Mada should be 1 but I get it he still needs to prove himself (which he will soon enough)
Ethan should be 1 easily the best initiator in the world
S0m is easily 1 and easily the best player in the world
FNS is the best IGL so I guess put him in 3 yeah
Verno best flex easily and yall are not ready for him
OVERALL NRG IS THE BEST IF YOU THINK OTHERWISE YOU ARE RET- BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
smokes is crazy stacked this year. a0m could maybe go above zander but thats it. verno literally plays like killjoy and shit why would he not be flex lol. i dont consider playing breach kayo skye and sometimes yoru as flex. at the end of the day flex and initator have a lot of overlap and personally i dont believe in the idea of a flex role in general.
s0m was better than bang and valyn both internationally and regionally when he played, literally 0 reason to have them above him aside from bias. and z0nder just came up from tier 2 where his stats weren't even that amazing
verno has played more sova than all his other agents combined (and a bit of fade), whereas ethan only plays flash initiators and can flex to duelist/smokes. who is more suited to being called an initiator player, a person who plays recon and flash initiators or a person who only plays flash? you're right in that they have a lot of overlap but generally speaking, people who only play flash initiators then flex to other roles were called flex players while people who played recon initiators (and flash) were called initiator players (because during chamber meta a lot of comps were double initiator so one player was always on initiator while the other occasionally played it)
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