he has stepped up like crazy as an igl, mechanically and as a leader but its not enough, he is a 1kd immortal level player individually and at 30yo he wont catch up, respectfully after this year its time to move to HC and have him help fnatic and a new igl win trophies, players as bad as Boaster individually who dont frag even while playing passive roles dont have a place in t1 anymore neither in CS or valorant so no more "oldschool igl" excuses because karrigan/apex for example are not only 20 times more individually skilled than Boaster but also go in first so they can have their stars trade them which Boaster doesnt, outstanding career for someone with that individual skill but its time to move on or Asians will keep winning trophies for another 10 years, in Korea guys like solo/peri are now coaching and finding success forming the new gen but we keep IGLs like Ange1 and Boaster in big 2025, no wonder the last four intl winners came from Asia...
Boaster truth
nats chronicle alfajer leo kaajak looks scary ngl, but Boaster gets until the end of the year I bet.
nats should stay in liquid imo, they have a fantastic project for the future with this core and GSR from their academy who is quite literally the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, I feel like it would be better for the region to keep nats in liquid and have Boaster try to mold someone with individual skill that he sees potential as a leader in as an igl, could easily be crashies tbf, when I watch the fnatic comms crashies seems like a crazy good leader, never looks defeated, hypes the guys up and has moments where u can tell he has a great mind for the game, Boaster passing his knowledge to him while Leo comes back and they could genuily become an unbelievable team
would also be better for the region to have multiple competitive teams otherwise u end up like g2 where u dont have great teams to pracc against, having 4-5 teams who can contend for trohpies regionally makes everyone improve
"quite literally reincarnation of Jesus Christ" is a wild statement considering he cant even go positive against other MEDIOCRE t2 teams (Z10, SnS)
just look at his all time vlr stats, those are all from this season, he is by far their best player and if u actually watch him play the talent is clear, its also well known in Europe to anyone that plays in radiant elo that this kid is the next big thing
how good is this GSR guy?
also as for Boaster, he is a player which brings the fans and crowd. His IGL and other makes enough to ignore his mechanical skills. I think for 2026 he should be good . But who knows
"he is a player which brings the fans and crowd" so basically he can perform as badly as he wants because he is a funny guy? personally I just think its pointless to have a player at such a low level in 2025, he could have almost as much impact as a coach and he would be able to choose any player he likes and turn him into the IGL he would want him to be. I feel like what has made Boaster good historically (even if he has evolved a lot recently) is his hard work, innovation and preparation, he is also an amazing human so he would be instantly the best coach itw the moment he decides to retire, he can still be with fnatic but the only thing that would change is that he is not in the server but its not like there arent other good IGLs out there that he could make even better.
As for GSR, I think he is even better than Sayonara, GSR unlike Sayonara is very mature and has the personality of a winner, individual skill they are pretty similar but GSR has the better personality to be part of a winning team and being a good teammate.
his calls are great and can make for it...what made them lose final more today was map veto which I think even as PRX fan is stupid, but also the upper bracket team needs a reward sooooo
allat and they lit just made a GF + Fnatic with any other IGLs won't make it this far (Alright maybe with ange1 but u get my point)
cant judge only based on results imo, this was a great performance but he isnt getting any younger and the individual level required to stay at t1 isnt getting any lower, ange1 is better than Boaster mechanically and he should retire too, if you wanna win the biggest trophies you need as many little advantages as you can and when push comes to shove bad players sistematically get exposed individually like Boaster did today, Fnatic would still be succesful without Boaster because they have unbelievable players and Leo on the bench but you dont need to get rid of Boaster completely, just turn him into a head coach, I feel like the impact Boaster brings to a team would only be reduced by a small margin if he became a coach and if you do that u could compensate for it with an IGL with more firepower and have Boaster mold him, I am 100% convinced Boaster could turn any upcoming IGL/player willing to pick up the role into a great IGL because remember that he learned how to be an IGL and a leader from scratch, he was never an IGL in CSGO and in the start of valorant his calling and leadership skills were awful, he wasnt born with an insane game vision/IQ or leadership skills but he worked hard and fulfilled his potential, u can teach that imo
ofc boaster isnt super mechanical. The point of this team is that he doesnt have to be, just needs to be able to win his 1s on occasion and his team will do the rest
the thing is that he doesnt win his ones, all I am asking for Boaster is to be at the level of someone like Patitek, wont drop 30 but he can keep up, get his one and play the game, Boaster moves like a fucking tank, it looks like he is licking walls, perma shift player that just plays so slow, I dont think any of this is getting better at 30yo, the problem is that he is not getting his ones, I dont expect him to drop 30 but he isnt even doing the minimun required for what a low fragging igl performance should be
bro cos he is constant macroing his team were to go and what to do its why he is out of it most of the time no igl even comes close to boaster the amount of reads he gets is insane u would think he has wall hacks even against prx fns was saying he always get s the right call its insane he hits the site with less than 3 and always had the right site preped i would take a amazing igl over any other igl in the scene cos none even come close to him i love nats his mechanics are amazing but when it comes to pure igl boaster is like a whole tier above him
Nah stop the glazing, he has improved his calling a lot but it can be very off at times like the first games this event, any of what you mentioned isnt a valid excuse to not be patitek level at the very least, there are lots of igls out there winning internationals and calling to an even higher level and they still get their frags, also wdym "he is constant macroing his team" his 3 support players are experienced and smart af, Chronicle and crashies arent idiots who need to be micromanaged, they understand the level and dont make many mistakes macro level. None of this is a valid excuse because in CT side where ur igl doesnt need to call he performs just as badly and in T sides he is never first or even second in so he is in pretty good positions to get the kills once they are actually fighting in the site and he is not manipulating rotations anymore, this is valorant and it is an fps where you need all 5 players to be at a decent level mechanically which he isnt from eye test, he doesnt need to even be positive but -30 every big event is not acceptable if you want to win international events, this is not chess this a first person shooter and u win by clicking heads, if u have an IGL who is slightly worse but still worldclass and can frag to a good level like munckin, f0rsaken, stax, jamppi, nats, boo, valyn etc then its worth it, you can also compensate a bit worse calling by having 5 players who can win rounds and not just four.
"he always get s the right call its insane he hits the site with less than 3 and always had the right site preped" this is not even true if you watch their games against geng, rrq and sentinels, the macro and the calling looked so off in those games but still good because of individuals being crazy good, also I feel like Boaster improved his calling after the sentinels game but the main thing why Fnatic looked so much better after that game were because of Boaster going back to his EMEA stage 1 form, he just looked like a completely different player last few games compared to the first ones, using phantom instead of vandal probably helped him and the other most important thing was the micro from players, they were way less scared to take agressive timing, pushes, tiki taka as fnatic call it and basically just play fearless instead of the ultra restrained and excessively disciplined way they were playing at a micro level the first few games which just proves my point, its not so much about macro and playing chess but individual form, good macro is expected for any top5 team itw, what wins tournaments is being in the right individual form, the moment Fnatic started to play more free and letting their individuals play on their instincts they shone, this was a good adjustment from Boaster but its also proof of the caliber of players he has got at his disposal and how blown out of proportion his calling being Godlike is, sorry for too much text but I think its insane how overprotected Boaster is and he is excused for constant disasterclasses because of his calling when imo its not even that great most of the times, its also the same people who then will ask for patitek to get cut when he is doing a similar job in liquid being the glue even if he isnt the igl and his fragging being way better than Boaster
the fact Ur putting mechanical skill over macroing reading a game for a igl is baffling munchkin, f0rsaken, stax, jamppi, nats, boo, valyn none of these can call a game like boaster can at his peak when he's reading like a god even in 2023 he legit stated if he was getting kills something is wrong cos he would put his 4 players in positions on timing to get kills when did i call the other players stupid being micromanaged doesn't mean ur a idiot i mean look at 2023 fnatic boaster would be consistently at the bottom but the other 4 would shine whenever he was top it would be a tougher game his game style and igl style is micromanage its obvious and im not saying he cannot improve his mechanics he deffo can but i wouldn't get him to focus on it over his igling
yea, agree, people like dephh and FNS retired for a reason, now it's Boaster and ANGE1's turn
First international masters, solo and termi had similar stats to Boaster playing for a worse team, those two are coaching nowadays and it would be unthinkable for anyone to suggest that they should be the IGLs of a top korean team, time for european teams to do the same, its no surprise that the region known for playing the game in a cerebral way struggles to produce new top tier IGLs if the ones who should be teaching the new gen refuse to retire no matter how much they are struggling
karrigan/apex for example are not only 20 times more individually skilled than Boaster but also go in first so they can have their stars trade them which Boaster doesnt
most braindead take of all time. entirely different games. imagine if your smokes player just went ahead killing himself everytime to get traded lol
nice reading cromprehension from you and the subhumans who upvoted you, I used that example to show you that those IGLs in CS get even worse stats than they normally would because they go first and just die for obvious reasons, I am not saying Boaster should go first on smokes, I am saying that even while playing a role that allows him to be alive in late game scenarios in a very dominant team he fails to have impact individually, karrigan/apex could have an excuse if they go -30 which they rarely do but Boaster doesnt, he isnt going in to just die so he can get traded, he is in very good favourable positions most of the times
Still useless take, one game has to deal with millions of abilities while the other has the same ones from eons
doesnt make it any easier lmfao, in CS u need lineups so it also adds complexity and u cant just win rounds by spamming ults if u have a good ult cycle, going -30 isnt excused by bullshit like the game having millions of abilities, u only have 3 abilities in your own agent and tejo has been nerfed to the ground so the util isnt even that opressive in this meta
in order to win games you need to click the enemy head faster than they click yours, as a PRX fan you should know this, 46 on smokes is really good but in order for an assist to count as one you need someone else to get a kill, assists are just a way to make kills easier, what matters are KILLS, thats how u win, its a core mechanic of the game, any strat is just a way to get yourselves into better positions to GET THE KILLS aka more favourable fights, 46 assists, great but he still went -30 and had 87 ADR
who knows, maybe you expect Fnatic to plant the bomb every round and have it explode without taking any duels or just making sure PRX who just press W lose on time, since thats unrealistic to happen it means any player from both sides will have tens or hundreds of individual duels he must win in a series to increase the chances of his team winning, not only that but Boaster isnt dying in bad duels where he is sacrificing himself so he can get traded, he gets a lot of favourable duels in which he just cant get his one, no1 expects an IGL to be a playmaker, go through a smoke and get an insane 3k or to just hold a site by himself like nats, just get your one and maybe go slightly positive, slightly negative or maybe -15 if its a bad series, if u go -30 sistemically then u arent getting your ones, it wouldnt even be a problem to have a bad series and go -30 if it wasnt something u do sistematically regardless if your team wins or loses, funny that u say I dont have critical thinking skills while you are presenting no rational arguments and u are just being a fanboy
thats because his util is the most valuable in the game, considering you generally only have one reusable individual smoke character per comp. if they were in his position they wouldnt do that. its a dumb comparison
anyways, i do agree boaster needs to level up his individual performances but this is an extreme overreaction. he had a lot of nice games individually this very season, specially comparted with his last years, and while his fragging was bad today this game was not entirely on his fault. and besides all tbat, fnatic was fragile at the start of the season and has been on a good evolution curve, even losing today they still have a very promising future in champs
u are not comprehending the point I am making, my point is that Boaster is in in better positions to get kills than CS t1 igls that are considering as bad individually and he still manages to perform worse than them, the agent he plays doesnt matter, its not relevant to the point because its common sense that he shouldnt go first on smokes, the only point I am making is that he is baiting and playing in positions where he can trade and he still cant perform to a decent standard, all I am asking for him is to have patitek level mechanics and perform around that level
Stop the boaster hate! Do people not see how important calling is in a competitive game? He’s a huge part of EVERYTHING they do. They’ve won championships with him and have remained competitive because he is their IGL.
I hate their style of play and love seeing EMEA lose but let’s not overreact on the kid
They have only won championships when he had a team composed of Leo, Chronicle, Alfajer and Derke. Arguably the best player ever in every single role, he still managed to lose one EMEA trophy to a liquid who had soulcas and Redgar, look like a dead team at the most important tournament of the year, lose to a KC composed of tomaszy, magnum and sh1n in kickoff and look inconsistent until Leo stepped down. Before he got quite literally the ultimate valorant dream team he failed at every international tournament only making a decent run at Reykjavík where the level was on the floor.
I dont think its overreation when he is sistematically the worst performer at every international he attends, pretty much always except this last few games of Masters Toronto calls like shit against international opposition and drops disasterclasses in every elimination game.
Lets be honest, his calling is so overglazed and you guys make it sound like he is playing chess while his opponents are playing checkers and no1 can chat to him when it comes to igling which is not true, he has been outplayed many times by other t1 igls who on top of that manage to perform to an acceptable standard individually, if he wasnt a goofy and likeable person you guys would be calling for his game, you all dont care about how he performs as an IGL or individual and will turn a blind eye to his disasterclasses as an IGL or individual just because u guys like him, sadly this is a performance industry and him staying in t1 because he is a big personality is only destroying opportunities for upcoming players who also deserve a chance. This is a performance industry and if u dont like it not my fault
I don’t care for him or his personality. I hate watching their slow play. It’s boring. But he has been the constant figure in a successful team. Why move away from that? He has had some great teammates but look at how some of them (great players) are reduced when not put in proper positions. The impact on his leadership is overlooked. The hate on him is too much. This is coming from an EMEA hater.
lose derke + leo
take kaajak (ascension duelist + no exp tier 1) + crashies (tier 2 NA)
won EMEA, placed 2nd master.
still hate Boaster???????
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