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Sen as an org was built on the success of the individuals who represented it, TenZ argubaly the face of valorant represnted sen and abused jett to win Masters. At madrid Zekken was the best player in the team who widely contributed to the team's success. So its only valid if the players who made you love the team leave you won't have the same passion for the team.

I thought everyone is always asking for the map to be brought back. But at the same time its a map that require people to be active on the map but most people don't like doing it.

I think they will actively rework maps now from the interview with FNS.

I personally love playing abyss now with the changes.

Lotus : A lobby choke can be widened and the tree area near the choke can be modified a little as at the start of every round people throw all the util there. The spammable wall needs to change as by now we have had enough of people using odin spam. C mound and C site should be modified to encourage people to play on site at C and fix the waterfall spams.

Bind : Hookah box should be removed to stop people from abusing the irritating judge spot and cypher trip. B site walls should be fixed to avoid spams and the tube needs to be modified to avoid giving angle advantage. A site can be changed, its been the same forever.

Icebox : The most difficult map to modify there's way too many things to change. A site needs a rework to avoid "A site simulator". Mid needs to change so that people don't need to perma play viper and Kj.
Fracture: Well Riot hates fracture.
Breeze : Keeping mid somewhat the same, we need both the sites to have changes to help defenders holding the site.
Corrode : Way too many spammable walls and personally I don't like the design of A.

I really want to know who are these geniuses who playtest:

Start of the year release a broken agent without realizing how every ability interaction would work with the new agent and then when people righfully call you out you decide to finally use common sense.

Cypher : He is the oldest agent and yet just because people cannot break a trip even after the game being out for 5 years you basically remove the essential wallhack to punish people who don't break the trip. The old sunset unbreakable trip was not a cypher problem but a map design problem and yet the agent gets the blame.

Vyse : Everyone who wanted a vyse nerf were asking for deduction in the stalling ability. What we get, lets just make her get no info and when someone rushes into the site you hope that the vyse can get one or else the site is secured.

Viper : With the smokes nerf we now will have double smokes in the meta as viper is the only agent who can smoke up a space at will.

Also the infamous caedral clip can still be recreated as viper walls are the same, brim ult is the same, harbor ult is the same, etc. The reason why you will always have stupid clips like that one is because pro teams don't cycle ultimates well and sometimes tend to use everything to maybe convert a thrifty round or break the other teams econ etc.

Sova/Fade : Again who are these players who are unable to break a dart and a fade haunt ? The reason people were so pissed afer getting scanned was due to every map having paperthin walls and the oldest map ascent took forever to get that fixed. You fix the maps the scan problem goes away.

Veto : With the limited utility people get to gather info with new patch we have an agent who breaks every util and has a 40 sec cooldown when every other init and senti has 60 sec. Well done.

Guns : The ratty guns like the shorty/ bucky/ judge and odin get no changes ? We want precise gunplay and yet have people use these stupid guns and play in ratty corners with even less util to get them out of those spots.

Skye : Why not release her with a 60 sec cooldown flash ? What's the point of waiting. If we want to buff the flash inits we test it out with this massive updates.

Insta lock reyna or clove and wide swing everyone.

Do you love playing with instalocking,bottomfragging clove/reyna players in every ranked game. Only once in a bluemoon do you play a game with either no reyna or no clove. I don't remember the last time I played a game with no reyna and clove.

Those are some interesting ideas. Again you should only get 1 ban per team, no agent pick before agent ban. This forces you to actually use comms at the start of the game.

Sure buddy, have a nice day.

Clove is the worst thing to happen to ranked so they need a nerf.

Tell me you instalock clove and bottomfrag aah statement.

It will never happen he got the bag and has the entire dev team on a leash.

You get 1 ban per team. This will force you to actually communicate with your teammates.

If they cared about ranked they would have giga nerfed reyna and clove by now. They don't care about ranked, all they want to do is please TenZ and FNS who don't play rank and when they do all tenz does is complain about instalocking reyna/jett/cloves. Well have fun buddy its gonna be even more miserable.

You can still use your smokes after you are dead if you have any smokes left. Also brim only have 3 smokes.

Reyna has an op ultimate with unlimited healing and the ability to reposition so we punish instalocking reyna mains.

Hello instalock reyna/jett/clove main

Introduce stronger fines for people who dodge multiple games.

Clove :
No more refreshable smokes: 3 smokes
Reyna :
The ultimate should not last the entire round. If the reyna doesn't get a kill within 15 secs the ult is gone.

As a trial introduce agent bans in ranked. We have nearly 30 agents now and there should be no reason why they cannot introduce agent bans. This will actually freshen up ranked as we can stop players from instalocking reyna/clove/etc.

Or like CS have a knife round at the start of the game and the winning team picks the agents first and the other team cannot play the same agents.

• In ranked nothing will change.

Postplants where they have a veto interceptor placed will be op as most of the useful retake util gets cancelled, also I agree that we will see more instances of people saving than before. Hitting a side where the other team plays multiple tp agents will be horrible as you can play an off angle and get a pick and tp away. Also the op, judge will be way too strong.

This patch does not benefit most of the player base anyways. You will still have reyna,jett,clove instalockers at the same time with multiple agents able to tp away holding off angels will be way too op.

SRG are the fnatic of GC. All we need is Mel break dancing after every win like boaster.

• Util dump : A game based around util will always have the RNG aspect of one player will util dumped more than the others.

With the new update you will still be in situations where you are holding down a site but you get omen paranoia, breach stun, neon stun, reyna flash etc.
In pro plays you will still see rounds where you have multiple ultimates used together like harbor,brimstone,raze combo etc

Util nerf and an agent that destroys whatever limited util you have, don't know how it will work out. On top of that holding an angle on LAN will be op with veto/chamber/yoru etc. More people will be abusing the judge, shorty, op and odin.

-With all the changes we should ask does this update change how you play ranked : NOPE
Instalockers and baiters are gonna be eating good. Every game you will have someone with no coms and griefing you for no reason.

At the very least abyss might be playable finally, postplants will be less op and you can consistently get multikills with spray transfer (The best aspect of cs:go).

Also FNS, these 2 guys killed the game.

In pro play the new meta will be chamber, yoru, sova, omen and veto. Everyone tping everywhere. All the maps will be ultra defense sided other than 3 bombsite ones.GG

People have not realized that ranked will literally be unplayable now. Everyone insta locking duelist and running it down. If this is what you wanted then you should play CS instead.

1-3 YFPX

Every instalock duelist is not getting nerfed. Ranked officially dead

The fact that they listen to FNS who has nevers plays comp is mind blowing. Also Tenz who hates everyone insta lock duelists will have a field day with this update. He thinks ranked is braindead now well he is not prepared for what's to come.

Well Ig you don't play ranked, now you will have 5 baiting instalock duelists. Why will anyone play anything other than reyna,jett,clove,iso/waylay/yoru,chamber. If you think ranked is bad now oh boy after 11.08 it will be unplayable.

Well the devs have decided that valorant needs to die asap. The new patch has officially killed ranked everyone insta locking duelist and running it down and in 1 year all the player base will have moved on.

The Devs at the very least don't give 2 s**t about what goes on in ranked just play duelist and swing on defense and bait each other during attack.

Something will still be cooking on yoru as the best part about playing yoru is cross map impact. The ultimate now needs to be layered in pro play to get max impact.

Everyone is insta locking duelist now.

Unless they heavily nerf judge, odin, jumping shorty/bucky kills all this fuss about precise gunplay by nerfing util is bs.

Insta lock reyna,jett,clove,iso,chamber/veto/yoru . You kill inits and senti and give instalockers more opportunity to be toxic lets gooo. Have fun with jett dashing in with judge, iso swinging with odin, chamber oping and tping away. GG ya'll it was fun while it lasted.

Loud should not sign botzin

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Rather see new folks deserving a shot at T1 who have been grinding day in day out. If EG is making changes that means everyone should seriously consider T2 talent. We have seen Demon1's peak and probably he will never reach it again.

The success skuba,brawk, mada hyungmin, sato, oke, kaajak, verno etc had just shows we need new T2 talent to rejuvenate the scene instead of hoping for the promise that Demon1 will ever reach the same heights again.

This is not 2023 as team synergy is king look at NRG's run at champs they did it based on how well the team meshed together. Aspas broke Bo3 kill record and still lost. I don't see him being able to bring 100% in a team enviroment. Good aim will not get you win alone.

We don't need Demon1 in NA T1 lets get some T2 talent instead please.

Personally just like everyone I also overreacted after the leaks but playing the agent, this will never be op in ranked. His tp is the worst in the game so you cannot play aggressive op angels on every map. The interceptor although op you cannot really have setups which give you tons of value on any map and once a jett/neon is in the site you can easily destroy it. The ultimate is the only broken ability and unless you are dropping a 30 bomb every game you won’t get a lot out of it.

Oh I am sure we will get one at some point.

No util 5v5 deathmatch on site just play CS at that point.

The only way zellsis survive another year is if john leaves for eu and he is forced to igl as he was mid rounding previously anyways.

Well its gonna be cancer to play against. Every map will be defense sided and its gonna be a 5v5 deathmatch on every site.

Yoru, waylay , chamber, omen, veto.

I gurantee that you will see time to time yoru/waylay , omen, chamber and veto as a comp and everyone is tping everywhere gg have fun.

Most likely at lower ranks people are gonna be placing it near chokes and at that point you get the sound cue from 20m range.