Analysing The Final Circles Of The ALGS Playoffs With Jmw
Jake ‘jmw’ Walters had the fairytale ALGS story at Playoffs. The heartbreak of Pro League with Kungarna. The last-minute call up to replace one of the best players in the world. Arriving in Sweden hours before the first match began. Talking to your teammates for the first time as you kick off your first and only practice match. Playing out of your skin and winning the whole thing, changing your entire career – and life – trajectory. You know the story by now, it’s already been immortalised in ALGS legend.
As he said in TheGamer’s profile of his super sub story, the pressure was intense, but Reignite’s IGL Rhys ‘Zer0’ Perry was instrumental in keeping things calm, integrating him into the squad, and thanks to this something clicked between the makeshift trio: “it just felt right.”
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To better analyse how Reignite won its historic victory, get a glimpse into Zer0’s style of IGLing, and work out just how they managed to clutch the ALGS Playoffs with a substitute, I watched through the closing moments of Reignite’s climatic win with jmw. You can watch the final minutes for yourself here to get yourself reacquainted:
I start the clip just as Reignite is about to get OOBed (Out of Boundsed: when a Valkyrie team redeploys out of bounds, before dropping down on another team from height), and the first thing jmw does is make me rewind further. I acquiesce, of course.
“This is where Zer0 calls to push right,” jmw explains. “He's like, ‘just trust me, trust me.’ And there’s a solo here, and he says, ‘kill him, kill him, kill him.’ And he peeks and I finish him off.”
Watch the clip from the 4:45 mark for this slice of action, but this rotation comes just
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