Perfecto takes over as Virtus.pro IGL

1-9-2025 15:25

The Russian anchor is the new shotcaller following electroNic's benching.

Ilya "⁠Perfecto⁠" Zalutskiy is the new in-game leader of Virtus.pro's team, the Russian organization announced on Monday, taking over shotcalling duties from Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov, who was recently moved to the bench.

Despite his lack of experience in such a role, the Russian organization said that the decision to hand the captaincy to Perfecto was "unanimous."

Virtus.pro bench electroNic

"We are confident that his vast professional experience, deep understanding of the game, and leadership qualities will help stabilize the team’s play and results" Virtus.pro said.

Perfecto, who joined Virtus.pro as recently as June, is faced with the task of bringing the team back to the top after a disappointing start to the season that has seen the team win only one LAN match in seven tries.

Virtus.pro are yet to announce the name of the player who will be filling the vacant slot on the roster. Next week, the Russian team will attend FISSURE Playground 2 in Belgrade, a $1.25 million tournament headlined by The MongolZ, Falcons, FURIA, Aurora and FaZe.

Virtus.pro currently have:

Evgenii "⁠FL1T⁠" Lebedev
Petr "⁠fame⁠" Bolyshev
Kaisar "⁠ICY⁠" Faiznurov
Ilya "⁠Perfecto⁠" Zalutskiy

Ivan "⁠F_1N⁠" Kochugov (coach)

Timur "⁠FL4MUS⁠" Marev (benched)
Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov (benched)

David "⁠n0rb3r7⁠" Danielyan (loaned out to HOTU)

AHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHA

2025-09-01 15:27

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the old players will do everything to stay in tier1 cs and steal paychecks, even trying IGL :D so saaaad

2025-09-01 15:33

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Well, let's see. Bring back FL4MUS as entry. This is a solid roster, if perfecto can lead.

2025-09-01 16:15

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"We are confident that his vast professional experience, deep understanding of the game, and leadership qualities will help stabilize the team’s play and results" LOL Perfecto can barely hold a site... lol. Oh my Goodness ... what a shitshow!

2025-09-01 21:45

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this will give perfecto another 6 months to a year of paycheck stealing when they come to fire him he will be like "but i was teammates with s1mple, but i was teammates with s1mple!!!!!!"

2025-09-02 01:43

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I dont agree with that "paycheck stealing" comment from hltv people. He grinded out of the cesspool of global elite CS GO and past the faceit 10 lvl cancer hell, sacrificed a lot of time and resources to be where he is. Then grinded his way in academy t2 and t3 hellscape, as a pro spent 42 weeks away from home, travelling, jetlag, not leaving the hotel bootcamps, living in the public eye exposed to your average dunkin donuts-eatin' moron's opinion on the internet, so he has earned every right to earn his paycheck from playing this game. The "paycheck stealing" comment comes from a place of jealousy and not understanding how some dude is getting paid to play this video-game, with no idea the pain and sacrifice, and life risk it takes to become a pro.

2025-09-02 10:09

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He might have done all the work for csgo but in cs2 he been living off his status as s1mples ex teammate When times got too tough in cloud9 he benched himself hoping to get a free ticket to spirit to be carried by donk. But they didnt want him and he stayed on the bench for over a year before he realized no top team is going to give him a free ride Yes he is paycheck stealing

2025-09-02 11:41

could barely hold a site? this man was #1 anchor in CS:GO th you talking about

2025-09-03 09:58

I think it realistically was the best choice they could've made.

2025-09-01 15:34

what are you laughing at. Blade initially wanted him to igl in Navi as well.

2025-09-01 15:36

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And for some reason it didn't work... i wonder what was the reason

2025-09-01 15:38

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they didnt try it because they had boomich, but its absolutely reasonable decision for him to try an igl role.

2025-09-01 15:44

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hes not energetic enough to lead.. strats mb but thats not nearly everything that an igl is

2025-09-01 15:56

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maybe but he can compensate with smarts and experience. s1mple called him a genius at some point. still a reasonable decision to try considering there are lack of good igls in cis

2025-09-01 16:04

he also said he plays like he shit his pants at some point lol

means he is smart and didnt go for braindead aggro moves like s1mple did often.

2025-09-01 16:07

means he doesnt have balls to igl first u say s1mple praising/opinion on him is good but as soon as its a negative one it doesnt matter anymore and s1mple is noob lmao how is that

2025-09-01 16:09

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balls = being stupid << smarts s1mple said that he as a genius and then confirmed it by saying he is not an idiot doing stupid moves ("shitting pants"). which part you dont understand here? also s1mple said "shitting their pants" about basically everyone in his career so it doesnt matter much

2025-09-01 16:13

shitting pants is not at all being smart my guy lmao it means you dont aggress when team needs or stand up to pressure etc which is very much exactly what an igl needs to do lol i think only other player he said this about was npl with 0.9 rating lmao

2025-09-01 16:19

he said that phrase like every other game when they lost about everyone during his career. it literally means nothing. but he only said "genius" about perfecto and maybe blade

2025-09-01 16:24

Have you seen brollan? Mouz is top 3.

2025-09-01 19:36

DESPITE brollan lol their t sides are absolutely notoriously bad and its just a team pretty much full of those guys including the coach so obv it fits better there

2025-09-01 20:59

i was wrong they actually kicked boomich and blade was going to make perfecto igl but egotronic convinced him that he would be better igl lmao

2025-09-01 18:29

man perfecto cant even anchor decently. There are so many better options. Lampada, frontales. Cairne.

2025-09-01 21:54

the remaining 7 VP fans on earth reading this news:

literally me

2025-09-01 16:18

Brought by electronic to steal his job

2025-09-01 15:49

fl1t and fame wanted him instead of fl4mus..

2025-09-01 15:57

well he probably owes perfecto one, after elec dumped him and the team of cloud9 and fukced off to VP

2025-09-02 21:13

gonna work for sure

surely

XDD

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

just disband at this point

somebody replaces trash

somebody somebody or somebody literally somebody

they found a way to become worse xd

signed washed players > give them igl > hope it turns cycle of VP LUL

say sike right now

LMAO

they are cooked

lol

i feel sad for VP fans XD if only they exist

somehow they do, but all of us just mock them

2025-09-01 15:30

we do exist, unfortunately for us i actually wish i didn't like fame and fl1t, would be much easier

respect vp fans much more than vitality fans!

2025-09-01 21:56

fl4mus time to shine

2025-09-01 15:28

Lol

Just disband already, we all know it aint gonna work

1 step forward 5 steps back with this one give your academy players a chance ffs

They originally sign him with this plan

2025-09-01 15:29

Just bring Jame back at this point...

Leichtenstein! I've been!

If I learn Russian can I call in VP too? I m 2.6k elo on faceit that should be enough

No no no, you're over-qualified, need to look for a better team than VP.

2025-09-01 16:00

VP never learns

wtf

It's parody benching flamus and electronic for no reason believing that something will happen

they were both benched bc fl1t and fame demanded it afaik lol

2025-09-01 15:53

It's just so random, I mean they believe that someone is the problem, but the reality is that this team should either full rebuilded or even coaching staff and igl rebuilded

2025-09-01 18:10

with who tho theres pretty much noone available lol

2025-09-01 18:23

also they were both playing mid at best lets be honest lmao

2025-09-01 18:28

XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD vp be like: hey, you - you igl now.

hahahhahaha

what the actual fuck

2025-09-01 15:31

I'm afraid its perfect0.6 time. At least fl4mus is coming back 🔥

rip in peace

VP BACK TO CLOSED QUALI FOR CCT

Yeah this ain’t it, but VP needs to a complete rebuild, but they can‘t do it now. Ideally the new VP: James, FL1T, zont1x/magixx, xielo & Belonchok

Nothing can be worse than elec igl. Bring back fl4mus and this team actually has decent firepower

when you think that they can't do worse - they surprise you

VP is a tier 3 team now LMAO

PEAK CINEMA

2025-09-01 15:32

maybe better than egotronic

hahahahaha vp is fkn cooked.

"unanimous" probably with a gun to their head

inb4 they give him 2 months to learn to igl and then replace him with another temporary player

Clowns

...what?

now bring back Flammus

Bruh wtf LMFAO

2025-09-01 15:35

Well, that’s the only way for a player as bad as him to still be on the team, essentially this is the last chance for him to save his career.

Jesus Christ.. Navi strikes again

I think tN1R will potentially be VP's newest player/victim, since Spirit still haven't announced anything about him replacing zont1x in the lineup

?? they couldnt get visa or sth for him for london in time so they decided to keep z0nt1x for this event only idiot??

2025-09-01 15:51

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It really should be like that, but knowing how current VP operates, they might have just bought tN1R's contract outright for like a million dollars instead of just reinstating FL4MUS or mir back into the lineup

2025-09-01 15:58

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no they cant hes going to spirit ??

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Hopefully he will go to Spirit, but I'm also worried that VP with their bottomless ineptitude will fuck this up somehow

2025-09-01 16:02

it isnt even possible bc of tn1rs heroic contract are you baiting? or really just that dumb? him going to spirit is absolutely done deal man

Yeah true, and it seems like my fear of VP was for nothing as VP just promoted tO0RO from VP.Prodigy, so that's my bad xD

2025-09-01 16:34

kek

2025-09-01 16:41

I mean, we now know that this is not the case, but let's not forget from where Heroic got Tn1r (GUN5, or "Winline, the org (with a streamer as a public face)") and who's the bookie sponsor of VP. It could have been the case

2025-09-01 18:20

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it was basically official 3 months ago it could have been the case

2025-09-01 18:21

also vp are samsung and whatev now as well as tn1r left gun5 a year ago when he looked much less promising as well im guessing gun5 happily took the buyout money and thought they scammed heroic in the process lol

"Sources" is not "basically official". That being said, HLTV usuallu does not publish things unless it's basically concrete, but it's still "sources"

2025-09-01 18:24

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so basically official...

2025-09-01 18:25

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Also, and the logo under Samsung and even a bit bigger than Samsung is?

official

I'm not arguing that he's going to VP, after tooro he's obviously not. All I'm saying that thinking that before the announcement was not baseless, that's all

it wasnt baseless for like 1.0% at best lol

2025-09-01 18:34

perfecto big stronk arms were covering

Nah, it seems like they have 2 jerseys in case they are not allowed to show their bookie logo, be it in the country where the tournament is or on stream because of TOs contract with their bookie. Which is pretty smart imo. Better than having TOs to black tape all over your jersey at least.

2025-09-01 18:32

not my fault then

2025-09-01 18:51

Spirit is probably waiting until after Blast London since they have like 1 month without any tournaments afterwards. They don't really have a reason to force the new lineup with no real training.

2025-09-01 16:26

True, and my fear of VP fucking things up was for nothing, as VP just promoted tO0RO from VP.Prodigy to the main lineup

2025-09-01 16:31

and tn1r didnt have visa for london...

2025-09-01 16:42

If that's the case then that's an extra reason. But tbh they might still have waited till after Blast London, don't really see a reason to squeeze him in with no prior training.

2025-09-01 16:52

blast london isnt really relevant anyways and the sooner he joins the more pracc, time to grow and get together etc they have until major

2025-09-01 18:27

Ehhhh, it's money and VRS points. + donk already mentioned at the end of the last season that he's getting annoyed by the amount of skipped events

2025-09-01 19:39

they wouldnt have had to skip first part is online and could still go with z0nt1x once/if they qualify and the more experience together with tn1r the better

2025-09-01 21:02

.... u see this?? its fkn worst case lmao and it was pretty much lose lose from the fkn start lol donk just pack it up honestly and join us for infinite era already (we would be honored..)

2025-09-02 00:04

AHAHAHAAHH this is the funniest shit ive seen since liquid ecstatic in bounty with harry hugo (goats) cast and most joyful experience since ragebaiting 4 stack of germans in mm lmaoooooooooo

2025-09-02 00:06

Do you think this is unexpected? Next move will be +mir

2025-09-01 15:37

you forgot the fact that vp will also change their coach xd

flamus back?

who will they sign?

Well, he can’t frag so he better do something useful. I still think picking him up was a bad decision. They should have cut him at the same time as electronic. I think they will still cut him in the near future though

If you are going to recycle dead players at least get snax. Even without speaking Russian he is miles better than goddamn PERFECTO

not the worst. Idk how an anchor is supposed to igl, but he can't be more useless in the fragging department than aleksi or karrigan.

aleksi is easily better fragger while igling than perfecto lmao theyve already been pretty much equal before this change and even karrigan is likely fragging harder while having igl duties than perfecto is plus not to mention hes a better igl in and of itself already anyways just like aleksi... terrible bait ngl

2025-09-02 00:03

It’s so over…

Special SBU agent Ilyia began his destructive work

2025-09-01 15:40

Broooooo 🤣🤣🤣

2025-09-01 15:41

VP hás aura ngl

lmao.

OMG they’re hopeless…

2025-09-01 15:42

vp went downhill after kicking dastan, qikert and jame

2025-09-01 15:43

alright now they just need to make b1t igl on navi and 80% of Scary Navi will be on Shitter-IGL duty. not to say b1t sucks necessarily, ik hes kind of the guy, but it would be funny

s1mple igl soon too trust

2025-09-01 15:50

Insane

Even worse then elec

2025-09-01 15:45

Bring flamus back

its a fucking miracle icy is still in the line up

2025-09-01 15:46

he did kinda well on c9 no

No and all games were tier 3

perfect fit for vp

also fym he had 1.13 while heavygod had 1.18 at exact same time and is now still at like 1.11 in tier 1 with different roles anything is possible for sure and he "already" has 1.04 at least in 3.0 as well...

2025-09-01 16:06

ICY was just statpadding in C9, go watch the games.

nah also why u change ur flag?? also tell me who they get instead of icy now after investing already

People were cry that I was using UA flag from RU even though my reason was solidarity so I changed it not to make UA users upset with image I was giving them but I think my comments are only respectful but I did it because user I know for long time asked me to. They should revert -electronic and remove perfecto and ICY and then promote b1st. Then they should sign Magixx or not send norb3r7 on loan and introduce him again. Team will be- Fl1t Fame Electronic B1st Magixx/norb3r7

electronic igl again?? even perfecto is better probably and at least not toxic asf for sure lol you could just do ua flair

2025-09-01 16:16

Any proof that perfecto first time IGL will be better? He is already shooting badly and tilting, who knows what added pressure will do. I won't flair UA it always is used as bait.

2025-09-01 16:48

i dont think so no also where is he actually tilting and more importantly more than egotronic??

Ilya is a player who can cope very well with this role if he remains in the same role of a defensive midfielder.

2025-09-01 15:47

he was away for more than a year...

Bro knew he's next so he took a role where being a bot is allowed

lmao gg

Flamus back???

2025-09-01 15:54

rather have nafany over him VP needs to be studied

This can't be real lmao...VP CEOs/GMs are on meth or something...?

I’ll accept this if they bring back FL4MUS in his preferred roles

2025-09-01 15:59

This is hilarious!!! :b A serious note though: Not get fl4mus back! Electronic totally destroyed him .........If he's able to go back to where he was before "Electronic showed me that I didn't know how to play cs, but now I do!".