Natus Vincere vs Kalmychata Prediction: Natus Vincere is much stronger

Prediction for the Natus Vincere and Kalmychata match which will take place on June 27. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

The Born to Win has been showing erratic performances in 2024. At the end of spring, they had a good qualification for DreamLeague Season 23, where Natus Vincere beat Team Spirit and Virtus.pro to earn a slot in the main stage of the tournament. It seemed that with such a positive attitude the team will easily get a slot at either TI13 or Riyadh Masters 2024, but in fact in both qualifications they failed.

According to Santa, Natus Vincere is trying to play aggressively, imitating the organisation's champion line-up from 2011. Indeed, the Born to Win emphasises strong lines, with draft picks peaking between 15-25 minutes. Therefore, the Zayac collective has no chance in the leyte, and in the previous meta the teams were steadily farming and dragging out maps to 40 minutes or more. In patch 7.36 the situation changed a bit, but here Natus Vincere could not adapt to the new realities.

In spring the team experienced significant changes: instead of shigetsu and mellojul came Yuragi and sanctity-. In the short term, the organisation's move paid off and Natus Vincere played in a tier-1 tournament for the first time in a long time. Now, with all the tops missing from qualification, the Born to win have a real chance to make it to the Elite League main event and fly to Peru.

Kalmychata have not previously appeared in the closed qualifiers, but were familiar from the open qualifiers. In 2024, they have achieved localised victories over some strong teams, and 9Pandas in particular. Now they will try their hand at a new, more serious level.

Some familiar names here are antoha and Danial. The former played in the top division of North America in the scandalous Thiuth Gaming, and the latter was at the peak before the era of coronavirus, when in Gambit Esports together with Fng and gpk he was in the top 4 of major tournaments. However, after that, the Kazakh support did not rise to the former level, and offers from cool teams did not come. Players from Kalmychata have good MMR figures and are in the range of top 200 leaderboards in Europe (it is close to 13 000 MMR).

No one predicts sensational success for this team, but we must realise that if the players have high ratings, they are able to adapt to the patch. There is no pressure on them, and the very fact of entering the closed part of qualification is already encouraging. Against this background Kalmychata may surprise.

Natus Vincere is much stronger in terms of team skill, but very dependent on the initial stage. If the game is not going well on the lines, it will be very difficult to comeback. But Kalmychata is not ready to impose serious competition to the teams of tier-2 level.