i think they need to get a proper igl and experienced players. can PTC be an igl tho? and sScary might be a good addition too if he's not washed (i heard he got dropped and i didn't watch his matches in china).

so the roster would be like this:
primmie
killua
JitboyS
PTC (igl)
sScary/Leviathan

i mean i tend to see barely everyone look to FS coming to this year as an aimer team (everyone can aim, after crws dropped as a player to become their coach) not just "primmie go kill" team. but the fact is this team still need primmie to pop off so hard to win the match.

i think everyone might notice this as well. i see the patterns in 2026 that FS's winning condition is if primmie is having a life game. if primmie is having a bad day or getting shut down by the enemy (not necessarily bottom frag, but simply not popping off), FS will likely lose the match.
i mean i get it primmie is a great great player but FS need to reduce their dependency on primmie no? thoughts?

FS's winning matches:
https://www.vlr.gg/595631/zeta-division-vs-full-sense-vct-2026-pacific-kickoff-ur1
https://www.vlr.gg/595635/drx-vs-full-sense-vct-2026-pacific-kickoff-ur2

FS's losing matches:
https://www.vlr.gg/595638/nongshim-redforce-vs-full-sense-vct-2026-pacific-kickoff-ur3
https://www.vlr.gg/595647/full-sense-vs-detonation-focusme-vct-2026-pacific-kickoff-mr3 (today's match)

just saw lots of comments that favoring MOTIV over BOOM before the match. but why tho? i didnt watch T2 SEA, was MOTIV THAT good? no offense but BOOM were once 5-0 in T1, although they were disappointing in stage 2, but that's still in T1 tho. i mean the fact that BOOM destroyed MOTIV just now is expected for me tho, isn't it weird? no, right?

EMEA and CN shouldn't be that boring no? they got a new team to qual for intl. EMEA got BBL/GX, and CN has DRG. i'm excited to see them in champs.

i agree with you. atleast for now, i feel like PRX is still a better team than RRQ. but in this thread i'm not talking about which PRX or RRQ are better, here i'm just talking the gap between these two teams and the rest of pacific teams that i felt kinda huge and reminding me when pacific is just about PRX and DRX in 2023.

T1 have my trust again after their stage 1 disaster
DRX are okay, just -estrella +francis for the igl asap
TLN are my fav this stage, they're the team with the highest potential in pacific for me and could've won the whole thing, but why choke :((

but feels like, atleast for the last two stages, PRX & RRQ just playing around with them, that's just how i felt.

i mean they won stage 1 and now reach the grand final. and from what i knew, the players have visa issues, especially crazyguy that just left for tokyo last night, so they didn't have much prep for this match, and somehow they still won even when it doesn't matter anymore cause they already qual for champs. that's just insane for me.

with how strong PRX and RRQ than the rest in pacific, atleast for stage 1 & 2, is pacific slowly turning back into 2 teams region like 2023 when it's just about PRX & DRX?

fr tho, it's all about that one point. i really wanna see them in paris, but RRQ looks unstoppable rn, i don't think they can win against RRQ. RRQ, however, can do the funniest thing by losing to them to be the ultimate korean slayers lmao.

this team looks solid ngl. yes, toronto was horrendous, but it was because sudden meta change and it's their first time on intl tourney. i don't think it'll be all over again. i have high expectations for them in paris. wdyt about them as apac rep in paris?

DRX can get Francis to replace Estrella, since he's the igl of NS and can shoot. it'll be a career upgrade for him as well to be in a franchised team, and maybe that'll make the transfer easier.

for GEN, idk man their roster looks good to me. if it's about mental, then get a performance coach real quick.

since they're officially back to ascension this year, do you think they'll make a comeback to pacific next year?

the key is on DFM. if they reach top 4 this playoff it's a byebye for BOOM.

talon were expected to win tho it's not an upset

thailand = primmie (duel)
indonesia = f0rsaken (cont)
mysg = d4v41 (sent)
philippines = patmen (init)
vietnam = crazyguy (init/igl)

cause mako himself doesn't wanna be an igl i guess. he just wants to put smokes and shoot. so the igl role is given to estrella, since he was the igl of rrq.

https://x.com/DFM_VALORANT/status/1945423420600312304?t=9ln6-ceVHm3g0f8c3fCgPg&s=19

SSeeS replacing Art in the starting roster, so DFM ftw now? and who's gonna be the igl btw?

jemkin

you've been answered in this following thread (your own thread) -> https://www.vlr.gg/488413/who-is-prx-new-assistant-coach/#20 yet you keep asking the same question lol

and, someone else with the same name as you? LMAO https://www.vlr.gg/user/YTM4rble12 it is you brother.

why are you insisting prx is in ewc when one of the VLR guys already told you in the previous thread

convincing win against GENG in the final, everybody wakes up (not only jemkin, even tho he's still on top of the leaderboard), their fundamental is getting better and better, high expectations for them in toronto. GG

i'm not a fan of their current fundamental. but somehow they beat T1, DRX, and stop the PRX train. if they fix their fundamental, they'll be the real deal. ggs to them tho. W RRQ

• overpeeking (not waiting for the flash, etc)
• questionable decision-making (late to drop the rocket, etc)
• holding a knife at the wrong time, making him die silly

ppl always saying that he's a good good player and one of the best rookie in pac, but seeing him like this makes me wondering, has he always been like this?

if BOOM have fixed their issues and have the same confidence, even better, like they had in the group stage, i think they're gonna win tomorrow and the match after that, and eventually qualify to toronto as APAC 3rd seed.

NS have been stagnant since their win in ascension, while BOOM improved a lot defeating big teams like GEN, DRX, and washed PRX as well in the group stage and eventually went undefeated. So I think BOOM would win this.

t3xture (duelist)
meteor (sentinel)
munchkin (flex/igl)
karon (controller)
free1ng (initiator)
izu (flex/sub)
coach: solo

they're the first team who breaks the first seed curse no?

boom, all you need to do is let t3xture gets the ace and you'll be fine.

damn tomorrow gonna be a banger. indo was dominating in group stage, but will they do the same in playoffs? that's the question.

my brain says drx, but my heart says rrq. it's gonna be hard for them, but i hope they win this.

bro, morocco is part of africa...

dfm are not even a mid team man, they're a bad team, horrible. and the fact that prx struggled to win against a bad team is something that i wouldn't have expected years ago, even months ago. they need to play more disciplined and less hero play. the players have to learn how to properly play agents that they wanna play.

this ranking looks valid. boom and drx are the only teams that plays good valorant in pacific so far. i'm not sure with rrq and t1 tho, i'm still kinda dissapointed with some of their gameplay, but i think there's no other team that can fills that spot beside rrq and t1, maybe geng. i have no comments toward ns, talon, zeta, they're mid af, but i still have hope for ns. rest are bad, just bad.

t1 surely is not that low no? also rrq and geng seem too high for me but idk. upper mid teams in pacific is hard to rank.

boom is looking good right now, while rrq look shaky, not too convincing for me. so i'll pick boom for now.

yeah he's always like that lol

what i like about boom is this team isn't one man team even tho famouz always on top of leaderboard and dos9 is a game changer. it's like all 5 players of boom are hella good damn.

bro boom just beat geng with a clean 2-0 with geng still have 3 players who won less than a year ago as you said + same coaching staff. boom also destroyed ge and beat prx, making them 1 out of 3 teams that still on a cleansheet as of now, also become the first team who qualify to playoffs. those are enough for me to make an argument that boom should be higher and geng should be lower in that tier, atleast for now.

i'm kinda disagree with this ranking especially for pacific teams. boom is better than geng so geng should be swapped with boom. prx and ge are not looking good so they should be on "wtf is goin on" tier. just because ts could take a map against t1, that doesn't mean they're above zeta, in fact they lost to zeta 2-0 tho so zeta should be above ts.

i just watched one of vct pacific videos where jinboong is in there alongside stax, crws, and jinggg. why does he speak japanese even tho he's korean? i mean he could speak whatever language he's fluent in, but people tend to use their mother tongue when speaking. was he raised in japan or smth? just curious tho hehee

indo and thai are always much better than ph in fps

his current performance against ge makes me more convinced that language barrier is his problem during his rrq tenure.

i'd put geng and rrq the same tier as talon and ns, the rest are fine.

look at his username and flag, you'll know it

from 3 matches that boom have played, famouz got 2 mvps while dos9 just have 1. but from what u said it looks like dos9 has been solely hard carrying an indo team, which is not true. don't get me wrong, dos9 is a beast tho.

i found a fun fact of upper mid teams in pacific (NS, RRQ, TLN)
the results that we've had of these teams in stage 1 :
NS 2-1 RRQ
RRQ 2-0 TLN
TLN 2-1 NS
so it's NS > RRQ > TLN > NS > RRQ > TLN > repeat (infinite loop) lmao

monyet and xffero are too inconsistent. it would be good i think if they replace them with f0rsaken and mindfreak.

i think PRX main problem is all of their players except f0rsaken have limited agent pool. so when they played particular agents beside their mains, they couldn't maximize those agents to the fullest potential. their agents depths are too shallow. any thoughts?

idk it's yay's fault or no but bleed surely is the problem. that org is shit af