not Val, he's joining their CS team

For anyone doubting Zekken go back and watch VODS of him playing on the team "Where is Fullerton" for some random event where he played every agent in the game throughout the tourney and won. Watched him stream every match basically and was a full believer after that.

They were not middle of the pack, this was cream of the crop T2 last year. This goes to show people need to judge more off of individual form than team performance. Verno and Skuba both looked fantastic despite OXG not succeeding, and same goes for brawk all the way back to moist. Watch out next year not just for players from top T2 teams, but players with individual form.

Genuinely thinking about this, I feel like if we're really talking super team we can only really combine SEN and G2 in a few different ways. With a few exceptions.

Zekken
Leaf
Bang
Johnqt
Trent

People are dissing the Cyro sneak, but the question is who is best AT THIS MOMENT. Meaning recently and cryo has been cooking so he should definitely be in this conversation.

Americas - Cryo, Lukxo HM - jawg, narrate
EMEA - Woot, xeus HM - nats

Like I said the point of this question is literally recency bias. I haven't watched other regions.

Had to open up PC to read this, mobile version destroys the organization of this chart.

I think Narrate is a very emotional player and I've said it before so this isn't reactionary. If he doesn't start out hot he wont perform. I think if anyone in this roster is to be changed it would be him. Not that I think that's the only option, but definitely the most likely.

its the style of which the duelists play he's talking about

but yeah I heavily agree with this post, refrence platchat Bren's rant about "you get shot you die" for further proof of what really matters in this game

valyn goat IGL no lie

3/7 times he aced he's won. That's a less than 50% stat.

abyss is enjoyable only because it brings something different than the rest in the pool right now, but a few games in a row and it is sleeper

Lowkey like nats, suygetsu, shao. I remember there was a good era whenever my NA teams went against these players it was tough to face their aura.

MxM before it was MxS was actually a pretty goated team. I really thought that they should've made it to 2023 Ascension. They stayed pretty good after that, but went through ups and downs. I think the only thing that made me not be big fan was the lack of hype in 2024 or else I probably would've supported them because I really liked Brawk and Flyuh. I think v1c for thief was also an underrated swap.

NA gonna be exciting, SEN making new changes with arguably better fire power. Zekken looking in form if neon stays in. N4rrate to play jett on some maps I think will help with their issues last year of being bad on Jett maps. NRG got good changes I feel like Verno and Mada got big potential to make NRG into something good just super dependent on how they start the year I feel like. G2 got the most simple 1 for 1 switch but they were already good and now they have arguably the best Duelist in Americas so I couldn't imagine them getting any worse. Excited to see where teams like C9, EG, and 100t fit into the league aswell. All of that and not even mentioning Brazil/LATAM makes for an exciting year for the league.

I think its just assumed that EG knows her value at making low budget teams decent so they keep her. That's just my opinion I guess.

SEN is giving them so much respect its horrible

W take, normalize not making things so black and white.

can someone link a clip

Sacy Tendulkar

This might be facts lowkey.

I respect the self awareness and loyalty

Dont live in the past my friend, it's over.

protocol criminally underrated

i hated being a SEN fan through the dark ages, but its what makes watching them win more enjoyable.

high highs require low lows

its called fan loyalty a lot of people have never experienced it, but once your team goes big and you were there from the start you stuck a fan whether you like it or not

he was the glue i think sadly

Where is Peaced. He must face his L. Power ranking is not only based of results. It's based off of speculated expectations. That's quite literally the whole point. People on this site need to stop only basing their opinions off of results.

LMAO you made it so clear this is like a 10% scenario and people are coming at you for just considering the what if.

it be like that

I haven't watched almost any of this tournament live which obviously makes it feel meh for me.
Curious to see what the viewership stats are going to be like for this one. Horrible timezone for US, but then China's number gonna be nuts I assume.

Anyone who denies Leaf is a superstar duelist is someone who bases their thinking fully on results of an entire team. I hate how many people on this site deny how good someone is because their team doesn't get results.

BTW this is not me saying I don't believe in the current roster, I think it's still very early to tell how they will mesh. (I just wanted to participate in made up rosters that sort of could've happened.) Looking at the current roster through the small glimpse of personalities I see on streams and stuff it doesn't seem like they'd mesh super well. No one of the current players strike me as assertive/confident. I think Boostio could be a great fix for that problem if that ends up going through. (COMPLETE SPECULATION I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THESE PLAYERS PERSONALLY)

100T I was hoping for pre offseason.

100T Bang
100T Cryo
100T Flyuh
100T Brawk
100T Aproto/v1c

I think flyuh and brawk were very briefly attached to 100T and I was hoping they would steal the MxM core with Aproto.
I didn't have much faith in v1c and honestly I still don't, but he's looking good on MxS so I'm ready to be proven wrong.

Okobotro🗿

EMEA 115 country region, NA 2 country region

I would like to see it.

100T did insane at playing specifically to counter OP, that's why they wasted a bunch of util on so many angles and played viper on ascent specifically to counter OP. Through all that Tenz still put up decent numbers with the OP.

Good point but bad comparison with the guard. It was public that they hade done a crazy amount of bootcamp. I think it was at the complexity facility. That's the only reason they had such good chem and discipline seemingly out of nowhere, the players themselves might've been obscure but they didn't train like it. I don't think C9 would've chosen 2 new players who have no potential, but it's hard now after everything to say how much actual thought goes into their decisions and not just money based thinking. Hopefully they're at least competitive and don't just get ran over at the fault of 2 new players.

no