Na’Vi Junior’s m0NESY is a rising CSGO superstar – CS:GO News

Kenneth Williams • 27/Jul/21 • 13:59

s1mple, NiKo, and dev1ce higher be careful: m0NESY’s stats paint him as a future CSGO famous person.

Over the previous three months of CSGO tournaments, Natus Vincere Junior AWPer Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov has put up .60 deaths, .90 harm, and .87 kills per spherical. These statistics are practically an identical to Natus Vincere’s senior sniper Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev. Natus Vincere has by some means signed the 2 finest snipers in Russia for every of their CSGO squads.

These statistical similarities imply much more with context. s1mple’s chart-breaking numbers embrace three championship runs at DreamHack Masters Spring, the StarLadder CIS RMR, and IEM Cologne. For all of m0NESY’s insane fragging expertise, Natus Vincere Junior hasn’t claimed a top-eight end since January. Regardless of working with a rougher financial system, 62.27% of m0NESY’s kills are with an AWP in comparison with s1mple’s 46.7%. Get an AWP in m0NESY’s palms and he’ll frag with it.

Natus Vincere Junior is an academy department of Na’Vi devoted to coaching younger CSGO expertise. A number of massive CSGO organizations have youth groups, together with Virtus.professional, Ninjas in Pyjamas, and Group Spirit. Valerii “b1t” Vakhovskyi performed on Na’Vi Junior for simply over a 12 months earlier than being promoted to the primary roster and profitable his first LAN at IEM Cologne. 

Will moNESY play for Natus Vincere?

If m0NESY will get promoted to Natus Vincere’s major roster inside the close to future, he’ll be the youngest skilled CSGO participant at simply 16 years outdated.

Sadly, that places m0NESY at odds with the best CSGO participant on the planet. s1mple is Natus Vincere’s AWPer now and without end if he so chooses. He received’t change to a flex rifler for the sake of a brand new participant. The extra doubtless state of affairs is an expensive contract buyout from one other esports group. The Na’Vi group wins both method. 

In an period dominated by legacy squads and gamers, new gamers placing up insane numbers is an excellent factor to see. The web period significantly stratified skilled and novice esports, and developmental esports groups permit younger expertise to coach in an organized trend. As esports grow to be mainstream, an increasing number of prodigies like m0NESY will get an opportunity to grow to be the following technology of esports stars.