My POV on Why Mindfreak underperforms

as a PRX fan who's been fucking frustrated with this team, there are so many reasons as to why Mindfreak usually botfrags and plays bad.

It's because half the team are so disjointed and don't know where to go or where to attack. He's said it before in the shangai vlog after G2 i think that he doesn't know where to put his smokes because the 3 no-brain aggressive players can't make up their mind on where to go and stuff. The job of the controller is to smoke and block sightlines so that his team can freely execute the site (or on defense its to block attackers from going in)

Jinggg even said it himself that PRX don't even know what they're doing, so that can really confuse the hell out of the only single controller player.
Mindfreak isn't the problem. I do even think that even if Karon were in his shoes, he'd definitely get confused as well and underperform.

a lack of an IGL also is the reason why this team just falls apart so much. There's noone to keep this guys in check in game. Alecks can scream all he wants but he's not in the game so he can't control high-pressure fast paced moments and decisions.

Though now that I think of it, maybe around 20% of the reason he underperforms is because he's not mechanically superior to other players, but the rest of it 80% is just PRX doing PRX things.

This is just what I've seen and if you think that I'm wrong then feel free to correct me.

tldr: mf botfrags because prx players dont know what theyre doing = mf confuse on where to smoke

I disagree

Too much yap for me to read

tldr mindfreak bot frags because the team is so disconnected sometimes that even he can’t focus and his teammates are in a zoo

to people who don’t wanna read this essay which takes less than a minute to lmfao you’ll be fine

Even if he bottom frags it would not be his fault, he has the hardest role in the team, when you have a team like that, with aggressive plays and players doing whatever they feel like it's very difficult to time the smokes and give your team support

imagine if his playstyle of being the guy who’s always behind all the prx players and generally less aggro is because he quite literally can’t keep up with the pace lol

Aleck's is on serious fraud watch love him and don't want him kicked but if he can't control and organize his team enough for his controller player to be able to have clarity on where to use like 4 pieces of util each round something needs to change

I think you may be right. A controller with good comms is always a huge benefit for a team.

having no IGL works because of their playstyle til it doesn’t. I’d be happy to be proven wrong that they CAN win a trophy without an IGL but the moment their momentum gets shut down everything is like so over for them and that in itself is very frustrating. I think someone on PRX should be the “IGL” and make sure everyone else is doing okay. Must be really hard for mindfreak but I hope he and the team can improve from here, funnily enough their opening match is against G2 (they meet again) and that will be the real decider to see if PRX are playing as a team and have W gaming set plays.

I don’t think PRX should remove anyone but someone should take the role as a leader instead of alecks taking timeouts to keep everyone in check

I was part of the “mindfreak is the weak link” crowd, but now that you mention it being PRX’s controller must be the hardest job in the game

mindfreaky

Honestly sometimes he's really just not hitting his shots, or the opponents are better with utils or swinging him together. But when he can hit those shots damn he's insane.

But regardless of how well he plays going forward, he's still a huge inspiration for me when he levelled up massively from 2022 Reykjavik to 2022 Copenhagen (and continued to prove he can clutch rounds)

i love how people still defending mindfreak when he not even hit his shot, underperform the whole year and his peak was backthen in 2021/2022, and people defend him crazy yapping here n there

imagine if that Monyet, people gonna send him a death thread at this point 😂

being good looking benefits you in life is real i guess ?

He also has a pretty casual approach sometimes is what I feel

i think alecks start giving smth and jingg to call that also probably make his job more confusing and hard

I think mindfreak "underperforms" because his teammates are literally some of the greatest shooters in the game rn. Like how do expect a man to frag out when he's providing support and everyone is already dead. He's good for clutches tho so you know your gonna get that out of him

alright I had to make an account upon seeing so much stupidity from PRX fans. you guys make me want to stop enjoying PRX games sometimes. He does not "underperform" even if you're short-sighted enough to only think kills = game impact he does just fine most games. Look at their recent loss to DRX and by only looking at kill numbers identify which one is the "underperforming" mindfreak lol

his ACS is generally lower because he plays smokes and lurks on such a hyper aggressive team that very often feasts (kills everyone very quickly) or famines (all die, mindfreak the lurk in 1v3). He plays his role and is also one of the most clutch players in VCT. He executes what needs to get done in his role very well. If you speed up your lurk you get caught, if you don't you run crazy risk of being too slow given how fast PRX play and how much they contest space/take aggressive gunfights. He has a damn hard job and still generally performs very well particularly when the team needs him most. Coldest clutcher on PRX no question

I'm sure you guys are the same ones who only have duelists on your "top 5 players" lists and quite frankly I feel like he only gets this much hate because he isn't one of the more likeable outspoken guys on the roster compared to someone like jingg. I invite you to consider that there are other ways to impact the game other than just getting frags (which he still does reasonably well btw) particularly when your team consists of batshit crazy explosive/fast players

His k/d for this season hovers around 1.00 (+/- tiny bit depending on agent) which isnt even an underperformance at all when you consider his teammates so I genuinely have no idea how people consider him the weak link either even if you're a k/d merchant