Ahilles named the player without whom Aurora would turn into a tier-3 team, and it’s not Mira

Timur “Ahilles” Kulmukhambetov named Egor “Nightfall” Grigorenko as Aurora key player, without whom the team would cease to be a Tier 1 squad.

The coach and analyst shared this on his Telegram channel.

“Aurora. I respect these hard workers. They played so poorly in the first few weeks — it was painful to watch. Mira was out of shape, Mikoto seemed to be playing separately from the team. Nightfall was just starting to farm, and the game was already lost. Now things are much better, but there is one huge ”but".

In fact, they should have lost the series to NAVI with a score of 0–2. But then that Nightfall moment happened — he played the game of his life on Abaddon. No one else could have won, but Egor did. He's a Tier S player, one of the top 5 in the world. Take him away, and Aurora becomes a Tier 3 stack"

Ahilles noted that the team has not yet gelled, and in some matches the players are not working together smoothly. Nevertheless, it is Nightfall who pulls the team out of even the most difficult situations. According to the coach, it was Aurora carry that pulled the match against NAVI, allowing the team to advance to the BLAST Slam 4 playoffs.

The analyst emphasized that without Nightfall, Aurora would drop from Tier 1 to Tier 3 and would not be able to perform at the same level.

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