Completely normal? All of those have played Valorant in the past and gaming content wise is dry at the moment.

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That is not that true though. I don't think Fnatic has ever looked crazy good on paper. Even if you look at their last roster they had Boaster, Mistic and Enzo on there. Don't get me wrong Mistic has had some good showings, but they weren't stacked outside of having Derke and Alfajer obviously. But this new one is stacked and by far the best they've had on paper. Leo and Chronicle are massive individual upgrades over Enzo and Mistic.

And they have been good what you mean? They were always amazing in EMEA. They looked easily the 2nd best in Stage 1 EMEA and won Stage 2 while looking amazing and arguably better than any team in the world thats why they were the favorites. They always look worse in international tournaments, but even still they placed 4th in Copenhagen and 5th-6th in Champions. They had subs in Reykjavik, but with full roster would have easily placed top 5 at least if not higher.

so even though I get you its still pretty false narrative when they have always looked really good in EMEA and even placed high on LANs.

Facts. NA 1st spot is so free because OpTic always threw finals

Polaris. They have 3 Polaris (Ireland, Denmark, Sweden), 1 East (Estonia) and 1 Russian.

Fnatic vs Heretics Scrimbux like week ago: 5 - 5

omg

No offense, but Heretics is full of inconsistent players who haven't played in their peak form for long time. While Fnatic has arguably the most stacked on paper roster in whole world and then you have teams like KOI, Giants and Vitality who all have stronger rosters and higher potential in my opinion at least. I predict Heretics to be like 7th or 8th in EMEA and that is far from 3rd. But its just prediction and they could do well. I just don't think their current roster has what it takes.

W, but how in the hell did Heretics make it to top 3 EMEA and how Fnatic didn't make it if its pound for pound? They have most stacked roster and in the past has almost always placed high.

yep, but I believe B1SK will do great things and has a lot of potential

Good luck you got this!

B1SK too good

I don't know really. Its kind of cool, but at the same time feels bit lame. I think Riot is adding skins so often that they just have to recycle ideas and can't come up with anything amazing or too memorable. They are good looking skins don't get me wrong, but kind of forgettable like most recent skins IMO.

A lot of experience on this team. Really excited of seeing how Keiko can evolve in this team, he is cracked. Mistic back to smoke and Magnum likely back to sentinels in this new meta is going to be good. Enzo just sounds so smart always and I really hope he takes the IGL role and starts grinding that. I think guy like him could make a good IGL in the future. And I have never been high on Shadow, but I haven't watched his games in long time so he could be good. Also he always finds his place in decent tier 2 teams so he must bring something.

Overall exciting roster and good addition to Polaris.

KJ kit is easy af to play, but Chamber's kit was relatively easy and overpowered. His ultimate is arguably the easiest gun in the game to use with one shot kill and firerate. Also headhunter is buffed Sheriff with a sight aka not that hard to use unless you are really low rank. And when it comes to rest Chambers could just set up in angles and off angles with OP or rifle and just get a kill and tp away unless enemies used bunch of util or they decided to be cocky and whiffed. Risk free. So even though Killjoy's kit is easy she still plays like rifler/lurker/anchor instead of just holding angle with op.

Free out of jail card, trap and buffed Sheriff and OP skill based? Far from it.

I think C9 should have dropped Mitch and signed Wippie. I would say he looked like the best NA sentinel earlier this year.

I don't mind. I would rather see Cypher, but I don't think Killjoy is problematic outside of her ultimate. Chamber was fucking aids in so many levels that I don't think Killjoy meta will be even close as bad.

Good roster. I'm not sure about Shadow yet, but tbf I haven't watched him lately and at least his latest stats look good. A lot of experience on this roster and definitely good platform for Keiko to grow. Polaris is going to be exciting for next season.

Agent : Kay/O maybe, its simple, sounds cool while has that edgy robot feel to it. And sounds like K.O. oviously. Most Valorant agent names are kinda boring or lazy, but this name pops out for me the most.

Pro Player(out of Sao Paulo Lock/In): maybe soulcas, its just cool. His real surname is Sulcas and changing it to soulcas is really cool. Sounds like artist name. I like names that are based on real name. Koldamenta honorable mention as well. Just sounds and looks cool.

vlr.gg username : maybe kristof, I don't know why but I just like how this name looks and sounds. Mortadelo and archetype are pretty cool as well, but maybe because I have seen them more often than some.

I really like collar jerseys. Really cool jersey just like 100T's. Old school, stylish and unique.

DO NOT GAMBLE NOT WORTH IT

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Name: downgrade for sure
Jersey: looks nice and I'm pretty big fan, its really basic tho and wish they used the blue color more maybe
Logo: dogshit. I have never been huge fan of Damwon logo let it be Damwon Gaming or KIA, but this is easily the worst and not recognizable at all.

LOUD
NRG
LEV

DRX
ZETA
TLN

NAVI
TL
KOI

Makes sense, but for how long did he sign with Rebels for? Do you know.

Yeah remember someone mentioned that he had said something in ranked and I would imagine Rebels asking a lot for him, but damn I want to see him somewhere else. He has shown such good level for long time already.

How hasn't Vo0kashu made it past tier 2 spanish league so far? He is so good.

yes but that means that one of the teams must "waste" their ban or they leave it open and potentially suck on it because no one knows before the tournament.

I don't like fighting games and I played GoW 4 and it was good. I don't have PS5 for GoW5 and I watched it on stream anyway so not interested of playing.

Yeah I don't see Diamond 3(atm) as good and know that if I played more I could definitely get to Ascendant. I'm just bit inconsistent overall and especially during this time of year my hands freeze all the time so kinda hard to play consistently. Copium or not.

but overall I always knew that I have the potential to get to higher ranks in different FPS games, but at the same time I'm constantly thinking that other players are much better. I was thinking that I'm like gold level, but faced immortals and high asc in placements and tbf they weren't that great and I realized I had overrated the level of play in this ranks. I didn't have amazing stats this season, but at the same time I play so little that if I played more I would get better. I just don't want to dissapoint myself or my team, I'm scared of failing. In a way I'm like perfectionist in this sense. Valorant Community Cup gave me a lot of confidence because before that I rarely played and if I did it was always unrated.

I have never played much of Valorant ranked at all and this was the first season ever where I played all placements and got a rank(dia2). And when season changes soon I was thinking of playing more ranked, but we will see. I have always had anxiety of playing ranked and was pretty proud of myself when I managed to play the placements and realized that I'm not that bad.

Apex Legends season changes in week as well and I'm excited of playing different map because I don't like the current one rn.

and outside of gaming I'm continuing exercising and got extra motivation after new year because I was lacking a bit during Christmas. Started doing proper dumbbell exercise on top of cardio (not just doing bicep curls and hammer curls like before, but doing different moves and also targeting more specific areas). Overall really motivated right now.

yeah thats about it end of 2022 and early 2023

Valorant has pretty weak visuals overall, but Lotus is one of the worst maps for that. But maybe my opinion will change when we can actually play the map.

I hate when new maps are being played in tier 1 international tournaments. No one knows how to actually play the maps and no one knows how other regions/teams play it. Everyone just goes in with guessing and hoping that their preparation was the best. Its fun to see new maps in action ofc, but it just gives such big fluke element.

I don't know haven't played yet but:
visually its ugly and door mechanic seems interesting but not a huge fan of it based on what I've seen. Likely going to be ok map at least and I could see myself enjoying it.

Russ

Little Big Planet 2 (and 1st).
Endless amount of levels to play and you could create your own as well. So many different levels and I met so many nice people that I used to play with everyday. A lot of good memories from that game. Amazing game and suited perfectly for when I was around 9-12 year old

My prediction based on what I've seen, but hard to tell obviously:

Killjoy
Astra/Omen
KayO
Fade
+likely duelist Jett or Raze not sure yet

so pretty much current most meta Pearl comp

Most divorces are not based on abuse what are you talking about?

The system is bit fucked. Mothers always have an huge advantage. In a way its understandable, but still faulty.

All I know is Koldamenta > Vanity
rest are debetable while Yay is better than KOI's op player, at least for now

I bet SkRossi is still positive in KD and FK to FD

They really aren't though. Will was their best performing player in Champions. Will, the guy who got booted of the team. Cryo is lan proven, but rest not so much. Both Asuna and Derrek looked pretty bad. Bang had his moments, but was by no means top controller. And Stellar performed like expected. People seem to forget that 100T didn't have amazing Champions and there was pretty noticable difference between their level and DRX's and Fnatic's. Especially outside of Pearl.

and I don't count RedBull because completely different stakes and level of play

He really isn't that fragging, but one of the more fragging controllers in EMEA, because again most are low fragging IGLs.

NOO these qualifiers are not treating Finnish players well

The thing with controller role in EMEA is that majority of them are IGLs. You won't find many fragging controllers here. Avova, baddyG, L1NK are like closest. And then ofc you have guys like Soulcas and Mistic who sometimes play controllers. That's why we have so many good non-controller support players (sentinel, initiator etc), but lack in insane individual controllers. Its just not needed.

Not 100% sure, but my understanding is that Nvidia is overall at least slightly better. Everyone was hyping up AMD like crazy when they launched 6k series, but haven't heard that much of Radeon ever since (haven't followed much either tbf) so those likely didn't perform as well as Nvidia's 3k series. But not sure tho.

I think Omen will be good on this map but could be wrong. Too early to tell.

Monsteerr maybe

Riot just combined Anubis and Ancient pretty much. This map looks so similar to those 2 when it comes to sites and areas. Like really close.

But why? They pretty much nerfed Omen just so Split defense wouldn't be as strong...