I gotcha, but yeah Reduxx has played senti in the past that's probably why he isn't on it right now. It makes more sense to let him play controller and learn it a bit since it's not a role he's played much of.

Sorry didn't mean to come off passive aggressive lol

You realize it's an academy team right? The entire point is to learn? Let them try stuff out it's the entire point of having an academy team. I'm sure they'll switch things up again.

Bro just let him learn a bit lmao he just swapped to controller

Duelist main to smokes makes more sense. He can be aggro on Omen. Smoke players to Senti is also very common and Skuba has looked good on it so far.

Shopify and M80 for sure. Shopify has unlimited money and M80 has proven they are dedicated to Valorant, they are also a smaller org so they focus heavy on the teams they have.

Facts, Reduxx is good but Bang at his peak is the best smoker in NA.

I think they're letting him practice any role he wants. It's not 100% he goes to SEN next year, he is also trialing for other franchise teams, showing he's versatile is important.

I agree with everything you're saying. I'm not sure he understands how academy teams work. If you end up winning it's a plus but not the main objective at all. As long as the players are developing everything is going as planned. Reduxx looked good on duelist and Nightz looked good on senti towards the end of last split. Them switching up the roles to hopefully become more versatile is good for them (which helps them out when trialing in the future).

Unemployment final boss

Yeah when the team was announced they said the point of the team is to develop younger talent and help players get signed. They are helping Nightz, Reduxx develop while letting Skuba and NiSMO showcase themselves to franchise teams for next year.

Probably as a watch party streamer if anything he's giga washed as a pro

Does that shit say 13790 posts in less than 2 years?

The roster has a 16yo who is in his first season playing structured Valorant while learning multiple roles, and tdawgg who has never had serious success as an IGL, QoR was arguably the worst team in Challengers last year and TSM has gotten better since he left. Reduxx, NiSMO, and Skuba are solid. Nightz will get better overtime but needs time to develop. They also have a first time head coach idk how someones expectations for this team were Top 1-2

I think your expectations for this roster are way higher than the normal viewer lol

They got 4th in the last playoffs and are an academy team? How are they anything like NRG

Tdwagg went +7 and 59 kills in the BO3 vs Envy then went back to putting up -15 stat lines every series since lmao

Yikes man, thanks for finding that btw

yeah it seems like that's what it is, I saw a few people saying the word swallow lol

what did he say

No he needs a few years of G2 keeping this dominance with multiple international trophies to become the GOAT

LaMelo holds the Hornets back because he's always injured. He's only played more than 50 games 2 times in his 5 year career (his rookie year and his 2nd year) 😔. My question is, who's the Cam Thomas of Valorant? Gets their stats but only does that and doesn't have much impact on winning.

No team with ange1 is winning champs

Nope

Surely there is a Tier 2 duelist who is better than 2025 cNed

-KOI +FOKUS (not the roster but the org)

Absolute slop fest incoming

Kaajak diffed Derke last week lmao

Easy target

It was never going to work on NRG. Verno is given the chance to co-IGL on MIBR and I don't think that would have ever would have happened on NRG with FNS, s0m, Ethan, Mada who are all VERY talkative players. Verno was always going to be overpowered in his calling on NRG and not given the chance to reach his potential or play his game. On MIBR he is given the chance to play how he played on OXG and I think it will help him as his career progresses. He also seems to be more comfortable outside of the game with the guys on MIBR more than NRG even if he's still an awkward introvert.

He was very good in 2023 but the last 2 years he's fallen off a cliff. He seriously needs to hang up IGLing and return to NA tier 2.

The perfect secret agent. Went to EMEA and somehow made KOI worse. Can't frag or IGL just complete ass. Thank you for your service 🫡

Hiko

I was wrong, he trialed for LEV a few years ago but for some reason I got him confused with liazzi

oh ok my bad let me edit my comment sorry

Who was the player from BR who had Pedo allegations in the past who everyone got pissed about being picked up

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He's dying a lot on Lotus right now as well

I really wanted s0m to replace TenZ. It felt like the perfect replacement for TenZ role and personality wise but he refuses to leave FNS's side.

I'm probably going to be downvoted into oblivion and not saying it's good that he got shamed but you kind of have to expect that to happen when you date someone who makes content like that. All of that stuff was pretty well known for a while.

People are going to say Chet/Victor but if Sato performs today they win and I wasn't even a fan of dropping Bdog and picking up Chet/Victor. I really like Sato and think he has a lot of potential but it's really that simple.

idk if anything he's always come off as egotistical to me but maybe that's just a bit he does

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I'm so ready for FNS to retire, don't really watch his streams but I'm sure people more people want him as a streamer at this point than a player. Sucks that s0m refuses to play without him he's a great talent who will probably go down as one of the biggest 'What If's" in Valorant history.

Screwface is overrated
edit: didn't get the sarcasm at first move along.

I don't think it means anything bang has been playing great this year. He probably is just trying out different roles since he's basically openly auditioning for teams to sign him next year and wants to show his flexibility.

I hope so as well. I'm very much looking forward to FNS moving on as an NA fan (I got the MIBR flag bc of Verno and love the vibes of the MIBR guys in general). It's why I got a bit annoyed when Victor and Chet were picked up for M80 because Bdog was an up and coming player just to be replaced by a guy who was in T1 for YEARS.

Brazil has so much talent as well it's annoyed me how long guys like Khalil have stuck around on FURIA when there is obviously upgrades out there.

Thank you, that's very fair. I feel the same exact way about the players in NA.

Another year of Asuna 🔥

DRX/Vision Strikers in terms of in game strategies