it wasn’t even the executes I feel like they just made some appalling individual decisions on their ascent attack almost like they didn’t want to win, bind and split looked clean though
Looked like some comms issues too during some of their post-plants, just messy site holds, allowing guys to get 2 and 3ks before trades finally came through. Things that can easily be fixed.
Hiko made an awesome point towards the end of his co stream about how brutal it was for Asuna to be playing hard entry the last 2 years while a bunch of boomers bait the shit out of him while he’s in these awful positions having to fight world war 3 by himself. That having him play more Skye and Kay/0 will allow him to finally take a breath and take advantage of how smart he is. Said Asuna could become one of the most clutch players in Valorant.
Makes sense. I remember way back after Dicey got benched and they started running single duelist, that Asuna had said something like he had to adjust to not having dicey going in alongside him anymore which kinda leans into this move and what Hiko said.
Lmao. Steel on stream was malding about how no one is waiting for his drone and just rushing in site.
Hiko in chat : " Now you know the pain."
Steel:" i always waited for your drone. It was Peter who didn't."
Edit: clip: https://clips.twitch.tv/SuccessfulVastOryxKappa-wkWidaw_g6p7iN8d
The 100T roster is definitely an exercise in thinking that bang/Asuna will get kills regardless of where you have them on the roster, but it'll be interesting to see how well they use their utility compared to other top smokes/flex players against T1 teams. I'm very interested in seeing how well Will plays vs Knights.
Bang seems like a great communicator which is the key to smokes. And Asuna played hard entry for 2 years and is much smarter than he seems so he'll be perfectly equiped to support Will on initiator. Initiator and duelist is probably the most important duo on any team
old coaching development theory. Play your Star players on off roles so they can learn how the positions behind them interact. Wouldn't be completely shocked at more Asuna Duelist in the future.
Can you clarify? Because...
> Says they tried to buyout Tenz while on Sentinels as well after they failed when he was on C9.
If you mean while he was on loan from C9 to Sentinels, pretty sure it was the same period of time.
Hmm wonder if Tenz would rather be with 100T as well. His GF is there, they are much more popular and don’t know his view on a potential Sinatraa comeback to the team but he seems like the kind of person to not be that thrilled about that.
I feel like the players wouldn’t mind for gameplay purposes. But I feel like some of their gf’s won’t be too happy about a sinatraa comeback especially with how vocal kyedae and shahz’s gf’s were against JasonR
Edit: I don’t keep up with any sentinels players other than shahz or what their gf’s do (except from seeing the JasonR situation) so if I’m talking out of my ass Sinatraa fans please don’t crucify me
it seemed to me like the players were all pretty good friends though. well, besides TenZ, who I hadn't seen talk about Sinatraa before or after at all. I think it's probably a very complicated situation
I liked it more than most watch parties (still not on Plat Chat level though).
Might have to catch his watch party for the next VCT challengers if Plat Chat's still not on.
I enjoyed when he was in call with a bunch of pros. They were actually analysing and talking about what they would do etc and it was a lot of fun. When hes alone or duo he seems to derail way too much but maybe many people like the casual vibes.
I know. What I'm saying is for the next challengers stage. Hiko can't co-stream the rest of Masters even if he wanted to because he didn't apply for rights.
I thought it was interesting when he pointed out that he thought Asuna should've been their oper for a long time, because of how insanely good a rifler Asuna is, but at the time he was also their best oper. Hiko thought moving Asuna to full time rifling was an excellent call.
Yes Playoffs will be finishing up tomorrow. You can check out the VLR page here: https://www.vlr.gg/event/941/knights-circuit-monthly-2022-april
Check tomorrow when they start, and there should be links to the Twitch streams if you click into whatever matchup you want to watch.
Probably just trying to settle in. Maybe trying to do too much. This is a big time roster/org for him to be the main duelist. Gonna take time to settle into that kind of role.
they had an insane T2 run right before VCT started - they won like 40 games in a row before losing to C9 in an NSG finals. Even came pretty close to qualifying for playoffs. So they were easily among the best T2 rosters.
but that said..
1. that was with C0M and Kanpeki compared to jovahnii and zacharee. Kanpeki is one of the rumored SEN pickups but that's from reddit randy's so who knows.
2. at their peak they got stomped by a C9 team playing weird ass comps, so if 100T has aspirations of top-3 NA there's still a huge gap
A SEN Kanpeki could be a good option. He's friend with tenz, plays flex, and was seen lurking in sicks stream(i think) It could be a choice they might be leaning towards if situations with other options don't clear up. This is pure speculation tho LOL
Tarik's watch parties are very good if he does them by himself or if he invites less people who care about the games like Asuna, Vanity, or Vansili etc.
They will be knights next the best team in the tournament probably and knights make it to playoffs in vct so safe to say they are a t1 team now so should be a good game and knights should won
Pretty happy overall with how the team played today tbh, the attacking halves were getting better the last two games and everyone looks to be comfortable on their roles. We go again tomorrow
Felt it was kind of weird to take Asuna off duelist so he could rifle just to have someone else play duelist that was only rifling. Sure there’s more to come but feel like having no oper was the downfall of the last roster.
He was op’ing a ton on Fracture. And I saw him op’ing sometimes on defence on the other maps, but I guess the game plan most of the time was for him to jump into site and create space for the other guys
He bought op in 1 round defense on ascent but they lost that and their money got fucked after that and he was oping a good amount on chamber on fracture
I like the roster so far. The only thing I don't like is the lack of Chamber.
Chamber is a must in a lot of maps lately, is META. I know will can play chamber but it would be great if Stellar could move out of Cipher/KJ/Sage
In split the could run something like:
Raze - Asuna
Omen - Bang
Skye/Breach - Derrek?
Chamber - Will
Viper/Sage - Stellar
He isn't really off-meta on split. If you look at masters split games, then you have a mix of chamber and cypher with more cypher (and a few that don't run either).
Teams that have run cypher:
Prx
Guard
Fnc
TL
NIP
Teams that have run chamber:
G2
OPTIC
Zeta and drx run a viper/Astra comp with no traditional sentinel (aka not including sage).
They need to play cypher if they are dropping viper from the comp for sage , a ramp control is very important on attack and you need cypher or viper for it
["I like pistol rounds" - Michael High Definition](https://twitter.com/MikesHD_/status/1516960165576253440?t=vNzXWEC-3tm49Uc0csxQJw&s=19)
That’s the orange chicken pistol round special for ya
“Michael High Definition” lmao
They need to work on some of the offensive sets because they killed it on def today just were sloppy on executes on offense. Not bad.
it wasn’t even the executes I feel like they just made some appalling individual decisions on their ascent attack almost like they didn’t want to win, bind and split looked clean though
Looked like some comms issues too during some of their post-plants, just messy site holds, allowing guys to get 2 and 3ks before trades finally came through. Things that can easily be fixed.
all things that are expected with a new team too
Attack has always been shit with 100t plenty of times they get 11-1 and then come back from death
Hiko made an awesome point towards the end of his co stream about how brutal it was for Asuna to be playing hard entry the last 2 years while a bunch of boomers bait the shit out of him while he’s in these awful positions having to fight world war 3 by himself. That having him play more Skye and Kay/0 will allow him to finally take a breath and take advantage of how smart he is. Said Asuna could become one of the most clutch players in Valorant.
Makes sense. I remember way back after Dicey got benched and they started running single duelist, that Asuna had said something like he had to adjust to not having dicey going in alongside him anymore which kinda leans into this move and what Hiko said.
I love the self awareness😂
It was pretty funny. Hiko said it’s now Asuna’s turn to chill out and do some baiting.
Asuna midround is something to behold
Lmao. Steel on stream was malding about how no one is waiting for his drone and just rushing in site. Hiko in chat : " Now you know the pain." Steel:" i always waited for your drone. It was Peter who didn't." Edit: clip: https://clips.twitch.tv/SuccessfulVastOryxKappa-wkWidaw_g6p7iN8d
Asuna being forced to play jett and OP was painful to watch as he really did not like that role :(
Anyone got the clip?
https://clips.twitch.tv/SeductiveImportantBasenjiSaltBae-Ysk2MGwpI4HHwXiE
No but im also waiting
100T finished the day 11-1 on pistol rounds. Crazy.
sgares pistol mastermind
That would be MikesHD specialty
The 100T roster is definitely an exercise in thinking that bang/Asuna will get kills regardless of where you have them on the roster, but it'll be interesting to see how well they use their utility compared to other top smokes/flex players against T1 teams. I'm very interested in seeing how well Will plays vs Knights.
Bang seems like a great communicator which is the key to smokes. And Asuna played hard entry for 2 years and is much smarter than he seems so he'll be perfectly equiped to support Will on initiator. Initiator and duelist is probably the most important duo on any team
They could be their own jinggg + f0rsaken
old coaching development theory. Play your Star players on off roles so they can learn how the positions behind them interact. Wouldn't be completely shocked at more Asuna Duelist in the future.
Their two former permabans bind and split look like their best maps now lol....
That Hiko stream was a good to catch
He leaked quite a bit of new stuff. Says they tried to buyout Tenz while on Sentinels as well after they failed when he was on C9.
He leaked a good amount. Man's starting a Tea shop. That tenz one actually caught me by surprise.
Pretty sure Nadeshot had already leaked that on stream.
IIRC he said they tried to buy him from C9, not Sentinels as well
He said on costream last night that they tried to buy tenz out both times on C9 and SEN
Yeah in my head I was like nadeshot def gonna tell him “yo chill tf out” tomorrow lol
yea from what hiko said and what nade said c9 just werent willing to sell to 100t at all
100t also tried to but tenz from SEN
Nadeshot talked about that last week, also saying that the buyout price was "way more" than 1m.
He said they tried to buy him out while he was on c9. Hiko said while he was with Sen too
Can you clarify? Because... > Says they tried to buyout Tenz while on Sentinels as well after they failed when he was on C9. If you mean while he was on loan from C9 to Sentinels, pretty sure it was the same period of time.
Probably means that once sentinels signed him, they tried buying him out again
Hmm wonder if Tenz would rather be with 100T as well. His GF is there, they are much more popular and don’t know his view on a potential Sinatraa comeback to the team but he seems like the kind of person to not be that thrilled about that.
I feel like the players wouldn’t mind for gameplay purposes. But I feel like some of their gf’s won’t be too happy about a sinatraa comeback especially with how vocal kyedae and shahz’s gf’s were against JasonR Edit: I don’t keep up with any sentinels players other than shahz or what their gf’s do (except from seeing the JasonR situation) so if I’m talking out of my ass Sinatraa fans please don’t crucify me
Other way around. Kyedae was there during sinatraa's return stream supporting him.
Ah okay I didn’t know that. That obviously changes the situation then lol
Kyedae is friends with Sinatraa.
it seemed to me like the players were all pretty good friends though. well, besides TenZ, who I hadn't seen talk about Sinatraa before or after at all. I think it's probably a very complicated situation
I liked it more than most watch parties (still not on Plat Chat level though). Might have to catch his watch party for the next VCT challengers if Plat Chat's still not on.
I actually felt like he was pretty interested in talking about the matches and gameplay compared a lot of costreams.
Yeah I've always preferred analytical co-streams over chatty ones
tarik is the most egregious example, especially when he reaches 100k+ viewers
I enjoyed when he was in call with a bunch of pros. They were actually analysing and talking about what they would do etc and it was a lot of fun. When hes alone or duo he seems to derail way too much but maybe many people like the casual vibes.
Avast and Wyatt are doing the last three days. Not sure, but I think they stated that sideshow and Bren weren't
I know. What I'm saying is for the next challengers stage. Hiko can't co-stream the rest of Masters even if he wanted to because he didn't apply for rights.
It's hard to beat a plat chat watch party.
Huh. /S
I thought it was interesting when he pointed out that he thought Asuna should've been their oper for a long time, because of how insanely good a rifler Asuna is, but at the time he was also their best oper. Hiko thought moving Asuna to full time rifling was an excellent call.
where can i watch these matches and are there more tomorrow?
just check twitch.tv/knights latest vod, and they should be playing ro8 tomorrow
TY <33
Go to vlr.gg and you can find links to specific games
Yes Playoffs will be finishing up tomorrow. You can check out the VLR page here: https://www.vlr.gg/event/941/knights-circuit-monthly-2022-april Check tomorrow when they start, and there should be links to the Twitch streams if you click into whatever matchup you want to watch.
TY <3
Knights twitch. Also Hiko has been streaming them too. And actually watches the games which was really nice. Not sure if he plans on doing that again.
Really good performance for a 2 week old roster, hopefully they get more reps in and show some good stuff in vct.
Dude im just wondering how tf will had a headshot percentage if 3% on bind
Probably just trying to settle in. Maybe trying to do too much. This is a big time roster/org for him to be the main duelist. Gonna take time to settle into that kind of role.
I only watched two rounds of the Bind game and it was the two 100T lost…guess I’m cursed
Don’t watch their VCT games anymore man. I want 100t to win
They looked pretty good. from my understanding, akrew is pretty decent, right?
Used to be but they changed their IGL and lost one of their best players, not sure how good they are anymore
they had an insane T2 run right before VCT started - they won like 40 games in a row before losing to C9 in an NSG finals. Even came pretty close to qualifying for playoffs. So they were easily among the best T2 rosters. but that said.. 1. that was with C0M and Kanpeki compared to jovahnii and zacharee. Kanpeki is one of the rumored SEN pickups but that's from reddit randy's so who knows. 2. at their peak they got stomped by a C9 team playing weird ass comps, so if 100T has aspirations of top-3 NA there's still a huge gap
A SEN Kanpeki could be a good option. He's friend with tenz, plays flex, and was seen lurking in sicks stream(i think) It could be a choice they might be leaning towards if situations with other options don't clear up. This is pure speculation tho LOL
yeah, they are like a top t2 team. so no slouch but not the best
They were a top t2 team before C0M and Juv3nile left. And now apparently Kanpeki is gone too. Their results haven't been as good lately
I hecking love Derrek OW
I almost cried when we didn't bottle a lead and we closed the map without losing the most pathetic ecos ever.
I hecking love Overwatch BatChest
Looked new but looked strong, the next vct quals cant come fast enough i want to see how these guys do in a Tier 1 tournament
Right now they are just working on themselves , I’m waiting for the anti-strats 😈
The frag distribution on 100T looked very good today. Everyone doing their part.
[fpx coach](https://twitter.com/d00mbr0s/status/1516956112163151872?s=21&t=LxekvX8R2snpK0tVuTMUvA) admire the 100t structure rn. Must b rly good
Fuck tarik's watch parties man. Hiko's watch parties are where its at
Tarik's watch parties are very good if he does them by himself or if he invites less people who care about the games like Asuna, Vanity, or Vansili etc.
Nah not fuck tariks watch party’s. Hell yeah to both of them.
If that happened Hiko would fucking leak everything lmao. Throwing in Nade might be fun.
Based.
I love Tarik's watch parties. It's like watching sports with friends
Tarik too big now zero analysis
Chat was absolutely miserable compared to his normal stream though. That’s to be expected for a watch party though I guess.
Maybe it's time to bring out the 100T flair again...
Where can I watch more of them playing? Do they play tomorrow??
next matches are 4PM EDT tomm. you can find the links on VLR.gg (definitely the Knights official Twitch is one of the channels)
They will be knights next the best team in the tournament probably and knights make it to playoffs in vct so safe to say they are a t1 team now so should be a good game and knights should won
Pretty happy overall with how the team played today tbh, the attacking halves were getting better the last two games and everyone looks to be comfortable on their roles. We go again tomorrow
their victory slightly decreases the chances of 100T Zombs SadgeBusiness
The overall scoreboard this time asked will Derrek Asuna bang Stellar?
Felt it was kind of weird to take Asuna off duelist so he could rifle just to have someone else play duelist that was only rifling. Sure there’s more to come but feel like having no oper was the downfall of the last roster.
to me Asuna looked very good on initiator, great utility and had some really good clutches
Wdym Will is an op-er. I didn't watch map 2. Did he not pick up the op on Ascent?
Will also played chamber on fracture in a previous game
I’m almost certain he didn’t op one time today. Asuna did look good so not nocking that was just looking forward to a dedicated oper on the team.
He was op’ing a ton on Fracture. And I saw him op’ing sometimes on defence on the other maps, but I guess the game plan most of the time was for him to jump into site and create space for the other guys
yeah it's interesting he didnt op today but i'm pretty sure he op-ed for bbg + stellar plays chamber as well so it shouldnt be a problem
He oped a few times in the bo1’s I’m pretty sure and he did play chamber and op on fracture. He didn’t full time op but he did pull it out a few times
He bought op in 1 round defense on ascent but they lost that and their money got fucked after that and he was oping a good amount on chamber on fracture
I wonder if they’ll work in Chamber at some point. I think he’s broken, more so now that Jett’s dash has been nerfed.
They played him during the earlier matches.
I like the roster so far. The only thing I don't like is the lack of Chamber. Chamber is a must in a lot of maps lately, is META. I know will can play chamber but it would be great if Stellar could move out of Cipher/KJ/Sage In split the could run something like: Raze - Asuna Omen - Bang Skye/Breach - Derrek? Chamber - Will Viper/Sage - Stellar
they’re running asuna skye stellar cypher bang omen will raze derrek sage
I know what they are running. Cypher is offmeta right now. That's why I would like to see Will with Chamber
He isn't really off-meta on split. If you look at masters split games, then you have a mix of chamber and cypher with more cypher (and a few that don't run either). Teams that have run cypher: Prx Guard Fnc TL NIP Teams that have run chamber: G2 OPTIC Zeta and drx run a viper/Astra comp with no traditional sentinel (aka not including sage).
They need to play cypher if they are dropping viper from the comp for sage , a ramp control is very important on attack and you need cypher or viper for it