YESSS FINALLY SEANS BACK! get him as a semi regular geust please!!

@spagussy7898

3 жыл бұрын

id love to see him for each episode that recaps a major, he has really good insight on the international scene

Can confirm I only started watching ShahZam after TenZ was brought into the team and now i enjoy all the players in the team!

Sean is by far one of the best people to have on the show

Former mobile gamer, also a former graphic designer for a couple mobile-centric esports teams. I used to play a game called Critical Ops (CS but mobile, basically) and it was super weird. It did develop a bit of an esports scene but the game was never insanely popular in the US. Playing a tac shooter on mobile feels like the meme of the guy sticking a stick in his bike tires. Imagine your 103 degrees POV and you have to shrink it down to wherever your fingers are. Your thumbs or index fingers will block your peripherals so that's an issue. I'm not saying it can't be done, but it's definitely a handicap (hah, pun). Idk, Fortnite managed to take off on mobile, but the precision with your fingers on a touch screen is something that pc players will never understand. PC is still preferred and will always be preferred after playing mobile, console, and PC. The only game I really enjoyed on mobile was Vainglory when it was 3v3. It was a touch-controlled MOBA and to this day, I still enjoyed that game more than I currently enjoy LoL. However, I could be biased since Vainglory was my first MOBA, while I played LoL afterwords. Edit: American gamers will NEVER understand how important mobile gaming is. It's not to the fault of US gamers, it's just something they don't have to deal with. Riot could make SO MUCH off of this.

@vaIe_

3 жыл бұрын

God I loved vainglory. Sad that it couldnt be supported anymore

@maiLfps

3 жыл бұрын

welcome to member

@dontquitnoob1347

3 жыл бұрын

Vainglory was the shit I was addicted lol

@sunrayyourmom

2 жыл бұрын

As someone who started in mobile gaming and transitioned into PC gaming, i can still pick up critical ops and my muscle memory still serves me well. However i agree that it is way less precise than a mouse and keyboard, so an esports scene just for mobile..im not sure how it would work out. Games like fortnite, pubg and free fire, battle royales, work much better because they are in third person so perspective is much less jarring. Fps can still work, so I doubt that valorant mobile will flop at all. Unlike Wild Rift which had to compete with the giant that is Mobile Legends (ironically its own clone), there is no staple Tac shooter on mobile, the closest thing would be C-ops or Cod mobile. That gap in the market will make Riot big money, and i think valorant is the perfect game for mobile with it combining elements from Mobas and Hero shooters with Tac fps

wait i just realized that the glow/aura around the other-world phoenix could be the color you choose to highlight enemies in-game

Sean: Their communication is on point Also Sentinels: His stuck in a wall. Im stuck in a wall.

@hydro1180

2 жыл бұрын

Bad comms now 🥲

Sean is such a great addition to the show!

Tenz has the power of anime on his side, which means he delivers on the final match of Tournament Arc Poggers

Plat chat is simply unbelievable

welcome to member

@jasoneng3161

3 жыл бұрын

I can really feel the momentum building for liquids first major title.

@keyframecatalyst3344

3 жыл бұрын

When does TSM play? They're my favourite team

Loved the episode and can’t wait for all the roster talk next week :)

I think the reason SEN players didn't know about the Tenz signing was to keep the pressure low. If all the players knew about the signing, they might be even more pressured to perform well to show the signing was worth it.

Contrarily to what Wyatt said, Derke actually did get shut down by Liquid as well even though Fnatic did win the match as well. And Scream called it before as well he said "we are going to shut down Derke" and they did. Maybe what Derke does was actually readable all along.

@zina9860

3 жыл бұрын

Derke reminds me of jamppi a lot, but far more consistent for sure. Derke totally dominated v1, kru, NU but was shut down by TL and Sen. He needed to hold himself back and cut the aggression, what works against a team wouldn’t work against others. I used to think he is like tenz but tenz has changed his playstyle completely this tourney and rarely does individual plays or “I will challenge you” kind of plays, Derke needs to read the enemy and understand which playstyle suits which team and adapt.

@petrp4427

3 жыл бұрын

Yea, as an EU fan I was kinda disappointed by Derke basically only relying on skill diffing, he gotta change his approach going into Stage 3 IMHO

Funny thing being here after everything that was the rest of 2021 and all of 2022 and all of 2023 and now winning a masters in 2024

MAKE MORE PODCASTS WITH SEAN PLSSSS

I was about to riot with no weekly award

Whenever I want to take a nap I watch you guys no offense keep up the good work

Josh being confused by a possible octopus that speaks theory in a game where much crazier shit happens is hilarious and I fully support the omen octopus reveal

Octopus Omen is a meme , at least to this point. Omen's split is theoretically a radianite experiment gone wrong while he and some of the other agents were at Kingdom. I imagine Cynprel would come on for a portion of a podcast to sum up the lore if you were interested.

I think korea is going to be a regions that looks scary going forward. Not immediately but by the tourney after Berlin I'd say they'll have a team that will be a contender

Welcome to Member.

As a former league player, I like watching people being so blown away by the amount of lore and cinematic work coming from riot.

Community engagement

I'm from India, and Valorant is *really* popular with people here. Like, extremely so- it's capturing a huge audience that CS:GO only semi-successfully captured. I think putting Valorant on mobile will absolutely catapult it into the stratosphere here the way PUBG mobile did.

Anywhere we can watch the vids of you casting Iceland?

Actually there was fanfic cs lore back in the 1.5/1.6 days I use to read that shit and yes it was dark. 😂

@jiasheng

3 жыл бұрын

literally what

I wonder if the popularity of mobile games comes from the fact that every family member has a smartphone but there is probably only one gaming pc in a lot families. So kids stick to what is accessible to them.

TenZ with the anime buff, waiting for next week's episode

Lack of players in sk might be because some of them are in Japanese orgs? I know for apex lots of Koreans are in Japanese teams and I know of two rly talented players on NTH valorant team in Japan. It’s likely that Japanese orgs for valorant currently pay a lot more than korean orgs

BALLA'S CAT SIGHTING

@chuckhaller3842

3 жыл бұрын

TIME STAMP?!

@hacksawdragon

3 жыл бұрын

@@chuckhaller3842 4:02

@hacksawdragon

3 жыл бұрын

@@chuckhaller3842 ALSO 1:14:20 (bonus cat sighting) ...and 2:22:56 ! Lots of cat content

@chuckhaller3842

3 жыл бұрын

@@hacksawdragon you are a national treasure

cool episode

2 years later and val still aint on mobile and im not complaining 😂😂

I'm glad Korea did really well in Master's because Brazil really had an underwelming performance compared to their performance in Brazil qualifiers similar to Turkey in EMEAs qualifier.

Guys you need to talk about T1 and frost. Also the EU shuffle going on rn, sad to see you guys not touching on any of that. Hopefully in the next episode.

The people want power rankings

Imagine how stacked sentinels are these guys didn't even mention Zombs, Dapr and Sick and they all can go to any other team and be their best player instantly especially Sick

The way Sentinels are playing gives me Season 1 NYXL vibes.

I feel like EU teams are great at attack (protocols) but it's a crutch and can't play as reactive thus their defense is not as good. Example split. In NA it's defense heavy yet in EU that map somehow is attack heavy

lets face it, NA is just the best region in Valorant

@user-ui5eu

3 жыл бұрын

We can't really say that yet. Both EU teams made it to top 2-4, while V1 didn't and Sentinels won the whole thing. Having 1# team doesn't mean that the region is best. But its clear that at this current time NA and EU are above other regions.

@sasukeshenron

3 жыл бұрын

welcome to member

@benique1417

3 жыл бұрын

NA is simply unbelievable. You can feel the momentum building for them to become the best region.

@marLamaDeo

2 жыл бұрын

@@benique1417 NA is always the best region in video games until everyone else takes it seriously and they fall behind

Get Sean G back on for backchat Lore

vanity player of the tournament

pennys also

Love when Gares is on!

I definitely put TenZ Shahz and sick as the best players in the world/game I put shahz there because of his igling skills

My question about Valorant mobile is will there be cross play and aim assist? I hope that if there is aim assist there will not be cross play so we don't have the issue that fortnite had where people complained about the controller players having aim assist. Over all, I think that Valorant coming to mobile is a good idea to help bring it to other markets and might bring in new people to Valorant esport.

@deniellesam

3 жыл бұрын

It is confirmed that there will be no crossplatform / crossplay

@EE_etcetera

3 жыл бұрын

@@deniellesam ok thanks.

What website do you use for the stats?

@gaurangvashishtha6444

3 жыл бұрын

Vlr.gg

As a Brazillian, i love the respect that u guys gave to us when analizing the Masters campaign. I think its because Balla was not in that conversation, that guy is a hater. :) Thanks guys.

@Ballatw

3 жыл бұрын

bruh :)

@C1_YT

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ballatw pain

@deniellesam

3 жыл бұрын

@@HiddenRevs english is not their first language there, i think. No need to attack his spelling.

Sean straight up guzzling EU copium

Balla is a 100T simp xD xD

They on that valorant copium

When you realise foxz is the closest to tenz for FKPR : FDPR🤔 foxz gonna be the next big star?

I feel like NA will only be good at the start when Valorant is still pretty new but once the other regions figure out the defined/ideal meta, NA will fall flat similar to other esports.

Idgaf if there is a mobile version as long as there is no cross platform play between PC and mobile

Sean is so cute

Now who's laughing at Sean preferring FPX ahahaha

While it might look ridiculous, if Valorant Mobile pop off and there will be an esports of it, players are going to turn their phone around like wtf are they doing you might wonder. That is because they are using gyros in the game (3:04) and players who are using gyros are fucking nuts like in PUBGM

Comment for algorithm

Remember when NA wasn't so FREE

"FPX is better than FNATIC" KEKW

People are against a game going mobile because they think it tarnishes the "essence" of the game somehow. Like how people think sequels ruin original movies.

Lmao Sean wouldnt be saying that he needs a proper sample size to gauge between regions strengths if EU would've won. Sounds like pure copium to me.

@kosta1613

3 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t one of his points tho that NA is a lot shallower than EU

@zina9860

3 жыл бұрын

The thing about these teams is that they represent their regions and had to go against teams from their region to qualify, liquid and fnatic beat all the big teams they keep talking about, same for NU, they beat VS, same thing for sentinels and v1, they are not sample sizes, they went through a lot of teams to come on top and represent their regions, sentinels for example losing to bbg made them go down to lower bracket, and they faced what seemed to me like 90% of NA top teams and made it all the way to the upper bracket and won it all, fnatic as well they said before they made a lower bracket run as well, to me the teams that went to Iceland deserved to be there no excuses

EU and NA are neck and neck except for Sentinels who are just better than everyone right now

"I don't think Brazil was overrated, I just think they were totally underprepared for the tournament." So basically, you overestimated their ability to prepare for the tournament, and therefore overrated them. Lol, Wyatt. Plat Chat WAY overrated Brazil; they got stomped by NA and EU, and they even lost to a minnow region in LATAM.

@raqun9563

3 жыл бұрын

yeah rare L for Wyatt

@PaladinElliott

3 жыл бұрын

gl also didn't qual

@petrp4427

3 жыл бұрын

definitely agreed, this was a big miss by plat chat guys

Quote me on this mobile gaming is a huge thing in Asia. If they release it in China and south asia too, valorant mobile will blow pc valorant out the water. It's what happened with pubg, the mobile version now OWNS the pc version 😂😂

@youareapotato9323

3 жыл бұрын

Can't disagree with that Pubg playercount ~ 400k Pubg mobile playercount ~ 1 billion 👁️👄👁️

CSGO 24mil active users Dota 10mil active users Valorant 14mil active users League 130mil active users... How?

@lanesplitter8723

3 жыл бұрын

Asia.

@yaboymike2274

3 жыл бұрын

The game is REALLY popular in Asia compared to NA

@homicidal_toast4126

3 жыл бұрын

lol can also be ran on a potato, so that helps it...

@marLamaDeo

2 жыл бұрын

The league active user counts are probably bullshit and have probably been bullshit, the only high numbers I believe are mobile games and minecraft

@reve_x44

2 жыл бұрын

@@marLamaDeo league is huge in Asia and eu

shaz robbed

Sen didnt age well

@lyr1c

4 ай бұрын

@@serenalaurence1492 yep

does wyatt hate sean

@edwardbach5538

3 жыл бұрын

I want to see a cage match between the two.

Mobile? Valorant console when? Lol

NA is not better than EU because of their small sample size, but how can you say EU is better than NA? Lol. I think both NA and EU stand above all the other regions, neither of them are really much better than the other. The only concrete thing I’d say is SEN is the best team in the world.

Korea won’t be a contender just based on the mathematics of how many people play the game, its not even at a 1% in pc bangs, where is the talent gonna come from? NA, EU will have a way bigger talent pool to draw from as time goes on, if Valorant’s popular doesn’t increase in Korea I don’t see it happening, I’ve kept a look at the public pc bang data since masters ended and Valorant has still not entered the top 10 which would be around 1% play rate, for reference OW is around 5% and LoL is around 48%

SEntinels >EU>>NA

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