Ngl most of the hate towards kanpeki is coming from people who are deadset on the idea that sinatraa is still the best player itw, he is only second to Thanos no cyap and he will save Sentinels no matter what their problem is. So, first let's address the fact that Sinatraa was a great player at a time when the game was in it's infancy and Hiko was his rival for 'best sova' debate! He hasn't played pro for smth like a year and a half now! Who knows how good he is gonna be? From his ranked games at least no one can tell me that even if he hasn't kept up with pro play his mechanics are insane to the level that it will bail him out.
Now let's look at Kanpeki. It hasn't even been 2 weeks since he joined the team! yet he already looks very promising with how he sets his teammates up. It's safe to assume that most of the online people who are shitting on him are absolute scoreboard Andys. So, Let's look at it. Against, Pugstars( A decent t2/t3 team) he was the top fragger with
ACS K D A +/– KAST ADR
275 31 / 23 / 12 +8 84% 169
Against Akrew, he went
ACS K D A +/– KAST ADR
127 28/ 38 /29 -10 67% 94
Now, this was a rough series for him but his numbers are massively skewed by the split game where the whole team was horrible! On Ascent, the decider map, he went
ACS K D A +/– KAST ADR
211 16/ 14 /19 +2 74% 146
That's exceptional as a kayO player imo.
Against FaZe, he had a rough series but he had an incredible amount of assists(36) and TenZ went 16-10 in FB:FK against the demons that are babybay and dicey, partially thanks to kanpeki!
Against NYFU and LG he was one of the better players. Went,
NYFU ACS K D A +/– KAST ADR (3rd on board)
244 56/ 39 /18 +17 68% 139
LG ACS K D A +/– KAST ADR (2nd on the board)
202 46 / 47 /15 -1 77% 129
After a settling period, he kept performing better and these numbers are pretty good for a flex player. His sage and SEN split didn't look good in general, which made the numbers look a lot worse than they actually were! So, is this where all the hate is coming from? zombs, sinatraa and co. were watch partying and everytime kanpeki whiffed or died they were snarky about it. I think that's what fueled the 15 yr old sinatraa and zombs fans. Imo, Kanpeki looked promising and should in theory solve a lot of problems SEN have(unless zam keeps putting him on sage and dapr on chamber n shit like that). Only time will tell how good a player he is but so far there has been no reason to think he is the 'new problem'!
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