dude went from boomer 100t valorant team to top 3 cs team in the world
https://www.hltv.org/forums/threads/2646738/liquid-1
https://www.hltv.org/forums/threads/2673351/liquid-is-top-3
learn how to read
elige and naf have made hltv top 20 consistently as tier 1 riflers and are the most consistent players in the na scene to ever touch csgo.
if youve ever watched osee youd see the potential the kid has and how much impact he has on the game
yekindar is self explanatory
They are on quite heater right now after adding Yekindar and oSee seems to have finally found his form and is looking pretty deadly. Firepower of Yekindar, Elige, NAF and oSee is pretty dangerous right now.
and for OP nitr0 has been playing CSGO for years and has been playing for months after leaving Valorant so it isn't surprising why he is doing well/decent right now. Also the thing with CS is that the ones who were once tier 1 players don't have as much trouble going back because they had already mastered bunch of stuff in CS. This is why we don't see new players coming to tier 1 CS all the time like we see in Valorant. Its just so hard to do. And he also has existing synergy with Elige and NAF.
also need to remember that Liquid has had some time with Yekindar already while many teams like G2, Vitality, Heroic etc did some roster changes and haven't had much time.
100t was a mess. Always has been tbh. The whole situation with ec1s and babyj was a joke. Dropping steel before the LCQ too.
They are doing good now but there was a time where the whole org was just in another universe.
To your original point though, nitro has always been good. Individually he isn’t as good as he used to be in CS but it takes time. Cs is a game you gotta play consistently to keep up your mechanics. If you’re gone for a year and a half. It will add up.
Because he’s eu and he’s been in eu consistently. That’s the edge eu/cis has over all the other regions currently due to the game being based there since Covid. They are always around the evolving meta as where NA, Brazil, and other regions will always be behind unless they consistently stay in Europe.
Even without yekindar though. If naf, oSee, and elige all do what they are known to do. They are a dangerous trio. It’s just yekindar brings that next level and makes them into a 4 headed monster.