2023 is shaping up to be an interesting year for the North American Valorant community with Valorant’s first OFF//SEASON of the 2023 season, the Ludwig x Tarik Valorant Invitational, a two-day LAN event which was held on January 14-15.

The summit-style event hosted players, commentators, and content creators within the same house. The first event of the calendar featured some intense gameplay and culminated with The Guard beating out TSM to win $30,000, with Sentinels placing third.

SEN SicK explains the importance of agent selection based on your roster

The 24-year-old was back on his regular streaming schedule soon after the Ludwig x Tarik Valorant Invitational wrapped up. During his stream on January 17, at the bequest of his viewers, Hunter shared his opinions about how the team composition you draft should fit with the playstyle of your players, the one advice he would give to Sentinels from a third-party perspective, and his thoughts on how Sentinels performed at the event.

The stream started with SicK queuing up a deathmatch while interacting with his chat following a hiatus from streaming and playing for personal reasons. Viewers were quick to ask for his opinion on Sentinel’s performance at the official inaugural event, to which the 27-year-old responded,

His viewers were quick to drop some troll responses, with one viewer suggesting Sentinels swap their star player, TenZ, out for SicK. To which the flasher-main replied,

He played with his viewers for a while and joked about how Sentinels always make a particular ’excuse’ when they fail to win after a viewer suggested the team could work with practice.

Timestamp: 13:56

TenZ is the best Valorant duelist

After playing out his five placement games, SicK earned the rank of Ascendant after roughly 3.5 hours into the stream. While waiting for a game, Hunter started sharing his views and stated that Tenz is the ‘best duelist in all of gaming history’ and Sentinels should utilize him in that role to win.

Hunter further explained how TenZ’s versatility as a duelist allows him to enable the ‘TenZ kill’ mode, which will inevitably help Sentinels win.

Building on his thoughts about using TenZ as a duelist, the Valorant pro highlighted the importance of working with the players you have while deciding on a team comp instead of following the meta blindly.

Hunter continued to delve deeper into this notion and referred to old variations of Sentinels and how they could not run a no-duelist comp simply because they had the best Valorant player in their squad.

The former CS player continued to shower his teammates with even more praise, stating: ‘TenZ was the best when he’s on duelist’ and making him play any other role would not give Sentinels the best results.

After a viewer commented on SicK being a better initiator player than a smoker/controller, the professional replied,

Following a brief analysis of his game sense and how he could improve upon it by working on his communication skills, SicK once again reiterated the fact that “you need to pick the agents around the players you have on your team” by using the example of Tyson and his Agent pool.

Hunter continued with his explanation,

Timestamp: 3:39:13

The North American Valorant community may yet see a glimpse of hope in re-establishing their region as the best when it comes to Valorant after optimistic performances from all powerhouses following an abysmal Valorant Champions Tour in 2022 after Optic Gaming won the VCT 2022: Stage 1 Masters - Reykjavík in April.

Fans react to SEN SicK’s thoughts about TenZ

Over 41 fans replied to the clip on YouTube’s comments section, with many sharing their thoughts:

Hunter “SicK” is an American professional gamer representing Sentinels under their roster. He was a popular CS:GO player who represented TSM and Misfits before he decided to switch to greener pastures following the release of Valorant.

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