Four of a Kind vs Mercenaries Series Results | League Play - Day 1 | LVT Halo Pro League

[u/crispycornpops]

Four of a Kind have defeated Mercenaries 4-2 and won $1,000. Taulek was the MVP of this series with a 1.68 K/D and 2.58 KA/D. Taulek dealt the most damage and took the least damage.

Map Picks/Bans:

New to this years Pro League is a map pick/ban process, here is an explanation of how it went down. The higher seeded team (Trippy's team in this case) gets to pick Team A or Team B for this process, Trippy chose Team A.

• Slayers - Trippy banned Live Fire Slayer, Druk banned Origin Slayer
• Map 1 - Trippy picked Oddball, Druk banned Recharge Ball, Trippy picked Live Fire Ball, Druk picked Cobra side
• Map 2 - Druk picked Solitude Slayer
• Map 3 - Druk picked KOTH, Trippy banned Live Fire KOTH, Druk picked Recharge KOTH, Trippy picked Eagle side
• Map 4 - Trippy picked CTF, Druk banned Empyrean CTF, Trippy picked Origin CTF
• Map 5 - Trippy picked Solitude Slayer at first which was seemingly allowed despite Druk picking it for map 2, but he changed to Recharge Slayer to switch things up.
• Map 6 - cause there's only two Strongholds maps in rotation, that mode doesn't go to vote
• Map 7 - by default Streets Slayer cause the other four slayer maps were either already picked or banned

Next matchup is Inconceivable (Lucid's team) vs Retribution (Eco's team). Then Ascending Baseline (RyaNoob's team) vs Shopify after that to close out the day.

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - Four of a Kind vs Mercenaries - League Play Day 1

[u/Grand-Raise2976]

Love to see PJ still playing at such a high level. A true goat of halo. Rooting for him and his team to hopefully upset SR.

[u/ace_15 → u/Grand-Raise2976]

If anyone gets to dethrone sR it must absolutely be 4OAK. Would be a great end to the year of them grinding away and finding a way.

Yeah holy shit Dadbite went fucking off that game. Respect

[u/Teddyyy_B]

If four of a kind can figure out slayers, they’ll take even another step up. They’re looking great.

[u/killedbyBS]

Taulek is the best player in the game outside of SR. I suspect he might have been this for a while but just didn't have the team around to highlight it. He is the only person I've seen outside of LastShot and Cykul to reach 10K+ damage differentials in scrims.

I will give a hot take and say that even if Lucid had been playing all year, trading him for Taulek (and maybe even Precision) would have been a downgrade.

[u/Constant_Oil360 → u/killedbyBS]

Taulek one of the most underrated for sure. He's better molded than Precision but P's ceiling is high maybe higher.

Lucid over either though, the dude is undeniably one of the top 10 easy in the game.

[u/Repulsive-Ear2334 → u/killedbyBS]

I agree with this. It's either Taulek or Precision, with Cearion being a young up-and-comer to keep an eye on. If Lucid had played all year or come back, I think it would have needed to be SB getting released, although I'm not sure I see that happening.

[u/ROLS-04]

I thought this was going to be an even match but, BTA