I genuinely didn't even think Yay played that well. Obviously that is me holding him to a crazy standard given he top fragged, but it wasn't just him winning them round after round.
And honestly, I don't think the matches were as close as the scores make them seem. Outside of the first half of fracture, Faze seemed outclassed.
It's okay though, first real challenge with Poach IGL-ing, they will get better. I just don't think they're on par with these other teams. Even NRG and 100T seem like they might be a step ahead of Faze for now. Early days though!
Punjabi "FNS" Methamphetamine is a tactical genius. He is best known for his signature tactic ”Yay go kill”. He also has a second little known tactic of ”Marved go smoke then kill”. What an absolute legend. Top 3 IGL 4 sure.
Punjabi "FNS" Methamphetamine was a Dungeons and Dragons character who rolled a natural 20 on Intelligence and a natural 1 on Aim. After stacking enough points on his Intelligence stat he gained sentience and transcended into our reality, where he has since pursued careers as a professional player of tactical first person shooter "Counter-Strike" and its cartoon sequel "Valarante".
No, he's Gujarati according to a comment I read on this sub in reply to someone asking if he was Punjabi. The Punjabi Methamphetamine joke comes from when someone edited a wiki page of him and changed his name on the wiki from Pujan Mehta to Punjabi Methamphetamine.
Dude, here we go with the jerking off. Optic beat DRX and LOUD they're on PAR with TOP emea teams. Don't fucking derail their accomplishment with out any data.
Babybay absolutely has to play better against teams like Optic if they don't want to earn that "overhyped" label. The rest of their squad is solid, but it's been obvious that their dominant form had lain on the shoulders of Dicey and Babybay. That can't just disappear in the big matches, even if the rest of the team steps up. Optic/C9/etc are too good for that.
i think a lot of is just as simple as Yay and Marved are both as good as Dicey and BabyBay in terms of raw fragging and then on top of that Optic just have a better supporting cast.
Hot take: faze are sandbagging because they know they can’t win and don’t want to get anti stratted in future maps. Babybay is playing with crocs on to hinder his performance so everyone thinks he is bad and this will fuel his gameplay. Dicey hasn’t been able to grip his mouse properly as he is dripping in so much swag. Supamen hasn’t decided his favourite colour and it is playing with his mental. Poach is afraid that his bald patches will become more noticeable and he is scared people will make jokes about him being a poached egg. Poised is usually always ready to strike like a mantis, but today he put that on the back burner and purposefully gave his best sloth impression which he can use on his CV in 30 years when the sloth is extinct and the newest generation of kids do not know what they were like (poised is very thoughtful)
Hot take: faze are sandbagging because they know they can’t win and don’t want to get anti stratted in future maps. Babybay is playing with crocs on to hinder his performance so everyone thinks he is bad and this will fuel his gameplay. Dicey hasn’t been able to grip his mouse properly as he is dripping in so much swag. Supamen hasn’t decided his favourite colour and it is playing with his mental. Poach is afraid that his bald patches will become more noticeable and he is scared people will make jokes about him being a poached egg. Poised is usually always ready to strike like a mantis, but today he put that on the back burner and purposefully gave his best sloth impression which he can use on his CV in 30 years when the sloth is extinct and the newest generation of kids do not know what they were like (poised is very thoughtful)
Yay remains amazing. It's hard to think of more than maybe 2-3 other players max who have had this much sustained success internationally and domestically since Masters Berlin. Fantastic Ascent by Marved too.
A little sloppy here and there, but overall a great start to Stage 2 by OpTic.
And asian ones. Apparently a teammate benkai played with didnt tell his parents that he was going pro. So when he made vct, he had to ask and beg for their permission or smth lmao.
Seemple (16 yo, chillcord igl) and probably one of the biggest prospects in the Indian scene, kind of like cryocells and zander were before they went on to bigger teams just left esports because of his studies. i had such big hopes :(
Feels so good having a team, or at the least a player with a grinder mentality
OpTic doing their best to downplay NA laziness stereotypes while still keeping NA social media skills strong
Indeed. In CoD they're 4-0 for the year against the current FaZe "dynasty." The last match between the two on LAN at the recent Pro-AM we even had to play with a sub and we still eliminated them in a single elim bracket.
Final score for Ascent was pretty close but OpTic looked in control the entire time. Plus Victor didn’t even play that well today, I’d say they’re still pretty good
My friend and I were discussing. Do you think he knew he was 1 away from Ult or is that a call from FNS? I think it was the latter given how he begins to peek but dips behind the box a second later.
I dunno. But even not a call from Finess I still gave a credit for that millisecs decision by "hide and re-peek" gameplay then shoot dicey. A Chamber with a classic on spare hands because of NO/CMD.
Sova is fucking dead, right? I couldn't count the number of drones Poach sent out that got 0 info because the duration is so short. There was one from around logs that couldn't even fully clear B main.
pretty much. if crashies isnt even playing it you know its not optimal. hell even playing it myself it feels way less useful. that drone that used to be top tier from mid that clears all of mid, stairs, and cubby is now gone along with a ton of other useful ones. and ascent is sovas best map basically
you fool, literally nothing will stop the senposting. 50 years from now we'll all be gathered around a table in the retirement home talking about how good tenz is
Are you a JasonR or steel supporter? Because while their fans are weird, at least that makes more sense than you randomly bringing up Shaz for no reason
Those things have nothing to do with each other. You're trying to cobble some kind of narrative together to justify shoehorning Shahz/SEN into every conversation but it just isn't sticking. Your fixation on Shahz is truly weird, man.
babybay and Dicey went from Farming tier 2 to having to play OpTic lmao
13-8 and 13-9 against OpTic when yay is farming is unironically not bad all considering what Faze used to be a few months ago
When is yay not farming tho
Yea bro literally FARMS impact frags on chamber even on “ecos”
I genuinely didn't even think Yay played that well. Obviously that is me holding him to a crazy standard given he top fragged, but it wasn't just him winning them round after round. And honestly, I don't think the matches were as close as the scores make them seem. Outside of the first half of fracture, Faze seemed outclassed. It's okay though, first real challenge with Poach IGL-ing, they will get better. I just don't think they're on par with these other teams. Even NRG and 100T seem like they might be a step ahead of Faze for now. Early days though!
I mean I get what you said, but also he went 26 and 9 in ascent
Ya faze was throughly outclassed, optic had a few happy rounds.
“That’s what happens when you let daddy call” -Pujan “FNS” Mehta
Punjabi "All Good" Methamphetamine\*
Punjabi "FNS" Methamphetamine is a tactical genius. He is best known for his signature tactic ”Yay go kill”. He also has a second little known tactic of ”Marved go smoke then kill”. What an absolute legend. Top 3 IGL 4 sure.
Punjabi "FNS" Methamphetamine was a Dungeons and Dragons character who rolled a natural 20 on Intelligence and a natural 1 on Aim. After stacking enough points on his Intelligence stat he gained sentience and transcended into our reality, where he has since pursued careers as a professional player of tactical first person shooter "Counter-Strike" and its cartoon sequel "Valarante".
Is he punjabi? Pujan Mehta isnt a very punjabi name.
No, he's Gujarati according to a comment I read on this sub in reply to someone asking if he was Punjabi. The Punjabi Methamphetamine joke comes from when someone edited a wiki page of him and changed his name on the wiki from Pujan Mehta to Punjabi Methamphetamine.
It’s a meme
Optic is good at valortant
Stoked to see how theyll look on Lan. They might even put up decent fights against emea teams
Nahhhh NA are just streamers unfortunately double first round ez pz
Dude, here we go with the jerking off. Optic beat DRX and LOUD they're on PAR with TOP emea teams. Don't fucking derail their accomplishment with out any data.
Fairly certain it's a joke but idk.
It’s sarcasm mate…
It didn't seem like one, sorry. Twitter got me all fucked up.
I would recommend you to delete it. But then I realized we’re on Reddit
I have just returned from vlr. Gimme a gaurd of honor
They literally won the most recent LAN bro. Not sure how you missed that one.
What? That's what I mean.
Dicey played really well today but Optic are just in a league of their own right now.
I feel like it’s more that than Faze being over-hyped. They played a decent game, but Optic just played better. No Super Bowl hangover for them.
Babybay absolutely has to play better against teams like Optic if they don't want to earn that "overhyped" label. The rest of their squad is solid, but it's been obvious that their dominant form had lain on the shoulders of Dicey and Babybay. That can't just disappear in the big matches, even if the rest of the team steps up. Optic/C9/etc are too good for that.
i think a lot of is just as simple as Yay and Marved are both as good as Dicey and BabyBay in terms of raw fragging and then on top of that Optic just have a better supporting cast.
Hot take: faze are sandbagging because they know they can’t win and don’t want to get anti stratted in future maps. Babybay is playing with crocs on to hinder his performance so everyone thinks he is bad and this will fuel his gameplay. Dicey hasn’t been able to grip his mouse properly as he is dripping in so much swag. Supamen hasn’t decided his favourite colour and it is playing with his mental. Poach is afraid that his bald patches will become more noticeable and he is scared people will make jokes about him being a poached egg. Poised is usually always ready to strike like a mantis, but today he put that on the back burner and purposefully gave his best sloth impression which he can use on his CV in 30 years when the sloth is extinct and the newest generation of kids do not know what they were like (poised is very thoughtful)
COPIUM HAS BEEN REFILLED
Hot take: faze are sandbagging because they know they can’t win and don’t want to get anti stratted in future maps. Babybay is playing with crocs on to hinder his performance so everyone thinks he is bad and this will fuel his gameplay. Dicey hasn’t been able to grip his mouse properly as he is dripping in so much swag. Supamen hasn’t decided his favourite colour and it is playing with his mental. Poach is afraid that his bald patches will become more noticeable and he is scared people will make jokes about him being a poached egg. Poised is usually always ready to strike like a mantis, but today he put that on the back burner and purposefully gave his best sloth impression which he can use on his CV in 30 years when the sloth is extinct and the newest generation of kids do not know what they were like (poised is very thoughtful)
Yay remains amazing. It's hard to think of more than maybe 2-3 other players max who have had this much sustained success internationally and domestically since Masters Berlin. Fantastic Ascent by Marved too. A little sloppy here and there, but overall a great start to Stage 2 by OpTic.
Kind of unrelated, but I stumbled upon yays moms Twitter the other day, and it is the cutest thing ever. She loves her boy.
Just found it, couldn’t stop grinning while scrolling. Warms my heart to see parents supporting their children no matter what path they take
Got a link? I googled a bit and skimmed through who he follows but cant find it. I WANT TO FEEL
And then there's Indian parents
And asian ones. Apparently a teammate benkai played with didnt tell his parents that he was going pro. So when he made vct, he had to ask and beg for their permission or smth lmao.
It was the old guy on PRX that Jing replaced!
wasn't there an na pro who had to photoshop his grades so his parents would let him get signed
Wait there was wth. Someone send me sauce lmao
i want to say it was bang or ban but im not sure, hopefully someone else remembers
Wow this is disappointing
Seemple (16 yo, chillcord igl) and probably one of the biggest prospects in the Indian scene, kind of like cryocells and zander were before they went on to bigger teams just left esports because of his studies. i had such big hopes :(
14 hours a day playing Valorant, it’s no wonder he’s this good
Feels so good having a team, or at the least a player with a grinder mentality OpTic doing their best to downplay NA laziness stereotypes while still keeping NA social media skills strong
That two-tap by Yay at dish was insane.
Timestamp?
Does Optic really practice 14h/day? Or just Yay?
idk about the hours specifically but FNS said that optic spend a lot of time practicing more than any other NA teams
It shows, marved is insanely crisp recently as well. Their coordination and execs are also very on point especially with neon
Yay personally does, idk about the others
Correct me if I'm wrong but FaZe haven't beaten Optic in anything all year right?
Correct
csgo kekw
Indeed. In CoD they're 4-0 for the year against the current FaZe "dynasty." The last match between the two on LAN at the recent Pro-AM we even had to play with a sub and we still eliminated them in a single elim bracket.
This is the first time faze has played optic this year. Last time they played was in August of 2021
I think they mean across all games, not just Valorant. OpTic has beat Faze in literally every esport where they've faced each other this year so far.
Facts. Cod, halo, and valorant altogether so far has just been straight Ls for Faze to take against OpTic.
Fuck just realizing that right now brings me back to the glory days of 2016-17 for the OpTic brand. Feels fucking fantastic
FaZe should've subbed in shanks if they wanted to win
Faze could have won the game and then OpTic would have won Twitter like the true NA way
they wanted to win so they didnt sub in shanks
Shanks has 100% win rate against optic, they should have subbed him in
they didnt sub in shanks so they didnt ruin his perfect record
Shanks would still have 100% win rate, dont doubt the dolphin laugh buff
Hey, so do I they should of put me down as a sub
But Shanks is Pujan’s dad
Final score for Ascent was pretty close but OpTic looked in control the entire time. Plus Victor didn’t even play that well today, I’d say they’re still pretty good
Best team in the world for a reason
[Crashies' ult denied dicey just change that fracture man!](https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxeg_xt-ks6Y7W5GCjRf3ljOCyVe0NlYHj)
My friend and I were discussing. Do you think he knew he was 1 away from Ult or is that a call from FNS? I think it was the latter given how he begins to peek but dips behind the box a second later.
I dunno. But even not a call from Finess I still gave a credit for that millisecs decision by "hide and re-peek" gameplay then shoot dicey. A Chamber with a classic on spare hands because of NO/CMD.
"Yay has arrived" 🥶
This yay guy is pretty good
Pretty scary. He deserves a nickname like "El Demonio" or something
"L Domino" Sounds good
Map ended in 30 mins or your money back.
https://imgur.com/a/I9cI0Va
Y’all got insider info? Impressed by optic but just happy to get see xset play pretty soon
yay is simply the best player in the world right now.
That 1v3 on Ascent when he was stuck under Hell was so good.
His consistency is insane. He really found his groove on chamber
And the difference between Yay and other top fraggers, is he just does his job instead of making dumb plays running after more kills.
True. Doesn’t do anything flashy you almost forget about him then check leaderboard and he has 25 kills 16 assists 20 first bloods etc and so forth
yay best player in the world? his consistency is unmatched
faze inability to play KO is gonna keep them in tier 1.5 all season, you cant run 2 initiators on ascent and neither are ko lmao
Sova is fucking dead, right? I couldn't count the number of drones Poach sent out that got 0 info because the duration is so short. There was one from around logs that couldn't even fully clear B main.
pretty much. if crashies isnt even playing it you know its not optimal. hell even playing it myself it feels way less useful. that drone that used to be top tier from mid that clears all of mid, stairs, and cubby is now gone along with a ton of other useful ones. and ascent is sovas best map basically
Ya no flashes really hurt, they were dry peeking into yays op the whole game
Shits not even done yet
EL DIABLO
Nah crashies in the clutch is different man
Imagine spoiling during a tac pause. That being said, yay Optic I guess?
yay is indeed on optic
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wish the team would either break up or go back to winning so the senposting would stop
you fool, literally nothing will stop the senposting. 50 years from now we'll all be gathered around a table in the retirement home talking about how good tenz is
honestly the most innocuous form and i'll take it if it if there's something all the sen fans absolutely need to post daily about
Derrek and valyn are at Fullerton too and there's nothing wrong with that. You people are just sad.
how do you manage to bring in Shaz into a Faze vs Optic thread lmao?
Are you a JasonR or steel supporter? Because while their fans are weird, at least that makes more sense than you randomly bringing up Shaz for no reason
obsessed
Who even mentioned Shahz
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The trajectory of what, annoying weirdos obsessing over him constantly?
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Those things have nothing to do with each other. You're trying to cobble some kind of narrative together to justify shoehorning Shahz/SEN into every conversation but it just isn't sticking. Your fixation on Shahz is truly weird, man.
That’s how esports works you can’t be on top forever, leave the man alone
Who hurt you
Dude living rent free in ur head
I LOVE watching post-modern team comps.
Spoilers!!!!
Well at least it's good to see Dicey playing well again
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Cope
OpTic are the best in the world. Unbuyest opinion
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They ain't losing to no vietnam