HEROIC needed an AWPer.

They had one, ish — but nicoodoz barely even used the gun.

nicoodoz took hybrid primary AWPing to a 2019 nitr0-level and, at the start of CS2, boy was it working.

He had a 1.27 rating online for Preasy and looked like an up-and-coming superstar, nothing like the mediocre fnatic AWPer we all remembered.

But on HEROIC, as the AWP got back into meta, nico could not keep up. He bought the AWP more, but that didn’t result in frags. It just meant we saw more whiffs.

The man they have coming in to replace him should not have that problem.

degster had been benched on OG for what feels like forever, but was dominant on the Big Green for Spirit and OG in CS:GO.

Why then, has he had to wait so long for a new team? Well, put it like this. We’ve heard he’s not the nicest teammate*.* Plus he’s Russian. That doesn’t help.

But nice doesn’t win trophies. Talent does.

And HEROIC have taken the gamble nobody else dared to.

It is one that, on paper, elevates a team that lacked firepower but clearly had a great backbone with the sjuush-TeSeS duo, kyxsan and sAw on tactics, and NertZ up front.

Make the personalities gel, and HEROIC will be a team to watch.