Wherever Fnatic goes Team Liquid must follow

Braveaf almost 100% aka Sova, Breach on Fracture and Sage on Split. Easy roles to fill since Bonecold played some Sova even in Champs.

But the problem with that is that teams rarely let their active players go or if they do they ask high loans. That's why most sub players are pretty unknown or in lower tiers.

Like who? Considering that teams are rarely willing to send their active players, so this player would have to be orgless or on bench.

I'm pretty sure that the announcement of otom said that he can fill for duelist/controller(?) roles. Maybe they just signed him in case someone got Covid or something. And they are arguably the favorites going into Masters 1, so maybe they though some unknown player like otom isn't good enough and rather sign experienced player.

I didn't mean to underrate Derke. What I mean is just that Gambit system works really differently to a lot of other teams. d3ffo has his role in that and that role isn't really comparable to Derke's in Fnatic.

True. I hope FNC vs FPX will be a banger. Its just feels so weird that team like FPX with stand-in and "OG gods" like Ardiis, Shao and Zyppan made it to top 3 of most competitive region. That's why I'm still unsure about them. Its just so weird even though they played really well. Fnatic will be their final boss. Ardiis having to face Derke. Shao has to call against Boaster etc.

Zyppan, Ardiis and baddyG will 3v5 to victory

Why would you dislike quiet and passive people? There's nothing negative about them.

They are still relatively young team with clear lack of structure. Not big thing and will definitely return stronger next Challengers.

finally playing proper comps

More like G2 has good reads and prep

? Only reason they had to play 6 high level games in 9 days was because their president decided to invade Ukraine

That is fucked tbh. Just unlucky because their president is fucking idiot

He hasn't been performing, but some people don't seem to understand that even Derke wouldn't shine in Gambit system. Fnatic does everything to support Derke to reach success while d3ffo is hard entry for Gambit and he isn't meant to shine. He is doing his job just fine even if he has bad games here and there.

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again someone who doesn't understand d3ffo's role in GMB. Derke would never work in GMB system.

Its good that players can flex, but that doesn't change the fact that purp0 is duelist player for most part and wouldn't make sense to put him on flex role. Unless he wanted it himself.

nah keep Hoody on flashes at least and I think Meddo has better Cypher than Mixwell

2/8

Would be cool to see nukkye Jett, but we haven't seen that yet. Really hope for those changes though. Also they finally have sentinel player, so I don't know what Mixwell would play. Sova?

True. I like M3C, but I also think they are better EMEA representative for Masters 1.

purp0 is Jett player though. Him replacing Zeek wouldn't have made sense anyway. And some rumors say that Zeek is already back at scrimming with Acend.

yeah and he also picked up Viper and Breach and isn't Cypher/Killjoy one trick anymore. Really impressed by him!

They have potential, but I don't know is Mixwell's Jett enough. Obviously seems like players like Meddo and Avova are finally activated so the need of carry Jett is smaller, but I think he could get diffed quite hard by star Jetts.

I doubt it. No hate towards ec1s, but he was stuck in tier 2 EU for quite some time before 100T decided to sign him. And its not like he was unknown prodigy or anything, he got his shot in tier 1. Still hope he gets new chance on decent team, but Acend isn't it.

As flashy Jett yes, but many forget what D3ffo's role is in Gambit. He isn't even supposed to be well supported superstar Jett like players like Tenz, Derke, Leaf etc.

Also Meddo has stepped up so much

Seems like Gambit is rotating their starplayer role
Masters 3: nAts
Champions: Chronicle
and now it seems like Masters 1/Challengers 1: Sheydos

he had crazy good game yesterday against Fnatic

New gamemode without building so its understandable many streamers are testing it again. Building ruined Fortnite for me.

I think Guild is 4th best for sure. Just looking at their players and how short amount of time they've been together. They could be top 3 after sometime and after they fix some of their problems with structure etc. TL has chance of taking it but they are griefing themselves.

I'm still a little bit unsure about FPX even after their wins against teams like Gambit and TL, but they still deserved their spot and I'm really happy for all the players and coaches. Can't wait to see how they matchup against Fnatic and that might chance my opinion about them.

yeah but haven't played Jett ever since and Reyna is irrelevant agent

I thought Kiles was the one who was going to get benched if anyone so agreed. He looked good in end of last year, but this year he has looked weak. And obviously he has family in Ukraine so that is going to effect his gameplay, but even during parts of 2021 he didn't bring much fragging power.

idk can you call Scream duelist when he never plays Jett or Raze

Jamppi's Jett is pretty bad and he works way better as flex player. Like tell me what is ScreaM's role in this team? Skye one trick? His Skye seems pretty mediocre. Reyna one trick? Reyna is irrelevant agent. Kay/O one trick? His Kay/O wasn't anything amazing either. He only has his aim, but can't play useful agents.

if ScreaM was able to play good Jett (or was willing to/was let to) there wouldn't be any problems. Jett is way more useful than ScreaM's classic Reyna.

If you truly think Jamppi is the problem then I don't know what to say. Flag checks or not. He's been so important for TL due to his flexibility while putting up good stats pretty consistently if you don't count in his Jett performances. Without Jamppi TL would have never made it this far. He pretty much had to change roles because ScreaM wasn't able to flex.

I just think he is holding this team down. People always talk about players like Jamppi and Soulcas, but ScreaM's heropool is pretty dogshit considering that they never play him on Jett so maybe he doesn't want to play it and seems like he put a lot of time in Skye, but even that looks pretty mediocre.

This may sound crazy, but I truly think if TL replaced ScreaM with someone like purp0 they would eventually become better.
L1NK is good controller player, Jamppi is super flexible and can frag, Soulcas may not be the best but he has good Raze, Kay/O and Skye, Nivera is talented player, while ScreaM just feels useless when he can't other duelists than Reyna or at least he isn't willing to. Also his Skye just looks mediocre.

Its not surprise when they keep changing comps all the time, like how are they supposed to have good plan when they prep for one for week and then change to completely other comp

Yeah.. they have good players, but keep changing these weird comps every week...

Shao has always been insane, just stuck in FPX and shitty roles

PlatChat member and also does analyst/casting stuff in NA VCT (but he is British and EMEA simp)

Tbh I think Bonecold is pretty good IGL, but that had quite a big impact on his individual performance. He was actually good fragger when Koldamenta was the IGL of Acend. So maybe if he retuned as non-IGL controller or initiator player he could start putting up numbers.

took that from Sideshow lol

Depends on what FPX or TL shows today. But I would say they are getting out 80-20. Guild could also be threat if they are having great game and great prep since they already played against M3C and Koldamenta is god prepper.

This happens just when Astra became off meta??

"He may be the worst Jett of group D" (Leaf, Buzz, JohnOlsen)

good play from Braveaf tho pretty much their new addition saved them the game