Rawkus joins Sentinels as head coach after leaving FaZe Clan roster

Sentinels have signed former FaZe Clan core member Rawkus as a result of the employees’s first head coach ahead of the Valorant Champions subsequent month.

Shane ‘Rawkus’ Flaherty has been with FaZe’s Valorant scene as a result of the early days of the esport. Beforehand, he was an Overwatch World Cup Champion (2019) sooner than making the transition to Riot’s FPS.

After spending his Valorant skilled participant career with FaZe, the 27-year-old will make his LAN debut orchestrating the Sentinels offense from behind the scenes.

“I’m going to be with them [Sentinels] for his or her Berlin run,” he acknowledged. “We’re going to win Champs, I’m excited for it. It’s much like an thrilling new chapter.”

Rawkus will lead the Sentinels Valorant powerhouse at Champions 2021.

Rawkus joins Sentinels’ Valorant employees

Rawkus will inherit what’s already thought-about to be among the many finest Valorant lineups on this planet.

Sentinels are loaded with experience in every place, spearheaded by Jett ace Tyson ‘TenZ’ Ngo. Along with IGL Shahzeb ‘ShahZaM’ Khan, Rawkus may be charged with together with to the employees’s playbook when going up in opposition to the worldwide rivals.

Speaking on the announcement, the American acknowledged everyone was amped for the switch seeing as a result of it might go an prolonged method to fixing the employees’s biggest downfalls: “I actually really feel choose it was one factor they’ve been all on board,” he acknowledged. “They’re all insanely proficient players. They don’t need anyone to hard-core coach them.

“They know straightforward strategies to play the game, clearly, they gained two Masters back-to-back. Personally what I want to help them with is cheesy strats and new ideas.”

We’re ready for Berlin. Let’s get to work @Rawkus. pic.twitter.com/LCMZHXRhgG

— Sentinels (@Sentinels) November 9, 2021

Sentinels have been a lock to comb all three Masters titles in 2021 sooner than their eventual collapse in opposition to Crew Envy throughout the Berlin quarterfinals. There’s no doubting the experience on the Purple-and-Black’s roster nonetheless the employees is wanting in order so as to add “brainpower to [its] firepower” by signing Rawkus.

Sentinels are one among solely 16 teams competing at Champions and may seek for a larger consequence than its last VCT LAN run.