How Fnatic WIN ROUNDS without SEEING ENEMIES 

it makes sense tho you come up with a strat and figure out its weakness and use that agaisnt teams that copy big brain plays

i dont think they had the intention to counter the half shield strat. it was more so bcz of lotas cuz their are a lot of spam spots on that map

wait so how did they counter half shield, with phantom?

@@marcusliu1141 odin wall spam and util chip damage. I don't remember the time stamp in the video, but basically the extra 25 hp matters much more against those types of damage compared to usual vandal/phantom duels where you often can get shot the same amount of times regardless of which shields you have

Boaster is too good fr fr

If I remember it right, half shield strategy is already present before lock in and it was used by another team. Might be wrong here though

@@cnaizhen yeah but fnc made it popular and is main reason why other teams are using it

@@coral3607 What you said is definitely true, just that there is a huge difference between inventing the half shield strat versus copying other team's strat and making it work. Credit should be given where it's due. Nothing wrong with copying strats btw. Everyone's doing it.

I think it's was nrg/Ethan who "invented it"

If thats the case, kudos to the fnc analysis team!

@Almanac Kopper True, though honestly FNC and FPX (now Navi) have been doing this forever, with FNC usually adapting their game plan and Ange1+doombros cooking up an entirely new Agent composition designed to counter their opponents. Honestly, to me, it is a blunder on TL's part to not see this coming against FNC of all teams as this level of preparation is just par for the course for FNC.

Mini and boaster is like master strategist, the war is already won before the battle begin

Its very strong if you have info on where orbs are and if someone grabs orb and youre not holdong tha torb its obv where they are. The minimap combined with the scoreboard is literally free info. If you see 4 push site but you dont know where last is, might be lurker or last rotater. But if the guy you didnt see as the 4 initial entries plant the lurk danger is suddenly minimal. It can be very good to keep eye on both!

Yep I'm just pointing out that it's ironic how the odin strat counters the half armor strategy, but just a testament to how innovative Fnatic are. Don't mean to say that Fnatic explicitly made up the strategy to counter their own strat but it often turns out that way when you're on top of all the innovations.

@@platoonval it would be funny if they're simply trolling cuz they know they're a better team and buy odin to meme on them.

They were. But now they know how good he is

Bro Boaster is literally the brains in this team + the coach, most teams even with talented players struggle because their strats are too weak, you need a strong backbone behind your plays and without Boaster doing a lot of preparation this team wont be this dominant.

In my opnion give him way too much Credit dude only won a pre season championship

The idea of TL's defensive side is to funnel their opponents into Nats (or B, but taking B only through main is borderline match fixing at that level). Huge pressure out A early to force the attackers into taking space towards C and maybe make them think they can fast take C. There, Nats delays them long enough for Neon to run across and reinforce. The idea is solid, and I assume in scrims (where teams are generally more trigger-happy than on stage) this works quite well, especially for Lotus defence side standards. Skye is then okay as a solo info agent towards A that basically should just tell you if anyone's coming, and then you play retake. The problem for TL was that FNC isn't just a good team that can adapt on the fly, but that FNC had the whole week to come up with how to break that protocol because TL ran the exact same comp and defensive strategy the week before already.

@@thesilvanalyst6880 Thanks for explaining it in detail. I will check out how TL was making their strategy work. But damn, they had nothing as backup seeing FNC had adapted..anyways fun to see this stuff

Nvm just saw that the numbers don't match size of graph :|

You need to know when and when not to go for it though. More than once I've died from a 140 damage headshot by a phantom on a long duel, which I would have survived with full shields

in normally fnatic use turret for mid ,maybe TL thinks like that

Good catch! It's usually dangerous for defenders to push that lane because it goes right into exactly where attackers spawn. Also as someone else mentioned that spot is almost 100% of the time reserved for a KJ turret but it's weird that Alfa doesn't use the turret for anything at the beginning of the round. Regardless defenders are definitely going to assume it's there and that it's pretty dangerous to push that lane especially solo.

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