Why is he still playing? He's an amazing player, but it feels like since Madrid (maybe even during), he just doesn't want to be here at all. Looks like I'm watching a man do his job, not play a competitive esport. Zero passion. Maybe I'm just reading it wrong.
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He turns into a role player whenever he has a bad individual performance and its a big issue hes had everytime hes been on duelist. Thats why he was hailed as a top Flex player not duelist player.
Either way hes a great player and has the passion he just doesnt like showing emotions on his face when the cameras are on, doesnt mean he has zero passion
I think you are reading the situation wrong, he is making a lot of solo plays than last year which I think is due to lack of chemistry with others. It still frustrates me how they played musical chairs with the roles in the off-season and lost the curical time to build the chemistry between zekken, bang and n4rrate. Zekken is either going into the site alone and dying without any chance(you saw that a lot in Abyss attack) or he is retaking in a man disadvantage situation. Then he feels like he needs to take more risks and thats why you saw him swing alone in a lot of situations where he wouldnt have last year, maybe he doesnt trust his teammates as much and he feels like he needs to take over idk.
I think both are the case. Bang and n4rrate also look like they're just there. Unless someone deliberately calls like a double swing or something, they don't move like a team. (I still don't know what kaplan in thinking putting john on initiator is, looks incredibly uncomfortable on the role with just decent util). But half the time n4rrate is doing the same thing as zekken they're just running out onto the site and shooting people. While the other 3 just sit in main or bang lurks. It's a GIANT difference from the team with Tenz and Sacy to where at time teams legit just couldn't hold the site because of the util and scaling.
I think they are struggling to find the balance, there are either too many cooks or no cooks at all. Sometimes they are trying to make plays when they dont need to(remember 1v3 nats clutch or the amount of times zellsis tried to flash out of smokes in Abyss) or not doing anything decisive at all (whole of bind and some post plants on Abyss). I think its the team issue more than anything, bang and narrate are not meant to be midrounders (neither was tenz and sacy, sacy might ve done some midrounding but not as much as zellsis), zellsis and johnqt need to step up more to build the chemistry, trying to flame bang and narrate when they are mostly doing their job is unfair to the players.
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