Lets be real here its Kaps fault for wanting the team to play scrappy and for fun like EDG when SEN are at their absolute worst when they play scrappy and loose
Supamen is definitely not in the conversation and Valyn is vastly inconsistent, he has some peaks here and there but he has never been a conversation for best smoker until recently.
Bang has consistently been exceptional and has been getting better and better for this SEN team even around all of these issues that theyre facing.
Ill give you s0m i completely forgot that hes back competing again as well as pancada but Kingg isnt all that
I dont think having john on ini is an issue at all, especially if hes comfortable calling on the role. His calling isnt a massive pain point of the team currently, its the inconsistency and lack of comfortability on their comps which is brought about by Kap throwing away almost everything they pracced in the offseason and pivoting to Tejo on almost all the maps.
Not to mention the constant back and forth shift between regular comps and Tejo comps, how are they gonna fix any of their issues when they cant isolate variables?
I'd agree if that wasn't manageable. DRX G2 VIT and EDG the likely 4 best teams itw have shown that is manageable. It's not that john doesn't look comfortable on tejo granted its not hard to look comfortable on tejo is a simple agent. But John is not aggressive enough to play a role thats meant to support and trade the entry fragger. Tejo enables that play style of just sitting back and saying zekken go kill once you've thrown util which is why in like 6 different rounds narrate and zekken are just dying on site and 3 of our players are just sitting main. There's no decision of holding or taking space which is typically a good idea, especially when you have someone who's proven to be great at lurking like John. There are no layers to this play style. And Nats abused that all throughout the game. Zekken N4rrate and sometimes bang just bailed them out of those situations. And since where literally just sitting main 90% of rounds, it limits the creativity and impact zellsis can have when mid-rounding. It's just one dimensional and sure there are other factors but john being in this role is for sure one of them.