Day seven of North American Pro League featured the same group pairing as the first day of competition. And, much like that particular lobby, Sentinels dominated yet again. Unlike the first day, however, Sentinels showed off a new team composition, bringing Ash, Apex Legends’ newest simulacrum, into the ALGS fray.
Game one featured a well-known final circle, with the zone pulling to the diner building on the eastern side of Skyhook. The high-flying NRG squad maintained the consistency they built up over the first half of the Pro League split to take home the first game of the day.
Taking the roof of the diner building late, when the circle had closed tight enough to prevent teams from taking any higher ground, was priority one, and NRG played it perfectly. Letting other teams play out the fights around them, NRG preferred to simply take shots from the roof and waited until the last possible moment to drop down to the ground with a perfect Gibraltar Dome Shield from Aidan “rocker” Grodin. While the remaining teams duked it out in bubble fights, NRG stayed patient and took the victory by cleaning up the last fight. It was far from an easy victory, however, with free agent squad Senior Service, Complexity, and Sentinels close behind them. 토토사이트
The second match of the day took the lobby south to Thermal Station, and also showed how new legend Ash might shake up the pro meta. Sentinels, who were some of the earliest adopters of Valkyrie, ditched the now-popular team composition in favor of a Wraith, Gibraltar, and Bloodhound comp at first, then switching Adam “senoxe” Lau from Wraith to Ash for the second game. The move paid off.
With the final circle closing and low ground teams having far more cover than the roof of the circular building Sentinels held, senoxe’s Ash ultimate took his team out from under a falling Defensive Bombardment and onto a tall pillar in the middle of the final circle. With the closing zone forcing the low ground teams out from their cover, it was a relatively simple matter for Sentinels to take shots from the high ground, then finally drop down to finish off the remaining teams. While legends like Octane and Pathfinder could have also transported Sentinels to the winning position in the endgame, Ash’s ultimate is the only one out of the three that would get them there with invulnerability.
Sentinels’ win vaulted the team into first place, but the top of the lobby remained close, with Complexity also turning in a 16-point second game and NRG’s first game win keeping them close to the top.
