MAD Lions KOI’s rookie-filled roster had a snug begin to their Worlds 2024 marketing campaign, defeating Vietnam’s Vikings Esports in a 2-0 sweep to place themselves another win away from the Most important Occasion.
Bot laner David “Supa” Martínez spoke to the media following the win, revealing his ideas on the stable drafts which noticed MDK make the most of 4 of the identical champions in each video games one and two.
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“We imagine that our first draft was actually good, so we kinda received stunned that they didn’t change something or they didn’t need to adapt.
“I believe we had been proud of our factor. We didn’t imagine they may counter us, so we simply caught to the plan. And we clearly don’t need to present extra issues if doable… So we’re actually glad that we didn’t present extra issues, and we [were] actually assured that our plan was good.”
He went on to dive deeper into his Jinx decide particularly, which his aspect blind picked in each matches.
“I believe Jinx, we noticed you possibly can play with the laneswap, however you possibly can play usually as properly – the champion is fairly good after the buff… I believe the champion’s tremendous OP. They should discover ways to counter you and I believe they tried within the second draft, however [it] didn’t work. However the champion is fairly OP in case you can go forward, and the laneswap labored very well so I’m glad.”
Having simply made his worldwide debut, Esports.web requested Supa how he felt competing within the common Riot Video games Enviornment in Berlin; whether or not it felt like some other LEC fixture and if there was a profit from the consolation introduced by acquainted environment.
The Spaniard revealed that his workforce has, in reality, made strikes in an try to offer their preparation a distinct really feel to normally, opting to remain in and follow from a lodge moderately than their common lodging.
“We work rather a lot to make it really feel prefer it’s Worlds. We’re in a lodge, not scrimming within the workplace or from residence. So we are attempting to make it much like [the usual] Worlds expertise and having fun with enjoying from the lodge and all that Riot offers to us rather a lot.”
That mentioned, Supa added that the looks of the same old pre-game hype video/trailer did give him some nerves, “in a great way”, which added to the “Worlds expertise”.
MAD Lions KOI now face PSG Talon in a qualification match on Friday the place victory will e-book their Most important Occasion spot.
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