SEN Failure Breakdown

Kaplan doesn't have shit planned, just always says "if team play their game, they 'should' do well". Same goes for every team, coach.
Zellsis - Vibes... if his vibes are down then team vibes goes down since there's no one else to bring it back up.
Johnqt - no vibes and doesn't bring energy to team, just an IGL that can shoot better compared to other IGL's in Americas
N4rrate - not a team player, odd one out on SEN for a reason. Doesn't bring good vibes or energy to team, but shoots really well and frags thats about it.
Bang - good player but doesn't bring vibes or energy to the team either.

Zekken - Most IMPORTANT player on the team and best fragger. IF Zekken does not perform, SEN struggles hugely. All of SEN teammates should try and bring up positive vibes and energy so that Zekken can feel good and be more confident and own everyone. Zellsis helps, the rest dont. Zekken mental goes down easily with the team, so its very important for SEN to keep Zekken's mental and mood straight so that he performs well and consistently.

SEN is shit without Zekken, I've said it. Zellsis is okay, but he needs help bringing up good vibes and energy for the team. Johnqt N4rrate Bang are bots.

sen should get invy

Johnqt calling is incredible when he has a read, saying he is "a bot" when his calling specifically is on par or slightly below valyn is 0/8 ragebait

However i do agree that this team has a serious lack of "vibes structure" in that it feels like with a hole of another elder in Sacy, there's no one there to be a rock to fall back on other than zellsis, and when that can't happen the team completely crumbles.

Also hard agree that Sen is entirely built on zekken being zekken, which while he is the one of the most consistent duelists we have in americas at a top tier, he can't 1v9 especially when his team is just shitting the bed

off day from them and god day from NRG

not really too worried for sen and still not high on nrg

put it in uma musume term zekken is kitasan black ssr if you don't fill his friendship gauge oh boy thanks for reading my yap

it's cuz zellsis didn't shake his ass enough

"Johnqt N4rrate Bang are bots."

Sure....

how much did zellsis pay u, LOOL before i thought zellsis was the igl cz he cant shoot his gun if all he brings is vibes then SEN doesnt need him, the vibes would be perfectly fine if they had an actual senti that can shoot back and clutch them rounds

SEN downfall will be very unpleasant to see at Champions, hope they fix their shit.

I feel like as soon as the other team does anything unexpected and it works, they just start flopping like fish and don't know what to do. Idk we'll see

You’re a bit delusional…. Kaplan has gone for the approach of playing a style catered to the opponents made clear against Fnatic on ascent and icebox. Sentinels are like literally THE set strat team not sure there’s a team in VCT that plays by set strats and Macro as much as them. Kaplan simply struggled to adapt to a team he had prepped heavily for. They haven’t played the entire year and they could have been playing C9 again here it would make sense he didn’t hyper focus on playing NRG. Both C9 games and even a bit of G2 showed Kaplan preps both around his own team and the opponent. Even for NRG there were several rounds where Sen knew exactly what NRG wanted to do likely due to the prep.

This whole Zellsis and vibes bs is such propaganda stop blaming players or teams getting out played or making certain decisions on mental and “tilting” boarders being parasocial at this point. You don’t need to be jumping up and down screaming on stage to have energy and good vibes. Same for the whole point on johnqt why do you assuming things about a team while seeing 10% or what they actually do. Both Tenz and Sacy have spoken on how Johnqt always keeps up the confidence of the team and the mindset and approaching rounds.

Bang is a good player and a role player who shoots well and has good comms. Literally nothing else is needed of him.

More proof to me that you all just do not watch these games lol. The impact N4RRATE has had this stage has rivaled if not surpassed Zekken. Johnqt back on senti has had some of the most pivotal moments in rounds and even bag is a big contributor In rounds in execs. Sentinels playstyle doesn’t even allow a single player to be a carry unless they just go ridiculous in fragging which Zekken hasn’t even done as of recent. Zekken isn’t even top 2 on the team rating wise what are we talking about. You’re either gold3 or braindead maybe both.