Vici Gaming played two best-of-threes in the first week of the LPL. After they lost the first to Team WE, they faced Newbee Gaming and won the series 2-1. Following the final match, Vici Gaming fielded questions from Chinese media.

Lee “Easyhoon” Jihoon and Bae “Bengi” Seongwoong, once again you are playing on the same team. Do you feel like there’s been a change between you in the time you’ve been apart?

Easyhoon: Although we were previously teammates for a long time, I went to LPL in 2016. During last year, I felt like both Bengi and I changed a lot. We’re a brand new duo, and we need a fairly long time to synergize.

Coach Lee “PoohManDu” Jeonghyeon, in the two matches we’ve seen so far, Vici Gaming didn’t seem as stable as we imagined. What’s the problem with the team right now?

PoohManDu: Although our disadvantage was relatively large in the second game, we found our rhythm in the first and third. I think the results now are acceptable.

Zhu “Loong” Xiaolong, right now there are a lot of tanks being played in the top lane, but you played Rumble against a tank pretty well. How do you play against tanks on the current patch?

Loong: Because I pushed the creeps quickly, he was always stuck farming under his turret, so I could take the initiative to help my team. To play against a tank, you should play another tank or pick a champion that can push the wave relatively fast. You can play high damage champions, but you should master controlling the lane.

Coach PoohManDu, after the remake, why did you draft a completely different lineup?

PoohManDu: Shen is a champion Loong is more confident playing, and it’s good against Maokai, so I let him pick it. After we banned Kha’Zix, they picked Elise. During the 2016 World Championship, we found Olaf played well into Elise, so we picked it.

Bengi, since you’ve come to China, has Easyhoon passed on some method of quickly integrating into the team?

Bengi: Because Easyhoon came to China before me, he told me what I can eat, and what I won’t be able to adapt to. Easyhoon has taught be a lot about the language.

Pi “XuanXuanPi” Xiaoxuan, which lane opponent gave you the most pressure?

XuanXuanPi: No pressure.

The team laughs.

XuanXuanPi: There’s really no pressure.

Wang “Hetong” Bin, what did you work on to transition from mid to support?

Hetong: I’ve been playing support for a while. When I played mid before, my performance wasn’t very good, and then Easyhoon came. After that, I wasn’t able to improve very much, so I just transitioned to support. As for my efforts, I played a lot of ranked games and no professional matches. I needed to think about the team as much as possible.

Hetong, how is your synergy with Xu “Endless” Hao and XuanXuanPi?

Hetong: Quite good. Recently we play ranked and duo queue a lot.

How does it feel to win playing Olaf?

Bengi: Although I haven’t practiced Olaf recently, I’ve played it a lot before, so it went pretty smoothly.

Bengi, how is your synergy with your Chinese teammates?

Bengi: Right now I can’t say the communication is very good. There are still things I don’t understand. But Loong and I communicate a lot more, so today we played pretty smoothly together.

With which Chinese team member do you have the best relationship?

Bengi: We can’t really speak to each other clearly, but right now my relationship with Loong is relatively good.

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