aside from cryo, the team was pretty mid. The only reason they were good was cryo and their chemistry
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No they aren't. Xset is the only team that ran a squad that was near optic level.
Zekken wasn't the issue. Sentinels' GM is. This team has so much role overlap it is shocking. Not only that, they are trying to be comparable to optic core in flexibility, but none of these players beyond zekken are known for anything besides their main role unlike crashies/victor/fns. That is why the optic core will always be contending for finals.
Hell, idk what more people need for people to realize tenz isn't it, and I think he can be happy even knowing that. IMO it was a mistake to rebuild around him
Dephh: wants to play hard initiator like kayo or Astra or cypher
Sacy: pure initiator.
Pancada: pure controller.
Tenz: he's playing sage now on some maps (dephh def not playing Cypher or breach on split is shocking)
Zekken: flex dualist, one of his best characters being Jett and the other being scan initiator sova.
Tenz: jett and sage
Dephh: he likes playing hard initiator as mentioned so breach
Sacy:already on the hard initiator...
ok and I understand that. But if his 3 this year are a controller and 2 sentinels, how does that fit in now with a pure controller player and tenz who will probably take the sentinel when jett isn't viable? It didn't look good on split and last year, he wasn't the one playing KJ, that was mainly Ayrin while he played fucking breach or kayo (at least during champs and copenhagen)....
Dephh is a sentinel player since day 1 he learned flash initiators bc the meta was to put the opper on sentinel. But he was always a cypher and kj player. The only thing abt him is instead of viper he prefers the astra on double controller maps. Tenz needs to flex off jett just like every other opper like cryo who played omen. Zekken has always been flex and good on entry role like raze and neon. Sacy is hard ini and can play all of them except kayo?
Ok let me flesh this out a bit and give you why I really doubt sentinels' flexibility.
Let us look at nrg who has hard role players.
Ardis - sage/jett
Crashies - sentinel/initiator - known for init.
Fns - sentinel/init - known for sentinel
Victor - sen/init/2nd duelist known for mainly 2nd duelist
s0m - controller
Notice how all the flex players enable the hard role players to keep playing their role and if they take away one, they can alternate amongst themselves. Especially notice if ardis wants sentinel, victor is suddenly enabled...4 of their players are pretty much ALWAYS in ideal roles (notice how init is specifically flexed between role players where 2 inits is very common)
Sen:
Dephh - best role is sen as you said. 2nd best char is controller
Pancada - hard controller
Zekken - best chars are sova and 2nd duelist
Sacy - hard init
Tenz - hard duelist with sage i guess even though he's never shown that before...
Dephh is fucked if tenz needs to ever not go jett UNLESS a 2nd controller is somewhat viable?? And you want zekken to play hard init when he was the 2nd or 1st man in on xset as the costar?? (2nd time ever on breach btw, which is a lot more of a selfless character). The role players DO NOT SHARE a role pool and instead share with role anchor players. And that anchor players in my eyes.
This is why i doubt sen so much. The pieces are good but I don't think this team gels well unless they can vastly improve in their new roles
cryo is dogshit lol, ill never forget when he got humbled by LEV
they just had a good team chemestry and a good igl forgot his name, whos in GE now, and they were only good in NA which even the guard won trophies, so that doesnt say much
this said, i think SEN is gonna do well on the league (qualifying to masters should be their goal, no matter if #1 or #3)
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