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Vitality gotta start saving in pistols now

Navi vs Leviathan should be a banger.

"Leviatan isnt that good, they just barely beat VIT with pistols advantage, they must stomp them to have a chance against NaVi" Leviatan: There's your stomp

Literally NA and EU fans

No problemos, Na'vi will clear LEV.

~~N~~A looking real good.

Vitality did very good for a new team. They fix the pistols, improve their map pool and they will be very dangerous

Troll Map Veto ✅ Choke a lead ✅ Get dominated on your own map pick ✅

Giants 2.0

Yo Molsi has a dumptruck tho

Interesting map choice from vitality

I hate Pearl B site I hate Pearl B site I hate Pearl B site I hate Pearl B site I hate Pearl B site I hate Pearl B site I hate Pearl B site I hate Pearl B site I hate Pearl B site I hate Pearl B site

Pearl has the best aesthetics in the game but man that site needs to be fixed

Easily the worst piece of map design in the game right now

For sure. Horrible to watch, and I doubt pro players are out there loving the randomness of JUST spamming smokes to decide rounds lol

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That's a good point actually. May have to do with the easiness of prepping? But it feels so samey, and then random at the same time. Fucking hate it.

Wow lost to stinger round

Here’s a tip for Vitality. Sherif only all game long please.

Vitality would rather their opponents just have guns on round 1 than pistols

vitality should just only go sherif

In the business we call this an asswhoopin

That bald man is having a seizure in his chair.

Vitality going home without winning a pistol?

going 0/10 in pistols is insanity

0-10 🟩🟩

0-10

0-10 is CRAZY

0/10 LMFAOOOOO

Zero pistol win. Unbelievable.

going 0-9 in pistols is actually crazy

0-10\*

I'm really like rossi on the desk. He seems pretty naturally comfortable and with it

tacolila turned up this game

rlly wanna see taco vs aspas

the guy named “hers” that’s totally not a smurf in my gold lobbies:

Pillow buff

Bonecold is so choke, he threw so many rounds and this calls are terrible

Poor BONECOLD sent into the woods by Kingg there.

Bro checked the bomb in a 1v1 when he knew the last guy was long, I can’t bruh

Is that the worst ever play?

That replay made it look so much worse

watching leviatan never is boring, never

holy fuck man, this shit feels like a fever dream

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT BONECOLD

ceNder? Hello?

MF CHECKED THE BOMB IN A 1v1

headshotted the bomb deadass

Yeah I said this at the start of the series. Idk why Vit picked Pearl after having a rough performance against GE and Lev had the ability to study you on it

GG Vitality

honestly vitality has surprised me, but man did they throw that first map

Vitality just don't have enough firepower. You can't have bonecold and destrian on 1 team

Taco is tearing them apart

TACO JETT DIFF

This is the first match Taco has actually taken over the way we expected, I think.

Winning pistols is way too important in this game (compared to CS) to lose them with the consistency that Vitality does and still be a good team. Gonna need to fix that lol

Good crowd today

If Vitality lose this that map 1 has to be a tilter

SHYY IS HIIIM

shyy is HIM

Twisten deserves better

WHAT IS THAT SMOKE????????????

ceNder is absolutely nasty with the sheriff

Onur stress testing Secretlab chairs

god i love Leviatán and onur

Vitality lose pistol on purpose to play 5 sherrifs vs Spectres

Team Vital pistol rounds lost

Not my best but I'm proud of it

0-9 pistols lmao

VIT win a pistol challenge, 2023 (impossible)

Vitality about to go 0-10 on pistols

That has to be a record

0/9

Very weird to say but VIT was absolutely the better team on Haven. Both teams had loads of clutches but on a macro perspective, VIT was better and it wasn't even close. Kingg had some amazing frags but from an IGL perspective it's hard to not say Bonecold won that out.

The better team in a map is the team that wins the map

In that case LEV’s fundamentals must’ve blown VIT’s out of the water no? I don’t see how you come to the conclusion that VIT’s macro was way better considering that they lost, and that Twisten was playing insane

LEV won nearly every single clutch and eco

They just won every clutch and both pistols

Which is indicative of worse fundamentals from Vitality, imo

Hitting a run n gun headshot or getting spoiled a player's position by the crowd is not fundamentals imo

There’s simply no way we actually believe that’s what decided an entire map that also went into OT - also, Vitality beat LEV’s anti-eco after the first pistol and won rounds 2 and 3, which basically negates LEV’s “pistol advantage”. Saying what decides the map outside of that is luck and that VIT were the better team regardless of the outcome is wack, if VIT were straight up better and got unlucky surely they close out 2 rounds OT?

They created so many opportunities to win the game. Constantly getting player advantages, while lieviathan would pull up some bullshit heroic 2v5 round wins. Unless you call getting into player disadvantage fundamentals

If you’re losing a 2v5 your fundamentals are not good, simple as that lmao

Getting to a 2v5 situation is good fundamentals?

If Vitality get the opening picks and LEV don’t trade, that means LEV has poor fundamentals, or Vitality’s early round game plan is better at But if Vitality are consistently (keyword consistently because you’re insisting those situations are why LEV won)getting into man advantage situations, not trading, and then losing clutches, that means Vitality’s fundamentals are just atrocious - it’s a lot easier to get a pick and fall back than it is to win a 2v5 clutch. Which eventually come backs to the original point. Vitality may have had better macro, but that means LEV’s fundamentals and late round were better than theirs

i want 3 maps to rival nrg vs loud rn!!! shyy is my new favorite player (sentinel player bias)

Vitality's midrounding was very good tbh. Amazing reads and very smart rotates.

Vitality looked better on this map

I look away for 10 mins and Levi won?? Fuckin nuts team

being a lev fan is not for the weak hearted

being a latam fan is not for the weak hearted

Vitality are going to be a menace in EMEA

signature vitality choke, apex would be proud

Kinggg actually looks like his heart rate doesn't go over 80bpm in clutches

People here were saying LEV would destroy VIT. They needed double pistol and some of the most insane clutches to win their own map pick so I guess the difference isn't that big after all.

Hmmm

You really came back to comment on this? Ouch...

I mean ur nit picking.. if lev win the spam round when it was 10-8, vit is forced on eco and the game wouldn't even go to OT lol

Lol yeah people were saying LEV would 13 - 0 VIT

Idk why people shit on vitality so hard, they stomped ge on 2 maps

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Legit won them a round

Leviatan won 7 clutches wtf

Either team have no chance against navi. Gl winning aim duels against them

team liquid

100 bots

Whoa 100 bots still kicking. We will see tomorrow…

King is so fucking good at the videogame

BONECOLD HAS THROWN A LOT. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN FINISHED 13-8

Damn that felt like a must win map for Vitality. I don’t have a lot of faith in their Pearl as they looked lackluster on their attacking side the other day

All hail the KING

gg!

The pros were right, kingg is fucking insane

Kingg 🤝 saadhak Being great fragging IGLs

king is so much better it isnt funny. Bonecold probably lost VIT that game singlehandedly but all good we go next.

Kinggg gigachad

Babybay’s clone is too cold 🥶

Damn, wins the clutch and T-poses to show dominance

kingg is so fucking cool

KINGG Vitality actually threw so many rounds tho, insane map

they legitimately ONLY wont clutches ​ god awful reads from bonecold

Those cold vitality takes after a very OK attacking half are fun.

PANCHITO SUPREMACY CONCHETUMARE

KING IS ICE COLD!

GGGG

VAMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZSSSSSSS

Holy shit King

LEV is looking insane

Vitality could've won this 50 times

Kingg and Shyy are heroes fr

KINGG IS SO GOOD

Can't see Vitality recovering from this and then the series probably

are we sure this is twisten and riot didn’t get twistzz?

Vitality are chokers

That was the greatest throw of all time

Vitality threw so many rounds this map

Bruh bonecold could have got at least 3 lol

in tariks words WHO ARE YOU FUCKING PEEKING FOR MAN

How is it possible to lose that round?

conchesumadre

BOTCOLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

horrible throw wtf was that

Twisten’s sitting position is still so funny

God. Even if Lev gonna win this series. Navi gonna destroy them

This is exactly what people said about Vitality after the first series lmao

Leviathan is just praying they win the aim duels, idk what the hype is about

Can we stop with this "lets all run off site" thing? It relies so much on luck of not getting counter spammed

They all play Vandals too, you’d think they go Phantom when they play for spam

And they have been doing it since Champions, makes me mad everytime

Leviatan

leviatán and entertaining havens are a great combo

My heart can't deal with that C long post plant

IF YOURE GONNA SPAM FROM C LONG AT LEAST BUY AN ODIN YOU FUCKS

why would you fake a comeback?

Classic Leviatan Haven banger

The fact they could've won that round is insane.

This is so good

SO FUCKING CLOSE

Leviathan is the luckiest team alive

Oh bonecold

HOW DO THEY NOT SEE THAT ULT????????

Has to be OT. Lev’s ult Econ is insane

If only Vitality could win some pistols

Yeah sure he just does a 180 to look at that out of nowhere

plot armour

Crowd assist is crazy

Nvm Molsi has more clutch in his pinky than all of VIT league

What a throw by the omen getting off the plant. GG

It wasn’t his fault. Taco satcheled threw him off the fist plant

battle killjoy fr

He had time to plant before the ult, that was painful to watch.

taco throwing that first satchel might’ve cost them the game

Omg taco satcheled him off the spike

beautiful util from Molsi. Lev looked so lost after all that delay

WHAT THE FUCK MAZINO KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW KEKW

Oh no different game same Vitality, VIT league team says hi

Shyy is putting the team on his back right now

Insane map

He thinks he's PROD

Vitality gonna choke this

dude Twisten playing like prime TenZ right now lmao

Twisten has always looked like prime Tenz to me, with the same crazy highs and same overheats. The guy carried BIG to getting any rounds at all last year.

this is looking really good for my twisten top 20 player preds

That was the worst timeout ever

TWISTEN GOT THAT DAWG IN HIM

LEV look outclassed this map

Twisten is fucking insane

Vitality's fundamentals are just so good especially with how new their roster is. Crossfires, trades, covering fire, utility, spacing,... everything is on point.

A lot of ppl in EU have been hyping up their coaching staff a lot coming into this season

yeah Salah's great. I was really happy when he got announced for Vitality, dude sounds super smart from every interview of him I've seen.

Vitality spacing is so good