Nova benches SWERL, moves to all Chinese roster

wow

L org

hope swerl gets the team he deserves

Lova

In before nova 0-3 against drg edg & fpx.

Swearl is gr8 but imo he shud be benched . I don't think he speaks chinese so there might be comms issues so ya he deserves a chance in apac

MASSIVE L, SOMEONE SAVE SWERL

These great OCE players only get chance in China and almost zero representation in APAC. Is there even any half decent org in OCE? I mean they had to be really just not good for riot to not give them a chance at all. I mean Maple, autumn, swerl, rdeew and many of the bonk players could easily be a competitive team in APAC fosho.

why is everyone down on this move? They looked fantastic with OBONE.

OBONE you're my only hope 🥹

good move

riot should remove one slot from Japan and give it to Australia

good move, chinese teams underrate comms

Good for OCEmaybe they will have a chance to go in T1 if their best played stop being take by CN org

He is a good player but not the best player for NOVA

HUH??
Someone explain this one for me (unless it's just them wanting to go full Chinese in comms I don't see why they'd do this)

Somehow OBONE looks absolutely insane so I don't blame them for this move honestly

is he import if goes to pacific?

I think many of you need an explanation for this.
First of all, Swerl is a very good and excellent player, and as someone of my nationality and a fan, I love him.
In the last tournament, Nova didn't use Swerl after kickoff to give him a rest, and then they played really well with Obone, which led to the two players being swapped in Stage 1, giving Swerl time to improve and test the new team.
It's true that Swerl is generally a better player than Obone, but it's not always important to be the better player on teams.
Finally, I have to say that I hope Nova succeeds in Stage 1. In case of problems, they are probably ready to change teams again!

Swerl is promising af, he better get in a good tier 2 team or even another franchised team

yknow what? makes sense. swerl is insane, but let’s see what nova do. bye and love u swerl hope he gets more opportunities ❤️‍🩹

didn't he say he was just resting?

Australia doesnt have many players and then you bench one of are best what are you doing mate.

did they really think they're good after just one mickey mouse tournament?

the dude was actually playing well for them lol.

Honestly Swerl played well in their first match but after that they couldn't find their footing with him and they did really well without him in the evo series honestly a W move but sad to see none the less

Am I the only one that thinks nova will be fine without swerl?Don't get me wrong Swerl is a good player but I respect the decision of Nova going full Chinese comm wise

So that's the reason he was playing ranked with something yesterday

Those who badmouth the organization just want to look down on CN and to see an Australian be the MVP in that region. In spite of being the duelist, he kept getting worse KDAs than his teammates and he even struggled against low-ranked opponents. Controllers, sentinels and initiators are all better at duels than him. Obviously no team needs such a liability.

Nova vs DRX
Ezeir (Controller) : 32/30/17, +2
CB (Sentinel) : 26/30/10, -4
GuanG (Sentinel) : 24/31/7, -7
SWERL (Duelist) : 24/34/6, -10

Nova vs Wolves
GuanG (Sentinel) : 62/40/7, +22
SWERL (Duelist) : 54/39/11, +15

Nova vs EDG
GuanG (Sentinel) : 40/29/4, +11
CB (Initiator, Duelist) : 39/35/12, +4
SWERL (Duelist) : 31/34/6, -3

Nova vs All Gamers
Ezeir (Controller) : 38/20/21, +18
CB (Initiator, Duelist) : 32/21/19, +11
GuanG (Sentinel) : 30/20/10, +10
SWERL (Duelist) : 33/25/10, +8

This is a bit sad, but it makes sense. The org/team see the recent success without him and make a change in order to win. I still think swerl was a bit reason for their success. I hope he stays with NOVA to support his chinese brothers.

I believe the main problem is their IGL o0o0o. Communication should never be a problem after more than one year with NOVA and two years in China. o0o0o's constant low fragging and bad IGLing led SWERL to lack consistency since he is not top-fragging in some maps because of being the hard entry. The solution is swapping SWERL from the hard entry-fragger to a more secondary duelist position.

yes, kick that non chinese fraud

saw this coming ngl
SWERL is great but this is the best for NOVA

Fuck nova
Shitass org banning my goat

The breaking news came from a 2024 zmjjkk livestream where swerl met kangkang playing rank with guang, and after it was over swerl and kangkang had a private chat about his hand injury, saying that although his hand injury was quite a bit better than it was last year in RNG (the last team swerl was affiliated with) and at the beginning of the year, he wanted to go back to his home country to rehab it, and that nova said that they could help him with Physical therapy to recover and didn't want to let him go.

L N0ba.

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