Hey I'm crima and you might have seen my earlier videos on here. Since the rules were changed regarding videos on this subreddit my last post got deleted so I will do it in a text post and give you some insight about this video.

I'd also like to give you a small introduction to who I am. I'm a 28 year old german who lives on Tenerife, I've played Counter-Strike for almost 20 years and been playing in top ranks in CS, LoL and oldsql WoW arenas. I used to run a YouTube channel for LoL teaching players how to climb higher ranks but eventually I lost interest in the game and stopped gaming for 3 years. With Valorant I finally found a game that suits me perfectly so I've come back to gaming and will try go fulltime on Valorant.

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Ok now to the video. There is gonna be quite a few Sage plays in there which might be odd to some of you since many people just copy pasta "RIP SAGE RIP SAGE". But a few weeks ago I saw a korean tournament where both teams were playing Sage on Split and their creative playstyle inspired me to give her a shot again. To my surprise I was doing really well with Sage. I started to use the Wall more as an aggressive tool or to give me off angles instead of just blocking off opponents.
Even the highest ranked players often were not ready for it and it got me many easy kills. I guess people are not used to playing against Sage recently so they are not so aware of the Wall boosts.

Her slow is also still incredibly powerful. I don't think she is dead at all but of course since she is more balanced there are many other good options to pick so she isn't a must pick anymore. Her best map of course still being Split and in high rank competitive I do see her very frequently on this map on both teams. I also like her on Ascent and Haven where cool wall plays are possible. Bind is my least favourite for Sage.

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Then one last important thing I want to mention is about the big fail play in this video. I lost a round just because of poor choice of keybindings. I have defuse on "E" because I'm used to that from CS and also have use object on "E" (also like in CS) but unfortunately in Valorant there are things like Cyphers Dart which you start to remove if holding "E". So in one clutch scenario I was running to the defuse and because I was not quite close enough to the Spike I started accidentally taking out Cyphers Dart which cost me the time I needed to get the defuse. For these rare cases it might be better to have defuse and use object on different keybindings so that won't happen to you :)

Thanks for reading/watching. Looking forward to hearing your feedback!