tldr: no fade = nrg struggle
Is brawk not playing fade in this map pool, it limits a lot of their flexibility and we’ve seen that during santiago (split, corrode and bind) and now yesterday when they played split vs FURIA where he had to play deadlock and Ethan on Skye. Yes it might impact his individual performance but it’ll be better in the long run for this team if they can implement Fade into their comps.
Currently 4/7 maps in the map pool are heavily favored towards Fade (Lotus, Bind, Fracture and Split), one 50/50 map (Pearl) and two Sova maps (Breeze and Haven). We are even seeing her get play on maps like Haven.
In my opinion, one of the reasons NRG were successful because the map pool at champs heavily leaned towards Sova which made Brawk consistently be a menace in nearly every game they played.









