Tips for the match FaZe Clan vs Natus Vincere

Today the audience is expecting for a very interesting match. Now we’ve prepared new tips for FaZe Clan vs Natus Vincere.

It’s necessary to recall how the teams got to the playoff to conduct an exact analysis and find out what can happen today.

FaZe Clan

As FaZe Clan played at Major Krakow 2017 with no luck and no success and left the tournament by a score of 0-3, the European team have been training hard and they have reached top-2 of the world rating and began to participate in the Major-tournament from Challengers Stage. On their way to the semifinals, they met such teams as Liquid, Vega Squadron, QB Fire, and Natus Vincere. At the first stage, the European played on such maps as overpass, inferno, mirage, and train and they suffered a defeat only at inferno.

Having passed Legends Stage by the statistics of 3-1, FaZe played on 2 maps on cache and one map on train. Their opponents were Fnatic, Vega, and SK. All the 3 matches were won without a great deal of difficulty and FaZe reached the playoff where mousesports were waiting for them.

In the quarterfinal FaZe played at nuke and cache against mouz and both maps were won by a score of 19-16 and 16-9.

So we can make several conclusions:

The map pool of FaZe Clan is quite wide. The statistics of the maps they played at and their correspondence to their victories is like this:

cache — 3/3
train — 2/2
overpass — 1/1
mirage — 1/1
nuke — 1/1

inferno — 0/1
cobblestone — 0/0

Their strongest map in Major Boston 2018 is cache. And the weakest maps are inferno and cobblestone.

FaZe Clan lost once in the match against Vega Squadron on the map inferno. It means that the European didn’t train the map in a necessary way and that they were not ready for Vega Squadron’s high level.

Natus Vincere

The CIS roster, as well as FaZe Clan, were made to start their way to the playoff from the stage Challengers Stage. Their way was much more difficult than FaZe Clan’s. In Challengers Stage Natus Vincere played against such teams as QB Fire, mousesports, Sprout, FaZe Clan, and Team Liquid. As for the maps, Na’Vi played at inferno, mirage, and train. Having won the fifth round, Natus Vincere were sent to Legends Stage by the statistics of 3-2. There they played against Gambit eSports, BIG, Team Liquid, and Fnatic on such maps as nuke, inferno, and overpass.

Having passed the quarterfinal by the statistics of 3-1, Na’Vi met with another CIS collective, the team QB Fire, and they won at mirage and inferno by a score of 16-4 and 16-7.

Conclusions:

You needn’t have a special advertence to notice Natus Vincere’s weak map pool. Despite a big amount of the matches, the team played 5 victorious maps from 8 possible at inferno.

Natus Vincere’s statistics of the maps to the victories are:

inferno — 5/5
mirage — 2/3
overpass — 1/1

train — 0/1
nuke — 0/1
cache — 0/0
cobblestone — 0/0

Na’Vi’s strongest map is inferno. The team lost on the map train, and plating against Gambit they lost at nuke. Na’Vi haven’t played at cache and cobblestone.

So, making a conclusion from this analysis we can predict the beginning of the match FaZe Clan vs Natus Vincere during the stage of picking maps. FaZe Clan, primarily, will ban inferno as it is their weakest map and also it is the strongest Natus Vincere’s map. Na’Vi can ban cache as they haven’t played there and for FaZe cache is a winning strategy by the statistics (3/3). Also, we can suppose that Natus Vincere will ban train, as the CIS roster lost against FaZe there at Challengers Stage. Only 4 maps left: mirage, overpass, nuke, and cobblestone.We can assume, that FaZe Clan will get rid of cobblestone or mirage as they didn’t play at the cobblestone during Major-championship, and mirage is Natus Vincere’s second strongest map.

Eventually, the collectives will be able to play on the other maps: overpass, nuke, and mirage/cobblestone.

If FaZe chooses nuke, they must be more prepared than their opponents as they managed to win on this map in the quarterfinal against mousesports by a score of 19-16, and Na’Vi lost against Gambit on the same map by a score of 5-16.

On the other maps, the chances of the teams will depend on their own playing skills and moral preparedness, as the statistics of both teams is similar.

The conclusion

At the moment FaZe Clan is the second best according to HLTV.org and Natus Vincere are the eleventh.
FaZe Clan is in a better shape than their opponents. It is evident from the collectives' performances during Major-tournament.
Don’t forget that at Challengers Stage FaZe won Natus Vincere with an big difference in the rounds by a score of 16-4. This factor can give an easy win to the European.
FaZe Clan’s map pool is wider than Natus Vincere’s and Na’Vi’s formidable lead is inferno is banned by FaZe (if the European will ban inferno). Bookmakers rate onto FaZe Clan’s victory 1,35, while Natus Vincere’ rate on the victory is 3 and more. Approximately 75-80% of the audience believe in the victory of the European mix, but not the CIS-roster. So it means that the probability of FaZe Clan’s victory is much higher.