Momosuzu Nene Sharpens Her Aim for a Valorant Full-Party Match, With Laplus Joining Midstream

HOLOLIVE — Momosuzu Nene of Hololive’s 5th Generation (holoFive) spent a 90-minute stream on Monday getting back into VALORANT, ahead of a full-party match with friends planned for the following evening.

She opened with a team deathmatch mode, a free-for-all style mode with no objectives, to warm up. She said she had practiced the game intensively about three years ago and now barely recognized the new characters and menus, so she stuck to Jett, the one agent she knew how to play. Her early shots missed often, and she blamed the weapon. She said she wanted to firm up her aim so as not to hold back a teammate she had heard plays very well.

“It’s the weapon’s fault. Definitely.” — Momosuzu Nene, as her shots kept missing in the warm-up

She then moved into standard matches, where one side plants a bomb-like device and the other defends, and the first side to win 13 rounds takes the game. Nene explained the rules to viewers as she went and picked up terms such as “NT,” short for “nice try,” and “GG,” for “good game,” from chat. A friend she called Laplus accepted her invitation and joined around the 49-minute mark. One match ended 13 to 4 against Nene’s team. In a later match the group began pushing in together, a style Nene repeatedly called a rush, and viewers wrote that the whole team was “dopa-ing,” playing at full tilt.

Chat spent much of the evening cheering her on and noting that she was holding her own. Nine paid messages arrived during the stream, several of them encouragement for tomorrow’s match.

Nene closed by saying she would play unrated casual matches with a full party of five starting at 6 p.m. the next day, and that coordinating callouts with five players should make the game easier. “Tomorrow I want to go all out,” she said.