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Mainly the breach and omen, he was a duelist main prior to going to KC and even then he really only played gekko and fade for them

I SECOND

It's all the role swaps, n4rrate is clearly not comfortable and it's fucking with his gameplay.

I see the sen flairs celebrating then when we lose, all the flairs come out

that makes sense, they struggle to be objective when it comes to their team. Aren't alot of fans like that? I guess the sen flairs tend to be the loudest in NA

but our team has been shit outside of last year, let us cope a tiny bit LUL

chaotic neutral

but you know, I'm cool right? I'm just a chill guy

Whenever I "lose" faith, the team more than likely wins. When it comes to normal sports or esports, whenever I'm happy we lose, idk why.

So I try to reduce voodoo that shiii LOL

Genuinely asking, the amount of engagement when sen lose vs win on this site is crazy

Are we the lakers of valorant? Only fans to root for sen are sen fans

EDIT: In conclusion, all the sen flairs are fucking it up. We gotta tighten up and be "little brother" annoying at most LUL

its all good, lower bracket we go. G2 better team today

respect to g2, y'all are insane

time for lower bracket

I just don't believe this is a year of "meta" comps, you can genuinely surprise teams as I think so many things feel viable. Try to make valyn make adjustments on the fly

I love how they are basically perma-deadlock

It worked for a moment, like their reyna on both bind and ascent, but the issue is that its very gimmicking. When a team figures you out, you change it but they didn't. I genuinely believe that every team should have different comps on maps that play differently

Why don't teams run a gimmick one and done comp more often? If a team has a weird comp, in this case yoru and chamber on abyss, and are extremely good at it. Why would you run the "meta" comp against them, especially when you had a week to prep?

G2 had no demos on sen for abyss, this your chance to surprise them and you bring a comp that G2 has guaranteed scrimmed 100 times over. I just don't get it, is it THAT hard to create a comp that works?

:(((((

why are we so bad at them???? breeze, ascent, abyss, haven (until we switched to neon)

he's too good to be on any team, he's laughing while shitting on everyone.

put him back on c9, where he tries to solo carry again

lower bracket we go

The only argument you can MAYBE really make is they haven't played that strong of teams in c9 and lev, but even then their form is too good rn to not pick them. However, I do think it'll be closer than what people think just bc sen have better mechanics compared to c9/lev

TL have a shot but they giga troll sometimes so its hard to really back them, FUT seems more stable

SEN vs G2 - 30/70 G2
MIBR vs KRU - 50/50
T1 vs DRX - 40/60 DRX
TALON vs GenG - 25/75 GenG
TH vs VIT - 50/50
FUT vs TL - 85/15 FUT

Remaining Games
SEN vs G2 - 20/80 G2
TH vs TL - 60/40 TH
T1 vs DRX - 25/75 DRX
VIT vs Winner - 95/5 VIT

thats actually insane

Alex from wizards (selena gomez)
Gabriella from hsm (Vanessa Hudgens)
Cat from victorious (Ariana Grande)

^^^^

The past is the past and none of this matters anymore, although yes, he was given opportunities I felt like they weren't fair opportunities. During 23' League play, foxy was playing well on the duelist but dumped off after the PRX playoff loss, then dumped off again after the EG loss, resulting him not playing for the rest of the year. In 24' they took him off full time senti and given it to flashback (which is understandable) then dumping stax and making foxy play those roles (historically he hasn't been great at), and yet people still expected great performances out of him. How is it fair to have high expectations for someone when you keep changing their role? Not everyone is flexible or a flex player

I'm just saying this bc I'm a believer in foxy9 and his mechanical ceiling. I think he can be a great player with correct coaching. I just believe termi didn't manage him properly

I'm talking specifically about the 2023 roster, they would scrim with foxy9 but they would drag him out whenever the going got tough, how are you supposed to build confidence as a player that way? Then in 2024, when he was on full time senti, he was playing at his personal high, then was converted into a flex player with alot of initiator work, which resulted in his level dropping. I'm not saying he's like this all time player and should've stayed on the team but they haven't managed him well at all especially when trying to develop him.

Zest got no scrim time the entire year but was chucked into the most important matches and was still expected to produce results.

Then benched both rb and zest after AVL in December when champs ended in August giving them no chance to find/trial for another roster.

the 11-3 was too good

2022 FPX vs DRX Champions
2021 SEN vs FNC (First masters bias ofc)
2024 EDG vs TH Champions
2022 PRX vs G2 Reykjavík

Some of my favorites off the top of my head

The number of small mistakes that they were making was large which is not something that is normal for an FNS ran team.

DRX, they did RB/Zest/Foxy9 dirty so I pray on their downfall everytime

FNS is truly feeling the loss of crashies and victor. Yes Yes, they aren't the top players anymore however, its clear that they brought alot of help in the macro part of the game and rarely made bad individual plays. I mean look at boaster with crashies, the calling looks better and boaster is shooting back now. Even for FNS's standards, -30 is unacceptable. I'm assuming Ethan brings the same value as them but they brought alot of stability

Also Mada is the only bright spot of this roster so far. Verno needs a gear shift along with Ethan

That team had

nAts
Chronicle
d3ffo
Redgar
sheydos

If you play well, you get clout. More eyes = more try

Lets see what happens when spike comes back, one duelist can change it all

LOUD surprised me the most, I wasn't a believer in dgz and vinny's calling.

I seriously underestimated SA, yall are goated

Damn, predicted both games wrong today, ggs to LEV and LOUD

This perfect for aspas, second man in

they can suck him off (the bomb)

Yeah geng lost alot with meteor's aggressive lurks, and lakia's impact is very similar to sacy's, alot of midrounding and good util. I thought yoman would help makeup for that loss (Lakia) but its probably too early to be that harsh on them.

I trust sliggy's judgement bc he watches every game. I tend to agree just due to the lack of high level mid-rounding IGL's. Outside of munchkin/geng's success, there hasn't been one and I'm a firm believer in that is how you win, set/fast strats only get you so far.

I haven't watched every game, but Geng/PRX seem to be playing at a lower level. However, the bottom of the pack has leveled up so the average of the region got stronger, just not the top teams in pacific. This is my "gold level" take

I used to watch live/vods of every team, now I really only watch sen games or occasionally what sliggy is watching. I don't think I could tell you who is on half of the teams

How i missed the triple initiator and chamber comps. I stand by this, 2022 best year of valorant to date

They should get another IGL, idk if cloud is cut out for it

3. I've seen alot of people down on T1, and don't rate stax too well
4. Now thinking about it, outside of PRX, there really isn't much
5. Also people are quite down on NA teams outside of sen and G2

1. VIT won't win an international event this year, sayf's calling will crumble in high pressure moments along with kicks
2. EDG will be the first org to win a Master's and Champions
3. Stax will win his first master's this year
4. Champion's will have all korean teams from pacific, nongshim, T1, Geng, and DRX
5. NA teams will dominate America's all year round

Its crazy how an initiator, who's job is to setup the team doesn't have a cooldown ability