I’d like to see him come to EG 🙏

Angel would be the one to say that 😂

I would NOT want to know what nrg 23 comms were like, everyone on that roster said they fell apart after lock-in

Miss him, imo he has the most potential out of any Korean rookie ever

Nah t1 needs a coach with a spine and a mental coach
Failing that send meteor to DRX and watch them win everything.

Yeah there’s no way you can actually watch prx play and think patmen is bad at the game. I swear half the deaths he gets are offscreen he’s always doing something crazy when the cams on him.

I always watch this guy and then look at stats after the match and am surprised by how poor they are, in game he feels like a force to be reckoned with.

Feel like he is very underrated by his stats
If you actually watch the game, his decision making, utility, and also impact on getting important kills (on low buy rounds, clutches, crucial trades) is insane. Prx don’t really need firepower; their the team with insane talent that just couldn’t make it actually work until they got him.

Like I’d get if they tried it twice, but after that and immediately UNDERSTANDING why it’s not working (slower play in matches) why are we still using it

It made sense for the sake of a full Korean roster tho
Now what c9 did with rossy is truly criminal
If they didn’t want him to igl he is still 80x the sentinel net is

T1 icebox comp is criminal
I get they tried it because undefeated in scrims but they tried it like 4-5 times before they stopped using it and lost like every time
They even immediately identified why it worked in scrims and not in matches and kept using it

Getting my hopes up and then crushing them like this counts as emotional abuse, my lawyer will be in contact shortly.

No adderall no w…wait sen haven’t won anything without tenz and sacy anyways…

Then why not run fade anyways? Most of skyes flashes are used for info and not flashes, gekko has rechargeable flashes anyways, and fade gives better info util in every way anyway. Also, double init may lock you out of playing double smokes or duelist

With xeus and cned on the same team, what strat other than “shoot ur gun” do you even need

C FUCKING NED LETS GO

Jeezus that’s bad. Still impressive that he went from bronze to immortal in 1.2k hours, had good stats at immortal too but idk why he’s capping for no reason. He got potential though if he actually does hit high immortal.

You sure that’s him? That acc only has 1.2k hours

It will help him to get some perspective playing competitively, and I think it’s just incredibly enjoyable and will help him with fatigue. However I do agree that he needs to push for a leaderboard spot if he wants to transition to t2/t1. One step at a time tho imo. Duelist especially is VERY different in pro play than ranked so it’s good for him to get experience.

Tbf vitatlity dynamics are different. Sayf is igling, but kicks and especially derke have always been very vocal players, especially derke on fnc.

Think he’s one of those players that is never the reason his team loses but also rarely the reason (at least sole reason) his team wins. Would prolly do really well as the finishing piece on a team like prx.

Ah fair fair I just see so many people solely blaming them and it irks me

Immortal is fine for some of the pug teams or tier 3-4 teams in valor, I think it’s good to get some early experience in an organized competitive setting while still improving. Radiants only a requirement when you get to tier 2/high t3

It’s not fair to call him a choker when he’s not playing very poorly in any of these grand finals. The whole team was off at Berlin, victor played poorly map 1 vs loud, boaster struggled at Toronto and ewc was just kinda a mental crumble + map pool issue again

Wouldn’t have gotten into a single one of the grand finals outside of maybe Berlin without either of them

Post tracker and post on twitter as well, I’m not sure how much vlr can help and twitter is useful for social media outreach anyways.

All the best btw and hope we see you on the vct stage one day.

In 2025 fade is just better, the two dogs are better than skyes one dog, and the rechargeable eye gives better info than sky flashes anyways. Ult is generally better. Skyes kinda been hard nerfed from the flash change, you used to be able to use flash and dog to get constant b info and still get a third flash for retake.

Ong, 12-8 first map, 12-11 second map after we started 5-0 and then lost THREE rounds to Aspas doing the same updraft play ropes over and over again, also threw a 1v3 on the one map we won. We shoulda won 3-0 but no we just love throwing on map point.

Rewatch Reykjavik as well, we were 10-2 on ascent, like 11-4 on bind, 8-4 on breeze and the maps ended 13-9, 14-12, 15-13.

Outside of Americas 23, all the finals have been close with winnable/OT maps or chokes of some kind.

Lost trophy to GMB (m. Berlin)
Lost trophy to TGRD (Stage 1 NA)
Won trophy v LOUD (m. Reykjavik)
Lost trophy v XSET (Stage 2 NA)
Lost trophy v LOUD (Istanbul)
Lost trophy v LOUD (AMER League 23)
Won trophy v TH (EMEA stage 1 25)
Lost trophy v PRX (Toronto)
Lost trophy v TH (EWC)

Poor dude is 2-7 in grand finals, 1-4 in international tournament grand finals. Lost out on two masters trophies, ewc, and champs, prolly close to half a million or more in earnings as well.

Obviously understandable, but I still think there was a lot of momentum behind their run and they aren’t the best team in china imo.

What do you consider fraud? I’d prolly go, xlg, rrq, mibr, th(not anymore obviously)

Definitely not in the first split of the year, leaf rivalled him abs cryo did after, ardiis as well later. I swear there was a clip of yay after stage 1 just before Reykjavik saying leaf was the best player in the world.
https://www.vlr.gg/77789/cloud9-vs-optic-gaming-champions-tour-north-america-stage-1-challengers-ubsf

Early on sylvan had to tp out of site because he was solo getting rushed by 4 people. Buzz got mad that he didn’t stay and omen flash and hold the site so they could flood. Even though he tped silvan survived by milliseconds. If he’d done what buzz said he would have been insta died and wasted omen blind. Bro basically got mad they failed the retake and blamed sylvan for a mistake that made no sense.

I agree because we all fucking know when we whiff, but might not recognize when we are misplaying a situation especially under pressure

4 trophies NA, 1 trophies BR. No way y’all have Mazino Keznit Kingg and Shyy and y’all never won a trophy. Shits embarrassing.

I feel like EG just needs one tiny firepower upgrade, but fingers crossed we can make this shit happen, idec if they get grouped at champs I just needa see yay happy and smiling again

I feel like all of the players, even stax talked about it a lot. Usually I only hear the duelist, like a derke typa player comment on it, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard a player from eu or na comment that their teammates aim is the issue in voice comma, instead they will say your being quiet or your not comming the right thing.

Tbf t1 is very different than DRX imo, both strengths and weaknesses

W bait but latam letting down br and na big time bro we’ve been carrying y’all for 5 years it’s time to step it up 😭💔

Just me, or do Korean valorant players focus more on aim and hitting their shots than NA players? It feels like that’s what they focus or criticize a lot, whereas NA pros almost treat a whiff like “shit happens to everyone, as long as you play the situation correctly it doesn’t matter”. I think there’s pros or cons to both mentalities, I just notice that’s what stax and autumn focus on whole NA IGLs and coaches focus on bad comms or low energy.

Objectively better at chamber doesn’t even matter, but leaf at kickoff and Bangkok this year + 2022 when he was rivaling yay on chamber means that statement isn’t even true let alone relevant

I don’t think aleksandar is an upgrade tho. At best he’s a side grade.

But what would those 1-2 changes be? The problem is that there is no replacement to boostio and cryo can’t play raze/neon and asuna can’t play Jett/yoru. If you get rid of them, you might need to get rid of both.

If I’m 100t, after this year ends I might just nuke the entire roster minus Eeiu and pick up some tier 2 + free agents

Realistically, what does 100t do? If they drop asuna, they need another player who can flex initiator and raze/neon AND is an upgrade to asuna. If they drop boostio, they need an actually competent igl who plays sentinel; NA has a shortage of those, and don’t forget before 100t had boostio they were struggling to make REGIONAL PLAYOFFS.

Only if they choke stage 2 and come second at champs

My personal favorite (though texture is close) of this top 10 to watch. So satisfying.

Chichoo

I have Aspas higher than derke, because while derke as more impressive international performances, I do think derke has generally had the historically better team (other than 22) and Aspas tends to play better later in tournaments.