N4rrate top duelist

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eKay

everyone on this website loves the guy and thinks hes the best player ever so just explain to me why he is and what im missing

~ worse than half of the duelists in americas

(timotino
oxy
dgzin
sato
zekken
aspas
jawgemo)

~miserable teammate
~clogs comms
~overheats
~whines and moans
~mental issues
~will bait even when it makes no sense
~countercalls his team often

this is all to say despite this i still can see his value: he can pop up with a clutch and has good mechanics, on raze and jett he looks very comfortable, he can take timings and fights and he IS A GOOD PLAYER

but a good player belongs on a team like eg or c9 not a team that going by what rob himself has said "aims to win championships"

the team synergy issues really put me off him because he is one of the only players i have seen in americas constantly bog his team down with tilts and bad vibes and not justify it with crazy skill

there are so many crazy duelist talents in t2 now i dont understand what he offers that these new talents cannot provide and improve on with more to offer

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who would you replace him with?

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eKay

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probably nightzz once he is old enough

or if they tried to get any of the duelists i said were better than him in the off season (excluding ones theyd never be able to get)
i would be fine with them getting alym although he looks very raw atm just in the knowledge he wont have the same mental issues alone

or in t2
ion or cane

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bro said nightzz and cane, 0 brain

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eKay

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do you seriously think they are both a downgrade on n4rrate

even if output wise they end up being functionally the same i wont have to worry about my team imploding halfway through a match

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u don't need brain in tier2 btw...so I'm pretty sure they can learn to use it in tier 1

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Rob Moore noticing that he needs to be replaced in the future LOL.

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who's everyone

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eKay

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everytime ive said something about n4rrate it gets ridiculously downfragged

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name some t2 duelists u would prefer

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idk im waiting to see what kaplan is cooking. Not looking the best so far with n4rrate.
He's for sure not replicating his t2 duelist performance

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eKay

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the thing that annoys me is that this is SEASON TWO with n4rrate

kaplan has literally seen all of the issues but thinks of him as an "I can fix him" type player

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Yeah same, i was thinking that as well. He has very good potential but his mental is the problem.
If he doesnt perform well for stage1 and masters I can see him getting dropped.
But so far he is taking the space and doing whats expected of him

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Its not like timotino was diffed by n4rrate or something

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eKay

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no but team morale makes such a big difference when you are spending every day together

zellsis spent half of the matches last year playing daddy day care ffs

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isnt the morale issue a past tense thing
im pretty sure ts was fixed by stage 2

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hes yapping on pure speculation

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eKay

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i'll see if i can find the clip but there is a point where the camera is on them after just winning a map where n4rrate is complaining and cortezia literally has to tell him "we won the map" although its not totally audible

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analyzing mistakes after a match is not a problem? why are you hung up over this of all things?

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eKay

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genuinely watch their matches and listen to their listen ins and it will be obvious to you

not sure what more you want me to tell you it was a pattern of behaviour all of last year that was harmful and never stopped and it has continued into this year

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im watching the recent SEN voice comms video rn and it sounds fine 20 minutes in
if anything his morale has been fine, he has good comms, and he gets hype over big round wins
if you can send me a video with timestamps showing otherwise im willing to change my mind

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it's actually funny since if they had zekken instead of n4rrate at duelist and kept the rest the same they would arguably a top 3 americas team.

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what matters is he gets the job done and his team wins the game

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eKay

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great analysis

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i dont disagree with what you said but its not like hes playing egregiously bad rn. we know what he is capable of so its worth the risk

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sonofcar clears narrate deadass like i genuinely do not think he will go positive in a single series of kickoff he’s too easy to tilt every listen in he would just be like “im doing this instead” and ignoring everyone then get pissy when it fails like genuinely what is bro doing. He has possibly the worst mental in T1 comparative to his skill

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Been forced to flex and play initiators for over a year. I’m giving him until kickoff to form an opinion. Everyone you mention is and has been a duelist for a while now.

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N4RRATE went to flex from duelist though, he started as one he shouldn’t be this bad. even on KC his raze was phenomenal idk why he’s now rage peeking and arguing all the time

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Now he has expectations and wants to live up to them. In KC, he was just trying to prove a point without pressure.

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it’s an off season tournament expectations should be the minimum. and another problem is it’s not like off duelist his mental was good, last year he was just as bad tilting on Omen and Breach, so why expect him to be better when he’s on duelist? He’s gonna crash out on someone mid game during vct get kicked and go back to being a ranked streamer i fear

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Ahnri

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I think you vastly overrate his “arguing” I think he’s simply a more vocal and confident player which is a detriment because now he constantly overheats because he feels he needs to take the game into his hands when he can just trust his team. I wouldn’t call it “rage peaking” that’s a cheap excuse people use to avoid and generalize any actual detailed criticism.

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fine. I’ll be more nuanced. He runs down adjacent to what Kyu/John calls, then is surprised when they lose the round. He’s also demanding like “Guys i’m pushing mid” when his IGL says “no come back” he does so anyways. There is a clear dissonance between what he is doing and what his team is doing and he then, to compensate for the mistake, tries to swing out and use his mechanical skill as a saving grace, which fails more often than not.

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Where do you get this other than cherry picking? Literally all but 2 rounds on attack he’s with the pack. They literally have game plans that rely on N4RRATE following Kyu’s lead like on pearl with the mid push off of his drone.

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eKay

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he started his career as a duelist and on kc got what he wanted in stage 2 with the team being built around him as a duelist

im not buying that he needs an adjustment period from him or the coaches

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Ahnri

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Yeah in 2023 on KC he was still being forced to flex at times. You can not buy that… I will. I was flaming the shit out of N4rrate prior to Toronto i vividly remember his Sova vs Kru it was quite possibly one of the worst Sova performances I’d seen and he looked clueless pretty sure he like got 10% drone value and shock darted Zekken 3 times… He slowly got more comfortable and was solid in Toronto and insane in stage 2 overall I won’t doubt how much he needs to adjust again.

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eKay

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by his own admission that kc team was built around him though....

i understand having to adjust to play tejo, sova, breach, skye and whatever else init bullshit but duelist was and is his bread and butter that is what he came up on its his most natural role

you dont just forget that because you had to play initiators its not how that works its like riding a bike or learning a language

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Ahnri

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I mean you also don’t just replicate identical performance on all teams immediately again I’d agree if we weren’t still just in the off season no even in VCT yet. Those are unrealistic expectations imo. Again specifically for this scenario.

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Finally, probably the only take on Narrate that I’ve seen that I can get behind. Sure he has potential but it’s weighed down so much by his mental and as far as I’m concerned he didn’t prove enough to us last season that he deserves all the hype and recognition he’s getting

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If his mental was such an issue, why would he be kept 2 years in a row?? Lol

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eKay

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a great question and one im sure kaplan should answer

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the "n4rrate has bad mental" narrative has been dragged for so long when its been evident for a while now that its a non-issue at present

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As N4rrate biggest fan, I shall not stand this slander, and believe my goat would prove yall wrong next year

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worse than half the duelists in americas and doesn't include mada?

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eKay

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if you want to include mada in that list you can the only reason i didnt is because functionally he plays a different role for his team as their win conditions were brawk, skuba and s0m (now keiko)

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He’s also the first SEN player I can’t bring myself to like, I can’t really explain it but he just doesn’t give off a good vibe.

Every other player that has been on SEN since I became a fan I have enjoyed watching and became invested in them as people outside of the game, with Narrate, I wouldn’t care if he was dropped tomorrow.

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this is his last shot in my eyes
if he flops ill lose faith
but i still believe