White Rascals’ Do or Die Mentality
Win or lose it’s the strat they choose… or is it?
A few strategies have developed in the Mobile Legends Philippine meta because if the MPL-PH regular season. First, Marksmen were set aside in lieu of more impactful early-to-mid game assassins, then suddenly old control mages and CC tanks came back to counter these mobile assassins then finally other niche strategies like picking Diggy to counter engage tanks and CC mages that began to become popular once the teams started to figure out their opponents’ strategies. Nearly all of the teams altered their playstyle according to the habits of their weekly matches in order to be able to dictate the flow of the match. But one team dared to stick to what they knew best and live or die by it.
The White Rascals made use of their split-pushing strat from their qualifying matches up to their last games of the regular season. The only difference was that they made use of different split-pushers like Argus, Zilong, and Hayabusa depending on whether how much dueling power and escape they felt like they needed to have. We only saw them change up roles a bit in week 5 and the tie-breaker match against DD No Limit, which didn’t pan out well for them.
Their split-pushing strat revolved around their player Kaizoku who constantly split-pushed despite how his team was performing in teamfights. Recently, they’ve tried placing Kaizoku in a tank role leaving most of the split pushing to their Argus expert Inuzaki. The main damage dealer was their youngest member, 14-year old Gelido who played assassins. Yasu and their sixth man, Kenzu would usually play secondary tanks that focused on protecting rather than engaging. Shingkalafu, their team captain would usually fill-in for whatever was missing from their team having the most versatile champion pool based on his showings in the competition.
Despite being currently in the last place according to the standings in the regular season, they’re still one of the teams that most people talk about because of how young and unique their playstyle is. This youthful playstyle may stem from the fact that they just formed their team last March by accident by constantly playing in rank games together.
We see that the White Rascals are currently having some trouble finding their stride after their main split pushing strat have been analyzed and countered by most of the remaining teams in the finals, which is why they’re taking a leap of faith by trying to find a new strat that could suit them this late into the game. We still see a lot of miscommunication and indecisiveness happening during games, which is common for new budding teams but that’s exactly what makes the White Rascals exciting to watch.
Compared to other teams, everything you see them do seems so new despite them doing the exact same strategy for most of the regular season. This is because they are essentially “winging it” every game because of how many uncontrolled factors there are when they are playing. The only constant the split push playstyle has is the split pusher but that essentially leaves the the White Rascals team to handle a 4v5, which is a whole new dynamic most of their opponents have to learn to cope with. It’s this uncertainty in the White Rascal’s playstyle that really sets them apart from everyone else. Hopefully, we’ll see more exciting things from them in the finals.
