I throw a parasocial grenade in this thread... who getting hit?

Yeah like a Best Buy or any store that has inventory they would want to move. Online retailers might not have inventory and need to order and that's where you're going to get hit.

50% of the community loves potter
50% of the community loves zikz

100% will attack you. simple maths.

(this is not correct math vlr.)

I would personally buy from box stores. I'm worried that you're going to very quickly run into expensive prices. Plus you're going to want a high end graphics card and bitcoin is above 90k. So yeah everything was expensive before the tariffs and box stores is probably the last haven.

two words. trade. war.

Hard to dunk when you're always on the bench for 30.

agreed. and dont worry, you're safe from the downvotes. its just me.

see, less than a minute goes by and already they are here... I'm happy to invite you into the club but there are levels.

I just don't think you're the villain you think you are... I have dedicated fans who follow me and downvote all my comments.

interesting perspective.

Modern coaching and being coachable does not give you options as a player. They are trying to fit them into a system that is extremely strict when it doesn't have to be. They do this because everyone else is doing this and they don't know any better.

Orgs should be ashamed of their horrible attempt at hiring. I don't even care if I don't ever get a coaching position. You do damage and you don't even care to try to fix it. You don't go outside your comfort zones. None of these orgs will ever succeed with their current paths. They are all in a race where they willing enter it knowing they are behind the more expensive orgs. The lack of creativity is appalling.

Flor deserved better.

Really great improvements! NT!

o7

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Can someone explain to me the connection between agents in Valorant and gunplay? I see a lot of people talking about how "x" player played "x" agent and it some how made their gunplay better. I understand it if it's a duelist/initiator where a flash has a direct impact. But Smokes? Even Sentinels?

movement.

At least you admit to it <3 We're good.

Yeah... In 100 page report, with a table contents and a section labeled : "100 Thieves In-depth Game Analysis" on page 79... But you didn't look at the table of contents. You didn't read what I wrote. Once again, you just say things that sound nice that are ultimately incorrect.

You're confusing analysis with condensing or elaboration.

Yes, the webster one. Trying to tell me that analysis is the opposite of the definition, no matter how far you stretch, is still not right.

I love how the idea of reading scares an entire generation of children who will grow into adults and need youtube summaries for the most basic of concepts.

Yeah... that's not what analysis is... Analysis is "detailed examination of the elements or structure of something." You're the kind of person that believes they know things because they were told so. You just made up something that sounded nice :)

Why do I have to let it go? Because I was right? I knew this would happen lol :)

Working really hard to accomplish something.

How come all these teams are doing benders if 1 page analysis is good enough?

https://x.com/1johnqt/status/1916338460949979263

https://x.com/Zikzlol/status/1915907525901422716

Open to comments...

I agree. I call this the "Hero" era of Valorant :)

I think the mistake teams make is that they refuse to address the issue and instead try to engage in a race with some of the fastest guns in the league. There are better people in this world and in Valorant it takes teamwork to address the issue. The best player can't do much if I stun, flash, slow, debuff and use my "Abilities create tactical opportunities to take the right shot."

If 100T use the SEN map blueprint and force same comps... It's betting 00 but still :)

SEN gave 100T the blueprint. G2 and SEN are similar in that they have a pop-off superstar that needs to be managed. The job got harder for sure and there's a guy out there who got hit by lightening seven times.

I heard the cancel. I saw him wander around middle. I'm not sure I agree.

Kayo/Omen interaction with Riot Dev: https://youtu.be/LjA9r-L-Hc0?t=829

Not 100% sure if it changed. So I'm 95% sure I'm right.

Round 23: Valyn cancelling the Omen ultimate and then letting Jawgemo rot for 20 seconds. Having your initiator flash player holding A while the entire team is just listening to Jawgemo's eventual death outside B because they have no way to enter the site.

Jawgemo, you deserved better than that.

KRU not getting attack side first lost them icebox. they are not a defense side team and to give yourself so little room to get into an atk side grove... nt nt gl in lowers.

I will be the Skye for the vlr team. The perfect support.

I'd like to announcement my self-nominee for Vice-President. And such there is no current person running against me. I win.

I'm looking forward to working with the future president.

A1 they are not ready for what you're saying. Try back in a couple years.

o7 cloudberries

mmmm

I know a way to get a bunch of NRG fans :)

I don't have give-up in me unfortunately lol

Win conditions for beating SEN...

EEIU figures out he is an attack focused player and can drastically level up his game by improving on defense. He also needs to stay on Sova which is a problem in this meta because people still think that Tejo drone is just a longer lasting Sova drone. Super embarrassing but the current state of things.

Removing the Operator responsibilities from Cryo. Cryo is a magnificent rifler. By putting him on the operator you are limiting him to very specific situations. The problem is that Cryo often seems timid to take the timings he needs to in order to be effective on the operator. I think the team has protocols that often put him on flanks or the team needs to be completely ready to re-take as a group. The problem that you have with an operator in these situations is that the operator is best when your position is unknown. In retake situations, the enemy has already established angles and it makes it tremendously difficult for the operator player. Taking him off the duty frees him to be more aggressive. And because Cryo is generally not an aggressive player but instead makes calculated aggression plays, anything that pushes him in that direction leads to early confidence and an easy path to a good performance.

If the team continues to get Icebox, they need to rethink Viper. One of my largest criticism in my 100 page doc was that there was no use on the Viper wall towards B. Everyone likes to say "oh but it conditions the enemy" but as we saw, most teams don't even understand the line-up properly. Nevertheless the idea that the wall is supposed to allow your Viper to move up into advance positions while posing a threat of -30 damage if the defender takes the fight. Instead we see from 100T we see them ignore the benefits of the wall and play if it didn't matter. This can come in the form of Viper dying early or being aggressive pass the wall and once again ignoring the benefits. I would rather see the team hold on to the wall and use it in advantageous post-plants or looking at the minimap and finding interesting ways to deploy it. You can see they are anti-stratting it, make it harder on them.

Boostio seems to be getting lost in his role. He said in an interview that he wants to go back to a time when things were more natural. He doesn't seem to understand this was a time when he was committed to the game and didn't have all the benefits of being a pro player. Boostio can offset the stress of his role by enabling his teammates to make more decisions for themselves or can spend more time out of the game dry-running so he has less micro to do in game.

Keep Asuna on Phantom when he plays duelist. Explain to the man that his role is to take close engagements. Phantom has a higher rate of fire and will be very apologetic to his movement errors. A Vandal has a slower rate of fire and is extremely punishing when it comes to movement errors.

Zikz, isolate Zekken's weaknesses. Force him on to maps where he has to play Yoru. Find spots where he enjoys playing with the Phantom and give it to him like a team would give bad 3 point shooter space. Force him on defense first.

I think from this you can extract other improvements. I'm sure I'm going to get downvoters but that's fine, I was feeling analytical lol.

m4 also an option

sigh... how the dumb stay dumb.

:)

Your d1 take is incorrect. You're describing what people would call the "traditional duelist." What's holding a lot of teams back is a lack of understanding of what it means to play entry and what it means to be the high-ceiling player on your team.

Historically, in the CS traditions lol, your entry player was never your best player. Your best player was either 2nd-5th player in. There's a very logical reason for this, you want to preserve your best chances to win.

This is what drives me up a wall with C9 and other EMEA teams. The coaches have the same ideology that you're describing. Here are some similar examples of what you're doing, you are using your queen to fight all the chess pieces, you're asking Messi to play goalie and then run up the field to play striker... It's dropping a nuke in every fight.

You need to preserve your good players. You need to preserve the players who perform in clutch situations. You need to preserve your life if you have KEY UTILITY. This whole idea around duelist diving in or sentinels always playing lurk... it's an oversimplification of a complicated problem. It's an easy narrative to tell the kids.

A lot of people don't look at the details of all of his crazy eliminations. First, many of the maps have weird edges and changes in elevation. Older games used to do away with this by using clip textures to smooth out the map to remove inconsistencies.

Second, if you roughly understand how aim works, many of his kills statistically make sense. Each bullet that is shot in a succession has an increasing spread. This creates the likelihood that most of the bullets shot after #4 will likely be on the outside of your crosshair.

Lastly, the dead zone makes things stranger to explain. UE4 has two different types of keyboard input. A full press and a tap. A full press can exponentially raise a value where a tap may just provide a flat value. Deadzone lives somewhere in here and I've never fully heard it explained from a UE4 perspective. All this to say that some of the things he does may appear as randomness and might not even be able to be recreated consistently but it's all rooted in game mechanics.

I think the community often misses the forest for the trees.

https://imgur.com/a/bsx4U46

They placed accordingly. I don't know why we are using the myth to explain it. They won games against the bottom 3 teams. This put them roughly in seventh? Doesn't really matter because only 4 teams didn't make it to playoffs.

I found a part specific for you :) https://youtu.be/kapqqCM-4iY?t=1489

mean... when I've only ever tried to be your friend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kapqqCM-4iY

I don't believe in all of this but it's entertaining and would help some people on this site if they are bored :)

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/6964bfcb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr4IB93OQnY