the players named here are def solid.

Nightz is super inconsistent

Well served take

We even see the double duelist w/ Iso on Haven tons, with some players still opting to play it on pearl.

Definitely not a duelist player anymore. He’s too slow.

IMO he needs to be taken off the pedestal and work with ppl who see him as a normal player, not a god from ‘23.

Yay showed he can still hang with the best in Americas, hard to believe they also qualified for Toronto. I think demon1 could do the same, but he’s gotta have people he can trust who around. Seems too squeamish to work w/ strangers professionally.

Only upgrade here is Natank. Grubinho and Sheldon’s were both solid.

I also don’t like Filu as a duelist, and Flyuh hasn’t really shown he can IGL.

Half a rebuild ig. Glhf, see you at relegation

If you’re just looking at stats, then yeah, it could be cryo #3, but G2 doesn’t rely on their duelist to top frag and clutch. Leaf, Trent, and Valyn can all do that, and jawgemo has been the tip of the spear for them. Just different perspectives on how to utilize your duelist

IMO they went for him because he’s Agro w/ obvious mechanical talent.

He doesn’t have to be a world-beater, just on a level similar to icy on G2 or Kamo on TL, jawgemo on G2, et cetera. Get his FKs and make space, and he’s a great T1 duelist.

Their main problem this season is the duelist identity crisis they’ve been having. Demon1 wasn’t agro enough, and kingg couldn’t IGL while playing yoru. Hopefully between Sato, Okeanos, and Tex, they have enough consistent firepower.

Wasn’t saying Verno was wrong to feel that.

FNS hasn’t shown a top level (in terms of calling) since the pre-franchising era. At least he was fairly clutch back then, but still wasn’t a great fragger at all.