i genuinely don't understand asuna haters, what in his play do you actually think he is bad at/makes him undeserving of a tier 1 roster spot. if you're going to call him a paycheck stealer at least justify it, because he does so much dirty work but just because his teams haven't performed this yr (made champs and almost made playoffs if no nerves in 22, top 4 in 2024 at shanghai) people call him a paycheck stealer
please explain what specifically is wrong with asuna.
like ok look I want Asuna out of 100T myself just so the team can get a change of Scenery and I think both Asuna and 100T would mutually benefit from it. But to make him out to be some sort of spastic (clearly you are projecting here) when he actually is somewhat valuable for the midround is genuinely foul. Take your meds I beg!
I am not an Asuna hater. But his tenure on 100T has to come to an end.
He can play 2 roles, movement duelist and flash initiator. With his flash initiator being the better of the two roles. Any flex worth their metal in this league has to be able to play smokes, initiator (which he can do), and one of Viper/Sentinel. Even if we were to point out that maybe Asuna doesn't need to know how to play Viper/Sentinel, the guy can't play smokes. One of the biggest reasons the roles are fucked on this team is the fact that Asuna/Cryo can't just rotate roles from Duelist -> Smokes.
Even if 100T were to get another duelist player, Asuna has no place on this team anymore with Eeiu on the team.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u6DfWIo00LU
this is what made me hate him, like his teammate was just asking a simple question and called him a "You are so bad at the game bro." he's a kindof a douche
I could go on and on about this guy. Maybe as a full time flex he wouldn't be as bad. But for what hes shown this year and majority of last year he is borderline a liability with the occasional life game where he manages to actually not have more first deaths than first kills. I'd bet money he has the lowest clutch stats of any duelist maybe even player in VCT barring teams that are just down right bad. Simply because he's never alive long enough to even be put in a clutch position.
I think the fact you just compared Asuna to a player in 2020 is quite telling. I'm not disagreeing with the fact that players and often duelist overheat or lack discipline especially when they feel the need to carry. Oxy did that a lot last year. Udotan did that quite a bit this year on GE. Even with PRX prior to this year at the very least the idea was everyone on the team is aggressive and constantly taking fights or aggressive timings. Asuna does is at random times when its completely disjointed from what the teams doing and just pure spur of the moment impulsivity. And he does it literally every game... and he's not even the best player on his team not like he can't rely on people like cryo or eeiu or even zander what possibly makes you feel you need to do that.
i fully agree with you with the point that he is very inconsistent on duelist and a low floor. but his ceiling is genuinely really high even on that role because he is mechanically gifted.
he overheats a lot and this issue was rectified by sean when he put asuna on flex, and asuna genuinely looked really good on that role. his utility usage was immaculate and still is to this day.
he is objectively a good entry, he doesnt always get the kill when entrying but his whole role is to go in and die and make space. that's the role they put him on. i don't agree with it because i think it's an awful gameplan. but they send asuna in to die so cryo can trade him. i think this is a massive waste of his talent and he should just be put on flex. yeah, he generally tunnel visions and overheats a lot, but this is an issue he has when he's on duelist. this isn't really a thing when he's on flex.
he plays very individual, but this applies to the rest of his team as well. he simply stands out because he's the tip of the spear. if you actually pay attention to the whole team, they're always split up/ doing their own thing. they have next to no coordination. that's the biggest problem with this team. they don't play together unless its on bind and even there it isn't that great.
bottomline is, he's an extremely talented flex who's put on duelist and is sent in to die. this brings out his negative tendencies and wastes his talent for flex. it's the same thing that happened to tenz in 2023. he was still on duelist often and played like absolute dogshit. then they switched him to his new comfort role, and they won a trophy.
We have two different idea of a good entry. A good entry makes space yes. Makes space and just dies? no. For example if your on split as raze say you're going to entry B you nade back site blast pack to pillar to take the initial space then just die to the guy holding site yeah you've made space but you're ahead of your team to where they cannot immediately trade you essentially done nothing. A good entry does make space they take space that space needs to be taken by your team to be effective. Just clearing space and then dying does nothing. Which is often what asuna does he'll see or hear the guy site and activate some code in his head which he can't stop that forces him to ego swing and just die. Where as someone like zekken will often take patience there wait for the team and then wait for a flash or at least double swing. Zekken is someone who 9/10 times will get that kill cool I don't think zekken being a better duelist than asuna is at all surprising I'm not going to focus on that or expect that from asuna every round but he doesn't do the bare minimum of allowing yourself to be traded and constantly overheat. I do not think the role is even to just go in and die you should almost always be getting traded if the opponent just has some really good setup or anti strat to make that more difficult fair enough but rarely is that the case in 100T games. I also disagree with the idea that everyone plays individually zander is almost always with the pack and more often than not eeiu as well in fact against g2 theres a round where they do just do a proper execute as a team they fight for ct with zander's paranoia and asuna slides in its just unfortunate jaw has a good stun that stuns zander and asuna but even then cryo is there for the trade. So they clearly can play this way and look best when they do even if it doesn't work to perfection. In fact asuna's best moments during stage 2 are when Cryo is flashing for him so he can make an aggressive play of off that they did that against LEV on sunset twice and asuna got a 4k and 3k. Cryo often acts as a flash initiator on yoru for asuna so if anything he's more so setting up asuna than playing on his own even if its not dedicated like a kayo or breach would be. But yes I think Flex would suit him far better. He just needs to stay away from duelist.
this is the thing that i'm tryna say here. he plays like this because he's on the wrong role and more than that, he's been ASKED to play like this, it really shows. if they didn't want him playing like this, he'd have stopped by now because he'd have his whole team + coaches hounding him for it. he's been asked to be insanely aggressive and sometimes it catches up to him. he has to go in and die. sometimes he really forces the issue.
when i said they don't play together, i didn't mean they're literally all over the map. i meant as in they dont peek together, they don't trade eachother etc. and while yeah you can say this is because asuna is always head of the pack, this also goes both ways. sometimes his teammates are simply playing too far back. my point is, they don't play together. and the blame for that doesn't just fall on asuna.
also, picking out a few rounds to show that they do have coordination doesn't work. they're a t1 team of course they'll have their moments. generally speaking they have next to no coordination. this issue has existed for years. a clear indication of horrible coaching.
being on duelist just brings out all his bad habits and bad tendencies. i want them to maybe drop kess for a good duelist like penny or timotino, then move asuna to flex while moving cryo to sentinel. it's experimental but i believe it has high potential. also 110% drop zikz i dont care if they even play without a coach. he's a terrorist.
(replied to the wrong post mb)
he is just very undisciplined as a flex/duelist despite the fact he is the most experienced one on the roster. 100t take a lot of chances on him and he often drops the ball when it matters, but no matter his performance it always seem like he’s the golden child and will never be dropped from the roster even if he plays like shit
his frantic playstyle and overall performance hinders his team in big moments, and while he does his job as a dive duelist well, he doesn’t do it consistently enough to merit him being franchised for 5 years, which is why i understand 100t fans’ frustrations when he continues to be given chances over up and coming talent
i really want this roster to have ONE season without zikz and a good HC and preferably a performance coach and see how everyone realizes how good these guys could be but are on a choke hold because of one of the worst coaches i’ve ever seen
to further this if you have an actual sentinel player OR kess learns the role really well it would just be the icing on the cake
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