Puszu, a las finales

Last week at Gamescom the Fnatic League of Legends roster won back to back LCS Splits. A lot of people were skeptical due to the fact that we had some major roster changes, with nRated being replaced with Puszu and YellowStaR changing his role to support. Nevertheless the boys came out strong and were victorious. They have improved rapidly, stepping up their game each and every week. Naturally there have been some difficulties, but the change in the roster has proved to be the right decision. Yet, for the World Finals using Rekkles as an AD carry is still an option, as he will turn 17 during the event. Team manager, Harry Wiggett and the team had a hard task in front of them. The question was: "Who will play the World Finals? Rekkles or Puszu?"

Due to the fact that Rekkles is unable to play the whole event -- he won't be able to participate in the group stage -- it wouldn't make much sense for the team to practice with two AD carries. Quality wise, both players are on top of their game, however that's not the question. Puszu did extremely well in Season three, and was part of the team who won the Summer Split, so he also deserves to play in the World Finals. In order to keep the practice simple and as efficient as possible, the team has decided to go with Puszu as their AD Carry for the World Finals. However do not worry as Rekkles is still the part of the team, and he will join the team officially after worlds and debut in Season 4 of LCS.

This decision was made together with the team, Below you will find statements from both our League of Legends Manager Harry "hxd" Wiggett and Martin "Rekkles" Larsson:

Martin "Rekkles" Larsson
I will not be attending at the World Finals in Los Angeles togheter with Fnatic.

We all agreed upon the fact that changing the roster at this point with 16 days until we would have to travel over towards America would hurt us more as a team than changing, mostly because League of Legends isn't just an individual skill cap game, it's also a teamgame with 5 players on the same "mindgame level". You have to be in perfect synergy with eachother to beat the best and with 16 days of practice and then go into a game against the best teams in the world, it's a scary thought even though we all know that I wouldn't underperform as an invidial player.

Even I did put my vote on Puszu, due to the fact above.
I wish the best to Fnatic, hope Europe shows their strength just as last year!
I'll be in season 4, next year is mine, joining the team officially directly after Worlds.
Cheers, love you all, you make my day somewhat brighter, Rekkles.

Harry "hxd" Wiggett:
With World Finals approaching, we needed to make the call whether to take Rekkles with us to participate. We discovered that he would miss the majority of the group-stage which makes it very difficult to judge whether it would be worth it to practice with Puszu and Rekkles together. We decided not to do this, and to purely focus on playing with Puszu. He has proved himself during LCS and Gamescom and has impressed us greatly.

It does not make much sense to us to bring Rekkles in if we reach the quarter-finals because if we have got that far already, we can go further with Puszu. It would also be a ridiculous amount of pressure on Rekkles, coming in with all that hype, into the quarter-finals, I don't believe it's fair on him.

With that being said, we are very excited to be heading to Los Angeles to represent Europe alongside Gambit and Lemondogs. We hope you continue to support us!