Vitality foil hampus' debut in one-sided victory over NiP

28-5-2020 15:48

Vitality beat Ninjas in Pyjamas 2-0 in Hampus "⁠hampus⁠" Poser's debut to earn their first DreamHack Masters Spring points.

Ninjas in Pyjamas’s DreamHack Masters Spring opener marked hampus’s first official match with the team since taking over in-game leadership from Jonas "⁠Lekr0⁠" Olofsson, who was placed on the bench and transfer-listed. The Swedes did well in the pistol rounds, winning three out of four, but were unable to put forth a strong showing on either of the maps played as Vitality were in control of proceedings during the entirety of the match, sailing to a 2-0 victory.

hampus got three kills in his first round with Ninjas in Pyjamas as the Swedish side took a 1-0 lead on the attacking side of Vertigo, but a triple by Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon on the following round thwarted Ninjas in Pyjamas's efforts earlly on tying it up 1-1. Fredrik "⁠REZ⁠" Sterner and company were able to win a forcebuy of their own to keep it tight early on, but unable to sustain momentum, it was Vitality who set the pace of the half, going on to win all but one round to make it 12-3.

Ninjas in Pyjamas kept their hopes alive winning the CT side pistol round as well as the anti-eco, although they were unable to bag the crucial first gun round. The Swedes denied Vitality match point when down 5-14, but another triple by shox rounded out by a 1vs2 clutch by Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut put the French team one round away from winning the Ninjas’ map pick, which they were able to do two rounds later, 16-7.

Vitality picked up their first DreamHack Masters Spring win against NiP

Ninjas in Pyjamas were once again able to take a pistol round, this time on the CT side of Dust2, as REZ took out three with USP headshots, but they were unable to follow it up. Despite giving up the two following rounds, Ninjas in Pyjamas didn’t let Vitality run away, winning the first gun round to keep it a close 2-3 before tying it up with a successful B retake in the sixth round. Just like on Vertigo, however, the French team then took control of the half, running away with a large lead, ending 11-4.

Vitality finally won their first pistol round of the match and the anti-eco that followed without giving up a bomb plant and only losing two players. Ninjas in Pyjamas then lost the first buy round, once again without planting, as Vitality hit map and series point at 15-4. hampus then found himself in a 1vs3 afterplant situation on A, but was unable to convert on the disadvantageous situation as Vitality emerged victorious, 16-4.

DreamHack Masters Spring 2020 - EuropeBest of 3

Vitality

Matchpage

28th May 2020

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Vertigo

Dust2

Vitality	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Richard 'shox' Papillon shox	47 - 19	+28	106.9	81.4%	1.77
Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut ZywOo	34 - 22	+12	87.1	86.0%	1.49
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire apEX	39 - 23	+16	93.0	79.1%	1.45
Kévin 'misutaaa' Rabier misutaaa	33 - 23	+10	75.3	88.4%	1.30
Cédric 'RpK' Guipouy RpK	27 - 21	+6	71.1	83.7%	1.18

Ninjas in Pyjamas	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Tim 'nawwk' Jonasson nawwk	26 - 37	-11	66.5	60.5%	0.76
Hampus 'hampus' Poser hampus	22 - 34	-12	67.6	48.8%	0.68
Simon 'twist' Eliasson twist	18 - 37	-19	61.9	53.5%	0.68
Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner REZ	21 - 35	-14	60.5	51.2%	0.67
Nicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez Zamora Plopski	21 - 37	-16	62.0	55.8%	0.67

Group D

TEAM

LEKRO WAS THE PROBLEM LUL Shox top 1 btw

2020-05-28 15:50

16 replies

Lets kick one of our highest rated players who is also calling xaxaxa

2020-05-28 15:51

9 replies

WTF did they even kick him for?

2020-05-28 15:55

7 replies

idk

2020-05-28 16:00

swedish brain 0iq

2020-05-28 16:59

3 replies

Ez throw by nip org, now they disband soon

2020-05-28 17:11

2 replies

ok forsaken

2020-05-28 17:38

1 reply

Thanks, Mr.Msl

2020-05-28 20:52

threat thinks that hampus is the better igl and wants them to be prepared for when coaches arent allowed to talk the whole game again.

2020-05-29 07:52

Hmmm fair enough, so they were relying on their coach a lot... Perhaps that explains why they were doing so well as opposed to Lekro igling

2020-05-29 12:09

ya I was surprised when I saw that Lekro is a solid player he is pretty consistent and smart

2020-05-28 16:06

This year shox and rpk had more impact in Vitality's win than zywoo

Shox top fragging after ages .. Nip deserved this for kicking Lekr0

4 replies

Shox has been looking sharp since the launch of Valorant lol. Seems like he's got his crisp aim back after playing that game.

2020-05-28 16:12

Playing a slower paced game=better aim in fast paced game

2020-05-28 18:17

Apparently

2020-05-28 19:01

Could be a focus think. f0rest back in the days when he was the best, he always played quake 3 as warm up before a cs-game.

2020-05-28 19:03

F for Lekr0

2020-05-28 15:49

Lekro is laughing now

5 replies

+1 lol

+1 hahaha

2020-05-28 15:54

++1 ha ha true

2020-05-28 21:13

Horrable kick. Lekro was igl and pretty great overall player

2020-05-28 17:13

Sad, hopefully it will turn to the better!

15 replies

Its gonna get worst. The only thing NiP had for them was firepower. I think even Lekr0 fans agree but he wasn't a true IGL. He stepped up to the team and pretty much sacrificed his career. But he was still good, one of the best. The scoreboard usually looked like: 1. F0rest 2. REZ 3. Lekr0 4. Plopski/Dennis 5. GTR And keep in mind he was still leading the team, and honestly he did a pretty good job at it. You would watch them play and the team worked pretty well. GTR got information and caught the other team off guard. And you had a pretty good AWPer in F0rest. And Pistol rounds were almost a guarantee with Dennis and F0rest. And REZ was a godly entry. And even with all this Lekr0 still made a name for himself, and kicked ass. -Dennis + Plopski - GTR + Twist You had a young gun star in Plopski and a dedicated AWPer (F0rest never wanted to be the main AWPer) Plopski still shines, and often would top frag. Still even through all this you could see the lack of a true IGL. Thats been NiPs problem for a long time, a REAL IGL. Last time they had one was Xizt, and that was over 2 years ago. What I'm trying to say it that NiP relied on individual brilliance. They, on paper, were just 5 fraggers. When F0rest left they added another young gun star, and the individualism in the team went up even further. This team has always been a team that wasn't as structured as others. Even when they had the real IGL in Xizt, he had a loose calling, so even then it was still lacking structure. Now without Lekr0, you have Hampus. He has a structured calling system, which hasn't been seen since Fifflaren. And you have all these guys who have played with loose calling, or sometimes no calling at all. From as far as I can see, NiP can only go down from here unless they do another huge roster move. I'll compare them to other Swedish teams. Fnatic isn't a team built on star players, that is why Xizts stint with Fnatic didn't work out. It was polar opposite. They are a structured and organized team but with pillars of skill, like Brollan. Thats why they are a top team, they are very organized team because of golden but they still have players who can hold their own against the best, like Brollan, Krimz, and JW. Dignitas, who is honestly toned of a team to classify, but they are a team built on experience. I like to think of them as a team better than Vitality but with a worst carry if that makes sense. They are a semi-structured team, they have great teamwork and communication but are built around guys like Hallzerk and F0rest getting openings. NiP is none of this, I don't see them improving any time soon.

2020-05-28 16:11

14 replies

Dude, how long did it take for you to write this =) And I read it all and I agee with every bit you said. Nip ain't going far. If someone were to leave the team, it should be twist, for a real IGL like hampus. Not Lekr0....

2020-05-28 16:57

I'd say about 20 minutes

2020-05-28 22:37

tldr

2020-05-28 17:21

Nip bad Fnatic good Dig also kinda good

2020-05-28 20:15

i agree with you. and i think player should be bench is Twist, Lekr0 have a good performance if he play in another role, not igl

Not too often you see good posts like this on HLTV. I agree, and couldn't have put it better myself.

2020-05-28 17:46

I mean it's still really early and I would've been surprised if they were on top form. Vitality has been getting better and better and they seem to be really Good now. Hampus has been making a name for himself and deserves a shot at big swedish org. Sure, they are not that top tier team. But except for Twist they are all young guns and could possibly become that team in the future. Sure removing Lekro was a wierd move. But from what you're saying I could actually understand NiPs move even better. Sad for Lekro though.

2020-05-28 18:44

6 replies

Truth is Lekr0 sacrificed himself to IGL for NiP and he gets kicked for it. He wasnt even the worst performer there whilst he was IGL... only reason he took on the IGL role was because Denis didnt want to do it although that was the reason NiP bought him in. Lekr0 got screwed by trying to help NiP and I feel for him. Reminds me of ENCE and well they went to shit after kicking their IGL.

2020-05-28 19:12

Yea, I'm not happy about it, but it is what it is. I'm not ready to doom this roster yet though.

2020-05-28 19:42

As I said in the post, signing hampus of all people is very strange, his IGL style is completely different from anything NiP had since Fifflaren, and none of these guys have ever played with Fiff in their lives. I just find it strange. And I'm not just saying this out of spite because I'm a Lekr0 fan haha. I think everyone agrees that Lekr0 is better than Hampus individually, that isn't really a debate. And IGL style will hella hurt them short term, you could only hope it works long term. REZ, Plopski, Twist, and Nawwk would have too pretty much change their play styles due to the new way the team will operate, and as far as I can see it should hurt all of them.

2020-05-28 22:50

Yea, NiP must have brought Hampus in to expect him doing something else then just so what Threat tells him too. The point is that Hampus is supposed to bring something to the team. Plopski and Rez are sick aimers though, Nawwk is really good too. It really is too early to say anything about this team and what impact Hampus will have. But it's obvious that it Will take some time for them to "recover"

2020-05-28 22:59

I can understand both sides but from my point of view this was just bad. I think that, eventhough twist does perform on occasion, it would be a better move to kick him instead of Lekro. You could have a more experienced player in the team and with him being igl for as long as he was i think that its nice to have a second voice that may just make that one call that will save the round. I think it would also be good for nawwk to be main awp because he is obviously very talented and i think that he may just become that next swedish awp. I have been first introduced to competitive cs in 2015. A time where Nip were struggling so hard and they just kept rolling downhill but i still followed through with them because atleast they tried to fix it but now they just broke a running machine. Its like they were on there way up the mountain and suddenly they fell into a ravine and just got stuck. I think it is way to early to judge them just like with alex and misutaa in vitality where to my understanding people to this day think that it was a really bad move but vitality has really been going uphill as of late and i just hope that it will be the same with nip and hampus.

2020-05-28 23:20

Yea I agree! Time Will tell!

2020-05-29 07:50

Hardly ever comment on This site . Good guessing and speculation get you a bit on the way. :) A New system with structure and mid round calling will come from this. It is not a Quick fix. I would say it will take 6-12 months to get Threats system into the team and for hampus to work his mid round calling magic.

2020-05-29 09:05

rip nip. worst move ever to kick lekro, when they are playing very good. deserved.

Lekr0 rn -> PepeLaugh

good job nip

NiP need more time with new IGL. This roster will be great.

They just need Lekr0 back, they don't need more time They're a bunch of okay players, but without a good IGL they're going nowhere None of them is top tier material individually

2020-05-28 15:52

Actually they are top tier individually

2020-05-28 16:08

No they're not, not even close, maybe in a year or in a few years, but right now, they're not

2020-05-28 16:34

lekr0 epik movement

was ez

2020-05-28 15:58

Hey we did relatively well in RtR so lets make a roster change.....and get smashed next time, smh

+111

2020-05-28 15:53

+1, one of the dumbest moves

2020-05-28 16:23

Shox back? Best game since a few years of him;o

2020-05-28 16:27

Shox was brilliant

karma for kicking god Lekr0

Lekro was the problem. LUL

NO LEKRO NO WIN

lekro was the problem ? clowns

should have kicked Twist instead of Lekro and we would`ve been good.

shox is becoming a beast with the awp

He has always been a beast with the awp though

2020-05-28 15:57

True

2020-05-28 16:28

There were actually times in the last couple months where I thought it might be smarter to just have shox main AWP and Zywoo on the rifle because Zywoo was missing a lot of AWP shots, but incredible with the rifle and shox is more than capable with the AWP.

2020-05-28 16:41

farming stats day for vitality

Hampus Will destroy plopski stats, what a dumb move from nip

2020-05-28 15:56

LEKR0 BENCHED AND DISRESPECTED FOR THIS ROFL F TO LEKR0 GREAT PERSONALITY ALSO GREAT AND SMART PLAYER. NIP DIDNT DESERVE YOU. Imagine keeping twist in the team while kicking ur smartest player with second highest rated xd

+1 Laughs in Lekr0 😂

2020-05-28 17:03

Give them 6-12 months, they just added a new player.

2020-05-28 15:59

Yes. Better start to play valorant right now.

2020-05-28 16:07

HAMPUS maybe decent player but he definitely bad IGL

2020-05-28 16:03

Nice match

xdnip

2020-05-28 16:05

HAMPUS' DEBUT

Lerk0 hello

NIP is dead

laughing in lekr0

2020-05-28 16:09

Lekr0 had a good system, where he made specially Plopski comfortable and Plopski himself could carry NiP over the line. I didn't see that today by far.

They deserve it.

This team doesnt look like they should represent NiP. Rip in pepperoni

-lekr0 was the foul

2020-05-28 16:29

2020-05-28 16:35

Stupid roster move during good form

2020-05-28 16:37

too easy for shoxiejesus

2020-05-28 16:44

Pleasure to watch shox pop off What a ct side on vertigo

2020-05-28 16:49

OH YES BABY

I think the " it will take time " factor is just an excuse"..if the IGL is decent most good teams can atleast put up a fight even if they lose . Did Navi or any other tier 1 team look this bad after a change.?...I see them shuffling more players in due course of time, once they see the bad results. ..RIP NIP

>Kick Lekr0 >Bring hampus >ez lose for NiP 👌🏻

2020-05-28 17:02

Nip going ence, wp. Still wondering how many times changing a functioning roster have been a good idea?

Greed to be even better leads to downfall for most ex -functioning rosters

2020-05-28 17:34

NiP won three out of four pistol rounds and still only got to 11 rounds total? Ouch.

2020-05-28 18:42

New NIP - Ence 2.0 for kicking IGL

2020-05-28 19:04

Threat is such a bot for kicking lekro

2020-05-28 19:14

"It’s in our DNA to be a team that contests for the big trophies, and we want to get back there." i see.......

2020-05-28 19:22

No Lekr0 no win

2020-05-28 21:19

What waste of time. 1.5 maps of time.

2020-05-28 21:32

Try a new IGL? Why not. But havnt ENCE/Faze teached the cs teams anything? You dont kick a good IGL. They should have kept lekro or taken the opportunity to create a 6 man roster. And i dont buy the "he was not a real IGL". Bullshit. Lekro was a pretty good igl and good fragger. Hampus is not a magical fairty igl in comparison. Lekro has been calling a top team for a pretty long time now. Ofcourse he is a REAL igl.

2020-05-28 21:50

Surprise surprise... Kicking lekr0 was a bad call, NiP are going to have a rocky recovery from this.

2020-05-28 22:36

nip omegalul

2020-05-28 23:02

lost their main and igl too , hard to watch NIP game . lekr0 the best player on NIP and they bench (kick him) . that's will be greatefull karma if you kick igl .

2020-05-28 23:41