With the announcement that Azbayar “Senzu” Munkhbold can be seeking to transfer on from The MongolZ, the rifler rapidly grew to become one of many hottest switch prospects in Counter-Strike.
Till he wasn’t.
Following the announcement that he wouldn’t be returning to the staff by which he made his title, a report emerged to say that the Mongolian can be desirous about turning into a major AWPer on his new staff, a transfer that might see him return to a job he performed a lot earlier in his profession.
A couple of spotlight performs as a secondary AWPer could have everybody excited by this prospect, however make no mistake, signing Senzu as an AWPer can be an extremely dangerous determination for whichever staff does it.
Some folks simply shouldn’t AWP
Consider Nikola “NiKo” Kovac. Arguably the best rifler within the historical past of Counter-Strike, even he has believed that he might AWP at occasions. Nevertheless it simply raises one query: “Why?”
Certain, often cracking out a second AWP is a viable technique. Its unpredictable nature regularly catches the enemy staff off guard, which may end up in a simple spherical win. Nevertheless it’s a one or two rounds a half type of factor. Any greater than that, and quick strats mixed with flashbangs rapidly discover that second AWP in a state of affairs they’re not used to.
Nonetheless, because of these few rounds the place it really works, ego takes over. These gamers who get to get pleasure from the advantages of second AWPing all of the sudden marvel what it will be like in the event that they did it full-time, however doing it full-time is a unique beast. While you all the time have the AWP in your arms, these utilities and quick performs that harm you when the second AWP stops working grow to be fixed, and each spherical is subsequently punishing.
CS:GO’s AWP dominance tricked everybody. AWPing has all the time been actually laborious, and the most effective AWPers had been rated so extremely as a result of they had been simply particular gamers. That’s much more prevalent in CS2, and that’s simply the CT aspect we’re speaking about; the T aspect is even tougher.
Simply take a look at the T aspect score of most tier one AWPers. Exterior of the S-tier snipers, all AWPers undergo on CS’s offensive aspect. As Martin “STKYO” Styk identified in our interview with him, a lot of the AWPers these days are tasked with doing plenty of soiled work on the T aspect.
As an alternative of taking gunfights, they’re throwing utility, or getting used because the thankless bombsite entry in late-round situations. Alex “Mauisnake” Ellenberg thinks that will change because of Danil “molodoy” Golubenko, however in an period the place aggressive rifling is king, there’s solely a lot it will probably change.
Moreover, there’s additionally the truth that by making a famous person caliber rifler AWP, you additionally lose their proficiency with a rifler. That is dangerous for 2 causes. The primary being that you just seemingly find yourself with a worse rifler because of this, and the second is that the famous person participant is now longer placing up famous person numbers with the large inexperienced in his arms, so that you’ve decreased your firepower twice.
Senzu wasn’t even good at second AWPing
Now to the compulsory stats a part of the article. The half the place we let you know that, regardless of that loopy Dust2 spherical, Senzu wasn’t really excellent with the AWP in his arms.
Loopy, who might have recognized {that a} spherical the place he didn’t really scope for his kills didn’t imply something?
Spotlight apart, as has been identified, Senzu was the one semi-regular AWPer to truly make his staff much less more likely to win a spherical when he had the gun in his arms. That put him even decrease than former GamerLegion sniper Jeremy “Kursy” Gast, who struggled a lot that he lasted simply two months on the staff.
It’s not simply positioning, both; he’s really not good at aiming with the gun. Funnily sufficient, on condition that no-scope clip, he hits lower than a 3rd of his scoped photographs when he has an AWP in his arms. That places him forty third behind Guilherme “saadzin” Pacheco, however with a better hole between him and saadzin than there’s between saadzin and Fnatic AWPer, Dmytro “jambo” Semera, who’s thirty first.
Is Signing Senzu a Good Concept?
Should you couldn’t inform already, signing Senzu as an AWPer wouldn’t simply be a foul thought – it will be a horrible one. However what if signing him in any respect isn’t a fantastic thought?
Worldwide groups are the meta these days, however there’s one thing to be mentioned about tradition and communication. Whereas The MongolZ’ gamers at the moment are much better with English than once they first rose to tier one, they’re nonetheless much more restricted than plenty of European and even South American skills.
There are definitely groups he might enhance, Liquid, G2, NAVI, and MOUZ all come to thoughts as potential touchdown spots for him, but it surely’s apparent that two of these wouldn’t work as supposed.
NAVI grew to become the staff of 2024 and not using a famous person, as an alternative doing so by way of the facility of friendship. Okay, that could be hyperbole, they’re all fairly good gamers, but it surely was nonetheless clear that it was the environment inside the camp that drove them to their success. MOUZ is the same story, with the staff holding a core of gamers who graduated from MOUZ NXT ever since Dorian “xertioN” Berman was promoted to the primary roster in August 2022.
That sort of connection may not be attainable with an Asian participant thrown into an EU staff; the cultures could be too totally different. The one actual proof we have now for it’s Hansel “BnTeT” Ferdinand’s time on Gen.G, and whereas the Indonesian didn’t battle there, he wasn’t the identical participant he was on TYLOO, and he by no means actually recovered after leaving.
In all chance, it’s a query that in all probability gained’t be answered for a few months no less than. The announcement of Senzu’s availability, very similar to with Martin “stavn” Lund, got here too late for the star to get a brand new staff within the current rostermania. We simply should hope that when a transfer does come to fruition, it finally works out.
In any other case, Counter-Strike will lose certainly one of its nice riflers far too quickly.
