How Iso SHATTERED a Team's Hopes and Dreams... - Pro VALORANT Breakdown | RA vs. DRG

ISO is the most useless agent in valerant well when you use him like this hey you want to see something cool rare Adam are one of the first teams to bust out Riot's newest agent in the professional scene and they slot him in at the biggest events of these players lives the VCT 2023 China Ascension Grand finals you heard me their hopes and dreams of making it into franchising are writing on the back of this fan favorite duelist but if there's so much on the line don't you think they'd want to use him properly this is the worst as a matter of fact ISO was so poorly used in this game that he might as well been playing for the enemy team so in this video you're going to learn the secrets to unlocking this agent's potential and avoid making yourself look like a dunce ah sweet we finally get to see ISO in action what the where's where's the damage no Rays no Sova the best part about isos Kit is it undercut it's basically a breach St but instead ampli any damage dealt to any enemies in these Lanes yeah his contingency is nice for getting out of chokes or isolating duels and his double tap reminds you a lot of your favorite aim live drill but they don't have nearly the same impact as this vulnerable generating nightmare now let's take a look at rare atom's comp what abilities are they going to pair alongside said undercut maybe brim's orbital strike yeah that could be cool every eight orbs but why not run SOA who has shock darts or a big laser I mean at least on Rays she has a grenade C4 Orel out a heat seeking boombot that explodes a rocket launcher these things do a lot of damage so why not amplify it all for guaranteed kills oh wait let me do some research maybe St is an install loock jet one trick what the he plays more raay than jet just why I'm sorry I I didn't mean to get worked up but ISO is an agent that you build a game plan around and this just isn't it but who knows maybe I'm wrong their pistol begins in a 3-2 where jet brim and sky are all dry swinging along with two ghosts and a sheriff while Viper and ISO are tasked with contesting short behind her poison orb and ISO with an undercut for shower but is that enough to hold this space drg's round starts in a 113 prioritizing this iso's territory and after vashu cam spots The Three Stooges peeking long the offense suddenly have a burst of confidence to push through this Viper wall Luke holds for a second expecting a jump spot jiggle Peak or something from the defense instead ISO is afraid of his own shadow and concedes this space hold on that's that's not right okay let's try that again but ISO is smarter than the average Bearer and knows that the offense just saw 3B odds are they're booking it back to a so this backpedaling is just Viva bracing for impact his backup line after losing showers must be to contest this choke point with jet who's now rotating over to heaven with a sheriff but by the time she gets here the attackers have already contacted all the way up showers okay well when ISO was powering up Jets swung showers and lost her duel now to avenge his Fallen comrade ISO quickly darts into the lamps yeah on its own iso's undercut is pretty bad mediocre at best if there's nothing following it up all you're doing is dry swinging into the enemy's Crosshair it's not a stun it's not a flash it's a vable the purpose is to boost the damage of everything else but you're so stupid if ISO hits him with his undercut I only have to shoot them in the body like twice yeah well Jimmy down in weeny Hut Junior ELO that might work but at this level of valerin body shots are a lot less common you didn't have to be so mean ah he'll get over it but as you just saw isol's vul needs to be paired with another ability in order for it to be effective otherwise you're just announcing to the enemy that you're about to swing and they'll prepare their crosshairs this thing is a combo tool so dear G eventually get the spike down and close out the pistol now if you think I was wrong about ISO then you need to see this next round rare Adam has each member slotted in a prime position Viper ready to stall in showers with her snake bite Brimstone can slow down any hooka pushes with his Mali sky is going to constantly gather information along to make sure there's an extra rotate to anchor down sight and ISO is soling short with his undercut which should clog up this Lane making it dangerous to push through right the offense start in a 113 default where cyer spot Sky along with his cam but these three contact up showers again challenging any potential defensive utility with their guns but as they get ready to Peak the entrance Sky launches her bird from [Music] Deep with the defense's strongest side anchor eliminated and Cipher planting two Defenders on B by eating these flashes drg know that there's only two Maxs here this is their time to go but not if ISO has anything to say about it I feel like I've seen this episode before like I said when you use iso's undercut you kind of need something to set him up otherwise the enem is just going to line up their crossair expecting the swing like here let me draw up a better game plan let's imagine for a moment this exact same situation but instead you had a raise instead of jet Viper goes down and showers and raise is forced to back off but then ISO is like raise n short now and then they combo the utility then the enemy Viper is like ah this combo is too op ah help me then R Adam would be in a much better spot but instead Jet's sitting back sight uh waiting for her Dash to expire but all hope isn't lost this is Ste we talking about he's cuckoo with a guardian all right all right that's enough railing and iso's undercut it's round four and after getting rolled over on their previous e surely now where Adam have some form of trap play especially with brim's orbital strike online he's playing in heaven jeez Rick oh my God okay well the defense are playing in a 2 three where sky is going to set their op up on long while Viper holds short and ISO hold showers with his undercut that won't do anything this is this is like watching a child trying to mash the square block into a circle it just doesn't fit whatever the offense have flipped their default and not plan on scaling up long and splitting B now I think they have the read that Ray Adam have bust out the op because ding way starts the round by letting up a poison op for long so his team can safely scale up to the operator sky's gone down jet went to go get cigarettes but I think R Adam had to react faster before this orb bloomed yman flashed outside of hookah for info and tagged somebody and because they have an OP Stu needs to make a decision either hold on to Long by fighting through the smoke and dashing away or fall back to sight and wait for a rotate since you're the weaker side this indecisiveness has costed R Adam this entire half of the map and drg's brussel sprouts confirm this but hold on a minute it's only a four versus five and this is still winnable especially with ISO one off of his ultimate Martin teleports to try and retake through hookah and Viva follow suit shortly after [Music] all right well we didn't even use any ice utility this time literally nothing and without a replay system I don't really know if these guys got caught by a cabbage but when Viva teleported why didn't he use his riot shield doing so could provide safe passage out of the TP and force race to make a tough on the-fly decision do you blast close expecting the offense to use the shield in the the middle hoping they've repositioned those could both whiff as ISO and Viper could stay in the teleporter to play some sort of Mind Games but by doing nothing both players get blown to Smither then these two had no choice but to save rare Adam take a timeout to regroup and figure things out all right guys we're down early but we're not out yet let's try to hey ISO hello is that all this guy does out of the timeout Vivo vulnerable his own jet while trying to set her up on this line but drg decided to run it down B where rare Adam got plowed but ISO did make it an even three on three before losing that advantage and then ultimately the round wait a minute why aren't we giving our duelist the Vandal this dude literally needs to get a kill to use his signature so why not make sure he's put in the best position possible to do so especially when his ult is online that requires him to take a raw aim duel guys I'm trying really hard not to lose my cool so this round needs to be a good one but it's an Eco so that might be hard to wait wait a second what are they doing finally a good ISO play granted it didn't catch anyone this time it was set up nice with a pop flash out of the immediate smoke and an undercut Dash to quickly follow suit the only problem now is that the offense heard all of these people so they're charging right for brimstone but as he's retreating Yow spams Luke through the smoke knowing that the offense would react to the defense's aggression by immediately hitting B he's put his team into a good spot going into the take which forces drg to invest their Viper spit to convert and avoid getting thrifted what do rare item do now God they Viper roled whatever shall we do don't worry citizens this looks like a job for a mediocre best duelist domain [Music] expansion malevolent Shrine that for I never thought I'd see the day a good ISO play and it all started before he activated his kill contract ISO grabbed brimstone's rifle before hopping into his ult ripped viper out of her pit and took her down opening the site for his team and it didn't stop there his undercut and brim's orbital strike slic side up so that no matter where the defense ran they were getting Fried by something rare Adam finally get on the board and the tide starts to shift the game is starting to turn around no thanks to ISO but it's here where we see rare adom finally make good use of the little combo potential they have now drg have armed the race with a judge to abuse the close-range Angles and lamps and their plan is to explode out of short behind her showstopper but they start the round slow with Sky pushing back ISO and shower and Cipher spotting long before grouping up back short but rare Adam have smoked deep short so the offense groups up inside and wait for it to expire showstopper couldn't find anyone but it did manage to clear out all of sight and normally when you're going a and bind you want someone going through showers so you can pinch the sight and have breathing room to plant so in rare Adam's mind it felt like a pinch was coming and ISO decided to fight short to avoid getting pinched but because his guy decided to dog from long and clear out showers dispelling the theoretical pinch Viva felt safe to retreat and now deer G are in a pickle they have short but how are they going to plant when being suppressed from so many different angles not only did drg not have map control but RAR Adams poison orb was positioned on this exact spot to cover all possible safe plant positions and when Viper runs out of fuel ISO could use his undercut to delay the plan even longer now this is a good game plan wait wait a second this isn't their poison orb guys ISO can work on this map I promise but he just requires your team to play around him for a moment Let's Pretend rare Adam have a raise then this play would look something like this use this Viper ball that cuts through hookah long and then shower then have Rays play in shower so they can either trap this area with their sky and ISO who's long or have ISO in showers with rays and sky can dog through the teleporter instead of full committed and with this position they can both deal endless amounts of damage to anyone trying to plant truck this plan seems solid to me but instead RAR Adam just won their aim dels which isn't a consistent way to win rounds doc who knows maybe their game plan improves on attack now I would continue with this break down down but we need to celebrate someone's special day today hey Ryan happy birthday to you but today isn't my birthday it wasn't from this clip either all right Ryan so want to finish this breakdown since you know it's your big day I guess any chance to talk about China valerant makes me feel like it's my birthday so let's see what rare atom have cooked up on the double duelist attack side with their ISO their plan starts for the pistol with a two3 default leaning towards a with the bulk of the Firepower for rare atom gunning it up showers whil the brimstone and Viper are using their lurk smokes to safely scale up short the DI already have two of their own players on the the a site fighting for showers with the sky over on B ready to support for the teleporter and the cipher is backing her up with the camera spotting the long on B and the trap wire at the entrance to hookah fair to say it's a pretty solid defensive setup here wait wait wait wait wait how did nobody actually trade that for rare atom theg somehow managed to get out of that mess with the player advantage and only taking about 40 units of damage but it's worth saying that rare atom's plan here wasn't bad by any means in fact a lot of teams will do this kind of default and also with the iso he needs to really get those kills in order to activate his signature and really get going but I do wish that there was something a bit more creative here than just three players peing and hoping for the best especially in one of the biggest games of rare atom's lives maybe you could use the iso uppercut alongside a jetb or a sky flash up long you could do that into hookah you could do that into lamps you could just do it into showers as well which they didn't do here but none of those things happened also as on the side there was another team in China that did play ISO called Tech and they played it on Lotus a player called KY and it was the same sort of problem there were a lot of great opportunities to use this utility to combine with the teammates but it never really just came about like this promise but it's not actually resulting in anything but anyway di have the player Advantage all the map control that they need and now have a pretty good read on the offense for rare atam as the cipher begins his rotate over and starts to lean towards a after being locked out of both lanes rare atom's new plan is to wait and then wait and wait a little bit more for all of these smokes to come out and then rehit [Music] a trades come out but Di still have the advantage that lamp smoke Fades and R atam actually get a couple more the offense immediately decides to get out of there but they're on low HP oh never mind Sky just healed them all good [Music] with that little extra top up of healing rare atam managed to close out the pistol skipping forward to round 16 ratam are making a comeback despite their poor planning they converted the anti Eco and have also just clutched up their bonus to put themselves in the driver seat man ISO must be super overpowered right okay okay hit me out hit me out we are about to see some good ISO utility because di a just lost versus dbonis they are on a lower buy ratam elect to stick to long range engagements and hope that the defense run into them trying to make a hero play with their worst guns however both teams are at a standoff neither team is doing anything besides trading a few skybirds until the other tries to make the first move now once the attackers feel like the Defenders are not going to do anything weird they start to group up towards a Viper lobs her poison or to deny information from lamps and then they start contacting forward [Music] and that's another Wombo Combo that we haven't really mentioned yet right before the execute Sky deploys her cabbages and ISO then used where they were going to line up the undercut which makes this Viper a very easy target but that is one of the best parts of combining Isa with any drone like abilities such as Sky Trailblazer Silver's drone and Fades Prowlers because they synergize so well with iso's uppercut but also stuff like breach fault lines Omen paranoia Etc you pair these little bits of utility together and you really cannot miss this potent Duo has opened up the a site for the offense but it isn't quite over reinforcements are on their way for drg and both teams have a little tug-of war game over lamps rare atoms igl y man uses his Trailblazer but this gets broken he flashes once twice and then Ray explodes over the top of truck but ISO shoots her right out of the sky armors up and then puts down the brimstone and with all of those eliminations Viva now has his ultimate online which helps keep swinging things in a direction of rare atom looking at the round straight afterwards Viva kicks It Off by immediately pulling Nick into the shadow realm with his ultimate and winning that jeel and ratam of course executed wait why is everybody still here get going oh I wish ratam just sent it after after or even during the ultimate after round 17 the iso kind of goes a little bit quiet so up steps stew who picks up an operator and goes to [Music] work yeah stew helped his team get a nice cushion here and now it's time for the iso to make a reappearance this time he's partnering up with Brimstone and his ultimate orbital strike because cuz it's going to be a nice fiery combo here with this 4-1 split and specifically this play is here to punish the way that drg have been playing long on their defense the rg's IG Nick makes the first move by immediately flashing down long but rare atam have seen this flash every round so the offense counter by Cloud burst in the ground tucking inside and avoiding the flash but now the defense still smoke even though the bird didn't tag anyone that's actually a good point could The Defenders hear the cloud burst going down from over here take a few steps back to go you ain't got the answers man you ain't got the answers any who carrying on rare atom continue to tiptoe forward and hop into the smoke okay now I'm stared to see where TI is coming from if you play sky on bind on defense you play it for long just that flash down long as is so useful and if you don't get any information you've got the TP that you can throw another flash or dog through effectively you can get information for anywhere on the map on defense of sky and when you don't have the utility you could just jump spot long to see what's going on but to counter this whole idea rare atom tried putting Nick into another pickle I turned myself into a pickle Morty by piging on your mini map and lining up your uppercut vulnerable like this it flies through garden and of course if you PIR it with a brimstone ultimate it'll Force the sky into making a tough decision D to the orbital strike or just die to rare atom so how did this guy not die here well for one ISO missed I know it's a straightforward bit of utility but was this something that was practiced is it like an aim trainer for ISO utility but anyway you want to make sure that you nail this combo and not whing it in a potential promotion series into the VCT system a it makes me sad let me just have a hit of my China copium now rare atam might have lost their jet but what they did gain was iso's kill contract which opens up a brand new option there are maybe a couple of ultimates in the game that are perfect for clearing out Viper's pits isos is of course one of them and in these Viper setups like we see here the Viper pit side usually has less amount of people whilst the other sight is heavier but instead they decided to WAND it into hookah they lose another player but ISO isn't letting this round slip away Viva blasts a player through the smoke drags Nick into his lir gets him again and all of a sudden the round is even and rare atam gets safe passage onto the site as result almost had it if you look closely did he get distracted by his energy or on the last Jewel I mean it is shiny sorry I'm like a magpie whilst it was super close in a down to the wire game I really don't think Viva should have been in this position in the first place and it's a real what if moment what if this brim ultimate hit and killed the sky Isa could have grabbed a different player and then given his team the advantage off the back of it and if you're an ISO player in ranked please make sure that your lineup's hit all right Ryan so what do you think of iso so far I mean it's about as good as this cake while this not my birthday I can't pass P Cake you do the rest of the video te I'm going to get ready for VCT China by way here's my card twitch.tv/ ran Central the only English stream breaking down the Chinese scene huh I guess I'll have to check it out why are they trying to run ISO if they're not going to play around him like why it doesn't make any sense I I hate Val why don't they hit the Subscribe button why do I have so few Subs haven't I gotten a right gun bud yet it just wasn't okay I'm sorry uh thanks for that Ryan I really needed to let off some steam all right well while I was gone I found a cool use for ISO contingency after dropping a few rounds R Adam got knocked into an Eco where they all bum rushed hookah but when exiting used ISO Shields to protect them as they jumped out of hookah and normally flying out of this window is hard as you're defenseless as you fall down but since you can't shoot through this wall that's not a problem anymore combined that with smokes that cover your left The Stingers were able to swarm sight and take close-range du and they almost won this round but with those kills and death VI's been gifted one last ultimate to try and force overtime this kill contract is the difference between him and his friends fulfilling their dream and making it into franchising now I wish we had a replay system so that I could see where brims mly landed and stopped the offense because even though Viva lost the duel his team still should have been able to get out brim and Jet got through semi okay and it's this mistiming that allowed drg to teleport punish go up this round two to one close it out and make it into franchising themselves and speaking of remember when this team made it to franchising by basically only using Phoenix on every map yeah it was nuts check it out here

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Length: 25min 37sec (1537 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 29 2024