Former OpTic Gaming and NRG Esports IGL Pujan ‘FNS’ Mehta explained what he thinks went wrong for Bleed Esports and his former teammate Jaccob ‘yay’ Whiteaker in their opening VCT Pacific Kickoff matches.
The next time yay and Bleed will get a chance to face off against other top teams on stage will be in April. The team might just need this extra downtime to improve their tactics and individual skill, however, as the squad looked underwhelming in its two matches.
yay revealed after the match thathe is to blame for the losses and that he had vision problemswhich hampered his play in the match against Global Esports.
FNS, who used to play with yay on OpTic Gaming, talked about what he thinks Bleed is doing wrong specifically around using yay ina stream on Twitch.
FNS explains what yay is best at and how Bleed used him
FNS is currently on hiatus from professional Valorant, and is streaming instead. The famed IGL was asked about yay’s recent performance with Bleed, and he spoke about how he thinks Bleed is underutilizing the star’s specific skillset.
“I strongly believe that when somebody isas skilled asyay is, you need to put him on his most comfortable characters and that’s how they are going to get the best out of that person,” FNS said.
FNS stipulated that he has no direct insight into Bleed’s coaching decisions, and doesn’t want to bash them too hard as their ideas for how to use yay could be different than his. However, he explained that when yay was on OpTic, they would cater to his best Agents and make sure they played maps featuring Jett or Chamber.
Declan McLaughlin was a Gaming & Esports Writer on Dexerto’s US team, specializing in Valorant and League of Legends. He has bylines at Upcomer and Inven Global.
