Every time I watch nAts play in VCT EMEA, his micro looked perfectly fine and he genuinely looked like the best IGL to contend for an international trophy. nAts literally called like prime Boaster against EMEA teams.
In Masters and Champs, his IGL'ing looked strategically great and he was playing extremely smart as usual, but I don't know why he suddenly had a mental block against American and APAC teams. He can win his aim duels perfectly fine against Chinese teams but against other regions, he somehow whiffs more shots than usual and he cannot kill enemies as fast as before. Playing perfectly doesn't matter at all when there were times when his mechanics were not always on his prime.
Like everyone said, nAts had to play with low budget rosters that don't necessarily have players that could put up generational performances on international events, which prevents nAts from playing anywhere close to his full potential. Don't talk to me about low budget rosters like 2026 LEV and 2026 LOUD. They have extremely explosive players that can easily win trophies at their primes. Meanwhile, nAts had to play with brainless idiots like Trexx, Kicks, Kamyk and paTiTek.
To solve nAt's international curse and win trophies, Liquid really needs to sign all 5 young, cracked aimers like Kachoww, GSR, Kamo and Lar0k so they can finally save nAts and finally allow him to win the international trophies that he fully deserves.
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