Natus Vincere vs FaZe Prediction: Natus Vincere has more chances to win

Prediction for the match between Natus Vincere and FaZe which will take place on September 28. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

Natus Vincere is having a very dominant second half of 2024. The Born to Win won the Esports World Cup 2024, ESL Pro League Season 20, and played in the finals of IEM Cologne 2024. The B1ad3 collective is ranked number one in the HLTV and Valve rankings, which speaks to their phenomenal power on the CS2 professional scene. The current Natus Vincere winstreak consists of eight consecutive series, including the final in Malta.

The team has achieved a perfect balance - AleksiB is focused on captaincy duties, while the quartet of iM/jL/w0nderful/b1t destroys absolutely everyone on CS2 servers. Statistics show that all four have an equal impact on Natus Vincere's play and almost equally get MVPs in individual matches. Over the past three months, each of the four has an HLTV rating above 1.2, a phenomenon never seen in Counter-Strike history. At the BLAST Autumn Finals, w0nderful is in the top-3 of the individual rankings (1.47 HLTV), while b1t and iM are in the top-10 (1.37 and 1.33 HLTV ratings respectively). Natus Vincere is the best offensive team (65% winrate for the T-side), the best at minority execution (43%), the best at scattering blinding grenades (0.44 kills per round after blinding), the best at open firefights (62%), and wins pistol rounds more often than it loses (75%). Natus Vincere either leads or tops in most statistics, which speaks to its phenomenal individual and team preparation.

The organisation has won titles three times in 2024, including the CS2 Major in Copenhagen. They currently share the intermediate top spot for trophies in 2024 with Team Spirit. The Dragons have already crashed out of the tournament, and Natus Vincere needs to win two matches to take the lead in this race and solidify its top spot in the HLTV and Valve rankings. Watching the matches against Team Falcons and G2 Esports, the Born to win team will be able to accomplish such tasks.

Karrigan and company in the semi-finals of the autumn BLAST finals. FaZe tore Team Liquid in the quarterfinals, not letting ‘Liquid’ even think about the probable victory. FaZe were great on the server, but will they be able to take down Natus Vincere as well? It's multiple times harder than beating Team Liquid.

FaZe is slowly coming out of the slump it was in after the summer break. In August and September the team reached the playoffs of major tournaments, but they played very hard. In Copenhagen we see a different story: broky is making highlites again, ropz is back in good condition, frozen finally gets support from teammates, rain is included in the most difficult moments. Let's single out karrigan - the captain's stats don't reflect his real impact. He may not hit the whole game, but he can give one or two rounds that will affect the outcome of the whole series. In the match against Team Liquid, FaZe dominated all parts of Inferno and Mirage. By the way, FaZe plays very evenly on all maps, except Vertigo - in the last months they have played on six maps 8-9 times each. Things are a bit worse on Nuke (37%), on the rest of the maps the winrates are in the range of 50-65%. It is senseless to resort to the statistics of karrigan team, because the numbers never showed the real strength of this team.

In group stage and in playoffs FaZe are two absolutely different teams. Karrigan and company are fuelled by the energy of the hall, they perform much better on stage than online or from practices in the group stages. If FaZe made it to the playoffs, its players won't be afraid of anyone on the server. It is not so important who is in front of them - a typical outsider or top-1 HLTV.

El Clasico Counter-Strike will definitely be eventful. Bookmakers believe that Natus Vincere has more chances to win, but nobody cancelled the FaZe factor on the stage. It will be a very tight series, probably with three maps, but now Born to Win is really on another level in all aspects of CS2. FaZe will fight, cause trouble, but will not make it to the grand finals of BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2024.