if you'd have to choose 5 current or former LOUD players, who would you pick?
Mine:
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yeah I don't hold Optic that high just because I really hated that Chamber meta, I think Optic and yay got too lucky that meta was there on that specific point in time
Reminds me of cNed in Jett meta (acend) or Chamber meta (navi)
FNC on the other hand had an incredible year on a much healthier meta
tbf for me every team had access to chamber so it wasnt like optic had some niche meta pick that always worked, they were the team that utilized yay the best so therefore they were the best in that meta and not down to plain luck
fnc is good but i feel like a lot of their gameplay are slow defaults with very little variation compared to other teams, and although many teams couldnt beat them it was getting to a point where teams with competent coaches and igls would read them, their firepower is insane however
yeah I somewhat agree
I was not trying to take credit off of what Optic and yay did at the time. They clearly were the team that better adapted to it. It's just hard for me to imagine they would've had the same success if they had to adapt to a different meta at that time. That's where the 'lucky' part of my rant comes in. After all, they went to a relative 'irrelevancy' once the meta was gone. They clearly dominated that meta, tho, and the results were insane.
Yeah, indeed, FNC are more readable as time goes on, and that's a thing a lot of old-school EMEA teams suffer constantly (I mean look at the first Masters Reykyavik, they tried to play the game as if it was CSGO lol).
They constantly insist on playing the same slow way that characterize most EMEA teams. Works initially, then it just becomes really stubborn. Fnatic 'potential' is always there tho, in contrast to Optic ie.
They just need to learn to adapt. And I think they can. Their firepower is indeed abusive w the core of leo-alfa-chronicle.
I think it's time for them to end their derke-duelist chapter tho, might be wrong.
great analysis tho
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