aspas was the best entry player in 2022 and 2023. the only reason he wasn’t a direct entry this year was because his team clearly didn’t want him to be. you think it was his decision to op on attack and not the igl, the secondary caller, or the coach?
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tired of the aspas disrespect
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in Champs 2023 on Attack side fk-fd per match:
DRX
W - Lotus: Aspas 1-1 Saadhak 4-0
L - Split: Aspas 1-3 Saadhak 1-1
L - Ascent: Aspas 4-3 Saadhak 1-2 (HOWEVER cauanzin had 3-1 fk/fd)
TL
W - Ascent: Aspas 0-1 Saadhak 0-1
W - Split: Aspas 4-2 Saadhak 0-2
Navi
L - Pearl: Aspas 2-4 Saadhak 2-3
W - Ascent: Aspas 1-2 Saadhak 2-1
W - Bind: Aspas 3-0 Saadhak 1-2
Fnatic
W - Ascent: Aspas 1-2 Saadhak 0-2 (Less was 2-3)
W - Lotus: Aspas 1-0 Saadhak 2-2
PRX
L - Lotus: Aspas 2-3 Saadhak 2-3
W - Split: Aspas 3-2 Saadhak 0-0 (cauanzin 2-2)
L - Pearl: Aspas 3-3 Saadhak 2-0
EDG
L - Bind: Aspas 1-1 Saadhak 1-3
W - Ascent: Aspas 2-1 Saadhak 1-0
W - Haven: Aspas 2-1 Saadhak 2-2
FNC
W - Split: Aspas 2-1 Sadhaak 2-2
L - Ascent: Aspas 2-0 Sadhaak 1-2 (Cauanzin went 4-1)
W - Haven: Aspas 3-1 Sadhaak 0-1
EG
L - Ascent: Aspas 2-4 Sadhaak 3-1
L - Lotus: Aspas 1-0 Sadhaak 0-0 (Less was 2-0, Caua was 0-2)
W - Pearl: Aspas 1-2 Sadhaak 2-1 (Caua was 2-1)
W - Split: Aspas 1-1 Sadhaak 2-0 (Less was 1-4)
L - Bind: Aspas 0-3 Sadhaak 1-1
Final total:
Aspas - 61-41
Sadhaak - 32-30
if we remove the PRX game:
Aspas: 53-33
Sadhaak: 28 - 27
If we put in the hms per match:
Aspas - 53-33
Sadhaak+extra - 44-47
I'm not gonna go through all of Zekken's games, but the madrid finals had:
L - Breeze: zekken 3-3, ENTIRE REST OF SEN 1-2
W - Bind: zekken 3-2, ENTIRE REST OF SEN 5-3
L - Ascent: zekken 2-4, ENTIRE REST OF SEN 2-1
W - Split: zekken 1-2, ENTIRE REST OF SEN 6-2
W - Icebox: zekken 2-1, ENTIRE REST OF SEN 4-0
The meta has changed since the days of slow defaults with concrete information; teams are opting for more bursty, fast-paced play that benefits hard entry duelists.
Aspas isn’t suited to the current meta compared to players like Zekken, T3xture, KangKang, and Jawgemo. Do you think Aspas is the type of player to just send it for his teammates like icy would? Nah.
He wasn’t even the third most impactful player on his team for that run and Saadhak shouldered a ton of the first engagements alongside another player depending on the map. Here’s the spread for 2022:
- Aspas: 29.6%
- Saadhak: 25.8%
- Less: 20.3%
- Pancada: 12.3
- Sacy: 12%
Let’s contrast that to other duelist first engagements for their respective teams in 2024. These stats are pull from champs except for T3xture’s because GenG bombed out.
- icy: 23.9%
- Aspas: 25.4%
- Derke: 31.6%
- Miniboo: 31.8%
- Zekken: 38.5%
- T3xture at Shanghai: 38.9%
- KangKang: 42.3%
- Buzz: 42.4%
Aspas was closer to Icy than any of his other contemporaries this year and his peak in 2022 still had less hard entries than is required to be successful in this meta.
Edit: I forgot to mention this but Tex literally took more first engagements than Aspas did at Champs with him straight up on hard entry a number of attack rounds.
I don’t get that reasoning. If Aspas is so favored in duels, why wouldn’t you want him to consistently take initial contact given the odds conversion of a 5v4 in pro play? Your duelist has the least amount of utility throughout the course of a round and it’s why they’re often the first to die while controllers and initiators with rechargeable utility tend to be closer/clutchers.
Aspas isn’t special. Yet he plays like he doesn’t trust his teammates to properly set him up or trade him. Those “Statspas” allegations seriously have weight too when you watch him in clutch scenarios where he will never half a defuse and always prioritizes his life. He’s individually consistent sure, but he’s no team player.
First of all, on attack aspas plays off the utility and has a very methodical approach, he doesn't just dash in after a pop flash and hope it works out. Even tacolilla could just create space but you are just wasting aspas's mechanics by just putting him in a bad situation where he can't get a fair fight. On defense, other than the op, aspas doesn't take initial contact because teams will literally just go to the other site once they find him, it would be easier for aspas to find opportunities if the team is hitting his site and not just playing retake simulator.
Neilzinho said it himself, aspas is a very hard player to kill and trade which makes it annoying to play against him. The longer aspas is alive and the more he can play off his teammates and util, the more value he gets. Aspas on LOUD was one of the best entry players in the world, LEV obviously just want him to play this way because they think it works. Also sure, aspas plays clutches terribly but most duelists/players with insane mechanics play clutches terribly as well. Just because he doesn't commit to try and win a 1v2 doesn't mean he's baiting.
He doesn’t take enough risks. That’s all it comes down too.
He’s so “smart” about his fights that he won’t take bad ones when his team needs him to. I’m not criticizing whether he prefers to play fast rotate on defense or how much utility he needs before taking a fight. It’s just undeniable that he won’t take bad odds even when it’s sometimes what’s necessary.
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