Not to some people apparently

n0vi was so free but I'm still pleasantly surprised. They seem very creative and well-rehearsed.

Smoggy ace to close it out is crazy 😭

Surely now everyone accepts that off-season literally does not matter ...?

I don't want to deflect all the blame onto her teammates but it's not a good look to be outperformed by your coach standing in.

I don't

Thanks for saying it for me I didn't wanna seem too biased

For all the hype about being overpowered, teams are struggling to get value with him so far

LOUD and koi have gotten wins with him (albeit narrow) while mibr, TEC, and n0vi have flopped. There's still a lot of room for improvement.

On the other hand, looks like double senti is cooking pretty hard in the hands of KC and 100T

edit wait wtf am I saying it's just KC winning with double senti

Well I was right that they try Tejo but I was NOT right about them winning ......

I'm glad 100T are having a good showing right from the start. I like their roster and they seem like a very well put-together team

pickems so fucked man

That's why I said reworked Harbor

Play TDM if you're just trying to warm up your gunfights

LIKE I WAS SAYING...

Yeah actually they might just go traditional comps

I smell a lower bracket run incoming...

That's part of it too, yeah.

Yeah but I'm talking about winning

I just have a feeling aspas would be good at capitalizing off Tejo util

Who do they play if they lose to M8?

lul

surely EG or mibr make him work right

The downside of Omen in general is that his smokes are very slow. Brim can drop smokes and stim and run in, but Omen smokes take a critical few seconds longer where you're giving your presence away and aren't gun-out with the team.

Similarly, Astra can pre-place a star and flick to activate it when needed, whereas Omen needs to be firmly behind cover for a few seconds to smoke for the team.

The shape of Bind and Fracture is also such that Brim molly and ult clear a lot of space. Tejo and Breach are more "expensive" to run, in the sense that they need another initiator to help with scouting, which in turn prevents you from running double smoke, double senti, etc. so having high delay power on your controller is efficient.

Admittedly I haven't watched them in a while but I'm here for the redemption

Oh my bad. Yeah it was horrible. I think round 17 of Lotus summed it up pretty well.

You tell me. Was it successful? Are you pleased as a NAVI fan?

There's a fine line between innovating and trolling lol

KC's Bind comp today for example was awesome cause you could tell they practiced it a lot and had clear, relevant scenarios planned for it. Whereas n0vi's Lotus comp was like "slows + Tejo missiles = win?? 😱"

Similarly, FPX and PRX troll comps feel like a crutch because their utility usage is so poor and/or their agent pool is so limited.

Life has just TP'd in front of a not-flashed enemy twice in like six rounds

He's cracked in gunfights but his util usage is so bad. They should put him on Iso/Reyna/Phoenix at this point if they're gonna keep running weird comps

m0rteen's Yoru is better than this I hate to say it

I deadass don't think he will get nerfed I'm just hating on double senti

Hell nah trust

Calling it now, the next map will be TINY and solo reworked Harbor will be viable

Imagine what he'll cook after the rework 🤌

oh LEV is mad now

It was a troll comp, doesn't really count

That being said, it's a little more proof that Tejo is shit as a solo initiator because you're throwing util at nothing. When they came up with this comp they probably thought "wow look we can combo sage slows and vyse thorns and omen blind to get kills with Tejo missiles" and I think that happened... once, maybe?

Like I've been saying, Tejo as a solo initiator is bound to flop. He needs another initiator to actually gather the info for him to punish off of. These defensive comps with Tejo will not work.

They're getting destroyed by KC floods because they have no space buffer to prevent it. See round 17 that just happened - they got stalled on B for a whole minute, then went A, and they had absolutely no way to push past Vyse utility and ran out of time.

They've only gotten these rounds off the novelty of the comp. They'll get counter-stratted harder if they keep running it, not do better.

It doesn't work because they have zero aggression. There's no duelist, no real flashes, and one singular piece of recon. KC is literally just waiting out all the utility because NAVI has to dump so much of it to do anything.

You're being sarcastic right

The pieces are coming together... congratulations FURIA on winning champs '25

In this case it's just wait for the troll comp to finish spamming their util and then shoot them

He sounds so small

That's awesome, thank you.

Anyone know what the tattoo on his left arm is? It looks like something written in an Indic script

If he doesn't get picked on Bind it's over

You're trying to become my archnemesis aren't you

Anguibok also being an Ascent hater is so validating

and

queue Trace beating everyone on the map but sucking ass at the others because it forces you to play one specific way and not be adaptable like the other maps

Nothing CS-esque about the map where spamming walls off of recon pings is the most common