A lot of people in these ports industry like to pretend that maybe you're a very popular player or whatever and that's why you can be all high and mighty or whatever Compared to the people that do more of the background work like managers or even fans I don't feel that way at all, I want to make sure that everyone knows that I stand on the same ground, you know I'm the same as other people, I just... people just like watching what I do, that's the only difference That's like the moment I realized that like being smarter than you're opponent, it's often the best way to beat them If you're not as good as them individually, you can just be smarter So yeah, I would cheese them with like things that I practiced and like thought about, like their runes out of ups and like builds and champion picks And that's what I did, so I got some good old cheese in there As our playing solo queue like straight away when I hit level 30, like I didn't really know it was like a different stage play And yeah season 3 is like when I really started grinding solo queue and I played a lot I played so much ranked, I was... I went all the way from bronze to silver to gold I went all the way up to ladder to diamond, all the way to diamond 1, it took me like 1500 games, they're like the whole year I played so much I think that's where like the foundation of the way I perceived the game kind of came from Where it's like just a lot of raw experience playing so many different champions because like I played every single champion actually At the time it was like 107 champions I believe, somewhere like that I remember like on my OBGG you could see all them, like at like 107 champions I locked in throughout the entire season So like I tried everything at least once Season 6, yeah I just started playing top lane and gang playing lottery worked And I was just like wow the champs are awesome And then in my region it's like a very small like there aren't many people there from there that play league hyalur And it turns out that someone found out that I was from Belgium And I spoke Dutch, so they asked me if I wanted to join their team And I was like yeah sure I mean I'm not used to playing like I'm not used to like committing to top lane as well But I think I played pretty well, so yeah I'm dumb and whatever let's try it So I joined their team and then I was just like I guess I'm playing top lane I think there was a period like where I was like playing semi-pros And I was watching like LEC and I was just like yeah I can do that And then I was like yeah I'm pretty sure I can do that better than this guy I actually don't watch that much pro league at all I watch it whenever I'm going on stage so like I'm waiting for the match to end So I get to play and I'm sitting there like yeah I watch the game you know backseat of it that's always fun I usually only catch the games that are like meaningful for me Because I'm like supporting a player or I want to watch someone play that I respect or whatever So honestly I don't watch that much pro league at all I never have most of the content I consume are like one tricks Either I'm watching a stream of like a one trick player or like high yellow players But when I watch you on youtube videos I usually watch one trick players So yeah actually I used to watch the boss for a while because he was playing Silent Walt And I would play I was a bit of an avid Silent Ender I would watch like right now I'm watching this lease in top one trick Pretty cool stuff actually I'm almost convinced that champions OP top line when I watch like I play I'm watching this 8 rocks one trick it's Darius one trick and I'm just like you know just Consuming the information you know like just trying to get a feel for like I can see these champions are very strong The question is is where did they fit in draft right? So for me when I'm playing as a professional it's like really What I strive for is like being so good at the champion individually the people go like wow I need to pick that champion now You know entertainment is like a big part of my professional career for me I genuinely consider being an entertaining player to be important I come into the game with a mindset of like I'm not gonna play this game doing nothing Ever like if I do that I feel bad about it. You know it's like that's time on stage, you know like It's a big production like I wanted to be something that people have like I was look forward to Like you should be like looking forward to a 55 or looking forward to a big moment in the game Because those games are like people just hug their nexus and they like give up everything and then they last fight They do is when the nexus towers are down is like my lord like How boring is that like what a waste of an opportunity playing on stage to play like that, you know At least make it something you know make it exciting make it something memorable for everyone involved Obviously that's my perspective and I get that that might be a bit controversial, but I don't care Like that's I find them until you believe in that I found them until you believe that the reason people watch is because it's entertaining And I care about Making sure that the games I play are fun to watch Um, so now I go for an end of season eight Um, those are favorite champion. I should tell him those are favorite champion I was like alright, well like I thought it was like a cute idea because we just got together and I wanted to be cute You know how it is um to hover that champion in champsleck because actually hilly would hover draven ori and that would Be short and for dory which is his girlfriend. So I stole that from And then I have a crisis so that was something I did Um, and ever since I've just always done it. It's just my way. I guess I was just telling her you know Even when I'm like when a stressful situation in order to still think of her That was the idea and I've always done that as a habit and Think it helps me like ground myself as well when I'm in champsleck. You know, it's just like all right Because I was very stressful for me as a rookie actually because that was my world's event So I met her before worlds It was like really like a stressful time and she helped me like ground myself a bit then you know I knew I was gonna play fine as long as I played my own game and How rink I said was like A wave of me like grounding myself like I'm here. This is me. It's gonna be all right Yeah tough year Tough year I Was tough for me because it was like The first time I had to kind of decide what I wanted to do with my life because um, you know, I was like 17 quit school Kind of tried to go pro for two years didn't really If it had to give me an offer the rest is history From that point until the year I took off Well, I didn't really take off intentionally. I just I wanted to commit to playing in an A and I guess it's important for people to understand Why that is but I felt like if I stay in Europe I wouldn't really be able to distinguish myself much more than I already had I'd never be considered one of the greats. I'd always just be you know a great personality that people love watching But I never really do something that hadn't been done before and Playing in an A always appeal to me because I felt like maybe that could be something other people hadn't done before You know, maybe we could go so much further Obviously, I didn't make it the world so blows And then the year after that I also um didn't get hired in the LCS I did get offers to play in Europe but for me you know, my personal life is very important My partner matches a lot to me and us moving all our stuff to America was a commitment It's not just me in my suitcase like in 2018, you know That's why for me it was not an easy decision to leave Europe And that's why for me it was even harder to leave America because like this is where we wanted to you know make our life happen Legal Legends is at the end of the day a series of zeros and ones right? It's all numbers. It's a computer game You can Math out your way to an optimal game I suck at maths or at least I suck at maths in the sense of like I suck at formulas But like simple maths like Lee Quares like you add up a gold value to another gold value I'm good at that maths the way The numbers work in the game Decide how much of scope so you need to be like very diligent with looking at the numbers of Items and champions because they have a really great impact on how your champion behaves in the game like numbers and items and you know Maths like the numbers on your actual champion. How much damage does my q do how much damage does my w do or whatever You have to acknowledge that's really important So that's why I think maths are so important in this game because they're simple numbers and you need to know them That's Eddie I do suck at math like for me Flake was the pill to me for two reasons because in that year I took off I actually did some Public coaching so I was in public coaching and I I grew some appreciation for the NA growing scene and people They're trying to get like great in in NA because I think that it's it's pretty hard to excel When the rest of your environment is not trying to excel and Flake was wanted to you know keep their academy team. So that was the thing that I wanted like that I cared about and I thought like I thought point I was definitely like interested in working with an academy team and working with an academy top laner Now I've come to realize that it's kind of tough to maintain the top two level and work with an academy team Unfortunately, but it's definitely something that I want to like uh That I would want in my ecosystem Is having players that I can help grow and kind of game perspective on the game because I think that's the most like That's the number one thing in the scene lacks tires don't get what they actually need to do Everyone always thinks it's like this is intangible, you know like a great player does like intangible things No, they don't they do the same thing every game. I think when it comes to league especially Especially in the back in the day like I would like spend hours reading the wiki and like war and all the stuff like even to this day You know when there's a new champion that comes out that's like awesome. I like Read all the lore stories about them um, you know catching up on like stories that I didn't read sometimes, you know like Spantheon short stories or like orn volleyball short stories recently that I read this year and I was like wow, so awesome You know like Paul champ, you know like woo, let's go Like that for me is like a definitely big part of my big part of my life and I think that's also a reason why I'm so passionate about the game because of like the potential of the universe You know, it's not just the video game like for me. It's like the characters and what they represent like That's like a really big part of why I love this game if Riot has different like ideas with the rip I'll probably love that game too because for me it fundamentally like I didn't fall in love with the genre of the game like It's the first mobile I ever played. There's actually like an effort to get into mobiles for me But I love the characters and the idea of the of the universe so much that like I overcame my innate Hate for change by going to a mobiles. I never played another mobile before I was stubborn getting into League I was like really stubborn. I was like I don't want to play League. It looks so annoying to play like that And blah blah blah. But in the end you got me good And ever since it's all been League You