Complexity defeat FunPlus Phoenix in ESL Pro League Group A opening match

8-3-2021 14:09

Complexity sustained their condition as favorites in the series, taking out FunPlus Phoenix in two maps.

Complexity tallied a convincing victory against FunPlus Phoenix on Nuke (16-6) and Dust2 (16-10) to secure the first three points up for grabs in the Group A round robin stage at ESL Pro League Season 13 ahead of the two other matches of the day, HEROIC vs. Renegades at 15:30 and BIG vs. OG at 19:00 .

Miikka "⁠suNny⁠" Kemppi started in an official match for the first time this year as a stand-in for FunPlus Phoenix, breaking a 97-day spell since his last appearance, and took three opposing players down in the first pistol round of the game, tilting the balance in FPX's favor as they got under way on the attacking side of Nuke.

poizon was firing on all cylinders in the opening match against FPX

Complexity turned the tides with a third round pistol defense thanks to three frags by William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba and went on to dominate on the defense, winning several close late rounds situations and hitting double digits before giving up the last couple of rounds in a 10-5 half. Justin "⁠jks⁠" Savage downed three CTs in the second pistol round to clear the path to a 16-6 victory.

Mimicking the first map, Complexity turned around another lost pistol round on Dust2 early on, although Benjamin "⁠blameF⁠" Bremer and company weren’t able to run away this time as FunPlus Phoenix kept it close on the defense all the way to the half, trailing by only one before switching sides.

blameF mowed down four players with USP headshots in the second pistol round to keep his team in the lead, and although FunPlus Phoenix found a lifeline winning a Desert Eagle and armor buy when down 7-12, a 1vs2 clutch by blameF the following round swung momentum back in Complexity’s favor as they went on to close the map and series out 16-10.

ESL Pro League Season 13Best of 3

Complexity

Matchpage

8th March 2021

FunPlus Phoenix

Nuke

Dust2

Complexity	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Valentin 'poizon' Vasilev poizon	44 - 27	+17	94.9	68.8%	1.42
Benjamin 'blameF' Bremer blameF	38 - 25	+13	87.1	68.8%	1.31
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke k0nfig	33 - 28	+5	77.2	64.6%	1.12
William 'RUSH' Wierzba RUSH	31 - 26	+5	68.0	81.2%	1.09
Justin 'jks' Savage jks	29 - 27	+2	69.1	75.0%	1.06

FunPlus Phoenix	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Martin 'STYKO' Styk STYKO	30 - 34	-4	70.8	60.4%	0.94
Pavle 'Maden' Bošković Maden	29 - 36	-7	66.1	66.7%	0.82
Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi suNny	26 - 36	-10	62.8	58.3%	0.81
Asger 'Farlig' Jensen Farlig	25 - 34	-9	58.0	56.2%	0.78
Jesse 'zehN' Linjala zehN	23 - 35	-12	56.5	60.4%	0.73

expected

2021-03-08 14:10

10 replies

poizon feels good man

2021-03-08 14:12

9 replies

jugi > poizon

2021-03-08 14:29

8 replies

never once did jugi post more than a 1.10 rating

2021-03-08 14:35

7 replies

no jugi, no win

2021-03-08 14:47

rating =/= impact typical level 2 faceit who only thinks about rating

2021-03-08 14:53

2 replies

bro if you think jugi is good then who's the real bad player? like jugi had minimal impact, poizon came back and immediately the team got way better, blameF even said the team atmosphere is way better with him, everyone plays well if poizon plays well like dont be dumb my guy

2021-03-08 14:56

0/8 jugi lol

2021-03-08 15:13

There was a time when Jugi was 2nd best danish awper with 1,20 rating or close to it.

2021-03-08 15:49

1 reply

didn't age well, unfortunately.

2021-03-09 10:15

jugi > s0mple

2021-03-08 16:41

nice try

pogg

jks 1+ rating poggers

2021-03-08 14:11

Pog

2021-03-08 14:33

poggggggg

Gambit lost to this :D

3 replies

With GODJ, if GODJ was still in clownpx then this would have been a victory for them!

2021-03-08 14:13

2021-03-08 14:15

Weird way to spell BONGJ

fpp without chrisj omegalul nicely done by col, looking good

glad to see poizon having good maps this match

FPP was looking really lost ingame

6 replies

another team that prefers firepower to serious IGL

2021-03-08 14:45

5 replies

And what igl should they take? You know chrisj was only on loan from mouz and FPP somehow didnt want to Pay that much money as mouz wanted and The deal fell through? Oh no, i bet you didnt know that you just read The title of The article About picking sunny

4 replies

They should’ve stayed with emi??

2021-03-08 15:09

Emi omegalul, i cant take you seriously right now sorry, if anything, they should have stayed with krystal, emi is The same as a fragger, but worse igl

2021-03-08 15:24

emi actually brought in good results in just 2 weeks time with the team though. Not to add how he also won a Dreamhack Open with CR4ZY after hunter and nexa left and brought CR4ZY to a Major as a coach. I've been personally following emi and he greatly improved as a player individually since the first time he transfered from coach to player in CR4ZY therefore I'm positive he'd keep bringing good results to the team.

2021-03-08 15:59

I agree with this 100%. They removed krystal once, then got him back cuz the team just flat out failed. But it seems that they didn't learn the 1st time and thought now it would work :D

2021-03-08 16:44

With chrisj fpx was better

0-1 and 0-2 Cya at 0-5 0-10 )))

GG and Good Night! :D

jks still underwhelming?

Who cars if his team wins like this.

2021-03-08 14:18

Did you expect anything else?

2021-03-08 14:19

Not really he is doing his job in the team and becoming less of a liability than what he was when he first joined complexity. This will probably stay this way, he probably was overhyped due to being really the only star in 100T and the only amazing anchor in NA. So when he was brought to EU in a team full of stars not only did he have to readjust to a team he had to learn how to not play the lurking role and his stats don't look as good because he is surrounded by players of his skill.

2021-03-08 14:21

2021-03-08 14:25

you dudes are obsessed by rating... they just had an easy 2-0 who the fuck cares

2021-03-08 14:28

JKS with 1+ rating, poggers

2021-03-08 14:20

lol group A looks so easy compared to the other groups

2021-03-08 14:27

better than C though

Nah Gambit just won Katowice + Na'Vi is always a strong opponent

2021-03-08 14:34

ok but the rest of the teams are trash

furia?

2021-03-08 16:30

eh, they're inconsistent

2021-03-08 16:32

fpx without godJ lulz

2021-03-08 14:32

yes

FunPlus Disbandix

2021-03-08 15:05

Farlig and Zekkkn doesn't play

2021-03-08 15:08

Wasn't sunny firepower? Has he been ever decent after mouz?

2021-03-08 15:33

I dont think he ever played his role once after Mouz.

2021-03-08 15:51

ez for GODjks

2021-03-08 15:44

No chris no win

2021-03-08 17:17

2021-03-08 16:38

poizgod is back <3

2021-03-08 18:48

Godzion is back!

2021-03-08 22:47

Well Complexity seems to show some kind of potential again, some kind of change will probably still be needed to make this roster T1 again, but atleast they are showing some kind of potential. We need to keep in mind that FPX has barely showed any life in them recently, and will probably make more changes soon.

2021-03-08 23:40