This might be a long post so don’t read if u don’t want to.
In 2022, a big part of optic’s success came from always playing meta comps. They fully accepted chamber, mastered neon first, adopted fade very quickly, learned pearl fast, renovated the bind meta, etc. optic’s players were willing to sacrifice individual skill and comfort to FORCE meta roles, as u saw marved playing kayo and fns playing every role except duelist.
That’s Chet’s biggest strength and weakness. He still attempts to force his roster to play to the meta and the standard “perfect” way to play rather than letting players play comfort roles. If it works out, it looks amazing and u get a team consistently ahead of the meta like optic.
We saw this at the start of last year when nrg started 1-3 because Chet attempted to switch players off their comfort picks to a more perfect meta/role composition. This is part of why ardiis struggled on nrg, as they should have let him flex off Jett and let victor play Jett on some maps, since victor is a horrible Kayo and a good Jett.
He has tried it again with the new nrg roster, and once again it is struggling. I hope he lets it go eventually.
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