To be fair, Xerxia had some surprisingly good reads on FPX. They looked quite coordinated and were, of course, hitting all their shots.

But I agree that FPX can play better than they did, even with a sub.

I wouldn’t be so sure. SEIDER (FPX’s sub) replaced SUYGETSU (a really good member of FPX).

While watching Xerxia vs FPX, FPX was looking shaky and made lots of key errors. Although SEIDER’s score was quite good, he kept getting caught off guard and made a few key mistakes that lost FPX rounds. One that pops to mind is when SEIDER was playing Sage on Ascent and he walls off tree, allowing Xerxia to safely use KJ ultimate and win the round.

I believe that Guild, Paper Rex, and DRX will probably do better than FPX.