Hot Take!!!

NRG are going to absolutely shit the bed this year. They lost the 2 best Optic players and the weaknesses with Crashies and Victor are gonna show. Ardiis is fairly close to yay but som is not good enough of a replacement for Marved and they're gonna struggle very hard at the beginning. Maybe they'll improve as the season goes on but I'm not expecting much.

I think it all is gonna depend on how s0m performs. Btw is he good? He hasnt played for a notable team on val.

NRG besides ardiis has very great synergy and with chamber meta now gone ardiis kinda gets an edge considering his agent pool is a mix of jett + kayo and not just sticking to chamber like yay. In short, we will actually see them do really well, s0m is a good controller, not the best but he does have potential, FNS, crashies and victor are good and ardiis will be the main spearhead of this team.

arpiiss

i agree with the s0m take but crashies and victor are very good players and fns is a very good igl, it depends on how well their comms and teamwork mesh. yay had a lot of impact on his own on chamber (based off of individual talent) but he was allowed to shine more on envy/optic than his previous teams because envy/optic set him up for good plays as well. that could very well be the case for ardiis.

tl;dr it's likely they could be shit but i wouldn't rule them out just yet