I'm sorry if you clicked this thread thinking it was going to be a funny thread but I'm sick of the continuous accusations that can affect someones career. Some pros like sweet will play it off like they are joking, but when they repeat it so many times, it will tie his name to the rumors and start impacting sponsorships and org signings.

When other pros have been accused, like FEU_FPS or Yuraaah, it usually is brought along with many clips and videos explaining the accusation. Shit, even with hideouts banning ranked players, pros have to submit clips for it to be investigated. But skittles has hundreds of hours streaming without ANY suspicious clips, ZERO. He is usually accused of wallhacking but ESA has been ratted on multiples times, so how do you reconcile that??

My theory:

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I think other pros accuse him of walling solely because of how well they valk ult. It seems tied to people thinking they "get too lucky" that spots are free. But if you actually watch them, theres no shot. I think ESA is just smarter at valk ult meta than other teams, they are amazing at reactive flight, with 2nd,3rd,4th landing options already lined up. they frequently start flying somewhere and then see enemies mid flight and swerve somewhere else. I remember before knoqd joined the team, he said they always seemed lucky on where they land, but then after he joined, he said that after talking to them, he understands how they figure out what to do. The same way, in early days, TSM was much better at knowing how to early rotate and know where to play to prepare for endgames, I think ESA is just better at knowing how to find a little crestle, right below or next to another team and survive in a spot where other teams wouldve died.

One clear example, of ESA's big brain plays being called cheating. In game 3 of week 1, that ESA won near thunder watch (I have video of endgame below at 4:00, but not their preparation for valk ult). They valk ulted to Godspot and won the game, pros were saying it was sus that ESA knew the spot was open. But if you listened to them talk after (wish i had video), they didnt know it was open, but thought it might be, because there was a kraber team on the roof of thunderwatch, so nobody else could cross the open field to God spot, and since you couldnt play that area early, it was likely that nobody could be there yet. Skittles went on to open up endgame for them by hitting multiple kraber headshots, but instead of getting praise for it, the other pros just accused him of cheating. I find that absolutely disgusting

Video (courtesy HaZin):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0olb6lGqNCU

I dont save vods so I can't make clips of all the examples of what im trying to share, but theres a very good youtube channel that clips fights from tournaments. He didnt include their conversations before valk ult but at 10:30 they have one epicenter valk rotation (they valk ulted and survived THREE TIMES that 1 game) where they just land underneath 2 teams, stabilize and then shit on everyone. It was not a comfortable or safe rotation like you would expect from someone with wallhacks, they had to fight hard to make it work. But most importantly, this was a situation where a toggler WOULD HAVE toggled on, but at 10:55 skittles is heard asking dooplex "where are they doop??", if he didnt toggle on in that situation, then theres no shot that a "he only toggles" excuse can hold water. He also didnt fake it and just comm that to hide hacks, because dooplex actually had to fight that whole team by himself for a long time.

by the way, in the valk ult previous to this, they almost died TWICE trying to valk ult behind bins until the last second, NRG popped out and scared them into swerving underneath the respawn beacon, which ended up having a team so they had to fight their way to bottom epi to survive, if they were walling they wouldve went straight to bottom epi that was open.

Conclusion (tl;dr):

There are many examples of times where he would've played different if he were walling, but zero examples of him playing like he has wallhacks. I think other pros just see ESA survive valk rotations consistently and think theyre walling to find free spots.