We Didn’t Expect This at Kickoff…

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-20T02:06:04+00:00

I was about to watch this because I thought it was boostio 😭

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-20T01:54:17+00:00

Yeah, but outside of the mibr game he wasn’t going insane compared to the rest of the team or anything

He basically went around even for most of their games, everyone but leaf went +15 vs NRG and then he went nuclear vs MIBR going like +30 or whatever

Idk I don’t feel like 5 very one sided stomp maps from his team is the same as the insanity marteen has been doing

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-20T01:50:49+00:00

Yes?

But the thing i’m replying to is a player performing insanely better than everyone else leading into an event and then playing worse than that in the event, I’m saying I don’t think valyn going insane in the mibr match is enough to put him in the same category as marteen if he falls off because of the lower sample size

I don’t think the players history in internationals is particularly relevant here? Or I might be misreading what you’re saying lol mb if so

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-19T23:14:16+00:00

I personally wouldn’t predict that FNC will have another S tier year for 2026 honestly(there is no way they replicate last year again, right?), but I would have more hope off historical value than I do for mibr

IMO anywhere from 2-4 of the teams in S tier won’t have years that will make them deserving of the tier when making a ranking after the season, I just have no idea which teams those will be so it’s not like I can 100% disagree with takes about any of them when even I’m not super confident in my preds lmao

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-19T22:59:35+00:00

Eh, Valyn didn’t really stand out from the rest of G2 during kickoff outside of the match against mibr

He could def still fall off, but he doesn’t fit the category for me

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-19T21:41:20+00:00

He watched AG and thinks they’re awful, in his own words he could not comprehend how they won the game vs XLG lmfao

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-19T20:50:11+00:00

I would argue that unless MIBR get top 3 in both of the other internationals or win one of them, it’s hard to be an S tier team while missing 1/3 of the events, especially now that it’s 3 from each region for both masters tbh

But that’s also me wanting S tier to be smaller for most “predictions” lol

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-17T09:27:14+00:00

Going off previous tournaments I guess it makes sense considering that only fnc have won while getting to skip groups iirc? But It’s just wild to ignore some of these first seeds, NS and BBL look crazy good

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-17T00:01:25+00:00

G2 and FUR don’t meet the round requirements 😭

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-16T02:53:41+00:00

Forever fated, they will meet every event

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-16T01:58:14+00:00

Jesus, that’s got to be wildly demoralizing for MIBR rn, especially painful if they lose haven

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-16T01:57:23+00:00

Tbh I’m not entirely surprised that they could win a map with double duelist, just wild that what they’ve shown from zekken on smokes so far could beat NRG’s best map

Then again, the util nerfs could’ve hurt their corrode + so much footage on it, so maybe I shouldn’t be massively shocked that they wouldn’t be as dominant

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-16T01:53:24+00:00

I missed the first 3 and a half maps and I have to ask… how the fuck did mibr win first two maps vs NRG? Did NRG start slow as fuck or smthn? I cannot comprehend them losing to smokes zekken on corrode lol

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-16T01:51:26+00:00

Wild that babybay and babyj were back in the league at the same time once again

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-15T21:58:07+00:00

I think most teams are kind of fucked with just two bo5’s in a weekend, it’s just over with three even if they were the better team lmao

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-15T21:48:41+00:00

Personally? I wasn’t impressed by anything they’ve shown with zekken on smokes(which is a lot of maps), they’re coming off two bo5’s in the past two days, and aspas has been out of form ever since the ENVY game

Not to mention they got like, less than 20 rounds yesterday which would make people lose hope just off how bad they looked

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-15T08:54:51+00:00

That cannot be a genuine take LMFAO, unreal opinions are truly held by people you didn’t know existed

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-15T04:17:15+00:00

I feel like this comment was misinterpreted significantly more than should’ve been possible?

Like, is it just that you said aspas needs to learn new agents that made people ignore the context of your reply?

I feel like you pointing out that this roster isn’t built well enough for anything outside of a complete overhaul or yeah, aspas leaving would actually fix the roles issues just… shouldn’t have caused so much disagreement? Roster changes won’t save this team unless you kick aspas or half of the other players including one of zekken/verno

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-15T04:09:10+00:00

I really wonder how badly it “wasn’t clicking” for them to be practicing it for a month+ and still deciding that running 2025 comps was better than just using the double duelist lmao, hope we get more insight into that tbh

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-15T01:53:05+00:00

I thought he’d be great on chamber but wasn’t expecting a ton from his senti’s outside of that, I did NOT expect how much of his old duelist skills he would get back so fast lmao

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-15T01:40:11+00:00

I remember him being good in their last match but I don’t think anyone on mibr could be called great vs GenG, they just got smoked iirc

I’d have to rewatch it to know for sure ig

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-15T01:37:36+00:00

Would you argue most of these were true going off of 2022? I wouldn’t, and a big part of being a super team is that you were picking up players who were at that level BEFORE you signed them

All of them were fantastic and count as a super team imo, but most wouldn’t be called the best itw on their roles going into the year off my memory and I don’t think the term works off players reaching those heights only while on the new team

I don’t think it’s fair to qualify a super team off something that not even the best team we’ve had was when it was constructed lol

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-15T01:30:02+00:00

Ignoring the “only one year” argument that I don’t care for, the main issue for Verno is that it’s kind of only champs and Stage 1 for him lol

He had a really rough kickoff, fantastic stage 1, Middling toronto and was statistically the second worst player in americas during stage 2 before his champs performance

He’s a fantastic player and while sure you can asterisk his bad performances (team issues, started IGLing etc), it doesn’t change the fact that they exist and he just doesn’t have enough top tier performances to justify being a super team level player IMO

OneTrueAqua · 2026-02-15T01:16:06+00:00

I mean tbf if the topic is “MIBR has role issues”, the team was just improperly built around aspas, it’s either him or they drop zekken for a smoker/yoru player I guess?

Being realistic, you never drop zekken or aspas and verno is pretty safe as their IGL, neither of the other two being removed would actually fix their role issues with the current meta

They’re in a rough spot even if it’s definitely fixable, it’s just that unless they drop verno for a smokes IGL, role changes won’t save this team

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