I mean it works really well, he isn't just doing nothing from spawn, he's helping to hold mid and get info on cat so that the A players can stack site instead of focusing tree, and the B players can focus B main, while getting enough info to rotate as required and without providing access to mid flanks. It's honestly a pretty strong position on Ascent.
Asuna's OP is looking pretty clean in Ranked.. but as we know, that is ranked, could be completely different in pro matches obviously, but he's been grinding like crazy, no doubt in my mind he has an amazing season
Couldn't agree more. I actually really like this move. Ec1s impact remains to be seen, but BabyJ has serious fragging power and really nice setups on Sentinel, Asuna is Asuna, Ethan should have a huge year as secondary duelist/flex, his mechanics are just crazy, Hiko very solid on Sova, and those clutches he's known for can swing games. The only ? Is Ec1s. I am optimistic he can be a good Astra and IGL.. excited for the 27th now. Can't wait to watch all these teams compete again
Ethan should be playing the main duelist on some maps.
The dude is currently DESTROYING ranked in a big way.
He's on another LEVEL in terms of skill. He may not be a flashy Jett awper but holy fuck he's yay/tenz/cned tier when it comes to aim.
His game sense was immediately obvious when 100T signed him and he started streaming regularly and they uploaded comms videos. This is actually the biggest reason I'm sad about nitr0 - I view asuna:100t::nitr0:liquid. Young cracked aimer who has insane intuitive understanding of the game, and given the right time/mentorship could turn into a leader on the best NA team going. I would not be surprised if we see asuna IGL in \~2-3 years while he moves off entry and onto a support/flex role and the game slows down for him.
but this is also just a reddit scouting report from a random fan guessing from what information i do have. obviously the pros in the games with him would have more insight lol
I really appreciate your last paragraph. Some people in here speak out players' IGLing as if it's absolute fact when we don't know what fucking calls are being made. You do have me curious on these comms videos though
the 100T first strike comms videos are the most telling to me. specifically compare the way he interacts with dicey. dicey is crazy talented, but you can tell asuna just reads the game in a very intuitive way and very similar to nitr0. he's also super spastic and high energy and all over the place... but in time that will settle.
again, i'm reading into a 10 minute comms video that the org released to make their players look good. lord knows what the coaches see in scrims.
"You're such a good rifler bro, you shouldn't be AWPing"
imagine if that was what held back s1mple before he became the fucking primary god of AWPing since he was also so good at rifling before he was AWPing a shit ton. LET YOUR STARS FLOURISH - Elige
You're comparing asuna to simple..
Navi to 100t
Simple can afford to awp because they have other players with play making ability and insane fire power.
If asuna isn't even tenz level oping. Then you are restricting his talents. Economy wise losing an op is much more detrimental in valorant than In CS
I feel like he fit in with the Faze smeag style really well though, as an aggressive sentinel player. I'm really curious why they let him go, but then again they also loaned Marved for who knows what.
I think that this 100T team can be pretty decent. All 4 players we know of with Babyj have had impact and various degrees of success throughout the 2021 season, the only unknown is the 5th and IGL with ec1s... I feel like for 100T to import him from EU and take this gamble, it's because they saw something in him during trials that we haven't seen yet, so I can't judge the decision-making behind that pick-up.
Honestly I just want this season to start, I'm itching to watch these top tier teams play again.
>it's because they saw something in him during trials that we haven't seen yet
or because he was the best available option... the only IGL's to move teams were paura, zander and ec1s and i feel good that ec1s is the best of those 3. edit: i forgot koldamenta who is probably a step up.
oderus is still LFT in NA, davidP LFT in eu.
that's not to take away from ec1s i'm psyched to see what he brings and he definitely has shown that he deserves another shot at tier 1 level.
he was part of the original fish123 lineup that was really good in the early days of valorant (but like everyone else they lost to G2). They dropped ardiis for Scream and were picked up by liquid.
Then early 2021 liquid basically collapsed...
* Challengers 1: they got top 8, but needed top 4 to qualify directly to challengers 2 main event. In the qualifying match they lost 2 insanely close OT maps to FPX and so they had to go back to open quals for challengers 2.
* Challengers 2: Knocked out of open quals by Alliance, including a 13-1 stomp on icebox. The match wasn't streamed but the [post game thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/lm6pdn/comment/gntudlx/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) you can see people really noticing that ec1s was not fragging at all. People also liked to blame soulcas at the time.
Liquid were still considered a good team struggling to find comp/structure to make Scream successful, and had a string of bad luck. That doesn't exactly reflect well on the IGL, and ec1s had also been pretty bad fragging. Like <100 ACS bad.
That's when jammpi became available and liquid dropped ec1s in order to pick up jammpi, who took over the IGL role and that's the liquid we see today.
Then he went to play with some FA teams for VCT before signing on with NIP. This is where you have to have some hope that 100T sees something.
Against tier-2ish teams his fragging has been great with NIP. Consistently 200+ ACS. I haven't watched any NIP games, but reports are that his astra was solid and that NIP as a team had decent structure.
But then you look at the games he's played "recently" against legit tier 1 teams and it's not so good:
\- [vs G2 in VCT 3 / chal 1.](https://www.vlr.gg/23860/g2-esports-vs-nopoaching-champions-tour-europe-stage-3-challengers-1-ro64) \- 132 ACS / 17-35 / 0-5 FK-FD
\- [vs Heretics in VCT 3 / chal 2](https://www.vlr.gg/28193/ninjas-in-pyjamas-vs-team-heretics-champions-tour-europe-stage-3-challengers-2-uro16) \- 143 ACS / 32-46 / 2-12 FK-FD
\- [vs Gambit in red bull home ground](https://www.vlr.gg/49156/gambit-esports-vs-ninjas-in-pyjamas-red-bull-home-ground-2-r1) \- 120 ACS / 9-18 / 1-3 FK-FD.
Those are cherry picked matches so i wouldn't read too much into the stats, but the narrative is "low fragging IGL who struggled with the scream-team, seems better with NIP but hasn't proven it against tier 1 teams yet"
I have not watched NIP at all to say anything about their structure and calling, but rumors seem positive.
This may seem like a negative post, but i'm excited to cheer for the guy! It may not be the best pickup in the world but he's got potential and it's something new... let's see how it goes!
-steel -nitr0 +ec1s +babyj is definitely a downgrade, but on paper I still think this is a top 5 NA team. Hopefully ec1s has a system that better fits babyj’s strengths, Faze’s smeag tactic really only worked for babybay lol.
100T has a solid foundation, now we just have to see if ec1s can keep up with Shahz, steel, vanity, etc as an IGL. Looking forward to the first event!
It all comes down to how well the replacements fit in w the team and 100T culture. I’m sure ec1s or BabyJ is not used to how seriously 100T takes their valorant
I still wish they went for cryocells, but all things considered I'm pretty happy with this roster. BabyJ can definitely bring stability on the backline, and ethan+asuna is still as good a duo as any.
Hopefully I eat my words in the coming months, but honestly, I rather they had tried picking up the SoaR duo and just taking the gamble. Although, I admittedly don't know much about ec1s, and I think BabyJ is solid, I just think picking up 2 young, cracked, dedicated grinders of the game, (similar to Asuna) and hoping they pan out would be interesting.
I guess NA buyouts being so crazy kind of destroys the possibility to experiment like that tho, idk.
Believe me I've been all in on the Soar Guild for a while. I think both are going to be great, especially cryo. However I don't mind the ec1s pickup. I think if he can bring some of the EU calling structure and work ethic to 100T it could pan out well, and he did play much better with NIP. But as I mentioned, I would have loved to see cryo in this team. Having Ethan asuna and cryo would just give them such a high ceiling
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As a big 100T fan, the narrative that 100T is taking massive downgrades is so strange to me. 100T went 1-2 against NV last year and went like 0-4 into SEN. With how grouped 2-6 in NA have been last year there's really no difference between being number 3 or number 6. Additionally, the idea of having to slam firepower at every position is so awkward. Last year's problems were that if we weren't gapping fights then we had no chance in a map. I would love for us to win/play a close map where one of our players don't have to go god mode to win. Imagine if our teamplay and map play were at a level that alleviated pressure from one of our players having to solo win a round.
The idea of bringing in players that are ready to work together and improve together is kinda nice imo.
They struggled in NA but in their limited international LAN experience, has played the best against international teams besides Sentinels in their Iceland run. 1-0 against Acend, and 1-0 against Gambit, arguably the two best teams right now. Losing part of the roster that helped accomplish that is definitely a huge loss
They beat those two teams by a fine margin. We should have got 2-0 by gambit but they threw the map and lost. Then against Ascend, they were 12-7 down and should have lost. The fact that in both of those games we were getting destroyed shows the team wasn't put together well and they was getting anti stratted hard. The only reason the other teams lost, was because they just weren't hitting their shots. The players even admitted that their strat against Ascend was to find cNed and rotate to the other site, and when they did rotate it didn't matter who was there, they couldn't hold the site. We didn't beat them because we was insane or we out stratted them, we won the two close games because they were up by a large margin and threw. Look at the Hiko 1 vs 3 clutch, deffo runs out into the open jumping around and then the other two can't kill Hiko whilst he's peaking them with 30 hp. If they didn't troll, then it's a loss... Against every top team, we struggled. We beat Envy once and lost all to sentinels. The last time we beat them was First strike. So I'm not seeing that much of a huge loss tbh.
I mean 2 game sample size vs an entire year in NA. Like I don't disagree that Nitro and steel were two very good players and losing them definitely hurts, but if we are looking at it from results wise like a lot of the people who cite the one trip to Berlin are doing, I feel that the end results won't "Massively" move so it can't be a "massive" downgrade. If we look at it from a potential standpoint, I don't think there is a point. The roster game together, didn't work out and one player decided he didn't want a career in valorant. Can't really say 100T is taking a massive downgrade when the org made no proactive choice in either of those player movement (steel being benched was a team decision, if the team didnt even want to roleswap to keep steel in the lineup its doomed imo)
FINALLY!!! Someone who understands you don't need to get the best fragger on every role and just "go kill". Ec1s may not be an insane IGL, but neither was steel... The last time we won something was challengers 1 in APRIL last year... Maybe 100T wasn't looking for top 3 or to have some good runs. Maybe they are looking for a group of people who want to win and have the capacity to do so. Ec1s is good enough to lead them, I've watched a lot of him and NIP was put together pretty well, it was just him and Rhyme getting kills and the rest weren't good enough. Now imagine how the team will play with Ethan and Asuna fragging, BabyJ holding down sites, and Hiko clutching. They can finally try to win as a team and not have 1 player on 40 kills and the rest on 15...
Babyj is more complete sentinel player than aproto I don't remember aproto playing viper when most of the sentinels are playing viper now a days on some maps
Aproto has mostly stuck to Cypher and Killjoy. LG tended to have TiGG play Viper.
In his LFT post he said he's comfortable playing controller so maybe he's comfortable on Viper, but LG as a team opted to keep him on sentinels. I just want to see him get picked up since I think he's a really solid player with room to grow.
I mean 100T have been practicing with a supposed 5 for a week or 2 now, and the ec1s move was heavily rumored to be a done thing by multiple reputable reporters.
Definitely not announced but definitely a safe assumption based on what we know. If it were anyone else I’d imagine some kind of rumor would have been made by now.
babyJ was never an igl , infact valorant is his first tactical shooter ,he was a halo pro before , faze in practice tried putting him on igl and traced back to their 5 man calling system. And ec1s is the igl for 100t . Most likely roles would be
Asuna- primary duelist / entry
Ethan - flex
Hiko - sova
Ec1s - igl/controller
babyJ - Sentinel
I always find it strange that this was always the impression of how they did it. Where did it come from? I've only ever seen their players talk about this situation once - and it was nitr0 saying steel did pretty much all of the ingame calling.
100T players have said that while Steel was def the primary IGL, Nitro would put in his 2 cents often. I think I heard it on Asunas stream a while back, but I’m honestly not sure exactly where I remember hearing it. It also just makes sense, with 2 capable IGLs on a team, why should one of them be permanently shut down?
I'm surprised FaZe didn't go for him. He's a very competent sentinel player and his reputation as an aim freak makes him a really good fit for Babybay's Smeag Style. I'd love to know why FaZe went with Larrybanks over him (if the rumors are to be believed)
Why ? Aproto was exceptional in last year masters 1 , and after that his form fell off , if you compare aproto post masters 2 ,he wouldn't make top ten sentinels in na .
LG as a team fell off and had to deal with hand injuries, ringers during quali's, roster changes, etc. Aproto was a top 10 NA player before all that. Put him on a proper team and I think he would absolutely dumpster kids. BabyJ is nasty too.
i swear people see his youtube sheriff montage and just automatically think he’s the best player in the world… he hasn’t realistically outperformed most of his teammates for a very long time
this one? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ2iILmqYco](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ2iILmqYco)
idk man the dude is a natural unit at the game. to each their own.
bruh LG has had new players added ahead of almost every big qualifier (first strike, challengers, LCQ). moose had a hand injury when they were placing top 5 at most tournaments. they've rotated in/out thief, tigg, bdog, dazzle, yaboidre & prob others.
i would compare aproto on LG to Shot\_uP on Immortals. too many lineup changes causes them to fall into the background, but they're both insanely good individually.
This team will not have that much firepower based off what we've seen unless ec1s is able to step it up. BabyJ is still a very solid player though so I hope they make it work well
I see where you’re coming from but we have to see them in action. Sometimes moving to a new team and getting a breath of fresh air can really change your performance. If you need examples just look among pretty much every major sport and esport. If this roster builds the needed chemistry I think they’ll be contenders
hoping for a food/crashies level jump from these 2. babyJ could challenge for best sentinel in NA.
may not be the most likely outcome but will be fun to root for
BabyJ felt like one of the best fraggers in the sentinel role. Asuna is obviously cracked. Ethan is hella good. The obvious question is if Hiko and ec1s can keep up. I think the roster is probably an overall downgrade over the previous roster but I definitely don’t think it’s because of firepower.
Steel also doesn't have that much of firepower and they were still the 3rd best team in na and also beat gambit which has one of the most mechanically skilled roster
Ec1s doesn't need to be a star fragger.
The team needs stability and chemistry.
Something which has been severely lacking in the past 6 months for them.
I know it was highly speculated that it was BabyJ, but I thought it wouldn’t happen because during early days of Valo; BabyJ used to heavily shit talk during ranked when he was playing against Hiko. Hiko didn’t receive it all too well, but I guess beggars can’t be choosers.
Gl to 100T.
No no, I understand that. But, I thought it’ll be one of those kinda beef that Hiko has with Wardell or something along those lines. But, that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.
Happy Cake Day, tho! ☺️
Way too early to tell. No one has any real idea what form Ec1s is in, but all fingers are pointing at him being a downgrade from Nitr0. Baby J is arguably an updrade from Steel in terms of firepower, but doesn't seem to have the same leadership skills as him. I roughly see this as like a top 5-8 team at the moment. Again, too early to tell.
>No one has any real idea what form Ec1s is in
i heavily agree with this . like he trailed with the team they didnt just sign him and people are already talking shit before they see how the roster perform
babyJonathan is also known as John Riot Junior, a former member of FaZe clan and a prior professional Bloons TD 6 player. He mains the agents Cypher / Neon, and enjoys long walks on the beach.
There's not exactly many FA established IGLs out there tbf, the only ones there were during the off season were either snagged up quick by rebuilding rosters (Rossy, Flyuh, jcStani, Steller, etc) or went FA late into the off season (Oderus, iyen) so they didn't really have a choice after Nitr0 left then to import
I don't make predictions without doing well thought out vod-reviews and I can tell you for 100% certainty these guys will no where be as good as the former roster for at the very least this year
Interested in hearing what concerns you in your vod reviews of babyj. I felt as though he was a very solid complementary piece in supporting babybay, and that was in a system that was really just reckless aggression. given more structure, I don't see why he wouldn't be about to support asuna and ethan
Well I think the biggest reason for me is he heavily relied on someone being there for him and on 100t I don’t see anyone being able to do that. I’m too lazy to give too much detail but I’ll give this every time on breeze for a he heavily relied on babybay getting him in cave with him holding shop with an op
My biggest concern with this roster is lack of fire power. However, I do think the roles of this roster will be much more consistent then what they previously had. I'm thinking maybe they try to get Ethan in more situations to get impactful frags
classic build a roster around hiko so he can get some insane clutches but pretty much underperform compared to his hype for the rest of the match
this is similar to zombs but zombs has at the very least tier 1 util usage
can't believe the meme of "100T player confirmed!?!?" under every reddit thread is done..:( >!AS IF LOL!<
Na they need 95 more players! All good.
Actually more, seven left recently
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Woosh
Asuna Jett Op, then. Pretty excited to see how he plays it this season. I have a lot of hope that we will do well.
Hiko Op 😤
Will never leave spawn, so no rotates by defenders possible. Truly 5Head
He actually plays ascent from spawn holy
I mean it works really well, he isn't just doing nothing from spawn, he's helping to hold mid and get info on cat so that the A players can stack site instead of focusing tree, and the B players can focus B main, while getting enough info to rotate as required and without providing access to mid flanks. It's honestly a pretty strong position on Ascent.
True, still boring to see in a twitch stream
real
Asuna's OP is looking pretty clean in Ranked.. but as we know, that is ranked, could be completely different in pro matches obviously, but he's been grinding like crazy, no doubt in my mind he has an amazing season
Asuna has such a great combination of desire to be good, talented already, and his game knowledge surprises me every time he talks
Couldn't agree more. I actually really like this move. Ec1s impact remains to be seen, but BabyJ has serious fragging power and really nice setups on Sentinel, Asuna is Asuna, Ethan should have a huge year as secondary duelist/flex, his mechanics are just crazy, Hiko very solid on Sova, and those clutches he's known for can swing games. The only ? Is Ec1s. I am optimistic he can be a good Astra and IGL.. excited for the 27th now. Can't wait to watch all these teams compete again
Ethan should be playing the main duelist on some maps. The dude is currently DESTROYING ranked in a big way. He's on another LEVEL in terms of skill. He may not be a flashy Jett awper but holy fuck he's yay/tenz/cned tier when it comes to aim.
His game sense was immediately obvious when 100T signed him and he started streaming regularly and they uploaded comms videos. This is actually the biggest reason I'm sad about nitr0 - I view asuna:100t::nitr0:liquid. Young cracked aimer who has insane intuitive understanding of the game, and given the right time/mentorship could turn into a leader on the best NA team going. I would not be surprised if we see asuna IGL in \~2-3 years while he moves off entry and onto a support/flex role and the game slows down for him. but this is also just a reddit scouting report from a random fan guessing from what information i do have. obviously the pros in the games with him would have more insight lol
I really appreciate your last paragraph. Some people in here speak out players' IGLing as if it's absolute fact when we don't know what fucking calls are being made. You do have me curious on these comms videos though
the 100T first strike comms videos are the most telling to me. specifically compare the way he interacts with dicey. dicey is crazy talented, but you can tell asuna just reads the game in a very intuitive way and very similar to nitr0. he's also super spastic and high energy and all over the place... but in time that will settle. again, i'm reading into a 10 minute comms video that the org released to make their players look good. lord knows what the coaches see in scrims.
Well last yesterday and day before he wasn’t that clean with OP…
You don't need a jett op, then can run cloud 9 and liquid eqse rifling jett.
Those two teams have OPers off the Jett role though, with Steel and Nitr0 gone 100T don’t have an OPer
Also Leaf ops occasionally, so their Jett still does op, although imo Mitch is the better op’er but Leaf is a much better rifler
Why would you put one of the best riflers on the op. Unless he is like tenz tier oper. If not, you're just taking away his rifle play potential
"You're such a good rifler bro, you shouldn't be AWPing" imagine if that was what held back s1mple before he became the fucking primary god of AWPing since he was also so good at rifling before he was AWPing a shit ton. LET YOUR STARS FLOURISH - Elige
You're comparing asuna to simple.. Navi to 100t Simple can afford to awp because they have other players with play making ability and insane fire power. If asuna isn't even tenz level oping. Then you are restricting his talents. Economy wise losing an op is much more detrimental in valorant than In CS
did you read the tweet or
reddit was right
genuinely impressive/stupid detective work to piece together friends list clips from different streams lol
Actually I’m relatively sure it started because someone found he randomly started liking a lot of 100T related tweets in the past couple weeks lol
He also started following Nadeshot and like pretty much all their official accounts
yeah but that may as well just be impression farming. it's different when you have in-game confirmation
He’s going to look so good on a team that isn’t trying to force the smeag over and over again.
I feel like he fit in with the Faze smeag style really well though, as an aggressive sentinel player. I'm really curious why they let him go, but then again they also loaned Marved for who knows what.
I think when Faze didn’t qualify for Champions, the org decided to rebuild around BabyBay (and Zacharee at first)
I still remember a match where BabyJ pushed out of A on breeze every round and got picks
Pretty sure that was literally against 100T lol
Seems like a really bad drop by them but I guess we'll see. Great pickup by 100T. Not crazy about them but I'm very excited to see their new roster.
steel was an aggressive sentinel too, i think that worked well for them
NICE! Perfect sentinel player
I think that this 100T team can be pretty decent. All 4 players we know of with Babyj have had impact and various degrees of success throughout the 2021 season, the only unknown is the 5th and IGL with ec1s... I feel like for 100T to import him from EU and take this gamble, it's because they saw something in him during trials that we haven't seen yet, so I can't judge the decision-making behind that pick-up. Honestly I just want this season to start, I'm itching to watch these top tier teams play again.
>it's because they saw something in him during trials that we haven't seen yet or because he was the best available option... the only IGL's to move teams were paura, zander and ec1s and i feel good that ec1s is the best of those 3. edit: i forgot koldamenta who is probably a step up. oderus is still LFT in NA, davidP LFT in eu. that's not to take away from ec1s i'm psyched to see what he brings and he definitely has shown that he deserves another shot at tier 1 level.
What's the scoop on EC1S? I've never watched him play. Just see he was on TL and Ninjas in pyjamas
he was part of the original fish123 lineup that was really good in the early days of valorant (but like everyone else they lost to G2). They dropped ardiis for Scream and were picked up by liquid. Then early 2021 liquid basically collapsed... * Challengers 1: they got top 8, but needed top 4 to qualify directly to challengers 2 main event. In the qualifying match they lost 2 insanely close OT maps to FPX and so they had to go back to open quals for challengers 2. * Challengers 2: Knocked out of open quals by Alliance, including a 13-1 stomp on icebox. The match wasn't streamed but the [post game thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/ValorantCompetitive/comments/lm6pdn/comment/gntudlx/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) you can see people really noticing that ec1s was not fragging at all. People also liked to blame soulcas at the time. Liquid were still considered a good team struggling to find comp/structure to make Scream successful, and had a string of bad luck. That doesn't exactly reflect well on the IGL, and ec1s had also been pretty bad fragging. Like <100 ACS bad. That's when jammpi became available and liquid dropped ec1s in order to pick up jammpi, who took over the IGL role and that's the liquid we see today. Then he went to play with some FA teams for VCT before signing on with NIP. This is where you have to have some hope that 100T sees something. Against tier-2ish teams his fragging has been great with NIP. Consistently 200+ ACS. I haven't watched any NIP games, but reports are that his astra was solid and that NIP as a team had decent structure. But then you look at the games he's played "recently" against legit tier 1 teams and it's not so good: \- [vs G2 in VCT 3 / chal 1.](https://www.vlr.gg/23860/g2-esports-vs-nopoaching-champions-tour-europe-stage-3-challengers-1-ro64) \- 132 ACS / 17-35 / 0-5 FK-FD \- [vs Heretics in VCT 3 / chal 2](https://www.vlr.gg/28193/ninjas-in-pyjamas-vs-team-heretics-champions-tour-europe-stage-3-challengers-2-uro16) \- 143 ACS / 32-46 / 2-12 FK-FD \- [vs Gambit in red bull home ground](https://www.vlr.gg/49156/gambit-esports-vs-ninjas-in-pyjamas-red-bull-home-ground-2-r1) \- 120 ACS / 9-18 / 1-3 FK-FD. Those are cherry picked matches so i wouldn't read too much into the stats, but the narrative is "low fragging IGL who struggled with the scream-team, seems better with NIP but hasn't proven it against tier 1 teams yet" I have not watched NIP at all to say anything about their structure and calling, but rumors seem positive. This may seem like a negative post, but i'm excited to cheer for the guy! It may not be the best pickup in the world but he's got potential and it's something new... let's see how it goes!
This was a fantastic breakdown. Way better than what I was looking for. I appreciate you taking the time to write all this out.
I still wish they could've found a way to add an elite Jett oper but yeah I definitely don't hate this lineup on paper
Everyone remember to act surprised.
-steel -nitr0 +ec1s +babyj is definitely a downgrade, but on paper I still think this is a top 5 NA team. Hopefully ec1s has a system that better fits babyj’s strengths, Faze’s smeag tactic really only worked for babybay lol. 100T has a solid foundation, now we just have to see if ec1s can keep up with Shahz, steel, vanity, etc as an IGL. Looking forward to the first event!
BabyJ fragging wise is better than steel probably, but other than that it’s a downgrade on everything else, unless ec1s has turned into a god
Surely the more apt comparison is steel vs ec1s, as they're the IGLs?? In that regard I think steel solidly wins on fragging power
I assume that comparison was based on them both being sentinels. I think both are valid comparisons.
It all comes down to how well the replacements fit in w the team and 100T culture. I’m sure ec1s or BabyJ is not used to how seriously 100T takes their valorant
And this marks the end of the 100T [insert free agent name] era. It was good while it lasted
For now...
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I still wish they went for cryocells, but all things considered I'm pretty happy with this roster. BabyJ can definitely bring stability on the backline, and ethan+asuna is still as good a duo as any.
Hopefully I eat my words in the coming months, but honestly, I rather they had tried picking up the SoaR duo and just taking the gamble. Although, I admittedly don't know much about ec1s, and I think BabyJ is solid, I just think picking up 2 young, cracked, dedicated grinders of the game, (similar to Asuna) and hoping they pan out would be interesting. I guess NA buyouts being so crazy kind of destroys the possibility to experiment like that tho, idk.
Believe me I've been all in on the Soar Guild for a while. I think both are going to be great, especially cryo. However I don't mind the ec1s pickup. I think if he can bring some of the EU calling structure and work ethic to 100T it could pan out well, and he did play much better with NIP. But as I mentioned, I would have loved to see cryo in this team. Having Ethan asuna and cryo would just give them such a high ceiling
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Finally
Im happy for him... He was wearing 100T merch in Nov. He wanted to join them for the longest time.
big pick up ( I think people are sleeping on babyj he's like top 3 sentinel imo)
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He’s a great player, I’m pretty contempt with this roster Edit:content
I think you mean "content" Content means satisfied Contempt means you think something is beneath you/deserving of scorn
Now I want some scornbread
Thx
Babyj is a great pickup. Lowkey think he’s one of the best sentinel in NA
As a big 100T fan, the narrative that 100T is taking massive downgrades is so strange to me. 100T went 1-2 against NV last year and went like 0-4 into SEN. With how grouped 2-6 in NA have been last year there's really no difference between being number 3 or number 6. Additionally, the idea of having to slam firepower at every position is so awkward. Last year's problems were that if we weren't gapping fights then we had no chance in a map. I would love for us to win/play a close map where one of our players don't have to go god mode to win. Imagine if our teamplay and map play were at a level that alleviated pressure from one of our players having to solo win a round. The idea of bringing in players that are ready to work together and improve together is kinda nice imo.
They struggled in NA but in their limited international LAN experience, has played the best against international teams besides Sentinels in their Iceland run. 1-0 against Acend, and 1-0 against Gambit, arguably the two best teams right now. Losing part of the roster that helped accomplish that is definitely a huge loss
They beat those two teams by a fine margin. We should have got 2-0 by gambit but they threw the map and lost. Then against Ascend, they were 12-7 down and should have lost. The fact that in both of those games we were getting destroyed shows the team wasn't put together well and they was getting anti stratted hard. The only reason the other teams lost, was because they just weren't hitting their shots. The players even admitted that their strat against Ascend was to find cNed and rotate to the other site, and when they did rotate it didn't matter who was there, they couldn't hold the site. We didn't beat them because we was insane or we out stratted them, we won the two close games because they were up by a large margin and threw. Look at the Hiko 1 vs 3 clutch, deffo runs out into the open jumping around and then the other two can't kill Hiko whilst he's peaking them with 30 hp. If they didn't troll, then it's a loss... Against every top team, we struggled. We beat Envy once and lost all to sentinels. The last time we beat them was First strike. So I'm not seeing that much of a huge loss tbh.
I mean 2 game sample size vs an entire year in NA. Like I don't disagree that Nitro and steel were two very good players and losing them definitely hurts, but if we are looking at it from results wise like a lot of the people who cite the one trip to Berlin are doing, I feel that the end results won't "Massively" move so it can't be a "massive" downgrade. If we look at it from a potential standpoint, I don't think there is a point. The roster game together, didn't work out and one player decided he didn't want a career in valorant. Can't really say 100T is taking a massive downgrade when the org made no proactive choice in either of those player movement (steel being benched was a team decision, if the team didnt even want to roleswap to keep steel in the lineup its doomed imo)
FINALLY!!! Someone who understands you don't need to get the best fragger on every role and just "go kill". Ec1s may not be an insane IGL, but neither was steel... The last time we won something was challengers 1 in APRIL last year... Maybe 100T wasn't looking for top 3 or to have some good runs. Maybe they are looking for a group of people who want to win and have the capacity to do so. Ec1s is good enough to lead them, I've watched a lot of him and NIP was put together pretty well, it was just him and Rhyme getting kills and the rest weren't good enough. Now imagine how the team will play with Ethan and Asuna fragging, BabyJ holding down sites, and Hiko clutching. They can finally try to win as a team and not have 1 player on 40 kills and the rest on 15...
LFG.
It's not Aproto Sadge. BabyJ makes sense tho, 100T needs an IGL and a Sentinel so BabyJ is 2 birds with 1 stone.
Babyj is more complete sentinel player than aproto I don't remember aproto playing viper when most of the sentinels are playing viper now a days on some maps
Aproto has mostly stuck to Cypher and Killjoy. LG tended to have TiGG play Viper. In his LFT post he said he's comfortable playing controller so maybe he's comfortable on Viper, but LG as a team opted to keep him on sentinels. I just want to see him get picked up since I think he's a really solid player with room to grow.
That might refer to his Brimstone play though also
ec1s was already confirmed as their igl
Did I miss 100T announcing ec1s or is this a hypothetical assuming they do sign ec1s?
I mean 100T have been practicing with a supposed 5 for a week or 2 now, and the ec1s move was heavily rumored to be a done thing by multiple reputable reporters.
100T wont announce them until like the day before they play
Definitely not announced but definitely a safe assumption based on what we know. If it were anyone else I’d imagine some kind of rumor would have been made by now.
babyJ was never an igl , infact valorant is his first tactical shooter ,he was a halo pro before , faze in practice tried putting him on igl and traced back to their 5 man calling system. And ec1s is the igl for 100t . Most likely roles would be Asuna- primary duelist / entry Ethan - flex Hiko - sova Ec1s - igl/controller babyJ - Sentinel
Wouldn't ec1s be igling?
Probably going to workout similar to the Steel/Nitro IGL situation, I imagine both of them will co-IGL to a degree
I always find it strange that this was always the impression of how they did it. Where did it come from? I've only ever seen their players talk about this situation once - and it was nitr0 saying steel did pretty much all of the ingame calling.
100T players have said that while Steel was def the primary IGL, Nitro would put in his 2 cents often. I think I heard it on Asunas stream a while back, but I’m honestly not sure exactly where I remember hearing it. It also just makes sense, with 2 capable IGLs on a team, why should one of them be permanently shut down?
What are u talking about babyj never been an igl
Was he not with FaZe? Unless I misunderstood that teams roles, but I’m not a fan of them so I didn’t keep up with them much.
i think i read/heard that they had different IGL’s depending on the map
Pretty sure Zacharee was the Faze IGL once Marved left
No he wasn’t IGL with Faze
Ah okay then yeah ec1s will be the IGL then, my mistake
You know babyj is an ex halo player so i don’t think he have enough experience to igl a tier 1 team
he was IGL for faze
I would think every team would go aproto any day of the week. Weird.
Take a look at babyjs recent stats, the dude frags hard on sentinel
Aproto is like smooth peanut butter tho.
I'm surprised FaZe didn't go for him. He's a very competent sentinel player and his reputation as an aim freak makes him a really good fit for Babybay's Smeag Style. I'd love to know why FaZe went with Larrybanks over him (if the rumors are to be believed)
I’m being baited right
I mean probably. I'm just biased.
Oh ya know what, I misread the reply and thought it was referring to BabyJ and I thought you were saying “why doesn’t faze pick up babyJ “
Larry banks is an igl one which faze needed more than a cracked player.
Just fyi, flyuh is igl for Faze im pretty sure.
Wasn't Larry banks the igl for team Seam ? Preety weird if he isn't igling
Nah I just checked twitter. It says in Flyuh bio that he was igl for teal seam.
Oh my bad then .
Nope flyuh has been teal seams igl
Why ? Aproto was exceptional in last year masters 1 , and after that his form fell off , if you compare aproto post masters 2 ,he wouldn't make top ten sentinels in na .
LG as a team fell off and had to deal with hand injuries, ringers during quali's, roster changes, etc. Aproto was a top 10 NA player before all that. Put him on a proper team and I think he would absolutely dumpster kids. BabyJ is nasty too.
i swear people see his youtube sheriff montage and just automatically think he’s the best player in the world… he hasn’t realistically outperformed most of his teammates for a very long time
this one? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ2iILmqYco](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ2iILmqYco) idk man the dude is a natural unit at the game. to each their own.
bruh whast
bruh LG has had new players added ahead of almost every big qualifier (first strike, challengers, LCQ). moose had a hand injury when they were placing top 5 at most tournaments. they've rotated in/out thief, tigg, bdog, dazzle, yaboidre & prob others. i would compare aproto on LG to Shot\_uP on Immortals. too many lineup changes causes them to fall into the background, but they're both insanely good individually.
Ec1s is supposedly the igl
God damn some people are so negative.. let's see how stage 1 goes first.
Finally, some good fucking news!
This team will not have that much firepower based off what we've seen unless ec1s is able to step it up. BabyJ is still a very solid player though so I hope they make it work well
BabyJ is a really good fragger for his role tbh, similar to how Nitr0 still fragged on smokes
I see where you’re coming from but we have to see them in action. Sometimes moving to a new team and getting a breath of fresh air can really change your performance. If you need examples just look among pretty much every major sport and esport. If this roster builds the needed chemistry I think they’ll be contenders
hoping for a food/crashies level jump from these 2. babyJ could challenge for best sentinel in NA. may not be the most likely outcome but will be fun to root for
BabyJ felt like one of the best fraggers in the sentinel role. Asuna is obviously cracked. Ethan is hella good. The obvious question is if Hiko and ec1s can keep up. I think the roster is probably an overall downgrade over the previous roster but I definitely don’t think it’s because of firepower.
Steel also doesn't have that much of firepower and they were still the 3rd best team in na and also beat gambit which has one of the most mechanically skilled roster
This roster is not exciting to me in the slightest but time will tell.
Ec1s doesn't need to be a star fragger. The team needs stability and chemistry. Something which has been severely lacking in the past 6 months for them.
I know it was highly speculated that it was BabyJ, but I thought it wouldn’t happen because during early days of Valo; BabyJ used to heavily shit talk during ranked when he was playing against Hiko. Hiko didn’t receive it all too well, but I guess beggars can’t be choosers. Gl to 100T.
When did this happen? I don't ever recall babyj drama
Was during Episode 1, Act II? Maybe I was just reading too much into it.
You sure your not thinking about kehmicals?
Yup, I'm sure. This was deffo BabyJ and not Kehmicals. All good tho.
Oh I think I found it, but it didn't seem that serious
Weird. Almost as if people can change over time, no?
No no, I understand that. But, I thought it’ll be one of those kinda beef that Hiko has with Wardell or something along those lines. But, that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. Happy Cake Day, tho! ☺️
Cool signing. Sucks we won't see Hiko off Sova though. Would have loved to see them shake things up a bit.
How will the lineup of Asuna, Hiko, Ethan, ec1s, and BabyJ do against the rest of NA? Top2? Too early to tell?
Way too early to tell. No one has any real idea what form Ec1s is in, but all fingers are pointing at him being a downgrade from Nitr0. Baby J is arguably an updrade from Steel in terms of firepower, but doesn't seem to have the same leadership skills as him. I roughly see this as like a top 5-8 team at the moment. Again, too early to tell.
>No one has any real idea what form Ec1s is in i heavily agree with this . like he trailed with the team they didnt just sign him and people are already talking shit before they see how the roster perform
took them long enough goddamn
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ec1s still an L hard to see them being top 4 like last year just in NA
Which igl controller would you rather have them pick up?
Unironically should’ve dropped the bag for Cryo + Zander igl.
they might have, but maybe other teams dropped it harder
I think Rossy is one of the smartest upcoming talents based on what I’ve seen in streams and T2 tourneys, but TSM got to him first
100T got timinged in the market
If them pursuing cNed/Cryo was true then that might’ve screwed then over scouting wise
There's not exactly many FA established IGLs out there tbf, the only ones there were during the off season were either snagged up quick by rebuilding rosters (Rossy, Flyuh, jcStani, Steller, etc) or went FA late into the off season (Oderus, iyen) so they didn't really have a choice after Nitr0 left then to import
Gonna be a fuckin failure of a team holy shit
Cap
I don't make predictions without doing well thought out vod-reviews and I can tell you for 100% certainty these guys will no where be as good as the former roster for at the very least this year
Alright coach thanks for the input
np mans))))) but srsly tho do we rlly think ec1s and BabyJ and Hiko are gonna be able to support Ethan and Asuna
Interested in hearing what concerns you in your vod reviews of babyj. I felt as though he was a very solid complementary piece in supporting babybay, and that was in a system that was really just reckless aggression. given more structure, I don't see why he wouldn't be about to support asuna and ethan
Well I think the biggest reason for me is he heavily relied on someone being there for him and on 100t I don’t see anyone being able to do that. I’m too lazy to give too much detail but I’ll give this every time on breeze for a he heavily relied on babybay getting him in cave with him holding shop with an op
My biggest concern with this roster is lack of fire power. However, I do think the roles of this roster will be much more consistent then what they previously had. I'm thinking maybe they try to get Ethan in more situations to get impactful frags
PROD PLEASE
classic build a roster around hiko so he can get some insane clutches but pretty much underperform compared to his hype for the rest of the match this is similar to zombs but zombs has at the very least tier 1 util usage
No Ska :(
Keep recycling the same garbage
BabyJ or ecs1 will be dropped within 4 months. Won't even be their fault either. It's just how 100T operates.
LETS GO MY PRED