LEV, SEN, and FNC will all be worse or adapting to a new roster and idk I have a feeling Heretics will struggle this year.

We've never had a champs-winning roster stay together the next year so it'll be exciting to watch if they do have to fight to stay on top

good, EDG will have competition

What if Benjy didn't hit three sheriff one-taps in tree

Yeah idt the self-heal needed a nerf. It being way slower feels like enough of a tradeoff

I see the vision

You're right that she could use just a strafe speed nerf but tbh fns is tweaking. He would've been fucked in both of those scenarios against a raze too. Neon is just more tilting

The incurable ones either have vaccines or ways to make them dormant but I respect the hustle tbh

They still lose regional playoffs or get grouped at champs...?

would you respect your father if he had done it for fun with a consenting partner

The world is corrupted because some are willing to do terrible things to other people for money, not because of prostitution.

Do y'all just not have sex or even know anybody that does? What kind of STIs do you think are out there

Self heal is 30 and teammates is 100

Well what's the loud leak don't be shy

Vitality less is funny

Idk if this is cope but I was getting the worst games on my main account and then I made a clean alt, queued with no pressure just to improve, and now I'm getting really fun games that feel more fair. I'm not getting the same daycare lobbies I used to where it felt like I had to drop 30 to maintain a positive winrate.

But also plat players genuinely have the worst mental. You just gotta do your own part and accept that sometimes they'll throw games.

Replay system overrated genuinely. It won't fix the shitty player base which is the biggest problem.

How are we still calling this a fluke? They did better because they got a new coach, new support player, and new IGL. They didn't have these while they were struggling earlier in the year.

Kang Kang, Smoggy, and Chichoo have always been cracked. It's the other things around them that needed to improve.

Frankly at some point you just gotta take one for the team. NRG has needed a good duelist for a while

they're going Made In Americas

I mean yeah it's stupid that loud got pancada back of all people but I'm just saying tuyz has potential on duelist. We saw what happened with the other guy who "wasn't comfortable playing duelist" at Shanghai

I don't understand why he insists on keeping s0m on smokes simply because he's good at it when rn there's like three good smokes players for every one good duelist. It feels like he's stuck in 2022 with that mentality.

Have you played against tuyz more than once? If so, do you remember him playing duelist recently?

Don't engage with that guy he's a baiting idiot

All of you unimaginative losers hating on duelist tuyz before he's had a chance to practice and prove himself are boring asf

Nah the purple spacey theme is cool and unique. Maybe they give it a little touch up going into tier 1 tho

• The bar recharges, but not the slide. She only has two slides. Raze only has two satchels.
• It's absolutely different because you only need to adjust horizontally for a neon slide and she can't slide past util. It's way harder to hit a flying raze and if you disagree then idk what to say. There's a reason Neon doesn't get picked on Bind.
• Read my comment again. It is lucky in the sense that no human hits those shots consistently. Sayf flicked in his direction, but if you run that through a simulation, he does not hit that shot every time. You're cherry-picking insane flick clips from Neons. I could do the same with Jett/Reyna players swinging out of a smoke, hitting a flick, and escaping to safety.
• If Neon is sliding on you with a judge, she's giving up range. Stop staring at a choke while she's running at you. Use util to separate her from her team. It's easier to deal with than Jett updraft dash into smoke, which buys time for her whole team to come help her.

• Neon doesn't recharge slide every 4-6 seconds. What are you on about
• Accuracy while flying is a completely different thing than accuracy while grounded
• It's supposed to be disadvantageous to stare at a choke while out in the open. A Phoenix flash would've sat him down too, but who plays Phoenix?
• It's extremely hard even from the Raze/Neon's perspective to acquire a target that quickly, and doesn't happen consistently. It's like when you hit a flick onto an angle you're not looking at. It's partly "luck," in a sense, because you're flicking toward the general proximity of someone's head position. You could find plenty of clips of a raze/neon whiffing their first accurate shot and getting killed by phantom spray.

L take. Neon doesn't need nerfs and fortnite is a terrible comparison. Just like with every duelist, you put yourself and the team in positions to counter her utility with your own. And Raze can do the same run and gun judge shit while flying over trips and having useful destructive utility.

Your anecdote of "silver player fries in dia/asc lobbies" is not only dubious but also the type of phenomenon that can happen with any ranked gimmicks like grim walls, aggro omen TPs, Yoru tech, etc.

Kang Kang is the one imo. He's MVPing not just from his team's support but also by putting himself in very risky situations and still coming out on top.

pancada

It might. The B main choke is a lot smaller, which makes it more dangerous for attackers to sit and spam through smoke. And it's more attractive for attackers to fight the retake on site since there's more cover.

That's an upside. The human brain does not readily interact with engagement-optimized social media like twitter in a way that's healthy.

I'm confused about what engagement-optimized matchmaking looks like in-game as opposed to skill-based matchmaking.

I understand it's the set of games for each player that makes them least likely to not play the game for a while afterward, but what do those games look like? Is it favoring matchups that are likely to result in a win for a player that has lost multiple games already?

Also, these findings were specifically for 1v1 matchmaking, and the authors wrote that they need to test if their findings hold up in team-based games.

skill issue

Better to have to interact with people in person than to yap nonsense to millions of faceless randos

Valorant as a game is in a good state imo.

The problems really lie with the gamer community in general. Ranked often deviates from the intended teamplay experience because gamers have trash mental, and streamers are busy smurfing and yapping about there not being enough content rather than challenging themselves to get competitive and join a premier team or something.

The actual mechanics, balance, and function of the game are better than most other shooters.

c0m was driven asf he literally said in an interview that anything less than back-to-back trophies is failure to him

Yeah I can't get a read on it anyway cuz Saadhak leaving is already so cursed

So happy your country gets to heal

I'm curious whether Less stays on LOUD. If he leaves, lukxo and heat could make the perfect replacements for him and Saadhak. Only problem is cauanzin's calling seems kinda shaky rn

Wait did twitter actually get banned in Brazil? Goated decision

Bro if you think valorant is a dogshit game then stop watching instead of yapping

Single elim is so flukey though bc you can get all the frontrunners paired against each other early on and then a team that maybe isn't the best winning it all.

Map veto is actually a strong advantage. It's just that a lot of teams choke tbh. Maybe if the upper finals winner got to choose the entire order of the maps it'd be stronger.

Karmine Corp

KC becoming a contender at champs Paris would be some good food... the French quit playing around

Vietnamese and Ethiopian food gotta be up there too

Everything just devolves into the ascent comp...

Harbor is harder in solo queue. It's damn near impossible to have your team play around his util

Best: Omen
Worst: Gekko (and other flash initiators)

Is there a confirmed source for this?