![]() ![]() Not only did YEKINDAR struggle throughout the past few months during the conflict in Ukraine, but his style has been limited by Dzhami “Jame” Ali. His aggressiveness and willingness to die are exactly what Team Liquid needs so that EliGE and NAF can have space to frag out and not be forced to entry on a site with 10 seconds left (The Statistics are against top 30 teams in the past 12 months and are from HLTV). Of the players who attempt opening kills in over 25% of rounds, he has the highest kills per round (.17) and the third-highest success rate, behind Fredrik “roeJ” Jørgensen (53.8% success over 26.3% of rounds) and Nikola “NiKo” Kovač (57.8% success over 29.1% of rounds). Of those rounds, he succeeds 58.6% on the CT side and 44.4% on the T side, with a combined success rate of 51.6% of rounds. In the past year, he attempted entry kills in 32.6% of rounds – the second most behind Andrei “arT” Piovezan. In case you don’t believe the aggressiveness YEKINDAR brings to the table, let’s dive into his stats. Adding a player who has a positive K/D (1.06) and consistently gets entries will only improve the team. At the recent major PGL Antwerp, Team Liquid had the worst Kill/Death differential of the entire tournament at -92, with the team K/D sitting at. Additionally, YEKINDAR provides a much-needed boost in overall firepower. oSee can pick off players and fall back, and nitr0 can adopt a more supportive role for the team while continuing to IGL. With YEKINDAR, EliGE and NAF will have the room they need. Their entire style will change with the addition of YEKINDAR: a player who is arguably the best entry fragger in Counter-Strike. ![]() In fact, since 2020, Team Liquid has been a very passive team because of the time and space EliGE and NAF take up. During shox’s tenure with the team, Liquid either used nitr0 as an entry or played passively around oSee’s AWP, with the occasional straight-up duel from NAF. Most of the team’s firepower comes from EliGE and NAF, and both need lots of space to operate. However, there is one thing missing: an aggressive entry player to open up rounds. ![]() Stewie is gone, but a solid core of EliGE, Keith “NAF” Markovic, and Joshua “oSee” Ohm are present. Mainly, Jacky “Stewie2K” Yip was at the top of his game and posting entry kills alongside Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski. When Team Liquid peaked with their Intel Grand Slam run in 2019, many things were in place for the team. Although his numbers fell off in the last few months, a change of scenery is just what he needs to be the unstoppable force he was during the peak of Virtus.Pro and Team Liquid is the best destination for him. YEKINDAR is not Russian, but he found himself playing for an organization backed by public enemy number one due and facing backlash for it. YEKINDAR recently became available from Virtus.Pro due to him not wanting to play for the organization. ![]()
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