envyus trades clayster and jkap to denial for saints and zooma, but does it solve envy's problems?1/21/2015 So, evidently Hastro and co. never read the article, “What’s wrong with EnVyUs’ roster?” Before I continue, let me prefix everything for those who are unaware of the recent roster changes within Team EnVyUs’.
Let’s quickly do a recap: EnVyUs (@TeamEnVyUs) traded Clay “Clayster” Eubanks (@Clayster) and Jordan “JKap” Kaplan (DenialJKap) to Denial eSports (@DenialeSports) for Renato “Saints” (@SaintsRF_nV) and Tommy “ZooMa” Paparatto (@ZooMa_nV). There were major issues that resided within the EnVyUs roster, none of which were any of the players faults, to a certain extent. As I have stated before in prior article(s), and have hammered home on and off of social media (@SaVi_JayD), the EnVyUs team composition is atrocious. “Each one of those players is an AR player, none of them have any dominant SMG play style, tendencies, or twitch shot, as seen from Scumpii and Crimsix. The team does not possess the pressure play style that is required in this high paced game, and with the recent patch making the ASM1, a SMG, a viable CQB weapon, this team looks to possibly be even more out of place.” - Jonathan Diamond, ‘What’s wrong with EnVyUs’ roster?’ Ever since the incredible mishandling of the roster towards the tail end of Ghosts, which led to Hastro’s, “Franchise player,” Matt “Formal” leaving the organization for a spot on OpTic Gaming, the EnVyUs roster has been extremely tumultuous, and to be frank, poorly handled. We all knew EnVyUs’ roster was not working, I knew it was not going to work from the moment I heard of the roster composition. So, if we all knew the roster was not working, Hastro must have, right? And if he did realize that, then he also must have been setting plans into motion that would give the Boys in Blue their best chance to bring home a championship, right? If Hastro is the Call of Duty eSport mastermind like we have grown accustom to seeing, then there must be something that he sees in his newly acquired players, and newly formed roster, that I simply do not. Let’s break the roster down. Previous Roster: Jordan “Jkap” Kaplan Columbus: K/D: 1.01 K/R: 28.38 AI: 41.40 OS %: 30% Orlando: K/D: 0.97 K/R: 27.36 AI: 40.36 OS %: 20.59% Joey “Merk” Deluca: Columbus: K/D: 0.96 K/R: 27.15 AI: 40.20 OS %: 35% Orlando: K/D: 0.93 K/R: 27.06 AI: 39.80 OS %: 8% Clay “Clayster” Eubanks: Columbus: K/D: 0.93 K/R: 28.69 AI: 42.65 OS %: 15% Orlando: K/D: 0.99 K/R: 29.88 (12th) AI: 43.92 OS %: 24% Anthony “Nameless” Wheeler: Columbus: K/D: 0.97 K/R: 27.69 AI: 41.80 OS %: 30% Orlando: K/D: 1.02 K/R: 29.44 (17th) AI: 42.16 OS %: 36% EnVy’s statistics as a team: Columbus: K/D: 0.97 K/R: 27.98 OS %: 30% Orlando: K/D: 0.98 K/R: 28.47 OS %: 48% Newcomers: Saints Orlando: K/D: 1.07 (16th) AI: 44.24 (13th) K/R: 29.25 (18th) OS %: 55.58% (18th) Zooma Orlando: K/D: 1.01 (36th) AI: 48.44 (1st) K/R: 31.38 (3rd) OS %: 44.12% (34th) In my previous EnVyUs-driven article I asserted that a player needed, and by needed I mean absolutely has to be replaced, was Joey “Merk” Deluca. I continued the article by then exclaiming that if Hastro was to go as far as to replacing two players from the roster, you would need to add Anthony “Nameless” Wheeler to the hot stove. As I have stated before, Merk looks to be rapidly descending, or ascending depending on your perspective, into where BigT was right before he retired from professional gaming and became more of a “casual” gamer. To add onto the Merk’s lack of ability comes Nameless’ lack of role within the current roster. Nameless has always been an extremely versatile player, able to play any and all roles competently, however with the previous roster of himself, Clayster, JKap and Merk, he, actually, no one had a true role besides Merk as the objective player. That being said, despite the fact that Nameless, statistically, has played the best on the team through the first two events of this game, Nameless had to of been one of the two players to be replaced. He did not fill a void on the team, with or without Clay and/or JKap. Nameless is a filler player, a role-player, a support player. EnVyUs needed dominant SMG-driven slayers to complement the strong AR play of JKap and Clayster. Speaking of those two, I think that both Orlando and Columbus are an anomaly for these two talented players simply because they, sadly enough, were products of the system of which they were placed in, which was a system made up of a poor team composition. Don’t get me wrong, both Saints and ZooMa are great players, players that would have been an excellent fit with JKap and Clayster. It is extremely surprising to see these two players leave a roster which recently placed Top 3 at UMG Orlando, for a team that will be lucky to place Top 8. Let me know if you guys have any thoughts on this matter, if this trade will solve EnVy’s issues or merely exacerbate them! At me on Twitter @SaVi_JayD!
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