The 14th player in the 2021 TOP20 list was released at the beginning of this morning. He is the Canadian Lightning NAF from the Liquid Team.
He is 24 years old since he competed in the arena in 2015, but his growth process is much more tortuous than other star players.
In 2015, he moved to Luminosity, eLevate, Conquest and other teams, and even played for Liquid that year, but was soon replaced by EliGE. His first appearance came after joining the Green Legion Optic in 2016.
At that time, Optic had stanislaw, RUSH, mixwell, NAF and command daps. Then Tarik joined in replacing stanislaw, but soon he welcomed stanislaw to kick out daps (the old tool guy in daps). And let the team, who had never been commanded, lead the team, but unexpectedly they blew a green whirlwind in the second half of 2016. EPL S4 performed well, and they defeated Team A strongly and stably won the championship on ELEAGUE S2, while their world ranking once rose to second place in the world.
The five people in the picture are all thighs, and later the five people are in different directions. Among them, Tarik and RUSH have won the Major Championships, NAF won the Grand Slam, and stanislow also won multiple championships in EG. Only mixwell and the unscrupulous Spanish teammates were wasted their time. The former Green Legion was so sad that
However, as favorites to win the championship, they did not even appear in the group stage, which led to the rapid collapse of the Green Legion. The players scattered around, tarik and RUSH defected to C9, while NAF took a more twisty path, he failed to even find a job in North America and had to run to Australia in the southern hemisphere to play for the Cowboys.
Lightning joined the Cowboy, and there is another sniper Nifty in the team, which brought new changes to the Australian team, which was previously a stagnant pool. Many old Chinese audiences were impressed by this experience. In 2016, TYLOO defeated the Cowboys on Seoul Asian Minor, and in 2017, NAF had a very stable output, which was a big hit. He defeated TYLOO away on the Beijing Asian Minor in 2017 to win the championship. The Liquid Management also saw the Lightning's excellent performance in the Cowboys.
Before 2018, Liquid did not win the championship in international competitions. Liquid signed NAF at the beginning of the year, and the liquid trio EliEG, Twistzz, and NAF were all there. Not long after, they won the Villa Cup S2 championship. In 2018, Lightning, who became familiar with the position of Liberty, played freely, and Liquid's performance gradually improved.
liquid ushered in an explosion in 2019. It was liquid in the first half of the year. Not only did it win the Grand Slam achievement, but it also beat Team A to the top for 4 months. Although they lost to Team A in the Berlin Major and stopped in the quarterfinals, they are still second in the year. NAF has always been the second thigh in the team after EliGE, ranking 7th in the TOP20 list that year.
2020 due to the epidemic, the competition has been changed to online. North America's unique "location advantage" allows them to play fewer games against weaker teams. This year, due to the departure of nitr0, the rapid rise of Black Panther and EG and the location advantages of liquids have led to mediocre results, and NAF has not even been able to enter the TOP20.
Although liquid was recruited into FalleN in 2021, the results are still lacking. However, Lightning's personal performance this year is remarkable, returning to the TOP20 list. In addition to the BLAST Spring Festival and Showdown at the beginning of the year, he won ratings above 1.05 in every event he participated in, and the map pool performed stably. 8th in 89% of the time, ratings above 0.85, 72.9% of KAST ranked 9th, and his endgame 1VN won 53 times, ranking 17th in 17th, if calculated as the average per round, it ranked 5th, and the ADR of 80.2 ranked 15th, and the ratings of 1.13 and 1.12 in the competition and against the TOP20 teams were 12th, and he also won the EVP of the BLAST Global Finals 2020 and EPL S14.
Lightning has been so stable that he has no expression on his face, but he faces the dominant ability of the first team to turn the tide. I hope he can go to a higher level in 2022.
