Does 2026 NRG blow up their roster and poach ENVY?

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hyundaielantra

Looking at their group they’re likely going 0-5, 1-4 at the best unless something big changes meaning their year is basically over.

Considering the amount that the org is willing to spend, could they poach the age-eligible players from ENVY (P0PPIN, Eggster, Inspire) and keep Skuba and Mada? If I’m NRG management I’m at least somewhat tempted especially if ENVY don’t win Ascension and if Ethan and s0m call it after this season.

Not saying this as an NRG lover or hater, just another armchair take

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NRG should pay every penny on earth for Lar0k and then get a nice IGL, and maybe verno if mibr fails

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getting foreigners new visas in 2025/6 in the USA....

I doubt Larok will move that far from home as an 18 year old

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still their best option regardless

everything is unrealistic until the offseason then you see whats reality

you used to yap about how comeback wouldnt be a m8 player when i said he should be signed

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Congo1

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comeback probably didnt sign beyond 2025 so thats a bit of a special circumstance. I will bet money on Larok no moving out of europe.

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hyundaielantra

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The IGL part is the biggest question mark since what English speaking IGLs in NA have really proved themselves as solid callers and fraggers, that already aren’t on Tier 1 rosters? I bring up P0PPIN and ENVY because they look by far the best VCL NA team rn, but there could be others out there

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only names i can think of are rossy and kyu

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cloudberry

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Only one VCT circuit match played and we're already talking about blowing up their roster?

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we been shit since champs 23 with every itteration of the roster ,only glimpse of hope was kickoff last year but after that it was cooked,tried ethan calling went to shits,got back puchan they didnt have a lot of time so its okay for them to be shit , 1 win at kickoff ,verno situation ,split1 looked shit ,puchan retired and now we back to ethan calling

just swapping out a piece or two at a time aint helping ,time to revamp

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cloudberry

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At least give this roster a chance, brother, they've played two maps

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theres a term for this i think its stockholm syndrome

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cloudberry

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Isn't Stockholm syndrome the thing where you fall in love with your kidnapper

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perfectly describes this situation

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hyundaielantra

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I’m not saying there’s a 0% chance they figure it out and do well, if anything it would be great if the 100T game was an outlier. But just looking at their upcoming matches and the level of competition in their group I’m struggling to see where they’ll confidently get a win. Not to mention they don’t have a roster that can run double duelist (which REALLY hurts them in this meta), unless Ethan plays smokes for those maps and Skuba plays sentinel

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cloudberry

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Or Ethan plays Yoru like he did on EG

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IIlIIlIIIIIlII

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NRG off
TSM in

#12

cherish

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vlr brain

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i think they should stop buliding super team and go for younger talent and have build around that no core restart they got sukba and mada and bonkar now get 3 more player and add good system for 2026

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hyundaielantra

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Pretty much

I love s0m as a player but if he’s calling it after this year then a rebuild has to be considered, even if he stays they need an actual experienced IGL. Imo if he was confident in his ability to call, he would have been the one to step into the role after FNS retired rather than Ethan. Not a dig at either s0m or Ethan, just that neither of them have a solid history of being able to call as proper IGL

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fr0ster0p

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yaa and i think they could just get 1 experianced initiator player to help set up dualist or help in mid round other then they should go for tier 2 talent more

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laifu

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they need to get kicked from franchising that's for sure

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sw4gman

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they need to get a real igl instead of making Lthan igl, we saw ts before

#21

NRGSUPERFAN

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this has to be bait surely

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Shadow_Monarch

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EG should pick them all up.

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Ahnri

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No. They get relegated