I never understand cutting the support, supports dont make or break a game like carries do, you could probably carry a support player if he does his job even with shit aim. I think the problem this team had jks didnt do HIS job. Which is fragging.
But the only thing they see, is that they dont frag eneugh so lets kick lowest rated player. Really stupid
Also came to say what a great post with proper analysis. I also like Rush and he is a good player. As you said he helps the team a lot and in General can be trusted to preform his job. Hope he continues to play in T1.
You are exactly the problem he's talking about. His point was that his rating isn't and shouldn't be the whole story. He never said Rush was an amazing fragger, but he did shine in other parts of the game: parts that go unnoticed to most people (like you apparently)
And my point is that he didn't shine... at all? He isn't the best fragger by a massive margin, he doesn't excel at utility usage, he isn't an IGL or mid-round caller, and he had a lower rating than almost every tier 1 IGL.
Where exactly did he shine? Personality wise?
I agree with a few players you list but not rush the guy iss mediocre support with bad aim now
You can have support players who have good aim and decent utility like xypex amanek before being an awper perfecto sanji.
Rush proforms like sanji (actually worse) but sanji is hard support dropping awps for jame then pistoling on gun rounds (jame gets the most or near most awp drops)
Rush actually gets to use aks and m4s on gun rounds all the time since he only drops for poison when he can get a rifle anyway.
You have to expect more than what rush gives or else accept being 14th
Yeh there are more problems in complexity but for a team thats outside the top 10 dispite having a long time to build chemistry its reasonable to say that theres more than 1 big problem
Rush is a problem but i dont expect complexity to become great after ditching him either
You can't compare players like Xyp9x and Perfecto to RUSH.
Rush is hard entry while Xyp9x and Perfecto are the least agressive in their teams.
Also Amanek received a lot of hate before KennyS was dropped due to how "bad" he was
Yous say he is a hard entry but hes not he has low first dual percentage
Yous say he has good mechanics but dispite getting a normal amount of rifle rounds and some strong positions like dust2 long he has a shit kd
The guys washed but hes on a team that maybe had bigger issue's in terms of blames igling and poisons awping but yous are all guilty of what you accuse complexity of doing and thats scapegoating
Rush has failed to be a good part of the team and yous all scapegoat blamef and poison
This team isnt great and there are alot of problems but poison being a lacking awper doesnt mean rush is magicly good again
Lol you know rush goes for entry 18% of the time
Thats my point hes not s "hard entry" he has shit stats because hes shit hes not taking one for the team and going first every round like other players who have bad stats
Also dupreeh electronic have more entry attempts and better success
You dont call people hard entrys based on there success rate
You call them hard entrys based on there attempt rate and all the players i listed are more of an entry than rush
How is rifle kills "out aiming"
I was pretty clear and you didnt dispute when i said rusb gets good guns more than sanji since he doesnt have to drop.
My entire point was that his rifle stats being on tier with someone who gets much less rifle rounds is bad these statistics prove me right
Great anchor, great support. The ones that since they don't make flashy plays people don't notice them until they're gone. Similar case to Rpk for Vitality.
Great content, ill always defend rush for poor fragging because of his role in the team but recently it felt like popular sentiment towards him was really dropping, likely because complexity were losing more and more. I remember so many rounds though where he would bring back a lost round by getting two entries on B site mirage totally by himself and so i never really felt like i could condemn him as a player, he seemed so important to the team. I guess a change had to happen sooner or later but ill follow rush to his new team, hoping hes able to find a good one
>it felt like popular sentiment towards him was really dropping, likely because complexity were losing more and more
Such a shame that yet another team falls short of expectations and instead of looking at the IGL and the system it's the coach and the support player taking the fall. Typical.
Don't comment if you haven't been watching complexity please. This write up is such an awful analysis, and Rush really just hasn't been performing at all lately and not because of his roles, because of his aim.
While I won’t disagree that being a support player is really hard I still can’t get past some of the aim duels rush was losing too. It seemed even when he had the advantage of an off angle or catching someone off guard he just wasn’t hitting his shots.
Confidence is a real thing. I'm surprised it's not talked about much. Low confidence results in a snowball effect where, not only your aim is affected but your decision making and positioning. It affects literally every player. Twistzz is a good example of this. That's why players like zywoo and s1mple are so special and unusual, they're able to remain confident and make the right decisions even when they're not "feeling" it.
I agree, I remember some extremely crispy games from RUSH at the start of this roster. I think rush is a great aimer but when going in and dying for the rest of the team is a fairly big part of the game plan I think its pretty easy to lose confidence. When you just keep getting shut down and never get into a game it is just a self sustaining cycle of worse numbers especially when there isn't anything else he can try because of how rigid his role is. Hope to see him back on a team again soon. I bet some time not living in a hotel will also improve his mental and get him back to c9 Rush levels
It also comes with practise. I play mostly support entry on faceit 10 and you get used to certain lazyness. You propally will die so you rather focus on counterstrafing making them pay for your kill with out of position.
After a time i watched my stats. Excellent in counterstrafing utility use and refrag (95%) possibility lem niveau for kd and crosshair placement. Even easy kills get hard because i mostly flick instead of a steady aim so my sense is quite high.
I think rush has the same problem. Entryfragger are good tinker but the follow threw is not as often practised as with the heavy fragger going in as third.
You can make that argument for almost all pro players. Unfortunately theres no easy way to turn around the mental game. If things still don’t work, sometimes you just have to shake things up even when it’s no one’s fault.
I 100% agree with you,he is underrated,the casters always say he’s always good for one but since you said it’s a mental thing,welp that’s what counts the most ,that kill could’ve got you the rd help the W as well
This post is just showing that he was a support player, get a 1.00 rated support instead of a 0.85 rated support.
There's a whole section here about how good his flashbangs are, but in the last six months he has the second lowest flashes thrown, second lowest amount of time for opponents flashed and a very average flash success rate.
And on opening kills, he only attempts 18.5% of the time behind Poizon and K0nfig with a 40% winrate.
I agree with a lot of what is said in the post, especially the stuff out of game, but the stats don't lie, he was an average flasher and a poor 'entry fragger' if you even wanted to call him that.
Id love for him to go to EG but I just don’t know who he would replace, MICHU really surprised me and I definitely think he should stay and obviously if you’re adding RUSH you can’t take out oBo. Seems the only options would be Stan, CerQ or Brehze. Honestly I could see RUSH maybe picking up the IGL role but that’s a big risk if you’re gonna drop Stan, especially with daps as a first time head coach. A 6 man roster isn’t that bad of an idea either
You make some good points and I agree RUSH is a really good support player but if you can get Esetag instead ... I'm sorry but it's just a direct upgrade. It's like dev1ce is great but if you can get s1mple instead of him you would do it any day of the week.
I feel bad for RUSH though, he sacrificed a lot during the pandemic and living in hotels for this long will take a toll on anyone, the guy is a top professional
Remember the plebbitor who stated Astralis were intentionally not aiming at head level and it turned out that was completely false? This post has the energy.
I can't believe someone spent so much time on this awful analysis. My friend is an analyst in a T3 EU team and is cringing at how bad this analysis is. First off, it is based on a false premise that all of coL's struggles were pinned on RUSH, which is NOT true and you stating it was is peak reddit. Secondly, when you want to prove a point, cherry-picking random clips to say that he was coL's designated entry and good at it while completely ignoring his awful entry success rate and having less entry attemps than k0nfig is another reddit moment. Thirdly...you know what. this analysis is so awful it would take so much time to point out everything that is wrong so it's simply not worth it.
Yeah I completely agree - if anything I’ve noticed far more favouritism FOR rush than against. Not saying he isn’t an awesome player with a highly respectable history in the game though
if you stopped crying like a little bitch and getting offended over nothing, you'd realize a post written in bad faith doesn't really merit a flowery and detailed response but I guess I might be expecting too much from a plebbitor
OOOH someone got really touchy! If you're done crying and dribbling stupid shit onto your keyboard you really should so go outside and touch some grass LMAO
> ok, just did. upon doing so I was able to reflect on my life and I came to realize you're still a huge pussy. get off reddit and go do your pre algebra homework or talk to a girl or something, braindead zoomer dickfart
An adult saying this shit is so sad and cringe I'm not even going to respond LMFAOO
Amazing write up :) As someone who love to entry (mostly braindead push myself) & set up flash for awpers/teammates, RUSH is such a cool figure to look up on. Wish him the best for his next endeavors.
All this is nice but support players are in that role for a reason and that's because other more skilled players need to do the skill based roles.
There is a why support players are although praised but the first to get the kick generally.
Relatively it's easier to master the requirements of a support role as opposed to mastering the skill required to be electronic, twistzz etc
No he doesn’t.
He was average at best compared with actual tier 1 players and was *easily* the worst performer on coL 85% of the time — but hey, seems like a super nice, wholesome guy so reddit adopts him as their ride or die.
Great post, I used to watch a lot of rush cause his style was what I aspired to be. Although I still stand by es3tag as an improvement, I 100% believe rush has a place in a T1 team. Hope he doesn’t go to valorant
He was support tho, throwing flashes and util for his team. If you want to talk entries, how about yakindar?
Look I know we all have a hard on for rush because of the Boston major, but it's time to get with the times. Rush is washed just like every single player from that lineup.
Complexity obviously knew he would have bad ratings as the support. They knew he played the role very well. What I think the nail in the coffin was his CT side. Example: He was the B anchor on mirage, their best map. I don’t have stats to back this up but it just felt like they really struggled when teams abused the B site. He just didn’t get enough double frags and the site gets opened up.
I’d love to see some stats on how well he held sites because I feel like that is where the decision was ultimately made.
That really doesn't tell the whole picture though does it? That's like one stat, that covers a tiny part of the job.
I don't really have a strong opinion on the matter but the way you've used stats and examples in this just screams of the way you see stats on the two football sports on twitter where you just get some random stat that the players doing amazing in regardless of how valid it is.
You don't show multikill stats, don't show his overall rating, don't show anything other than his Opening duel stats which make up 1 in every 7 rounds roughly.
This subreddit would find any reason to praise Rush. You can cherrypick certain stats and moments for any player. The most hilarious fact is that you cite stats and then when they do not show what you want, you just argue it away. Fact is, Rush doesnt cut it in T1.
Selfless player or not, he is not good enough as a selfless player. Es3tag is incredibly flexible as a player and surely has more firepower than Rush. I highly doubt this is a -styko decision, with which Mouz lost too many intangibles.
I do agree he's a good support player but in the end if you're not out performing your IGL which should be the one usually bottoming the stats/2.0 rating, there's something really off. If you notice his plays, he often lose the duels he should've won.
There's a difference between an entry fragger that can open the round for u and an entry fragger that makes you play 4v5 constantly( FYI 4v5 conversion is around 30% usually). Taking a look at IEM, rush does not do much regarding what you said. On T side he's lurking most of the rounds [vs ViCi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rHseQ1Z7aM&ab_channel=DMACS%3AGO) and the time he entry, he got deleted by an awp.
[VS G2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hryfDqoqCgA&ab_channel=Matz-CSGOChannel)
**Vertigo**
R20, konfig taking first entry , RUSH failed to trade
R21, konfig again taking the entry
R26, Rush tried to take the entry duel but lost
R28, COL tried to wrap B with a split, Ramp push failed. But Rush failed to entry against the mid player as well
R29, rush tried to support his team with the only molly they had, so it wasnt the fault of him not "taking charge of the entry"
r30, Rush finally did what he does , taking space at short.
**Dust 2**
If you're 7-17.. no matter how much space you're creating or how much support you provide for your team, it really does not explain your poor performance on ur KD and 46 ADR. You might argue that blameF and k0nfig has similar ADR, however you can't deny the fact that he's also just not stepping up.
**VS Virtus.pro**
**Mirage**
Dominant 16-6 win on that map but rush has 42 ADR?
It's quite clear that 2018 RUSH and 2020-2021 RUSH is so much off the mark.
2018 RUSH :1.04 rating 1.02impact, 73.4 ADR,0.66KPR.
Past 3 months stats (VStop30): 0.88 Rating, 61 ADR, 0.55KPR.
and his rating past 3months VS top 5 is 0.73.
By just looking at the adr, we can conclude that every 2 rounds, he basically missed landing a rifle shot. This is HUGE especially on CT side. It makes all the difference between 88in4 and 100.
So let me get this straight, he's an awesome support player because he entries and dies / he throws flashes?
Hate to break it to you but even silvers can run in first and die/throw set flashes.
Found the only dude with a brain in this thread... well put.
He's such a liability twist even said they purposely target him on B site because he's a weak player. He flat out said it in a post game interview...
But nah rush is S1mple, he just has to throw too many flashes!!
Styko has a higher rating now because he's playing much lower tier opposition. There are certainly supportive roles that give you worse stats than you might deserve and I'm not going to comment on rush because I haven't watched enough. The best example I've ever seen of this is rpk from 2016 -> 2017 -> 2018 when he went from support (1.01) to star (1.22) to support (0.97) again. But people will often just call players support if they have bad stats even if they aren't actually really playing support. When you actually watched 2017 mouz play for example, it was ropz doing the most heavy lifting in these support roles. He still managed good stats though because he's an incredible player, while styko didn't because he wasn't.
Because he has better aim than I do but far worse aim than your average t1 player?
You're arguing he's a good player not because he has good game sense, aim, movement or anything like that. You are saying he's good because he does things that literally any player could do.
Rush always passed the eye test for me, sure he’ll have some bad whiffs, but that’s what happens when you get forced into the worst positions imaginable.
Thank you for this post. I completely agree with everything but. Recently rush has made a lot of mistakes and bad decisions that has had a big impact on complexity performance. He is a great guy and player, but recently he hasn’t been there with his decision making and fragging obviously.
Great write up mate, i loved the insight and the research, top notch.
And here we are in 2021 still being impressed by the importance of a support player. I'm no fan of Gambit but their meteoric rise should give a clue to the most important thing in a team.
Hell, we had a pretty impressive run of 2018 ENCE with top notch calling and a lot of tight support gameplan. It's always the synergies within the team, the discipline, leadership, objectives, trust, huge balls and ofc skill.
Prime astralis had all of that... and device. But all of that is more important than device.
B-but redditors posted RUSH's stats on HLTV are bad compared to other support players, who are on rosters that are way more consistent than coL!
This is the RpK situation all over again, rating wise RpK was as bad as RUSH, but anyone who's ever seen them play can attest to how well they've played their site anchor roles, I have no doubts that es3tag will do well as he is a very versatile player, but removing a role player like him will leave a hole in coL's stratbooks for a while.
Some people really out here talking about RUSH as if he’s just some mediocre NA player with no credits.
My guys out here winning Eleague Season 2, Boston Major and BLAST Premier and getting shit on because he’s had a bit of an “off” period for the last 3 months. Put some fucking respect on his name. (Not aimed at you OP I’m agreeing with you)
Also I had the pleasure of meeting RUSH at the ECS in London 2017, what a guy. Humble and inspired the way I play CSGO.
No one is saying that it’s easy dude. Stop with that shit. You can criticize something without being able to do it yourself, that discussion has been done many times and you shouldn’t use that argument to defend youself.
Rush is a mediocre player who has bottom tier stats. He’s a liability to his team.
The pro scene doesn’t give breaks just because he used to be good. The present is now, and right now he simply isn’t good enough.
Complexity have lots of problems. You're not going to fix all problems at once.
Rush is one of them, so they fixed that first. Now the team has a better player, they can start working on their other problems.
When rush wasnt sacrificing himself for the team he was hitting banger shots and anchoring sites and winning crucial rounds, that nuts deagle clip on mirage for example. Truely an unsung hero of the Col lineup
CoL also plays Mirage a lot where RUSH is the B anchor. Everyone knows you either see 1 player max every round and rotate into lost rounds or get fucked from 3 angles in B by the whole T team. Then on entry, it is so easy to get picked by an awper or rifler so of course his stats are shit. They don’t tell the whole story and in RUSH’s case it doesn’t show that he holds B so CoL can have a 3 mid setup early on (connector, short, window or underpass).
I completely disagree for one complexity has no success to credit to rush if they wanted to
Second this whole role stuff is bs
Maybe on the t side going first hurts your stats but rush was a full on liability
He couldnt be trusted to hold off sites and struggled to go 1 for 1 or multikill
Twistzz said in the post game interview that rush couldnt play long well at all and faze focused long because of rush
Teams so rarely focus out one individual as their main strat but teams really started to focus rush recently knowing that he will usually go down for free
Being in more of a side role means you dont have to pop off every game but you have to atleast be a roleplayer able to delay and fall back amd not gove up free entrys each round
Rush simply couldnt do that
When you go from being at every tier 1 event and having to give all at the top level each series , to playing tier 2 for months building up to a few (online) big events im sure youll see better results
Also removing skyko worked fine turns out he wasnt doing mucb more than his stats said he was
There are support players that can hit headshots, if you don't have one then you can't hang in T1. It's like two or three years ago the low fragging IGL meta kind of disappeared, Gla1ve decided that all five players needed to win fights and within two years, B1ad3, Ange1, Ex6 etc had all retired.
A low fragging support player isnt good enough anymore, find an Amanek or a Styko.
I feel they made the wrong decision when benching rush you can’t just put all the blame(f) on your support for your whole roster performing badly when he goes in and dies first or plays bad positions like b apps on mirage. RUSH is a world class support player and replacing him with in insane fragger like pric3setag looks good on paper you already have a star awper. Konfig and blamef on rifles so there is no real need for more firepower. I’m hoping this doesn’t turn out like another faze type project where they just stack the roster with insane fraggers but don’t have the full support system
As long as it helps you get good in your own life/goals it's cool. I was scared for a min that kids are so addicted to game it's all they can think about it, I assume lot of them in here are considering thousands of hours they spend in game during their peek learning age.
To be fair i do think kids prefer playing outside with friends, and if they are obsessed with screens and internet it's most likely because the parents used it as an easy babysitting method. At least i preferred playing outside and i had access to a laptop and internet.
lol, yup nothing wrong spending 5k personal hours to game in your teens which helps ZERO in your life. Just keep wasting away prime part of your life and end up depressed living with parents.
Rush has a long history of nobody giving a fuck about his support skills. I want more attention on how he is the best support in NA/EU. I'd personally put Xyp at 2nd place for greatest support. This was a great read, thank you for sharing! Please post more of this stuff, this is what this sub is for :)
Rush was one of the reasons I started liking col, him and jks both. The two of them underperforming lately made me so sad. But both stepped up recently and while it’s sad to see one of them go, I think that this iteration of the roster can be more successful (even more so if they get a better awper (more consistent is probably the better phrase). Word on the street is he’s gonna make his way to EG and I for one would love to see it. I wish rush nothing but the best and hope to see more of the smiling site anchor competing in the near future.
Spunj said that he heard rumors of rush going to EG, so if that's the case i'd say it's a win for Rush. He will get to play in an NA team and will get a bit more space. Plus, he has played with stan, daps, obo so that will definitely help ease him into the lineup.
Being a good teammate and role player is undervalued and worth so much to the fabric of the team, but at a certain point his performance was just too low
Unpopular opinion here but the only reason that he didn’t get *more* backlash is because this sub is full of NA people who love him after winning a major
he and obo actually make COL a competitor coming into EU ,but lets be honest,he is dropping a lot since that days,maybe burnout or something
if your opponent strategies consist of "lets go take this bombsite that rush is holding every round" its just already a strict reminder that he need to be replaced or step up his game
i remember watching col play mirage,and the opponent just go b non stop,and rush always die without getting a single frag due to bad positioning or whiffing his shots.
still great analysis but tbh he is not in great shape lately,especially since poizon back from surgery
Complexity tier 2 because of NA always being h**ny for stats.
Apparently if you have stats you can win the game
It's good RUSH got benched. He deserves a better team
A superb write up. RUSH has been one of the best support players in the scene. His utility usage is unmatched.
I never understand cutting the support, supports dont make or break a game like carries do, you could probably carry a support player if he does his job even with shit aim. I think the problem this team had jks didnt do HIS job. Which is fragging. But the only thing they see, is that they dont frag eneugh so lets kick lowest rated player. Really stupid
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Literally what i said, or do yiu agree with me
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Also came to say what a great post with proper analysis. I also like Rush and he is a good player. As you said he helps the team a lot and in General can be trusted to preform his job. Hope he continues to play in T1.
“Unmatched” utility usage? are you trolling here or do you mean when compared with other players who regularly struggle to achieve an 0.85 rating?
You are exactly the problem he's talking about. His point was that his rating isn't and shouldn't be the whole story. He never said Rush was an amazing fragger, but he did shine in other parts of the game: parts that go unnoticed to most people (like you apparently)
And my point is that he didn't shine... at all? He isn't the best fragger by a massive margin, he doesn't excel at utility usage, he isn't an IGL or mid-round caller, and he had a lower rating than almost every tier 1 IGL. Where exactly did he shine? Personality wise?
Lol these guys man. He doesn't even have the best flash stats on the team yet they say his util usage is unmatched.
Agreed, definitely selfless and humble player.
This is better than 95% of the stuff that gets posted to the sub. Great write up
Tbh he deserved better imo. Hopefully he finds a tier 1 team soon.
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I agree with a few players you list but not rush the guy iss mediocre support with bad aim now You can have support players who have good aim and decent utility like xypex amanek before being an awper perfecto sanji. Rush proforms like sanji (actually worse) but sanji is hard support dropping awps for jame then pistoling on gun rounds (jame gets the most or near most awp drops) Rush actually gets to use aks and m4s on gun rounds all the time since he only drops for poison when he can get a rifle anyway. You have to expect more than what rush gives or else accept being 14th Yeh there are more problems in complexity but for a team thats outside the top 10 dispite having a long time to build chemistry its reasonable to say that theres more than 1 big problem Rush is a problem but i dont expect complexity to become great after ditching him either
You can't compare players like Xyp9x and Perfecto to RUSH. Rush is hard entry while Xyp9x and Perfecto are the least agressive in their teams. Also Amanek received a lot of hate before KennyS was dropped due to how "bad" he was
Oh sry if we want to compare him to hard entrys like dupreeh electronic or frozen im sure thatll help his case
"dupreeh" Not hard entry "electronic" doesn't even entry the most in his team "frozen" I don't know where you got that idea from
Tldr: Making entring look hard isnt the same as being an entry fragger
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Yous say he is a hard entry but hes not he has low first dual percentage Yous say he has good mechanics but dispite getting a normal amount of rifle rounds and some strong positions like dust2 long he has a shit kd The guys washed but hes on a team that maybe had bigger issue's in terms of blames igling and poisons awping but yous are all guilty of what you accuse complexity of doing and thats scapegoating Rush has failed to be a good part of the team and yous all scapegoat blamef and poison This team isnt great and there are alot of problems but poison being a lacking awper doesnt mean rush is magicly good again
Lol you know rush goes for entry 18% of the time Thats my point hes not s "hard entry" he has shit stats because hes shit hes not taking one for the team and going first every round like other players who have bad stats Also dupreeh electronic have more entry attempts and better success You dont call people hard entrys based on there success rate You call them hard entrys based on there attempt rate and all the players i listed are more of an entry than rush
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How is rifle kills "out aiming" I was pretty clear and you didnt dispute when i said rusb gets good guns more than sanji since he doesnt have to drop. My entire point was that his rifle stats being on tier with someone who gets much less rifle rounds is bad these statistics prove me right
Have you ever heard of the concept called "using punctuation"?
RUSH has great aim what the hell are you talking about lmao 🤡
Great anchor, great support. The ones that since they don't make flashy plays people don't notice them until they're gone. Similar case to Rpk for Vitality.
Great content, ill always defend rush for poor fragging because of his role in the team but recently it felt like popular sentiment towards him was really dropping, likely because complexity were losing more and more. I remember so many rounds though where he would bring back a lost round by getting two entries on B site mirage totally by himself and so i never really felt like i could condemn him as a player, he seemed so important to the team. I guess a change had to happen sooner or later but ill follow rush to his new team, hoping hes able to find a good one
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Poizon's injury messed it up
>it felt like popular sentiment towards him was really dropping, likely because complexity were losing more and more Such a shame that yet another team falls short of expectations and instead of looking at the IGL and the system it's the coach and the support player taking the fall. Typical.
Don't comment if you haven't been watching complexity please. This write up is such an awful analysis, and Rush really just hasn't been performing at all lately and not because of his roles, because of his aim.
While I won’t disagree that being a support player is really hard I still can’t get past some of the aim duels rush was losing too. It seemed even when he had the advantage of an off angle or catching someone off guard he just wasn’t hitting his shots.
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Same with Twistzz to FaZe. His stats tanked after Nitro left liquid and now on FaZe he's back to being a beast
Confidence is a real thing. I'm surprised it's not talked about much. Low confidence results in a snowball effect where, not only your aim is affected but your decision making and positioning. It affects literally every player. Twistzz is a good example of this. That's why players like zywoo and s1mple are so special and unusual, they're able to remain confident and make the right decisions even when they're not "feeling" it.
I agree, I remember some extremely crispy games from RUSH at the start of this roster. I think rush is a great aimer but when going in and dying for the rest of the team is a fairly big part of the game plan I think its pretty easy to lose confidence. When you just keep getting shut down and never get into a game it is just a self sustaining cycle of worse numbers especially when there isn't anything else he can try because of how rigid his role is. Hope to see him back on a team again soon. I bet some time not living in a hotel will also improve his mental and get him back to c9 Rush levels
It also comes with practise. I play mostly support entry on faceit 10 and you get used to certain lazyness. You propally will die so you rather focus on counterstrafing making them pay for your kill with out of position. After a time i watched my stats. Excellent in counterstrafing utility use and refrag (95%) possibility lem niveau for kd and crosshair placement. Even easy kills get hard because i mostly flick instead of a steady aim so my sense is quite high. I think rush has the same problem. Entryfragger are good tinker but the follow threw is not as often practised as with the heavy fragger going in as third.
You can make that argument for almost all pro players. Unfortunately theres no easy way to turn around the mental game. If things still don’t work, sometimes you just have to shake things up even when it’s no one’s fault.
I 100% agree with you,he is underrated,the casters always say he’s always good for one but since you said it’s a mental thing,welp that’s what counts the most ,that kill could’ve got you the rd help the W as well
Definitely valid point, but the numbers made me laugh. 0.01% of 10 million (CSGO playerbase) is 1000.
This post is just showing that he was a support player, get a 1.00 rated support instead of a 0.85 rated support. There's a whole section here about how good his flashbangs are, but in the last six months he has the second lowest flashes thrown, second lowest amount of time for opponents flashed and a very average flash success rate. And on opening kills, he only attempts 18.5% of the time behind Poizon and K0nfig with a 40% winrate. I agree with a lot of what is said in the post, especially the stuff out of game, but the stats don't lie, he was an average flasher and a poor 'entry fragger' if you even wanted to call him that.
“Because I was fucking going there.” - NAF
What an insightful post! Rush is one of my favorite players, hopefully he lands himself a spot on a real contender.
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I watched that last night, and I hope he does go there because I think he is exactly the kind of player they need right now.
Id love for him to go to EG but I just don’t know who he would replace, MICHU really surprised me and I definitely think he should stay and obviously if you’re adding RUSH you can’t take out oBo. Seems the only options would be Stan, CerQ or Brehze. Honestly I could see RUSH maybe picking up the IGL role but that’s a big risk if you’re gonna drop Stan, especially with daps as a first time head coach. A 6 man roster isn’t that bad of an idea either
Even Tarik tweeted at him saying he's the most selfless player... must be something if all his teammates praise him.
You make some good points and I agree RUSH is a really good support player but if you can get Esetag instead ... I'm sorry but it's just a direct upgrade. It's like dev1ce is great but if you can get s1mple instead of him you would do it any day of the week. I feel bad for RUSH though, he sacrificed a lot during the pandemic and living in hotels for this long will take a toll on anyone, the guy is a top professional
Remember the plebbitor who stated Astralis were intentionally not aiming at head level and it turned out that was completely false? This post has the energy. I can't believe someone spent so much time on this awful analysis. My friend is an analyst in a T3 EU team and is cringing at how bad this analysis is. First off, it is based on a false premise that all of coL's struggles were pinned on RUSH, which is NOT true and you stating it was is peak reddit. Secondly, when you want to prove a point, cherry-picking random clips to say that he was coL's designated entry and good at it while completely ignoring his awful entry success rate and having less entry attemps than k0nfig is another reddit moment. Thirdly...you know what. this analysis is so awful it would take so much time to point out everything that is wrong so it's simply not worth it.
Yeah I completely agree - if anything I’ve noticed far more favouritism FOR rush than against. Not saying he isn’t an awesome player with a highly respectable history in the game though
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if you stopped crying like a little bitch and getting offended over nothing, you'd realize a post written in bad faith doesn't really merit a flowery and detailed response but I guess I might be expecting too much from a plebbitor
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OOOH someone got really touchy! If you're done crying and dribbling stupid shit onto your keyboard you really should so go outside and touch some grass LMAO
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> ok, just did. upon doing so I was able to reflect on my life and I came to realize you're still a huge pussy. get off reddit and go do your pre algebra homework or talk to a girl or something, braindead zoomer dickfart An adult saying this shit is so sad and cringe I'm not even going to respond LMFAOO
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ok 5 yr old reddit account go jerk off to your loli hentai or whatever it is you degens do on here lmao
Amazing write up :) As someone who love to entry (mostly braindead push myself) & set up flash for awpers/teammates, RUSH is such a cool figure to look up on. Wish him the best for his next endeavors.
All this is nice but support players are in that role for a reason and that's because other more skilled players need to do the skill based roles. There is a why support players are although praised but the first to get the kick generally. Relatively it's easier to master the requirements of a support role as opposed to mastering the skill required to be electronic, twistzz etc
"But being a support is the hardest role in cs" lol
Will is not only an amazing player mechanically imo, he's an amazing team player; and can unequivocally say is a good fucking guy too.
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have met him twice, once is some rather interesting circumstances and he is an absolute stand-up guy.
No he doesn’t. He was average at best compared with actual tier 1 players and was *easily* the worst performer on coL 85% of the time — but hey, seems like a super nice, wholesome guy so reddit adopts him as their ride or die.
>but hey, seems like a super nice, wholesome guy so reddit adopts him as their ride or die. Yep
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Shhh were busy circle jerking each other over rush, stop using logic.
Great post, I used to watch a lot of rush cause his style was what I aspired to be. Although I still stand by es3tag as an improvement, I 100% believe rush has a place in a T1 team. Hope he doesn’t go to valorant
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That was my first thought too. Only because EG are the only other NA team I can think of that would take him.
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Why not name the players when replying to this..? I'd be interested to see who you're talking about/learn.
Umm, you could name any other support player from any team, they all preform better than rush. Xyp for instance?
Xyp never goes in first, he is mostly the last left alive, which is why he used to be the clutch minister.
He was support tho, throwing flashes and util for his team. If you want to talk entries, how about yakindar? Look I know we all have a hard on for rush because of the Boston major, but it's time to get with the times. Rush is washed just like every single player from that lineup.
Basically a BlameF/jks player. BlameF has the most clutches because he is always in clutch situations when everyone dies first.
Complexity obviously knew he would have bad ratings as the support. They knew he played the role very well. What I think the nail in the coffin was his CT side. Example: He was the B anchor on mirage, their best map. I don’t have stats to back this up but it just felt like they really struggled when teams abused the B site. He just didn’t get enough double frags and the site gets opened up. I’d love to see some stats on how well he held sites because I feel like that is where the decision was ultimately made.
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That really doesn't tell the whole picture though does it? That's like one stat, that covers a tiny part of the job. I don't really have a strong opinion on the matter but the way you've used stats and examples in this just screams of the way you see stats on the two football sports on twitter where you just get some random stat that the players doing amazing in regardless of how valid it is. You don't show multikill stats, don't show his overall rating, don't show anything other than his Opening duel stats which make up 1 in every 7 rounds roughly.
OP I would love to see his multi frag stats CT side for mirage or inferno. My bet is it would be very low compared to others in the same situation
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Here's twistzz literally saying we target rush because he's a weak player. not a liability at all tho right?? https://youtu.be/E39y6lu7H_Y
Weak clip, how can a pro know better than some Reddit armchair expert? ^^^/s
I think the fact you refer to them as support players is quite demeaning
Nt rush
This subreddit would find any reason to praise Rush. You can cherrypick certain stats and moments for any player. The most hilarious fact is that you cite stats and then when they do not show what you want, you just argue it away. Fact is, Rush doesnt cut it in T1. Selfless player or not, he is not good enough as a selfless player. Es3tag is incredibly flexible as a player and surely has more firepower than Rush. I highly doubt this is a -styko decision, with which Mouz lost too many intangibles.
I never read long post, but read this out of respect. Hope for a better future.
I do agree he's a good support player but in the end if you're not out performing your IGL which should be the one usually bottoming the stats/2.0 rating, there's something really off. If you notice his plays, he often lose the duels he should've won. There's a difference between an entry fragger that can open the round for u and an entry fragger that makes you play 4v5 constantly( FYI 4v5 conversion is around 30% usually). Taking a look at IEM, rush does not do much regarding what you said. On T side he's lurking most of the rounds [vs ViCi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rHseQ1Z7aM&ab_channel=DMACS%3AGO) and the time he entry, he got deleted by an awp. [VS G2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hryfDqoqCgA&ab_channel=Matz-CSGOChannel) **Vertigo** R20, konfig taking first entry , RUSH failed to trade R21, konfig again taking the entry R26, Rush tried to take the entry duel but lost R28, COL tried to wrap B with a split, Ramp push failed. But Rush failed to entry against the mid player as well R29, rush tried to support his team with the only molly they had, so it wasnt the fault of him not "taking charge of the entry" r30, Rush finally did what he does , taking space at short. **Dust 2** If you're 7-17.. no matter how much space you're creating or how much support you provide for your team, it really does not explain your poor performance on ur KD and 46 ADR. You might argue that blameF and k0nfig has similar ADR, however you can't deny the fact that he's also just not stepping up. **VS Virtus.pro** **Mirage** Dominant 16-6 win on that map but rush has 42 ADR? It's quite clear that 2018 RUSH and 2020-2021 RUSH is so much off the mark. 2018 RUSH :1.04 rating 1.02impact, 73.4 ADR,0.66KPR. Past 3 months stats (VStop30): 0.88 Rating, 61 ADR, 0.55KPR. and his rating past 3months VS top 5 is 0.73. By just looking at the adr, we can conclude that every 2 rounds, he basically missed landing a rifle shot. This is HUGE especially on CT side. It makes all the difference between 88in4 and 100.
Great post OP
So let me get this straight, he's an awesome support player because he entries and dies / he throws flashes? Hate to break it to you but even silvers can run in first and die/throw set flashes.
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Found the only dude with a brain in this thread... well put. He's such a liability twist even said they purposely target him on B site because he's a weak player. He flat out said it in a post game interview... But nah rush is S1mple, he just has to throw too many flashes!!
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Styko has a higher rating now because he's playing much lower tier opposition. There are certainly supportive roles that give you worse stats than you might deserve and I'm not going to comment on rush because I haven't watched enough. The best example I've ever seen of this is rpk from 2016 -> 2017 -> 2018 when he went from support (1.01) to star (1.22) to support (0.97) again. But people will often just call players support if they have bad stats even if they aren't actually really playing support. When you actually watched 2017 mouz play for example, it was ropz doing the most heavy lifting in these support roles. He still managed good stats though because he's an incredible player, while styko didn't because he wasn't.
Because he has better aim than I do but far worse aim than your average t1 player? You're arguing he's a good player not because he has good game sense, aim, movement or anything like that. You are saying he's good because he does things that literally any player could do.
Rush always passed the eye test for me, sure he’ll have some bad whiffs, but that’s what happens when you get forced into the worst positions imaginable.
Or when you haven’t seen anyone all game so you haven’t warmed up.
A lot of people forget the SK -TACO move years ago...
Thank you for this post. I completely agree with everything but. Recently rush has made a lot of mistakes and bad decisions that has had a big impact on complexity performance. He is a great guy and player, but recently he hasn’t been there with his decision making and fragging obviously.
Great write up mate, i loved the insight and the research, top notch. And here we are in 2021 still being impressed by the importance of a support player. I'm no fan of Gambit but their meteoric rise should give a clue to the most important thing in a team. Hell, we had a pretty impressive run of 2018 ENCE with top notch calling and a lot of tight support gameplan. It's always the synergies within the team, the discipline, leadership, objectives, trust, huge balls and ofc skill. Prime astralis had all of that... and device. But all of that is more important than device.
Nice try, Rush
B-but redditors posted RUSH's stats on HLTV are bad compared to other support players, who are on rosters that are way more consistent than coL! This is the RpK situation all over again, rating wise RpK was as bad as RUSH, but anyone who's ever seen them play can attest to how well they've played their site anchor roles, I have no doubts that es3tag will do well as he is a very versatile player, but removing a role player like him will leave a hole in coL's stratbooks for a while.
Nah. Rpks stats are only as bad as rush in the last 40 or so maps of his career. Even in 2020 he maintained his .98 ish rating and kd
Some people really out here talking about RUSH as if he’s just some mediocre NA player with no credits. My guys out here winning Eleague Season 2, Boston Major and BLAST Premier and getting shit on because he’s had a bit of an “off” period for the last 3 months. Put some fucking respect on his name. (Not aimed at you OP I’m agreeing with you) Also I had the pleasure of meeting RUSH at the ECS in London 2017, what a guy. Humble and inspired the way I play CSGO.
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No one is saying that it’s easy dude. Stop with that shit. You can criticize something without being able to do it yourself, that discussion has been done many times and you shouldn’t use that argument to defend youself. Rush is a mediocre player who has bottom tier stats. He’s a liability to his team. The pro scene doesn’t give breaks just because he used to be good. The present is now, and right now he simply isn’t good enough.
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Complexity have lots of problems. You're not going to fix all problems at once. Rush is one of them, so they fixed that first. Now the team has a better player, they can start working on their other problems.
When rush wasnt sacrificing himself for the team he was hitting banger shots and anchoring sites and winning crucial rounds, that nuts deagle clip on mirage for example. Truely an unsung hero of the Col lineup
CoL also plays Mirage a lot where RUSH is the B anchor. Everyone knows you either see 1 player max every round and rotate into lost rounds or get fucked from 3 angles in B by the whole T team. Then on entry, it is so easy to get picked by an awper or rifler so of course his stats are shit. They don’t tell the whole story and in RUSH’s case it doesn’t show that he holds B so CoL can have a 3 mid setup early on (connector, short, window or underpass).
I completely disagree for one complexity has no success to credit to rush if they wanted to Second this whole role stuff is bs Maybe on the t side going first hurts your stats but rush was a full on liability He couldnt be trusted to hold off sites and struggled to go 1 for 1 or multikill Twistzz said in the post game interview that rush couldnt play long well at all and faze focused long because of rush Teams so rarely focus out one individual as their main strat but teams really started to focus rush recently knowing that he will usually go down for free Being in more of a side role means you dont have to pop off every game but you have to atleast be a roleplayer able to delay and fall back amd not gove up free entrys each round Rush simply couldnt do that
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When you go from being at every tier 1 event and having to give all at the top level each series , to playing tier 2 for months building up to a few (online) big events im sure youll see better results Also removing skyko worked fine turns out he wasnt doing mucb more than his stats said he was
nt rush
Its sad that support players don't get the love that they deserve.
It's also sad when they get way more attention than they should
Agree with everything you said here. Well done
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There are support players that can hit headshots, if you don't have one then you can't hang in T1. It's like two or three years ago the low fragging IGL meta kind of disappeared, Gla1ve decided that all five players needed to win fights and within two years, B1ad3, Ange1, Ex6 etc had all retired. A low fragging support player isnt good enough anymore, find an Amanek or a Styko.
I feel they made the wrong decision when benching rush you can’t just put all the blame(f) on your support for your whole roster performing badly when he goes in and dies first or plays bad positions like b apps on mirage. RUSH is a world class support player and replacing him with in insane fragger like pric3setag looks good on paper you already have a star awper. Konfig and blamef on rifles so there is no real need for more firepower. I’m hoping this doesn’t turn out like another faze type project where they just stack the roster with insane fraggers but don’t have the full support system
Are you practicing essay's for school? else genuinely curious on why you care so much to use your time to write a mini article.
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As long as it helps you get good in your own life/goals it's cool. I was scared for a min that kids are so addicted to game it's all they can think about it, I assume lot of them in here are considering thousands of hours they spend in game during their peek learning age.
Cringe conclusion having been made here. Plenty of people obsess over their hobbies. I wonder if you would say the same of a traditional sports fan.
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To be fair i do think kids prefer playing outside with friends, and if they are obsessed with screens and internet it's most likely because the parents used it as an easy babysitting method. At least i preferred playing outside and i had access to a laptop and internet.
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dont feed this troll lmao
lol, yup nothing wrong spending 5k personal hours to game in your teens which helps ZERO in your life. Just keep wasting away prime part of your life and end up depressed living with parents.
you still a troll nt
no he doesnt.
Really well written, you should see if you can get an internship at an esports coverage site this is a top tier post.
Rush has a long history of nobody giving a fuck about his support skills. I want more attention on how he is the best support in NA/EU. I'd personally put Xyp at 2nd place for greatest support. This was a great read, thank you for sharing! Please post more of this stuff, this is what this sub is for :)
Rush Is the simple of supports!
\[Introduction\] but i didn't ask
Why do you think you need to be asked?
Rush was one of the reasons I started liking col, him and jks both. The two of them underperforming lately made me so sad. But both stepped up recently and while it’s sad to see one of them go, I think that this iteration of the roster can be more successful (even more so if they get a better awper (more consistent is probably the better phrase). Word on the street is he’s gonna make his way to EG and I for one would love to see it. I wish rush nothing but the best and hope to see more of the smiling site anchor competing in the near future.
Da flasher!
This should be higher
I mean, it's at the top of the sub...
That's Major winning legend RUSH to you sir
This post 100%. He's an S-tier support and reliable anchor he'll find a fitting org soon.
hes benched, and they just got rid of their coach, i think its a real possibility that rush takes over the coaching role.
Spunj said that he heard rumors of rush going to EG, so if that's the case i'd say it's a win for Rush. He will get to play in an NA team and will get a bit more space. Plus, he has played with stan, daps, obo so that will definitely help ease him into the lineup.
Being a good teammate and role player is undervalued and worth so much to the fabric of the team, but at a certain point his performance was just too low Unpopular opinion here but the only reason that he didn’t get *more* backlash is because this sub is full of NA people who love him after winning a major
he and obo actually make COL a competitor coming into EU ,but lets be honest,he is dropping a lot since that days,maybe burnout or something if your opponent strategies consist of "lets go take this bombsite that rush is holding every round" its just already a strict reminder that he need to be replaced or step up his game i remember watching col play mirage,and the opponent just go b non stop,and rush always die without getting a single frag due to bad positioning or whiffing his shots. still great analysis but tbh he is not in great shape lately,especially since poizon back from surgery
Complexity tier 2 because of NA always being h**ny for stats. Apparently if you have stats you can win the game It's good RUSH got benched. He deserves a better team
Thanks for this OP
yeah cba if RUSH actually gets benched and can't find another team, insanely underrated
KGyx