Octane hints at major role swap with Karma for Seattle Surge Call of Duty League \/ Seattle SurgeSeattle Surge Call of Duty League star Sam \u2018Octane\u2019 Larew appears to have confirmed that some members of the team will be undergoing major role changes as they continue to struggle through the league\u2019s inaugural season. Seattle currently sit in 11th place in the standings, ahead of only rivals Los Angeles Guerrillas by 10 CDL points, and they have been attempting to find the right fit with swaps between Casey \u2018Pandur\u2019 Romano and Ian \u2018Enable\u2019 Wyatt on the starting line-up, but now it appears they\u2019re going to be taking a different approach. During a stream on May 24, in which Octane was playing Warzone with Pandur, coach Joey \u2018Nubzy\u2019 DiGiacomo and Guerrillas star Reece \u2018Vivid\u2019 Drost, he revealed that there was a big change coming in the Surge camp. While Octane has been arguably one of the best assault rifle players in the game for a number of years now, he said that he will be switching to a submachine gun going forward, running the MP5 at future tournaments. This is a bit of a strange step considering how much of a dominant player Octane is with the assault rifle, but the change was later explained by Nubzy. After commenting that \u201cpeople think [I\u2019m] trolling,\u201d Octane confirmed that he is \u201cliterally running around with an MP5\u201d and Pandur said that \u201cOctane is the new flex for Seattle Surge,\u201d citing Sam\u2019s slaying abilities as a major factor, especially considering how much more impact MP5 players have on the map than AR players. A little while later, while playing in Modern Warfare\u2019s CDL playlist, one of Larew\u2019s team asked him for his honest opinion on Surge teammate Damon \u2018Karma\u2019 Barlow, and he gave a very telling response, calling Karma \u201cthe GOAT\u2026 and also my main AR.\u201d While we\u2019re yet to see any gameplay from Surge with their new roles, the reasoning behind the swap makes sense. Octane\u2019s raw gunskill is at a level many could only dream of and, if he can get the same number of kills with an MP4 as he does with an M4, this switch could be the making of Seattle Surge. That said, we\u2019ve seen similar moves in the past that didn\u2019t work out so well. Austin \u2018Slasher\u2019 Liddicoat running a sub at the start of the current season raised some eyebrows, and the infamous fall of the GreenWall in World War II saw Matthew \u2018FormaL\u2019 Piper attempting to use one, and the way that turned out is one of the biggest stories in CoD esports history. We\u2019ll have to wait to see how this turns out for Seattle Surge, but a change is clearly needed, and this could be the right one. We have reached out to the Surge team for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Octane hints at major role swap with Karma for Seattle Surge Call of Duty League \/ Seattle SurgeSeattle Surge Call of Duty League star Sam \u2018Octane\u2019 Larew appears to have confirmed that some members of the team will be undergoing major role changes as they continue to struggle through the league\u2019s inaugural season. Seattle currently […]<\/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-30312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30312","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=30312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}