Hey BIG shoutout to Swens, make sure to drop him a sub at ruclips.net/user/Swens and tell him thanks for the VOD! I'll be back to streaming TOMORROW, but in the meantime go check out some of my best clips at www.tiktok.com/@DragonmarGames and enjoy the video! Whose VOD should I review next?
Where can i send you a vod. I was mge in csgo and had decent aim and game sense. right now im strugling to get out of gold. I play killjoy oor reyna mainly
@@Swens jk swens I watch all ur streams I knew u were gonna say something!! U still crackedtse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OGC.f832dbb4908fd08d0899da211669bd6f&pid=Api&rurl=https%3a%2f%2fmedia.giphy.com%2fmedia%2fYJ5OlVLZ2QNl6%2fgiphy.gif&ehk=Wqoom3ngj8V5B257UK31aGyn4iW6qYMHNu2niIroSpY%3d
If only you could tell every low elo player that kills aren’t everything. People literally won’t listen to your players unless you are at the top of the leaderboard
@@williamsweeney5249 yeah, that's the thing I'm jealous of high elo the most. I'm silver, so have a long way to go. For me, being in low elo isn't bad by itself. I know what I'm good at, what I'm bad at and what need to be worked on. I just like to play more team-oriented and at least try to work as a team, but in low elo it's not always possible. :/ Skyrocketing ego that "I am better silver than you" is hilarious.
Kills arent everything, play style is :) I play KJ or Omen and literally every duelists on my team were so afraid to push in, when I died I saw they have full flashes lmao.
@@vinhkhuong1725 play omen as well and I can’t even describe how often I play where 2 or 3 people instalock a dualist refuse to entryfrag and goes for lurking or watching flank instead. Or our 2 dualists want to go trough mid and wants the rest of us to entry site straight by ourselves.
Yes, i know that when i play Omen, I HAVE the impact fot my team, but, the thing is, Riot doesn't get this. Game only sees who got first and more kills. I feel like controller players have the hardest time getting rewarded.
yeah thats true man i am omenmain, i do so much for my team with utility and i clutch so often but those kills at the end (in a 2v2 or 1v1) count half as much as the first kills but they are not easier, so in the end i always get less elo than my reyna although i made the same or even more value/kills
@@jacobtheall222 I think it's mainly not just the KD ration but also first bloods. I tend to get heavy performance bonuses when getting tons of first bloods. Why Om trying to learn how to play Kayo as a entry properly Just so i can get those but also be more supportive if my team needs it.
I saw you talk about smoke placement a lot in the video, so I was hoping you could create some sort of guide or good smoke spots for each map. This would be really helpful for lower rank players like me (I just got into silver). I was also wondering if you prefer omen or brim after the recent changes since you have a history of playing both. Also love the videos man really helpful!
You can try to check some "lineup" videos / guides. Maybe Blitz.gg have something for them (didn't check for controllers yet). There is some default smokes, so you can check on this topic this also. But it's just the beginning and experimenting in Spike Rush, Unrated, or on Customs can work for you even better (that's just my opinion tho). Checking what's working and playing around the smokes. :D Or find someone who is playing this agent and look what they do. But not in "highlights" videos, more like gameplay frgaments / vids. Good luck, we need more controllers! :D (I'm more initiator / sentinel, so it's always welcome to have some other support than watching over 4 duelists x.x)
Really important for Swens to check his and his teammates economy. At one point he was about to max out, and the raze requested a vandal drop, but Swens didnt drop it.
another thing I would like to point out. Hes not letting any of the duelists really go first. Hes dry peaking a large amount of angles with 3 duelists on his team. He often contests long range aim duels without using any util.
5:30 Why did he smoke so deep. Just smoke flush. Usually u wanna smoke flush with the entrance to make sure if anyone walks through, they will be extra vunerable and u get an advantage. He keeps retaking though rafters, i found that retaking A is easier through mid. He keeps running back facing enemies. It feels like he thinks that since he has a smoke down enemies wouldn't be able to see him. But he just has bad awareness of where his smokes actually covers. In A site icebox usually u dont wanna smoke anywhere on site, just try and take it aggressively and smoke of the entrances to retaking site. U really wanna just dry peek and gun fight ur way through then smoke after plant cuz retake is way easier that holding on to the site. Wow, he doesnt know how to use his smokes at all. Hes being so predictable by just throwing 2 smokes instantly every round and push off the smokes. People catch on to that and they eventually know how to counter it. Bruh this is a typical player who got to his rank purely by aim
I think this is the video I've needed. I am an Omen Main with a little bit of viper on the side. I think I have learned that I am probably smoking to early.
me: playing sova with 9kills/18deaths/17assist 170 damage per round 0.6 kills per round Valorant scoreboard: ok, you placed 9th, what are assist anyways
Hey I was that Omen in the second clip lol. I get a pick and then my dumb Jett lines up directly behind me. I told him I didn't have flash ;(. Our Raze Trump also got titled and threw 2nd half. It's crazy seeing my old Plat 3 days. I'm Diamond 3 now trying to climb back up to it again after hard RR reset.
Stim is such an underrated ability, also he's just using the same smokes again instead of experimenting new ones, icebox with a brim is just not the way with so many angles, he's useless there, i tried skye there yesterday and i found it incredibly broken with the bird above the containers, if she says "flashed" its because someone is there
I think it is important to note that Swens is a Raze main that peaked immortal, which would explain the extremely high aggression and confidence. He also admitted in one of his Raze to Immortal videos (was plat i think) that the reason behind some of his braindead plays is underestimating and not respecting the opponent because of the rank difference.
thank u sir ur videos carried me from iron 2 to silver 1 ur one of the most helpful people on youtube. but can u pls make a video on support value like how u can win carry or even get value as a support as breach or sova or even sage in soloq and lower ranks...it would mean a lot!
Aim : ok Utility usage : bad. When Rayna did a 3k behind the gap of his smoke, a simple molotov could counter that. Ex: ultis used... almost none. Bomb planted, hide and use it to gain time. Or avoid the bomb to be planted. He had a least his ult twice for 6 rounds without using it... which is enough time to have another one. So basically, he smokes. And he doesnt use the other 2 and ulti. Sooooo, 25% only of the kit is used. In CS, we say : if you die without using the utility you bought, you did a bad job.
honestly I do NOT agree with the statement of "getting higher in the leaderboard dont matter" specially at lower ranks, cause the game LITERALLY places you according to your individual performance (which I know its not like that from imortal or higher). For context I was stucked since S1A1 at iron 1, descently playing controller and sentinels (didnt even touched duelist) ... and just recently since mid to late S1A3 I started playing phoenix. Now at S2 Im playing phoenix and always or almost always top fraggin...and I promoted in A3 to Iron 2 and now in S2A1 promoted to Iron 3.
Started 3 days ago in diamond 3, currently plat 3. Lost 15 in a row so far, i have not been negative in a single game except 2. I know frags mean nothing if theyre not impactful, but jesus christ how can i win anything?
Playing low elos suck. Dropped playing smokes after half my matches people don't know how to play with smokes. It's literally like playing COD; they only care about top fragging and kills, and not actually taking sites and I end up just wasting utility. It's not fun at all.
Im a brimstone / controller / support main in my team and god this brim gameplay hurts my eyes. Also correct, brimstone isn't as good as omen on icebox, only map id say so.
The chat at the end of this game sums up my least favourite thing about Valorant. The opponent just had a close win at 13-11 and they're saying "ez" and "so free". The game is great but my god the community is toxic. How hard is it to just say gg and move on ffs?
Sry bro...I disagree.....I play omen main and never bottom frag.....position also plays a crucial role in game and having rpg doesn't only mean u r gonna rock the scoreboard...😂
Typical player who came from a game that is not cs. If u play the game long enough u will learn what types of smokes benefits you and what smokes puts u at a disadvantage. These are never smokes that u will see pros use.
Hey BIG shoutout to Swens, make sure to drop him a sub at ruclips.net/user/Swens and tell him thanks for the VOD! I'll be back to streaming TOMORROW, but in the meantime go check out some of my best clips at www.tiktok.com/@DragonmarGames and enjoy the video! Whose VOD should I review next?
Where can i send you a vod. I was mge in csgo and had decent aim and game sense. right now im strugling to get out of gold. I play killjoy oor reyna mainly
Doesn't brim need a buff?
there is a disgusting smoke area for offence in icebox where you can seal off basically high right on A its soooo disgustingly good
thank you so much for reviewing my gameplay man this is awesome
Swen guy
omg dad
Swen was good in act 2 inmortal 3
@@sebabenitez1537 act 3 actually
@@Swens jk swens I watch all ur streams I knew u were gonna say something!! U still crackedtse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OGC.f832dbb4908fd08d0899da211669bd6f&pid=Api&rurl=https%3a%2f%2fmedia.giphy.com%2fmedia%2fYJ5OlVLZ2QNl6%2fgiphy.gif&ehk=Wqoom3ngj8V5B257UK31aGyn4iW6qYMHNu2niIroSpY%3d
If only you could tell every low elo player that kills aren’t everything. People literally won’t listen to your players unless you are at the top of the leaderboard
And then flame at you for "underperforming" and not playing Controlers / Initiators / Sentinels as Duelists. :D
Not everyone is like that, luckily.
True, so happy it gets better in diamond
@@williamsweeney5249 yeah, that's the thing I'm jealous of high elo the most.
I'm silver, so have a long way to go.
For me, being in low elo isn't bad by itself. I know what I'm good at, what I'm bad at and what need to be worked on.
I just like to play more team-oriented and at least try to work as a team, but in low elo it's not always possible. :/
Skyrocketing ego that "I am better silver than you" is hilarious.
Kills arent everything, play style is :) I play KJ or Omen and literally every duelists on my team were so afraid to push in, when I died I saw they have full flashes lmao.
@@vinhkhuong1725 play omen as well and I can’t even describe how often I play where 2 or 3 people instalock a dualist refuse to entryfrag and goes for lurking or watching flank instead. Or our 2 dualists want to go trough mid and wants the rest of us to entry site straight by ourselves.
It’s crazy I was playing smokes all yesterday kinda being forced to and I felt so useless on smokes. This video is exactly what I needed to watch.
Nah smokes have so much outplay potential you can hard carry a game with an omen so try to learn how to use smokes generally better
At the end of the day all of this knowledge come from experience:)
Yes, i know that when i play Omen, I HAVE the impact fot my team, but, the thing is, Riot doesn't get this. Game only sees who got first and more kills. I feel like controller players have the hardest time getting rewarded.
yeah thats true man i am omenmain, i do so much for my team with utility and i clutch so often but those kills at the end (in a 2v2 or 1v1) count half as much as the first kills but they are not easier, so in the end i always get less elo than my reyna although i made the same or even more value/kills
@@PeppaPigParody really? I am usually the highest ranked player in my team and I get more RR than the top frag duelist on my team ( using omen btw )
@@jacobtheall222 I think it's mainly not just the KD ration but also first bloods. I tend to get heavy performance bonuses when getting tons of first bloods.
Why Om trying to learn how to play Kayo as a entry properly Just so i can get those but also be more supportive if my team needs it.
Perfect video for me! Can't wait to watch.
I saw you talk about smoke placement a lot in the video, so I was hoping you could create some sort of guide or good smoke spots for each map. This would be really helpful for lower rank players like me (I just got into silver). I was also wondering if you prefer omen or brim after the recent changes since you have a history of playing both. Also love the videos man really helpful!
You can try to check some "lineup" videos / guides. Maybe Blitz.gg have something for them (didn't check for controllers yet). There is some default smokes, so you can check on this topic this also.
But it's just the beginning and experimenting in Spike Rush, Unrated, or on Customs can work for you even better (that's just my opinion tho). Checking what's working and playing around the smokes. :D
Or find someone who is playing this agent and look what they do. But not in "highlights" videos, more like gameplay frgaments / vids.
Good luck, we need more controllers! :D
(I'm more initiator / sentinel, so it's always welcome to have some other support than watching over 4 duelists x.x)
Only been watching the channel for about a week and have already learned so much about my own play. Appreciate you Dragonmar!
Really important for Swens to check his and his teammates economy. At one point he was about to max out, and the raze requested a vandal drop, but Swens didnt drop it.
another thing I would like to point out. Hes not letting any of the duelists really go first. Hes dry peaking a large amount of angles with 3 duelists on his team. He often contests long range aim duels without using any util.
haha i remember when u joined his stream and he asked for a vod review, truly epic content
"Why Do I Feel Useless" What i wish the video was about: "Why Are My Teammates Useless"
Your teammates probably think you're useless too
This is like someone saying they always get bad roommates. Surprise, you're the bad roommate
i luv these replys but like i always am at the top of the leaderboard and i never even talk bad to my teamates
@@anarchy9065 yeah ur right, but idk what to do its so hard to have faith in anyone except the occasional good players on my team
5:30 Why did he smoke so deep. Just smoke flush. Usually u wanna smoke flush with the entrance to make sure if anyone walks through, they will be extra vunerable and u get an advantage.
He keeps retaking though rafters, i found that retaking A is easier through mid.
He keeps running back facing enemies. It feels like he thinks that since he has a smoke down enemies wouldn't be able to see him. But he just has bad awareness of where his smokes actually covers.
In A site icebox usually u dont wanna smoke anywhere on site, just try and take it aggressively and smoke of the entrances to retaking site. U really wanna just dry peek and gun fight ur way through then smoke after plant cuz retake is way easier that holding on to the site.
Wow, he doesnt know how to use his smokes at all. Hes being so predictable by just throwing 2 smokes instantly every round and push off the smokes. People catch on to that and they eventually know how to counter it.
Bruh this is a typical player who got to his rank purely by aim
I think this is because he mains raze, i might be wrong, but his playstyle is more of a duelist player
10:03, lets say he doesnt have abilities to distract Reyna, bait the rope sound or jump to the other side
I love Swens. He's such a beast on Raze and also really fun to watch.
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I think this is the video I've needed. I am an Omen Main with a little bit of viper on the side. I think I have learned that I am probably smoking to early.
me: playing sova with 9kills/18deaths/17assist 170 damage per round 0.6 kills per round
Valorant scoreboard: ok, you placed 9th, what are assist anyways
Regardless of who you play, this shit is so informational. Thanks a ton dude
Informative* xxx
Hey I was that Omen in the second clip lol. I get a pick and then my dumb Jett lines up directly behind me. I told him I didn't have flash ;(. Our Raze Trump also got titled and threw 2nd half. It's crazy seeing my old Plat 3 days. I'm Diamond 3 now trying to climb back up to it again after hard RR reset.
From context, I’m assuming you meant “Why do I feel useless”
That is very relevant when apparently I can't even spell a 3 letter word. fml
Stim is such an underrated ability, also he's just using the same smokes again instead of experimenting new ones, icebox with a brim is just not the way with so many angles, he's useless there, i tried skye there yesterday and i found it incredibly broken with the bird above the containers, if she says "flashed" its because someone is there
I think it is important to note that Swens is a Raze main that peaked immortal, which would explain the extremely high aggression and confidence. He also admitted in one of his Raze to Immortal videos (was plat i think) that the reason behind some of his braindead plays is underestimating and not respecting the opponent because of the rank difference.
thank u sir ur videos carried me from iron 2 to silver 1 ur one of the most helpful people on youtube. but can u pls make a video on support value like how u can win carry or even get value as a support as breach or sova or even sage in soloq and lower ranks...it would mean a lot!
Hey Dragonmar! How would I go about submitting a vod of mine to you?
Hey Kyle, how can I submit my VODs? Is there an application process?
There is no application progress. You just upload your vod on RUclips and linking it on his discord channel. There is a chat for the links there
Aim : ok
Utility usage : bad.
When Rayna did a 3k behind the gap of his smoke, a simple molotov could counter that.
Ex: ultis used... almost none.
Bomb planted, hide and use it to gain time. Or avoid the bomb to be planted.
He had a least his ult twice for 6 rounds without using it... which is enough time to have another one.
So basically, he smokes. And he doesnt use the other 2 and ulti. Sooooo, 25% only of the kit is used.
In CS, we say : if you die without using the utility you bought, you did a bad job.
Dragonmar: mentions stim beacon
Me: LAFF's Brimstone x Odin .EXE
Yea... But have you tried the STINGER...
@@williamsweeney5249 XDD
Mow enemies and crush them into the ground.
Until you run out of ammo. XD
Hey can you make a video about when to shift walk
We know that almost all the time the low elo players always walking even when peeking
"Duelist push"
i love that you chose a game from the ninja stream
FINALLY YOU ARE UPDATE THE VIDEO 🤠
SWENS should play duelist since he likes to be aggressive.
He does, his raze is nutty
Great video dragon
Finally a new vid. Yay.
Big fan bruh 🇮🇳
Dude your so underated
Can we just send in vods to get reviewed?
Didn't know brim was a duelist
OMG This guy is Platinum?
Tbh he should have done better with Ninja coaching him by his side the entire match.
can't believe this guy is plat
honestly I do NOT agree with the statement of "getting higher in the leaderboard dont matter" specially at lower ranks, cause the game LITERALLY places you according to your individual performance (which I know its not like that from imortal or higher). For context I was stucked since S1A1 at iron 1, descently playing controller and sentinels (didnt even touched duelist) ... and just recently since mid to late S1A3 I started playing phoenix. Now at S2 Im playing phoenix and always or almost always top fraggin...and I promoted in A3 to Iron 2 and now in S2A1 promoted to Iron 3.
TLDR; I dont agree cuz at lower ranks the game literally rewards higher KDA. instead of teamplay.
Swens on brim? Pog
He really just kind of made this a diss video.
The homieee swensss
wow i’ve never been this early
Yoooo its swens
Title says “who” mr dragonmar
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DID THIS
@@Dragonmar teehee
Started 3 days ago in diamond 3, currently plat 3. Lost 15 in a row so far, i have not been negative in a single game except 2. I know frags mean nothing if theyre not impactful, but jesus christ how can i win anything?
Bruh my gameplay is same to same as SWEN
Monke man
Playing low elos suck. Dropped playing smokes after half my matches people don't know how to play with smokes. It's literally like playing COD; they only care about top fragging and kills, and not actually taking sites and I end up just wasting utility. It's not fun at all.
Nice
Here before Swens comments
Hi! Big fan dragonmar
Hi Big fan of you!
Ur voice got deeper
Swens and ImDevin hehe buai
no way thats plat 3
People in his lobby were probably diamond/immortal because of the rank reset
@@m2u526 but evne beore plat plyers rnt thbad
cant watch this till the end because of ninja.
Controllers are underrated
he would be better as omen
collect your before the title changed ticket here
LIES
@@Dragonmar the perfect reply
Im a brimstone / controller / support main in my team and god this brim gameplay hurts my eyes. Also correct, brimstone isn't as good as omen on icebox, only map id say so.
Damn second viewer
woah im early
Hey, the early bird gets worm right? Enjoy your worm!
The chat at the end of this game sums up my least favourite thing about Valorant. The opponent just had a close win at 13-11 and they're saying "ez" and "so free". The game is great but my god the community is toxic. How hard is it to just say gg and move on ffs?
Sry bro...I disagree.....I play omen main and never bottom frag.....position also plays a crucial role in game and having rpg doesn't only mean u r gonna rock the scoreboard...😂
Taking an indefinite break from coaching...not sure that counts as a "break" ngl
YT Un subbed me from u I’m mad
Typical player who came from a game that is not cs. If u play the game long enough u will learn what types of smokes benefits you and what smokes puts u at a disadvantage. These are never smokes that u will see pros use.
As a duelist omen main i disagree with the omen disrespect 😤