The Most Hilarious Game Changers Match Ever

Team SMG pulled out a 4 duelist comp against EG during the 2023 Game Changers Championship. Let's take the opportunity to show why team comps aren't as important as you think with examples from this match.
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[@platoonval]

FYI I support the Game Changers scene in its ENTIRETY. Any criticism should be objective about their gameplay and have nothing to do with who the players are. Thanks!

[@Booshie]

W

[@chonkyboi._.]

Why should it be objective when we all know men have an inherent advantage at the higher end of the spectrum. You Americans need God, holy

[@zyptonical]

We don't care who they are. They get away with stuff players in tier 2 could never. If you had a drinking game and you had to take a sip every time you hear "how did she get away with that" you'd be drunk. Pretty much every GC teams are trolling and their gender identity has nothing to do with it. I think GC is lowering the standard for women to succeed and therefor holding them back in some sense. Although they do get opportunities they otherwise couldn't have gotten, I think it's doing more harm than good in the future. Also it's lowkey sexist. How does women have a disadvantage in e-sports? Don't you even dare say sexism since Valorant over-hype GC so hard.

[@Logjambam]

@@zyptonical you have no idea what you are talking about

[@helen6994]

@@zyptonical women have less exposure than men to video games. is that not a disadvantage? what counts as a disadvantage to you?

[@firecreeper21]

best damn thing is that enerii, the star duelist of SMG, wasn't on duelist but instead she was on cypher

[@Windy2468]

perfection

[@Kharyza]

icing on cake

[@firecreeper21]

fr@@Kharyza

[@TwinbornMist]

"I guess I'll try Cypher for this rehearsal lol" "Fuck"

[@voyagersentfromearth]

If PRX didn't have a coach i swear they would do the same thing.

[@shientioh4865]

Alecks' fury only thing holding them back from going full meme

[@msmaam2040]

​@@shientioh4865this comment is more funny after the recent matches

[@kirstendeleon4948]

RIP aleck's desk @@msmaam2040

[@mysticlunala8020]

They were close to doing 4 duelist. They were doing 3 duelists on Split during playoffs and actually pulled off decent wins. Though that didn't work during Madrid at all. LMAO.

[@trentnguyen5378]

One of my favorite things about platoon’s analysis is that he doesn’t get blinded by the result of a round but focuses more on the implementation and intention behind each decision. Great analysis as always!

[@facecafe111]

i watched a lot of SMG in champs (as i should as an seasian). and they did those flanks a lot. they did them on bind almost perfectly. they also do it on split. with omen + 1 taking b main garage control early. they like to take as much spaces as possible on defense.

[@iamcolbat]

Damn, I watch your stuff all the time, It's cool to see you follow GC

[@platoonval]

Great deep run with the team this year Colbat very well deserved 🥰

[@leosimvuiseng2926]

Rare for ranked in na and eu but in apac especially singapore and hong kong server is common

[@platoonval]

Wow really 4 duelist? that's crazy hahaha

[@fhanaprida7366]

2 player always auto lock duelist, so you just need to pick duelist too

[@leosimvuiseng2926]

@@platoonval well actually me and my friend do 5 duelist and still win

[@leosimvuiseng2926]

@@platoonval anything can happen

[@riceintheclouds]

this was a really good video, appreciate the heat map direct comparisons and the overall map strategy explanations

[@Kaan-dm8cl]

ty for new upload, i love your videos and the editing!

[@jadebicaldo7735]

If you've followed Team SMG throughout the Game Changers APAC series, you just know that they've done crazy lineups before. IIRC, they've done an all-controller line-up and 4 initiator lineup in one of their matches in GC Pacific Open 2, and that was just one match. They really decimated their opponent that time.

[@glitchhVN]

W vid seems like EG's downfall was because they were too conservative on the attacking rounds. I get it, playing against 4 very explosive duelists which fits the map is challenging, but they keep playing passive, wasting their own utility while SMG kept theirs and have advantageous positions. It just never works out when you brute force a contested area again and again without a very clear path forward. Big ups for SMG, played insane. Their fundamentals are out of this world

[@KanpekiFPS]

Wow, Thanks for this video. Really looking forward to this one I even tagged you on X lol

[@lordvader-jn3gz]

this comp looked like ranked match comp😂

[@skyeshi3570]

man, meanwhile i'm getting yelled at from people who want to fight lotus in spawn

[@higherbonds]

This happened in my rank game the other day, we destroyed the other team in Ascendent lobby lol

[@rafilaos]

Also neon has a wall like a smoke (viper)

[@googlyer]

you know that on these tournies these coaches only studies typical line ups, they dont study weird or odd line ups at all. so that coach is actually a genius

[@TheSkooterbords]

I think the first few minutes is the best explanation of why team comps work or not. Valorant roles, though explicitly specified and specialized, are more flexible than we think because of the diverse utility and the creativity that players can do to use their chosen agent's toolkit. One big factor that does come into consideration when it comes to team comps is if it enhances the play style of the user. This is a fascinating aspect of valorant from my perspective as I also enjoy watching DotA. Creative theory crafting is enjoyable, but executing is definitely the challenge.

[@mangojuuls]

they did it against 2 dudes too

[@facecafe111]

Don't use this video for an excuse to locking 3 duelist. you're not SMG. and you're most certainly not playing against EG 💀

[@aronabraham4657]

Yeah that comp looked well too rehearsed, if not then they deserve tier one for their ability to innovation that well

[@facecafe111]

@@aronabraham4657 I don't think it's rehearsed tho. they just know how to play the map well, and know their win conditions. also EG were playing really bad, they didn't have any answer whatsoever. like SMG did a lot of fast rotates and fast retakes. and with 4 duelists, you don't really use their utility to take space early round. so you have all those utility which helps makes those retakes so much easier.

[@Atom30261]

@@aronabraham4657lol no it worked because eg was just a really bad team and decent team would’ve won easily

[@simsgirl7296]

They had similar strat when they played lotus again even with their meta comp

[@novaslice6977]

ah a normal day in SEA server lmao

[@IOverlord]

High risk, low reward plays: exists Me: Allow me to introduce myself

[@TheSunIsMyDestroyer]

yeah, team comps don't matter so go ahead and play against cypher on sunset with nothing to break his trips

[@tinapaynamatigas]

this team comp is normal here in asia server

[@user-rx9bo7ci3b]

2:39 how does reyna die here?

[@origamiteamcanada386]

thumbnail has the players wrong

[@platoonval]

Thanks for the callout

[@jeruss00]

EG played scared.

[@Eastra3]

I really don’t believe for one second that those were accidental picks. The stars have to align for an accident like that. Those were the exact 4 duelist you would want if you were going to run a 4 duelist comp. There is no way the executed plays that well if they never practiced that comp.

[@billiesugandha]

they ran troll comps like 5 duelist 5 controller in APAC GC against lower tier teams

[@billiesugandha]

and im pretty sure shirazi never touched raze her entire career, probably have like 10 games on raze on her main

[@Reeritsu]

Plus their main duelist, enerii, was on cypher for the first time in her valorant career, just look up her match history and you'll see that around 95% of her picks are duelists and she had never used cypher in her 3 years of competing before that match, which is hilarious

[@lapizlapoppy]

Well, if you look at their match histories, this was definitely not planned

[@Eastra3]

@@lapizlapoppy let’s not act like plenty of high ranking players don’t have alternate accounts, and do custom scrims get recorded? Regardless if they do or not, if they are on an alt account, you wouldn’t know where to look to find evidence of if they prepared or not. From what we all saw in this match, let’s assume that because they are pros, and because most duelists don’t have line-ups, being more capable of ‘winging it’; an argument could be made they didn’t need practice to play those agents in a vacuum. Now, even if we were to give that benefit of the doubt to that side of the argument, the moment we look at the coaches job, all of that ‘oh it was an accident’ mess falls apart like a house of cards. You really think from the agent select screen to the buy phase, the coach drew up 20 or so plays for both offense and defense? Because what we saw was coordinated plays. There is no way that happens without practice. My theory is that by claiming it was an accident, if their crazy comp failed terribly, the coach wouldn’t get fired for trying something so far off of what was meta. It was insurance, because if I owned a team, and I found out my team (that I am sponsoring) lost because they purposely played a 4 duelist comp, I would think they were trolling my wallet, and I would have my money go to a different coach.

[@kaccarri4068]

normal apac gameplay

[@brencancer]

sadly they disbanded

[@MadeForD]

what's even sadder is that they 1 parted with the other 4 in bad note. tbh im not sure what the story behind it's real ugly. full of cryptic shenanigans

[@literallyrohan]

prx gc??

[@antonburckhardt3900]

they got lucky they still chose a smoke player by chance lol

[@abhayranjith]

They chose cypher, not smokes lol

[@helen6994]

@@abhayranjith semismokes, semi

[@ubeia4857]

They technically had 4 semi smokes in Neon, Phoenix and Cypher. Also had 4 flashes and 2 stuns in total allowing them to simulate a comp with Breach and Skye though the caveats are also a lack in info gaining abilities. And so to hold and keep map control, they had to be so aggressive.

[@thenewbb]

EG has fallen off ever since 2023 champs

[@kaiba8954]

Why do I feel like this wasn’t an accident…? From the map to the utilities those agents provide. It all seemed planned.

[@teradyte]

couldn't agree more, i'd rather play with 3 duelist mains than a filler who couldn't perform

[@bruhidkanymore6584]

if it was a mistake why didnt they restart? Is riot that bad?

[@Mitsunee_]

huh... very confusing that there's now a Valorant (I think this is what I'm seeing here at least?) thing named the same as a show a friend of mine has been getting me to watch. The thumbnail is very generic, so it could've been either one really.

[@allomorpwi1925]

in brazil if ya don't pick a duelist you're trolling. cuz our "normal" in rank games(from iron all the way up to radiant) are 5 duelists.

[@eeunoo]

this is proof this game is a fucking clown show 😂

[@and3rzzzz]

“Comps don’t matter as much as you think” I had to stop watching it here 😂

[@sz0raa]

Lmao, pinoy pride

[@slevig415]

And they say 5 dualists don't work

[@ke11even_official]

wait, arent gc supposed to be women only? there seems to be men in eg gc team. also, shirazi is super cute.

[@oceso]

not so hard considering their enemies were low elo

[@furcah6844]

why is there gay

[@evolutiongaming9236]

why there is a dude in womens tournament?

[@user-gf6kl8bp2w]

my guy i dissagree the eg roster is just garbage if they were to play against prods team i doubt they win

[@sauravvinod4411]

Was this like a mixed gender tournament or something?? If yes then thats very impressive for smg, as you dont see a full girl team win against dudes.

[@ridikelus4413]

it's gamechangers tournament, all players were females

[@ridikelus4413]

you can see the webcams tho..

[@sauravvinod4411]

@@ridikelus4413 eh? i think i saw atleast two guys on EG though. That was why i was confused.

[@ridikelus4413]

@@sauravvinod4411 can't say for every team, but a lot of coaches are male

[@Artemis_Astra]

@@sauravvinod4411They are non binary

[@lightyagami6307]

Why is their a guy in game changers event 0:57 dont give me that i identify bullshit

[@tswfrosty8608]

Game changers if im correct is not a female only league instead it’s more of a marginalized league, however judging by the performance of the two players on EG and one player from C9 - men cant really compare to female players.

[@dakure907]

Imagine playing against women under a social privilege and still losing lmao

[@messyhowling9603]

image lose to 5 women