Natus Vincere won 11 of the previous 14 matches. Still, they lost to Virtus.pro in Round 3, and now they have to get a win here in order to secure the playoff spot. Even though they lost the opening map to Cyber Legacy in the first game at the IEM New York 2020 CIS, NaVi managed to win the next two maps and also defeat K23 in the following match to start with two wins. Natus Vincere recorded eight consecutive victories at the ESL Pro League Season 12 Europe and reached the Grand final at that tournament, but failed to win the title as Astralis proved to be too strong for them and secured a 3-1 win. Natus Vincere Team Stats and Latest Results Natus Vincere is a favorite in this Best of 3 encounter. That being said, this match has a big significance for both sides as both are standing at a 2-1 record after the opening three games. It’s a conscious decision, but still gives the opponents really a lot of space.Natus Vincere and forZe are looking to finish the group stage of the IEM New York 2020 CIS among the top three teams and secure the playoff spot, but it seems that only one can get it there. It gives attackers a lot of space, also, Natus Vincere often let Ts to secret totally for free. The last thing to mention is Natus Vincere’s outside control playing as CT: Natus Vincere almost never actively control outside.ĭenis “electronic” Sharipov prefer to hold the outside from the main or behind CT-red. As an addition, Natus Vincere almost never use double-ramp setups, so it can be their weak spot in the defence. This habit can be easily abused by T-side at least a couple of times per half. Here are his two lovely positions that he takes in 80% of rounds: Not the best thing in Natus Vincere playstyle is flamie positioning as ramp-anchor. Na`Vi are truly flexible on CT-pistol rounds – they have many options to use and, probably, preparing pistol rounds especially for each opponent.Īll the 3 games they have played at ESL Pro League S11, Natus Vincere have used 3 different pistol rounds setups. So the first rule versus Natus Vincere on Nuke: play pistol rounds carefully and expect everything. Also, if Perfecto performs as ramp-lurker, Natus Vincere usually more focused on lobby and squeaky rather than on the outside. Ilya plays a bit closer to the ramp and leaves the fewer options and space to control for the defence. With that said we have to mention that when flamie plays as a ramp-oriented lurker, Natus Vincere prefer a heavy outside mid-round presence. Usually, he takes sneaky, but safe positions and rotates from hut to lobby and back. You can see a typical movement as a lurker on the radar above. But it’s not only about playstyle – different lurkers mean different movements of Natus Vincere over the map. And those two guys got a truly different playstyle. Usually, Egor “flamie” Vasilyev or Ilya “Perfecto” Zalutskiy play as ramp-lurkers. Then, playing versus Natus Vincere’s T-side, the defence can use the ramp area to collect the information. Okay, we just mentioned that Natus Vincere don’t like to show their presence at early timings. As T, both fast executes and early, impudent solo or duo peeks should be expected less than in 15% of rounds, and if we talk about CT-site, the percentage even lower: Na`Vi love to show their aggression in about 10% of gun rounds playing as CT. Absence of early aggression both T and CT on gun roundsĪn interesting thing on contrast with T-pistol round: Natus Vincere prefer to play without heavy aggression (CT & T) and fast execute (T) at the beginning of the round. The best option to play versus Na`Vi’s T-pistol is to make a compact passive defence near sites with a decent bait and crossfire setups. You can build your strategy for CT-pistol round knowing this habit: Natus Vincere got a flexible pistol rounds playstyle, so you can’t predict where the will put their focus at early timings. 15-20 seconds from the start of the T-pistol round and you get a headshot by initial aggression or simply fast execute. Playing versus Na`Vi on Nuke, you have to expect the issues right from the beginning of the game.
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