his flexibility is one factor; he has shown he can play almost every duelist with a good level, except maybe his jett who isnt this great and might be his worst agent (somehow hes the opposite of a jett one trick lol). he has really good entry stats and plays, never overheats and wait for util timings and combos, consistently takes good space for the team, and also sometimes pulls flashy plays to flex. i guess his awping could be better? but idk what you could possibly want more from him

and theres just no one else in his level. zekken and aspas are the others on my top 3. you can say cryo but cryo is a certified baiter + can't play main solo duelist and entry if his life depends on it (only on jett). keznit still crumbles a bit on key moments. mada have shown potential but might need a better team. the rest is the rest

jawgemo is easily a top 3 duelist. very easily. insane how people still underrate him

What? Nagzet played VCT before and he was pretty mid to bad

not reading all that sorry. im happy for you tho. or sad that it happened idk

i dont play valorant anymore, when i used to play it would get close to 120fps i think, it was fine, need a GPU for other games and stuff

atm i only need a more updated gpu but a decent one (not even an up-to-date but only decent) is like 5x my current wage here lol br moment

just heard about it so put it in but i dont think they are changing at all

he might have had a personal thing and was unable to scrim with them that time so kess completed. no big deal happens all the time

niceeee
i've been wanting to upgrade mine which is already very outdated. sadly dont have a lot of money rn, maybe in the future

i think this might be my favorite lev move since aspas tbh. very excited to see oke and sato on stage. specially sato, he deserves this chance a lot. also very curious to know how was the negotiation

"we only had 7 days to prepare" EWC moment

Duelist - Initiator - Flex - Controller - Sentinel

G2 (No changes):
jawgemo - Trent - JonahP - valyn - Leaf

Sentinels (No changes):
zekken - n4rrate - JohnQT - bang - Zellsis

MIBR: (No changes):

aspas - Verno - artzin - xenom - Cortezia

EG (Potential changes):

(-icy) - Derrek - (-NaturE) - supamen - yay
*Apparently trialed Stellar and vora, considering roster changes

100Thieves: (No Changes)

Cryocells - eeiu - Asuna - zander - Boostio

Krü: (Potential changes):

keznit - adverso - Mazino - Melser - Shyy - (+Mwzera)
*Approached Furia for Mwzera but haven't made an offer; Unclear if they want to replace anyone

NRG: (Confirmed changes)

mada - brawk - Ethan - s0m - skuba
(-FNS)

Cloud9: (No changes)

OXY - mitch - Xeppaa - v1c - neT

2G: (Confirmed/Potencial changes)

silentzz - spike - (+Pryze) - lz - gobera
(-PxS) (-Askia)
*jayp completing for EWC qualifiers

Leviatán: (Potential changes)

(+Sato) - C0M - (+Okeanos) - kiNgg - tex
(-Demon1) (-Rossy)

LOUD: (Confirmed/Potential changes)

(+Virtyy) - cauanzin - (+RobbieBK) - pAncada - lukxo
(-dgzin) (-tuyz) (-v1nny)
*Not playing EWC qualifiers

Furia: (Confirmed/Potential changes)

(+Palla) - (+basic) - (+Urango) - (+tuyz) - heat
(-havoc) (-raafa) (-Pryze) (-Mwzera) (-Khalil)
*Loss likely completing for EWC qualifiers

Is Chronicle COPING or confused?
posted in General Discussion
On a Interview, he said something along the lines of "Riot is owned by American companies so it makes sense they give their teams more time to have more American winners". I think there's some truth and come straight COPE. It is true that Leo Faria is Brazillian therefore I don't think it's crazy to assume he might have some bias for brazil teams. BUT it is also true that CHINA owns 100% of RIOT GAMES (i think lol). You can make the argument that china and americas ended at the same time but you also have to consider that PACIFIC end only 7 DAYS after the other 2 so you can't really make the argument that Riot favors americas by looking at the fact that the end on the same day as china and they have 7 more days than pacific.

TORONTO
I think you are smoking if you think Riot favors Americas bc they hosted an event in NA. Yes this means that AMER teams have less to deal with when traveling and practicing but this would only ever be the THIRD instance of Americas teams having that luxury since VCT began (Brazil LOCK IN, CHAMPS LA and MASTERS Toronto) which is almost the same with PACIFIC so you can't say that RIOT favor americas when the have hosted as many events as PACIFIC and especially when EMEA has hosted around 7 international events

CONCLUSION
I think Chronicle's statements sound like straight cope BUT I don't think it's totally invalid for feeling that way. Instead of claiming that Riot wants more americas teams winning because they are owned by american businesses (which they're not). He should've said that Riot REALLY didn't favor EMEA for Toronto and the scheduling should really be put into question for why EMEA needed to get such a big disadvantage when CHINA, AMERICAS and Pacific 2-3 weeks more to prepare for Toronto.

#MVGA #MAKEVLRGREATAGAIN

think im gonna go with 24 heretics here cause envy squad best version was with optic (who sadly already got eliminated)

i think they meant the future of saudi economy is reliant on the PR itself

"Jon141 where are you" Chronicle probably

its not like the games are that much high quality today. even with more time top teams still have a huge gap to mid-tier teams on valorant. as an example, FUT has been incredibly stagnant for years now. with some exceptions of teams who got better we always have the same teams on middle to bottom of the table

top teams would still close out quick against mid teams like they already do. mid teams would have more games to play and develop. i dont think they should play three matches a day either but having more a-b tier tournaments for the scene its not bad at all

if they keep the same number and furia gets dropped theyre getting another BR org. they'il never replace a BR/LATAM org with an NA one unless the NA one has a BR/LATAM project

atp 2G will get the spot for 26 and be promoted to fixed in 27 with reevaluation

tejo nerf = cauanzin back in scan = loud winning champs 25 trust me

furia will be mid but better than last split

Envy team is too young and onliner for ascension. TSM needs consistency to have a shot. Winthrop could also sneak in, but i don't think they would be contenders

Will have to see how BR teams perform for Stage 2 but things seem weird to us, and LATAM is a bit untrustworthy

Atm i'm very inclined to guess 2G is classifying to playoffs and keeping their ascension spot

probably because their ascension project is gone, they likely don't wanna hold the players, got the payment and will end up leaving on a good note instead of trying to rush another project since they basically only have one split left

idk about picking opponents but first seed skipping groups is a masters thing since at least 22 i think

NEON is igling? lmaoooooo wtf is this team

aí realmente não dá pra defender

2 americas finals in a row tho

Fnatic are OVERRATED and Boaster is the BIGGEST FRAUD in Tier 1 Valorant – prove me wrong.

Seriously, how long are people going to pretend Fnatic are a top team? They’re still living off one good patch and a meta where their cheese strats actually worked. Boaster isn’t an IGL – he’s a TikTok comedian who happens to play Valorant. His calls are mid, his aim is worse, and the team looks absolutely lost the second they can’t run a pre-planned exec.

And yeah, I know you’re gonna bring up Tokyo – but that was their peak, and even then they looked shaky on multiple maps. Their map pool is embarrassing, and anyone still calling Alfajer "the best sentinel in the world" is just watching Twitter clips instead of actual matches.

Meanwhile, Paper Rex are running circles around them with a duelist on initiator – that alone should tell you how far behind Fnatic really are.

Call me toxic – but someone’s gotta say it.

i watched the video brother he literally says he dont think G2 will hold that well without tejo and that they are overrated bums

yes i think

pelo que o guerri deu a entender no twitter precisa ser jogado no NA apesar de ser online

como assim? MIBR não mudou e a 2G praticamente não mudou nada (e o que mudou foi um cara que já tava lá nos EUA)

pro robbie como europeu e bem mais rapido e facil de fazer o visto

Não é assim que funciona, EUA tá aumentando a dificuldade pra imigrantes gerais. O próprio JohnQT teve problema de visto em 2024 também, a galera do EMEA também enfrenta problemas internos, etc. De qualquer jeito ainda demoraria um pouco e eles ficariam marolando nos EUA sem poder treinar, não faz sentido de um ponto de vista financeiro da empresa ficar sustentando

yes but if they do feel more comfortable with non-tejo comps the transition will be better specially since they have 1 month to prepare for masters
ascent was getting comp diffed by G2 with an outdated comp + 1 of the losses was with tejo (furia loss was valid tho)
sen criticism is valid tho

vou fazer o advogado do diabo e falar que a loud tava refazendo o elenco e todo mundo (menos pancada e lukxo) tavam em perigo, o dg inclusive saiu de ultima hora, n fazia sentido até financeiramente deixar eles em los angeles coçando o saco visto que eles ainda tavam definindo o time e teria que fazer o visto das reposições ainda de qlqr jeito

counterpoint: mibr seems to work better with non-tejo comps (100% WR on icebox without tejo). Sen doesn't seem so bad either overall (3-2 on their non-tejo map Haven, 3-1 with their current comp). G2 is the team 100% reliant on tejo but they can adapt well with the time

this wouldnt happen if they could close a fucking map lol literally skill issue

Mr Choke-On-Finals strike again
give me fuel give me fire
give me 2nd place or i'il retire
whats with TH players feeling the need to shittalk everyone suddenly lol

skill issue you should aim to be better always (the format is awful tho but it is something)

not on occasion but they lost four times and all four times only a single player was not negative so its kind of a pattern for them atp

malibu gc
less vs aspas/sacy
mibr stealing val money for cs
canezerra and okeanos allegations
brazil lockin crowd

gonna go against the current and say i think this tourney is good. politics aside (i have my opinions) its good to have a 4th international mid season not organized by riot. maybe this will make them rethink the idea of a 100% closed circuit

nice argument unfortunately every final they play the entire team gets negative except for woot in emea stage 2 2024

similar to mibr last year
mid for split 2, can be better with more time
just hope they dont throw it all away and trust the process

i still remember him... prime heat initiator

maybe keznit is still having injury problems? idk i dont like this move either

ngl i dont think this is good for the team either who would they even drop

i guess they're considering dropping adverso so Mwzera can go main Initiator but i dont think this would be a good move

KRU contacted Furia for informations about a possible Mwzera transfer: https://www.thespike.gg/br/valorant/news/kru-mwzera-furia/6165

Besides Furia allowing them to contact the player directly, they didn't do yet and likely won't at all, but this points out they're considering roster moves

KRU fans, do you know anything about this?

if they drop tex im rioting

how is this even a discussion
how are people even saying TH lulz
its loud and its not even close

the only one who could even be arguable on individual level is riens
every single other criteria tends for loud