XERXIA got sent home by Optic... PRX got shat on by zeta and DRX. Guess what Optic did to these teams? they murdered them

This NA team had way better performances than that of G2 who got shat on by PRX and LOUD. If acend goes to NA they would literally lose to RISE in the qualifiers and not make it out

Marved is the best smoke player in the world. I've said this before the playoffs started.

That goes to yay

Not quite sure... from looking at Optic vs Guard in the grand finals in NA region. Optic had 1st banned and 1st pick as their advantage and Guard comes 2nd after either bans or picks.

only first ban and first pick.

Positioning, Smart mid round calls>>> aim

Victor is the better flex than sheydos

not just lurks, clutches and impact frags goes to marved's.

Marved has better clutch performance, more impact frags but a thing that is not shown in stat sheet is lurking capability. Which his lurks is what won Optic rounds after rounds in this tournament.

s1mple is not even the best player in his own game let alone trying to mention s1mple in valorant

they did get nerfed. It's shown that when they're healthy they can make a deep run... Now and masters 3.

they're literally americans with Asian genetics. Except saya who needed to be migrated to America.

Cry with tears of excuses. your 2nd seeded EMEA team is about to get eliminated tomorrow

This could be true lol

In masters 1 of 2021. Tenz in that tournament had over a kill per round which is the duelist primary impact. Sayaplayer although is short from that. Talking about tenz who's not in the tournament while not talking about the jett players that are in the tournament makes me worry about whoever made this thread.

Keep COPING, if DRX would've won you would've clowned Optic and NA in general.

I checked every stax interview in this masters and I do not see any statement by stax about Optic or even remotely close about practices with other international teams.

how do you know they're credible? Whoever wrote the article just doesn't know optic and trying to frame optic as troll team

Source?? out of all teams Optic takes scrims seriously.

aim is something in which u can practice. Meanwhile Leadership while being superb at it is something you've learned, experienced and how you approach the game along with your teammates. That in itself is much more important than just aim.

"but he baits" No shit, you need his alarmbots so u can watch for flanks

If Yay keeps going in this pace, he can easily surpass his form from Masters 3.

cNed's peak is no where near close of Yay. He was definitely the best "OPer in champs" but when it comes to peaks. yay outclasses him on that

APAC fanboys on shambles

If Optic wins tomorrow, and they face Guard... Riot is literally praying for NA's downfall.

We know that first day of the tournament Optic loses... which they lost to RISE during the first day. History will likely repeat itself and Optic will qualify through

I would agree to this if you exclude NRG

It was patiphan's last tournament, so what? there was nothing that holds them back from performing, it's not like patiphan was in condition that limits him to play. The difference is, victor on the other hand was not in shape, conditioning, and along with people around him not helping because of distancing during his quarantine.

You right, they did. But context matters, they beat ENVY with victor that has covid. Victor had covid on top of being cold while no staff wants to help him close the broken window. So when u factor those in, it tells how much it impacted the team's morale.

and then what happened after they lost? they beat XSET, C9, and the GUARD to be the first NA team to get to iceland. Your logic makes no sense.

And guess what they did after they lost to RISE? they went and beat anyone who was in the way to get to iceland. You act like they can't be rusty after couple months without playing competitive.

It's been interviewed that when victor got covid, he got isolated, nobody helped him to close a broken window from the staff. So basically he was playing with the cold while having covid symptoms.

completely their fault, guard was afraid of doing icebox vs optic, which optic is pretty strong at. that being said with two teams having a record of 4-3 in favor of optic. there's no definitive best NA team until it's LAN.

Paper rex is no where near close on the top nor do they look as good as G2, FNATIC, GUARD, OPTIC.

Optic
FNATIC
G2

what kind of logic is this? LMFAO this is like saying Optic is below LG because LG beat V1. shit makes no sense

KRU below NIP? idk what games you've been watching at all, but keep going

This would happen if victor gets covid... I don't see any scenario of XERXIA winning with victor being healthy

you're worried because of their performance last LAN? last time I checked victor had covid, and many many times with many interviews about victor's physical capability did not sustain the symptom which decreased his performance by a lot. Last time that the same roster were healthy made it to finals in masters 3.

With Xerxia's chances is dependent if Victor gets covid. Which this time I don't think he will, but I got optic winning convincingly.

GUARD over optic? idk how you based off the grand finals when optic has won 4 maps over guard's 3 maps that they have won head to head.

This match is dependent if victor gets covid. But if he doesn't, Optic is winning this pretty convincingly

No shit, if trent were to play chamber against yay, he would get destroyed too.

nivera????? I'm sorry but yayster's deagle, OPing capability far surpasses Nivera's. Out of all anyone on this list Yay's OP which is chamber's primary role and weapon as well is far above everyone's in here.

this just means trent is the more versatile player. which is different from being the best. Yay has been consistent more than anyone else in the region and RARELY has bad games.

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he is the best player... why? he's consistently have insane games and rarely ever has a bad game out of anyone in NA. Yes that includes leaf, saya, trent, penny or etc.

I trust Optic more than the guard ON LAN.

Yay is better... time and time again will prove himself as the best in NA from online play to LAN.