Me when someone more likely to get sick gets sick, again:

:O

2 (debatably 3) of those guys don't even play Jett for their teams.

me when pearl b rush

:O

Why can't we just accept that a majority of the teams in this league are close? Each and every team can punch-up and be competitive with the other ones. We get a close game and it's "this team is shit," we gotta admit that Sentinels are good. MIBR are good. NRG is still good. Leviatan is good. Cloud 9 is good. Even 100T, through everything, is still a solid team.

That's a lie, mine is 104.166.156.0

no, but you can see my IP

No. Sentinel's were out of a meta for a full year after King left, only now are actual sentinels are good role. Even back when he was on VS, you shoulf have been running double duelist over a sentinel most of the time. If I remember right, towards the end of VS, it was buzz for King and I'd rather have buzz out there with an OP.

I understand eko -> Sylvan more than Ban - > Intro. Switching into your growing prospect? I get it. Switching out of what would be your growing prospect? No clue what's going on. Even the fact that eko entered the year with Gen.G and sylvan was added, it's the reverse for Ban so even that doesn't make sense.

Don't worry, I fixed it for you.

Yeah, I think Kyedae talked about it a bit on stream but she didn't really expand or show it. It'll at minimum afffect his movement too, which will be super rough.

Gen.G just did too good, T1 can't compete with the best team in Korea (fuck it bro, we'll see next week. Gotta get my Hopium in early).

He has a joint infection, his index finger is swelled up. He can't really move his index finger but, since its swelling, it might also affect how well he moves his middle finger.

Gen.G did well today. IF WE DIDN'T GET FUCKING LOUD MATCH 1 WE WOULD HAVE DONE GREAT IN LOCK//IN.

Tenz has no left-index finger for the match basically. It might also affect the mobility of his middle finger too, but I'm not knowledgeable about the thing, I just know it's swelling.

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They should get Zombs, he's fluent in Korean.

What type of shit are you smoking and what wierd guy in an alley can I get it from, cause whatever brain-fucked shit your on would revolutionize the depth of conspiracy theories.

Gen.G owns the region, just watch them dance on the corpses of these mf

It lets select players focus on select maps. Like, eko plays on Ascent and (i believe) sylvan will sub for Haven on the same role.

Boostio has a job bro, I can mention Zander.

Here is the problem, I've gone over anything.

Reason 1: Playstyle. Playstyles are hard to nail down, region-to-region and team-to-team, but NA has a specific playstyle. NA is very, very proactive, way more than any region. This causes a huge snowball, if they miss a timing they lose a massive amount of control or they get a pick and gain a ton of momentum in the round. Here's the issue, Brazil/Asia play really bundled and EMEA has extremely tight defaults. NA teams still rely heavily on just poking around to get a 1v1, but against global competition it's rarely ever a 1v1. This is why NA relied and used chamber so much better than the other regions, it allowed the best mechanical player to poke around with multiple safety options. The second part of the NA playstyle is partly becuase of this proactivity. NA Team are great individual players; NA teams are shitty teams. Look at NRG today, they had more success as individuals, but 2 MIBR players can play better off eachother than 3 NRG members. I'm refering more to midround utility, trading, and holding effective positions with the team and less of just running set plays. Look at how many times Ardiis played an angle and died without anything close to a trade. NA teams don't capitalize on their teammates like everyone else does.

Reason 1 TLDR - NA players do very well on their own, but are innately countered by the playstyles of other regions

Reason 2: Our IGL's are shit. Runi is the best fragging IGL, stellar is too inconstant to put up there. Runi is very good, he's super effective in his role while being an IGL. ALL THE GOOD FRAGGING IGL'S ARE IN FUCKING T2. EVEN FUCKING SHAZ WOULD DO BETTER THAN BOOSTIO, DEPH, AND FNS. AT LEAST FNS CALLS BETTER THAN MOST, BUT HE CAN'T FRAG FOR SHIT. JohnQT, previously mentioned Shahz, Valyn, even fucking Zander. All could produce better than those 3 fucks. This isn't a matter of "all our good players are in ascension", it's a matter of underproducing IGL's not being covered for, except for FNS cause he does call better than Boostio and Deph. But other than FNS, can you say any IGL in NA is better than most other franchised IGL's? Not really.

Reason 2 TLDR - NA IGL"s are below average players, and below average compared to other region's IGL's

Other things people say is that NA is spread too wide, I don't really think so (other than the small-time IGL's having better mechanics and maybe that M80 is better than EG). I do think though that the gap is being overstated. C9 still took a map of Loud. NRG and MIBR went to 3 close maps.

Laz was very reliant on Chamber play, more than anyone except Dicey.

MIBR just better. NRG has shit teamplay and it was hella exposed.

FPX has lost twice to ASE. It seems like if Life just shows up (which he has vs FPX) then it's GG. I haven't watched any of the Chinese scene, but it seems like ASE might grab up that second position. Other than that, everything else is a nuance critique, like maybe Sen can comeback for forth? It's arguable but just about as likely as TL making it in EMEA. I do hope tho that this week Sen revert Sacy and Pancada in favor of forcing Deph on the KJ/cypher. If Sen do that, then they could be in the conversation of an upset.

Just give Foxy9 five separate PC set-ups and he could beat Fnatic.

It's a different game that benifits from different individual playstyles and mechanics. A ton of former overwatch pros are now Valorant pros, just like CS. It's still a different game, but I'm sure a good amount of pro's from any game would be good if they switched.

Best teamplay in NA. No other team in the region plays off their teammates better than these C9 players. IMO they gonna be beefing with Sen and MIBR to get that last playoff spot.

That is fair.

May offer you a shit sleep schedule to watch the true k1Ng play?

NA teams are the best at playing solo, but the worst at playing as a team. That's why NA dominated in Chamber meta, cause it let your best mechanical player play alone and succeed. Now that it's a more team based meta, NA teams are set to struggle since they have terrible teamplay. C9 picked up worse players that were way better at supporting their team, that is why they are successful. C9 played a better team game today than any NA team ever has. NRG gets bailed out by Chet and FNS creating great set plays, but when it's non-set utility, they're still just a mid ass team with teamplay.

NA sucks because NA can't stack their teams effectively like other regions can. Simple as that.

EMEA plays it so slow that it's impractical to compare them to any other region.

He's cute, I'm all for it.

It's pearl defense. It's like split attack. get a 9-3 or lose outright. It's how every single pearl goes with good teams.

I listen to music during most matches. Only time I don't is with Egg and the car crash victim.

I don't think PRX are better than Sen. Mindfreak has been such a non-entity in 2023, I can't believe in PRX until he gets back to even playing decent. I also think Zeta could still beat RRQ.

It's pearl defense, the worst defense side in the whole game, MIBR should win

Not every day do you face a mf who will swing as wide as heat does. Most play by spike or by the box, but heat just wide swings in the open

Shit map in ranked cause this map needs 2 controllers but every one of my ranked teams see one controller and insta lock their duelists of choice.

-Ardiis + Zombs

Zombs would be a top 5 sniper any game, if he just tried

Been Gen.G since before Lock//in they're all I care about

When does NRG ever do well on their map pick

Send Zombs to PRX. DRX wouldn't even get a round.

I was wondering why Fut looked so bad in redbull and so good since.

I DIDN'T REALIZE THEY DIDN'T HAVE QW1 AT REDBULL. They were playing without their main duelist. That's why everyone underrated these guys, qw1 does so much for them. I've had them as a possible Tokyo team since week one EMEA.

Popeyes has given me food poisoning

KFC has not given me food poisoning

I'll go with KFC

It's fair, Dicey was debatably more of a chamber crutch than Yay was. It's hard for him since he was never an actual sentinel.

He was top 3 in Masters 2. Until playoffs, he was number 1 (stat wise).

Sayf isn't something new, he isn't something that just popped up. He has been him for a while. He was just on Guild. Yeah guild was fine, but it was a 4v5 for most of 2022 and they had to deal with Koldamenta's SUPER SUPER slow calling, which doesn't help when you have 3 REALLY exceptional aggressive players (Leo, Sayf, Trexx). If Guild had a real IGL and a real 5th member, then they would have been a top team in EMEA or even the world. But instead they were a borderline 3 or 4 in EMEA.

I hope to God that it's 1 AM duo, 1 EU duo, and 1 Asia duo (then like a spread of desk casters)

Paper-thin and acileos (how tf do I spell his name) are very good. Pansy and hypoc are probably the best duo in EMEA (Tom and Mitchell are close tho). Then the British imported Bren and Egg are the goats, put then over any AM caster any day of the week.

1 shower a day baseline, ALWAYS a shower before I leave my place to do something.

refering more to the Queue dodges, since you usually dodge because:

a) bad map
b) Weird teammates

On average, more people will be a weird teammate to a woman than to another guy.