u/GeneAggressive

I am truly in awe of G2's consistent performance in Americas and internationals and this is across multiple meta changes and map pool changes. They have finished 2nd in Bangkok, 3rd in Shanghai, 4th in Toronto and Santiago, 7-8 in Champs 2024 and 2025. In Americas they seem to have found some sort a cheat, compared to 2025 Americas has been stacked this year but once they lock in they just breeze through all the teams. At the end of the day everyone would only remember the winners of each event but this consistency in Valorant is unique in its own way and the only other team is PRX. I mean one of the key reason to their success, is the long standing partnership between Valyn, Trent, Leaf and JoshRT. But at the same time its astonishing that none of the teams in Americas have found consistent success against them but G2 on the other hand seem to have a read on all the teams in Americas. If this G2 core were part of pacific I wonder if they would be able to replicate the same results due to the unpredictability of the teams in the league. At the same time I wonder what is the final missing piece for G2 to win the much awaited International trophy.

Sometimes I wonder if Pro teams throw the playbook in the bin as soon as a map is out of rotation. Fundamentally all of the maps have a set play pattern which needs modification with the meta but as soon as we see a map added back after a while it seems most of the teams are lost on it. Ex : Fracture, most teams struggling on the map just don't do defensive pushes and wait for an exec to happen and then get stomped. Pearl, if you don't use your util to get side info you miss your defense side rotation etc. Only a handful of teams do well with map pool changes and that's why they are on top but at the same time the teams struggling surely can figure out how to play a map on a fundamental level by watching teams like FNC, G2, PRX etc.