such comps are for themes
saadhak wanted all the flashes, because he knew qck's standard duelist was bad (true). as soon as qck started playing actual duelist, loud fell off.
talon's comp was focused on revive agents because they knew lev has more firepower
honestly with a bit more thought it could have worked
Let them cook, trust
But in all seriousness, the reason why Trace chose Phoenix is because of sage. D00mbros himself said that sage on ascent can be the best agent. And his reason is that with Sage you don't need a jett to make space, or a mobility duelist. It allows teams to play pheonix which is what Talon wanted to do. They used their wall (and primmie being a god), to take space and allow the Phoenix to move in more freely. It couldve worked with more time to prepare and less mistakes, but they did fairly well on attack and the comps was made for that, so we can attribute it to primmie being goated, but they did have a game plan for this ascent comp, and it worked on their attack at least somewhat well.
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