Thieves have two people playing TDM and two playing objective
Just looking at Hardpoint here.
Going by hill time on the hardpoints, the disparity between the two OBJ players on LAT and the "slayers" is huge.
Currently Ghosty leads the league in hill time/10 minutes. Envoy is sat at 4th. Scrap and Hydra are sat at 36th and 48th. 1st-48th in hardpoint time is the biggest disparity of any team in the league.
Compare this to Optic and Faze and their players are much tighter. Their range is 5th-34th and 7th-27th.
Essentially, as my title says, Thieves have two people playing the OBJ while Hydra and Scrap are both just playing TDM.
I've seen Hydra getting a lot of criticism (and deservedly so), but he's gonna figure out how to slay, we all know that. The issue currently is that even when he does start slaying, the team is still massively unbalanced.
In my opinion, Hydra is too good at slaying to make him change his playstyle. What Thieves need to do is share out the OBJ between the other three some more. In the first HP yesterday, Hydra was getting flak for having 7 seconds, but Scrap only had 14 seconds and less kills than Hydra. Scrap, Ghosty and Envoy need to share that OBJ burden more and free Hydra. Scrap can't afford to be playing TDM if they're gonna enable Hydra who has bottom 5 OBJ presence in the league.
Posted Jan 27, 2025, 7:49 AM UTC