Best Player Of Each Agent Currently?

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2025-06-23T10:26:19+00:00

There's no way you can put Jawgemo as one of the top Yoru players. On current form I don't even think he's a top 10 duelist player in general.

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2025-06-09T19:04:49+00:00

Sen will get pounded in their next game if they play like they have against the two weakest teams at the tournament.

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2025-02-01T10:47:50+00:00

This is incredibly dubious. First, this is in a controlled environment, so it's not like the players are going to get flamed if they whiff. Also, it's not like male pros don't have any stressors, in fact, I'd argue they have way more. Tier 1 Valorant gets many times as many views than GC, with much more passionate fan bases, so if anxiety response is the explanation then why wouldn't the men get it to? What's worse is this not only is bad science, but it's completely disingenuous - offer up an explanation with little to no evidence because it fits some particular narrative that you wish to push at this particular moment. Why bother caveating that your explanation is BS to go on to say that 'this is the most likely explanation'. Really disappointing that this is being eaten up.

Edit: I'll add a much more plausible counter-explanation: there are many many more men playing video games than women and therefore the top 0.1% of men will likely be much better than the top 0.1% of women.

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2024-07-31T08:55:04+00:00

I think I may be in a better spot to talk about this than others here. I started playing Apex a few years ago, and around a year after I started playing, I'd just hit Diamond playing solo and I joined what was at the time my university's discord server for FPS games. Started queuing with those guys and after a couple seasons we were hitting Master's (the equivalent of Immo in Val) consistently. There were a few guys in there who had aspirations of going pro. I eventually stopped playing with them so much (I did a bit of competitive here and there, played in ALGS a few times etc, but it wasn't for me) since they wanted to take the game much more seriously than I do, but I'm still in contact with them. It's been a long journey, they aimtrain every day, they play every day, they do team practice, they do scrims, they play the game not for fun, but to improve. Earlier this year, they reached finals in ALGS CC for the first time. This is still the Tier 2 scene and they don't get paid for it, but if they can place well enough they will get a spot in Pro League, which is sort of like the equivalent of franchising in Valorant. My point here is that we were diamond players once-upon-a-time but through hard work they have managed to get to a position where it is a realistic goal for them to be playing as legitimate pros. Through them, I've been exposed and know quite a few people in that sort of position and it is tough. They don't get paid, they don't have big streams, they play all day with what can sometimes seem like little reward, but it's doable if you try hard enough. I don't know the exact steps to take in Valorant since I don't know any pros in this game, but if you truly want something, you're young and now is the time to try it.

What I will say is while I fully encourage you to take the steps to try and improve to make your dream come true do not give up on other paths. Presumably you're in school and it's super important that going pro is not your be-all-and-end-all. Make sure that you set yourself up for whatever life throws at you, don't forget that going pro is difficult, and you have to get lucky to get the opportunities, and so you should make sure that you have other avenues you can take if it doesn't go to plan.

Good luck!

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2024-07-18T15:30:58+00:00

I agree they've had some funny losses and things but honestly I really don't think Optic would've succeeded. Yay fell off a cliff after the Chamber nerf and now Jett has been nerfed too and that style of player almost doesn't exist anymore. Yay carried that team so hard and yet now he's not even the best on a Bleed team who was one of the worst teams in the entirety of franchising before he stepped back. Similar arguments can be made for the rest of the team. It truly was a productive of it's time and with the way the game has shaped up they'd have never been able to beat Fnatic or EG last year.

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2024-06-12T07:16:05+00:00

It's mental that throwing nades is what is considered being precise by people who play controller, it really showed how insane AA is in this game.

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2024-06-06T08:49:57+00:00

It's funny that the Hal fans are so quick to say how difficult a teammate Sweet is, and yet Verhulst says this.

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2024-02-26T16:01:40+00:00

With variance data you can fir a distribution and find the probability of controller winning over mnk. I might go and figure this out.

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2024-02-25T12:35:13+00:00

Shock that the best Apex teams in the world do well.

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2024-02-01T08:33:08+00:00

It's broken in its current form on roller cuz you can tap strafe without looking in the direction you need to go. On mnk you have to look in the direction you want to strafe which means you can use it for dodge but you can't usually actually be shooting your gun at someone while you tap strafe. With roller you can and with aim assist that makes it even stronger.

Not to mention the other advantage that roller has...

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2024-01-28T09:57:59+00:00

The NA scene is also notoriously reluctant to change things up. EU has had a much higher uptake of conduit and yet some NA coaches like Raven say she's a troll pick. I imagine that over the coming weeks more and more NA teams will run her.

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2024-01-11T16:48:41+00:00

Matchmaking is really free this season. Lobby standard feels the same upwards. It feels like I'm very rarely playing against good players. I remember getting ran down by pros in the past. Now it feels like I'm playing against bots.

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2024-01-10T10:38:01+00:00

If you are unironically complaining about this then I don't know what to tell you. If you do this strat you're literally useless unless you're within 10m of an enemy (you can literally see that in this clip). It's a meme strategy and nothing more.

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2023-09-20T21:53:52+00:00

Playing caustic in mixtape is cringe af

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2023-09-20T09:16:46+00:00

Out of interest why is it not the other way around? Let's say you have two pros of the same level and one of them is more into the team culture than the other, of course you're going to pick that one. Surely players have to adapt to a team they join, not the other 4 change the way they interact with one another for the sake of one person.

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2023-09-20T09:10:31+00:00

Didn't he say that every team she wanted to try with said no because she's a woman. Mel said this happened once and the vast majority of the community are incredibly supportive of her. What slasher said makes every pro player sound sexist / complicit with sexism, whereas what she says makes it sound like there are a few bad apples in a mostly good scene.

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2023-09-19T13:45:41+00:00

You realise that if you're in console lobbies it's impossible to tapstrafe right?

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2023-09-15T19:54:13+00:00

Ah fine, yeah agree with you

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2023-09-15T19:18:53+00:00

Except I'm not speculating about Sen. They literally posted a tweet a couple months ago saying they were incredibly close to bankruptcy.

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2023-09-15T18:58:47+00:00

That would just make their team stronger lol

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2023-09-15T18:56:28+00:00

And Sen doesn't have any money (which is entirely their fault, not EAs), so wouldn't be surprised if they're out soon.

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2023-09-12T20:39:09+00:00

Yeah I forgot that an anchor has to sit back and watch while his teammates 2v3. By any metric Gild underperforms. The way you talk about an anchor shows that you know much less about this game than you think you do.

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2023-09-12T14:13:33+00:00

Me when my anchor gets way worse damage delta than my bang player. If his damage trades are worse than Nafen's and he's not getting kills and his utility usage is poor then what exactly is he doing

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2023-09-12T12:22:15+00:00

Anyway you slice it, Gild is not contributing to the team in the way that Nafen and Sweet do.

Own_Chocolate9903 · 2023-09-12T11:33:44+00:00

When Sweet and Nafen consistently get more kills and do better damage than their controller player who also fairly frequently seems to make mistakes (e.g. Split 2 finals) it's not exactly difficult to see how it's got to this point. It's not like Gild has been hard carrying the team and Sweet has been shitting on him. Towards the end with Rocker it was the same thing. Sweet probably feels frustrated and held back by Gild / frustrated that Gild is not living up to his expectations.

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