NRG NRG North America Rank #7 s0m Sam Oh brawk Brock Somerhalder mada Adam Pampuch skuba Logan Jenkins Ethan Ethan Arnold in-game leader Pujan "FiNESSE" Mehta has announced his retirement. After a five-year career in professional Valorant, he leaves a legacy as one of the greatest IGLs to ever play the game, and the cornerstone of some of the most well-known teams in the game's history.

"I haven't had this thought in my entire career, but this is the first time I went home and I had the thought, 'I don't wanna play anymore'," he said. "It's just, I think, [an] accumulation of all of the seasons, but also enduring failure to an extent way more than I've had success."

Before entering pro Valorant, FNS wrapped up an eight-year-long CS:GO career. He began his professional career in 2020 with together we are terrific together we are terrific Inactive c4Lypso Abdo Agha mummAy Anthony DiPaolo LeviathanAG Aleko Gabuniya PureR Bryce Lovell SkrubbleBubble Andy Collins , but later that year, the team would be acquired by ENVY ENVY North America Rank #3 canezerra Alex Banyasz Eggsterr Inspire Hunter Schline P0PPIN Matteo Weber ion2x Ayan Rastogi . In what's often referred to as one of the most iconic cores in all of pro Valorant, FNS was the centerpiece of the ENVY squad. Later that year, he was joined by crashies and Victor . In 2021, his path crossed with Mikes , who coached NRG through Stage 1 2025, and later on Chet . ENVY lifted the Challengers 2 Stage 1 trophy, but there was more to come that year.

Later in 2021, he was joined on ENVY by Marved and yay . That five-man roster finished second at Masters Berlin, and in the offseason was transferred to OpTic Gaming OpTic Gaming Inactive . It was that year that the OpTic core and its players cemented themselves in Valorant history. Alongside teams like The Guard The Guard Inactive JonahP Jonah Pulice trent Trent Cairns neT Michael Bernet valyn Jacob Batio tex Ian Botsch and XSET XSET Inactive , they were one of the most successful 'pre-VCT' teams in pro Valorant.

Continuing to play in some of Valorant's earliest clash of titans, FNS and OpTic had a year to remember, recording two second-place finishes in domestic play, lifting the Masters Reykjavik trophy, a third-place finish at Masters Copenhagen, and then a second-place finish to end the year at Champions 2022.

When OpTic was not selected for franchising as the calendar flipped to 2023, most of the core was acquired by NRG, supplemented by young star s0m and former FunPlus Phoenix FunPlus Phoenix Inactive SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin Zyppan Pontus Eek ANGE1 Kyrylo Karasov Shao Andrey Kiprsky ardiis Ardis Svarenieks standout ardiis . While FNS's time at NRG has been memorable, it has not been as trophy-laden as his ENVY or OpTic days. In his announcement, he pointed to the level of success as one reason for calling it a day.

"Having failed the way we failed was probably the tipping point for me, where I was like, 'Look, something's gotta change on this team, and I'm not trying to cut anybody else on this team, period'," he said. "It's just one of those things where you just kind of realize it's time. If I could do it all over again, I would have."

Just six days away from the fifth anniversary of his professional Valorant debut, FNS retires as one of the game's most well-known minds.

"This org has given me everything, and I'm extremely grateful for all of your support," he said.

With news also breaking that NRG welcomed skuba and bonkar , NRG's full roster is now:

  • Logan "skuba" Jenkins
  • Sam "s0m" Oh
  • Brock "brawk" Somerhalder
  • Adam "mada" Pampuch
  • Ethan "Ethan" Arnold
  • Zachary "Ry" Parr (Manager)
  • Malkolm "bonkar" Rench (Head coach)
  • Joseph "Strong" Edwards (Assistant coach)