00:00Hello everyone, this is Curly-chan and here with me is Fnatic's midlaner X-Peki.
00:20You have been here analyzing the games, what do you think so far?
00:24I can hold it myself. I don't know, the games were kind of fun to watch most of them.
00:32Copenhagen Wolves vs. NYM was like a bit one-sided though.
00:36But yeah, I expected Copenhagen Wolves to win that really strong and NYM wasn't doing that good.
00:41But today's game has been really exciting, Alliance vs. Dignitas.
00:45It hasn't been exactly close either, but it was really good to see Europe winning, so I'm happy with that game.
00:50And now SK is facing SSHC or Superhot Crew.
00:55And SK is having a hard time right now. It hasn't ended yet, but they are like 2-0 down.
01:00And it looks bad for them, but we'll see. They are playing really good.
01:04SK is not playing as good as I thought they would. I have seen them play online a lot better.
01:08But it looks like they have too much pressure or they are too nervous or something. They cannot do that good.
01:15Do you think that Wolves and Alliance will be major competitors for Fnatic once the LCS season starts?
01:21Yeah, I think Alliance is going to be...
01:24Well, EG, when they were EG, they were already a competitor.
01:28They were not that good or that big threat, but still we couldn't...
01:32When we didn't prepare for them, they were beating us, so we had to prepare for them.
01:36Alliance is going to be the same, probably a bit better.
01:38I don't think they are going to be like Tracy much better.
01:41But they are going to be a bit better. We're going to have to take a lot of care.
01:44And we're going to have a lot of teams this season to prepare for.
01:48It's not going to be just one or two teams we're going to have to focus on.
01:51So you're playing in the Battle of J20 next week against Q9.
01:55How are you preparing for your rematch against them?
01:58We are not preparing a lot yet.
02:01We are just practicing, practicing and practicing ourselves to improve as a team.
02:05We're going to start preparing for them probably when we travel,
02:08because we have three... we travel the 19th and we have three days that we don't do anything.
02:12So maybe during the travel, a bit before the travel, during the travel and after,
02:16we will start preparing everything, all the strategies we want to do for them and everything.
02:20But right now we're just trying to practice as much as we can,
02:23because it's a new patch and with Reckless we have to adapt a bit to this game.
02:29And if we assume that maybe the points will be equal between you and A before your match,
02:34are you ready to crush A's hopes again?
02:37That's going to be a lot of pressure actually.
02:39If they are equal, which they are going to be equal probably, they are going to be 1-1, I suppose.
02:44It's going to be a lot of pressure because pretty much it's going to mean the winner of that game is going to decide...
02:50Not really. I think even if we lose Europe, we'll still win.
02:55But I hope we win, we will try our best to win and hopefully with it.
03:00We still haven't seen you play on the new patch, Fnatic, so how are you dealing with it till now?
03:06I think we're improving a lot now. At first it was a bit weird, like the Trinkets, the War, we're not used to it.
03:12But now we're getting better, like we practice a lot and every game we lose, we learn, every game we win, we learn.
03:18So we are like playing a lot, playing a lot and I think we are getting almost...
03:23Of course we are not close to be as good as we were in the World Finals and those patches.
03:27It was like we knew exactly what to do.
03:30But we are getting slowly there to that point where we know what we have to do.
03:33We just need two picks and then play the game.
03:35And what changed the most about Midlane in particular?
03:40It's not really a lot different, but it's weird.
03:44Like right now Assassin's are good, but it's like Farmers are better, again like Orianna, Gragas, even Morgana you can play.
03:51All those heroes are good again, like Assassin's are good, but they are not better anymore.
03:55So I think in Midlane you can play whatever you want and if you know what to do with your champion,
04:01if you have a hero that is good at roaming around, if you do it properly, I think it can be good.
04:06It's just about knowing how to play the champion you pick.
04:09And Riot released the newest patch like two days ago and they didn't really change much about any AP champs besides Ahri,
04:16just a little buff, so I guess they think they are pretty balanced. Do you agree with that?
04:23I think, yes and no. I will change maybe some of the heroes I don't like a lot, like Nidalee Thix, Gragas.
04:30Like those three heroes are like poke champions, they are really good at everything.
04:34If you are ahead, they are good at seeing turrets, if you are behind, they are really good at defending.
04:38I don't like it that they are so hard to deal with.
04:41If you are winning, they just stay at turret and you cannot push versus dance, it gets annoying.
04:45But besides that, they are balanced actually, they are balanced, they are not like completely broken or OP,
04:51but they are just annoying to deal with.
04:53Anything you want to say to the fans or sponsors before the Battle of the Atlantic?
04:59No, thank you for all the fans. We will try our best to win versus Cloud9.
05:05But even if we don't win, all the other European teams will win, so it's fine.
05:10Thank you very much and best of luck in your match.
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