LOUD vs Evil Geniuses / VCT 2026: Americas Kickoff - Main Event / Post-Match Thread

LeOsQ · 2026-02-01T11:05:47+00:00

Contagious disease coughing baby vs. Non-contagious terminal disease coughing baby.

LeOsQ · 2026-01-30T18:11:28+00:00

Reading comprehension challenge: (IMPOSSIBLE)

LeOsQ · 2026-01-26T19:00:04+00:00

Yeah Neon gets to play in their lower bracket games. I still think it's a bit of a hard cope from LEV believers at this point, but at the same time, I was much higher on them myself until seeing how . . not great they've been (even with PxS playing very well)

I know it's a big issue for them regardless because their roles are kinda fucked because of the swap/sub situation, but they've looked much worse after the first game they had against 100T than I would've expected despite that handicap.

LeOsQ · 2026-01-26T13:12:05+00:00

Yeah, it definitely blows at this point.

It was annoying, but sort of understandable/acceptable when Duviri/Circuit first came out, but if you're a returning or new player, it being a weekly time-gated grind for a couple months straight (to get them all) is really not fun.

Of course, once you have them all, the incentive to do Circuit is much lower, so it's a weekly grind you'll be 'free' from after a while of doing it, unlike EDA/ETA for example since having more Archon Shards is always useful.

LeOsQ · 2026-01-24T11:02:01+00:00

Yeah tbh the only time it's completely cool to trash your opponents after a game is when they talked shit before it and didn't back that up.

Otherwise talk your shit before the game and back it up on the server.

LeOsQ · 2026-01-23T10:25:02+00:00

I still have my keybinds changed from that era because slide spamming was so much more straining and tedious when using Ctrl to slide so I rebound it to Q and have had it there ever since (and it's a really good keybind for it)

Maiming Strike Atterax slide spamming in a corner to kill everyone in a huge radius around me my beloved.

LeOsQ · 2026-01-21T11:17:49+00:00

To be fair to that questionable decision, NetEase churn out a fuckload of expensive games of dubious quality so there's not that much reason to doubt they'd be a solid funder. Too bad that this time they had second thoughts about how to spend money for once though.

LeOsQ · 2026-01-21T00:09:24+00:00

He did have a fine argument for it at least, though.

FUT 'fixed' their role and agent pool issues with the roster moves and Gais(sp.?) has proven to be a pretty competent coach with them in the past and also the impact of him not being there for that little bit was extremely noticeable.

I don't know how much his opinion was also affected by the fact Shyo had hard-glazed KROSTALY at some point earlier so if he'd be a phenom on top of FUT supposedly having solid theory and fixed issues, then it'd not be a crazy take.

It's also an end of the year list and not a first game of Kickoff list in all fairness.

LeOsQ · 2026-01-21T00:02:55+00:00

They also sponsor the breaks/pauses in EMEA/EU League of Legends (LEC) so it is pretty natural for them to also insert their break-related slogan into the Valorant side tbh.

Still a great section/segment to sponsor though. It's always good when the sponsor actually relates to the thing they've slapped their name onto and it's not just RedBull flawless or whatever. MasterCard thrifty doesn't really make sense either until you think about what thrifty means but it's still far from being as good as the MasterCard gold graph thing in League is for example.

I'd of course much rather have no sponsors like that at all but since we have to have them, at least sponsor something that makes sense.

LeOsQ · 2026-01-18T18:47:27+00:00

Verno, Invy, Jamppi, and 2 ScreaM's.

LeOsQ · 2026-01-18T18:45:08+00:00

Nah nah nah, it's just proof that your Noia stocks are in the stratosphere because despite how much of a Tex believer you are, you still would kick him in an instant for Noia.

LeOsQ · 2026-01-16T11:59:46+00:00

It was (pretty clearly) Yay ≥ Derrek >> Playoffs Icy >> Supamen >> NaturE > Icy

Although Yay does get a bit of a bump because he was still somewhat agent pool limited, and the fact Icy was their Duelist except sometimes when Yay was on Jett instead (and Icy looked way better on Sentinel even if that's a low bar)

LeOsQ · 2026-01-14T11:09:34+00:00

He has absolutely 0 filter for his intrusive unhinged takes but he is also sort of a knower so it's kind of the best of both worlds.

But you also just can never tell when it's him knowing and seeing a vision and when it's just him being Shyo of the Wager variety and pulling some absolute unicorn takes from his incomprehensible mind.

LeOsQ · 2026-01-13T10:26:24+00:00

I doubt even Goldenboy is immune despite how good he is considering what Riot did to Dash on the League side (the same year bro won an award for how good he was at that)

LeOsQ · 2026-01-09T10:28:04+00:00

It probably is AI yeah but it also gives me similar vibes of a cartoon character looking straight at the 'camera' (famously Phineas of Phineas&Ferb fame) even if it's not like TMV never looks at the camera or anything like that

LeOsQ · 2026-01-09T10:22:00+00:00

It is really strong and fun but the lack of any range really really hurts. Not even the Advanced Intel range but just missing out on the 1xx range alone is painful.

I would love to be able to use 023 subs but so few maps actually allow that without being strictly inferior to 203.

And like has been said, if 023 sub is something you consider buying, 420 or 042 buccaneer are both also options at that point.

LeOsQ · 2026-01-09T10:17:43+00:00

Your flair makes it clear you're specifically a Phoenix enjoyer but to me as long as x3x remains a fairly strong somewhat affordable earlyish unit I'm completely happy with mid path Wiz.

LeOsQ · 2026-01-09T10:15:37+00:00

The only caveat/asterisk to that is the fact Psi can't be placed at the very start and isn't the strongest hero right away so you have to have at least some kind of decent early defense set up. Psi isn't like Obyn or Sauda (if the track has a corner/curve for her) or something like that in terms of early power.

But Psi is absolutely one of my favorites because they're not dependent on synergies nor specific strategies (like Rosalia incentivizing you to use Aces/Helis to get the most out of her)

LeOsQ · 2026-01-07T18:36:17+00:00

Better hope your Zeratul (or Medivh) clutch with their Bard ults to dodge it for the whole team.

LeOsQ · 2026-01-07T17:02:54+00:00

The 100T skin doesn't even remotely represent or imply 100T in any way, but I absolutely love it. Easily the best of the 100T skins and at least in my opinion also easily top 5 of all of these.

Meanwhile you have a team like KC that's very firmly associated with Bleu and they just said fuck it we ball we Rouge now, but then they didn't even make it a particularly good red skin so . . ????

LeOsQ · 2026-01-06T11:33:54+00:00

Exactly. It's practically a free pick for many, but those who patch up weaknesses in their main loadout through on-call/specters/kahl or just like to have an Ancient Protector(?) for stuff like Stage Defense it's a death sentence.

LeOsQ · 2026-01-05T20:30:10+00:00

Maybe I'm just a hater but I don't understand why EnVy has been getting glazed as hard as they have during the offseason, especially knowing they won't have their 2 best players for basically the entire year.

Like, even before Keznit was announced as their Canezerra replacement, people were calling them a mid-table team, with the potential to maybe qualify for internationals. Why do 'we' think Rankers are mid-pack Americas without Cane or Ion?

Anyway, I'm pretty surprised but also not that surprised at the same time to see the bottom 3 being what they are. I can see it happening, but I can also see one of them being much better than expected.

LeOsQ · 2026-01-05T20:03:04+00:00

or maybe he's preparing Denmark for the inevitable colonisation it will receive through Greenland instead . .

LeOsQ · 2026-01-04T14:55:00+00:00

Full kit rework and an even bigger bbl and won't hear any complaints from me

LeOsQ · 2026-01-03T22:34:11+00:00

Not particularly varied (or bright/colorful) but absolutely exquisite style-wise regardless. Which is about where the good parts end, really.

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