Hiko, one of the loveliest pros. I also like that he always said he thought all those gambling sites are shady as fuck and that he would never become a sellout to them, even though they probably offered him tons of money.
Great video, took me 2 days to watch the whole thing because of my schedule, keep up the good work thooorin and i wish the best of luck to hiko, pimp, liquid and s1mple
The way he describes the Russian/Ukranian callouts, made me realize just how smart that is. Like you wouldn't have to correct yourself, you can just call the quadrant you think they're in and your teammate's thoughts would adjust accordingly. Like Hiko said I never even thought of that as a possibility. Pretty cool way of calling things.
I JUST watched the first episode of reflections with Hiko and thought 'Man, a 2nd appearance would be a really interesting video'. Thorin, thanks for reading my mind.
But, Thorin, man, think of the banter! Banter in English, banter in Ukrainian? C'mon, man. For the banter! And then for us for our own selfish reasons of being ignorantly entertained!
Can we get a relections with Semphis? Seems like it would be a good one considering you've done one with SGares, Hiko, Dazed. And those are all guys who his career has been parallel to and would be interesting to get his thoughts on the stuff they have made comments on, and so forth.
bds Personally, I'm not entirely sure. I think Ska's slump was a lack of motivation, but I don't think he would've had one with Hiko on the team. I'm not sure why I think that, but that's what believe.
When he was talking about s1mple yelling at him for dying at the 59min mark, wow, and saying “that was way worse than even dazed was “ fucking hilarious
Thorin probably won't see this question but I'll ask it anyways. What will happen to Starix and Na'Vi now that Valve has said (according to FalleN) that the coach has to be an in game player? Do you think Starix will replace a player or will he be dropped or moved to manager or some other position?
If valve does that fuck valve, but if it happens navi will lose some of their style with Starix losing the position, but I highly believe he would retire.
14:35 You can tell here that thorin was about to laugh when Hiko said ''AdreN in-game leading, what could go wrong'' but then he realised that it wasn't actually a joke and kept his composure :P
NA Power Team: Skadoodle Hiko DaZeD Swag S1mple replacing AZK because Overwatch granted Swag would join C9, Skadoodle would stay with C9, Hiko doesn't wanna leave Liquid, but it's nice to imagine if this happened.
Strange that thorin didn't really talk about Pimp since he seemed to be a fan of him previously. Hiko talked about him and thorin was just like meh lol. I remember thorin talking about pimp going to the SK lineup after dignitas as if he felt bad for him and didn't want him to disappear into the abysss :( Either way huge fan of this new Liquid lineup, hiko has done well. Shows that patience really pays off, never give up because you may end up achieving more than you ever thought you could under completely different circumstances than you previously wish you had.
changing simple to Pimp is like changing ur Ferrarri to an old mercedez benz that ur parents were driving back in the day thts the skill difference between those 2
ofcourse playing in liquid any player will raise their rating but he will not be as good as simple and will not carry them to any semifinals or further
He wasn't even the best, with s1mple on his team and with how Pimp has been in the past, I'm not sure he will be the best on the current team. Not sure hes a top 10 player, but I definitely think hes underrated on what he brings to the team and contributes inside and outside the game, which I believe brought liquid a lot of there success.
Dakota Plasterer S1mple is so inconsistent though. Anyway Hiko's strength isn't to be that mad fragger like s1mple, but an emotional cornerstone that keeps his cool no matter what. No player in the world right now is so consistently good at clutches :)
+Bilbo I definitely agree with you on hikos strenght and that he brings the team together. and helps unlock s1mple and is a grwat clutch player. i would still have to disagree with him being a tier one player, especially when comparing him to coldzera, guardian and other players that you mentioned along with s1mple.
Great Video, really good Interview. Enjoyed watching and listening to Hiko. Just something for you Thorin: After Hiko answering you say a lot of times : OK! Sure! , i can see in your eyes you are preparing the next question :-) (really Kraut-english sry!)
So I haven't been into cs for a whole long time, but I was thinking, was nuke more played before it was taken out of the map pool or was it played basically the same amount as it is now?
About FNATIC saying they didnt prepare for the matches: Olof made a tweet saying that it was a lie, trying to get into the heads of the Liquid players, it obviously didnt work.
If Hiko and Ska teamed up with Sgares, Shroud and Freak I wonder where C9 would be right now. Because I think that lineup is a the opposite of what they have now. Most of those players are really motivated like Hiko, Sgares and Freak(he was just back on the scene) and shroud and ska would go with the flow and work hard like the rest. I think this team woudlve made those finals again but might have won and even rivaled the 2015 Liquid lineup with Hiko or maybe the current one with JDM and Pimp. Kinda interesting how things work out.
It wouldn't work out how you think IMO, firstly Ska hasn't been a top tier AWPer for some while now, shroud plays really poorly on lan, there's no way this lineup would make it out of groups even IMO. TL has far more firepower; EliGE and Nitr0,, better chemistry, a star player they can rely on when they had s1mple, a consistent AWPer, and a solid clutch player.
Cloud9 lineups don't work anymore because we've seen the flaws with every one of these players. Hiko doesn't need to play with sgares because they have Peacemaker as coach to let others frag harder, which sgares could not be relied on for
*sees Hiko*
*sees video length*
Dis gon b gud
U know it
All of the 'reflections' are amazing.
I feel s1mple will come up a lot in this video
check the description
he did
we need a S1mple interview now
He cant speak English
That's just incorrect. There are multiple videos of him in interviews and in twitch speaking English.
OR, make an interview in which he speaks russian and thoorin gets a translator. worked for cypher lol
no point s1mple's english is very good
+TheIrishGlitch He played on an english speaking team for months, are you dense?
Almost 3 hours with Hiko, this has to be purrfect
Thorin please do interview with s1mple.I think whole community wants to see that.
Hiko, one of the loveliest pros. I also like that he always said he thought all those gambling sites are shady as fuck and that he would never become a sellout to them, even though they probably offered him tons of money.
Great video, took me 2 days to watch the whole thing because of my schedule, keep up the good work thooorin and i wish the best of luck to hiko, pimp, liquid and s1mple
Quality, well worth listening to
Massive respect for Hiko. He's a great guy AND has the winners mentality.
That bit at the tail end on the video almost makes me want to cry. What a use of a clip, holy shit.
I have to keep coming back and watching this piece by piece due to the length but really liking it so far I am at about an hour in.
that ending 8/8
just finished watching a another Hiko interview, and saw this and was like just in time.
First Reflections video that I have watched fully. Great video!
Great questions as always Thoorin. Amazing interview
both of my daddies
Just went to check if you uploaded this! Good timing i guess
LUL the ending
HYPE!!!!
2 hours 40 minutes? My body is ready.
If you asked about the timeouts that were so crucial in the ESL one cologne run that would've been sick! Great interview
I'm ready, two of my most favourite people in the scene
You really should make a reflections video with TaZ. I'd love to watch it
There is so much shit to talk about it could take 2 videos if not more
I'd dig that....also Reflections with Neo!
definitely Taz or neo reflections would be sick to watch
Im proud of myself watching the whole video.
Hah, same. It helps that this was a super interesting interview :p
Nerd
The way he describes the Russian/Ukranian callouts, made me realize just how smart that is. Like you wouldn't have to correct yourself, you can just call the quadrant you think they're in and your teammate's thoughts would adjust accordingly. Like Hiko said I never even thought of that as a possibility. Pretty cool way of calling things.
HIKO ARE YOU KIDDING ME! LOVE IT
I JUST watched the first episode of reflections with Hiko and thought 'Man, a 2nd appearance would be a really interesting video'. Thorin, thanks for reading my mind.
Quality insight I watched the whole thing.
The video was uploaded 16 mins ago????????
i dont think so twenty minutes After the vid was released
Another quality reflections. Always enjoy these CSGO ones.
Shit, by the end of this one my aim might actually not suck
mine did, i overdid it :Ccccccccccccc
what did hiko say about aim? might have missed that part
I think he means he DM's while watching the video
They're talking about DM'ing while listening to this video
I dont get it lol
The end was golden, omg i love you thorin!!!
'Reflections' with Shara
He's too busy doing a Wile Coyote :>
+Thooorin Rip boys
But, Thorin, man, think of the banter! Banter in English, banter in Ukrainian? C'mon, man. For the banter! And then for us for our own selfish reasons of being ignorantly entertained!
34-10 never forget
i remember something like "10 minutes Short of interstellar".. thats how i like it. Thanks Spencer &thorin
Listened from and to work, great topics!
Tarik plot twist at the end, best team in the world? I aren't think that.
Read that last sentence back.
TaeZer It's a meme. Or what do you mean?
Rapid I am not up to date enough on the memes. I do kinda remember Turok saying some stupid ass shit, but I must've missed that one. My bad.
TaeZer No problem, don't know where it originated from either. I just like saying it and know it's a meme.
+Rapid hltv some dumbass with bad london said it
LOL TARIK AT THE END HOLY GOD AHAHHAHAHA
and thorin in the reflection wearing a hiko hat LMAO.
thorin always gets the epic interviews !!!
i cant believe i actually watched it all lol, big interview!
S1mple and Hiko are the ultimate bros. In a good way. God I want them to stay in the same team.
Can we get a relections with Semphis? Seems like it would be a good one considering you've done one with SGares, Hiko, Dazed. And those are all guys who his career has been parallel to and would be interesting to get his thoughts on the stuff they have made comments on, and so forth.
holy shit 85th episode? I've got some watching to do!
I have waited whole week for dis shiz, gon b gud.
thorin makes the best videos on this whole site
Reflections' with Swag
thorin plsss
prob doesn't have the balls for it
YES
It wouldn't be a very long interview
great thought, but SWAG is not the interview type ya know? He doesn't really give a fuck to story tell and reminisce about shit
Love these kind of videos! pls do with more players. Early biography!
I was just thinking a week ago this would be and may be a great interview with hiko' recent success
You Europeans merely adopted Dust 2. We were born in it, molded by it. We didn't even see other maps until we went top 2 at a major
I love how Tarik is at the end and you're wearing a Hiko hat hahahaha!
Late af, but I'm so excited to watch this!!!!! :)
Reflections with s1mple??
keep up with the reflections. awesome content
Fantastic video definitely worth it to watch the whole thing. Then again I'm kinda biased since I love Thorin, Hiko and s1mple :P
that ending was straight savage
fav NA player! GO Hiko !
great video as always :)
i literally watched the other hiko video like 2 days ago. n i c e
great video, watched the whole thing
That outro has to be the sickest burn Thorin ever delivered.
God I wanted Ska and Hiko on a team together soooo bad, wish it could have happened
+bds Currently, yes, but back then, Skadoodle was literally contesting for best awper in general.
bds Personally, I'm not entirely sure. I think Ska's slump was a lack of motivation, but I don't think he would've had one with Hiko on the team. I'm not sure why I think that, but that's what believe.
Skadoodle is Anakin, JDM is Luke
and if IBP weren't banned
1:05:21 the depths of the Hiko X s1mple bromance is revealed
lol so savage at the end there with tarik xD 2:38:53
the end is perfect!!
When he was talking about s1mple yelling at him for dying at the 59min mark, wow, and saying “that was way worse than even dazed was “ fucking hilarious
Thorin probably won't see this question but I'll ask it anyways. What will happen to Starix and Na'Vi now that Valve has said (according to FalleN) that the coach has to be an in game player? Do you think Starix will replace a player or will he be dropped or moved to manager or some other position?
If valve does that fuck valve, but if it happens navi will lose some of their style with Starix losing the position, but I highly believe he would retire.
FalleN had no idea what you were talking about.
Where did you hear this
Most likely made it up like half the other shit people claim to have heard.
+Thooorin that would make no sense so He must have made that up
Speaking of Reflections... can see Thorin is wearing a Hiko hat in the last clip. Lord Thorin knew this day would happen
Watch all the way through guys, big surprises, and giveaways throughout the video!
just add an AlphaDraft intro , and u get an Oscar nomination for this movie
Lel
14:35 You can tell here that thorin was about to laugh when Hiko said ''AdreN in-game leading, what could go wrong'' but then he realised that it wasn't actually a joke and kept his composure :P
NA Power Team:
Skadoodle
Hiko
DaZeD
Swag
S1mple replacing AZK because Overwatch
granted Swag would join C9, Skadoodle would stay with C9, Hiko doesn't wanna leave Liquid, but it's nice to imagine if this happened.
Jeremy Borrero I feel like JDM got the aim while Ska has the brain and movement
Ska's skill ceiling is much higher than JDMs
and by no means am I saying JDM is bad, I just believe Ska is better and there is a lot to account for when saying this
+Lanesh Do you value rare peaks instead of great consistency?
Thorin, what is the white box under "Reflections"? It has been there for a few "Reflections" videos.
Probably where the AD logo was or something
Was wondering the same, hard to look away now.
***** Someone get Thorin a new overlay! ASAP!
pretty sure its a spot for sponsors.
turn annotations on
shout out to anyone who watched the final 10 seconds of the video...youre a savage thorin!
Great interview , had fun watching it.
For the laughs of it , @Thooorin , invite Flusha for interview and lets talk cheats ! haha
interesting to have a reflections with maikelele
now THIS is what i need when i'm grinding xp at 4am
I take it that outro with Tarik was recorded before JDM left
Reflections with s1mple, its gotta happen
Strange that thorin didn't really talk about Pimp since he seemed to be a fan of him previously. Hiko talked about him and thorin was just like meh lol. I remember thorin talking about pimp going to the SK lineup after dignitas as if he felt bad for him and didn't want him to disappear into the abysss :( Either way huge fan of this new Liquid lineup, hiko has done well. Shows that patience really pays off, never give up because you may end up achieving more than you ever thought you could under completely different circumstances than you previously wish you had.
changing simple to Pimp is like changing ur Ferrarri to an old mercedez benz that ur parents were driving back in the day thts the skill difference between those 2
marked150 Dude Pimp will basically be the best player in NA... that comparison is stupid
ofcourse playing in liquid any player will raise their rating but he will not be as good as simple and will not carry them to any semifinals or further
hiko was still on c9 when i started getting into csgo, its been a mad year and a half.
Hiko is such an underrated player. Imo he's top 5 in the world right now along with Dennis, Fallen, Shoxie, and Niko.
He wasn't even the best, with s1mple on his team and with how Pimp has been in the past, I'm not sure he will be the best on the current team. Not sure hes a top 10 player, but I definitely think hes underrated on what he brings to the team and contributes inside and outside the game, which I believe brought liquid a lot of there success.
you don't know shit
Dakota Plasterer
S1mple is so inconsistent though. Anyway Hiko's strength isn't to be that mad fragger like s1mple, but an emotional cornerstone that keeps his cool no matter what. No player in the world right now is so consistently good at clutches :)
+Bilbo I definitely agree with you on hikos strenght and that he brings the team together. and helps unlock s1mple and is a grwat clutch player. i would still have to disagree with him being a tier one player, especially when comparing him to coldzera, guardian and other players that you mentioned along with s1mple.
HIKO ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! inhuman 'reflections'
Great Video, really good Interview. Enjoyed watching and listening to Hiko. Just something for you Thorin: After Hiko answering you say a lot of times : OK! Sure! , i can see in your eyes you are preparing the next question :-) (really Kraut-english sry!)
Very good video. Watched it all
hmm.. i can smell the truthh
3 hour video? Fuck tha..... wait... Thooorin and Hiko? No one talk to me for 3 hours!
The ending actually killed me.
Do you think you'll ever do another one of these with DaZeD?
OH MY GAWD THORIN THAT ENDING, HAHAHAHAHA! YOU'RE SUCH A MONSTER!
Liquid is what NA needs. Hardworking and willing to sacrifice.
What program did he say @1:32:37 ? I cant understand what he says
Does Thoorin always have some sort of cold or illness? Always has a sick sounding cough.
can someone tel me how the demo program @ 1:32:29 is to find
statshelix.com/
My name is Tarik, and we will be the best team in 2016. Welcome to Thoorins UA-cam channel
Pls do a reflections with a navi player! Maybe starix or Zeus? Idk if their English will be the greatest but it would still be great to watch
Tarik at the end just absoutly killed it for me haha
The feeling When u see a thorin video pop up while ur listening to mobb deep
The simple fan club executives meeting
So I haven't been into cs for a whole long time, but I was thinking, was nuke more played before it was taken out of the map pool or was it played basically the same amount as it is now?
Which program is he talking about @ 1:32:30 ?
2:37:15 - Thorin gets SWAT'ED while talking to HIKO would be great.
About FNATIC saying they didnt prepare for the matches: Olof made a tweet saying that it was a lie, trying to get into the heads of the Liquid players, it obviously didnt work.
Hiko ska stew shroud and Sean -> eg Sean could come back to that and I think Hiko doesn't have problems with them
2 hours of hiko and thoorin lol heaven
If Hiko and Ska teamed up with Sgares, Shroud and Freak I wonder where C9 would be right now. Because I think that lineup is a the opposite of what they have now. Most of those players are really motivated like Hiko, Sgares and Freak(he was just back on the scene) and shroud and ska would go with the flow and work hard like the rest. I think this team woudlve made those finals again but might have won and even rivaled the 2015 Liquid lineup with Hiko or maybe the current one with JDM and Pimp. Kinda interesting how things work out.
It wouldn't work out how you think IMO, firstly Ska hasn't been a top tier AWPer for some while now, shroud plays really poorly on lan, there's no way this lineup would make it out of groups even IMO. TL has far more firepower; EliGE and Nitr0,, better chemistry, a star player they can rely on when they had s1mple, a consistent AWPer, and a solid clutch player.
Also skadoodle barely practises outside of team practice
Cloud9 lineups don't work anymore because we've seen the flaws with every one of these players. Hiko doesn't need to play with sgares because they have Peacemaker as coach to let others frag harder, which sgares could not be relied on for
Pancho I was talking about when Ska and Hiko were free agents together, C9 instead of keeping n0thing they kick him and and ska, hiko, and freak.