"I will look forward to the day I stand before you all again, whether as 'Carpe' or simply as 'Jae-hyeok Lee.'" holy bars

i used to really like the BBL roster with jamppi and how they almost made champs with just about 0 champ points before, then they 1. dropped all these players that had done so well for them, 2. took the entire team of their "partner org" which in my eyes is just a way to get around the restriction of academy teams being unable to promote, meaning they also fucked up pcfic with that, plus their players are just so unnecessarily cocky to a point where it's not even fun trashtalk just kinda hard to watch in my eyes, but mainly just fuck the org / edit: pretty sure they also stopped their partnership with the team that they just stole their entire roster of

hasn't been great but nrg have so many good players they don't need him to be the greatest it's more about the teamplay plus this meta is hard af for his role

so true we are one of the least neon reliant teams and we have gio and adam that can play jett plus keiko phoenix, i think we're gonna see a lot of jett phoenix from a lot of teams and i feel like we'll be very good at that

anyone who was actually an nrg fan before they were good (shrike for example (i think))

js saw them losing 15-5 to m80 on twitter

valyn way too low tbh. literally dominating americas with g2, being a great fragger and an amazing caller, in my eyes best in the world or at least top 3 since they ascended which is a really long fucking time. i would personally put him either side of ANGE1

it's because he WAS shit but bonkar is the goat, genuinely compare his calling before and after bonkar had some time with him it's night and day

wasn't babybay playing 2nd duelist with jaw on entry before? i feel like that worked better, but overall awareness looks cooked rn it looks like a team that has never played together with no chemistry

downvoted for truth, literally took 3 tier 2 players and a completely failed roster to a champs win

he was a decent fragger when sen were actually good last time but i felt like he was having to call a lot to compensate after so that weight off his shoulders really does a lot apparently, though he is saving a lot for stats but last game he had 159 adr so i can't talk that down

most of luvkarma's songs, especially fuckyourfeelings, the guy literally has like no active listeners but it's kinda goated if you like the style

alright man it's been too long now and too many roster moves, something is going on. either immi needs to be banned from building teams or he needs to resign if he's letting c9 management make these awful roster moves. i mean you've managed to take genuinely talented players and then build this monstrosity with it. oxy v1c and penny are great players, if you lean into double duelist with 1 guy on yoru between penny and oxy, v1c as a fragging controller, and supplement these guys with an actual igl then you actually have a team. they had mitch. even if i didn't really like him he was one of the few real igls in americas and now they're struggling against tier 2 because they don't have a real igl, insane

good point but bad arguments for it. before the recent buff i think she was the worst character in the game by a long shot. she's more viable now but the big problem is that her util gets wasted so fast. the flanks aren't a problem, if you have a good internal clock you can predict when they should be coming down the flank and care it, or push into their spawn. i actually quite like sage on attack but on defense you can break the wall, that forces her to slow, make some more sound she uses her second slow and now she has no util for whatever you were actually going to do. the heal being the rechargeable is insanely stupid. the way to fix sage is to make the slow rechargeable and the character actually has value

one of the top liked comments is this

Valorant player is ob=lgbt😂😂
Cs player= real originality❤

i'm pretty sure they're completely serious. been looking at some cs recently, esports and whatever and everyone is deadass having a boxing match with their schizophrenia talking about valorant 24/7. i actually think they talk more about valorant than cs

we're nrg fans, the expectation is that we win everything and the reality is we lose everything, idk what happened last year tbh i'm just happy it happened

for some pros what they do out of habit is go audio menu and completely mute the game. i've seen pros do this in apex when they die so they can hear the coach better, but in valorant, unless you're doing scrims where your coach is allowed to speak after every round, i think it's just to cool off and so they don't have to hear their team dying which might make them more mad

decent shout. i think he had some really good games and i kinda forgot about him so fits the description of underrated. i just feel he was a bit inconsistent like most of the roster. if he gets that sorted out i think he has TONS of potential

space taking is a good point but not quite enough. i hope he gets personal coaching to focus on one thing, maybe that's his calling if he were to igl again, but it should likely be either his aim (and multi potential) or his utility. either one works, but right now he just seems like a jack of all trades, but just like slightly below good enough at everything. but i would love to be proven wrong here i want brazil being a real region again but the mibr roster moves don't look promising

i think the coaches are stupid like you said and i just don't like how they went from literally one of the worst teams in the world to one of the best. it never felt replicable, yk? like nrg also had a quick rise to fame but it felt more steady and consistent, i mean they didn't lose a single match and always prevailed on teamplay. gx just feels like cloud giving his all and then ara is immature and sometimes the goat, sometimes a t3 player. that's just not my kinda team. i thought they didn't deserve their spot and my "hate" comes mainly from the fact that i think a team like bbl that had a more replicable and steady rise like bbl deserved that spot more. bbl had one off game and that's how they lost out, i didn't really fw that

i think the only reason i would call him bad is because he's not igling anymore. when he was igling i can take that as a valid excuse but after it's like.. what's the redeeming quality? he's not not deserving of tier 1 but i don't think he's champs caliber either. i really think he can improve tho

i kinda think s0m was honestly not that great this tournament. still good but i've seen him do better. i think its because the way nrg play, he helps a LOT with the mid round calling for ethan and that took away from his fragging and utility a bit but he was well rounded and tons of impact with that midrounding. i watch all their comms videos and i think especially his post plants are really well called from sam

i actually agree with this SO much. i used to support giantx a bit when they were still bottom 2 teams with koi and always felt like it was cloud and 4 bums. when redgar left there wasn't an immediate improvement but when i started looking at just his igling more in depth and less surface level it's been really really good. full agree

i was watching him but wouldn't really agree personally. i know he plays kayo and stuff too and while i think he's technically underrated just because everyone shits on him so incredibly hard, i don't really think he's that good either. i never watch him and think "oh that was a great flash" like i do with ethan and flickless

in my opinion it's flickless. i say this as a firm hater of gx and i will go even further and say i don't think they even should've been at this tournament. way too inconsistent but that's besides the point. flickless has some INSANE assist statistics and i think those kinda players, flash initiators that play for assists, always get underappreciated. ethan is my favorite player but honestly i think flickless did a better job than him when it just comes to assists. ethan had some great kayo flashes on ascent but flickless was doing that shit constantly and it was great to watch. y'all agree and are there any other underrated players from the event?

said this before, expecting s0m to retire and the best replacement I can think of that is realistic is oke. that means another rookie (technically not but yk) but he is the only one fitting the aggressive omen style that Sam does. if Ethan retires we're cooked tho, haven't been any good igl's, especially in Americas, so yeah

which kinda proves what i was tryna say. people are trying to say nrg only got this far bc of odin when someone tried it before and it didn't lead to these results

didn't watch during that time like i said, might watch some vods but tbf i don't hear anybody mentioning it frequently right now so it's not like it's a huge problem. still will watch ty

i can agree with the bullet count a little bit, feels like you never gotta reload, i'd do maybe 70 but that's the only thing. being able to spam and the price is not the problem in my eyes

that's what i'm saying. it seems broken because only he can play it that well. give it until next masters and more people will practice it. brawk will be a bit above the rest still but either way point stands

didn't watch it, care to elaborate?

this is so real

"nrg flair" yes yes ik idc

literally no one played odin b4 this tournament. brawk popularized an entire gun and everyone suddenly says it's broken. if it's so broken why wasn't everyone playing it before? the gun is better than vandal and phantom, yes, that's why it fucking costs more, no shit

people hate odin fsr, it's still just a gun and people act like it's broken when this meta literally was created at this tournament and no one played it before

I'M SORRY FOR NEVER BELIEVING IN THE SUNSET, ETHAN MY GLORIOUS IGL, 2 TIME CHAMPION I LOVE YOU

nrg fought so hard just for this, idc about "3-0 woulda been boring" we deserved this and now i'm 100% sure that we've lost because we literally are incapable of winning sunset and our mental is fucked too

please nrg i've gone through so much supporting this team, i don't wanna lose to a record breaking comeback, i've gone through enough already, and we're awful on sunset, we have to win ascent, i can't take this anymore

they might not even get 13 rounds in 3 maps btw

so happy to have been a fan from the very beginning, even when it was bad in 24' and start of this year, i understand people coming on to support nrg now but i always believed

what the fuck is the country of finland doing here

i used to be like top 1% in minecraft hardcore parkour, peaked at 50 double cross neos and 12 triple neos (chained) and was also a map maker on timolia and omegaparkour before both died/got shut down, i checked reccently and the entire community is dead since there's no more servers where you can make custom parkour maps like omegaparkour
rip hcpk community </3

idk what we're even banning, our bind and sunset fucking suck but fsr we banned haven last time? i think it's because bonkar knew what they were going to veto, idk as long as we don't have to play sunset bind (or we have some shit cooked up for that) i'm fine

2022 was the best final but the story lines the other years were nice. i didn't enjoy 2024 i think it was boring to just have kk out aiming everyone, and though i'm biased this nrg run is good bc nrg aren't just a pure aim team

they were never lucky, honestly watching them they've been one of the unluckiest teams, people said first map was luck but before OT they lost 3 rounds to bad luck, 2 rounds where fnc got 2 kills through a smoke, and the one with boasters run and gun, realistically it shouldn't even have gotten to OT

i swear this is the difference, nrg always build good teams but have some fuckass coach (i'm looking at you chet) and as soon as they get a good coach and time to implement the system you have a champs contender and turned one of the worst igls into someone of this caliber, he might actually be one of the best coaches itw rn

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he's 14/1 which is actually on track to not just match but beat brawks record from earlier, imagine

i'm happy we've been winning at all, we haven't been in champs with our "super team" every new split so i'm happy but why do i have to sacrifice my heart for it

my heart can't take anymore after the mibr game

does it ever fucking stop

nrg has been playing good but it's always close and prx are a completely different caliber, we rely on teamplay but that doesn't matter if you're getting out aimed by 5 of the best aimers in the world across the stage