it feels like edg are the better team
Should've if Chichoo saved his wall for a retake earlier. They made this choice way too late and NRG adapted to this choice. Chichoo looked quite promising in the first half but I would argue that despite it being 10-2, EDG and NRG were fairly close. Honestly, it was frustrating to watch how Chichoo only used his wall for delay on defence. They should have had a set play for the retake since the sage wall could enable for an easy defuse when they plant on the far side. Even if they lost a round trying this set play, it would give them an opportunity to adapt the strategy to counter NRG playing on site or shoving for space.
you are not the better team if you get comeback from 11-2 under any fucking context man
this is a bronze take, nrg won 4 defense rounds in that entire map with 3 sets of overtime, it was a defensive disasterclass across the board and no early lead which edg had matters when the ct side is that flawed
and it goes without saying that pistol and gun rounds are very different?? idk what ur point is
i dont think 'edg won both pistols' really makes your argument? ill concede that getting thriftied in the second half isn't really ideal but we dont base arguments about which team is better around single rounds. both edg and nrg lost their defensive halves 10-2.
pro players arent like plats who, even if they're better on one side, will start throwing or making misplays just because they're down. they wouldn't BE pros if they got tilted like that and couldn't play their games regardless of the condition
are you actually for real? yeah but the other team won 10-2 after losing pistols and the other won after winning pistols. are we deadass
if you want to tell me edg was the better team on abyss despite both teams having a disaster class defense, edg winning both pistols AND being 11-2 up then sure go ahead lol
i dont want to tell you that i'm just saying 'nrg sooo much better than edg because the unbalanced map was a shitshow on both sides but nrg won in the end' isn't really a smart take
no one said they are so much better. you were arguing against someone saying "edg aren't the better" side
just so y know edg won 3 defence rounds the whole map so even less than nrg what is ur point. Nrg clearly played better on both maps
you dont think a map where you go to overtime but still only have a combined 7 victories on defense maybe isn't the best map to make judgements around the better team..??? its almost as if the map itself isn't really very good and more balanced maps are better to form ur opinion around
okay then lets make the judgment based on 2nd map. Still nrg was better. there u have it.
and i agree lul it's just disingenuous when stupid bandwagoners freak out when the unbalanced map has unbalanced halves and crucify the losing team for it
they are just dumb, sure one can call it a throw when u start on the good half anmd have 10-2 u should be able to close it out, but it wasn't a straight up throw both teams played really well on attack and the def won rounds were also high level
tbf Abyss was only close cause NRG gigachoked both pistols and got snowballed off it
EDG players were shooting while NRG players were whiffing so hard first half, but NRG started to get better with their aim and their strats were good on attack half.
They weren't really in advantageous positions no? Chichoo couldn't hold A everytime and there was one round he tried to hold back site himself when Yoru + Sova ult were on him. There was another round NRG knew and contacted uo B to save their Harbor and Vyse ult for post plant. Both sides were quite bad on defense.
literally can say the same abt nrg first half lmao this argument makes no sense both teams lost round that they should had won it happens every game w every team.
EDG had kangkang taking first picks on yoru edg did play throw to many winning positions
it wouldn't have even been close if it wasn't for NRG fumbling the pistols
Sadfully Val is a momentum game, if the best team start to dout they can loose a lot, thats why sometime I just feel I want less round but more map in a BO