How a Bottom-Fragging IGL Became the GigaChad of CS:GO

In Counter-Strike, being an in-game-leader on a top roster is difficult.

You spend so much time thinking about the other side that your own fragging can take a back seat. But when you don’t put up the stats your fans expect, they can get vicious.

Every team wants an IGL who can frag, but there are only so many seasoned veterans with brilliant minds and cracked aim to go around, so some teams have had to get creative.

Enter Rasmus “HooXi” Nielsen, a man who by all accounts, is not the mythical fragging IGL. In fact, he spent several important games on G2 at the bottom of the server.

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[toufusoup]

He was such a gigachad that he lost the qualifiers on purpose to save strats for the next major.

[SarthakShrivastava_]

I'm telling you, HooXi is as cracked as he is jacked. I saw him at a 7-11 the other day and he was buying cases of Redbull and adult diapers. I asked him what the diapers were for and he said, "they help contain my full power so I don't completely shit on these kids" and then he bunny hopped out the door.

[Jaybird_]

"What makes you think you're a better IGL than me?"

"Shut the fuck up Nik0."

*"You're Hired"*

[dogemcdogeface]

Hooxi purposely skipped the major to give other teams a chance to win, such a humble character

[davidgranger]

I've seen Hooxi play, he doesn't even use a monitor. He visualizes the map in a detailed rendering, completely in his mind. He has a biological wallhack; his godlike perception highlights all enemies within light-years. His eyes are closed as his mouse gracefully swerves across the table, making immaculate twitches as he flicks from head to head.

[GCS]

Who is Hooxi? For the blind, He is the vision. For the hungry, He is the chef. For the thirsty, He is the water. If Hooxi thinks, I agree. If Hooxi speaks, I’m listening. If Hooxi has one fan, it is me. If Hooxi has no fans, I don’t exist.

[haco]

Hooxi knew rio major gonna be underdog run so he didnt want to waste his time by playing at it.

[pall-de]

Watching this after he led G2 to win the world finals is just fantastic.

[asuna]

I loved the part where he went "It's hooxin' time" and started hooxing everywhere, truly a moment of all time

[otakurt]

He is so Gigachad he got the community to love him without becoming a star fragger or putting out many highlights, what an absolute Gigachad of a man Hooxi is

[alain_paul]

I kinda like hooxi’s positive demeanor. He seems like a nice guy

[FSGoingStraight]

I like that one time where the NaVi vs Heroic game went into a 2h tech pause and the casters just called HooXi in the middle of the night and he actually came to talk with them a bit. That was a real Gigachad moment

[danialahmad]

Came here after HOOXI Gigachad won the blast world final tournament. <3

[wildft]

Hooxi is the player everyone shits on. But when hes dead he can see the game better. He can make the calls that need making and pushing the better fraggers into positions he knows they can win. The IGL is the one who has to see the whole game process all the callouts, design the strats but not set strats ones that can be adapted to use all other players in all positions which makes his strats hard to read and dismantle. That is how g2 won blast world finals. Hooxi the underdog the guy players over look but the one who has the biggest impact.

[Knightsthatsaynih]

When Karrigan won the major, he was fragging well. Gla1ve throughout his success at Astralis was a fragging IGL. But HooXi is a bigger legend and he will pick up a major going 2-13 every map.

[venkateshaprabhur]

would be nice to see a video covering hooxi's journey to win blast premier world final 2022

[Falllll]

Hooxi has also become an amazing fixture in player commentary at this point. If he ever decides that stomping on the pro CS scene is getting too easy and boring for him, he will probably always have a job as an analyst. Dude's charismatic and genuinely good at it and has provided a lot of the most interesting insights into professional strategies as an insider.

[SarthakSPyt]

Look where they are now, FREAKING LOOK WHERE THEY ARE NOW WITH HIM. No 1 team in the world, beating teams like Faze and Navi back to back to back.

[SimpAhsoka.]

Back when I actively played csgo I used to IGL for my little team of friends.
We were all level 8-10 on faceit and did some pugging and small open tourneys.
I almost always bottomed the fuck out the game. BUT I ALWAYS dropped my team mates guns while using a p250 myself.
I was rather strict, but gave a lot of freedom. That's what worked best for us.
I spend a lot of time on watching demos and around 3-4 hours a day just pacticing nades. (Found some things even pro's don't use/know)

We did really good for a while, but then they started to get mad at me for not fragging.
I played IGL/support so I don't know what they expected of me.
Then they decided to vote me out, replace me with a new IGL, and they lost EVERYTHING since.
They wanted to have me back because what we did worked out real well, but they've shown how much they care about me as a person/player so I told them to fuck off and quit csgo all together

[HassanKhan-mskg]

The man delivered G2 their first major LAN trophy, that alone cements his pedigree as an Igl. And to be fair to him, his fragging has massively improved as well.