Criticism hit you fiercely for a while. Now that you got two wins this week, you should feel more at ease now.
- I got criticized so much, now I don’t really care. I was blamed a lot during the spring split as well. I had a hard time getting used to Braum, so we lost a lot. Many fans criticized me saying “You can’t even play that extremely easy champion?”
- When Smoothie left his team, people started to say “Let’s bring in Smoothie in Olleh’s place!” I thought that I’m here, playing, but what Smoothie? (Laughs) Even the commentators were saying Smoothie should go to TL and Olleh to TSM. What happens to the points I got for Worlds during spring? Are they saying I shouldn’t go to Worlds? I thought it was so unfair. (Laughs)
- I would have accepted everything if my performance was really bad. Everyone knows that Doublelift’s Vladimir was bad; I just died instead of him. (Laughs) I was dumbfounded when I saw people saying Olleh’s the troll. I try not to get the fans criticism get to me, but I listen closely to my teammates’ feedback. You know, aren’t most of those fans in silver? (Laughs)
- I was meditating just a few days ago, and suddenly, I thought of my father. When he watches the World Cup, he doesn’t know anything about soccer, but he criticizes the players. I thought that this was what fans do. (Laughs) I think I shouldn’t think too much about it.
- But what’s funny is when those fans have a friend that’s like Diamond 3, they go like “Wow, you’re awesome!” but they mock a rank 10 Challenger player. I just think it’s all because fans are interested in me, and I don’t get hurt anymore. (Laughs)
Your communication with Doublelift was an issue.
- Now that the meta changed again, it’s a lot better now. When the voice comm was revealed, Reddit was blown up. (Laughs) The team and I thought and all agreed that Vladimir should just farm until Lv.6, but Doublelift told me to go forward. I was thinking ‘I would die if I do…’ and went forward, and Braum was hitting my butt. (Laughs) I died after all, and people started calling me a troll after seeing that.
- Frankly speaking, I wished that voice comm didn’t get revealed. I wanted the people to think that it’s my fault. I thought there could be a conflict if the voice comm was revealed with people saying “Why did Doublelift make Olleh die?” This could affect the team chemistry, so I didn’t want that, but Riot revealed it anyway.