new icebox comp?

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valcygnus

so i was throwing ideas with my team, and came up with this:

-viper: obvious reasons
-harbor: double smoke is good, also great walls on attack and defense + ult to play retake (80% of rounds anyways)
-killjoy: obvious reasons

now this is where we got a little crazy, because we started thinking. since we don't need duelist, maybe we throw in an omen to create even more vision blocking and abuse the vertical angles. plus the paranoia is great for taking A site. and on attack his tp can work as a dash a bit.

and since icebox is really just planting and playing back, maybe we add gekko for our last spot. he combos very well with harbor with the wingman + cove to safe plant, and sova drone isn't needed on b anymore since a gekko flash will clear the entire area now. also this comp can do easy b splits through mid.

still have to test it out in the coming weeks, but thoughts?

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Kay/o instead of gekko and I can get behind it. It’s just impossible to play any map with no real info gathering agent

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valcygnus

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gekko has some pretty neat info flashes on A and B, but yeah that's the biggest weakness imo.

initially we were gonna go for the sova instead of gekko but decided to go all out on the weirdness, maybe we'll change it later

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gekko is insane. i want to see it tho

#5

AlmartAn

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no

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Jitu

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gekko on icebox is extremely overrated, he wont amount to anything on that map. wingman is overrated asf

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valcygnus

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We'll see :)

Keep in mind this is asc-immo lobby, not proplay so we're taking some liberties to try things out

And if the gekko doesn't work we will switch to something else

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Reyna will be meta for new Icebox pro comps.

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ImJeviz

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ofc reyna, neon, jett, izo and sage

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Nachtel

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Viper, Harbor, Raze, Kayo, Killjoy

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valcygnus

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agree on most except the raze, duelist not needed

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I agree, but I don't feel like most teams have the necessary roster to pull off a zero duelist comp besides Sentinels and maybe NRG depending on if Demon1 can also play harbor

but for Cloud9 or Leviatan for example, just put Aspas and OXY on duelist, it's for comfort's sake

I don't know about your team, but if flexibility isn't an issue for you, how about:

Viper
Harbor
Kay/o
Sova
Killjoy

I think Kay/o is a must-pick for this map, especially if you're running viper harbor, since his knife gives really good info on the small and clustered A site (which a skye flash wouldn't really provide because of how many spots there are to hide from it), he provides good flashes for the team, and allows the team to pop flash through walls. He's not as strong on B site though, but that's why I argue you'd need Sova.

Sova has a lot of good dart lineups on B and the drone is a godsend for pushing up onto site (and planting) after already pushing up B long with the harbor wall.

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I wouldn’t value omen over a sova tbh, you can clear out Belt, yellow and B main with sova utils and save the gekko utils for executes (ik it recharges, but 10 seconds is still long enough for attackers to rotate to some positions)

I could definitely see gekko getting played a lot more bc his flashes are really good. I think chamber could be played in place of a KJ? Not really sure tbh, just a thought

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your composition is insane, I'm crazy to try it

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valcygnus

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jajajaa i wonder who this is