wouldn’t it be best to just do it now tho. It’s not like vct is starting soon anyways

I think, Flashback showed that he’s capable of playing other roles when they experimented with him a bit in stage 2.

Athan, performed like he wasn’t even a rookie, rarely if ever making a bad decision, reminds me of Karon in the way he doesn’t even look like a rookie despite being a player that hasn’t even player tier 2 val officially yet. Athan is also a duelist main, so i think they thought it would be too drastic of a change to go from duelist to scan.

Freeing has only ever played anchor roles , and possibly just as if not an every better aimer that flashback

Flashback just needs more time on the role imo. Also, we have only ever seen him on two maps so far, so a judgement this early wouldn’t be accurate. I’d say you can actually make a solid judgement when DRX plays in the asian invitational in late november

Nobody, pay any attention to this guy, for some reason he dislikes HYUNMIN, an 18 year old rookie mind you

So basically, from what i’ve heard, DRX did offer BuZz a massive contract however, the case wasn’t money with BuZz, he just wanted to try something new.

fr, it’s not fair that we have demon1 and they get someone like bin

Putting the him on initiator, just makes it so when the team is fully ready and when flashback learns the role better, there is no weak link on the team at all. Athan has been really good on the flex on all 3 matches. MaKo is MaKo, freeing started rough but looked very good against gen g. Flashback has yet to really pop off but i’ll never question his ability to do so. HYUNMIN played very well too

Oh i’ll take ur word for it since i don’t know much. 2025 is gonna be a good year

i personally think in terms of raw aim, flashback has better aim. But i still haven’t seen enough of freeing to truly make a judgement. But definitely agree with your 2nd point tho

true, but he’s alr insane and seems to be fitting in perfectly so i didn’t mention him as someone who “has to improve”. Might but overhyping but he alr looks like one of the best duelist

I think Flashback too, the more he learns scan. also looks good already which is nice to see

looks like they are just using this tournament to practice their uncomfortable maps. Good idea tbh

15 downvotes and had 0 replies for a whole hour. Bro, atp it’s not even bait, everyone just thinks ur an idiot

yeah ik that, i have full confidence, but i would love to see them win this tournament off the bat

Show me something against Gen G

ik its still early but i need a months worth of copium from this next match.

Also seems like termi isn’t attending this event, so can’t really give ur best but still

Great player, offseason just started, looks good individually.

My concern is freeing and flashback. So far freeing hasn’t really had an impact flashback has had on senti.

Hopefully that changes, if not, i’d rather freeing on initiator.
But, i’m fine as long as i can see consistent improvement from flashback on that role. I’m sure freeing has nerves, he may be older than MaKo but he’s still a rookie nonetheless.

According to Flashbacks tracker, he only recently started playing scan a lot, so i’m not expecting much yet

nah

Pretty sure he only recently started playing it. So he’s just new at the role

he’s also supposedly the best the DRX academy has to offer. Other than maybe flashback

this post would make sense if they were playing vct and not in their first match of the offseason

? i feel like you have to be dumb to think we dropped BuZz

18 year old rookie in his first match, let him adjust first

his performance wasn’t slow, it’s not like he was even mid or bad, he was pretty good, which is above expected for a player playing his first vct matches.

yes, Leviathan notoriously their best academy player but he mostly plays duelist

Flashback didn’t underperform, he did well,

Here my viewpoint, it very simple, i care about the players, the players on the team. If a player leaves, i wish them well but i don’t care after the leave, i just become a fan of whoever replaces that player(MaKo is the exception). Fan culture is different in diff cultures i get it.

this is what people say when they can’t think of the reasonable response but still wants to argue for the sake of winning an argument. Just pack it up already

for someone who just told me to stick to stats, it’s very ironic of you to tell me to look at stats of players. And also, i can really care less about the stats of players on teams that can’t qualify. Also, so you just gonna bandwagon to whatever to most successful korean team is. Yeah, alright buddy, be a glory hunter if you want, just don’t start trying to defend ex players of the team you stopped rooting for.

For one, the word “created” can still
be used for valorant, if he was the head coach to first implement it into a new game with lots of diff feature different from csgo, it cannot be exactly the same as csgo, but somewhat as valorant’s iteration of that playstyle, implemented by TERMI. But even then, you keep trying to stray away from the point, it’s actually laughable that you still haven’t actually attacked the claim i made. do you even remember??

quick: don’t look at stats or anything like that. Take a guess at who was PRX’s worst perming player in that series. You’d be surprised

Yeah, funny cause at the end of the day. Zest, ended up on the worst team in Pacific. Rb on the worst team in China. T1 qualed to shanghai without stax and couldn’t qual to stage 2 playoffs with him. That history you cling on to, has proven time and time again to be nothing that special, at least termi knows that, because if that old roster remained, we would’ve been a mid table team. Also, look at you, wearing an spg flair while preaching about the history of DRX, shameless

Yeah, the same PRX that got grouped at champs. Just give it up, everyone knows that team peaked at copenhagen and was never the same until they signed something.

Did you not previously say that termi was one of the people that created the style, or are you gonna backtrack again. Oh so you believe MaKo, BuZz, Rb, Stax, and Zest didn’t have to learn to play that way from someone(maybe their head coach???? idk) And you bring up old Vision Strikers is just another misdirection, cause i never once mentioned vision strikers, because we were literally talking about champs 22. You keep trying to knowledge test, as if that even makes a point.

The same PRX that also got dismantled by DRX, all b4 they added something and immediately became the best team in Pacific. The same PRX that lost to Team Secret, a team that barely snuck into playoff bc they beat a much weaker PRX squad??? That PRX?

Where the playstyle originated has nothing to do when Termi is the one that intergrated into DRX as he is head coach of the team.That’s literally common knowledge. Also, stop starting away from the point,

i never said he was the only one carrying, i said it was mako and whoever else wanted to turn on their monitors that day. AND LMFAO, don’t even bring up lock/in, they didn’t even play any good teams until they reached top 4

Plz, 2022 teams are not even close to the level of teams now. Look at all the top 2022 players and teams now. Pushing them does not mean shit, and. Don’t give me the bullshit that we pushed those teams based on player talent. DRX were notorious for their playstyle, that’s why they were good(+MaKo). Guess who created that style, Termi. It reaches a point where that playstyle isn’t enough to win and we have to bring in better players

For one, this should be obvious, usually stats are worse the the player plays worse, and when the players play worse, the team does worse. So obviously his stats are a reflection of team success; but team success is a reflection of player performances. Rb is a flex player. He was only the duelist for a large part of 2022 bc of the chamber meta(similar to how victor was the duelist in 2022 despite him being a flex) Flex players specialize in playing multiple roles. You can’t just blame his performance on having to flex multiple roles bc that’s literally what he’s supposed to don. THE OG DRX got top 3 ONE TIME. They were always 5th-6th. And guess what that one 3rd place was on the back of MaKo and whoever else wanted to turn on their monitor that day. And guess what, the player that has been consistently carrying DRX, is still on the team, don’t pretend like the other were even near his level. Ppl only recently started to hype BuZz up a lot when MaKo had to take a step back and igl. Otherwise MaKo is the only DRX player ever that is irreplaceable

i literally posted his stats in every international b4 in a separate thread, I compared his group stage stats to his playoff stats. And except for one time. There was always a significant decrease in nearly every stat. And even then, I still mentioned that it wasn’t completely his fault. Yeah, you forgot to mention that rb had his worst ever tournament in champs 2024. And you can’t even blame his bad performance on him having to flex a lot of roles at champs bc he only played 2 agents. I understand you like those players, at the time, i also didn’t like the fact he dropped rb, but you can’t just use nostalgia to fuel lies you made up in ur head

not even gonna lie, i want you to go back to that post and read what i wrote, I literally said it wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought and it mostly wasn’t his fault, but you still can’t deny he plays different(in playstyle and quality) in bigger games. If you read instead of just looking at the numbers i put and making assumptions, you would have noticed that part

Karon, also i didn’t mean to reply to you

a straight lie, didn’t even try to justify it, just a straight up lie

tbf, you can’t contribute all of that to just the coaches although they deserve a lot of credit. The deadass assembled the 4 best kr players that were on the market, and got a player like Karon from ranked. You can’t deny that the team has talent. Having better teammates will always improve your own performance, and the my happened to scout some of the very best

https://x.com/valo2asia/status/1849636181740486851?s=46&t=UpfWlpoVx8lr8dEqUmQyxw

Now I get to watch more DRX matches

yeah, he only stated they had no issues financially, doesn’t mean they can afford how much meteor asked for. They likely have a budget and meteors ask price went over the budget. Not to mention, Karon, t3, and munchkin all got the bag

athan is DRX’s you don’t know whether or not he’s good on a role or not since he’s only played 1 public match as a prospects player. Also let’s not pretend that people who literally get paid to play a game can’t learn how to play a new role over a couple of months

I kinda doubt flashback will be playing senti.

It seems more likely he’s gonna play initiator

kinda agree, but one thing to keep in mind, that just isn’t how valorant works. Things don’t always work end up how we think they should when you look at it on paper. So i think it should still be considered an overall downgrade unless proven otherwise

cool

nice, solid pick up by gen g