Liquid should get lowel

i think that team would be insane
Scream (second entry/Sage)
Jamppi (Sentinel)
Nivera (Jett)
Lowel (IGL + Sova/skye)
L1nk (Smoker)

on paper looks good, in practice I see issues with jamppi being a sentinel and doubtful that lowell is a better IGL than soulcas. + lowell is currently a one trick sage, his skye is unproven and he sucked a lot when he tried playing phoenix

Glycoroldas [#2]

on paper looks good, in practice I see issues with jamppi being a sentinel and doubtful that lowell is a better IGL than soulcas. + lowell is currently a one trick sage, his skye is unproven and he sucked a lot when he tried playing phoenix

wdym, he is better than soulcas as an IGL, they won First strike and almost won Masters 1 with his IGLing, although you are right about his agent pool butt he can play sova fairly well too, not as good as his sage ofcourse, his sage is god tier

It would be the best addition they could do, but Lowel won't leave Heretics, he is the team captain, he can make the team for himself. He has a huge liberty to pick players, and trust me, heretics has enough money

sm0ke3 [#3]

wdym, he is better than soulcas as an IGL, they won First strike and almost won Masters 1 with his IGLing, although you are right about his agent pool butt he can play sova fairly well too, not as good as his sage ofcourse, his sage is god tier

I'm not saying that he is definitely a worse IGL than soulcas, just saying that I am not entirely certain that he is that much better of an IGL than soulcas. You do have fair points regarding success at first strike and almost winning masters 1, but I really started doubting heretics after their masters 2 run. I get that they were at a significant disadvantage to prepare for masters 2 as it happened straight after masters 1, but the way they played during masters 2 was just abysmal and I am not sure whether I can fully attribute that to the lack of preparation time.

The biggest point is that by the time masters 2 came around and qualifiers for EMEA, heretics playstyle got easily figured out and there was not much of a difference behind the stuff they used to at first strike and masters 2. They did try to adopt a new playstyle for EMEA qualifiers but in the end they reverted to their known and proven playstyle(besides the addition of Astra) versus their game against G2 and they got easily read like a 10 page book. And at this point I'm conflicted whether it came down to IGLing, coaching or simply lack of preparation time. Heretics simply did not adapt properly to the Astra release.

The problem is they signed jamppi as a promising awper in csgo to solve their situation with not having a main. I hope they don’t already give that role to another player

He's comfortable in Heretics and he fits pretty well. Excited to see the new roster