WHY EG 2026 WILL BE ELITE

The thing about Elite is that his best sentinel by FAR was Killjoy and she's slowly slipping out of the meta

It was pretty evident if you happened to watch his games last year that this is the case, he was consistently dropping high KDs on KJ (he was 20/2/2 on an Icebox in Stage 1) but would often underperform on Vyse, etc.

prolly waiting till after ascension

I very badly want them to go for Sand, but that's IF and only if they're going for a sentinel

Near the end of the year they showed that they wanted Saadhak on sentinel. Clearly he didn't look super comfortable on recon, and historically his agent pool has mainly been KAY/O Viper Killjoy so it makes the most sense to have him play a sentinel role, all things considered. And that's what they did, taking out Elite, moving Saadhak to senti, and having pyrolll take up the initiator role. (This is my theory as to why they benched Elite, by the way... I don't think they wanted to remove him, but in the end of course you're going to value shotcalling over who plays sentinel, you know?)

Long story short, I think they'll either go for another initiator instead, or if they really want Sand they'll drop Saadhak and find another igl