Easily has potential to be the best smokes player in the world but he’s retiring with fns at the end of this year sadly 😭

Obviously sr as a team aren’t tier 2 ready, but flor was getting stomped in challengers too because her team wasn’t good enough, and she is one of the better tier 1 duelist atm
As an individual they are good enough to get a spot imo

Idk if any of them franchise level yet but I’d like to see dodonut, sarahfrags, and vania in challengers low key

They’d prolly get paid way less tho so it’s not worth it, but I think individually they are at that level already

It is low key funny because you know that there isn’t a chance in hell any other fan base is supporting/hating on their players like sen fans are

I’ve spent too much time defending zellsis after pushing the whole zellsis is a hypocrite who pretends to be an SJW narrative for like a year straight
I don’t like this anymore
Will be there for the #SENDOWNFALL, cancel them all and free Zekken

Thank you for the reply, especially sharing ur perspective as someone who the word is used as a slur against
I definitely agree that it’s not a word that should be super commonly used, I was just curious why it gets the same stigma as the n word or the f slur compared to words like bitch or pussy, which you did a good job explaining

Yeah, I can definitely see your point

Surely the implications are the same though? They were both originally quite offensive but now days are only used between friends for the best part, what differentiates it as a slur?

What about the phrase, this player has issues, or this player is fucked in the head, both of which are commonly used by streamers?

Yeah, it’s something called hindsight
Who even cares brotha you can ignore it if it’s really annoying you

Part of it is in certain European languages I don’t think the translation for retard has the same connotation, it probably just translation to extremely fucking stupid rather than mentally disabled

Cause I felt like it tbh. wtf am I gonna do post on twitter? Idk maybe some vlr users might disagree and it would be an interesting discussion

VLR’s probably not the best place to post this since a lot of people might agree and I kinda want to hear the opposite position

I want this to be an actual discussion, but why is retard considered an ableist slur? The words stupid, idiot, and moron were once medical terms for certain ranges of IQ now considered derogatory, the word bitch has misogynistic meaning and was arguably used a slur, the phrase playing like a pussy also has stereotypical or misogynistic implications.

Why draw the line at retard? Now days it’s mostly just used as a stronger way to say stupid, I think the word has evolved to be relatively harmless. Ofc, using retard to insult someone whose actually mentally disabled should be unacceptable.

Who is more knowledgeable on valo? Twitter mfs or vlr mfs? Imma have to go wit vlr Ngl

Clown9 have no idea what they are doing, get those bums net and Xeppaa out of there

People aren’t talking about him enough Ngl, he just played the best tournament of his career and was t1s best player, literally plays like every role in the game and was good on all of them

Last year I really doubted him and wasn’t sure if he should be in tier 1 but instead he wins a trophy with t1!

If mako retires without a trophy imma kms

Vitality kicked cender left kicks and made Sayf call 😂

He carried them in champs until the gf too 😂😂😂😭
Kk biggest aura merchant OAT

TH the team that got stomped by liquid is not making it further than vit lul bro

How does kk get in the goat convo if chichoo has been carrying his ass for both his trophy wins

For me series was the hardest part
Are you in college or hs?
Attend every single lecture, absolutely go to study sessions or office hours when you are confused
Try to work with your classmates on homework, their understanding will make you understand better
When prepping for exams, take the practice exam, then once you got the answers, go back and explain why the wrong answers are wrong for each question (this is a really good one)

But overall having a good understanding of calc 1 helps a lot

A good way to check your understanding is to try and explain or teach the concept to someone. It will quickly show all of the holes in your understanding.

What’s calculus 2
Like series Taylor polynomials and shit?

Alfa and chronicle need to get out of fnatic right neow if they can’t make lan again and go make another super team together

3-1 EDG
Lose first map, comeback a 12-8 2nd map, stomp maps 3 and 4

I agree with you there, you don’t need to be consistently good to have a good year, but to say that a team has been good all year =\ team has accomplished a lot this year

For an example, if sen failed to make champs last year, they would have still had a masters win in 2024 which is an accomplishment, but they wouldn’t have been good in all of 2024 since they only really played well 1/3rd of the year
But they would have had a good year

The top 4 at champs 23 might be the best top 4 ever Ngl
Fnatic, EG, loud, prx, every single one was a trophy winner and/or a finalist that year

I think I’ve not conveyed what I meant properly
I don’t mean it was a mid year, it was a great year, but they also weren’t good the whole year, if that makes sense

Can you call edg consistently good for a whole year if they got groups twice in a row then win?

You can say they overall achieved highly in 2024 since they won champs though

I didn’t say it was a bad year, but you can’t say they were good the whole year if they got grouped at two events in a row
They had 2 bad events, and then won the most important event. You decide what that means
I break it up as they were bad for the first 2/3rds insane for the last third

I think we have different definitions of good year
I don’t consider it a good year if you don’t make an avg too 4ish placement for the year

2024 isn’t a bad year for edg, but it’s a mid year if you look at the whole year
They have been the best team itw starting from champs until now since they are top 3 itw rn, so not yet a fulll good year I’m on

Na lans are good but timing for Asia is bad

So they were top 10 in 2023, grouped in Madrid and Shanghai, then won champs and they have been good for a year???
Bro your logic is all over the place

You are special needs if they think they are top 2 in 2023
In 2024, geng and edg were better….

5th-8th was due to the format being different, not due to skill
What event are u taking about in 22?
Edg are barely a top 10 team in 2023 brotha, stop with this agenda, they got first rounded in lock-in to fucking 100t mind you

They actually progress and develop as a team - and it’s just them being horrendously horseshit compared to their highs, buying put world champs mvps and still being shit, then finally doing somewhat good

What are we even talking about here dawg, they were the 3rd best team in 2021 and 2024 and were one of the worst tier 1 teams in 22-23

Fantastic crowds that even if they support one team will still cheer if the opp team makes a great play, good time zone for all, there’s a reason why Istanbul and Copenhagen are still considered fantastic events in 2025
Paris will be great but we need more events in Japan and eu, generally the best crowds

5th once isn’t good, we aren’t giving out participation points now, you were calling fnatic mid in 2021 and 2022 a post ago when they had a 2nd place, a 5-8th, a 4th and a 5th place. Have some logical consistency please.

Clearly your just very biased, so no point in discussing, sen have had far lower lows than their highs, zero consistency and are very clearly not the best team in valorant

They aren’t the best in 2024, geng are, they got GROUPED TWICE before winning champs
Also their highest placement was 5th in 2023, they weren’t good in 2023

Edg haven’t been good for a year yet
Fnatic made 2nd at Iceland 1, Iceland 2 they were missing half their roster
They have 2 back to back wins (more impressive than sens), came 4th at Copenhagen, 2nd at Iceland, 4th at champs 2023, 5th at champs 2022, won countless domestic trophies

Sen won Iceland 1, 8th at Berlin after farming f4q, grouped at champs, failed to even make Iceland, went 0-5 in split 2 and failed again to make Copenhagen, failed to win lcq, first rounded at lock-in, failed to make playoffs again domestically, got only one win at lcq 2023, won Madrid and Americas, immediately failed to even make split 1 domestic playoffs, bombed out of playoffs split 2 then made 4th at champs
They have had 3 good tourneys ever

Also sentinels are iconic since they aren’t that big outside of valo
Fnatic are so massive their success in valo doesn’t grow their brand as much, but if they were like sentinels then everyone would consider them iconic with valorant as well if that makes sense

The thing is, loud nrg and prx had two good years before they started struggling, and sentinels at their worst were going 0-5 in domestic group stage
Their low was so bad you had like 2 sen flairs in all of vlr

In 2023 seeing a sen flair was like seeing a tsm flair in 2022

What a horrendous take
Fnatic we’re good in 2021 and 2022 as well, edg literally got grouped twice in 2024, sen was horseshit domestically for two years didn’t make domestic playoffs for Shanghai and also bombed out champs 2021 and didn’t play well at Berlin

Mechanics are low key the hardest to improve at the highest level
Also edg just had some questionable plays and moments wouldn’t say Simon lost them that match
Besides peak g2 is really hard to beat

The weak streak was really really bad tho

Ik he was bad at 2022 Iceland, but I forgot the name of the domestic split tbh
Saya was insane at Iceland tho bring back my goat

Inhuman consistency, one series win away from his first mvp
2022 Iceland Trent is back!

Yukky…😢

Ik this is bait but it’s sad to see how far you have fallen yukky

I was definitely just insulting them for extra funny points but they are not good at casting hype moments, they just scream really loudly and you won’t see them make iconic calls the way pansy or brenshow can
Also they way the glaze players is so hard to listen, it’s like if pansy was casting fnatic players 24-7