Will never forget how he lead G2 to their first trophy in years in Blast World Finals 2022 despite his father having passed away the day they landed in Abu Dhabi. Forever a G2 legend, always will be a Hooxi fan. ❤
@@williamrichards2699 dude g2 has never won an S tier trophy before hooxi. Hate all you want he IS and will be a G2 legend. Only the third team to win katowice and cologne in the same year...
Hooxi and jks came as a Package Deal and jks CT side stats were incredible. Hooxi is a B Rush double Pump Simulator he’s not a mastermind Monesy just bailed them out he’s trash always was
Hooxi should become a coach. Maybe he will become something like Blad3. Blad3 wasn’t good at individual playing (especially in csgo) and yet he became one of the best Coaches ever. I believe same will happen with Hooxi.
I wanna see him more in an analyst position tbh, I'm sure he could be very useful in a coaching kind of role but idk, always saw him more as an analyst type than a coach type.
@@koolaiddude7685894I remember reading an inside info that Hooxi actually was trying to make a “family” out of the G2. Talking about everything after games, trying to resolves everyone personal concerns and wishes and etc. I remember Gla1ve doing somewhat the same with Astralis. Not just like “go train, do better”. But actually be more than just the team outside of the matches. Hooxi IS the goat.
I don't understand why G2 didn't opt for Niko IGL wirh Hooxi as a sort of IGL coach for him. This literally would have been the best IGLing setup for Niko, with Hooxi's coaching. Would have avoided all the role clashes as well.
@@HassanKhan-ms5kg dont understand? its not that complex. niko doesnt think its time for him to igl g2. he said so literally. you think g2 would ignore and force him? just because its the narrative we want doesnt mean we could force through it. how often we thought some teams look perfect just to disappoint?
Hooxi is a tragedy. Everywhere he goes his teams perform well. But he plays so unbelieveably poorly individually that people think there's no possible way he's a valueable xfactor in the team.
they fucked over hooxi with the jks move. Jks was one the best anchor in the world, he was litterally the bread for the sandwich of g2. Yes the BLT can be delicious but the bread just elevates to a new level. Jks was the bread holding all the toppings,without him and nexa in its just all the toppings just fell out and then blown by a leaf blower.
does that explain him not being on the team and them winning with a historically bad performance from nexa and a similar rating from stewie? Clearly just niko and monesy is enough firepower. Fact is they dont have enough coordination. Spacing is off way too often and leads to a multikill from the other team
@@captainminecraftist Except imagine if you have jks instead of that nexa doodoo performance, then you win things like IEM Kato and Cologne in the same year :// - they could win, and tbh if they "fixed" non-verbal jks which apparently was a huge problem and fixed their team mood they wouldve probably had those kato/cologne performances all the time
@@yvngfantom5855 so he needs 3 top 20 players doing 1.2 ratings to win (cologne). That’s not props to the igl that’s an indictment. The only tournaments he’s won have been when the individuals are just on another level. The one tournament they won this year was without that next level playing, in fact nexa and stewie were some of the worst rated players at the event. That shows they don’t need jks fragging to win, they need to play as a team
As a G2 fan, HooXi will always be a legend in my mind. I don't care about the stats. As far as I'm concerned, he did the dirty work that enabled his team mates to be the best they can be. I'll always be thankful for him for finally giving G2 3 S-tier titles after YEARS of drought.
Watching hooxi ever since he came onto G2, i thew out all expectations of his stats, and just enjoyed watching him for what he was, a tactician to lead I also loved it whenver he laughed or howled whenever literally anyone did anything insane on G2
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="200">3:20</a> I can’t believe you didn’t mention Gla1ve, who doesn’t even play nearly as bad as other IGLs, won 4 majors and still gets criticized and kicked off Astralis.
Tbf, I have huge respect for Glaive, but his game plan/strats were horrible at the end. It was only not his individual form. He was out of the meta. Glaive was outsmarted by other igls. He is still recovered from that period. They were outperforming. You can blame BlameF, but at the end, he was the leader of this fiasco.
gla1ve didnt produce the players on astralis by creating a system like hooxi did for cph flames or nafany did for c9. he solved a choking problem for a team that was consistently making playoffs. its not a real comparison for me
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="825">13:45</a> This doesn't make the Hooxi move make sense. They didn't win Dallas because stewie or nexa stepped up, they won because Niko and Monesy did. That duo is G2's whole identity. They won clutches, which is what G2 *need* to do for their lineup to make sense. If Hooxi calls a round and get's a 3v3 or 2v2 with Niko and Monesy alive, then he's done his job. This is exactly what Karrigan was praised for during Faze's dominance. I never understood the Hooxi hate.. there were almost no big tournaments where his individual level let the team down. Yes his stats looked bad when they lost, but that is because he never stopped trying to win. He never stopped trying to set up Niko, even when Niko was having an off game (common in recent months), so his stats spiralled. As IGLs go, his eye test performance is not worse than most. His system was perfect for the individual high-IQ CS that his stars can play. He called circles around Snappi at Cologne. Niko was pretty much absent from Paris and Copenhagen, Monesy was absent from Paris. They could have even won Copenhagen had jL not had the best few maps of his career, but that's just speculation. I think the Nexa move makes sense, he never should have been on the roster and seemed like a last minute panic buy becuase JKS had to go. The Hooxi move is a huge gamble, and seems unnecessary. I just hope it pays off for the sake of Monesy and Niko's careers at G2.
"there were almost no big tournaments where his individual level let the team down" you sure? im not sure about letting team down, but he sure letting all of g2 fans down. he often places his crosshair on the floor..... its just 1 example. you think thats not worrying? to prove my point, look at him and see which teams want him in like 6 months
@@koala-ytt What good IGL wants to go to G2? I dont care if Karrigan is better than Hooxi. If G2 cant get him, its irrelevant right? Hooxi might have underperformed, but unless they can put a better player in, why are you benching him? Its one thing if G2 is willing to buy out Siuhy or Glaive but they clearly arent.
If HooXi doesn't get into a "tier 1" team later this year, I want him to build a new long term project with an org that hasn't entered CS2 yet. Get HooXi with maybe three rookie prospects at least and a good coach, that team could cook to potentially towards eventually a top 10 team
Feels really bad to see my favorite player from the new generation leave G2. Hopefully he becomes a coach somewhere. But if someone like ex6tenz never got a chance, it's very possible Hooxi just slowly faded away from the spotlight. Richard Lewis fans rejoice. I never understood why Hooxi received so much hate. It wasn't even about his play. When he wins an event there's always something to discredit the whole thing. I've lost a lot of respect for Richard Lewis after this whole roster shuffle fiasco. He could've been more levelheaded with his criticism.
you gotta keep reminding everyone that teams do not win and perform this well at tournaments without the masterminds behind them. It's easy to always look at the numbers
launders i just have no words, you were always so presice deconstructing the issue, with your point of view i wish more ppl get the ideas that u spread, keep it up man
It’s not flirting vs harassment. Karrigan’s calls win games so he can be poor on the stats. Nafany’s calls can barely keep BetBoom afloat vs Tier 3 and he has worse stats while doing it.
I'll always remember the "my kid is better than yours" yell by Hooxi. He said he realised that some things in life are bigger than CS and he stood by his words attending his sister's wedding and missing a big event of his own career, that alone has earned my respect. I hope Hooxi can make a comeback and I hope the new G2 fares well in this EWC tournament. Looking forward to G2 vs Teams Spirit tonight.
Even if his individual performance can't get better, Hooxi would honestly be a great assistant or head coach if he ever decided to go down that road (I hope he does)
Hooxi was trending upwards in terms of individual performance throughout CS2 and the end of his run with G2. I hope he ends up on a team like Sashi, TSM or some other Danish core. I believe he has more to offer before tech-switching into a coaching role.
Im not sure how much I believe in hooxi as a player, but not keeping him on as an analyst or swapping him to coach full time is going to go down as one of the wildest moves in cs history. Brother is like no one else.
Even though it is possible that he might've established a system for G2 to flourish, I don't think his IGLing was enough to offset his fragging. At the beginning you compare him to karrigan with the "flirting v harassment" meme, but in reality he just hasn't proved he has the chops like karrigan does. Yes, he won 3 major tournaments (with a possible asterisk of those being at the "end" of CSGO), but I never saw in his game "wow" calls or felt his impact like in many other IGLs. To be fair, I think I'd be proven wrong if he did a CPH Flames 2.0, but for now I think that even though he has a commendable career, I think it was mostly the fruit of the pieces he had. Even then, I think this was a great video and "historic" pieces like this are always a great add to the community. Hope to see you do more of this kind of content!
I really loved watching G2 play Anubis when everyone but 2 teams (G2 included) were confident on Anubis. Ever since the beginning of the end (Paris Major), it seemed like G2 had never played Anubis before. Just wanted to share, really loved the roster and they were the one who made me hooked on CS.
Sorry but Hooxi as a coach is only way i could see his future. He can be one of the best coaches out there but as a player in tier 1 no. He was great at times, in CS:GO mainly but let's be true to ourselfs now, he played with best rifler of all time, best prodigy now best player m0NESY and Hunter who was BEAST in CS:GO, also JKS was best ANCHOR that year so they needed to win something that year, in CS2 it was nightmare for G2 and Hooxi, they won only 1 tournament and that was without Hooxi in team, this was the only way, buy he is great guy with big heart wishing him all the best in the future.
i love your stuff lau, and i really appreciate your work for the sport. Still i´d love to see you use "Betting" less, especially in your own brand. I see the state of the game regarding gambling and betting as highly problematic. Thanks, if you read this ^^ luv u bro
We all knew this was going to happen, the truth is i thought it was going to happen before... is like the Hooxi gigachad meme, we know hooxi is not a chad in cs. I don't think its a bad IGL or player , but G2 is a team of superstars and I don't know how much of a superstar he is. At least he has won things with G2, and G2 I suppose will appreciate it... As Karrigan recently said in one of his videos (pickem tier team, before Hooxi get kicked), if you have Niko and Monesy you should win more...
Imagine Hooxi makes his own full Danish roster and calls it "The gigachads". Then "The gigachads" play well and make it to the major. And we get Gigachad Hooxi sticker in-game
This is why I prefer Launders content over those childish podcasts Thorin does with Kassad, because Launders doesn´t skim over actual events. Ironically Thorin and Kassad act exactly like the people they criticize the most, people that only read the kdr numbers and pretend the star awper and rifler are the only ones doing the work
Hooxi built a system and I think G2 winning Dallas was proof that his system worked... but it can now work without him. It's a shame but I think with a good IGL who doesn't shake up too much, they can be a great team again.
He lacks the intangible but crucial 'leadership' quality that sometimes has less to do with understanding the game and more to do with individual personality. This is a quality that elevated classic IGLs like Fallen, Zeus, and Pronax. Sure he can hype his teammates and perhaps coordinate site executions, but if you are thinking of a leader you'd follow to hell and back, Hooxi is not the first person to pop into your mind. If you can find a rare IGL with both fantastic tactical gamesense and innate leadership qualities, you will create another era.
Ngl, If having a tragic life is making a G2 salary per year/month going .81 and winning 3 S tier tournaments. FUCK are we all doing something way worse
Of course I know nothing about what happens behind the scenes, but I would not be at all surprised if HooXi actually would make a lot better coach than Taz.
honestly it started as probably the worst player that has ever been in a top 50 teams, he had such a strong teammate that were in their peek he got carried, but honestly he improved surprisingly fast . he was pretty decent at the end.
Hear me out, we make Hooxi G2’s coach to replace Taz that way he can still bring his energy and leading skills to the team without affecting their performances (No shade it’s just that he put up bad numbers)
