First off, I am a huge TM fan. I love the community, I love watching the team play, and I always root for them to win. I post this not as a hater, but as a concerned fan.
If you asked who is the best Rogue player in AWC, it would be Pika, hands down. And it really isn’t as close as someone might think. The gap between Pika and Snutz/Whazz hasn’t closed in the last 4yrs. He manages to pull things out of the hat that make people rewatch just to see how he pulls it off.
However
If you ask me who the best AWC player who plays Rogue, Pika would not be on that list at all. Fact is (using the previous examples)… Snutz can crush on Rogue, Warlock, Warrior, Monk, Spriest. He is a top level player who can multi-class withoutdetriment. Whazz is amaze on Rogue but also on other classes. He is a top level player who can multi-class without detriment. Pikaboo… Is a rogue. He has made one or two appearences as monk… But the fact is, when TM make a comp change, their choices are XXR or bench pika. He is the only person on the team who does not multi-class. Jelly is on the Hunter, Mage, Warrior etc. Wizk is on the Spriest, lock, DH, boomkin. Even Sterge is multi-classing well as healer.
2 out of 3 AWC seasons The Move has failed to hold a dominant position. Sad as it is to say… If they don’t make circuit this year, I think they are gonna have to have a real sit down with him and figure out how they are gonna move forward.
It isn’t even just him being a single class hero. He has been getting way too agressive and putting himself in terrible positions/situations in matches. Every team knows that the key to win is pressure Wiz/Jelly until Pika goes on the assault and then hard swap to him. by the 3rd swap, he is out of CDs and dead.
If he is working on something in the background, he really needs to bring it out for cup 3 and show the world he can adapt with an ever changing meta. Even just adding the monk consistently opens up all kinds of comp alignments, or try at ret pally. Something. This one-trick pony of “play rogue, but better” isn’t cutting it anymore and if they are to remain competitive, something needs to change.
Just my 2 cents.