NRG dummy at MLG Vegas: "we're learning the meta just in time"
That was a great interview and, indeed, gave a lot of insight on what is really happening with the team. Some things that caught my attention:
*I think it was sad when they were talking about the experience and differences on doing scrims with korean teams saying: "their team work is really good, really good at coordinating plays, they have a lot of set plays, different hero synergies like in coordination with different skills that NA teams and EU teams don't even do."
All of this sounded great and I was really hoping to see how all the experience that NRG/Rogue/Envyus/Reunited gained by playing in all of those tournaments translated when they went back to NA/EU tournaments. I guess some of it, if not all was wasted with this new meta.
*It was also interesting hearing that both Enigma and Numlocked are doing the shot calling. He mentioned that on day 1, no one was listening to numlocked unconditionally and after they started working on that they realized there were some things he wasn't calling that Enigma did. So numlocked is doing calling for the team fights and enigma keeps track of the big picture with ult tracking on the enemy team. Really interesting.
*People were also confused on to why Milo was asked to play Lucio and I was really curious to know if he was asked or he volunteered. It seems it was the latter and he actually dislikes playing Reinhardt. xD
*He also mentioned that since they went back to NA they practiced pretty much wrong comps that even though had a lot of success with top teams on scrims they were useless once everyone started running quad tank comp on day 2 of the the winter premier after everyone saw the success Kingdom had with it.
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