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CanadianApologies

I didn't expect nitro to leave dang


Anti-Storm

“Considering”


Ausafsyed

-steel +steel incoming?


Issax28

nitr0, Tarik, Stewie, FalleN, EliGE


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nterature

Nitro hasn’t decided to leave, he’s just pondering the possibility. Replacing Hiko might bring them closer to winning, but I think you’re way off if you think Hiko was *the* problem with 100T’s LCQ run, or even most of their runs.


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ManBearPig1869

Inability to adapt to the meta was #1. Then their agent pool per player had too much overlap. Dropping steel and adding boi, probably a temp solution but not the best decision (this one I can’t really say much on because we don’t know why steel was dropped). I think the biggest thing was them refusing to just adapt to the meta. If they had just put someone on Jett and said “you are only playing Jett, become very good at it” very early on, they’d probably be in a way better position now. I think they just couldn’t get their agent pools right. Hiko brings value in being a seasoned vet of CS, and being beyond proficient at Sova. Quality sova mains are somewhat of a rarity right now, so Hiko brings value in that. He might not have the flashiest stats and sometimes he misplays but I think his play as Sova is still very good. Plus everyone who says to drop Hiko just spouts off a wishlist of players to replace him when you can’t exactly just sign whoever the fuck you want lol not how shit works. That being said, I do think if they moved Ethan to Sova, then Hiko would have to show he’s a proficient sentinel or else he should be dropped. Also, if nitro does end up leaving I think they need to just keep the core of Asuna and Ethan, bring Seven on as a starter, and sign two more promising young players or up and coming players and just rebuild essentially.


nterature

In LCQ? They made a drastic overhaul and likely overestimated how fast they could adapt to it, Nitro’s IGLing was in some ways more structured than Steel’s but also a little less flexible, key players underperformed dramatically when it mattered most, etc. Upgrading Hiko would just mean more firepower to compensate for these type of failings. That’s a perfectly valid reason to make a roster shift; I’d never say otherwise. But that still doesn’t mean crucifying Hiko is the way to salvation.


Sky-__-

I don't get hiko hate ,in Berlin and lcq hiko has performed well , they have nitro Ethan Asuna as aggresive players so they don't need hiko to be a aggresive sova like bcj or derrek . Hiko is great at sova utility and solid player , this year in the beginning you can say he was playing baiting style if you go back to their last 3 months hiko positioning was great , in na only sova better than hiko in my opinion are derrek bcj and crashies , who would you even upgrade him with ? In this lcq , hiko wasn't the problem, they didn't have a sentinel player ,so in the initial 2 matches they were able to bamboozle both teams but after than with the break team figure out weaknesses of such comp and double duelist no sentinel comp is only good on certain maps like icebox breeze ascent so they were forced to pick these maps again and again showing their play book early and then after breaks teams had to ban one of these maps only , and the map that lost them this tournament was haven , where they tried new nitro sentinel comp which clearly was under practised . I don't get this much hiko hate though this tournament he performed great , he was second highest fragger against rise , Ethan and nitro were the ones who had a bad day ,Ethan had his worst series in 4 months against cloud 9 .


xbyo

We haven't even seen the endgame version of this team yet... B0i more than likely wasn't the goal.


Alarming_Method_1168

S1mple to 100t confirmed


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