Who is best cs 1.6 player

After the first generation of competitive line-up of Ninjas in Pyjamas NiP fell apart, MedioN joining up with vesslan's MAFIA allowed him to establish himself as perhaps the best player in the world, he was considered the dominant individual player while someone like HeatoN was still establishing himself and waiting for his first big offline tournament.

He was on the winning team in the famed 'NiP vs. When NiP saw the light and reformed their line-up following that CPL, MedioN was a key part of their dominant run of three straight CPL titles, including an American seasonal final, with slight line-up changes. The best latter day equivalents for someone like MedioN would be players like Tentpole or trace, who played different roles in their teams, but could impact the game in so many ways as MedioN could. Had he played longer, then MedioN would be much higher on the list of all time great players and had the potential to really put together a truly stellar career.

The reason he can make this list is because what he accomplished in such a short space of time was staggering. He had the respect of all of his peers, who considered him a monster of a player, and he could certainly have played in big teams for a number of years following his retirement.

MedioN is one of the rare players who walked away from CS when he really could have done so much more, not forced out by diminishing skills or lack of opportunity. He is another player who was literally elite with every single weapon in the game and seemingly could adapt to whatever was needed for him.

In fact that's one of the qualities which made his career so trying: where players like f0rest or NEO can play the same role for their entire careers, teams adapting to their strengths and putting them in position to be great, solo had to figure out what his personnel was like in each of his teams and what holes needed to be filled.

If the team needed an in-game leader, as they did for one stretch, then he had to become the in-game leader and adapt his level of aggression accordingly. If they needed a specific CT spot covering, since nobody else was capable, then he had to switch over and find a way to be effective there.

At his peak, and with the two or three line-ups he had which could actually compete at the highest level, he shone as one of the best individual players in the world, yet still would repeating be forced into top three finishes rather than LAN victories. It wasn't simply lack of good team-mates either. The problem in Korea was that the other group of good players, Lunatic-Hai, kept to themselves and there was a solid rivalry between the two squads for his entire career.

When Lunatic-Hai died out and latter day player glow came over, then solo got some help in the form of a clutch player and someone who could play a decent second or third star position. Before that he had to mesh with the streaky bail, at times brilliant and in other moments impotent. The practice conditions for solo are the worst I've ever heard of for an elite tier player, even beyond those of players like cogu or AdreN, who come from countries with either poor internet connections or not many teams to practice against.

That meant the version of CS they played in the cafes was not the Steam 1. This meant the player pool for South Korea, already tiny due to the popularity of RTS games, was even smaller for competitive CS players.

It's not exaggeration to say that all those amazingly in-depth tactics you've seen from WeMade FOX or eSTRO over the years came from the team practicing them alone in an empty server.

That's because at times that would be better practice than playing very low level teams. Add in that the Korean military ate away at the player base of competitive names and you have a nightmare scenario for an elite player trying to win a world championship.

In the end, solo never did get that major win, though he did win the last WEM for CS, a nice way to go out for a truly elite player. Ksharp is one of the cases on this list where his play alone is not why he could have been the greatest, it's more than he needed to grasp a specific mentality to accomplish such a feat. It may seem like cheating to suggest a player needed to think of himself or the game a different way, since to a degree perhaps that does make up part of who they are, but I think Ksharp could have done changed his perspective if he'd really been able to consider the outcome of his career choices.

The reason movies of online players racking up crazy kills against low level opponents has never impressed me is because those moves simply don't work on elite level players, that first bullet you miss is where the great AK player takes your head off. That burst you hit onto the enemy is where the elite player instead strafed back behind the wall to get you out of your rhythm.

It's also unfortunate that lack of demos mean that most fans have no idea what some of the all time great players were capable in online practice games. Ksharp is probably the greatest online player in history, I think n0thing is up there too but Ksharp was the original. In CAL games and scrims he would routinely pull of the most insane and impossible plays, things that defy explanation. Now, obviously, there's a component of a lack of pressure in these situations, compared to offline, which is where the criticism of Ksharp will come in.

In terms of raw skill, though, he is one of the most talented players to ever pick up a mouse and fire up CS. Ksharp's problem was that he not only refused to play the same brand of CS offline, but he also refused to fully accept the mantle of the star player. In f0rest understood he was the star fragger on his team, if fnatic was going to win a tournament then he would need to be the one out there topping scoreboards and getting the difficult kills.

When the Poles battled past more skilled and better tactical teams, it's because NEO was putting up incredible individual performances seemingly every game. Ksharp was never comfortable with the notion of being the star that all eyes are upon to succeed or fail. This manifested in his play in that he would to some degrees limit himself and his teams by refusing to AWP.

All the clips online, seemingly, show Ksharp's amazing AWPing, a weapon he was seemingly born to use. The only player I can even compare to his AWPing is markeloff, since they both had an incredibly fast yet precise style, which is very rare at the top level.

But, where markeloff embraced being an AWPer and led his teams to major titles using it, Ksharp frequently opted out of AWPing in big offline games, instead going the "safer" route of rifling and trying to make an impact that way. If I could go back in time and brainwash Ksharp into buying an AWP every time he had enough money, taking up those aggressive positions he would online and using the weapon as a do or die approach, willing to win the entire tournament or have his team bomb out earlier than usual, then I think we'd be talking about one of the very best players of all time, certainly in the conversation for greatest ever.

Instead, he went the safer route, had a nice career with some big highlights and ultimately is remembered for a lot of sparkling flashes, yet not the same kind of dominance offline that a player of his calibre should have been known for. The true dedicated AWPers have the mentality that if they missed the last shot then they'll make the next.

He's already the greatest Finnish player ever, and one of the best individual CS players in history, but he was amazingly inefficient for a player with such talent. The same reckless impulse that told him to push up aggressively as CT and kill the first two guys, then told him he may as well keep pushing and get the other three.

When he managed that it meant he won games single-handidly for his teams. When he almost managed it he might have made a huge dent in the enemy, putting his team at a very solid advantage. Had ruuit been able to understand aggression more like a NEO, he would have been an entirely unstoppable monster.

This is a player whose confidence knew no bounds, so a little intelligence in his game could have made him an incredible asset, constantly keeping the enemy pressured and on the wrong foot. That kind of player would be an in-game leader's dream, instead ruuit was a chaotic force that his in-game leaders just had to turn loose and hope for the best with.

Skillwise he was something special, he just didn't have the right mental game appropriate to his skillset. There have been few true geniuses in Counter-Strike, speaking in terms of intuitive individual skill for the game, rather than cerebral understanding and conceptual thinking. REAL was one of those geniuses, yet he never reached the peak of that major title like most of the others did.

Where a f0rest or a NEO won those major titles and had a long enough career to prove to use time and time again why they stood above all others, REAL simply had spans of a few months at a time to show off what he was truly capable of. NEO came from a particularly impovrished CS area, yet found the right team-mates and stuck with them to amazingly find a system good enough to let them win sometimes, those times happening to be the biggest CS tournies in the world.

For REAL his career was marked by bad luck and waning motivation. In team9 REAL was a 15 year titan, ripping up the scene, but then that team fell apart. A year later his MYM team seemed capable of contending for world titles, only to progressively go down over the next months of the big tournaments. Eventually, the prime of his career had him floundering in teams incapable of big results, often without the right backing to even attend events, so that he finally retired outright.

REAL did play a part in his own failures, he wasn't a player who would lead the way and help develop the next generation of talent, as every scene needs. This is worth noting since it meant that REAL did not last until a player like kalle came along, who might have been able to team with him and help him to success. If I could change one thing, though, in REAL's career, it would be simply to get him a starting spot on a top Swedish team, even the third best would do, in or In such circumstances, he could have really shown his skills game in and game out, then other Swedish top teams might have seen the value in taking a wager on the young man.

In the era of WCG being a key tournament, it's understandable why teams wanted to stay with all one nationality, but REAL is a player the calibre of whom means it is worth trying an experimental six man line-up, the majors you might win outside of WCG would more than make up for it. Nothing is more disappointing that genius which doesn't get to truly express itself. I don't even need more opportunity to see him put on such performances at the highest level, he put together an impressive enough resume of individual displays as it is.

One can flame and speculate about this awkward situation pretty much forever. The same choices were made by the other big names in the industry, such as Blizzard Entertainment and their StarCraft franchise. What can be said for sure, is that there is a long lasting legacy and history of competitive CS 1. And recently, one of the main esports media on the web, which specializes exclusively on Counter-Strike continent, had something to say about this matter.

Throughout the years, the online portal, which is the home for many Counter-Strike fans, covered exclusively the CS franchise. The website recently posted an interesting update on its pages. The statistical section of the HLTV. It is titled as the 1. This means that the newly released section features convenient access to a huge CS 1.

First on the list, the statistics page features the top players rating, consisting of one of the best players in the history of competitive Counter-Strike. The first place of the CS 1. He is the top player on the list, with a 1. Camargo can now be officially crowned as the best player in the history of competitive CS 1.

The year-old has been active on the CS competitive scene since the early s. The legendary Swede managed to retain a high 1. During the CS 1. Alesund is considered one of the best players who ever touched the game. He was the second best in the world by HLTV ratings in and Then, after the CS: GO transition, and the era of total NiP team domination, he became first on the list in the and season. The iconic Brazilian AWPer is not too far away from the first two players, as he has one of the biggest fan bases all over the world and is especially popular in his native South American region.

The year-old can boast a 1. During the 1. He was nominated as the best Brazilian player in his role throughout the period of Even though Toledo is high on the list of 1. The next player on the list is Nikola Kovac, known in the esports community as NiKo. Easily one of the best players in the world, the player originating from Bosnia and Herzegovina managed to score a 1.

NiKo played competitively since Completing the top five list of the best CS 1. He has maps with the 1. Lindberg is a unique player in this regard.

He is still performing on the competitive scene at a very high level. Sukhariev also comes very close to f0rest in the actual stats, with a 1.