What's up gamers, it's your boy, J-Con. Welcome to another episode of Top 5. We are continuing my series on my Top 5 players in every role heading into VCT Champions 2023. Today's video will be ranking the Info Initiator Players, usually the Sova or Fade Players. However, many primary Info Initiator players have been on Skyduty for this past year, so this makes it a little harder to rate. Before we get to the Top 5, we'll start with a few honorable mentions that I just missed the cut. Let me know if you think someone else deserves a Top 5 slot over somebody that I picked. Our honorable mention is the Yambi of Team Liquid. Again, he primarily played Sky, but he has flexed to other initiators and killedjoyed this year. Yambi is a very consistent player for Liquid and honestly they're X-Factor. They will need for Yambi to step up his game and put on a superstar performance like he used to before Nath and Safe arrived in order for them to run. Starting out our Top 5 list, we have Calm of Evil Geniuses, the Fracture Sova Pioneer. Calm has always been one of the more creative players in VCT and has grown a lot as a player. Many people questioned his position in the league, especially after EGi and initially announced their roster with VCJ on it. However, as time passed and Demon 1 has been able to integrate, Calm has been able to flourish and show why he deserves to hold the top slot as an initiator. Calm has been playing Sova in Viper's team and really shows a complete understanding of both agents' utility. His innovation on Fracture has pushed other teams to adopt a Sova pick, however Calm still stands on a level above them on that map. If Calm can have a good showing and provide great support for his team, EGi will go on a run. Moving on to number 4 on my list, I have Cloud of Giants Gaming. Cloud is my super super underrated pick for all the rules. I think his utility usage is immaculate and he is one of the best Sovas coming out of EMIA. Giants have been known to be a consistent team and honestly a large part of that is because of Cloud's consistent play. He's a superstar in the making and honestly is Giants best player next to Nukki. I hope he will be able to show his talents on the big stage as Giants will get to test themselves against international competition again. Going to number 3, I have Shao of Navi. The clutch god Shao has been really non-ve to this point on a sheer talent. However, Navi has been trolling a bit with their picks. But if they put Shao back on his comfort of initiator, he will deliver large numbers. Shao is one of the best in the world for a reason. I think he can continue to put up stand-up numbers. I'm just not sure if it's enough to push Navi along in this tournament. Next on the list at number 2, I have Crashies of NRG. Crashies is the backbone of North America, a top initiator player for years and has returned to another international competition. I think Crashies is the key to NRG success because he steps up to the plate every time. He is an extremely intelligent player that utilizes his utility well, calms extremely well and has an unspoken partnership with Victor that makes them a fearsome duo. I expect him to continue to be one of the best sky players in the world and when he needs to pull out Soba, he can contend with the best of them. I expect Crashies to be the catalyst of NRG not only taking sites, but manipulating the map. And finally, at number 1, we have the one and only Leo of Fanatic. Leo is the best player in the world, period. Everything I said in my top 20 players is still sounds true here. Go watch that out that the video will be linked in the description down below. He is one of the most intelligent players, not only with his positioning but his utility usage. He is incredibly hard to kill, a surviving 96 rounds straight without dying first to the enemy. That is 8 halves of gameplay. 4 games worth of rounds before dying first. It is insane that that's that exists. He is extremely clutch and able to anger at the same time. He want to turn him in, only playing his secondary characters and being the best in the world on them. His fade in sky utility, especially when setting up his team to succeed, is incomparable. And if slash when he needs to play Soba, he has the best utility usage in the world with shockdarts, dart angles and dart timings. Leo is almost as perfect as a player as you can get to be the backbone of any team and I'm glad that he finally has the spotlight the shine because he has been amazing for years. And that's my top 5 list. There are probably names that I missed making this, so please let me know down below in the comments who you think are the top 5 Info-Initiator players or dart courses that I may not have included. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one. Stay hydrated, peace.