patuj [#16]
EMEA talent has always been spread so wide that you can't create many rosters with amazing players in every role. Leo on Fnatic, Shao on FPX, Sheydos on KOI, Cloud on Giants, even Soulcas on Liquid. There isn't many initiators to pick up from and according to some people Destrian is vocal player so he adds to calling and likely partly a reason why Salah decided to stick with him. They could have taken their chance with some VRL player, but again there is a reason why they kept him.
And as I've said before I think this team will benefit a lot from staying longer together. I think its way too early to blame any individual when we haven't seen what this team is capable off in couple of months. OGLU(Molsi, Destrian, later Salah, Strong) managed to do decent in EMEA with low individual talent due to their chemistry and unique strats etc. This Vitality roster has even more firepower so they have a lot of potential in my opinion
Agreed, when franchising was first announced I said that 10 teams would be too much for EMEA to fullfil with T1 talent and that’s what we’re having right now, there’s some 4 teams that are way worse than the rest
But yeah as time moves on new talent will undoubtedly reveal itself, my critique about the “his utility usage excuse” is so that it won’t serve as a justification for terrible players to keep occupying spots in franchising that young talent are constantly vying for, just look at How long Fnatic and liquid kept their bad seeds and the boost both got whenever they replaced them with cracked out unproven talent