TOP 10 best players in 2021: 4th place - ZywOo

EGamersWorld continues its series of materials dedicated to the best players of the season. The fourth place in our rating was taken by the player who became the personification of the Vitality team. But if ZywOo spent two previous seasons at a space level, winning many trophies, then 2021 can hardly be considered an asset for the Frenchman. At the same time, it is necessary to understand that a huge role in the final position of ZywOo was played by the player's individual failures at the beginning of the season, and at the same time the failure of his team at a distance of a season long.

You can familiarize yourself with the criteria and see a description of the assessment parameters in our previousmaterial.

The season for ZywOo and Vitality as a whole began with disastrous results, which hardly pleased not only the fans, but also the leadership of the organization. At the same time, the Frenchman himself, having shown an impressive game within the BLAST Premier Global Final 2020, quickly lost ground and played two rather faded BLAST Premier Spring Groups 2021 and IEM Katowice 2021, barely crossing the rating threshold of 1.10.

Already in this segment of the season, it became clear that Vitality was experiencing big problems, while the team's sniper looks much worse than in previous periods.

Remarkably, the best ZywOo tournament was DreamHack Masters Spring 2021, which the Frenchman finished with a rating of 1.53. However, Mathieu's fantastic performance still did not help the team advance to the playoffs, thus calling into question the Vitality model.

Until the break, ZywOo continued to show strong CS by the standards of the average player, but not by his regalia. The apotheosis of the Frenchman's individual failures was IEM Cologne 2021, which ended for Mathieu with a rating of 1.12.

After the international pause, the player also showed his extraordinary talent, which he could not realize so much due to the problems of the team. At the same time, it cannot be said that ZywOo was the best in individual championships, invariably remaining in the shadow of NiKo or s1mple.

Only at the end of the season did the player manage to win the first tournament and take the first MVP medal. At the same time, there was no main rival Vitality at IEM Winter 2021, which slightly depreciates this achievement.

Why did ZywOo rank fourth?

If we are talking about ZywOo in terms of the average player, the Frenchman had another outstanding season. However, taking into account the experience of previous years, the player lost ground without being able to demonstrate consistency throughout the season.

ZywOo statistics for the season:

• Rating - 5.575.
• ADR - 84.7.
• K/D - 1.37.
• Impact - 1.37.
• The number of clutches is 82.
• The number of cards played is 159.

In addition, this year there were players who made an equal impact on the game of their team, and also managed to win many more trophies. Nevertheless, it is simply impossible to pass by the contribution of ZywOo to the industry, especially since by the end of the season the esportsman still woke up, reaching his peak of form.

At the same time, the Frenchman looked rather dull in matches against principal rivals, including Heroic, NAVI and G2. And if the player finished the meetings with NAVI and G2 with a rating of 1.15, then in the games against the Danish team ZywOo looked like a pale shadow of himself, ending the year with a rating of 1.04.

It was a weak start, coupled with Vitality's failures, that prevented the Frenchman from getting higher. And let the player's lack of the top three seem controversial, but this season ZywOo really passed both in terms of individual achievements and in team terms, having failed to save the sinking iceberg alone.