Dicey to NRG? + who for smokes?

NRG as it currently stands has the core optic roster: crashies, victor, and FNS.

While this core is extremely good as a team, in order to reach the same level of success as before they need someone to fill the shoes of yay.

I don't believe in s0m.

Cryo went with 100T
Yay with with C9
TenZ will probably stay with Sentinels
EG is doing god knows what
there is only a few options left in terms of good chamber/awpers in NA capable of going head to head with these 3 titans.

tbh I don't think Dicey is better than the 3 I mentioned above, but he and Sayaplayer (although Saya has struggled adapting away from Jett and towards chamber in the past) are the only realistic options left as far as awpers go. Alternatively, Wardell is also an option (he and FNS have some history and pretty good synergy. If wardell had trouble playing strategically, FNS is the only person I can think of that could make him a team player).
Victor is a competent secondary duelist/flex, so I doubt they'll sign Zekken which filled the exact same role in XSET.
I've heard a lot of people talk about bdog but I haven't really seen much of him to really make a judgement.

as for the smokes slot, Marved seems to be locked in with Sentinels, and it'd be redundant to bring in Zander when FNS already has the igl spot locked down.
If nAts is really coming to NA, he'd be a perfect fit, but I find the chances of that unlikely + while nAts speaks good enough english the language barrier might affect communication and synergy to an unknown degree. The big issue is that a lot of competent smokes players are usually IGLs as well, so the filter for a smokes player in NRG is pretty thin. What they need is a high fragging, independent-ish smokes player like marved or nAts. Valyn and Zander are much too perfect fits for other teams like Sentinels or EG.
A possible alternative is SicK, who has historically done pretty good on smokes + every other role, but I have trouble trusting a flex to do the job of a dedicated smokes player + it was sentinels.

man I hope they don’t keep s0m

Saya was actually good on chamber, it’s just that Guard didnt have another player who could provide the same level of entrying that players like Saya, zekken, victor, etc could.

If Ardiss is coming to NA then it would make sense for him to go to NRG
And if LOUD players also want to come to NA there’s no reason for NRG to pick up Dicey.
pAncada on smokes, Ardiss on Chamber
Moose on smokes and ig Dicey on chamber (if imports don’t happen)

s0m controller his astra and omen were crazy when tex was on jett

s0m is a perfect 6th player

1. flexibility (plays duelist, controller, flex initiator)
2. friendships with players on starting roster (constantly duos with FNS, seems to also be close with Victor)
3. high energy and drive to create content for NRG
4. seems like someone who would be satisfied with being on the bench since it would allow him to focus more on content creation
5. ability to step up and play well if needed, he's still a very good player even if not worthy of starting

good post, catchy, i don't usually read more than 100 words on this braindead site
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