People just had 2025 nrg rated really highly because of the off season

On god

tbf he was a paycheck stealer in the previous seasons, but if he plays like this from now on he will no longer be a paycheck stealer.

I hate to say it but xeppaa actually kinda looks insane

Its just like when c9 came back against nrg but reversed.

Everyone clears icy

Well zekken is good at sova but not really good at the other recons, at least not enough to really play them in pro play. But he's too good at duelist to really swap him so I don't know why a bunch of sen fans want to see it.

I mean louds roster isn't exactly the best right now, I mean its not terrible but its not like its incredibly good either. I think that EG might be cooked.

They already have zekken they don't really need flor, there would be too many role issues

I mean I think it breaks chamber teleport, but finding exactly where the chambers teleport is placed and wasting a rocket on it doesn't seem worth it over breaking other util

He was punished for his sins

EMEA: TH, Vitality
Americas: NRG, Sen
APAC: T1, PRX
China: XLG, BLG

SpiritZ1 was really good against jdg, but it was jdg so I don't doubt that most players could put up a similar performance.

Hopefully you dominate your opponents, good luck and have fun.

I'd take anything over the cringey robot, even SpongeBob or Squidward

Only thing I would change it the robotic voice calling out the names and then it would be perfect

I mean the reason they use UE5 is because it has pretty much become the standard, and almost every developer knows it and many newer developers were trained on it while in college. Also, it would cost a lot of money and time for Riot to teach all these developers another engine or their own engine rather than just use the engine all of them know.

I feel like to nerf it instead of reducing the amount of pulses they should instead just not make it rechargeable like most mollies, or reduce the damage, and radius a little bit.

I think his other 2 abilities are pretty well balanced though, maybe make the robot a little slower, but not too much slower.

I mean DRX looks budget when you look at the China teams who signed like 8-10 players each plus 3-5 coaches.

Hopefully not getting the same dogshit classics as most the other partnered teams got.

I mean yes, but I still hate it. But, I will say I don't hate Iso nearly as much as I hate sage.

Okay after going through every America's teams games from 2024(I took overall series over each individual game, unless they played an agent that wasn't a duelist and then I went to individual games to see if they top fragged and I also didn't count ties for most kills) and seeing which duelist had the most most kills here are my results:

Players who played the same amount of games as EG:
C9 Oxy - Had 12 top frags
Fur mwzers - 6 top frags
Mibr Artzin - 3 top frags(But did have a lot of ties for most kills)

Other players:
Aspas - 17 top frags
Keznit - 14 top frags
Asuna/Cryo(They both played duelist for 100T but also played other agents but thought I should put them on here anyways)
Asuna - 3 top frags
Cryo - 10 top frags
Quick (until benched) - 4 top frags
Demon1(until benched) - 2
Icy - 3 (Crazy that he played 35 games with g2 and only top fragged 3 times, although I think he tied like 3 or 4 times)
Zekken - 18

And after doing all of that I change my opinion to Jawg might be overrated, but I do still think he is a huge upgrade to icy.

My suggestion was merely on a single personal expereince I had when I was lurking in an extremely ratty and uncommon spot on abyss and then an iso walked forward, and for some reason activated his shield even though he didn't know I was there and no one else was there, and then when he passed my I shot him in the head, just for it to just break his shield, and he reacted and killed me because I was in a corner and couldn't move or strafe.

Look for an older audi rs3 or Golf GTI(2013 or newer), or if you want a basic car get a civic

Except for a duelist it is a good way to measure performance because it is their job to make space, get kills, and top frag.

If were talking about pure fragging then Jawgemo had 6 top frags while Derrek had 5, and they tied in one game. Yes Derrek was rated higher but Jawg had more kills

VLR needs to at least update every tier 1 pro players picture every year, like seriously zekken's picture is from forever ago, and some tier 1 players don't even have pictures like eeiu. Boostio is still in his EG jersey.

Like I would understand if there isn't a picture of the player or you waited until a team confirms their roster, but I think that their photo's need to be updated at least once a year.

I mean last year even on that EG roster that was kind of bad he still was usually the top fragger, and was even the top fragger in the whole lobby on occasion.

But I do think its a bit much to call him the best duelist off of just top fragging on that EG team, especially with how poor performing that EG team was.

Also I don't think it should block 100% of headshot damage make it like 85-90% of damage

OMG when did all this happen???? Next thing you gonna tell me is that Wardell isn't a pro anymore

Yeah a bunch of pro's are not happy because they've been practicing comps and against comps for months in preparation, and now this new agent basically makes it so a lot of the preparation they did is useless, or can be taken advantage of.

Only thing I would change is that the shield doesn't break to things like fall damage, and I think some other damage types which I think it should

Since there's more time between games potter has more time to anti-strat, and she's really good at anti-stratting

No he'll be allowed in amer, emea, and apac kickoff according to most sources, but won't' be allowed in cn kickoff(There are rumors that he might be allowed in the second week of cn)

I mean they'll probably have those bugs fixed by the time amer, emea, and apac starts(unless they don't), and he won;t be in china kickoff.

I mean I think Nature would probably play him and Derrek would stick with Sova, but I do think Derrek would be pretty good on Tejo, just probably wouldn't get to play him based on EG's roles currently.

Not cherrypicking, these are the only three agents he has played recently, and since n4rrate plays kj now and viper got heavily nerfed, and he wouldn't be playing phoenix in vct matches he will play mainly initiator.

This agent feels like it will be an extremely good fit for him, and with how powerful it seems right now, he will probably be extremely good on this agent especially when most teams won't be used to him yet.

Sage is only there because of the amount of people who play the agent not because she's good. Like her kit is just deadlocks but worse.

I hate to say it but it's like Tejo was made for zellsis, think about it, zellsis plays brimstone, breach, and kayo, and Tejo's kit is like a mix of those agents.

This is a massive mistake rit0

I am not happy

1. Scream
2. Aspas
3. Shyy
4. Valyn
5. Trent

Honorable mentions:
s0m(I would consider pretty good looking, but a little too femboy like for my tastes)
keiko

Mostly from vct because there are too many tier 2 players to look at them all
Also probably overlooked some from regions other that NA, and EMEA

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/7033cc96

Now they only need to replace xeppaa and they'll have a decent roster

I feel like alfajer doesn't make sense for cypher since he hardly plays the agent anymore and has a much better killjoy. I think vo0shaku, nAts, and Flashback all have better cyphers. I think what made alfajer so good at cypher is how good he is at aiming rather than his util(Though he still has pretty good util, just not on the level or other cyphers like nAts).

I don't know something about HenBabyH reminds me of a certain other vlr user; I just can't put my finger on it.

Make sure you dress nice, but don't dress too nice, there's a good balance between formal and casual that makes you seem professional.

Here's a more accurate one for americas imo:

1. NRG
2. G2
3. SEN
4. Furia
5. Mibr
6. LEV
7. EG
8. KRU
9. 100T
10. C9
11. 2G
12. LOUD

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/5e5b608f - AMER (Sen is usually does a lower bracket run so maybe they are that high but could loose at any point and otherwise I think it goes to NRG) Also this was the hardest pick em's for me personally.
https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/c857d950 -EMEA
https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/ce0d4463 - APAC

I mean reyna but I wouldn't recommend it because you end up developing bad habits

I guess thats true. Root for nrg or g2 then

Root for 100T