Consdering that in a few weeks he's going to be a free agent do you think any orgs would try to pick him up in the future? Pretty sad to see el diablo go slowly down.
Yes you assumed correct yay's time on DSG is pointless to bring up, it was a content team that was actually playing Reyna ffs.
Yay's main skills are his rifling and OPing. Afaik they did not nerf the Vandal or the OP. As for his agents, Jett is the most meta agent rn and there's nothing he won't be able to play that Ardiis is playing. In fact with his passive playstyle and his aim he'd make a better anchor player on agents like KJ/Sage (ok this is speculation)
Ardiis on the other hand hasn't had a consistent run. His Jett performances were very low impact in playoffs. And his OPing has been very bad this entire season. The once saving grace about him is his aggression but then again he's not been finding his first bloods on entry
Afaik they did not nerf the Vandal or the OP
Agent plays an important role on how he uses both of those weapons. So by saying, he is still the same as he was back in 2022 because there is no nerf on the vandal or the OP is just wrong.
In fact with his passive playstyle and his aim he'd make a better anchor player on agents like KJ/Sage (ok this is speculation)
True he'd make a better anchor player with his passive playstyle. But the meta as of now, requires an aggressive duelist to push through double controller setup (especially in Americas), NRG needed that aggressiveness from Ardiis.
You could argue all you want, but there is no clear evidence that yay is better than ardiis in this current meta. Maybe he'll do better, or maybe he'll do worse, let's just hope franchised teams picked him up to solve this debate once and for all lol
Literally
Even if you don’t know how to play raze
Teams make you play sage, omen, killjoy or initiator-
Nobody wants someone who’s instalocking even in pro-play
Anti-strats would become easier against them since 1 player will always play the same agent
And he is not that good that the teams would play around him imo
Bruh, if u think antistrat in professional level it's like "he's playing jett guys lets pick 5 smokes so he can't op 😎" you clearly don't understand the game, the same exact comp on Ascent it's being played since more than a year and a half and it's not like teams can't shut down strats because they don't know their comp, antistrating it's about knowing the player and the team tendencies and build a counter plan around it, I guarantee you every single team last year knew exactly that yay was gonna play Chamber almost every single match and optic still succeeded