Sentinels Valorant participant Zachary ‘zekken’ Patrone blasted VCT EMEA analyst Jakub ‘Lothar’ Szygulski on social media for calling G2’s Abyss technique “extremely disrespectful to the game.”
G2 Esports confronted off towards Leviatán at Valorant Champions 2024, selecting a shocking technique on Abyss. The workforce jumped off the aspect of the map to disclaim their opponent cash and factors towards their ultimates firstly of Spherical 14.
The technique makes tactical sense, because it advantages G2 economically, however Lothar discovered the thought disrespectful and a bit half-baked.
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“That is extremely disrespectful to the game, to the viewers, to the opponents, and the event organizers and shouldn’t be allowed by RIOT within the first place to leap off like that to disclaim a spherical,” he stated on social media.
“In case you wished to troll this spherical, G2, not less than do it correctly and bounce off after your opponents planted, so you’d waste extra time and make them use util.”
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Zekken, among the many many individuals calling the take unsuitable, clapped again on the analyst and requested if it was “disrespectful to the game” to die to the spike.
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is dying to spike additionally disrespectful to the game
— z (@zekkenVAL) August 15, 2024
Deliberately dying to the spike explosion is a typical financial technique. If gamers are eradicated, they earn cash within the subsequent spherical, and the enemy can also be denied cash for not incomes a kill.
Lothar stated that state of affairs wasn’t a “good comparability” to what G2 did as a result of if the spike is planted, a spherical has performed out as supposed.
Zekken countered by declaring that G2’s actions denied Leviatán extra money, as they didn’t get something for planting the spike, and Leviatán couldn’t decide up final orbs across the map in the course of the spherical.
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“I get that it’s lame however leaping off the map accomplishes that with 0 orb potential for the opposite workforce and solely takes like 5 seconds,” zekken stated.
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“I don’t see the issue.”
Social media customers appear to favor the G2 Esports technique, disagreeing with the recent take, despite the fact that the North American squad misplaced that map and the collection.
Tactical deaths and whether or not the technique needs to be allowed have been debated for years in FPS esports. It began in Counter-Strike when NAVI deliberately died to their very own Molotov cocktail in a match towards Group Liquid in 2017.
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ESL famously banned the technique in 2019 to cease gamers from deliberately falling off the map Vertigo.
Riot Video games has not launched a press release on whether or not G2 broke any guidelines with the technique, and G2’s gamers haven’t revealed if they’ve been fined for deliberately throwing a spherical on the world championships.
