Boston Uprising rn:
'Look at all this talent we can pay the minimum wage'
I'm a bit surprised about Flower getting dropped but Pine still getting a paycheck. No diss to the Big Boss but you'd have figured it'd be the other way around so that NYXL had 2 sets of DPS for both hitscan and projectile. Not that both Libero and Flower can't pull out great hitscan play if needed but they were projectile DPS primarily. Now it's a 3-1 imbalance geared towards hitscan and Libero has no backup. Odds are they do pick up a backup DPS over the offseason, but one that costs a lot less than Flower likely does, IMO. But I have no idea what NYXL is thinking in having SBB, Pine, and Nenne on the same roster and not trading one away. After this last year SBB's looking like that one guy you never bench no matter what for team morale, while Nenne looks like the stronger backup option leaving Pine in a difficult place when it comes to potentially playing games. Pine marketing stonks can't stay high forever, so I think they'll try to trade him or try to broaden his fill-in capacities to flex support or flex DPS, both of which he's done in pro play in the past. That leaves Nenne as a Widow/Zarya specialist that can play an adequate D.Va. Maybe they're even trying to make good on Nenne's original designation, where he was listed as a tank and turn him into their offtank player while Meko leaves? That's an interesting approach to the bench where your backups can back up multiple roles. Pine on flex support + DPS, Nenne on off-tank + DPS, etc.
tl;dr Pine filling in for JJonak if he gets sick Pog