Fnatic def look much better. Not strongest opponent and they got very good momentum on Abyss. But overall Fnatic look more like a team here. More decisive and confident, with better team synergy. Also Kaajak finally online so that helps a lot.

but yeah ofc Leo is big fragging upgrade and util is same if not better level.

well yeah but likely worst on the team

d3ffo was their weakest player outside of Redgar's fragging. Times when D3ffo was playing good Gambit actually did something like when they won Berlin. Outside of those he wasn't that great and didn't show similar individual talent and potential as nAts, Chronicle and Sheydos. It was completely understandable of why he didn't make it to VCT. There were better players or just players with potential to be better than him.

Because he is entry player. He plays duelists as proper entry and plays for the team. He is opposite to someone like Aspas. If this was CS Miniboo would considered as entry while guys like Aspas would be more like rifler/awper(role wise). Entry players usually sacrifice for the team and that's why might look weak statistically.

Just miss comm or miss understanding. Hiro just stood in the open even though he didn't have to wanting to duel while Ruxic wanted to play safe and smoke CT.

kaajak isn't doing bad though. He's been top 3 player in the server this game.

VCT so far feels very dead tbh

terrible gameplay from them

first game for them,, if anything KC winning is better for EMEA as a region

Most underrated player in the world IMO. His fragging is very good, his utility has always been very good and he can play any role. Initiator, flex, sentinel even duelist. All have looked good. Also very consistent. IMO you could replace any player with him and it wouldn't look off. Still no one ever talk about him because he is very invisible outside of server.

It was, but for most part I think he is very solo like and his objective is to hold certain area or get information alone.

Weak performance from him so far. But tbf I think he also feels very disconnected from rest of Fnatic. Feels like he is always playing alone. Its like duelist who plays like sentinel if that makes sense. I also think that Fnatic don't really set him up or anything too much either. Maybe its just the meta right now with Yoru.

I mean both Leo and Derke were very active in comms to my understanding and now they don't have either of them. Its like losing 2nd and 3rd caller. If i'm not mistaken.

This. Losing Derke and Leo who likely were the secondary callers is so showing its crazy. I already thought this during the Fnatic offseason events that their midrounding looked completely dogshit and here we see it again. Its not really even fragging problem, Boaster just can't midround well and he has no one to help him.

Yep, but honestly those suck. Not warm enough, magnetic area doesn't get warm(meaning you need very small hands to get heat), and battery runs out fast.

Just need everyone to be on good form. I feel like Click could be pretty on and off type of duelist like reminds me bit of someone like Twisten for some reason. Also Kadavra needs to do good.

Yes, but he has constantly been setting his team up for kills. He did much for Florescent to get kills on Pearl.

His utility is doing so much for Apeks. God flashes on Pearl.

Pacific is easily the most boring region. Who even are most of their players? Even orgs are shitty. Easily the lowest amount of "aura" and feels the most amateurish out of the regions. Not talking about top teams, but as a whole.

Kamo, nAts - good
Patitek - good highs and overall decent
Keiko - looked good on Cypher so high potential but we will see
Kamyk - not sure yet didn't impress me when TL played in offseason

First game only, but he is looking good. Also very nice to see because he was kind of "who?" signing. Not much hype or anything. Hopefully he keeps performing.

BBL Pacific >

Only Koalanoob and Fluyh were from tier 2 NA and even their success isn't guaranteed.

Less - no-brainer as top tier sentinel player.
Saadhak - no-brainer as one of the most proven IGLs.
Florescent - likely influenced by clout at least partly, doubt they would have even thought of her without it.
Koalanoob - Happy clearly wanted him as his ex-coach, but also not worst signing because many tier 2 EMEA duelists got picked already.
Oderus - their coach so makes sense to sub him in, not really a player.
Crashies - seems like pretty last minute signing because Leo can't play, likely was unsigned and is experienced and English native compared to some random Turk.
Flyuh - IGL prospect so makes sense and seems like he has good rep as teammate since both Sayf and KOI's coach have said liking him.

should i switch to marvel pro
https://imgur.com/a/UYJAjfw

no

Nah I think this is their plan. Alfajer Iso and that's why Kajaak Yoru on most maps. Pretty shitty role for him to be put in as rookie and makes it hard for him to perform I think.

Yep Kajaaks impact has been pretty low and decent amount of his kills come from rounds where he gets like 3k. But I also think that he is not really being set up like duelists usually because he is playing Yoru and Fnatic plays pretty individual focused game. He is being more used for info gathering and holding hard areas. And yeah Crashies isn't Leo.

Fnatic look pretty ass honestly think they will struggle next year. Feels like outside of individuals (mainly Alfajer and Chronicle) there really isn't much going on. On attack just walking around map slowly, getting picked up one by one, not doing anything. Without inside info feels like calling issue with Boaster not being able to call fluently and maybe lack of comms of Leo and Derke also has effect on it.

Classic Fnatic, when Alfajer and Chronicle are hitting they look like best in the world, but moment when they don't Fnatic look extremely mid. I feel this Fnatic is so reliant on individuals because of mid strats and calling (especially on attack). Kaajak hasn't shown crazy performances so far (tbf Yory not best for that) and Leo isn't there. Bit worried for this Fnatic based on games we've seen so far.

I mean Sayonara is like the most looked after young talent in EMEA. Just like how wo0t was before joining TH.

NAVI will be good let me tell you

Turkish flex that has been rumored for some time now. Honestly haven't seen much of him, but from what I've seen he hasn't been anything special and actually pretty mid tier 2 talent. But I guess Apeks saw something in him, so who knows. Florescant and Batujnax duo doesn't excite me in terms of expectations.

Why would Apeks get moose out of any player?

6 out of 60 players is pretty much nothing. Compared that to NA teams having to only fill 30 slots + 5 from LEV considering they are English speaking. And even out of those both Less and Saadhak were playing in the non-English speaking SA teams previously, and both are no-brainers considering them being top tier in their roles. I don't count SA teams because they are sticking to Spanish/Portuguese speaking players. EMEA has shit ton of spots to fill considering that 11/12 of the teams are international and English speaking.

Again who? Most tier 1 and tier 2 players have been signed already. Them just going for free agent who has bunch of experience from playing in tier 1 is understandable move. Obviously Crashies hasn't been even close to his peak for some time and is downgrade from Leo, but he should be ok enough to fill in. Also I think any ex-OpTic/NRG player would fit in well to EMEA teams because of similar style and comms (from videos).

Makes sense though. Most players are signed already and Crashies has experience and is even english speaker (compared to like some random Turkish talent for example) so easy to fit him in.

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yep but im pretty impressed by KC so far. Way better teamwork and fast decision making, and individuals hitting. They will be good next season.

Again the original leak post said that she was among the best players they trialed, not the best. Whatever that means is unknown considering it could be anything from group of 3 duelists, to 3 overall players that could fill either of the spots, or 5 players where 2 got picked by/chose other teams etc...

I mean Kaajak was one of the best duelists(arguably best) in tier 2, picked by top EMEA team to replace Derke, while Florescant has mostly just played GC.

it said she was among the best, not the best.

I didn't say Stockholm is hard. Just that its full of Russians, I've legit had games where I've been only non-Russian out of 10 players. Also players there play braindead for most part and because of that the experience is really different to rest of EU. Out of all the EU servers I've tried its easily been the worst experience and not worth playing in.

Stockholm is dogshit experience with full Russian teams every game. They don't talk English and play braindead.
London people lower skill on average and every game has at least 1 annoying Brit or guys arguing.
Paris well toxic French and losing first round = someone throws whole game and wants to surrender insta
Frankfurt I guess best overall with good balance but still shit like every server

At least to me he didn't have a standout round or anything and still top fragged while having decent util. Really good game and means he was constantly finding kills each round.

KC changed players, but they still looked bad. Honestly I think they will lack firepower. Small sample size but Marteen low impact and inconsistent, Suygetsu looked like he did on NAVI for past year so low fragging, Avez too much utlity so he cant frag, Saadhak not that good individual and Elite is only one doing something.

FNC midrounding looked shit like they just sneak around the map doing nothing getting picked one by one, not playing for man advantages, on defense 24/7 retake simulator. Weird comps like I get that they might expect Neon nerf, but why not play Neon when Kaajak can play her and she is so op? Also playing Alfajer on Raze and Kaajak on Gekko on Bind doesn't make any sense, and could show that they are not confident in their "expected" roles. Also like I said I think their calling/plan looked bad and I think that's because its just Boaster compared to having Derke and Leo add to comms.

and FUT just look so weird. Like they look like they should be winning rounds and I think Xeus is an upgrade, but they still end up losing to must stupidest thing and score wise getting rolled. Its like roster where individuals can pop off any round but still end up losing. FUT has always been that type of team and its weird and frustrating to watch.

how tf are you up 4-0 and lose 5-13 what a shit showing from FUT this event. KC looked like shit and Fnatic/FUT looked so mid. Only TH looked somewhat decent. I guess TH and hopefully VIT are the only hopes. Rest look so gapped its unbeliavable.

I wonder did xuss get any trials from tier 1 teams
hes been doing good

I like Sliggy but only downside is that his chat is ok but honestly its too soft imo. Like no negativity allowed is bit ass in my opinion. Like watching s1mple play and typing s0mple would get you timeouted and some bans seem pretty unreasonable. Ofc every stream has their own rules and I personally respect them, but its one of the biggest downsides of his streams imo.

What is even the point of Split 3?

Why? His name was there in VRL matches yesterday as well but Xeus played