What were the worst roster changes/decisions
Not counting a good player retiring, getting poached or leaving due to external factors, only org decisions that suck balls;
I'll go first, I think Vitality letting go of Less for off-role chron was a blunder
tbh yeah i kinda get this, I thought invy would be an upgrade on the role but patmen has been absolutely dominant on GE
patemn is dominant on ge caues hes a flex, and if he was on paper rex, alecks wouldnt keep him on flex role and just keep on him on perma initiator, where he wouldnt dominate that much
while invy is actually a initiator
yeah, I always thought invy suited the role on prx a lot better, at the same time im also glad patmen is doing a lot better on GE. seems like a win win for all parties involved
idk how this could be a downgrade, both players have been great on their respective teams. upgrade for both of them really, patmen gets to have the spotlight on a role that he wouldn’t be playing at PRX
they also did just get second at santiago
my brother adored it but i haven't reallyt watched any anime before T_T, maybe i watch with my girlfie
-hiro +crashies
NO diss to crashies at all he's great
but this version of hiro + kaajak and alfa would b ELITE firepower
i mean thats kinda what they had at champs when hiro was a sub, they had chronicle play sova because he’s really good at it
problem is it just leaves u without a good fade player
Kinda does tbh. Chronicle was like a sova main. One of his best clips maybe his best clips of all time is on sova when he ace'd against KRU in champs 2021 bind.
i mean yeah, if u read #20 i touch on that
but it’s not 2021, you need to know how to play skye and fade, and he has barely played either of them
back then skye wasnt that good, but fade yeah. but at the same time, pretty sure sova would be getting picked over fade majority of maps too. (champs 2024 was sunset, abyss, ascent, lotus, haven, bind and icebox.)
i mean yeah, but if you were moving chron to full time scan you’d still have to account for it. especially on lotus which always has been a favorite for fnatic
there was role crashes in fnc. hiro was primarily a sentinal player and was not great at sova or fade, so alfa and chronicle had to play different agents to make up for it.
agreed but it wasnt really up to TH that miniboo left and prior to his stint on M8 comeback looked really good. just became so clear that he was good because of the BBL core not outside of that system
fr comeback looked so promising at one point, and miniboo just left so nothing to do about it
Bruh, Alexiiik had Kaajak, Izzy & Comeback levels of hype/potential when he was picked up by NAVI. NAVI not having a good HC fucked them, and his career just got wrecked. Alexiiik, Ruxic, Hiro, ANGE1, Shao. Back then that could've been a international challenger. If they actually had a decent HC.
crws to head coach
team looked lost without him igling, never really made sense to me
ig, this wasn't really their choice though, the players all just got better paid options after champs
nah im pretty sure EG couldn't actually pay them, iirc they had to fire a bunch of employees. i swear they were also rumoured to be out of esports entirely but somehow stayed but that could be another org. but i do remember them firing a bunch of employees to cut costs.
Loud benching Less, signing pancada because they benched Less, managing to keep Less, signing pancada anyway, kicking Qck, putting Saadhak on duelist
is chron really off role on vitality? felt like all he's been playing the last year was senti/viper but i may be wrong.
tbh i think he's a lot better on ini, i think less much better suits the role yk
that's fair enough but i wouldn't necessary consider it off role. i think he has similar rounds of senti/viper to initiator now (and probably way more in actual t1 matches), and he looked really really good on it in 2025. idk who i'd take tbh but less was definitely worse on vitality than he should've been (maybe language barrier) so i dont think chronicle is a bad pickup
Hard to say the worst, but i think demon1 to lev was a big downgrade considering what happened, even bigger than aspas
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