MiniBoo allowed to explore options as Team Heretics experience potential roster changes

Lithuanian duelist Dominykas ‘MiniBoo’ Lukaševičius has been given permission to discover alternatives outdoors Group Heretics for the 2026 VCT season.

In accordance with a report by Sheep Esports, the transfer comes after Heretics crashed out of VALORANT Champions Paris in fifth-sixth place final weekend. This ended a rollercoaster 2025 marketing campaign that noticed the crew win $500,000 (~£385,000) on the Esports World Cup however fail to duplicate its 2024 success.

MiniBoo joined Heretics forward of VCT EMEA Stage 1 2024 and hasn’t seemed again since. The aggressive duelist helped the Spanish organisation attain the grand finals of VALORANT Champions 2024, Masters Shanghai and VCT EMEA Stage 1 2024 — although the squad fell quick every time.

His departure would break up up VALORANT’s beloved sibling duo. MiniBoo has competed alongside his older brother Ričardas ‘Boo’ Lukaševičius all through his time on Heretics, creating a singular dynamic inside the crew.

“Once we lose, he’s the extra calmer one,” MiniBoo stated at a current press convention. “So I suppose after we come again dwelling and we’ve free time, he’s form of talking to me and calming me down as a result of he’s extra skilled and he’s extra regulated than I’m. I’m too emotional.”

The youthful Lukaševičius brother described Boo because the stabilising presence for the whole roster: “In-game, it seems like he’s a giant brother to all of us, not solely to me.”

Boo mirrored on the rarity of their state of affairs throughout the identical press convention: “I don’t assume there’s many individuals like that normally who’ve an opportunity to play with their brother. So yeah, I’m simply completely happy about it.”

Regardless of the household connection, each brothers maintained skilled boundaries throughout matches.

“Inside the sport, you already know, I don’t deal with MiniBoo any totally different just like the others,” Boo defined. “I don’t assume he treats me any totally different. And we’re simply, you already know, all equal contained in the crew.”

Group Heretics entered 2025 with robust expectations after its runner-up end at Champions 2024. The 12 months began promisingly — third place at EMEA Kickoff, second in Stage 1 and the profitable Esports World Cup victory in July.

However the wheels got here off within the second half of the season. A disappointing Eleventh-Twelfth place end at Masters Toronto preceded its Stage 2 struggles, the place they bowed out in fifth-sixth. Champions Paris noticed extra of the identical, with Heretics falling 1-2 of their elimination match.

The crew’s inconsistency all through 2025 stands in stark distinction to its regular enchancment all through 2024, when it established itself as EMEA’s second-best crew behind Fnatic.