Fnatic followers are nonetheless reeling after the group’s League of Legends group suffered its worst end in its storied historical past through the 2023 LEC Winter Break up. The group completed in ninth with a lackluster 2-7 file, lacking out on the playoffs for the primary time in historical past.
There have been loads of expectations on the roster’s shoulders, particularly when the group introduced again star AD carry Martin “Rekkles” Larsson for an additional run at an LEC title. However after such a disappointing break up, the 26-year-old opened as much as his followers throughout a reside stream, the place he broke down how the group fell to date in such a fast style.
Rekkles mentioned that the group began the 12 months off within the mistaken route, having been one of many final groups to begin enjoying collectively. Not like some groups who began working towards in December, the roster solely bought an opportunity to play collectively in January, which solely gave them a few weeks earlier than the season started.
Proper from the start, the veteran marksman mentioned that Fnatic was struggling closely via their scrims, and had been exhibiting a really low stage of play.
“It was robust, we had been dropping in opposition to everybody,” Rekkles mentioned. “To be sincere, there wasn’t any group that we had been actually beating, [and] even within the video games we might win, it will really feel extra like we had been fortunate to win.”
He mentioned that the mixture between lack of time and the dearth of enchancment led to Fnatic falling flat within the first couple of weeks of the break up, and finally, the issues they had been going through snowballed into larger issues down the road, together with a extreme insecurity that led to uncharacteristic errors on the Summoner’s Rift.
Because the season counted down, an amazing sense of hysteria began to have an effect on the gamers as they fished for some type of silver lining. Rekkles additionally identified that as a result of each participant needed to influence Fnatic’s season, gamers began making performs that they usually wouldn’t, which led to even additional failure. He introduced up Razork for instance, saying that the 22-year-old started flipping extra performs than he usually would on-stage as a result of their strain.
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“Our stage of play was fairly low individually, so we actually wanted our different components to do effectively,” Rekkles mentioned. “We wanted to get higher as a group, do issues effectively on the map, and never be caught in the identical place for a complete break up.”
Fnatic would possibly already be making some vital adjustments to their League squad, with stories stating that the group is swapping out prime laner Martin “Wunder” Hansen, help Rúben “Rhuckz” Barbosa, and head coach Gonçalo “Crusher” Brandão.
