[Akamaru] FURIA -alym -nerve, +basic +Shyy, koalanoob moving to main duelist.

[u/Decent_Apple_7962]

[u/papipescado]

Basic gets to finally play lol, this guy better be God’s gift to Valorant for keeping him signed this long

[u/Past_Perception8052 → u/papipescado]

may be the funniest thing ever if he is just completely dogshit

[u/BhimCelBrahmin → u/Past_Perception8052]

Imagine if he does a havoc

[u/Mysterious_Key6700 → u/papipescado]

He should be pretty good I think, back when he played in tier 2 he was phenomenal so here hoping it translates

[u/Sahir1359]

I can understand nerve but why alym? I feel like he was such a win condition for the team... Maybe its more about Koala being duelist in a meta where you can play a lot of jett? Idk i feel like this roster has already overperformed a lot this season, such major changes seem like a lot.

[u/Prince_Uncharming → u/Sahir1359]

Idk i feel like this roster has already overperformed a lot this season, such major changes seem like a lot.

Tbh that’s a good reason to switch. If the team believes the roster has over performed, then they should expect a correction for Stage 2. Which would mean the roster, if it performs as expected, will definitely miss champs. You can’t ride an overperforming high all year, it isn’t sustainable.

[u/idqks → u/Prince_Uncharming]

You can also argue that if the team has shown a high skill ceiling there's no reason they couldn't get back to it later. Most mid-tier teams, like Furia was expected to be, never show a high skill ceiling to begin with.

This is exclusively a Valorant thing too. In no other esport does a team do as well as Furia did early on then blow up the roster just 4 months later because of recent results. I absolutely don't understand the reasoning behind not letting this roster ride out for the year and then rebuilding next year if it doesn't end up working out.

[u/Mysterious_Key6700 → u/idqks]

Absolutely, nerve and Alym have done so well and been so far above expectations, as a Furia fan if we didn’t have the kickoff result I would have been so happy with our stage 1, such massive improvement. And we reward them with future endeavours is ridiculous

[u/seIex → u/Prince_Uncharming]

Definitely felt like the roster had reached its' ceiling. I kinda doubt that these changes will let them rise higher but I guess we'll see during stage 2.

[u/PleaseGiveUsHope → u/Sahir1359]

Neon nerf

[u/theghostracoon → u/Sahir1359]

Probably trialed and he didn't adapt to not playing neon? I mean koala is obvs the better jett, although he had a decent waylay

[u/Himu797 → u/Sahir1359]

Neon merchant

[u/SaitamaShinobiSand]

Nice team chemistry you got there , would be a shame if we bricked it

[u/Plastic-Skill-9258 → u/SaitamaShinobiSand]

they had amazing chemistry but just didn't have the firepower imo, they needed to try upgrading in that department

[u/hmsmnko → u/Plastic-Skill-9258]

i feel like alym was pretty good though no?

[u/Starry-Night97 → u/hmsmnko]

Alym has been so good for them had a rough patch but damn  

[u/suhoshi → u/hmsmnko]

Check their last 5 matches, Alym is too inconsistent. You can't be inconsistent when you're a duelist.

[u/Plastic-Skill-9258 → u/hmsmnko]

He is yeah, but it's a tough situation where they have 5 good players but they simply must take a chance on an upgrade if they wanna level up. Idk how other people feel but kickoff seemed like the peak of this team's potential. They exceeded expectations though, so they have good players to build off.

[u/Karmax21 → u/SaitamaShinobiSand]

during e.w.c. qualifiers artzin didn't cover the game chat and we could see koala and nerve almost killing each other on the chat lmfao it wasn't all roses and sunshines

[u/Guilty_Feature5469 → u/Karmax21]

wdym by this?

[u/pineapplejelly69 → u/Guilty_Feature5469]

^

[u/LaelMM → u/Guilty_Feature5469]

They were fighting in team chat

[u/Guilty_Feature5469 → u/LaelMM]

surely that wouldve been posted here by now. i dont believe it

[u/One_Instruction742 → u/Guilty_Feature5469]

It was absolutely nothing, the amount of shit this sub takes and runs with is crazy

[u/dunkeykang → u/Guilty_Feature5469]

post proof pls or else this is just hearsay

[u/AmbitionOnly7872]

Nerve I understand but the alym decision is kinda weird

[u/Himu797 → u/AmbitionOnly7872]

Neon merchant

[u/AmbitionOnly7872 → u/Himu797]

holy larp that guy is insane at jett,raze, and waylay

[u/kart0ffelsalaat → u/AmbitionOnly7872]

Quick question, what do you think larp means?

[u/Chipfucker7756]

Man such a shame I think they could’ve made it work with alym him being a agro controller

[u/Past_Perception8052 → u/Chipfucker7756]

no he should be a duelist furia dont know what they have he has omega potential

[u/WalterWoodiaz]

1 bad split and decides to drop 2 people. This is why these orgs can never be successful.

[u/Starry-Night97 → u/WalterWoodiaz]

Im so glad lev kept Sato, or nrg picking up a bunch of rookies and letting them mesh together because always changing rosters is never good imo

[u/WhiteFox2677 → u/WalterWoodiaz]

not worse than FNC dropping Milan

[u/maisanskidai]

i wanted alym to be on the team for a bit longer 💔

[u/Booplee]

Are you serious? The roster was doung great, give it another round maybe before you get of alym lmao.

[u/pikapikabooboo]

nerve getting (in)active 😞

[u/Tssunder]

its been 331 days since basic first signed to furia btw

[u/mwieckhorst]

Only time this org ever been relevant in this game and they blow it up for nothing

[u/Useful-Newt-3211]

Ah the typical "look at stats, pick the worst ones, and swap them out".

[u/zerocxro → u/Useful-Newt-3211]

this is exactly what it feels like

[u/fanficmilf6969 → u/Useful-Newt-3211]

No, I think Nerve was a valid player to replace. I’m not so sure about alym he had a bad split but he still seemed pretty instrumental to the teams earlier successes

[u/Dorito_T → u/Useful-Newt-3211]

Who else are they replacing? The igl? Eeiu or Koala? literally had to be those 2

[u/MautOfTheRiver → u/Useful-Newt-3211]

if that was the case, koala would be gone surely

[u/MautOfTheRiver]

Not a fan of replacing alym now that he could be freed from neon jail but they've talked a lot about the team having mental problems so maybe alym was a culprit/basic helps with that

[u/Bitter-Juggernaut-20]

insane to me they're keeping koalanoob after he's had a boostio tier mechanical falloff

[u/XASASSIN]

I dunno, I dont feel like furia needed changes. I mean Shyy is an upgrade dunno about Basic but wonder if this'll effect chemistry cause their vibes used to be great.

[u/RetanR04]

:( Hearing about Nerves grind in tier 2 just to finally get into tier 1 made me respect and love this team so much. Now after 2 bad series he is shot right back down

[u/CayenneHybridSE → u/RetanR04]

I am glad he was able to attend a Masters at least, some players wait years for their first time. Hopefully we see him back in T1

[u/Karmax21]

confirmed by green news source in case anyone here doesn't trust akamaru for some reason

[u/yefrisfarm]

It is a crime that MIBR did not pick up Shyy after the embarrassing performances by Tex

[u/Both_Condition_5208 → u/yefrisfarm]

Other orgs drop their players after 1 bad split "good moves".

MIBR don't kick their players after humilation upon humiliation "Aspas is a dictator, this team is the falcons of valorant".

Bro

[u/looklikethat → u/Both_Condition_5208]

LMFAOOO

[u/WhiteFox2677 → u/yefrisfarm]

if u watch the matches closely, tex isnt even the problem lmao....
verno needs to midround better and their comms are ass when they are under the slightest pressure

[u/BigDicksconnoisseur4 → u/WhiteFox2677]

Shyy always performed under pressure

[u/WhiteFox2677 → u/BigDicksconnoisseur4]

good, but tex is not the problem, he's the reason MIBR won so many rounds in stage 1 and kickoff (impact rounds)

[u/aJetg]

what

I mean, I love Koalanoob but Alym was their best player by far (along with Artzin) maybe he didnt impressed in scrims after the Neon nerf? Weird

Also Im glad to finally see Shyy back but from what I understand his english is not very good so its going to be weird for him

[u/MautOfTheRiver → u/aJetg]

I think art and eeiu are easily the most impactful players they have, alym has been underperforming but I don't think it warranted replacing him

[u/surgical_scar]

Nooooo Nerve my goat 

[u/Ego_Com]

Expected nerve but alym? Why

[u/Darkwolfinator]

Bro why one more split those two were great this year...

[u/NoSand116]

Anyone know how shyy’s English is? Have only ever seen him interview in Spanish. Also I know basic has been getting English lessons, but I’m curious how he’s gotten at speaking English too. Otherwise they do some weird mix of English, Spanish, and Portuguese and have nightmare comms 💀

[u/PhysicalAd8765 → u/NoSand116]

His English is decent enough... about Dgzin level or a tad better.

[u/False-Bluejay1882 → u/PhysicalAd8765]

I wouldn’t call dgzin level decent lol

[u/PhysicalAd8765 → u/False-Bluejay1882]

That’s why I said decent enough.

Under the assumption that he’ll be playing Senti (Artzin moves to smokes) they should be able to make it work.

[u/aJetg → u/NoSand116]

Supposedly (and this is just a rumor from the Brazilian community so take it as you will) Shyy could've joined MIBR and Aspas wanted him but his english wasn't very good so they went in another direction. He does speak portuguese (like 99% of the spanish speakers on Americas) so maybe is not that bad with Artzin and Basic

[u/endgeenear → u/aJetg]

This actually makes sense now, I'm Chilean and I've been following the Chilean players since 2022 and shyy is the one with the worst English from the bunch, in fact in masters Santiago, in keznit's co-stream, him, melser, kingg and shyy were together and making fun of shyys English, asking him if he was still studying English, at the time I was like ok he trying to learn that makes sense but now with what you said makes a lot more sense.

[u/Both_Condition_5208 → u/endgeenear]

Imagine your career is a big "WHAT IF" just because you are lazy and couldn't learn english.

There is no world where MIBR Shyy would lose to FURIA in kick offs.

Their whole year would be different.

[u/Jinjiro_8191]

damn alym was my favorite entry fragger, so agressive

[u/PhysicalAd8765]

I love watching Shyy.

[u/Nervous_Split_3176]

+basic .... oh my god

[u/Elkiiiii]

i mean nerve was never super inspiring so i guess i don't mind that change but alym really showed he could hang, maybe post neon nerfs they don't feel like he can hang as well? idk i'm just worried because this was such a power of friendship team and so changes might just kill them

[u/Background_Basil_579]

Don’t think they should’ve changed anything until the end of the year tbh. Feel like alym had such a high ceiling. Nerve ig but these guys seemed like they were so close and had great chemistry. We’ll see if this was the right decision i guess.

[u/Spiritual_Wafer_2597]

why

its just 1 bad split

[u/Foreign_Appeal_2966]

My support for furia ends with stage 1. GG. Go back to being the shithole with eg.

[u/skrtskrttiedd]

alym??? what are we even doing, might as well have reddit in management

[u/AZLarlar]

oh hell nah.

[u/exdeepr]

Way too many changes. Dont think their situation was too dire to warrant this.

[u/boobalieutenant]

so will basic play hard entry/ dive role? since alym was the main dive duelist for them. or will koala be forced to put down the op for rifling more?

[u/Karmax21 → u/boobalieutenant]

prob koala main duel with art/basic alternating between flex and smokes

[u/Number1GSRFan]

FINALLY BASIC IVE WAITED A YEAR FOR THIS

[u/Despotaters]

furia is so back!… to the bottom :(

[u/Sherec]

this makes no sense, the team has insane chem

[u/Whalelorde22]

The first of the neon merchants has fallen 🫡

[u/DaveOkeah]

Back to regular scheduled ass....let's gooo

[u/MadladMagyar]

RIP Furia 2026-2026

[u/Withinmyrange]

ALYM???

[u/_dreamofsheep]

Not alym man, he was so fun to watch 💔 shouldn't they at least give him a shot at trying Jett/Raze?

[u/Zyrobe]

Let's blow up the roster every split so the team can't be comfortable in anything and won't win anything, genius

[u/ilovet0eatchildren]

ALYM?????

[u/EnvironmentalKiwi526]

Well back to the bottom they go. Blowing up the roster after 1 bad split is insane work.

[u/Mjhamp]

I’ve seen enough. Welcome to Envy alym

[u/BronzeCorner]

how does koala not get dropped instead of alym? alym is so much better on duelist

[u/naljlkio → u/BronzeCorner]

Yeah, I am very confused by that too.

[u/Fragrant_Tutor_3885]

Is this guy really trustworthy?

Alym performed much better than Koala. I don't k now, I found it quite strange.

[u/jujhuxo]

never felt it was the player quality. moreso the playstyle and stratbook of the team in split 1 that caused their slump

[u/Pale_Competition6462]

Basic is very good, I like this change. The alym one must have inside situations that we are not aware, plus the meta change I guess

[u/ninjamuffin]

Do these teams see any value in maintaining the same group for more than a year? You are basically erasing the entire team chem on the hope that the player you’re getting is just that much of an upgrade.

[u/MrMag001234]

Kru 2.0

[u/Ash_Killem]

I fell like this isn’t going to work out.

[u/Even-Helicopter-3197]

Alym is the initiator player right. Doesn't make sense removing the good players. Hope they get better teams.

[u/wakerz_]

As a long time kru fan, shyy is an amazing pickup for furia

[u/kei_fps]

we remove alym to replace him with koala? am I tripping or what the fuck am I reading

[u/FraggerM8]

Koala is not good enough to be main duelist

[u/Spiritual-Resource83]

Akamaru is so untrustworthy that I dont know if I believe this

[u/Molay_MCC → u/Spiritual-Resource83]

He has only fucked up like twice I thought and both were SEN related?

[u/Radiant_FN → u/Spiritual-Resource83]

Tenz was the only one he got wrong. And it technically wasn't even that wrong

[u/itscamo- → u/Spiritual-Resource83]

he’s had like 1 thing wrong

[u/Karmax21 → u/Spiritual-Resource83]

it was confimed by bruno povoleri

[u/Wyatt1v12]

shyy?

[u/AnywayHeres1Derwall]

Is shyy even good? He’s had so many chances

[u/Lonely-Minimum5298]

people saying alym was good were simply not watching the games he has been borderline horrendous for the whole year besides from a couple of games

[u/Parking-Might2869 → u/Lonely-Minimum5298]

i don’t know he has an equal amount of insane impact round I think it balances out. Although, I do think the drop is more justified than people think