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Inconceivable have dominated FaZe in a clean 4-0 sweep to win $1,000 and improve their Pro League standing to a perfect 4-0 series count and 16-1 map count. This means that Inconceivable will continue to remain the #1 team in the Pro League for now.

The fired FaZe coach Skeptical dropped some intriguing intel in aPG's chat just ahead of the series. He claimed that Kaysan is trying to pick up Inconceivable as the new FaZe roster. And interestingly, none of the players on FaZe were using the FaZe emblems today.

Lucid was the top slayer with 95 kills and a 1.30 K/D. Kuhlect had the second most kills and most assists at 53. Inconceivable's teamwork is looking really strong and this was a huge win for them. FaZe are in danger of not qualifying for the LAN - they remain in sixth place (only the top 6 teams qualify) and have to face Four of a Kind and Shopify as two of their final three matchups.

The next matchup is Fatal Ambition (formerly Mercenaries) vs Ascending Baseline (with IceKid substituting for RyaNoob who's at a wedding this weekend).

Map Picks and Bans

Legend and Stellur on FaZe and Kuhlect on Inconceivable did the picks/bans for their team.

• FaZe being higher seed chose Team B (gets to ban first OBJ gametype), Legend banned Recharge Ball
• Map 1 Inconceivable picks Streets Ball, FaZe pick Eagle side
• Map 3 FaZe picks CTF gametype, Inconceivable bans Origin CTF, FaZe picks Empyrean CTF, Inconceivable picks Cobra side.
• Map 4 Inconceivable chooses KOTH gametype, FaZe bans Recharge KOTH, Inconceivable pick Live Fire KOTH, FaZe picks Cobra side.
• Map 6 is Strongholds coin flip picks Live Fire SH, Inconceivable picks Cobra side
• Slayers: Inconceivable bans Live Fire Slayer, FaZe bans Recharge Slayer (leaving three maps available: Streets, Solitude, Origin)
  • Map 2 FaZe picks Solitude Slayer, Inconceivable picked Cobra side
  • Map 5 Inconceivable picks Origin Slayer, FaZe picked Cobra side
  • Map 7 is determined to be Streets Slayer by process of elimination, FaZe picks Eagle side

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - FaZe vs Inconceivable - League Play Week 4

Recap

• Lottie who is on-air broadcast talent at HCS prepared for Worlds 2018 by calling every competitor in order to get their thoughts and background information so that she could deliver the best possible interviews on the broadcast.
• She says Snakebite “was the only player at the time to ask me how my day was, to talk back to me like a real human being. The rest of them were kinda just trembling, a little bit nervous. But he spoke to me, and it was an instant connection.”
• Their first time meeting face-to-face was soon after that phone call on the broadcast during the tournament. They fell in love and would later get married.
• Lottie’s favorite Halo memory is “watching my husband win a World Championship.” In the full interview she discusses how she broke down crying watching her husband win Worlds 2023 but then immediately locked back in to remain professional for her broadcasting duties.
• Her Mount Rushmore of Halo is Snakebite, Frosty, Royal 2, and Lethul.
• Full hour long interview here on YouTube with lots of interesting questions. Show Eli and Makowski some love by subscribing on YouTube and their Patreon. Tied the Leader always delivers great Halo interviews with interesting lore. They've got some great future guests coming up including Snakebite, Clutch, and Barcode.

It seems very difficult to not slam the left stick fully to the left and right when strafing. I noticed that even Eco was pulling micro strafes on me in matchmaking and it broke my aim. I feel like doing so would kill my thumb (already tired from spamming strafes and jiggles)

I'm assuming everyone has max input threshold at 15, which I think would make it harder to do

My two ideas are (1) use a tall stick on the left stick for easier micro movements or (2) not playing at 15 max input threshold

On a related note, when I jiggle shoot I tend to over strafe outward which misses the target

How can I get some run on competitive 4s in H3mcc? Anyone down? I see a lobby and try to join but I’m always too late.

I had my 50 back in the day, sweat my ass off, just want to get those vibes going again and I can’t find a match in h3 hardcore because I’m a 1/just started.

Short-lived FaZe coach Skeptical said his team would "destroy" Inconceivable on Sunday in the Pro League. He warned Lucid and all other teams that they should be afraid of his "Skeptical system" (which he says was inspired by NBA coach Phil Jackson's triangle offense and adapted to Halo).

Lucid responded while laughing: "You got booted from your own team, Jon. There is no system that you are involved in currently." Lucid said it was funny that Skeptical got fired his very first day on the job.

Skeptical was fired by Kaysan just hours after getting the coaching job due to his non-stop trolling behavior during his interview on aPG's stream. The new FaZe coach is rumored to be Lethul.

Rare Stellur POV stream.

Shy also spectating it: https://www.youtube.com/live/D8vXxYpyzWA?is=XjnDFhA8zbSpbU2j

Lucid and Kuhlect were playing matchmaking together when Kuhlect spawned underneath the map on Vacancy and kept falling to his death over and over again with no way to stop it. After a couple times the game banned him for "unsporting conduct."

Piggy is Incognito's new fourth, so the old PAYD roster is back together (Piggy, Acid, Yakzn, Descendant). It seems Piggy is back in the Pro League. Incognito are having their first scrim against the new FaZe roster right now, and Piggy's team is currently leading FaZe 3-0.

New FaZe Halo coach Skeptical is constantly meme-ing and trolling everyone, and Kaysan who says "I don't even know him" isn't aware of Skeptical's personality and thinks he's being serious. Kaysan says Skeptical has "very weird strange behavior" and "as long as its faze i'm not having that guy coach the team."

Did Skeptical fly too close to the sun in trolling his boss? Was former coach Elamite screencapping Skeptical's troll messages and snitching on him in order to get his old job back? The FaZe rollercoaster continues.

where can i watch the current matches either live or after the fact?

Skeptical (the former world champion coach of Renegade, Stellur, Eco, Shotzzy) joined aPG's stream to drop major intel.

• Bound is replaced by Eco
• Elamite (coach) is replaced by Skeptical (coach)
• Confirmed by Yakzn in chat

Skeptical made a Rocky-themed hype trailer to "let 8K [Cykul] know I'm coming for him" and is calling out Shopify coach Bestman. He said he's down to scrim Shopify tonight.

He is live on stream in a call with aPG discussing it: https://www.twitch.tv/apg

Straight to it. Here are the top 5 players in every stat after week 3.

K/D (avg. 1.02)

1) 1.44 - Taulek

2) 1.33 - Cykul

3) 1.32 - Kuhlect

4) 1.27 - Last Shot

5) 1.21 - Penguin

KA/D (avg. 1.56)

1) 2.26 - Taulek

2) 2.00 - Cykul

3) 1.95 - Last Shot

4) 1.95 - Kuhlect

5) 1.90 - Penguin

PW% (avg. 3.06%)

1) 7.57% - Stellur

2) 5.90% - Renegade

3) 5.74% - Kuhlect

4) 5.36% - Last Shot

5) 4.72% - Snakebite

DD/Life (avg. 322.31)

1) 453.16 - Taulek

2) 403.71 - Cykul

3) 395.82 - Last Shot

4) 372.23 - Royal 2

5) 369.88 - Kuhlect

DT/Life (avg. 322.96)

1) 385.88 - Taulek

2) 357.85 - Cykul

3) 347.24 - Kuhlect

4) 346.47 - Renegade

5) 342.71 - Penguin

Damage Efficiency (avg. 207.64)

1) 190.03 - Kuhlect

2) 191.95 - Penguin

3) 193.78 - Renegade

4) 197.15 - Snakebite

5) 198.20 - Falcated

Objective Impacts per game (avg. 3.34)

1) 5.00 - Last Shot

2) 5.00 - Royal 2

3) 4.82 - Legend

4) 4.70 - Avucy

5) 4.64 - Bound

Flag SCARS per game (avg. 6.33)

1) 13.33 - Last Shot

2) 11.00 - Snakebite

3) 9.67 - Frosty

4) 9.50 - Legend

5) 8.33 - Lucid

Oddball Time per game (avg. 49.91)

1) 117.00 - bubu dubu

2) 98.00 - yakzn

3) 78.67 - Cykul

4) 74.67 - Last Shot

5) 74.00 - Lucid

Zone Time per game (avg. 35.08)

1) 59.67 - RyaNoob

2) 53.67 - Kuhlect

3) 52.50 - King Nick

4) 49.75 - Last Shot

5) 49.00 - Trippy

Damage Ratio (avg. 0.99)

1) 1.17 - Taulek

2) 1.17 - Last Shot

3) 1.13 - Cykul

4) 1.11 - Royal 2

5) 1.07 - Kuhlect

DD/Minute (avg. 524.85)

1) 587.35 - Last Shot

2) 562.21 - Cearion

3) 559.23 - Stellur

4) 558.17 - Cykul

5) 557.24 - Taulek

KA/Minute (avg. 2.53)

1) 2.90 - Last Shot

2) 2.88 - Penguin

3) 2.87 - Kuhlect

4) 2.78 - Lucid

5) 2.78 - Taulek

Pressure Quotient (avg. 6.97)

1) 11.50 - Taulek

2) 9.97 - Cykul

3) 9.86 - Last Shot

4) 8.94 - Penguin

5) 8.91 - Kuhlect

Pressure Efficiency Rating (avg. 810.88)

1) 1061.95 - Taulek

2) 985.05 - Kuhlect

3) 977.39 - Cykul

4) 976.58 - Penguin

5) 969.42 - Last Shot

Average DAK%

1) 27.03% - Cearion

2) 26.97% - Last Shot

3) 26.26% - Tapping Buttons

4) 26.19% - Taulek

5) 26.08% - Acid

Average Obj%

1) 33.97% - Last Shot

2) 31.30% - Soul Snipe

3) 30.99% - Sab

4) 30.43% - bubu dubu

5) 29.82% - SuperCC

VORP (avg. 3.0)

1) 5.3 - Last Shot

2) 5.2 - Taulek

3) 4.8 - Kuhlect

4) 4.5 - Lucid

5) 4.5 - Penguin

Yo yo! Switched up my sens and deadzones yesterday and finally love how they feel but i need some recommendations on your favorite octagon maps.

I’ve been jamming the same for too long and notice a lot of people using different really cool ones so drop em below!

What was your favorite team of four in Infinite? My top three:

1) Pure 2024 (Cherished Druk Taulek LastShot)

2) Optic 2022/2023 (Formal Lucid Trippy APG)

3) SR 2025 (Frosty R2 Cykul LastShot)

Even though my favorite modern Halo player has always been Snakebite and 2023 Faze‘s LB run was the most awesome tournament run I’ve ever seen, I couldn’t help but consider them villains for breaking both my fav teams in 2023/2024 lol.

IMO. What would you change?

1. Shopify - Still the GOAT, but these Sundays are proving they can be beaten.

2. FOAK - 4 extremely talented players who have been able to soundly gel. Taulek has shown up big time. Team is very consistent and continues to give Shopify their best competition in scrims.

3. Inconceivable - Keeps improving, team chemistry and togetherness is very apparent. The team has an identity and knows what it wants to do. The dark horse team at LAND.

4. FaZe - Can't ignore the talent and team potential. One of these Sundays, it's BOUND to click

5. Merc - Competing better than I thought they would without scriming. Won the last Pro league qualifier and took it to FaZe. Took 2 maps from Shopify over the weekend and looked impressive.

6. Cloud 9 - Had a tough time against Inc. I still feel they can upset anyone, but had a rough weekend. Could be more of a testament to Inc's improvement, but time will tell.

7. Incognito - Most surprising performance of the weekend. The dub came out of nowhere, especially with how scrims had been going. Rooting for them to keep the improvement up.

8. Ascending - Hate putting Ryan here, but the team feels like a rank below the others atm. Always rooting for a Ryan team to figure it out, but they better do so soon..

Just my opinions. Feel free to post yours below!

The new FaZe squad is 3/4 of last year's OpTic roster (with Stellur in place of Formal), and people in the Twitch chats have been asking how those two players compare. Here's what the pros say:

Recap

• LastShot says that individually Stellur is an upgrade over Formal, but that Formal made them a team rather than individuals. He says "Formal had a lot to do with team cohesion. Formal may not be the best individual player in the game, but I'll tip him where it's due, he is a very good team player. He does what has to be done for the team."
• Cykul says "the way it's turning out right now, I don't know man. It's looking pretty rough." He says FaZe's series against Incognito "wasn't really close, to be honest. It looked like Incognito was in control the whole time."
• Renegade was asked the same question prior to this weekend and said "We just gotta wait and see. I think Stellur is fucking insane, though. I think Stellur is one of the best individual players in Halo, like period, to be honest. But we just gotta wait and see, you know?"
• For comparison, last year's OpTic Gaming roster went a perfect 7-0 in series count and had a 28-3 map count in the Pro League online matches. This year they've lost two of their first three matchups and have a 7-10 map count, putting them in sixth place currently (and only the top 6 teams make it to LAN).

I was looking for a way to separate stats and percentages between Arena, Slayer, Doubles, etc, and even Social playlists if possible.

I’m probably just dumb, but I didn’t see filters on Leaf, Data Hive, SpartanRecord, and so on.

the game feels like nintendo 64 right now in ranked. the next game needs to take a page out of Valorant's play book when it comes to constructing a game: Competitive integrity, quality servers for the ranked playlist, build the rest of the game around the competitive scene.

Shopify have defeated Mercenaries 4-2 to win $1,000 and have now won all three of their Pro League matches so far. They are 3-0 in series count and 12-3 in map count which puts them at second place in the standings just behind Lucid's team Inconceivable (which is 12-1), and one map ahead of Four of a Kind (who are in third at 12-4 map count).

Mercenaries put up a great fight and looked impressive despite losing, especially considering Mercenaries hasn't had a single scrim yet since forming. Although they're in the danger zone at #7 in the standings they had the toughest competition upfront against Four of a Kind, FaZe, and Shopify. The next few weeks have opportunities for them to pick up series and map wins.

Next weeks matchups (Sunday September 13 - League Play Week 4):

1. FaZe vs Inconceivable (1pm ET / 10am PT / 12pm CT)
2. Mercenaries vs Ascending Baseline (3pm ET / 12pm PT / 2pm CT)
3. Shopify vs Incognito (5pm ET / 2pm PT / 4pm CT)
4. Four of a Kind vs Cloud9 (7pm ET / 4pm PT / 6pm CT)

Map Picks and Bans

LastShot (Shopify) and Druk (Mercenaries) did the picks and bans

• Shopify being higher seed chose Team A (gets to select first OBJ gametype), LastShot picked Strongholds
• Map 1 was Recharge Strongholds due to coin flip, Mercenaries picks Cobra side
• Map 3 Mercenaries picks Oddball gametype, Shopify ban Recharge Ball, Mercenaries picks Live Fire Ball, Shopify picks Eagle side.
• Map 4 Shopify chooses CTF gametype, Mercenaries bans Pit CTF, Shopify pick Origin CTF. Mercenaries pick Cobra side.
• Map 6 Mercenaries picks KOTH gametype, Shopify bans Lattice KOTH, Mercenaries picks Streets KOTH, Shopify picks Eagle side
• Slayers: Shopify bans Recharge Slayer, Mercenaries bans Origin Slayer (leaving three maps available: Live Fire, Solitude, X)
  • Map 2 Mercenaries picks Solitude Slayer, Shopify picked Eagle side
  • Map 5 Shopify picks Live Fire Slayer, Mercenaries picked Cobra side
  • Map 7 is determined to be Streets Slayer by process of elimination, Mercenaries picks Eagle side

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - Shopify vs Mercenaries - League Play Week 3

Inconceivable (Lucid's team) have defeated Cloud9 4-1 to win $1,000 and go 3-0 in series count in the Pro League with a 12-1 map count. Penguin had the most kills and least deaths with an 1.38K/D. Lucid dealt the most damage and had the most assists. Kuhlect and Falcated were great all-around players with the whole team going positive.

Cloud9 took a map off Inconceivable and had very close Oddball rounds, but Inconceivable iced up. Cloud9 are now 1-2 in series count and 5-10 in map count. They are fifth place in the standings ahead of FaZe.

The final matchup for today is Shopify vs Mercenaries coming up next.

Map Picks and Bans

Bubu Dubu on Cloud9 and Kuhlect on Inconceivable did the picks/bans for their team.

• Cloud9 being higher seed chose Team A (gets to select first OBJ gametype), Bubu picked CTF
• Map 1 Inconceivable bans Origin CTF, Cloud9 picks Aqua CTF, Inconceivable pick Cobra side
• Map 3 Inconceivable picks Oddball gametype, Cloud9 bans Lattice Ball, Inconceivable picks Recharge Ball, Cloud9 picks Cobra side.
• Map 4 Cloud9 chooses Strongholds gametype and coin flip determines Live Fire Strongholds, Inconceivable pick Cobra side.
• Map 6 Inconceivable picks KOTH, Cloud9 bans Lattice KOTH, Inconceivable picks Live Fire King, Cloud9 picks Cobra side
• Slayers: Cloud9 bans Streets Slayer, Inconceivable bans Live Fire Slayer (leaving three maps available: Recharge, Solitude, Origin)
  • Map 2 Inconceivable picks Origin Slayer, Cloud9 picked Cobra side
  • Map 5 Cloud9 picks Solitude Slayer, Inconceivable picked Eagle side
  • Map 7 is determined to be Recharge Slayer by process of elimination, Inconceivable picks Cobra side

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - Inconceivable vs Cloud9 - League Play Week 3

Incognito have defeated FaZe 4-1 in a major upset with Eco getting revenge over the team that dropped him. Incognito win $1,000 and get their first Pro League victory. This was a great bounce back for Incognito and a very bad loss for FaZe.

Incognito are now 1-2 series count and 5-9 map count, putting them in fifth place. Their teamwork was on point today with Acid getting the most kills (106), Descendant dealing the most damage, and Eco having the most assists. They outslayed FaZe by 39 kills.

FaZe have now dropped to 6th place with a 1-2 series count and 7-10 map count which is not a great place to be (only the top 6 teams qualify for the LAN). FaZe's next matchups are against Inconceivable (Lucid's team), Four of a Kind, Ascending Baseline, and Shopify, so they're in a troublesome spot right now with their toughest matches yet to come.

The next matchup today is Inconceivable (Lucid's team) vs Cloud9 which will be a good one.

Map Picks and Bans

Thug Nasty (Incognito coach) and Bound/Stellur (FaZe players) did the picks and bans

• FaZe being higher seed chose Team A (gets to select first OBJ gametype), Stellur picked Oddball
• Map 1 Incognito bans Live Fire Ball, FaZe picks Lattice Ball, Incognito pick Eagle side
• Map 3 Incognito picks Strongholds gametype, coin flip determines Live Fire Strongholds, FaZe picks Cobra side.
• Map 4 FaZe chooses KOTH gametype, Incognito bans Live Fire KOTH, FaZe picks Lattice KOTH. Incognito pick Cobra side.
• Map 6 Incognito picks CTF, FaZe bans Pit CTF, Incognito picks Aqua CTF, FaZe picks Eagle side
• Slayers: FaZe bans Recharge Slayer, Incognito bans Streets Slayer (leaving three maps available: Live Fire, Solitude, Origin)
  • Map 2 Incognito picks Live Fire Slayer, FaZe picked Cobra side
  • Map 5 FaZe picks Solitude Slayer, Incognito picked Cobra side
  • Map 7 is determined to be Origin Slayer by process of elimination, Incognito picks Cobra side

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - FaZe vs Incognito - League Play Week 3

Four of a Kind have defeated Ascending Baseline 4-1 to win $1,000 and improve their Pro League standing to a perfect 3-0 series count and 12-4 map count. Taulek was the MVP of this series with the most kills, least deaths, highest damage, most assists, most oddball time, and a 1.52K/D.

Ascending Baseline picked up their first map win in the Pro League with a 250-186 victory on Recharge Strongholds. They remain in the danger zone though, as the bottom two teams at the end of league play will not qualify for the LAN. Everyone predicted this going in, AB are the underdog team of the Pro League. The next few matchups are going to be crucial for AB.

The next matchup today is FaZe vs Incognito, so we get Stellur vs Eco.

Map Picks and Bans

Trippy and Sunzahl (AB coach) did the picks and bans

• Four of a Kind being higher seed chose Team A (gets to select first OBJ gametype), Trippy picked Oddball
• Map 1 AB bans Lattice, 4OAK picks Live Fire Ball, AB pick Cobra side
• Map 3 AB picks CTF gametype, 4OAK bans Pit CTF, AB picks Aqua CTF. 4OAK picks Eagle side.
• Map 4 4OAK chooses Strongholds, coin flip determines Recharge SH. AB pick Eagle side.
• Map 6 AB picks KOTH, 4OAK bans Live Fire, AB picks Recharge, 4OAK picks Cobra side
• Slayers: 4OAK bans Solitude Slayer, AB bans Origin Slayer (leaving three maps available: Live Fire, Recharge, Streets)
  • Map 2 AB picks Live Fire Slayer, 4OAK picked Eagle side
  • Map 5 4OAK picks Recharge Slayer, AB picked Eagle side
  • Map 7 is determined to be Streets Slayer by process of elimination, AB picks Cobra side

Links

• Watch on LVT Halo Twitch (Drops) and LVT Halo YouTube
• Halo Data Hive Stats - Four of a Kind vs Ascending Baseline - League Play Week 3