Hey Leny, how have you been feeling since the season started, on a personal level?
I feel a lot better since the lane swap is gone. My biggest strength was the laning phase, and with the lane swap it was tough. My first year I was a bit stressed, but now I feel so much better. The game is in such a good place — in top lane it's pretty much pure 1v1, it's perfect.
You're in playoffs, even though at Winter Invitational you only played three matches and finished 11th-15th. What did that create within the team?
It was frustrating because scrims are good, but it's mostly in officials that you improve the most — that's where you discover your real weaknesses and strengths, that's where you truly play the game. Especially since other teams at Winter, like Galions or Solary, played around twenty official games while we only played three. That creates a real experience gap.
You changed junglers, going from Cronik to Kobz, another French player. How has it been going since he arrived?
He makes quite a few rookie mistakes, but otherwise it's going pretty well. He's learning, that's the main thing — he's improving. For me, it doesn't change much; the meta isolates us a bit, so it doesn't really impact me.
Looking back at your history, I noticed that in NLC you allowed yourself a wide variety of champions like Zac or TF, whereas this year you seem much more restricted to meta picks. Is it a personal choice or a directive?
Back then, if I pulled out TF or Zac, it's because they were meta. In competition, the champion has to at least be viable, otherwise you're just griefing your team. But honestly, the current top lane meta lets you play anything — whether it's mages, Anivia which I personally love, Varus, or even Vayne. Everything is viable right now.
