FURIA announce junior signing

13/1/2021 - 18:01

The 20-year-old AWPer joins the team as a replacement for Henrique "⁠HEN1⁠" Teles.

FURIA have announced the addition of former Triumph AWPer Paytyn "⁠junior⁠" Johnson, formally confirming the move that had reportedly been in the works since November and allegedly cost the Brazilian organization a transfer fee worth around $55,000.

The 20-year-old American completes the Brazilian lineup following the benching of HEN1, who decided to join up with his twin brother Lucas "⁠LUCAS1⁠" Teles in a new project under Raphael "⁠cogu⁠" Camargo, also featuring the remainder of the former MIBR quintet.

junior becomes FURIA's new AWPer

"Ever since FURIA moved to NA, they've been my favorite team on and off the server. I've looked up to their lineup, raw skill, and supportive fans for a long time now." junior said in a Tweet. "I couldn't be happier to join them and make the Brazilian community proud!"

junior joins FURIA after putting up impressive numbers in Triumph, averaging a 1.13 rating in 2020 as he helped the American side win the 33rd season of ESEA MDL and finish runners-up to Chaos at IEM Beijing-Haidian North America, one of the last tournaments of the year.

FURIA's roster now features five players again just days ahead of their campaign in the $1 million BLAST Premier Global Final, which kicks off on January 19, with Andrei "⁠arT⁠" Piovezan & co. set to face G2 in the opening round of the upper bracket.

The AWPer's addition makes FURIA's lineup the following:

Kaike "⁠KSCERATO⁠" Cerato
Yuri "⁠yuurih⁠" Santos
Andrei "⁠arT⁠" Piovezan
Vinicius "⁠VINI⁠" Figueiredo
Paytyn "⁠junior⁠" Johnson

Nicholas "⁠guerri⁠" Nogueira (coach)

Henrique "⁠HEN1⁠" Teles (benched)

Good luck. Will they speak english or will junior learn spanish?

2021-01-13 18:01

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spanish pepeLaugh

2021-01-13 18:03

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Why not mexican? they could just meet in the middle and that is the country between them

2021-01-13 18:07

23 replies

brazilian best language

2021-01-13 18:08

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hihihih true true true

2021-01-13 18:26

lmao

2021-01-13 18:32

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sorry can you repeat that i cant speak american

2021-01-13 18:46

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limão (spanish)

2021-01-13 18:48

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thanks

2021-01-13 18:49

speak london mens((((((

2021-01-13 18:50

Lemonao?

2021-01-13 19:11

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i think he meant lemonade

2021-01-13 19:33

I laughed pretty hard at this

2021-01-13 23:02

rekt

2021-01-14 00:20

I know that its probably not gonna happen but, if they make him study Portuguese, at least for in-game communication, in 1 month of study the team's overall communication would probably be much better than with everyone speaking English (they could only pass key information to him during the match and trust training / individual skills to make decisions). I know that most players already speak decent English, but to communicate well in key moments it is necessary that they think fluently in English, a skill that I imagine will take much longer for everyone to learn...

2021-01-13 20:50

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You’d think he’d be learning the language since this was leaked in November, but I guess not. I agree

2021-01-13 21:27

Agree

2021-01-13 22:36

2021-01-13 18:15

2021-01-13 18:17

200 IQ, flair doesn't check out

2021-01-13 18:24

lol

2021-01-14 03:02

5 octillion iq

2021-01-13 18:39

I thought there was a wall

2021-01-13 19:51

2021-01-13 19:58

+1 big brain

2021-01-13 21:18

+1 makes sense

2021-01-14 01:38

So they're gonna speak english right? Also lol spanish? Also rip fully brazilian top tier teams

+1 i dont understand this replacement

It obviously wasn't performance based. Must have been some issues behind the scenes.

2021-01-13 18:16

#117

2021-01-13 18:52

HEN1 wants to play with his brother LUCAS1 and FURIA didn't want to LUCAS1 to join FURIA.

4 replies

2021-01-13 18:51

hahhaha omfg ofc they wont lucas because hes noob

2021-01-13 19:23

He was beast in 2017 but now mediocre player

2021-01-14 01:13

Imagine crying to play with brother

2021-01-13 20:46

They're gonna speak american

2021-01-13 18:02

speak american goddamnit KKona

2021-01-13 21:01

We don't speak spanish. It's Portuguese.

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0/8 We speak Brazilian

2021-01-13 18:05

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No u speak spanish

2021-01-13 18:10

nope

2021-01-13 18:12

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all you mexicans and mexicants speak spanish

2021-01-13 19:36

lol u should study geography

2021-01-13 21:03

falling for this kind of bait... wow

2021-01-14 14:14

2021-01-13 18:11

"We speak American round these parts!"

2021-01-13 18:14

No you speak British

its called New Zealandish

Sounds better

Sounds Australian actually

2021-01-13 19:09

I gotta learn Brazilian, seems like an interesting language!

If you already knows Portuguese it will be easy trust me men)!

2021-01-13 19:38

Junior will learn "Spanish" from the looks of things twitter.com/FURIA/status/134940082313933..

2021-01-13 18:04

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that was not Spanish it is Portuguese

2021-01-13 18:13

Look at his username obvious bait

I guess he didn't make the test

2021-01-13 18:18

Can’t save em all

2021-01-13 19:00

At least you can try

2021-01-13 19:45

No they will speak British

We don't speak spanish. It's Russian.

spanish KEKW

2021-01-13 18:06

I believe the communication will be in mandarin

they will speak german

They will speak American/Brazilian

brazilian XAXXAXAXAXA

2021-01-13 19:42

they will use chinese mandarin

2021-01-13 18:33

englizilian

2021-01-13 18:35

in brazil we speak french, idiot🤦‍♂️

2021-01-13 18:37

Bra71lians speak huehuehue

2021-01-13 18:38

But brazilians speaks portuguese

2021-01-13 18:42

WtF spanish, you´re crazy, its portuguese

2021-01-13 18:45

ROFL

Nice austrian education

I'm guessing they'll speak spanish/portuguese cause Junior knows spanish and both languages are pretty similar. Most likely they'll also teach him portuguese.

they will speak finnish

ei vittu

PERKELE

2021-01-13 20:45

SPANISH HAHA

2021-01-13 18:55

lol how stupid

junior said on twitter to speak Norwegian

2021-01-13 19:02

spanish?? brazilians speak portuguese

2021-01-13 19:22

Kkkkkkkkkkkk

2021-01-13 20:04

8/8

2021-01-13 20:27

if Junior learned spanish in high school (common for americans) then he can probably adapt that into portuguese

2021-01-13 21:21

Spanish? seriously do you think that in brazil we speak spanish? and I think that Americans are lost ...

2021-01-13 22:32

Yo le noob, Most logical is that they speak ruski, then they can become tier 1

2021-01-14 07:38

ahahahahhah

nice

cool

Poggies

Frist

Pog

LETS GO

Welcome flamenguista

unexpected

he can speak brazil?

50%

if he spells B-R-A-Z-I-L, for sure

Now -Vini +Twistzz :) ALSO: Only $55K could end up being a STEAL, he might be the best NA awper right now

that'd be a sick addition actually

Especially since I'm assuming the plan is for them to switch to an English speaking roster now. It's not often you have a guy as good as Twistzz up for grabs, you have to jump on the opportunity when it's there.

I think twistzz wants to live in EU with his GF)

Dang god tier CS lineup cucked by the GF :(. Makes sense though, do you know what part of Europe she lives in? I'm curious if that will affect his decision

I guess she's german but not sure tho

that's her twitter.com/Aon1r

cologne

jesus now thats a top 1 team

No, as a fellow TS, you better not give out such questionable swaps. VINI is much better for them.

2021-01-14 01:27

Mens if you think Vini >> Twistzz you have brain problems

2021-01-14 07:27

VINI is better than Twistzz for FURIA, read carefully and understand what I mean. Twistzz started slacking and VINI does his role just fine, it's the most idiotic decision to replace him at this point in time.

2021-01-14 09:15

I read exactly what you said. If you think Twistzz started to slack naturally and not because of the changes in the team causing him to change his style you have no idea what happened there. He bit the bullet and let his stats take a hit to be a team player, something he’ll always do. Stew and Moses had no idea how to use him properly. Twistzz is miles better then Vini will ever be in raw mechanics and I get it, to you Vini contributes outside his mechanics. “He’s a good support”, “He shows up in clutches”, “He’s already in the system”. Well the system’s about to change anyways with Junior coming in. Twistzz was just playing a similar role in TL, you’re adding someone who’s capable of doing everything VINI can and was doing while being someone who’s miles better then him in raw mechanics as well. Someone who can be even more impactful in the clutch. Someone who you can put in a star player role if need be and find success if you wanna shake things up (which would never work with VINI). Small detail but assuming they’ll be playing in English Russ would also add a great aspect of being able to naturally improve their communication and Englando. If VINI’s such a good fit why are their rumours about a 2nd man swap where he departs then? Hmmm....

2021-01-14 13:16

I'd ask you to get back on the ground and stop fantasizing about "Russ". He's not that much better than VINI to put the synergy and their game play at risk. And currently, regardless of what happened, he plays even worse than him so you can take your Twistzz and twist away with him to some other team, this swap will damage FURIA more than it would benefit it.

2021-01-14 16:25

"Regardless of what happened" Lol of course you want to conveniently ignore context, can't say I'm surprised when you have no valid argument. Food for thought: Furia can't be a top 5 team with Vini. If their goal is to be the best team in the world, which I'd imagine it is they need to cut him loose. I'm sure this is why they've considered replacing him already. A player of Twistzz caliber is rarely on the market, you need to pounce while he's available. Their synergy and gameplay will already need to be reworked with Junior joining, you might as well make another swap and rework it all now while you're changing things up anyways. Why do you risk it? Because you have the goal of being the best team in the world. To do that you need to take a risk like this. If you wanna settle for mediocracy with Vini fine lol. Enjoy being a top NA team which means nothings these days and never winning international LAN's.

2021-01-14 16:43

The context you're giving is your own speculation, the truth afloat is that Twistzz lost his last bits of motivation and just has no interest for the game, excuse of roles is very lame. Good players are good in every single role. I could ponder on swapping VINI for a real good player, but certainly not vegetable Twistzz who needs to sort his crap out. He would fit FaZe Clan more, house party team of friends and ballers. FURIA need motivated and smart players, currently Twistzz is neither.

2021-01-14 16:49

yo what

How did you miss several rumors about that?

Bruh

?? what

WHAT

junior flamenguista

language?

latin

russian or mandarin

sugondese

2021-01-13 19:37

wow 7-1 so funny

let's gooo

Lmao

55k is good deal.

Yeah, man just wants to play. Im sure he didnt try to hard lol.

2021-01-14 05:42

Yo le noob, How low is your IQ lmao. The 55k is to buy the contract from the org, the player has no say in this negotiation.

2021-01-14 07:42

Can junior speak Portuguese or do they have to communicate in English now? Because this move doesn’t really seem to be worth it if they all gotta switch to another language now

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stairzinha pitzinho rampinha catzinho there you have

2021-01-13 18:34

so they only play with him on d2??

2021-01-13 20:05

What do you call stairs on Dust? It's either short or cat if you mean that part.

2021-01-14 01:29

Portuguese very easy to learn. Even I know Portuguese. Just say caralho filho da puta que ota and you can get into a Brazilian team too

2021-01-14 03:39

absolutely 10/10

2021-01-14 03:55

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

2021-01-14 06:05

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk this gringo knows it

2021-01-14 06:46

They can communicate using the ping system

2021-01-14 11:53

Junnior its an amazing player The problem is WILL FURIA COMUNICATION IN ENGLISH WORK ? can this be F for furia or a genious move ?

Just wait, i bet -VINI +NA/EU player will happen as well.

yeah, vini sucks

-VINI +twistzzz????????

2021-01-13 19:35

Well, no. He will join a team in Europe.

currently every decent team is in europe tho its all mindgames

2021-01-13 19:40

No lol. It will be a European team. Not Liquid (duh), EG etc etc. He moved to Germany with his GF, so.

2021-01-13 19:43

yeah my friend i'm just kidding.. wait did you say to germany??? -k1to +twistzz incoming?? still kidding i think furia should keep vini a bit longer anyway.. ..and BIG should keep k1to

Yes, Twistzz girlfriend lives in Cologne.

2021-01-13 19:46

lul if you rly think they're gonna kick the big linguiça

2021-01-14 03:56

JEEEZ

Speak English?

Decent. 55k is not a bad fee. Now just -VINI +*insert player* EDIT: Why is everyone surprised? Furia Junior have been out for like 2-3 months lmao? hltv.org/news/30679/furia-set-sights-on-..

why bully vini

-1 about VINI junior1 is more than decent, he's terrific :D

"-1 about VINI" Hmm wonder why "<3 VINI". VINI is SO bad mate.

He has insane games and then is a bot most of the time. weird player

Good Luck John's son

ayo

who and why? rip furia

Lol he’s the best awper in NA rn Inb4 NA KEKW

Silver talk

2021-01-14 02:19

guy with one good tournament

top20 2021 <3

Welcome, hope he can fit nice in the team

RIP YOUNG TALENT

Good Luck Junior!

Hopefully he can speak Portuguese. Because if the guys can’t speak proper English this could be a bad move.

Yuurih, kscerato & maybe vini I'm worried about. Art is just fine ~

VINI has a good English as well

2021-01-13 18:30

Vini has really good English I think kscerato and yuurih are the two that are only ok

2021-01-14 18:12

they will have to break communication barriers

good luck bruh

"Ever since FURIA moved to NA, they've been my favorite team on and off the server." - kekw nt

2021-01-13 18:09

interesting gl

rip furia

This wont work. SK tried once and look what happened to them. Sad indeed, FURIA was everyone's favourite this year.

Lol trying to compare tarik and stewie with junior

Twistzz to navi, seems possible)

Nice

A team always need a guy like Vini thou. So -1 for Vini +1 Junior is a great pick up.

Good luck!

The tier two experience from his time in triumph are gonna be all he needs to hit the ground running. Kid's an explosive awper. Gonna do big things with this lineup

yurih and kscerato don't speak english. They have vini/art/guerri translating things for them when they are traveling. idk how this gonna work

rip cunt hen1

GL Juniiiinho!

Furia top 1

this reminds me of the meyern move RIP 1junior

bruh HEN1 is the only reason furia is tier 1

Lul

he knows Spanish?

i think no, only russian and american

2021-01-14 08:40

Rip fúria t2 team

Welcome Junior!

Stupid move

2021-01-13 18:19

Might aswell disband instead of doing some bullshit like this, FURIA is dead.

relax, that's just a few months thing. than they will swap junior with fallen.

2021-01-13 18:22

your ass

2021-01-13 18:43

so, what about language

2021-01-13 18:21

RIP Brazilian scene Let's hope Boom picks a good 5th player after everything that happened with our scene in the last weeks.

cogu project?

Mibr was already getting worse, they just had a honeymoon and KING+Hen1+Lucas1 = Trouble...

2021-01-13 22:50

taco project?

2021-01-14 06:06

Let's see first, but a lot of talents + Taco is good? Can taco have a good performance now that he's supposed to be the older guy? How will Felps work on that, knowing his personality? Too many young guys with no leadership...Also, Dead.

2021-01-14 13:01

watch the flow podcast with Pondé you are the "pessimista de varejo"

2021-01-14 19:07

I said "let's see first", not pessimist at all, just pointing good things like "lot of Talents" and bad things like "no leadership and dead". Also, thank you but i not gonna watch a fat guy that got popular because he was friend with a fat guy screaming at video games + a weed smoker minecraft player, interviewing one of the most overrated """""""philosopher""""""""" of the last times.

2021-01-14 20:34

ok pessimista de varejo

2021-01-14 22:58

FURIA with na flag xaxaxax

2021-01-13 18:23

Very Nice ! Good Luck junior in FURIA ! =)

2021-01-13 18:25

Great!

Junior tier 5 garbage Rip flukeria

GL, liquid > furia

Kick a player with 1.11 rating TOPKEK

He wasnt kicked, he decided to play with his brother, lucas1

2021-01-13 18:28

Oh ok, sad anyway

at least he is a good awper

2021-01-13 18:27

So i heard junior's Portugues is pretty good

2021-01-13 18:29

His former coach was brazilian (Tacitus), so maybe he was already learning some coms in PT-BR

They will swap fallen to furia and junior to liquid in a few months Feel free to print it!

Stewie back to IGLing?

2021-01-13 20:11

As a Furia fan, let me be the first to say, good luck.

They will communicate in chinese/russian

LUL

I thought they were making an NA academy team called "Furia Junior" Best of luck!

deserved a better video nice to have a solid awp on furia!

stairzinha pitzinho rampinha catzinho

who's 5th? Maindinho?

boilerinho for 6th

2021-01-13 19:16

lol and coach? conlinho?

2021-01-13 21:34

Yo le noob, Nah, I think they settled for windowinha (JANELAAAAAAA)

2021-01-14 07:49

"wow, I'm impressed". Why not latto? Tacos project better be SOMETHING otherwise this is a waste. Also, this move explain why follen has gone for lulquid. The logical thing to happen was - twistz +Junior but let's see. 2021 looks way more interesting with all those changes.

2021-01-13 18:36

they needed a good awper and junior had great performances against top na teams,+latto prob is already with taco project and wouldn't turn it down this far

cya in tier 2 furia

good move, furia looking good

furia will be a dangerous team

2021-01-13 18:40

can he speak portuguese?

2021-01-13 18:41

$55k for dogshit player to replace HEN1 LOOOL Furia got scammed big time.

I don't think so. It's a bet & obviously a steal price to be paid. If junior turns up to be a star player it will be good for them & if they're any issues occur they can always sell him for a higher price. I don't see even slightly any possibility that not even a team will want him.

is junior's ceilling higher than the level hen1 has been playing in furia? i know hen1 did not get kicked, but i think that's a valid question

Ofcourse not

obviously not, the move was not because of performance

i rephrased my question, i know hen1 wasn't kicked

Its hard to tell, from what he showed in 2020 his skill ceiling can be insane, but it was in NA so you never can tell.

2021-01-13 19:50

I honestly think junior is gonna surprise alot of people. The step up is big but I think hes a tier 1 player tbh.

2021-01-13 20:25

I tend to agree with you. I think Furia's biggest challenge will be the language barrier, as I'm expecting junior to perform on (at least) the same level hen1 was.

2021-01-13 20:30

HEN1 > 1junior

Gonna be honest, I think this was a really bad move for furia. I do get that hen1 wanted move move away with lucas1, but getting an American player on a full Brazilian roster is a risky play.

2021-01-13 18:58

SIIIIIICK

IMO this move is so retarded, because now all 5 (including guerri) other players will have to speak english, just because of him... Like I don't get it...

Here we go again

Gl bruh

2021-01-13 19:03

Americans thinking that we speak spanish make me think that all americans are dumb

2021-01-13 19:04

most americans know that you guys speak portugese, only idiots don't

2021-01-13 19:10

At least, most americans that I know they're aware we speak portuguese, it's 2021 folks. There is exception in everywhere tho

2021-01-13 19:13

LETS GO PAYTYN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

if they speak english, gg

pog

expected

FURIA is going to work really hard speaking English with Junior. It’s gonna be like “Junior, flash for me!” or “Junior, drop me an MP7” or even “It’s okay, Junior. Seu idiota gringo, por que você tentaria espiar ao virar da esquina de novo? Você é tão burro?”

Jajajajajajajaja

2021-01-13 22:53

best option rn for a cheap price,alltho i think degster would be better junior is a great talent too

u guys rly think ptbr comms are hard? he has to learn like 50 words max

2021-01-13 20:15

Cyaaa

2021-01-13 20:22

GL HF

Finally he gets a good chance. good luck to him

2021-01-13 20:37

55K PLAYER TO REPLACE TOP 20 PLAYER KKKKKKKKK

2021-01-13 20:38

xD ...FURIA didnt have a choice...no other better awper at NA rn i guess

Nython, Zevy, RCF the trio is really good and promissing, i think any of these 3 would work on furia, specialy RCF

2021-01-13 22:00

huh

2021-01-13 21:36

I don't think he will be able to stay for long. The Brazilians are well known for aggro communication and having to switch back and forth between english and portugest will definitely frustrate them in key rounds.

2021-01-13 21:47

will be same result as when sk tried to add stewie...letting hen1 go was a big mistake....maybe they should have kicked vini and let lucas play instead....i dont think that would have been a bad idea.

2021-01-13 22:03

Yea I agree. In cs, communication is the key and its very frustrated to have to switch back and forth between languages to do callouts for your teammates. I'm not surprised at all if Furia got destroyed in blast next week.

2021-01-14 00:17

FURIA is something like those new guys with shirts. That last mibr line is more like raw, old school cs. It is just not the same energy, not to mention the hype that the guys of ex-mibr are being able to play at the tier 1 like they did.

2021-01-14 04:00

SK/mibr did that and worked like shit 👍

2021-01-13 21:59

so fucking stupid...

2021-01-13 22:20

Can’t predict how this one is going to work out but it will be interesting for sure. It would be cool to see how he performs in t1 with some practice

2021-01-13 22:33

great now frauds like astralis and vitality are finally finished

2021-01-13 22:37

Rip communication, disband in 2 months just like MIBR with Stewie and tarik.

2021-01-13 22:43

mibr with Stewie and Tarik was top 5 for almost entire time the lineup lasted, and it was way more than 2 months... so, terrible try If you don't remember / don't believe they were top5, you can check byb yourself month by month: hltv.org/ranking/teams/2018/november/26

2021-01-14 01:36

rip communication, but i bet all they do is shout CHARGE! in brazilian anyway so maybe not

Even if it doesn't work out perfectly it will be a good opportunity for junior to learn and get his name out there, good luck out there sir.

He is really good, but I don't think this roster is going to work out for FURIA tbh.

2021-01-13 23:14

yep. i give it half a year max. Can't imagine a team full of Brazilians have to comm in English for your 1 teammate LUL.

2021-01-14 00:18

Same. They need more changes imo.

2021-01-14 02:08

Yea. Like lets say a team like Faze when every player is from a different country then it's easy to make English the main comm language. However, a team has been together for 2+ years like Furia that always comm in Portuguese, I really don't understand why they sign an American, maybe lack of options at the moment...

2021-01-14 06:13

I think they signed junior because it's just the beginning of changes in FURIA, and they want to be international so they have more options later.

2021-01-14 13:59

who?

2021-01-13 23:19

language barrier gg disband team

2021-01-14 00:16

best player left cuz coudnt handle toddynhos, this will be the fall of the kids hahaha so hyped to see lucas and hen play together cant wait for BR matches again, toddynhos will get STOMPED. lets see how far their kid fanbase will last. =)

2021-01-14 01:30

You're delusional

2021-01-14 02:31

just facts toddynhos keep in with toddynhos OGs keep in with OGs furia just lost their best player, why u think hen1 want to leave to play with the OGs instead of keeping with political correct soft kids team LOL

2021-01-14 03:13

Yuurih and Art are the best players. Hen1 and kscerato are baiters.

2021-01-14 20:38

art chokes on lan, just wait for the lans start again yurihh is very good, but he is a baiter too hen is GOD awper, you guys will realize how less firepower the team will have without him.

2021-01-16 00:17

You didn't watch Furia in 2018 and 2019 right?! They won against Astralis 2x on Lan with Art Knifing Dev1ce LOL

2021-01-16 00:19

how many lans they won? =S furia was kinda new, art agressiveness wasnt detected yet, lets see now, the next lan phase how they do art can go really RAW on the server, but once people counter him, he goes blue screen =p, he only can play 1 way, and if u think hen1 wasnt a key thing in the team you are the one who need tho watch more also hen1 is one of those guys that are better on lan, the team loses that aspect too.

2021-01-16 00:21

what is going on

2021-01-14 03:16