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I was a G2 fan for many years now, and this team is different.
They have 4 "stars" in their perfect roles.
And an IGL who honestly is calling the best CS I've ever seen since the Astralis 2018 days. And HooXi is stepping up as individual as well.
Many people think that G2 are just outaiming everyone. But G2 is so much more. The teamplay, awareness, cohesion is just insane. You can spot so many perfectly executed strats and plays when rewatching a demo.
And I love how positive their atmosphere is. HooXi always laughing.
NaVi in comparison are only toxic towards each other
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Yeah, it's very cool to see Niko looking relaxed on a team too
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Obviously u r laughing when u r winning, the atmosphere is kinda similar to navi actually. Win = laugh, lose = mald. You seriously cant remember tension in g2 before the blast final?
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this winstreak basically removed all doubt from the team's head that HooXi's calls are insane. Even if they drop a map or are behind in one, they'll be fine because they know they can come back and like Hunter- said, they're mature and have many years experience. The only thing that will tilt Niko is if Niko isnt playing well!
I thought they were just lucky like FaZe, you really changed my mind
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+1 FaZe never dominated. Just bad competition and lucky runs
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this is navi in 2021
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lucky to be way better than anyone else yeah
Didn't even qualify for the major btw
Faze are just war abusers. Thats why they their fluke run ended after summer
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Lmaooo
Good point
Strats are ok but if players aint hitting shots it would not work so yes its mainly aim
csgo is 80% aim, you are overthinking it a bit
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Good luck to anyone trying to win anything without aim in an FPS. ;)
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for real bro, people think you need some magic to win games when its all about basics (utility usage and trading) and hitting your shots, dunno why ppl wanna make it look so complicated
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People like you never understand what factors play in a Pro match LOL
But just enjoy the flicks and headshots on stream. Not everyone is made for the deep thinking
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you dont know shit about cs stop copping
did hooxi become the best igl ever since rio or his players started stepping up? from losing to gamerlegion to banging everyone out of the server
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Why did Tenz fail when it is only about aim KEKW.
Confidence, team cohesion, strats, preparation, analyzing opponents tendencies and much more play into factor.
But as I said, enjoy the headshots on stream, I rather enjoy the beauty of the teamplay and little details.
CS is for everyone and that is the beauty of it
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Cope
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Emma, why are no women on the level of men?
Stop talking about that you understand pro CS.
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#17
keep copping
hltv.org/stats/players/13254/tenz
Nice fail, 1.15 rating
NA CS was just dead the moment TenZ entered the scene.
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hltv.org/stats/players/13254/tenz?rankin..
Fixed it for you
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nice logic
Very true, this is why me and my friends struggled to adapt to CSGO.
We have all been good aimers for years in CS1.6, but the utility usage on CSGO is just another level and good teams will have you constantly blind with pop flashes.
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Yup we did'nt even Use smokes in 1. 6 since People had shit pcs some tournaments baned them. People would lag when you dropped them flash lineups what? Nade stacks? CSGO is so much more in depth and needs absoulte team play to make it work
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Yep exactly.
I play an aim_redline server where some pros regularly jump on and aim-wise, it doesn't feel you can't compete with them (I know it's not exactly them trying their hardest). But the real skill is in teamplay, knowing the utility lineups and how to react to in game scenarios etc.
I would say having a solid 5 lineup for as long as possible where you learn how each other plays and get synergy is better than slotting in a top aimer expecting it to work.
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There is so much more skill involved. I don't remember "flash dodgeing" to be a skill back then. I don't mean to sound Like a boomer but kids don't know how much raw aim used to be important, raw aim and wall Bang spots, now there is a milion skills, line ups, game sence, team play, possisioning, pivoting etc. Back then was... Rush b? Nah fake long Rush short gg
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Haha yeah I used to love the feeling of spraying in cs 1.6 and the wallbanging
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Lol remember nuke 30-40 second of spraying at the start. I also sometimes start spaming.,.,.,.,..,., at the start of the round to buy ammo xD
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Ahh yeah, what a game haha leaving spawn with 7 deagle bullets
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Yeah and sharing bullets in some Pistols and smgs
You do make the shots easier by being in the right position at the right time though
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Thats already part of the basics
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Not really. That's what the teams spent so long drilling what to do in certain situations.
So stupid
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until you have to peek niko
there is a reason everyone spends countless hours dming
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thats what the igl does, i doubt the players watch demos more than dm
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they do
look at hunter just as one example
yekindar watching nikos demos
you just cant let igl watch demos only
how are you gonna counterstrat other guys in your positions?
Igl cant say to you oh he is gonna do this watchout for this etc on this level
there is no cohesion no communication in that example.
Of course sometimes it happens that igls realize what is opponent doing and telling to other players watch out for those plays
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Great aim is the foundation upon which you can build a good teamplay. But without good teamplay your sharpest aim means shit. There are countless nuances thanks to which G2 players look so clean and fresh. They literally have practiced the timings of checking corners together, so they know which position is watched and which position they have to cover, without hesitation. And that's also part of "tactics". Please, your take on strats is just so shallow...
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yes that why teams say “we just didnt hit our shots” when they lose instead of overthinking strats 24/7
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Did you even read my response? Aim is the foundation. Of course no team can execute strats if they can't hit their shots. The strats have to, at some point, involve killing your enemies - otherwise they won't work. So when teams have good strats, but lack the foundation, the strats don't work, but it doesn't mean the strats are bad - it just means they didn't hit their shots. But when you take a stratless team that is hitting their shots, and a team that has very big stratbook AND hits their shots on top of that, like G2 does right now, then the latter will always win against the former. Because, in the end, in top tier counter-strike competition, when both teams hit their shots, the team with better strats will win. Of course sometimes a miraculous clutch happens and beats a strategy... but that's the beauty of counter strike. And most of the time, the miraculous play doesn't happen specifically because of strategies that prevent it to happen. If you don't understand how complex and nuanced this all is, then please, do not talk about it, making it look so shallow and easy, because it's not.
dupreeh said on interview that what separates a good pro from a bad one is everything except aim.
GOATs have that little extra mechanical ability that gets them over the rest but apart from that, where everyone is aiming just as good, good strats and comms will win over bad ones 8/10 times
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This G2 haven't choked for a while now...
Sad for you haters like you
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Even just from the way they cheer, it's just feels so different in a good way.
I would argue they have 5 "stars" even.
Everything is going right at the moment. They are reading the game well, everyone is playing well, they are clutching rounds up, they are stealing rounds away they shouldn't but they are playing fun CS as well. They have finally found a way to get over that mental block when it came to the high pressure rounds
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Pain can make you stronger. Because you never want to feel it again
8/8
Sad that they will choke in semis
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Been hearing this since blast semis
Ok
Choko will choked when times come
Maybe 4 stars is correct statement.
Best calling since 2018 is just delusional.
And yes, while their strats look better than maybe ever, they are still winning by outaiming everyone. Their calling is at best as good as others have. And worse than truly good tactical teams like Heroic and Outsiders.
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Did watch the demos? No.
Stop assuming when you dont have a clue
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Did you watch the demos?
Would be the first time someone actually did some work for their baity threads.
i did watch the games, same as you.
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Finland brain. I was never baiting
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I cannot call "Hooxi among best igl of all time" anything other than bait
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Where did I say that lol.
You don't how quotes work. Finland brain
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"And an IGL who honestly is calling the best CS I've ever seen since the Astralis 2018 days."
In you thread text second paragraph
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Doesnt make him one of the best of all time.
If he is keeping it up, yes.
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Fine.
Still delusional.
8 matches without losing 1 map, definitely different
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also name checks out
We gotta wait for them to win first imo
I wanna see them play a bo5 too
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+1
Analysts kept saying they need to have bad start to prove how good they are.
They proved it
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keep this same energy when they start losing
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xddd
HooXi top 5 player 2023
This G2 looks really impressive and actually reminds me a lot of Faze 2022, both got 4 stars (rain first season of last year was good), good calling and probably the most importantly both teams are winning unbelievable amount of late round disadvantage situations. All the time when G2 is in some 2v4, 3v4 or other late round situation they seem to make the right read and get the necessary kills.
This match & map win streak will obviously have to stop at some point so will be interesting to see how it affects them since they were also on a 10 map win streak in EPL but once they lost in playoffs they even lost out of the major and lost all confidence. Also the map win streak might be a bit misleading since this year they have played 6 bo3s and out of those 3 were against Navi and 2 against BIG so they haven't had to play against many different teams. They have also played almost exclusively only Nuke & Inferno and we don't have much data on their other maps so if they get to the final it will be interesting to see how they will manage a bo5.
ever since hooxis dad died g2 has been playing insane cs
"And an IGL who honestly is calling the best CS I've ever seen since the Astralis 2018 days."
xD xD xD xD
hahahahahahhahahahaha
Id love to see a documentary about what happened in Blast finals. We know what happened to hooxi when he arrived but the way the team bonded together and supported hooxi... id really love to see that. Something happened and changed there that finally made this team be in the same page
G2 sucks all year, win 1 tournament, everyone loses their minds XD
Last Time G2 went 10-0 in map wins and went to playoffs they got eliminated so hold your horses
smiling jks much scarier than motivated shox
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delusional af
my only concern for G2 is their map pool, they have been playing nuke inferno and the other maps were much less or haven't played by them. Though map pool is a problem for a lot of teams right now i would say they need to prove themselves in some of those maps to keep their win streak.
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they have the best map pool atm the only map they are really yet to be tested at is vertigo and its not that big of an issue since there's not a single top team that has vertigo as their main pick/strongest map, heroics vertigo used to be solid but they didn't pick it at kato against g2 not even a 2nd pick which makes me wonder how strong their vertigo really is
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