CS:GO’s GOAT participant, Oleksandr ‘s1mple’ Kostyliev, has mentioned that attributable to his uncommon understanding of FPS video games, he believes he could be the very best in any recreation he selected, together with Warzone and Name of Obligation.
s1mple is extensively thought to be the very best Counter-Strike participant of all time, and dominated CS:GO for a lot of its decade-long run as an esport, earlier than it was changed by CS2 in 2023.
The Ukranian has since taken a break from competing because the launch of CS2, though nonetheless performs the sport frequently on his stream. He additionally dabbles in different shooters, together with Warzone.
Talking to journalist and content material creator Duncan ‘Thorin’ Shields on his Reflections interview collection, s1mple revealed that he believes his expertise for FPS video games would translate to different video games, particularly Warzone, if he devoted himself to it.
s1mple’s “energy” applies to any FPS recreation
Thorin requested s1mple if fellow star participant Niko ‘Niko‘ Kovac may ever be thought of the GOAT of CS:GO, given he primarily makes use of a rifle, and never the highly effective AWP, like s1mple.
However, s1mple mentioned that if there was no AWP in CS, he nonetheless believes he would have been the very best participant with solely a rifle, attributable to his “energy” in FPS video games.
“I do know my energy,” he mentioned. “I really feel like I do know extra about this recreation, or another FPS recreation. Even when I [went to] Warzone proper now, I do know that I’ll do lots of harm.”
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“Theres ought to be an understanding of the sport, that’s what each CS participant wants to grasp. The best way the way you learn them, and the way in which how you set your crosshairs with angles, the way in which you hear sounds so your crosshair placement could be higher.”
s1mple admitted that some followers have urged his crosshair placement is inferior to different execs, however defined that if he is aware of there is no such thing as a hazard, he isn’t involved about the place his crosshair is, due to his deep understanding of the sport.
As a substitute, he can hold his eyes on the radar, relatively than the place his weapon is aiming.
For now, it doesn’t seem s1mple has any plans to go professional in one other recreation, and is as a substitute engaged on a yet-to-announced venture, associated to Counter-Strike. However, one could be silly to doubt his capability to do critical harm in Name of Obligation if he selected to.
