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30/18 isn't eating. I want your diet.
I get what you're saying. He's been cooking because he's not being hard held to operator or relegated to an island. I don't even think we have any true operator players in the league anymore. I even think Aspas sort of doomed his team when they were forcing him on the operator in their loss to g2.
Cryo has been eating all season:
Mandela effect. I would rather see him on Tejo as the ability usage more resembles Brimstone. When you put Demon1 on duelist and you don't have a more aggressive duelist he can play behind, you get NRG Demon1.
He is not a 50/50 dueler like Cryo or your t2 superstars. He works best in situations where he is given time to allow his aim lock in. Most of his highlights outside of Jett knives are based around him getting more time due to his teammates adequately pulling threat away from him.
So if you want to see a return to form of Demon1, you need to put him in a roll like Tejo or Brimstone. These agents let him set and go. Even Omen would not fall under this category due to him having a responsibility with the blind.
Optimal Demon1 use is on a set and forget agent where Demon1 is the 2nd or 3rd person into the site. Where the first person's job, THEIR ONLY JOB, is to get as deep into site as possible and let Demon1 feast off your sacrifice.
People just look at the flashy blast pack plays and think that is top tier Raze.
Raze's kit is more for dislodging people from hard to reach places. Her nade being longer distances and her blast pack shorter distances. Her ultimate is literally the ultimate cubby check. Her blast pack can destroy sentinel utility. The best Raze players in VCT do not fly in for less than 50-50 fights. Those players end up with 50% win rates on entries. The best ones use the utility in efficient ways or not at all when the problems are not presented.
At the end of the day, Raze literally means destruction not flight attendant at Phoon Airlines.
Icebox was released on October 13, 2020 as part of Valorant's Episode 1, Act 3 update. The map is set in Bennett Island, Sakha, Russia, featuring a snowy port environment.
But its AceGamer30... Go to bed GB.
Didn't read Haven... Didn't read Icebox... lost 9 rounds on defense. Pretending like this is a W is crazy cope.
We will always welcome you back with open arms fam. o7
They would have lost on ICEBOX and HAVEN. There would have been legendary memes.
There are counters to Tejo. There are counters to all the things they are doing. However, due to people not willing to try things at the expense of being made fun of by the community, we are going to continue to see this until Riot nerfs it. That's the world we live in. Very clear answers to our problems yet seems beyond the capabilities of even super humans.
Riot cares about Reddit. Well known fact.
That's an embarrassing assumption you're making.
You know change is hard to look in the face. Teams are getting blown out and it's the players. I don't support dishonesty. I'm sorry you can't tell the difference yet. But there is going to come a time when it will be undeniable that coaching and the way people are thinking currently about the game, is wrong. You won't say you're sorry. You'll just go about your day.
Being a part of something and contributing are two different things. Sometimes people can't tell the difference. We live in a weird society where merit is assigned out away from the people who did the actual work. CEO gets credit when a company does well. A coach is forever the greatest coach ever because of some things that happened a long time ago.
I'll take these little aggressive, angry, you need to get it out of your system attacks. I'll be the communities Batman. It doesn't matter how mad you're at me, I'll root for you. Root for better games. Root for people waking up that maybe the world isn't how it is portrayed.
Whatever dude. I got you.
Where do I apply?
Easy hate narratives are vlr's bread and butter.
People losing their minds trying to figure me out.
Yeah! That guy is full of it. He's terrible. He made fun of my fawoite coach!
The quote is literally the coaching's worlds "Project A is our character-based tactical shooter. It's competitive, it has precise gun play."
The description was put there to balance the document. The funniest thing about that is that LLMs are trained on the responses from Reddit. That's why the self-own is so funny and why I can't get mad. That's communities description of Icebox :)
By my own admission? I gave them the benefit of the doubt to be knowers. The last great test of my hypothesis of cronyism.
And there was never a moment where they actually said they looked at it. That's the real crime. When I found that I didn't get a callback and they found people, I reached out to others. Similar stories. Pretending they did an actual call and that Zikz actually believed what he said in the quote, is crazy.
"We are looking for someone that exactly fits the system that we're trying to build at 100 Thieves. We believe that person could be someone that's not already deeply involved in the ecosystem and we wanted to be open to that possibility by making this an open call."
They found a t2 coach and a radiant player...
Come on man... Do you actually believe they went through all the applications if they found a t2 coach and a radiant player?
Pseudo-intellectual lost. Sad day. You'll get 'em next time champ!
Why are you pretending like you can read this :)
Okay, you want this to be constructive, right? I'll keep trying with you. It's weird you don't see my effort but okay...
If you agree with my stance on cronyism, then that presupposes your arguments about my experience. I hope you see that, right? That has to be our starting point. And so if the jobs are guarded, the closest anyone can get is as a player. The combination of characteristics needed to be a coach makes it extremely difficult to get into this position to be tested.
Obviously I'm not a professional player or in the t2 scene, but I'm old. You know how creepy it would be to try to get on a team as a player? To try to befriend a random 20 year old? You have to see that as almost impossible. Plus I have bills. Everything about the tier 2 scene cannot work with my current arrangement.
So both of my angles are blocked. You cannot apply for these jobs because I saw, those do not get responses. There's not a single person I've talked to about my situation who doesn't understand why I wouldn't have at least have got a "wtf is this" instead of nothing. Once again, you hit the nail on the head with the comment about the experience or clout. The purpose of the document being large was to make a splash. It did but with the wrong audience.
You have to also understand, that even at your level, you see a difference in your knowledge vs. the rest of the community. If you're smart enough to see the cronyism then you're smart enough to recognize that. So I hope that in that demonstration you can also see that there are levels above you. That there are things in this game that you don't understand. This is something one of the pros pointed out to me, the audience was wrong. And ofc I go the response I did from the community.
But I expected better from people who are in the know. People who understand that the game is not mechanical and it requires critical thinking. As someone who passed the California Bar Exam, I would hope that leans me in the direction of someone who understands critical thinking. One of the biggest points you need to understand that data by itself, is not enough. You need someone behind that data who is good at manipulating it to make it make sense. To be good at manipulating it you need experience. I have both qualities.
I'm not sure if you're into strategy as a intellectual subject but there are two figures that probably represent us in our argument fairly well.
Just to quickly summarize, Jomini was someone who believed war was a matter of geometry and could be won with direct application of certain principles. Clausewitz was someone who was practiced at losing in war and saw it more as an art form.
The reason I'm bringing this up is that I think that you can sell people on the right way of doing things. People can be very persuasive for $100,000/year. It's the "trust the process" argument. The problem with this is that like in the Jomini and Clausewitz intellectual debate, at the end of the day war is chaotic. More data is always preferred. And that's why producing a 115 page document is not to share with the players. It's to have data readily available to interpret their successes and failures. I'm not sure how you feel about "solutions" but so often they require multiple perspectives over one. I don't know one successful company that is just a bunch of one man armies.
And in my professional and gaming life, I've never, EVER, ran into a situation where doing the bare minimum produced good results. I have also never seen someone overdo something. I have more than a thousand times seen friends, co-workers, acquaintances and family members give them self foot of rope after foot of rope trying to convince themselves that doing less is objectively better for them. It never is.
Ad hominem attacks the entire time and some how you're done with the conversation?
You feel like you're losing with this one?
And yeah I'm taking the moral high ground back from you. You are on the side of less work. Bro, why don't you practice less and tell me how that goes for you. Why don't you read less and let other people do your thinking. The one pager is seriously working right? Seeing real consistency out of these teams and trusting the process. It's alright sheeple, keep watching VCT decline in viewership in complete and utter bewilderment.
I believe everyone is scared to talk to me. I believe I represent what is slowly coming to light. Coaches are just friends of players with no actual contribution. I'm watching some of the most gifted aim-talent on the planet wasted on very dumb ranked ideas.
They deserve better. They should reach out to me.
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Extraneous? Once again, you heard about 5 pages. I can tell you didn't read it. You are standing on ground like you think you have an argument. You passed up the table of contents. That says a lot about you.
Even if I entertained the idea that you read it, it was 70 pages of Rib.gg data that showed positional information. You can't get that data without a special license with Riot and cost me $100 to get a hold of a week before it was due. The idea that I would pass that up is insane. Extraneous? Are you using a thesaurus to talk to me?
And yeah I'm taking the moral high ground back from you. You are on the side of less work. Bro, why don't you practice less and tell me how that goes for you. Why don't you read less and let other people do your thinking. The one pager is seriously working right? Seeing real consistency out of these teams and trusting the process. It's alright sheeple, keep watching VCT decline in viewership in complete and utter bewilderment.
What you don't get is that you're young. The world you see was different before you got here. I'm sorry if that's shocking to you.
Bringing my government name into this is wild.
If you wanna have a conversation, we can have one.
Your arguments about me "expressing myself" are comical. Have you ever been on the end of international infamy before? An international broadcast makes fun of you? Jokes made about something you put serious time into. This idea that I'm asshole is crazy. Someone told me they "skimmed my work" and then proceeded to be critical of it. Which caused a tidal wave of negative comments. And I'm the asshole? k.
It's wild how confident you are. You just assume you're correct because I type here on vlr. There's not a single person in this community who has heard me speak on this topic in real time. But it's okay for PlatChat to bring on all the people who "owned" me and parade them. Then do the same thing on the broadcast. I'm the asshole? Crazy. 150k+ people viewed VCTesports tiktok about me. All of them have not heard my side. This is textbook bullying and you're over here calling me the jerk.
I've been down this line of questioning.
Once again, you're trying to scratch at something that I've already scratched at. I know what you're trying get to get at. The problem is, in no world is a 25 world going to out coach someone who is older. An older person has more experience. Has more stories. Can compare things.
A 25 year old is still in the same boat as the players. Trying to figure the world out. You shouldn't get a salary while you're trying to figure out things. Org owners, I've met a couple, do not have the insight to spare with coaches and players. They are forced to trust the process. A process defined by those who stand to benefit from wasting their time.
And I'm not outing any players or coaches. People are too rabid. Too much fandom for people who got here first.
I think it would be cool to find a better balance on number of rounds. I would be open to anything that is sub-30 minutes.
I'm corporate and coach people all the time.
I also have an insight into what the players are going through. I know the limitations on time. People make fun of me for making huge documents, the reason is for them. Once they fall out of grace, it really sucks for them. They look to these coaches for help, they tell them to swap agents and do default smokes. Or dive in for a sub 50/50 fight. Coaches don't care about their brands. Coaches care that they make it to the next week with a job.
Nearly pro, 1.6 and Overwatch. At the time of 1.6, that was less attractive and meant something different. Choose school over 1.6 and Overwatch had some people half in and half out.
Random stranger on the internet knows me better than I know me. You ever do a Tarot card reading?
I've done all those things in the past. I've been a 20 year old trying to figure out strategy. I've been very close to pro a bunch of times and just couldn't get over the hump.
I'm dying a bit inside when I watch the games because its very clear the players need help with fundamental concepts. They all have mouse aim down. They all have the ability to be insane. They're just missing a coach to help them move in the right direction. Some day I'll get a chance. Or I won't. Life's weird.
Therapy session. Okay. I'm getting really weird feedback with my stuff. There are people in the community who are scared of you and how you feel. I'm not really one of those people. I know the entire community is wrong. I'm just entertaining myself trying to figure out a way to get you to understand. It's absolutely atrocious to watch the genre I love become this generic product where people just randomly say the word "protocol" and think they nailed it.
There are two people out there that are famous, that are highly regarded in the community but I can't get them to help. In fact, one person went the entire other way after you guys came after me.
I find it interesting. There's a lot of misconceptions about the agents. People expect them to play a certain way. It's fun to find out why those people are wrong.
1999, CS whatever version. Mr Steal Your Girl in art class. I know people think I'm a random. But without me, esports would look different.
I honestly with all my heart believe they should take their current ranked system and use swiftplay games instead. Valorant would be a much more pleasant experience. Leave the 45 minute games to tournament and premier games. Let the people enjoy the game.
Swfitplays really awesome for learning agents. You get a pistol, r2 save/eco and a bunch of gun rounds. Less people upset. Less time spent with throwers.
I don't rank if that's what you're looking for. I would rather drag my nuts through hot coals than engage with Riot's Ranked matchmaking.
https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/elemnos%231234/overview?platform=pc&playlist=swiftplay
https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/ttvMETAPHOUR%231234/overview?platform=pc&playlist=swiftplay
https://tracker.gg/valorant/profile/riot/ttvMETAPHoUR%234321/overview?platform=pc&playlist=swiftplay
There are so many more...
Duh... which account! Just go look at my tiktok bro... https://www.tiktok.com/@metaphour
PlatChat fan identified. Expectations lowered.
You are never going to win this argument. This community will jump on a grenade for a winless coach over their own mother.
Hm... Teams falling apart... If only there was a job that made sure that sort of thing didn't happen.
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