Pistol rounds are too important and the underdog team being able to get 2-3 rounds up fairly consistently from them makes it wayyy more difficult for the favorites. That being said NRG just got fucked, no excuse for them.

fuck EG, but she made a tier two roster a world champ roster within a year. I haven't seen mini do that.

brilliance probably, them boys are cold and each one are always good for 3 every round somehow.

can u hit a lil rich flex for me, and QCK...

NRG fans did NOT like either of these icl

YIPPEE

So can Monyet though? Monyet played Omen in the no-duelist comp, something we haven't seen Jinggg do.

Leo 1st twice in a row but only Champs matters? Seems legit.
1st, 1st, 4th vs. 9th-16th, 2nd, 1st. You tell me, what looks better? I don't even like FNATIC all that much but the logic here makes no fucking sense.

So what would you say to Twisten? Clearly it's not all sunshine and fucking rainbows from us if we've had incidents like this already. Not everyone is mentally strong, especially under pressure, so shitting on people when they're down is asshole behavior.

This. Being inconsiderate haters should not be egged on, it's sad that people even care this much about someone they don't know anyways. If you are actively and knowingly inconsiderate I hope the afterlife treats you worse than your parents did.

When we get another twisten-esque incident, I want you to stand by this statement. Not playing a part in the pressure that causes suicide isn't going soft, it's being a good human being. Clearly not your forte.

Motherfucker, this is their job and for they make money, hearing people who don't know shit about the environment you're in tell your employer to fire you surely isn't good for their health. I'm being a hypocrite since I do this but now that I've seen the shit you psychopaths put out in this site and in this post, I'll probably do it way less.

Idk, he was pretty good in the old liquid roster, and he seems to be the only player shooting back in liquid atm. We should wait for him to get inserted to a better core and see how he does before he gets on fraud watch

C0M should be on fraudwatch over Mazino. Unsurprisingly, flanking and lurking on scan Initiator every round gets predictable and hurts your team because they have no Initiator to help get into site. C0M pls let tex do his job so he stops getting called a fraud for no reason 🙂

When are we fixing this voice comms bug? Just lost a game because I couldn't comm when my stuff was going up/down on Viper for all of the 2nd half, and this bug has been here for like a month or two at this point.

how is TenZ not on the top 3 duelist peaks but Demon1 is? TenZ was a monster when teams didn't know what they were doing in 2021

c0m is not on EG anymore bro

f0rsaken and who else? He's pretty comfortably in the #2 spot imo.

Let's kick an improving player while he's down even though he's filling the shoes of arguably the best player itw, call TOP 3 AT MASTERS "bombing out", and say that he's the issue, even though PRX still won a lot of games with him, against really promising teams, like KC and TH. That makes total sense man. SleepyBear is right for saying there's something wrong in your head.

LOUD had no prac. As for LEV, I think their sunset comp trolled the game for them, but they look horrible regardless.

Or aspas. Imo f0rsaken shouldn't be on the Raze team. I love him, but his raze is top 10, not top 5.

Mr. Morale still clears all of Cole's discography except 2014 FHD, which is to show how good Kendrick's discography really is. Why did Cole ever diss that of all things about Kendrick? That bar is tragic.

? NRG vs. PRX happened in Masters Tokyo, and PRX won.
and OPTC vs. PRX in Copenhagen? Which PRX ALSO won?

they're all delusional, did they forget DRX still has 3/5 members that made deeps runs in internationals, including the IGL? DRX obviously downgraded but still, a few changes that don't change the IGL'ing won't completely kill this team.

both of y'alls flairs. I love both those teams, why tf are we talking about trophies with APAC flairs? there's a reason APAC is constantly getting cooked in forums and this doesn't help.

noooooo he's so good :( sad to see him go

Rb is a top 3 flex player in the world stuck on an average chinese team. Be realistic, this guy's flexibility was a key part to DRX's success, and his mechanics are still crazy good. It's like how Leo was stuck with Guild for the longest time until finally getting a solid support system (and then won two internationals). I know Leo isn't a crazy good flex, but you get the point, Rb is stuck on a team that can't utilize him to his maximum potential.

fair enough but he isn't FNS. He gets a pass tho it could be a really shit game and he could secretly be the goat.

TETHER DEFAULT, TELELEHTER DEFAULT!!! 😱

wait why do we even entertain this guy he has an 8% hs

4-0

I own every phantom skin with a finisher (except Sovereign), here are the best skins that also stood the test of time.

1. RES. This skin is way worth the extremely expensive price tag, every variant brings something unique to the table, complete with different sounds, kill sounds, banners, and finishers. And each variant BANGS.
2. Recon - Laser + grip goes hard, and the default sfx fits this gun's theme (unlike a certain overpriced limited skin -_-).
3. Ruination - the heavy feel of this gun makes the phantom not feel like it shoots nerf bullets (not the BlastX kind).
4. Champs 2022 - the sound omg i cream
5. Primordium - actually, this skin is better than I thought.

Honorable mentions: Glitchpop, Magepunk, Protocol, and probably Sovereign, from the little i've seen of it. Oh, and prism.
Dishonorable mentions: Oni. this skin does NOT stand the test of time, but this could also be because it's my first skin. But it gets really boring.

they're also (almost) 2x cheaper than the champs vandal. I could buy a knife skin with the amount of money it takes to buy that skin. It's good, it's not 30 dollars good. It's 17 dollars good though. It's extremely overpriced for what it offers is what i'm tryna say. It's pretty mid regardless tho tbh.

This is coming form the motherfucker that owns Sakura and Sarmad vandals. I like the default stuff, but 30 dollars? I'm okay.

it's inspiring how he was deemed the most toxic teammate that ethan has ever had

PLEASE TELL ME YOU'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT MY GOAT SARAH FRAGS 😭

Unpopular opinion but Champs 2021 is not that good, its model is the same as default, and the sound almost exactly the same as default for 27 US dollars. I pass on those every day of the week, which sucks cause the finisher and kill sound is pretty cool.

For my top 5 vandals:

1. Prelude
2. Forsaken
3. Imperium
4. Araxys
5. Chronovoid

Honorable mentions: Glitchpop and RGX

allat without punctuation? no thanks.

the 5 best free agents gotta be brim, jett, phoenix, sage, sova (in alphabetical order).

counter-question: is OP willing to take femboys?

idk man... A lot of talent stays under the radar or gets misused (see: 2023 Global Esports) because of outside factors that the player can't control. And we already know Leo is an incredible initiator (2 world champion titles), so missing one tournament doesn't mean he's ass now and that he's not in the conversation anymore. He's probably still goated imo. We'll just have to wait and see cause this format is ass :)

I agree, but about the "best initiator in the world" thing. What about Leo?

https://www.vlr.gg/pickem/6ca8e58c I was on PRX hopium, u right, being sort of a fraud right now

Was I (and mimi) the only people who actually believed that Gen.G were top 3 itw? I noticed this team was crazy good when they beat DRX and PRX back to back days with ease. Why did so many people doubt this team? What did we see in this team that we thought would put them in hot water, or what did we see in other teams that pushed Gen.G so far down?

Sunset and Bind. Gen.G will pick Breeze and Gen.G has a clearly better Ascent than SEN. it's joever for SEN unless they can win Lotus, Icebox, and Split. OR Gen.G ban Split over Bind in the case they play SEN and SEN just loses.

Gen.G has 5 really good maps, why don't you think they just ban Sunset and Bind and then play their 5 best maps, starting with Breeze? They go a map up, and only play maps they're good at, while all the other teams in playoffs have an okay Icebox and will get thrown around by Gen.G on Breeze AND Split? This is the freest tournament for Gen.G of all time

Sunset and Bind, every other team in the playoffs has a better sunset than them.

no? I want every analyst to realize that Gen.G, a team that JUST got formed, took down 2 previous APAC powerhouses with ease? It's not that hard to understand. Team takes down two teams expected to make deep runs in this event = team good. Writing them off is exactly what NOT to do, especially now, when KC and TH, two teams who were written off, made it to the event and looked incredible. It's literally the exact same story. I have a hard time understanding why we're still doubting them.

Please go watch the games i'm talking about before posting. You'll see what I mean when I say that. And even if we want to play this game, PRX just beat KC, one of the favorites to win the tourney? DRX don't look great, sure, but Gen.G HUMILIATED them. The scoreline does no justice as to how good Gen.G actually looked during the DRX game. And even then, I predicted the Gen.G win on both EDG and LOUD? I saw this coming, people are just in denial about Gen.G actually being a solid team.

? It was really obvious Gen.G had a real shot since they beat DRX and PRX, saying Gen.G vs. LOUD is a 10/90 just makes the same mistake that balla made, which is being pointed out in this post. You read about exactly what to avoid when making a reply and you still made that mistake?

Besides, hot take, Gen.G look better than LOUD atm and have been looking better since they started playing.