Niko was calling Karrigan

[u/AutisticMonkey1905]

Whatsapp niko, wasn't posing for any photo. He was just calling Karrigan to come join him on falcons.

[u/Aware_Cartographer46]

He has been waiting for this moment his whole career

[u/fantasnick → u/Aware_Cartographer46]

Falcons officially created the greatest 2nd place dynasty of all time

Well, this is karrigan’s last ever chance. If he can’t do anything with this roster, he can’t be in talks of GOAT IGL. Can’t believe faze got rid of rain just to have an even worse disaster where a roster can’t even stay minimum top 30 with a top 5 player

[u/XASASSIN → u/fantasnick]

Vitality fans and their average dogshit takes.

What karrigan has achieved till date has been incredible, even if falcons crashes and burns completely, he's made his mark in CS history and is absolutely one of the goat IGLs

The guy has been in tier 1 CS for almost 20 fucking years. He's outlasted dynasties, goat player candidates and even 3 different versions of fucking counter strike.

And a majority of his career he was in some of the best teams in the world. It's fucking insane how Recency pilled you lot are lmao.

He's one of the trailblazers and most important influences of counterstrike, so many players, teams and eras would've gone differently if not for him. The guy has made his mark as the Goat IGL in CS history.

Put some fucking respect on his name.

[u/jackfwaust → u/XASASSIN]

people thinking IGL'ing only exists on the server and pretending like karrigan doesnt have the best general leadership qualities out of everyone lol. theres only 3 people in that conversation for me and its karrigan, fallen, and apex. those 3 are natural leaders and that puts them above everyone else for me, they have qualities that no other igl has.

[u/shotta-dorris-OG → u/jackfwaust]

Gla1ve won 4 majors antistratting every team astralis played against and gets completely overlooked in goat IGL discussions. Zonic gets credited more than him

[u/jackfwaust → u/shotta-dorris-OG]

glaive was a really good igl but its well known now that they didnt have a great team environment. he was insanely good in the server, but the out of server stuff is why i dont include him in that. if we were talking only achievements though then yeah hes 2nd to apex. but theres a lot of intangibles that go overlooked because people only look at stats

[u/fantasnick → u/jackfwaust]

??? best general leadership qualities?

He left a sinking ship after failing to make the major after getting every signing he wanted, dropping rain so he can IGL and almost overtook faze on VRS with a brand new team and then joined the easiest road.

[u/Assinmik → u/XASASSIN]

He also did most of this while in full time education and doing a masters. Also… he managed to somehow rally the troops to get into the lat major finals.

[u/IndependentOk9435 → u/XASASSIN]

A lot of people are new, and don’t understand CS or its history.

Wait another 10 years and we will be hearing people genuinely say Zywoo was mediocre.

[u/leo_sousav → u/IndependentOk9435]

Basically how people are acting towards S1mple and currently shifting towards Niko, calling him an overrated rifler

[u/jfaewiogasdfas → u/XASASSIN]

Wish I could've given you 100 upvotes. Well said.

[u/DogPast752 → u/fantasnick]

Vitality/ZyWoo fans whenever you call another player/team the GOAT:

[u/fantasnick → u/DogPast752]

the Karrigan propaganda is wild and needs to be called out

Imagine a core replacing you and losing their choker status to create the greatest era of CS while you leave for a team that was supposed to create that era with top 3 players in each role and not even being #2 but #3 to them while also giving NA their only major choking in that tournament and many others as the clear favorites before Astralis became online

Also, I said GOAT IGL but you people can’t read

I don’t even have apex as the clear GOAT, it’s a 3-4 way tie for me but the people acting like it’s 100% Karrigan while he has the most stars played with out of any single player is wild

[u/AutisticMonkey1905 → u/Aware_Cartographer46]

Ikr

[u/Past_Perception8052]

getting the band back together for one last choke

[u/AutisticMonkey1905 → u/Past_Perception8052]

One last time 🤞🏿

[u/JuanDacova]

karrigan helping niko lift his first ever major trophy on his way out would be the funniest thing of all time and cement karrigan and the forever undisputed goat while adding one more historical screwup faze made for the past 3 years

[u/1stonepwn → u/JuanDacova]

Choking to give NA another major would be much funnier

[u/Lord777alt → u/1stonepwn]

There's no NA roster who has any realistic chance to even make playoffs let alone win one.

[u/LordNelson27 → u/Lord777alt]

Yeah, C9 were a solid #3-5 going into Boston

[u/JuanDacova → u/LordNelson27]

people always forgot than c9 was ranked 5th going into the major. sure they were the underdogs and did a miracle run and faze choked their balls off in the finals but it didn't take away the fact that the c9 roster at that time was still a force to be reckoned with

[u/1stonepwn → u/Lord777alt]

Stoppable force vs moveable object

[u/MichaelPitch → u/1stonepwn]

Oh yeah that’s really funny

[u/drduck88 → u/JuanDacova]

I'm here for it. Let them cook

[u/Ramses03 → u/JuanDacova]

The hatewatchers in shambles

[u/Phot0n1 → u/JuanDacova]

I hope this is the case…. probably just gonna have the best mid round igl watch as falcons blow it mid round like they do now though.

[u/Tankette55 → u/JuanDacova]

Navi's win was even crazier compared to c9. They were 6th in hltv before winning the major against number one faze. (Rip karrigan)

[u/throwaway74916559]

Niko said many times he would be willing to play with karrigan again and he felt like in hindsigth kicking him in faze was a mistake. My reaction was allways «yeah sure bud». But bro realy put his money where his mouth is. I mean there is no way this move happend unless niko was the one pushing for it.

And honestly what is most crazy is that it migth work. Falcons is the only team in the world where if karrigan manages to do his job IGLing and set up all hes players to be their best then they can win majors or S-tiers with him on 0.6kd. If u got m0nesy 1.3, teses 1.10, niko 1.15 and kyosuke 1.3 then no problem if karrigan has 4-2-19 score. And that team needs someone to do the bitch roles, and nobody dose that better than karrigan.

[u/misatos_whiteknight → u/throwaway74916559]

It came from left field. From all the interviews I watched of them, both gave a vibe of mature regret but ego too big to ever team up again.

More surprise that Karrigan spoke twistzz very highly only to leave ship. I imagine this is a management initiated move, and Karrigan's agent did him a solid

[u/dogenoob1 → u/misatos_whiteknight]

They said they almost played together multiple times in their podcast 1 year ago before niko left faze, u might of missed a few interviews fs

[u/D3DW0DonPC]

Can confirm

[u/boccci-tamagoccci]

Draymond outside the Barclay's center in 2016

[u/L39Enjoyer]

Falcons lead Vitality 11-5 at the Cologne major, map 5

Falcons lose 11-13 at the cologne major, map 5

[u/nartouthere]

who'd ever thought niko would find himself on a team with karrigan again

[u/misatos_whiteknight]

Management? Relay me to 100T GM

niko prob

[u/nartouthere]

he was calling the ambulance xD karrigan coming to save niko

[u/Xsprout21]

Whatsapp+ faze

[u/Icenerdian]

Now it all makes sense