does zekken even need sen?

the argument for zekken re signing would be for clout and personal brand but he alr has that. If he wants to win, he has other options while maintaining his clout

sen need zekken

and money

Zekken gonna go to whichever team let's him take the most Adderall

if 100T got zekken and played decently well in kickoff I promise this site will be flooded with 100T flairs, same with LOUD tbh

and an org like NRG can offer the same or more money then SEN. Not saying they're richer than SEN but NRG is not lacking resources. If he wanted to leave SEN they could pay him about what he makes now or more. The only card SEN can offer compared to NRG is clout but like you said he's already established his own brand.

he’s coming to his home, the lair of the gamers

I think Zekken re-signing with SEN actively damages his career but idk if there's really anywhere else in NA for him. Like NRG/G2 arguably could benefit but for NRG they aren't gonna change (s0m out their hands) after just winning champs and for G2 maybe but I don't Zekken is a big enough upgrade to justify messing with the team's system. Obviously the rest of NA (100T, EG, C9) don't really have promising projects so it'd be troll to go to them over SEN. But where things get fucked is when we consider that SA actually looks like it gonna be a lot better in 2026, I am very high on LEV and Aspas + Verno on MIBR (MIBR are gonna be english but Zekken's 2 most played roles already filled). Idk what KRU/LOUD/FURIA are doing but it probably doesn't matter. My point is that Americas is gonna be very competitive at the top and I don't have faith in SEN to be able to be competitive with those 4 (5 if C9 lock in).

So even though there's nowhere to really go in Americas outside SEN, I still think it'd be better for him to leave and instead go to EMEA (Liquid bias aside) since other than the 2 cores of TH and FNC no other team has really found stability like imagine if Zekken joined TL, NAVI, BBL, or even VIT. Adding Zekken to any of these teams would make them insantly better (except maybe VIT idk how good Zekken's initiator is) and may be enough to secure the 3rd slot for internationals. Also want to add that even though these teams aren't as stable as FNC/TH, they still have the heights where they have potential to win internationals, essentially I'm saying the mid teams of EMEA are a lot better than Americas so there's less of a clear divide.

sen have won more internationals than 99% of teams