They got shocked by EDG, and i guarantee that’s a wake up call. They looked at their group and said we don’t even need to show everything it’s us/NRG making it out. I mean look at the regular season in EMEA. I don’t see a world where they don’t qualify because of the strength of the other teams but if they don’t start practicing real comps heavily they’ll get shocked again. They have all the talent in the world, just need the players on the right roles.

disagree on the fact that you can play smokes at any level decently because it’s mostly team util commed by teammates/default setups. Duelist/Ini is more on the fly and harder to be able to make the correct reads and timings.

NAVI has the talent they just need to run real comps heading into LCQ. I mean you have arguably some of the best players in the world on roles that make 0 sense. I think in season they got to cocky running the table with off meta comps they thought they could do it again

would be nice to see saya / KK go ballistic on a deep run, both are incredible to watch.

i think EDGs play style actually helps KKs style out. I think that style fits him perfectly as a player just like how PRXs play style fits something so well. He can %100 by the end of this year considering how these next international games go be the best OP player in the world.

fundamentally no one uses the op the same so this debate to me is just way to early. Nobody in this game has yet to clearly pull away from the pack. KK is very flashy and consistent and the way he plays his op is completely different to anyone we’ve seen. Aspas uses his utility so well with the operator and with jett that again he is completely different then anyone else. I think if KK continues to provide this much value on the operator on any agent then he can be in the discussion with someone like aspas who has been consistently doing it just in a different style.