Ruben "RUBINO" Villarroel will be out of action for the coming weeks due to an eye infection, Heroic have announced on Twitter.

The news of the Norwegian's illness comes at a troublesome time for Heroic, who are now going through a restructuring of the squad following the departure of Jakob "⁠JUGi⁠" Hansen and Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer to OpTic, with Adam "⁠friberg⁠" Friberg stepping into the team as a temporary stand-in.

After said changes, Heroic barely missed out on a spot at the ESL Pro League Season 7 Finals, as they placed eighth in the European division after losing a tiebreaking scenario to HellRaisers.

RUBINO takes a step back to recover from an eye infection

While the 24-year-old is out of action, the Nordic team will be using NOREG's Jorgen "⁠cromen⁠" Robertsen as a stand-in, whose first match with the team will be the StarSeries i-League Season 5 Europe qualifier's quarter-finals against AGO later today.

Heroic also have DreamHack Open Tours coming up in a little over two weeks, on May 19-21. At this point, it's unclear whether Ruben "⁠RUBINO⁠" Villarroel will recover by then to travel to France with the team.

Heroic's lineup for the foreseeable future is: