Team Vitality end the LEC Summer regular season on a high — a win over Shifters secures second place, and Matyáš "Carzzy" Orság broke the league's all-time kill record along the way. Next comes the big one: a BO5 against G2 in Madrid for a place at Worlds. The ADC sat down with RFT.GG to talk about the record celebration, the roster that reignited his motivation, and the blunt stakes hanging over the team.
I'm happy — especially about breaking the record. To be honest, I was so hyped that my focus was a bit split in the second game, not gonna lie, I was running it a bit. But I'm really happy with the way we played the rest of the split after Paris, when we played on the big stage.
And I'm really excited to play with this roster in playoffs, because I think we have way better chances of making Worlds than previously.
We knew they were going to do it, so we just matched their energy — we have a crazy team too. It was really enjoyable. But after the game, from all the shouting, my heart was racing and I was feeling a bit dizzy, a bit sick from it. But it was really fun.
In League you have to focus way more and there are no breaks. In CS you have breaks between rounds where nothing's happening. In League there's no time unless there's a pause — and during a pause you can't talk or do much. So it's just really hard to do stuff like this. I actually think it affects the gameplay when you do it, so that's mainly why people don't.
For me personally, it's mainly that I just need to find more motivation to keep grinding.
Lately, when I've been try-harding but we don't get results, that drained my motivation and I started asking myself how long I can keep going. But with this roster I feel way more confident and I have way more urge to play well.
Because I think we can actually get good results.
For sure it changed. My first year I was super hyped, so I was omega motivated. Now it's less, but it's just different — now I have the experience and I know what I have to do to perform. My main motivation is going to internationals and travelling to play, I think that's the most fun part.
And I'd like to lift the trophy one more time before I retire.
I liked playing with Hylissang — I think we were really good at laning together, one of the strongest bot lanes in the LEC, probably top three. But a change was needed for the team's synergy, because Hylissang didn't fit well with the other players on the team, and in the mid game it was really difficult to get on the same page with everyone. So changes needed to be done, and it just made more sense to bench someone who's already been in the LEC for so long, rather than changing rookies all the time.
Me and Fleshy are doing well. It could be better, of course, but Fleshy moving up to the roster gave other people motivation. There was a lot of despair before — not just from him, but everything overall was going quite badly. If you change someone and he brings nice energy to the team, it can shift everything.
I think I'm top two, top three in the LEC.
I think Hans Sama is top 1, Caliste is top 2. I'm pretty confident I can contest them, but it depends a lot.
We should expect explosive gameplay — we're going to be really aggressive. Last playoffs we weren't, we played quite passively and scared. This time it's just going to be different. We have to make it different, we have to play different, because otherwise we fall into the old tracks where we're too scared to do anything. G2 looked really shaky. Unless they bounce back immediately in their first game in playoffs, I think we have really good chances of beating them.
If they play like they played against the Asian teams at MSI, we have to step it up still. But if they play like they play in EU, then for sure sure beatable.
The main difference is that we're all fired from the organisation if we don't make Worlds. So our life is on the line *laugh*.
We're going to bring the fire from that.
