I just need to rant about this a little bit. Btw Zekken is my favorite player in vct so there's no hate. But I'm tired of teams trying to put zekken on anything besides the main entry duelist. Yes this includes sova, Phoenix, and any other agent that's not a main entry agent. He is just not suited for that. He may play passable on it but it will never be good.

Reasons why for the second entry:

Compared to the top aimers zekken actually doesn't have that good of aim. Now don't get me wrong amongst most pros he has amazing aim but amongst the really great aimers. He actually doesn't have that good of aim. Where he thrives is his quickness and exceptional abilities in things like movement, instincts, decision making, etc. Which makes him thrive and play better in the entry duelist. But not as a secondary. He's not going to win those fair 50/50 fights as much compared to the really crazy pure aimers like primmie, demon1, cryo, etc. But he will kill people when he's coming in there like a missile and knowing where to shoot like he's a mind reader. Even though he's being util dumped on. Which also makes his omen better than his other flex agents tbh. But not as good as the others.

Reasons for the flex:

He simply just doesn't play it anymore. I don't care what zekken played back in 2022. It's 2026, he hasn't mained sova in years. Whenever he's played sova it doesn't look good, all the good sova mains now have been playing sova for years and years. You think zekken who plays sova once in a while in ranked is going to show up, scrim with sova for a couple months and be as good? Ofc not

Hi I'm kinda new to the sub. I was wondering if there are other people in this sub that have studied MBTI properly and are willing to discuss some of the players or staff types

I have my personal guesses, but are mainly based on vibe typing and not actual cognitive functions

Btw please tell me I'm not wrong and LEV Sato is either ESFP or ENFP

I feel like foe the longest time, stun is the worst(like 1/10 effectiveness) debuff in the game. Its all cosmetic with a slight fire rate decrease, but when all it takes is one shot to the head that sometimes doesnt matter. I think having a stun buff where it displaces your crosshair by a certain amount would defiently help instead to throw off croshair placement on angle they are already holding. This would reduce the one taps that happen while full stunned.

A little off track but as a tejo main, switching his missiles and stun ability keys would be great so that he can benefit off these buffs more with a piece of rechargeable utility since he is the only initiator without one.

Before you type about how it never benefits a team to intentionally lose a game, please hear me out.

Pros:

1. This is the biggest one - if G2 loses to LOUD, they are guaranteed 3rd seed. This is because the only way any team overtakes G2 in champ points is by getting 2nd place or above, in which case they would qualify directly through stage 2 and not through champ points. (You can do the maths and check every scenario.) If they get 3rd seed, that means they can't be placed in the same group as other 3rd seeds. So they dodge PRX, EDG, and FUT. No other seed offers that big of an advantage.
2. By not playing in the lower finals and grand finals, G2 potentially avoid playing 10 extra maps - that's 10 maps of additional footage for teams to anti-strat you.
3. G2 losing to LOUD is one of three things necessary to eliminate LEV (the other two are NRG losing upper finals and lower finals). Removing a potential champions winner increases G2's chances of winning.

Cons:

1. They lose momentum going into champs. But I'd argue that for a team as experienced as G2, momentum is hardly necessary. Plus, G2 has been 1st seed so many times and it still hasn't helped them win a trophy. Maybe it's time to try being 3rd seed for once.

Which team has qualified for valorant champions the Most Times

1. Fantic - 5 ( One time Runner - Up 2025 )

2. Team Liquid - 5

3. Edward Gaming - 5 ( One time Champions 2024 )

4. Paper Rex - 5 ( One time Runner-up 2023 )

5. DRX - 4

6. KRU Esports - 4

So what's your thoughts on this teams

Also What you think which team will become champion of Valorant champions 2026 Shanghai ?

And predict Last 4 teams who join other teams in Shanghai ?

Wassup y'all! I had the honor to interview Trent and Jawgemo, players for VCT Americas team G2 after the game vs LEV the win vs LEV and how they did it, going to São Paulo and Champs Shanghai, how the map pool shook in their favor and playing vs LOUD in their home territory and more! Make sure to like and subscribe and I hope y'all enjoy!

So basically met her on ebay she said she could make anything possible so i booked a timeslot and when i entered she made me eat some magic stuff so that i can enter the spiritual world then i had a vision where liquid finally won both of their group matches against EDG and PRX to make it to the playoffs where we faced off against KC in the finals and after a nerve wrecking very intense match we win it 3-2 and nAts daddy lifts the champs trophy

afterwards i think the spell wore off and i left the spiritual relm to come back to reality then i begged the witch to make it happen and she told me that i need to satisfy the spirits so i gave them 2k first and then they needed more spiritual gambling so then i signed a lease with the witch which said that liquid HAS to lift the trophy at oct 18th on everyone on r/ValorantCompetitive 's souls so yea guys rejoice because ur souls are safe and intact as long as we lift the trophy (we will)

It was KC and NRG in upper finals, KC win and NRG in lower final. FUT made it through lower bracket, NRG vs FUT I was just about to watch the game then I woke up. Can someone please fill me in on what happened after?

This is a challenge I did last year, with every year it gets more and more difficult. This is my best attempt...

Ascent: Omen - Deadlock - Veto - Yoru - Tejo

- Variant of a comp used during Tejo meta last year. Not ideal but you need Tejo to be solo on at least one map, otherwise you can't fit all the agents.

Abyss: Astra - Harbor - Vyse - Waylay - Sova

- Combination of NRG's 2025 and 2026 comps, with Astra mixed in too.

Haven: Miks - Cypher - Jett - Phoenix - Sova

- Default comp with Miks instead of Omen.

Lotus: Clove - Killjoy - Iso - Raze - Fade

- T1 Meteor-esque comp, again Clove has to be solo controller on at least one map to fit every agent in.

Split: Omen - Viper - Reyna - Raze - Skye

- Old Split meta with Reyna instead of Jett. Just threw Reyna in somewhere.

Sunset: Omen - Sage - Breach - Raze - Gekko

- Old PRX comp. Probably only map Gekko is even possibly viable on.

Summit: Brimstone - Chamber - Neon - Kayo - Sova

- Variant of NRG's comp with Chamber.

Thoughts? If you guys can do better then go ahead.

Even benkai at the bottom of the picture. They played some good CS back in the days

This is all through translate so it may not be spot on -

"It’s my fault [that MIBR didn’t work out this year]. I didn’t assemble the lineup, but it’s my role to bring trophies and deliver decent performances. For the organization, any lineup they put in front of me is fine. But, yes, I feel very sad about this part because I kind of pointed out many things that I thought were going wrong and we tried to fix them, but it didn’t work. And that’s pretty much it,” stated fRoD.

"Honestly, if MIBR wants me to stay, I'll stay, I love the organization. But for sure I'll need to have control of the team, in that aspect, the lineup and all that. But it's too early to talk and think about these things. That's all, I've known for a long time that I need to be the guy who puts the team together and all that. But it happens. And we'll see," he concluded.

N4RRATE reflecting on his Kick-off w/ SEN. Starts talking about it around 3min mark. Says he 'forced' himself onto the entry, and that he specifically wanted to play Waylay because it was the most broken agent at the time.

He is clearly the star player on KC and has put himself onto the highest fragging agents to get them to Champs. He actually goes on to talk in this interview about how he is playing the most star player fragger agents in the current meta. The Waylay did NOT work out for him and Kaplan rightfully gets some heat for it but hearing Narrate talk about it this way makes sense that he wanted to play the most high impact agent that was in the meta at the time and was trying to get active as the star player. Especially considering how Americas was specifically. alym and Timotino were both absolutely farming the tournament on Waylay if I recall correctly.

Glad his Waylay was meh and that there was only a couple maps of him on Chamber before he got dropped so we could get him back in blue though 😍💙

I find it funny that NRG's list of initiator alums over the years is insanely stacked.

At various points in the last few years they have had crashies, ethan, eeiu, verno and brawk, all of whom you could argue as being some of the best players in Americas overall. The only top Americas initiator players they haven't had is The Guard/G2 franchise player Trent.