NICKMERCS blasts critics claiming he \u201cdoesn\u2019t belong\u201d in Apex Legends pro scene NICKMERCS\/RespawnTwitch star Nick \u2018NICKMERCS\u2019 Kolcheff has hit back at critics claiming he \u201cdoesn\u2019t belong\u201d in Apex Legends\u2019 pro scene amid comparisons between himself and teams like TSM. While a number of esports have gone down the route of franchise models, Apex Legends\u2019 competitive scene is set up so that, theoretically, a trio of upstarts can rub shoulders with the best players in the world. After getting to Apex Predator rank a few seasons back, NICKMERCS started competing in challenger tournaments to try and earn a spot amongst the cream of the crop. It took a few tries, but his Tripods team eventually made it and are now competing in the North American side of ALGS play. Given that he\u2019s a massive streamer and sometimes moves on to play other games, the FaZe Clan star has been criticized by a few players and viewers as not having the skill to compete at the top level. Though, he\u2019s not overly fussed by those thoughts. NICKMERCS fires back at critics claiming he should \u201cquit\u201d Apex Legends pro league It was something that was brought up during a recent stream when one viewer urged Nick to \u201cquit\u201d playing Apex as he\u2019s \u201cnot built\u201d for the competitive level. He couldn\u2019t let that stand. \u201cYou\u2019re telling a guy that has been pro in 3-4 different titles that he doesn\u2019t belong. Listen, I might not be the best, ok fine, but what? You\u2019ve got to be out of your f*cking mind if you really think that,\u201d Nick fired back. \u201cI know that I\u2019m not as good as a lot of people in Pro League, I definitely know that, but I have said plenty of times that skill is not the only thing that gets you there. I think that what I lack in skill I make up for in a lot of other areas. Work ethic, energy, communication, strategy, positioning, decisions, so yeah. \u201cThere\u2019s no confusion or question as to why I\u2019m doing 12-hour days on Apex, I\u2019m trying to get better. I definitely know that the skill is not there and we\u2019re working on it every day, that\u2019s what you do, but you acting like I have this understanding that I don\u2019t belong is f*cking crazy. You\u2019re crazy.\u201d The Twitch star noted that comparisons between himself and squads like TSM and NRG are off base, given that those types of teams have been competing for years anyway. Just the fact that he\u2019s made it into Pro League and has been competitive should be enough to shut down plenty of criticisms, never mind the fact that plenty of pros have also tipped their cap to his skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NICKMERCS blasts critics claiming he \u201cdoesn\u2019t belong\u201d in Apex Legends pro scene NICKMERCS\/RespawnTwitch star Nick \u2018NICKMERCS\u2019 Kolcheff has hit back at critics claiming he \u201cdoesn\u2019t belong\u201d in Apex Legends\u2019 pro scene amid comparisons between himself and teams like TSM. While a number of esports have gone down the route of franchise models, Apex Legends\u2019 competitive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}