I think that the discussion about needing a Jett is a super interesting one. In a MOBA like Dota 2, you don't NEED any particular hero but there are definitely heroes that have such a high skill cap that it's possible to skill-diff people so much more than other heroes. I see Jett as a very similar case in Valorant. Maybe you don't NEED the Jett to win but you also aren't giving your star players the opportunity to just fully outplay the opposition. So yes, you probably do need a Jett player to fully unlock the maximum potential of some players and then it's just a matter of whether they are consistent enough to make it worthwhile to do so.
I think that the best way to describe agents like Jett and Reyna is as a force multiplier - the amount of benefit that you can get from the agents just multiplies based on the raw skill of the player, so an average player will still be at an average level, but players with incredible mechanics can move from really good with an agent like sova or sage to incredible with a jett or reyna
I disagree, at the top level Jett is an obvious must pick for a duelist, if you have 1 duelist its gotta be jett, if you have 2 Jett is almost always 1 of them, she is lightyears ahead of the other duelists in terms of value, she creates so much space and allows you to do so many risky things, clear top tier agent
Not lying when I say, brimstone is my favorite agent... when this man says "moley" it makes my day 10x better. Viper not so much, saying some diminatrix stuff here and there let alone her line that just says "cum" is a no for me! Not many people may have my back but when I hear "smokes down." Or "Moley!" I know I'm in a good place.
Great show. Balla is a great addition and I like that he is comfortable disagreeing with the main narrative. His CS background complements everyone else well.
Amazing episode guys. Once Challenger Finals top8 for each region is filled, might be good content to do "Top10 teams who will make it to Reykjavik" before they actually finish the Chall finals.
The thing with eu and tr/cis combined into one challengers finals is that they were all separate for the first masters. Meaning 3 teams got 100 points already for the championship series at the end of the year. Now it's harder for teams to make it into masters to acquire points + they are in the same region as 3 teams with 100 points already when it comes to championship series.
I disagree with Wyatt heavily on the viper take. Her utility was never respected and now teams have to be very careful when playing against a viper. She has to make commited choices about where to place her utility as well.
Riot have already shown several times that they understand the need to over buff agents simply so that people will actually bother to play the agents, and learn how to make them useful, and then they walk back the buffs. Like both omen and jett were seen as being d tier, buffed, became S tier, and were then nerfed pretty much back to the original without dropping a ton in usage.
Yeah people won't start playing unless they overbuff. They can tune them later if they turn out be too op but first gotta make people even pick them in the first place
To comment on the Dig signing/trialing Bxby J; he is an ex Halo pro, up coming cracked out sentinel kind of similar to someone like Nature. The dude is a freak and I think he could easily be on a top 6 team as a sentinel. Probably even better tbh.
The number of slots for European challengers wasn't based on viewership numbers but on the amount of high ranking players each region had on the ladder. They also clarified that that was only the case this time and that next event it will be based on results from prior tournaments.
This is late, but I think it would be great if Viper's instant decay only affected armour. so that the 50 dmg isn't so impactful on pistol rounds, but it really deters aggression early in the round when everyone has full armour. (the molly would obviously have to do additional damage to unarmoured as well)
I'm pretty late to comment but I want to say this on the topic of needing a Jet. I think teams are not building their comps correctly yet, at least 100% correctly. I think teams should be looking at their one-two most impactful players and building around them. FaZe is a good example of this. Babybay is your #1 guy, you put him on Jet and you don't ever take him off of Jet because if you do you're literally a different team. The same goes for Sentinels, but here its not just your star duelist. For Sen, TenZ should be on Jet because he gets away with the same sort of plays BabyBay and cned do, but also it feels like Sen NEED dapr on Cypher as well. Like Balla was saying, some people you could switch agents and it wouldn't affect anything. In Sentinels, Sick can play whatever the fuck he wants and he will be equally as good on all of them, so having him on a specific character is not as important, so you can feed him whatever is left that helps TenZ and dapr do what they do best. The requirement to win is not a specific character like Jet, but what your players will get the most from. Jet is not necessary but if your star player gets the most from Jet, they need to be playing her. You have players with hard roles and players that fill, fill players need to pick whatever is going to help the hard roles the best
Am i missing something? Why are c9 white and c9 blue allowed to play in the same challengers tournament? Nothing to do with gender - its just a straight up conflict of interest since there could be a scenario where both qualify to the main challengers event, and could end up playing against each other or in the same bracket. If that occurs would one of the two be disqualified? If not in that case if there's a head to head matchup between the two, one could potentially throw to the other (obviously not likely but similar cases like mibr vs yeah gaming in csgo). It would benefit the c9 org say if c9 white went through to masters due to all the publicity and how good it would be for a womens team to make it through - but c9 blue's performance could directly influence whether or not they do make it through
They probably have to be run by separate parts of the org; I'm pretty certain immortals owned two OWL franchises at one point, and that is what happened there iirc.
I personally don't think FPX as a #3-4 EU team shud be there same with Dfuse I mean 4-5 EU team up there is a lot I think Heretics Guild and Asend are the best there, in replacement I might put VS or Futbolist not to sure, The list is really good by drop Envy but you can definitely tell there is some EU slow play bias here with 3 in the top 4 and 5 in the top 8
Bruh Vision Striker literally won everything in korea even if the region is weak no way Vision Striker wouldn't be at least #10, disrespecting Vision Striker's 57 wins streak man.
Bruh Lagos Lions literally won everything in Nigeria even if the region is weak no way Lagos Lions wouldn't be at least #10, disrespecting Lagos Lions's 57 wins streak man. This is your logic xD. weak region = weak team
@@davidwallner9565 ok I didnt say that weak region=weak team at all. First of all Vision Striker "technically" is the most consistent team in the world but most people would said that Vision Striker wouldn't be in the ranking for World just because Korea isnt as strong of a region compare to others. They at least deserve a #10 in the ranking just based off all the accomplishments they have had so far. Lastly, Vision striker when it's come to abilities combo is a lot better than a lot of team in the top 10 ranking and when it come to their stratergy they actually have a lot of good strats that's why they are so dominant in Korea. And also who the hell is Lagos Lion.
Balla seems like a really nice guy and I appreciate him filling in for Bren, but fucking hell I wish he would shut up and let other people speak sometimes. If you haven’t watched the games on a specific player why are you making points about them that then compromises another persons ability to make a contradictive point about the same player because they would have to put you under the bus
Geng is still relatively new and 100t is still trying things with the roster change but faze is falling off after their honey moon I feel like geng is going to be third best na and 100t a close second to sen once this all settles down
Eh so por essa fala desse cara eu ja percebi que n da pra levar muito em consideração o que ele diz, até pq a gamelanders n tem um player q veio do cs, assim como a vks, logo esse cara falou agua ao meu entender.
Its sad that the boys don't follow Korean Valorant. Vision Strikers would be above Guild at the very least. Faze straight up copy and pasted Rb's Jett flash and dash playstyle before he switched to Raze this tournament.
i want wyatt to beat me with that chain and then degrade me
Damn, took the words right outta my mouth
Thank you for the information, Sergio.
i want wyatt to read this aloud next podcast. it is a requirement
WYATT WHERE ARE YOU
now that Dig has disbanded, Dephh would have been a perfect fit for TSM. A super solid experienced IGL that plays the sentinel role
He's playing vct in a pug team
Rara Koalanoob and BabyJ are cracked tho
Yep this is the comment
I agree with you, but I don’t think Dephh is leaving ex-Dig unless he’s poached
@@CouchPotatoCrusader pp
TSM need to give subroza time to play maple story before matches and theyll do fine.
Three hours of my favorite podcast 🚀🔥
I think that the discussion about needing a Jett is a super interesting one. In a MOBA like Dota 2, you don't NEED any particular hero but there are definitely heroes that have such a high skill cap that it's possible to skill-diff people so much more than other heroes. I see Jett as a very similar case in Valorant. Maybe you don't NEED the Jett to win but you also aren't giving your star players the opportunity to just fully outplay the opposition. So yes, you probably do need a Jett player to fully unlock the maximum potential of some players and then it's just a matter of whether they are consistent enough to make it worthwhile to do so.
these ranking were very good. i would put dignitas #1 though.
Truu
YUP, best team without a doubt they don't even exist there that good.
They got 1 team that made it to reyjavik .. Sentinels
@@zeik04 Vikings and Sharks went too?
I think that the best way to describe agents like Jett and Reyna is as a force multiplier - the amount of benefit that you can get from the agents just multiplies based on the raw skill of the player, so an average player will still be at an average level, but players with incredible mechanics can move from really good with an agent like sova or sage to incredible with a jett or reyna
I disagree, at the top level Jett is an obvious must pick for a duelist, if you have 1 duelist its gotta be jett, if you have 2 Jett is almost always 1 of them, she is lightyears ahead of the other duelists in terms of value, she creates so much space and allows you to do so many risky things, clear top tier agent
sideshow doing yoru ult run animation is the funniest shit ive seen all week 20:40
I love his run
I really, really like having Balla on the show. Really nice to get a viewpoint outside of the classic PlatChat squad echo chamber
I agree but bren will always be the best person on the podcast
Is Wyatt psychic? Did he have a premonition that Dignitas was going to release their entire roster before it happened?!
He’s a shaman
He probably saw the reddit post
Not lying when I say, brimstone is my favorite agent... when this man says "moley" it makes my day 10x better. Viper not so much, saying some diminatrix stuff here and there let alone her line that just says "cum" is a no for me! Not many people may have my back but when I hear "smokes down." Or "Moley!" I know I'm in a good place.
Great show. Balla is a great addition and I like that he is comfortable disagreeing with the main narrative. His CS background complements everyone else well.
jett just seems like a force multiplier. these aggressive players just have more potential to get kills and live as opposed to other heroes
Amazing episode guys. Once Challenger Finals top8 for each region is filled, might be good content to do "Top10 teams who will make it to Reykjavik" before they actually finish the Chall finals.
The thing with eu and tr/cis combined into one challengers finals is that they were all separate for the first masters. Meaning 3 teams got 100 points already for the championship series at the end of the year. Now it's harder for teams to make it into masters to acquire points + they are in the same region as 3 teams with 100 points already when it comes to championship series.
I disagree with Wyatt heavily on the viper take. Her utility was never respected and now teams have to be very careful when playing against a viper. She has to make commited choices about where to place her utility as well.
Riot have already shown several times that they understand the need to over buff agents simply so that people will actually bother to play the agents, and learn how to make them useful, and then they walk back the buffs. Like both omen and jett were seen as being d tier, buffed, became S tier, and were then nerfed pretty much back to the original without dropping a ton in usage.
Yeah people won't start playing unless they overbuff. They can tune them later if they turn out be too op but first gotta make people even pick them in the first place
Just tested the bucky. Actually it's almost how they want it. If you hit a right click at 9-10m on the head insta kill
To comment on the Dig signing/trialing Bxby J; he is an ex Halo pro, up coming cracked out sentinel kind of similar to someone like Nature. The dude is a freak and I think he could easily be on a top 6 team as a sentinel. Probably even better tbh.
The number of slots for European challengers wasn't based on viewership numbers but on the amount of high ranking players each region had on the ladder. They also clarified that that was only the case this time and that next event it will be based on results from prior tournaments.
i wish they talked more about their weekends
Dignitas should sign Wyatt "WyattR" River as a talent scout or manager
What would we do without the top tier production
love the discussion of jett. everyone getting involved and speaking
This is late, but I think it would be great if Viper's instant decay only affected armour. so that the 50 dmg isn't so impactful on pistol rounds, but it really deters aggression early in the round when everyone has full armour. (the molly would obviously have to do additional damage to unarmoured as well)
2:17:13 Sideshow almost saying "European Contenders" showing his Overwatch roots 😄
Hope Bren is doing okay! Miss him on these podcasts
Why put Sentinels at #2 when Tenz is literally a STAND IN and not a permanent member - makes no sense.
We definitely lost this game in OT or 13-11, Sideshow...
Imagine not putting x10 at first seed when they just won a tournament in a region with bren esports in it
Who are Bren esports? are they any good?
@@matchuru2492 hes joking because of bren
Love the longer episodes ☺️
I'm pretty late to comment but I want to say this on the topic of needing a Jet. I think teams are not building their comps correctly yet, at least 100% correctly. I think teams should be looking at their one-two most impactful players and building around them. FaZe is a good example of this. Babybay is your #1 guy, you put him on Jet and you don't ever take him off of Jet because if you do you're literally a different team. The same goes for Sentinels, but here its not just your star duelist. For Sen, TenZ should be on Jet because he gets away with the same sort of plays BabyBay and cned do, but also it feels like Sen NEED dapr on Cypher as well.
Like Balla was saying, some people you could switch agents and it wouldn't affect anything. In Sentinels, Sick can play whatever the fuck he wants and he will be equally as good on all of them, so having him on a specific character is not as important, so you can feed him whatever is left that helps TenZ and dapr do what they do best. The requirement to win is not a specific character like Jet, but what your players will get the most from. Jet is not necessary but if your star player gets the most from Jet, they need to be playing her. You have players with hard roles and players that fill, fill players need to pick whatever is going to help the hard roles the best
Am i missing something? Why are c9 white and c9 blue allowed to play in the same challengers tournament? Nothing to do with gender - its just a straight up conflict of interest since there could be a scenario where both qualify to the main challengers event, and could end up playing against each other or in the same bracket. If that occurs would one of the two be disqualified? If not in that case if there's a head to head matchup between the two, one could potentially throw to the other (obviously not likely but similar cases like mibr vs yeah gaming in csgo). It would benefit the c9 org say if c9 white went through to masters due to all the publicity and how good it would be for a womens team to make it through - but c9 blue's performance could directly influence whether or not they do make it through
They probably have to be run by separate parts of the org; I'm pretty certain immortals owned two OWL franchises at one point, and that is what happened there iirc.
3 hours is quite short for a plat chat
Lmao now dignitas doesn’t even have a team
As much as i believe VS are overrated, i do think they have a case for top 10
Their aim isn’t great compared to T1 NA EU teams
TSM should have signed an IGL
I personally don't think FPX as a #3-4 EU team shud be there same with Dfuse I mean 4-5 EU team up there is a lot I think Heretics Guild and Asend are the best there, in replacement I might put VS or Futbolist not to sure, The list is really good by drop Envy but you can definitely tell there is some EU slow play bias here with 3 in the top 4 and 5 in the top 8
Bruh Vision Striker literally won everything in korea even if the region is weak no way Vision Striker wouldn't be at least #10, disrespecting Vision Striker's 57 wins streak man.
Bruh Lagos Lions literally won everything in Nigeria even if the region is weak no way Lagos Lions wouldn't be at least #10, disrespecting Lagos Lions's 57 wins streak man.
This is your logic xD.
weak region = weak team
@@davidwallner9565 ok I didnt say that weak region=weak team at all. First of all Vision Striker "technically" is the most consistent team in the world but most people would said that Vision Striker wouldn't be in the ranking for World just because Korea isnt as strong of a region compare to others. They at least deserve a #10 in the ranking just based off all the accomplishments they have had so far. Lastly, Vision striker when it's come to abilities combo is a lot better than a lot of team in the top 10 ranking and when it come to their stratergy they actually have a lot of good strats that's why they are so dominant in Korea. And also who the hell is Lagos Lion.
where do you guys find the bracket for the upcoming challengers? I've tried looking for it online but I have not been able to find it?
Vlr.gg
@@jackpennington3944 thanks. couldn't find it for the life of me.
Well I guess we won't see G2 OMEGALUL. Also y'all down playing Brazil so hard and I feel like Ascend play similar to Brazil.
Cned on Jett and killes on Reyna might look like that. But honestly the depth they get with viper and Skye is probably over all Brazil top teams
They should make it so yoru can trigger his gate crash to make the tp sound but not actually tp
That would be amazing, but what button would you press to do it?
@@matchuru2492 mmm maybe how u would put the tp down? Like you press the gate crash button and you can left click to go and right click to fake
@@dabiYappa Ohh I didnt even think of that 😄
@@dabiYappa or hold down E?
@@EE_etcetera you could. IMO that’d be easier to mess up with timing and shit but that’s just me. I could see using that too though!
Viper buff = Masters EU buff
BALLAT IS GREAT
Why doesn't VS make top 10?
I had a dream that ORDER wins Iceland finals.
I don’t watch pro valo much but is Korea bad or something? Vision Strikers?
I just heard them having a undefeated record rn or something and they are not even in the talks?
can we get that tool so we can do our own power rankings like a link?
It's photoshop
they just put teams of na , eu and brazil, no sea , japan , kr . Maybe vs can beat faze with there first comp
please bring balla every episode :D thanks
Acend should be #1 if you think the best EU team is #1. These are subjective power rankings, not science.
blz entao, poode colocoar esses times td no servidor ai contra o mwzera solo q ele ganha.. mw amassa
Bren has been on 2 of the last 6 videos. What's goin' on?
He's taking a break for his mental health, idk if it was only announced on the OW channel or not.
@@isaacmcmanus3666 uh, okay. they might have said at some point but i dont remember if they did.
Clg red actually isnane for a new team
Why can’t you do play chat everyday pls
Will bren ever be back?
He took time off for his mental health, He posted it on his twitter. He plans to come back when he is ready
Balla seems like a really nice guy and I appreciate him filling in for Bren, but fucking hell I wish he would shut up and let other people speak sometimes. If you haven’t watched the games on a specific player why are you making points about them that then compromises another persons ability to make a contradictive point about the same player because they would have to put you under the bus
EXCEL didn't even get a chance to play against BaddyG coz they just lost to RixGG lol
Yea lol, RIP. Let's see in Challengers Week2 , they should perform with better bracket
sentinels is 1 in the world and iceland will prove it
TSM should replace Cutler with Dephh.
Not enough OW players in top 10, take out dfuse and guild and replace with OG and entropiq, ez
Vision Strikers as a champ should be on there.
dignitas dropped their male roster
BxbyJ on DIG? pog
PAUSERS
Best region? Obviously Oceania
Stop underestimating Shahz please
C9 meL on backchat
RIP Turkey smh
remove one of those poser EU chums (Dfuse/Guild) and put Vision Strikers in their. Undefeated.
right on queue. Guild loses to unsigned team in qualifiers. This list is bums.
you do realize that opportunists who dfuse lost to is the rebranded Dfuse team
Man NA as a region is going to become as boring as Korea in terms of good teams unless GENG, ENVY, FAZE or 100T get it together
Geng is still relatively new and 100t is still trying things with the roster change but faze is falling off after their honey moon I feel like geng is going to be third best na and 100t a close second to sen once this all settles down
Holy this list is sth…
why are 100T not number 1 on your rankings
hilarious to think that 100T are #1
They aren't even number 1 in their own region, let alone in the world.
HAHA LOL 100T WIN ONLY FIRST STRIKE
2:39:11 falou groselha demais aqui meu rei
Eh so por essa fala desse cara eu ja percebi que n da pra levar muito em consideração o que ele diz, até pq a gamelanders n tem um player q veio do cs, assim como a vks, logo esse cara falou agua ao meu entender.
Tsm should have been first smh
Poor brim.
Its sad that the boys don't follow Korean Valorant. Vision Strikers would be above Guild at the very least. Faze straight up copy and pasted Rb's Jett flash and dash playstyle before he switched to Raze this tournament.
they do and they dont like what happened to their recent comp and strats around it
They do
Br>>EU>KR>>>>>>>>>>>>>>NA
NA OMEGALUL
PauseChamp
Hahah defuse beat guild lol wrong
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Latin America, nah oh ok
As someone whose headphones have full 3d audio, im kinda sad that im losing my advantage.
But your headphones werent reaching their full potential in valorant before. Now they can actually have good 3d audio