During VCT Emea in Berlin the casters called for us cheering every time wingman planted and EVERYONE in the arena took part no matter what team they supported it was awesome haha
@@blankvlr "VCT LOCK IN forced teams to innovate the meta. DRX proved that Harbor is a great pick on Icebox with their creative style of getting map control, but LOUD took that to the next level." C9 vs DRX on Icebox was the innovative game for Harbor first. When Loud played against DRX on the same map, this time Loud played Harbor and DRX played Viper. There are many analysis on this topic already so it's old news. So no, it's not a literal lie, it's truth.
it's always surprising to see loud inventing new metas and being creative in this game. even as a Near Airport fan, i gotta give props to them for practicing their execs with critical timing
Not just your map analysis, but your selection of maps is so always on point. Pearl, fracture, lotus.. all maps that players generally play super sub-optimally. Thank you for making comp games better quality. I hope more ppl watch your videos so my future games will actually have some strategy behind them instead of being just being a 50-50 free-for-all for 30mins.
@@cerb3rus461 when he released the videos, at the time they did. Ofc, I could also be speaking from my own experiences too as a person who started Ep5 Act3.
@@cerb3rus461fractures so damn annoying with an uncoordinated team 😭 they all stack one section of one site, not even watching the back, and then the enemies come to my site
Bro they are looking worse than they are at lockin or at the very most the same, most teams have shown considerable improvement while loud has been consistently dropping maps against teams they should 2-0
@@aydenmartin5650 that its just about the fact they enter on the first maps sleeping, saadhak said that they are not happy with this, first map always like a ranked game, and then they wake up to win the match, as it was versus EG, a ranked team vc EG, then the grandmasters of valorant 13-0 EG. they are sleeping in their firsts
@@aydenmartin5650 I dont think you consider everything when you say that, definitely the VCT Americas is the one who overall is more evolving in every team playing, every team could beat the other in a good day there, ofc there is weaker and stronger teams but no one is that behind
@@fxx-g8b yes there are multiple teams that behind lmao, americas is messy af right now with constant lack of coordination and inconsistency but you can see teams like EG, Cloud 9, even KRU are slowly polishing up. But Loud hasnt decreased the amount of times they are bad.
Thank you for a great video man. you make my break really entertaining. Such a luxury watching your vids after long hard work of coding waiting for next uploads keep up the great content!
You actually deserve way more subscribers. Nice analysis and love your editing and how you go to custom to recreate specific situation which spectator missed in match stream.
B and I decided to get in one more caving trip before the New Year, so we set our sights on Mystery Cave. Not a spectacular cave, but since neither of us had been caving in awhile it would be nice to go to any cave. There was a bit of excitement to this trip. There was a small passage in the lower portion of the cave that I wanted to check out to see if it was possible to get past it. It had a small opening, but lots of air blowing out of it. Even though it is way too small to climb through, I had never even checked to see what was inside the passage. We got our gear loaded up and hit the road by 3:00 p.m. We got to the cave in great time, since B likes to drive fast. We anchored from the usual tree and began to rappel into the cave. I went down first and got my gear together while B came down. I will refer to B many times. We have been caving together for many months now. He was injured in a caving accident a few years ago and was told he would never walk again. Through hard work and perseverance, he not only walks but can get around very well in caves. The trickier parts of a cave might slow him down a bit, but he can make it. He patiently works through an obstacle until he gets past it. As for the reference to the small opening in the cave, there is a saying among cavers: “If it blows, it goes”. Meaning, if a passage has a good flow of air, it is probably worth investigating. After we explored all of the usual passages we climbed down to check out the hole. The hole is located deep in the cave, near the lowest part of the cave. It is on the side of a cave wall, about three feet from the floor. To look inside the hole I had to kneel down to duck under an overhang of rock. The original opening. I put my glove in the hole for size reference. I used my backup mini-mag light and held it inside the hole to see what I could see. I was excited by what I saw. The wall around the hole was about 3-5 inches thick. It led into a tight passage. The passage opened up a bit just inside the hole. It continued back about 10-12 feet in a small crawl space. After that it seemed to really open up! Although how much we couldn’t tell. This could be a virgin passage. (Obviously, no one has passed through this route, but there could be a way into the passage from the other side.) To even get to the crawl space we would have to enlarge the opening. Currently, it is about the size of my fist. Once we get past the opening we would have a tight crawl back to where it opened up. It would take some work, but we thought we could do it. We sat down for a few minutes to rest and contemplate our plan of attack. While we sat there in the darkness we could hear the wind howling from the other side of the passage. It was a low, eerie noise. We could also hear a low rumble from time to time. No big deal, though. The cave is in the vicinity of a highway that has heavy trucks drive on it. We figured the rumble was the effect of the trucks resonating through the rocks. We determined that our best plan would be to haul a cordless drill into the cave to drill into the rock. Then we could take a bullpin and a small sledgehammer and break up the rock. It seemed pretty straight-forward. We would widen the hole big enough to squeeze in and see what was on the other side. The efforts to haul all of the equipment down to the hole would be a pain, but we hoped it would be worth it. I named the passage Floyd’s Tomb, after Floyd Collins. It seemed to look like the tight spot where Floyd spent his last miserable days on earth. A rough drawing of how the passage originally looked. Floyd Collins was a caver back in the early 1900s. He got stuck in a tight crawl space and was unable to free himself. It is an amazing story that is detailed in a book called, “Trapped: The Story of Floyd Collins” (I think that was the title. I don’t recall the author). Calling our passage Floyd’s Tomb was not only a tribute to Floyd, but a commentary of the size of the passage. Ha Ha! In retrospect, it is funny how simple I thought it was going to be. I figured a few hours work and we would be in. Had I known how long it was going to take I doubt I would have even begun the project. Had I known what I was going to experience in the cave I never would have returned. We gathered up our gear and headed for the surface. Normally I couldn’t care less if I ever came back into this cave. There is nothing special about it. But now I was psyched about getting back and getting through. We hadn’t even left the cave and we were planning our return trip. (The rest of the journal entry talked about the climb out of the cave, our dinner, and our trip back home.) January 27-28, 2001 B and I were both excited to get back into the cave and get to work. I figured with about 4 hours work we could be in and see what was on the other side. We had arranged to borrow a DeWalt cordless drill to bring with us. We also had masonry bits to drill with, sledgehammers (two) to break up the rock, bullpins to insert into the drill holes, and a few other tools that we ended up not using. Getting the tools down to the work site proved to be a challenge. One of us would climb down the rope and stop at a ledge or good resting place, then the other person would lower the tools. We kept repeating this routine until we got to the bottom of the cave. Then we had to drag the tools to the hole. It took about an hour to finally get to work. B took the first turn at the hole. After an hour of exhausting work, we could tell that we were not going to get through in one session. We kept trading off after we worked ourselves into a sweat. One would take a break and get some food and water while the other one went to work. The routine went like this: To begin work we had to get down on our knees and do our best to avoid smacking our heads on the ceiling. Working in this awkward position we would drill into the wall around the hole. That was difficult work. We really had to push on the drill, and it was still slow progress. Then we inserted the bullpin into the hole and hammered on it until the rock broke up. Then we would repeat the process. To give you an idea of how slow it went, the typical size rock that would break off was about fingernail size. If we broke off a large piece (about 1/3 the size of my palm) it was cause for celebration. From time to time, for variety, we would just wail on a cold chisel with a 5-lb. sledge. It was slow progress. The problem with the sledge was that we couldn’t take a good swing because of the tight quarters. Even though we spent many hours and several trips working on the hole we never did find a better technique for widening the hole. The drill/bullpin/hammer got the best results for our efforts. We came up with some crazy ideas for breaking up the rock. Everything from TNT (never seriously considered) to hauling a generator to the mouth of the cave and running an extension cord down to a jackhammer. We even thought about using liquid nitrogen to freeze the rock and make it more brittle!
i love your contents. your video made me rank up so easily. thank you so much (i was hard stuck in plat 2-3 and after watching your video for a few days, i can peak diamond 3 in 3-4 days)
I found out that you can yeet Dizzy straight into the air myself a few weeks ago and its made gekko a lot easier to use for me. One other thing is that you can actually buffer the input to pick Dizzy back up, so if you hold F you will instantly start retrieving Dizzy.
This is exactly the content I was looking for. I love pro analysis but my little tik tok attention span usually cant stay focused or watch the whole video, but this video was made in a way so that my 7 second attention span is satisfied.
Professional editing and descriptions that new and experienced players alike can enjoy. You do such good work - this was my first video of yours and I am so happy to have discovered it!
I learned quite a bit about gekko and wingman watchin this, since i don't play valorant as much as most people. like every so often when i've some free time. so this was enjoyable.
I always get pissed when teams don't cover Wingman as he is planting. It's not the "he's cute, don't shoot" thing but more of a "what do you teammates expect him to do if someone shoots at him?" I have seen too many times where teams act like wingman is a free plant to the site without needing to take space in the site. He is not, and should not be used like that. In my eyes, the biggest advantage of Wingman's ability to plant and defuse is to prevent the team from going 1 man down for a few secs when somebody is planting or defusing. Those actions needs somebody to commit in doing them but with Wingman, he can do it for you and allow you to focus you're attention instead to the enemies.
So, how many pokemon element do we have already? Skye with Bird as light, dog as earth(or smth else?), and cabbage as plant based. Fade with Prowler and Recon as Dark/Ghost type. Raze with Roomba as mecha type. Gekko with wingman es electro, and Dizzy + thrash + molly as water. Whats next? Yugioh based agent? Imagine summoning a big ass dragon that can one shot thru walls, or magician that act as a decoy and can stunt enemy if giving time to charge his magic, or can setting up a litteral Trap card as a trip.
11:18 that is how disgusting the comp is @@ Like you have to watch out for birds, dog, turtle, wingman, thrash entry the site with tons of cc then the wall and shield from harbor , jett follow up behind for some sneak kill with off angles, plant the spike then secure with mollies from viper and gekko
You should review T1's Bind comp they crank the pokemon party up and i cant wait to see teams either learn to counter it or adopt it because the counter would be interesting to watch but the visual of 3-4 pieces of roaming utility running at you with 2-4 players behind them is FUCKING hilarious
fun fact, the dubed version of gekko in português hss voice lines that are REALLY funny, cuz it makes reference to a lot of memes and regional jokes, chamber also has some, that's also the reason why I mained chamber, cuz of his voice lines, not becuz hes to op, im bad anyway so..😂
So far tryin gekko, its not an easy agent to play specialy in low ello bracket like me (g2-plat1) because other initiator is way stronger other than that plant/def with wingman which is kind of busted,
"Technically can throw 15 flashes" You sure about that? His guy hangs in the air for 3 seconds, and after you pick it up, (which takes like 3 second), there's a 10 second cooldown before you throw it again. And given that a round at most is 1 minute, 40 + 45 seconds for the spike + 5 seconds for the postgame, you're looking at 150 seconds / 16 seconds per throw
I say because in most of the games You see gekko they rarely actually use skye flash to be a flash its more of s sova drone that has the bonus of a flash and gives general information of a site faster but not exact because they dont need exact info since gekko dizzy is line of sight and wingman is area of sight. Fade also has tether plus gekko molly which makes there defense a little bit stronger.
After seeing this I'm fully satisfied with the position of gekko in the game. He's not super oppressive but he's not weak either. Hopefully gekko wont receive any changes for a while
