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CS2 Major Player & Roster Transfers: Niko, S1mple, Elige, Ropz & Falcons

Pro Player Transfers In CS2

The CS2 esports landscape is buzzing with major transfers and speculations following the 2024 Major, and these changes mark a huge impact across pro teams and rankings here are some confirmed rosters going into 2025 as well as latest unconfirmed news regarding the transfers


Virtus Pro New Roster 2025

  • Jame and n0rb3r7 have officially exited Virtus Pro marking a turning point for the team.
  • A standout rumor involves Fl4mus from GamerLegion, who grabbed attention during the Major with a fun moment: orchestrating the "Baby Shark" melody by shooting the bells on Inferno. This creative display has only added excitement around his potential transfer to VP although many argue that there might be better options out there
  • With Jame out Virtus Pro has officially signed ex cloud9 player ICY as the new AWPER for VP and the contract is set to last until 2028, this happened after the addition of FL4MUS

BIG new roster 2025

  • Rigon has left BIG, sparking questions about their future. Additionally, there are rumors that syrsoN may soon be replaced, this causes a major shake-up in this legendary CS2 pro team.
  • coming from fnatic Can " kyuubii" Ali joins BIG along side player Marcel " hyped" Köhn, hence now the roster consists of tabseN - JDC - Krimbo - hyped & kyuubii making BIG a full German roster

FaZe Clan & Vitality


Did ropz transfer to vitality?


  • Ropz’s transfer from FaZe to Vitality without a buyout has sent shockwaves through the esports scene because usually a player like Ropz is expected to be transferred in large sums of money, but since his contract is set to expire, vitality took this opportunity to gain him to the team. And yes this has been confirmed with Vitality Ropz now after 3 years with FaZe will be joining legendary player zywoo in this new roster.

Faze Elige

  • with ropz gone, maybe things are not as bad as they seem, Complexity’s EliGE is a strong contender to replace ropz in FaZe as they have very similar playstyles and rank right next to each other in the top 20 cs2 players for 2024, hence this potential swap makes sense. However, EliGE’s departure leaves Complexity struggling to find a suitable replacement.
  • It is confirmed Faze Elige is official, as they put out in a hysteric video they were a cursed team who promised to shave their heads if they win a major and when they won, they didn't live by their promise and to lift the curse they needed a bald cracked cs player who in this case Elige fits perfectly as the one punch man of counter strike.

Team Liquid 2025 roster

  • YEKINDAR has been benched, with Heroic’s NertZ rumored to step in. If finalized, this transfer could completely reshape Liquid’s CS2 lineup.

Why Did Fear Leave Passion UA

  • Despite the great uprise of Passion UA with fear and S-Chilla being in their roster, we have all seen them achieve great results, so it is chocking to see these aspiring players leave the organization, since the vision Oleksandr Zinchenko is to have a fully Ukranian team, the number 1 player S1mple might make a shocking appearance in this roster, although he might cost millions of dollars, his passion for the game and hunger to create another legacy might outweigh his high cost needs, will we see S1mple join Passion UA.

Team Falcons new roster 2025

  • Falcons have benched almost their entire roster, retaining only Emil "Magisk" Reif under coach zonic’s guidance.
  • Falcons have ambitious plans to rebuild their team with alot of speculations and rumors surrounding their organization. They’re reportedly pursuing PassionUA’s Dmytro "jambo" Semera, who recently shone on the big stage, and SAW’s Michel "ewjerkz" Magalhães.
  • Another bold rumor hints at a $10 million blockbuster deal involving a trio from Heroic, these cs2 pro players are, kyxsan, degster, and TeSeS joining NiKo and Magisk. If true, this would become the largest transfer in Counter Strike esports history.
  • Niko falcons official, Nikola Kovac has officially joined the saudi organization after leaving G2, having him there made it more exciting for the viewer to support the player, will we see another S1mple moment or will this be the right decision for the great falcon era joined with magisk and zonic
  • After confirming kyxsan, degster, and TeSeS to join falcon with a whopping $6M deal along side magisk & Niko coached by Zonic, this is the new falcons roster for cs2 2025

paiN 2025 Roster

  • Rodrigo " biguzera" Bittencourt
  • David "dav1deuS" Tapia
  • Lucas "nqz" Soares
  • Kaue " kauez" Kaschuk
  • João " snow" Vinicius

fnatic 2025 Roster

Newly added fear Rodion " fear" Smyk who made a great debut with PassionUA now has joined fnatic along side Denys "Burmylov" Buraga who comes from MOUZ NXT


This is the new fnatic roster for 2025:

  • KRIMZ
  • blameF
  • fear
  • MATYS
  • Brumylov

PassionUA 2025 Roster

KVEM Joins PassionUA making their roster full again, PassionUA 2025 roster is as follows

  • Topa
  • Kvem
  • jambo
  • jackasmo
  • ZeRRoFix

With the new valve 32 team major format, will we be able to see PssionUA making it to the majors again? and since S1mple is not a part of this team where will his next appearance be at?


To conclude

Many more exciting events are coming to counter strike, and you can see all these transfers and players from an early stage at events like the Yalla Compass Qatar set out to be hosted in 2025 this year, will we see an unbeatable falcons roster, what team will S1mple play in? did ropz really join vitality ? is Niko joining falcons ? the CS2 scene is filled with excitement and surprises and we as fans will be part of this journey cheering our pro players!


Latest CS2 Player Transfers

  • It has been confirmed kyxsan, degster and TeSeS ex HEROIC trio have joined Falcons with recently confirmed Niko and zonic as the coach
  • After Fear left Passion UA, his replacement was a solid Ukranian player Oleksii "TOPA" Topchiienko who started out with NAVI Junior, now he will be their new captain solidifying the roster of 4 members consisting of Jambo Jackasmo ZeRRoFIX Topa and 1 more mystery player, could it be S1mple?
  • On the other hand, ex non organization backed team player SPOOKE from JohnnySpeeds that have been in speculations for a while that each of them were looking for a new organization to pick them up, we know this because of the post game interviews at YaLLaCompass streaming platforms where draken has hinted several times that they have been getting offers and the state of the the team is a mystery going to 2025, hence one good news would be SPOOKE that will be joining OG after they have benched Nexius, making this a solid transfer for the organization in 2025
  • NertZ has officially been signed to liquid, ex Heroic player has left the organization after YEKINDAR was benched and Twistzz was very pleased to have him in the team, this however leaves HEROIC with only 1 player " sjuush" remaining in the roster after their trio kyxsan, degster, and TeSeS joined falcons with Niko
  • Rasmus "sjuush" Beckho was the sole remaining player for HEROIC when all his teammates left, he has now officially left the organization, it is rumored he might be working on something with NIP. With that being said, HEROIC are looking for new members, one could be Alvaro " SunPayus" Garcia in which falcons have said " the spanish sniper is leaving the nest" making it official that he is no longer under contract with falcons
  • Latest sources conclude HEROIC 2025 roster will consist of ex falcons awper SunPayus, nilo from Metizport and a trio from Sangal being LNZ, xfl0ud & yxngstxr
  • REZ leaves Ninjas In Pajamas to join GamerLegion and his journey with NIP wasn't a short one as he stayed with ninjas for around 8 years before making this switch, alongside REZ was also the departure of isak
  • G2 Announcing their 5th player, could it be a cloud9 player or S1mple?
  • Complexity bring in Danny "cxzi" Strzelczyk & Nick "nicx" Lee as replacement for ELIGE & floppy
  • 9pandas add ex Amkal player Vladislav "Krad" Kravchenko & ex NewBALLS player Vladislav "Alv" Vorokhobov
  • Ex johnnyspeeds player Hampus "hampus" Poser has joined METIZPORT alongside ex NIP player Isak " isak" Fahlén
  • Ex Cloud9 players Kirill " Boombl4" Mikhailov & Sergey "Ax1Le" Rykhtorov depart from C9 to join BETBOOM
  • G2 officially signed ex cloud9 player Nikita " HeavyGod" Martynenko to play along side their 2025 roster along side Snax - huNter - malbsMd & star AWPER m0NESY

Conclusions

  • Niko Left G2 & got replaced with heavygod from cloud9
  • Team Falcons acquired Niko along side kyxsan, degster, and TeSeS from Heroic to play with magisk in the roster
  • Last remaining member of Heroic sjuush got aquired by NIP
  • A fully revamped HEROIC roster has emerged and the players are SunPayus, xfl0ud, LNZ, tN1R, yxngstxr
  • Fnatic new roster brings in fear & Burmylov
  • Ropz is in Vitality and Elige is in Faze
  • And finally Jame joins Parivision alongside nota & TRAVIS
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