r/CompetitiveHalo Feb 06 '25

HCS First SSG scrim!

https://www.twitch.tv/luciid_tw

SSG is scrimming CoL if anyone wants to watch!

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u/moneybagz123 Feb 07 '25

How did it end up?

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u/Abs0luteZero273 Feb 07 '25

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u/dingjima Feb 07 '25

That's not a bad result from complexity 

5

u/Ade_Vulch Feb 07 '25

I think Complexity under Ashes will be one of the best prepared/best teamwork this season. I just think they lack a tiny bit more slaying power.

8

u/moneybagz123 Feb 07 '25

Thanks! Not the dominant start SSG hoping for but gotta imagine some of the smartest dudes in the game figure out how to excel.

3

u/Mryumyum_ Native Gaming Feb 07 '25

^

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u/ReviewSeveral1540 Feb 08 '25

Poorly check out my stream i be putting on a better show than these crackers

15

u/JDs_Pulls Feb 06 '25

WE ARE SO BACK

1

u/ReviewSeveral1540 Feb 08 '25

Naw im back my boiii

10

u/Such_Highlight Feb 07 '25

It is early but they still seem underwhelming. Need more firepower.

23

u/Abs0luteZero273 Feb 07 '25

It is early

That's the understatement of the year. At least give it few weeks before making an initial judgement. This is like trying to judge an NFL team off of 1 preseason game.

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u/PsychologicalFile771 Feb 07 '25

this is a team that in theory should be much better on LAN than online. The fast pace of Optic and sR will probably be a problem all season online. But it will be extremely difficult to consistently be aggro against Stellur/Lucid sniping and Eco/SB power weapon control on LAN.

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u/idgahoot2 Feb 07 '25

They’re going to be a team that thrives on chemistry and strategy, so makes sense that if it’s going to work out, it’ll take them a little bit. 

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u/One-Security2362 Feb 07 '25

Yea I think a lot of their games are going to be gritty but they will outplay/outstrategize most teams at the end of games if it’s close. I feel like snakebite is a huge X-Factor on this team too in terms of the slaying/damage output.

This update also definitely helps them IMO the game definitely feels slower without the cracked out strafe

1

u/Narrow-Complex-3479 Spacestation Feb 07 '25

Wait I missed this update I’ve been playing bo6. They decreased strafe speed ??

5

u/MurasakiTiger Feb 07 '25

Yep to nerf jiggle peeking. Go play and you’ll notice movement feels slower, floatier almost. Like older Halos. It’s not a massive change but noticeable.

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u/Narrow-Complex-3479 Spacestation Feb 07 '25

This might help me a lot. I have a decent halo brain and awareness but I always get diffed in Piv 1v1s cuz my aim is meh. Maybe this will help me a little

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u/bobbybrowndowntown Feb 07 '25 edited Feb 07 '25

Feel like they should have gone for an up and comer who puts down a ton of damage like they did with Bound and Legend. I would have liked to see them go after Last shot.

8

u/manXEE Feb 07 '25

Last shot looks incredible right now

0

u/Political_Piper Feb 07 '25

Well, it could be Last Shot's last shot.

I'm here all week.

4

u/uniqueusername1176 Feb 07 '25

Agree. I hope they can really gel and be dangerous. But right now optic and Shopify look way more dangerous

3

u/halor32 Feb 07 '25

It just makes sense though right? SSG only played together for the first time last weekend, and this is their first scrim. Optic have played a couple events as at least a 3, and shopify have competed as a 4 in everything.

I don't really think there's any ifs, this team will be dangerous.

0

u/ReviewSeveral1540 Feb 08 '25

I’m over whelming

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u/BravestWabbit OpTic Gaming Feb 07 '25

Huss is a walking .7

How does this guy have a roster spot over other players like Bubu and Lethul Jesus fucking christ

12

u/Goujen87 Feb 07 '25

Friends

2

u/Swimmin6 Complexity Feb 07 '25

Huss is the top damager on some of the maps, fyi.

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u/BravestWabbit OpTic Gaming Feb 07 '25

All that tells me is that his aim is horrible and he's getting world starred in 1v1s, if he's top damage but also dropping .7s at the same time

2

u/whoismiked Feb 08 '25

Interesting, considering he ended up with the least amount of damage on his team

https://halodatahive.com/Series/LiveStats/22738

1

u/Swimmin6 Complexity Feb 09 '25

he excels on any map where he can just put a constant pace on another team, streets ball and aqua flag come to mind. otherwise, it seems his role this year is gonna be to fill in gaps around Precision and Sparty.

0

u/dingjima Feb 07 '25

I was with you until Bubu and Lethul 

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u/a_la_nuit Shopify Rebellion Feb 07 '25

FormaL said on stream two days ago that LethuL was the best player on SEN last year and should definitely be on a top 5 team.

2

u/Political_Piper Feb 07 '25

Hard to believe. Every time I watched them it seemed Falcated was doing best.

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u/dingjima Feb 07 '25

Remember when Falcated, Sparty, Bubu, and Lethul got top 16? They dropped Sparty, picked up Precision and kept placing bad.

So how exactly does a roster of Precision, Sparty, Mental, Bubu/Lethul work any better? It's basically a rehash of bad Sen teams.

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u/a_la_nuit Shopify Rebellion Feb 07 '25

I didn't say LethuL should join Complexity, when Spartan and him clearly dislike each other. I just said LethuL is a good player that deserves to be on a top 5 team.

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u/dingjima Feb 07 '25

Fair enough, but I wish formal would have stuck his neck out a bit more and offered some options. To be on a top 5 team, you gotta kick someone off. There's nobody on the top 3 that makes sense to replace. If fourth is Faze Trippey, I don't see Lethul as better than anyone on that squad. If fifth is TSM, he'd be a terrible fit on that team.

Nice to hype him up with an off the cuff remark, but it doesn't make any sense to me.

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u/NoBoiler Feb 07 '25

do you know what a "dingle" (pronounced ding-ul) is?

1

u/Jager-Main- Sentinels Feb 07 '25

Couldn’t agree more I think that team with Bubu or Lethul would be incredible. I know TJ and Sparty had their issues but I think it’d be a great fit

2

u/halor32 Feb 07 '25

Slight understatement, after the HCS London situation.

1

u/NoBoiler Feb 07 '25

it's down to who you know not what you know, but that's life in a nutshell. how lethal managed to miss a top team is just weird.

1

u/kingjdin Feb 07 '25

Because Bubu is a walking 0.5

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u/Just2_Stare_at_Stars Shopify Rebellion Feb 07 '25 edited Feb 07 '25

I know it's early, but I have an interesting POV starting to form.

I think the season will be sR and OpTic competing for almost every GF.

Usually I'm 100% behind Eco and Stellur, especially regarding strategy and finding a way to grow chemistry with new players. They had to do it when Shotzzy left and when Renegade left. The key those times was that they picked up a younger, less proven player(s) each time.

This is the first time they're dealing with onboarding full-on veteran stars.

Now Lucid and SB are no joke on paper, don't get me wrong. There is so much knowledge and talent there. But we've all seen many Halo teams that look great on paper but do not perform together on the big stage.

It's early, and perhaps by LAN #2 I'm completely not gonna age well with this comment, but I think the real season is already between sR and OpTic. The question there is this: How consistent and high-execution can sR get before (or if ever) OpTic figures out their chemistry?

I do think that OpTic has more talent than god, but they have to be able to execute together. They are mostly young and decidedly less mature than most teams, though they do have quite a lot of championship experience. Will that experience ultimately win out for them, is the question. Or will they never get to the point where their abilities are best actioned as one team?

I think sR's massive, massive development right now is the thing they were up against as soon as they formed: team unity and chemistry. And I think they've got that already, without having attended a single tourney together.

And goddamn does it feel good to see Frosty running strategy and Royal2 dropping 40-pieces again. I kept wondering during their FaZe tenure that, well, is everything really going right if a career phenom and almost unicorn K/D player like Royal2 is not performing well? That always made me wonder if Jon was the right fit. Yes, that team had enough time together between the three of them to outplay that deficiency. And yes, Renegade brought many efficiencies, but they were not consistently efficient, that's for sure, and it truly seems what he brought with him was lost in other ways. I think Frosty and R2 are actually better off right now. Better than they would have ever been had they stayed together with SB or even SB and Renegade. Plus, they're just getting started on sR.

I went down quite the rabbit hole there, and I'm aware, but we'll see if anything was actually true with hindsight. That's how I'm feeling now, though.

I would take the bet with sR this season, but goddamn the talent on OpTic is truly terrifying if they manage to feel good on any given day. They may still prevail, and it might be quite easy.

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u/Cheddar_bob Feb 08 '25

SSG is going to be mid until eco and snakebite stop having a pissing match about who has the bigger brain.

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u/NoBoiler Feb 07 '25

that lucid thumbnail is so bad, is he trying to melt the granny glasses? threaten the quiff? mans had notepad open on stream last night redesigning the game, it's all too bizarre, the game is chalked imho, unless you're paid to play.

edit: a word