5:55 I think this part of execution is worth mentioning. They used both skye and reyna flash together, making enemies overwhelmed and not break the reyna flash
I have been a fan of PRX since last year. Poeple who don't know whats going in PRX match might not pay attention to every utilities. PRX tend to use combos and layers of utilities and combining it with fast paced gameplay. If it works it looks like a stomped, if its fail they looks like they trolling 😂. But thats why I love PRX.
True! i hate that these morons continue to nerf viper which need a whole lot of brain to have any value walls, lineups, one way, rat ults and on the other side reyna noobs just run and gun , flash and kill.
Probably should have focused on how the smoke power creep changed the meta. Having multiple agents that can cut off large parts of the site is what changed. Using smokes to break up a site, force players to move, and pushing through them with flashes is all standard play. Watch a CSGO game from a decade ago and you'll see all of this. Only thing you talked about that was interesting is using ults to go on the offensive while on the defender side.
Every SEA teams you see on pro scene is unpredictable, they always go with the flow. PRX is just that flexible to the point where they can exploit every possibility that comes their way.
paper rex are easily next level valorant they are soo good at the game, insanely fun to watch, they are already beyond all of the other teams! no matter they win or lose they are the main event!!
these guys are insane they literally unlocked Valorant premium because myself and other teams/players are defiantly not using these harbour walls they’ve created , these new variation of walls are defianitely becoming a new meta and I can’t wait to see what other walls some teams find😂
hey brotherman, just wanted you to know that defiantly is a completely different word from definitely, best way to remember is to type out "DEFINITE" and then just ly at the end. Good luck out there!
This was a great video. Can you dedicate another video to utilizing smokes in less common ways? (smoking early for map control, smoking in the middle of the open for your team to work around, lurk smokes) I personally think that smoke players feel typically locked in to doing one setup every time that might not always be the best, especially on attack.
It’s clear paperX is pushing to innovate with more on the fly protocols and tactics. This reminds me of VirtusPro execs and Astralis style gameplay. Or before my time Korean 1.6 execs. Also the reason these teams respects smokes so much is because there hasn’t been enough innovative smoke pushes yet. Biggest issue with disrespecting smokes is the punish. We will see if this is sustainable in time.
in modern chess, at elite level, Opening theory is quite "resolved", so the new chess era is about know some strage line that is not the most eficcient, but the one that your rival doesn´t know
It seems to me even though they are playing on the old patch, it FEELS like they're playing on the LATEST one with the way they section off fights with util.
Really awesome matchup to watch. The methodical, classical style of play DRX follows versus the crazy, fast-paced and unpredicable style of play that PRX follows.
This is a great video! As a bronze stuck, I've always wondered why teams never take sites in small pieces, and when they do they just dry peak the rest of the site or waste 20secs without planting etc
Too many people get comfortable with the "correct" way to play a game and simply assume that if they do the thing theyre "supposed" to do, everyone else will too. It quickly falls apart when someone doesnt do what theyre supposed to do. If you stop watching the smoke because "no one would push through this smoke", you remove the reason why its bad to push through the smoke and make it not such a bad reason.
Paper Rex team is like playing competiteve while otoher team play pro plaay basicly they just dont overthink stuff and just do simple but effective stuff and win , combine their utility
2:22 "In DRX's game, smokes stop enemy player from going through. But in PRX's, smokes don't exist." That reminds me of Stewie2K's early pro career era back in CSGO, always plays aggressive and try to push smokes when every player but him still have this mindset of 'if smokes are thrown, there's a probability that enemies are holding the angle on the other side' and most of the time rather to avoid it and play safe.
the problem with using this strat in regular MM is that nobody expects their util to work in any rank. You can't just push smokes and catch people off guard. Its fun when it does work but its very rare
PRX is reminding me of Stewie2k. Before him smokes were walls in CSGO, people did not expect anyone to go through them unless absolutely necessary, then came this guy who will go straight through them as if they weren't a deterrent but a suggestion
this gameplay reminds me of low gold plays… pushing through one ways and shit like that. Funny to see how effective it is, as it basically forces the other team to think in a completely new mindset
I'm not a fan of valorant, im more CSGO but I love this playstyle for every game I play. Being aggressive and unpredictable will almost always give you an advantage at least once, it adds a level of mind games that most opponents struggle to deal with properly and if you have good movement or aim then you can get into places that nobody would think of, and that goes for league, cs, or hunt. I'm glad to see valorant has a team doing something like this and keeps it interesting
Nice to see that no one will be able to say "noooo u need to play smart with util" what I've noticed is that val people dont expect a chamge on pace is always either slow or fast and when it happens u are caught pants down.
Genuinely PaperX turned VALORANT into a moba, which makes sense and is insanely more fun to watch. There's an element of planning, but also a lot of on the fly decision making around the until economy, no decision they make is on paper "perfect" but you can see the cogs turning as every piece of util has it's own little mini objective. Putting a Reyna eye to get through a head glitch orb, using harbor wall to force a destructive gunfight and make them give up position, harbor wall to block out fights, it all feels more like Smite or League to me than valorant. Like Harbor is the support, putting down some CC for the team to isolate targets and peel for his team, reynas the adc, providing the most damage, ect.
Great Video. Even with something out, they still were able to beat DRX handedly. To me, it seems like this type of playstyle works really well to win those 50/50 rounds that so often decide games. This video and their recent performances lowkey making me a PRX fan now
this is what i am saying to my team evry time : smoke are nothing, we can just flash and run site but i just got bait evry single time because my team stay main as i entry alone
SEE BRO THIS IS WHAT I TRY TO PREACH TO MY FRIENDS...there's a lot you can potentially discuss, but just that beginning line alone is how I try to "think outside the box" and shit in Valorant, he said "they play as if you cant walk through smokes, meanwhile reyna plays as if you can walk right through that shit" YES BRO, sometimes deception isn't doing a buncha shit at once, it's just doing that thing makes the enemy uncomfortable and they go "no they couldn't possibly be doing that, right?" 🔥
It feels like to me that DRX are concerned with grand strategy, while PRX are concerned with plug-and-play micro plays to give them bite sized advantages in the round.
I think people are misunderstanding CS's methodical method in valorant. CS is methodical because everyone has a smoke so by the time entries/retakes happen, we still have utility to be reactive/responsive/creative. It doesn't work the same in valorant with only 1 or 2 smoke agents and it still shocks me to learn that some people haven't figured that out yet when they complain about "why didn't you use all your smokes" or when you do a slightly different smoke setup
Kinda reminds me of old counter strike days when stewie2k used to always push a smoke and sometimes pop flash out the smoke. You just don't expect it sometimes. He used to be called the smoke criminal or something like that with videos showing streamers getting mad at him for pushing smokes.
Smth's playstile is something like agression that you see in ranked games. I was always interested what happens if you coordiante competitive playstile into pro scene
another thing to mention ,this reminds me of the early says of sentinels,they use to be so creative and did things out of the books ,but as soon as the patch changed,they fell apart,they lost all creativity,tries to play by the book like everyone and fell,their 2021 season ,2022 and 2023 are just so bad,im sad to see this,but im glad other team are trying to break this notion of "meta" and you have to play like everyone else to win,its innovative,fun and give a new way to look at how one of the "worst agent" can be used in valorant,reyna hasnt been used pro play as much as she use to be in the early days of valorant ,because the so called meta,and its really nice to see,an agent can be broken ,its protential is only limited by the users imagination,their combo with the skye flash a great way to make good use of her eyes!
Although valorant FEELS slower, the utility counters this and makes this game somewhat fast paste. The valorant meta has a long way to go and although going slow and map control is the most save way to play it can also be the worst if you find yourself not able to get picks. What for me really inportant is valorant is that you need to be in sync with your team mates and their abilities. + you need to addapt and change. I can assure you that theres a millions ways to enter or defend a site. And so many of them have not been found. One tiny critic i must give you is that people in csgo addapt way faster and are less scared to try new things then in valorant. I mean new strats are still being found and the game is older then me😂.
Paper Rex surprised play worked as well as it catches their opponents off guard yet Valorant should be played by adapting to both enemies and your teams strategies and that is the real way to play Valorant cos as the Agent pull gets bigger more combinations of skills will result in different plays and strategies and it will be harder to predict how plays will pan out.
you forgot the reyna skye combo, either defenders break reyna eye and get flashed by the skye bird or they dodge the skye bird turn around and are flashed by the reyna eye
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As an APAC viewer, these two teams are my favourite rivals.
DRX = play by the book methodical team
PRX = aggressive and unpredictable team
PRX = Burn the book, and write from its ash
OG clash was PRX vs Zeta. W gaming vs S gaming
@@rf7182 w
they dont know a book exists
@flamicey7055 lol
so basically a Defensive RX versus a Pushing RX
I love this
LMAO 😂
waiting for a team to name themselves as Black RX
Paper Rex: Favorites to win Masters Tokyo
Japanese Visa: I’m about to end something’s whole career
he's former sengoku player which is japanese team :)
@@kirillmolchov3155 visas expire
He’s already in japan :)
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@@paulfu8894 for real ? may i see the info
In paper rex's game smokes are merely a suggestion, a suggestion that they promptly ignore.
5:55 I think this part of execution is worth mentioning. They used both skye and reyna flash together, making enemies overwhelmed and not break the reyna flash
is it just me or i dont see a skye flash that's a kayo flash, skye used dog and also didn't have flash it was just reyna's
@@mawnns just you
@@farisimran4588 nah u can see stax used a flash before he dies and d4v41 doesnt even have a flash
that's a team flash
and davai doesn't have a bird
@@farisimran4588 no it was kayo's flash, davai didnt have his flash at the time
I have been a fan of PRX since last year. Poeple who don't know whats going in PRX match might not pay attention to every utilities. PRX tend to use combos and layers of utilities and combining it with fast paced gameplay. If it works it looks like a stomped, if its fail they looks like they trolling 😂. But thats why I love PRX.
"we are not PRX if we are not trolling, right?"
-davai 2023
DRX= The people who actually studied for the exam and has all the answers written down.
PRX= The team that has the future exam.
PRX = the team that studies on the day of the exam😂
@@satinjaz6637you mean the team that didnt study at all and simply wing it with logic and still get an A
Smokes to PRX player is like Road sign to SE-Asians, they don't care.
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Riot: "Another reason to nerf Viper!"
Chamber*
Please do viper has been at the centre of every miserable meta just kill her for a few months
Viper is still perfectly viable for SoloQ in all ranks, stop crying
True! i hate that these morons continue to nerf viper which need a whole lot of brain to have any value walls, lineups, one way, rat ults and on the other side reyna noobs just run and gun , flash and kill.
@GuyWhoseAGamer bro you've literally admitted to being silver/bronze, pipe down
I spent forever on this. Subscribe or everyone will pick Reyna in your next game.
Jokes on you, they instalock it anyhow. Every. Single. Game.
Probably should have focused on how the smoke power creep changed the meta. Having multiple agents that can cut off large parts of the site is what changed. Using smokes to break up a site, force players to move, and pushing through them with flashes is all standard play. Watch a CSGO game from a decade ago and you'll see all of this. Only thing you talked about that was interesting is using ults to go on the offensive while on the defender side.
As a Skye player, I'm ok with this!
Every SEA teams you see on pro scene is unpredictable, they always go with the flow. PRX is just that flexible to the point where they can exploit every possibility that comes their way.
Except team secret they are just bad at the game and no new strats 😂 no wonder prx are demolishing them as well as other apac teams 😂
@@jjcrpytaps5271 team secret beat prx, just wanna add that in
I'll say it again, if Buzz wasn't on god mode that ascent map, PRX would have won comfortably with their reyna harbor comp.
Indeed
It will be 3-1
Once buzz got his hands on op, they just couldnt entry. There was always those small mistakes like there's a gap in harbors wall or half blinds.
paper rex are easily next level valorant they are soo good at the game, insanely fun to watch, they are already beyond all of the other teams! no matter they win or lose they are the main event!!
cannot wait to see how the other teams in masters deal with prx
and hope something gets there soon
He’s there already 👌
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@shawngao9459 it's not confirmed 😆
@@stewpid6180 already on smth twt
@@nitel3635 the prx ceo said he's still in Singapore.
these guys are insane they literally unlocked Valorant premium because myself and other teams/players are defiantly not using these harbour walls they’ve created , these new variation of walls are defianitely becoming a new meta and I can’t wait to see what other walls some teams find😂
hey brotherman, just wanted you to know that defiantly is a completely different word from definitely, best way to remember is to type out "DEFINITE" and then just ly at the end. Good luck out there!
@@genaxide cheers bro I don’t have autocorrect on PC when I typed comment but thanks bro
@@csblucas finally, a person who accepts mistakes
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@@legendaryofthesea3920 that's how you know someone isn't insecure. they take it like a champ rather than get offended
This was a great video. Can you dedicate another video to utilizing smokes in less common ways? (smoking early for map control, smoking in the middle of the open for your team to work around, lurk smokes) I personally think that smoke players feel typically locked in to doing one setup every time that might not always be the best, especially on attack.
YES, I SECOND THIS!!
Yes, I would love this as well!
It’s clear paperX is pushing to innovate with more on the fly protocols and tactics. This reminds me of VirtusPro execs and Astralis style gameplay. Or before my time Korean 1.6 execs.
Also the reason these teams respects smokes so much is because there hasn’t been enough innovative smoke pushes yet. Biggest issue with disrespecting smokes is the punish. We will see if this is sustainable in time.
i wish there are more teams like paper rex, where they have good aim and also take different strat approach to the game.
the ending speech was so well done, thats exactly what siege is about and i miss it
in modern chess, at elite level, Opening theory is quite "resolved", so the new chess era is about know some strage line that is not the most eficcient, but the one that your rival doesn´t know
"Paper Rex are doing Something" 💀
It seems to me even though they are playing on the old patch, it FEELS like they're playing on the LATEST one with the way they section off fights with util.
WHATS THE PLAN ?
PRX: "Yes"
Really awesome matchup to watch. The methodical, classical style of play DRX follows versus the crazy, fast-paced and unpredicable style of play that PRX follows.
it rly is one of the el classico of valorant with optic and loud
The best is, before reyna dismiss duration over, they use smoke for cover. And that timing is perfect....
Its fun to watch PRX, FNC and TL breaking and cooking up new meta
This is a great video! As a bronze stuck, I've always wondered why teams never take sites in small pieces, and when they do they just dry peak the rest of the site or waste 20secs without planting etc
What they're doing imo is finding those 1-2 seconds when the enemy's guards are down and capitalizing on that
Very well made video. PRX is such a fun team to watch.
Too many people get comfortable with the "correct" way to play a game and simply assume that if they do the thing theyre "supposed" to do, everyone else will too. It quickly falls apart when someone doesnt do what theyre supposed to do. If you stop watching the smoke because "no one would push through this smoke", you remove the reason why its bad to push through the smoke and make it not such a bad reason.
this is why we love paper rex so much
Paper Rex team is like playing competiteve while otoher team play pro plaay basicly they just dont overthink stuff and just do simple but effective stuff and win , combine their utility
basicly pov radiant player play against silver players who have same skill as radiant but have difrent thinking
Where is the animation for that Reyna vs Yoru fight from ? It’s so cool ! 2:18
I think at this point PRX is at least everyone's second favorite team
2:22 "In DRX's game, smokes stop enemy player from going through. But in PRX's, smokes don't exist."
That reminds me of Stewie2K's early pro career era back in CSGO, always plays aggressive and try to push smokes when every player but him still have this mindset of 'if smokes are thrown, there's a probability that enemies are holding the angle on the other side' and most of the time rather to avoid it and play safe.
the problem with using this strat in regular MM is that nobody expects their util to work in any rank. You can't just push smokes and catch people off guard. Its fun when it does work but its very rare
If you’re bad at the highest level then you’re good
Finally a Reyna playing like a Reyna
not alot of people talk about how they used harbor differently most of them talked about the reyna pick
2:15 them reyna jugs 😂😂 respectfully.
PRX is reminding me of Stewie2k. Before him smokes were walls in CSGO, people did not expect anyone to go through them unless absolutely necessary, then came this guy who will go straight through them as if they weren't a deterrent but a suggestion
this gameplay reminds me of low gold plays… pushing through one ways and shit like that. Funny to see how effective it is, as it basically forces the other team to think in a completely new mindset
aleck's be like: "you go shut ur brain. just go brain dead"
This is how most crazy Iron plays are done in the lower lobby LMAO. Its great when it works and when it doesn't its bad.
They’re playing chess when we are playing checkers
You should check out bronze/silver matches. You'd be surprised how many weird smokes and strats the teams there come up with
ive been doing this in comp. no one expects it. its also good to do when ppl molly and entrance depending of the situation
I'm not a fan of valorant, im more CSGO but I love this playstyle for every game I play. Being aggressive and unpredictable will almost always give you an advantage at least once, it adds a level of mind games that most opponents struggle to deal with properly and if you have good movement or aim then you can get into places that nobody would think of, and that goes for league, cs, or hunt. I'm glad to see valorant has a team doing something like this and keeps it interesting
PRX having a extremely fleshed out development arc makes this anime we call valorant worth watching
Congratulations on 100k subscribers 🎉🎉
Nice to see that no one will be able to say "noooo u need to play smart with util" what I've noticed is that val people dont expect a chamge on pace is always either slow or fast and when it happens u are caught pants down.
Paper Rex takes the ow approach to Val and it’s really cool to watch
I just love reyna in pro play. She’s a great agent with a lot of sustain and is the X factor
Genuinely PaperX turned VALORANT into a moba, which makes sense and is insanely more fun to watch. There's an element of planning, but also a lot of on the fly decision making around the until economy, no decision they make is on paper "perfect" but you can see the cogs turning as every piece of util has it's own little mini objective. Putting a Reyna eye to get through a head glitch orb, using harbor wall to force a destructive gunfight and make them give up position, harbor wall to block out fights, it all feels more like Smite or League to me than valorant. Like Harbor is the support, putting down some CC for the team to isolate targets and peel for his team, reynas the adc, providing the most damage, ect.
They really took the "overcome your limits" thing
2:20 Where that animation from? Looks sick.
i would like to know aswell
Great Video. Even with something out, they still were able to beat DRX handedly. To me, it seems like this type of playstyle works really well to win those 50/50 rounds that so often decide games. This video and their recent performances lowkey making me a PRX fan now
This is very well explained and is very helpful for those players who just have been playing the default strat ever since.
DRX fan here but i am really admire from what PRX bring to the table. They are the new king of Apac, but we are not gives up.
this is what i am saying to my team evry time : smoke are nothing, we can just flash and run site but i just got bait evry single time because my team stay main as i entry alone
so basically they played like it was a solo queue game LOL
We see last year how PRX execute yoru so well.. and that match againts FNATIC was hella of joy to watch
Damn this video was amazing big W
So basically prx found out about the gold plat strat of not respecting enemies utility 😅
"but prx says that shit is boring and rips a harbor ult into there spawn with a 4 man push" LMFAO
While everyone else playing CS, Paper Rex playing Moba
SEE BRO THIS IS WHAT I TRY TO PREACH TO MY FRIENDS...there's a lot you can potentially discuss, but just that beginning line alone is how I try to "think outside the box" and shit in Valorant, he said "they play as if you cant walk through smokes, meanwhile reyna plays as if you can walk right through that shit" YES BRO, sometimes deception isn't doing a buncha shit at once, it's just doing that thing makes the enemy uncomfortable and they go "no they couldn't possibly be doing that, right?" 🔥
Everyone is playing valorant, while Paper Rex are playing overwatch.
It feels like to me that DRX are concerned with grand strategy, while PRX are concerned with plug-and-play micro plays to give them bite sized advantages in the round.
PRX are pioneers at this point because they do something that is unthinkable to do.
the harbor ascent a site attack wall wont work in low elo, someone gonna have a judge, someone has a odin spamming a main, its gg
The Glazing is wild but its true
I think people are misunderstanding CS's methodical method in valorant. CS is methodical because everyone has a smoke so by the time entries/retakes happen, we still have utility to be reactive/responsive/creative. It doesn't work the same in valorant with only 1 or 2 smoke agents and it still shocks me to learn that some people haven't figured that out yet when they complain about "why didn't you use all your smokes" or when you do a slightly different smoke setup
Kinda reminds me of old counter strike days when stewie2k used to always push a smoke and sometimes pop flash out the smoke. You just don't expect it sometimes. He used to be called the smoke criminal or something like that with videos showing streamers getting mad at him for pushing smokes.
Smth's playstile is something like agression that you see in ranked games. I was always interested what happens if you coordiante competitive playstile into pro scene
"Offense is the best form of defense"
DRX polar opposite is PRX
Paper Rex strat is basically “play like a Silver and aim like a pro”
Finally, harbor being used like a duelist/controller shows what it can really do
Initiator
As a wise old man said to me once back in the days of csgo: smokes are not walls, the enemy can still cross that shit
think i found the team that fits me, man i do this shit on solo ranked just for myself sometimes it feels like lol
BUT WHEN I TELL MY TEAM TO HOLD W THEY DONT LISTEN, now i know 110% it works
took me a minute to realize that something was an actual player LOL
another thing to mention ,this reminds me of the early says of sentinels,they use to be so creative and did things out of the books ,but as soon as the patch changed,they fell apart,they lost all creativity,tries to play by the book like everyone and fell,their 2021 season ,2022 and 2023 are just so bad,im sad to see this,but im glad other team are trying to break this notion of "meta" and you have to play like everyone else to win,its innovative,fun and give a new way to look at how one of the "worst agent" can be used in valorant,reyna hasnt been used pro play as much as she use to be in the early days of valorant ,because the so called meta,and its really nice to see,an agent can be broken ,its protential is only limited by the users imagination,their combo with the skye flash a great way to make good use of her eyes!
omfg they just like me fr T-T rushing everywhere like a madman
I’m all about creative off meta plays, so PRX is fun to watch shake things up
Although valorant FEELS slower, the utility counters this and makes this game somewhat fast paste. The valorant meta has a long way to go and although going slow and map control is the most save way to play it can also be the worst if you find yourself not able to get picks. What for me really inportant is valorant is that you need to be in sync with your team mates and their abilities. + you need to addapt and change. I can assure you that theres a millions ways to enter or defend a site. And so many of them have not been found. One tiny critic i must give you is that people in csgo addapt way faster and are less scared to try new things then in valorant. I mean new strats are still being found and the game is older then me😂.
That's op. Nerf Chamber to balance things out
congrats on 100k
i dont think ive ever focused for 9 straight minutes before like i did with this video
Paper rex is to Valorant what Astralis was to CSGO back in 2016-2018.
PRX can probably use any comp and win as long as it's on bind.
They are playing the game the way it should be.❤
Damn that player is really something
Meanwhile forsaken still stickin to harbor
Disrespecting utility and just run it down is just SEA style. In my ASC/IMM ranked games it’s common
Paper Rex surprised play worked as well as it catches their opponents off guard yet Valorant should be played by adapting to both enemies and your teams strategies and that is the real way to play Valorant cos as the Agent pull gets bigger more combinations of skills will result in different plays and strategies and it will be harder to predict how plays will pan out.
you forgot the reyna skye combo, either defenders break reyna eye and get flashed by the skye bird or they dodge the skye bird turn around and are flashed by the reyna eye
brimstone with the zestiest pose ever
This aged like fine wine.