Royal Never Give Up now stand at 2-1 after the end of the first round robin at the 2019 League of Legends World Championship. Their only loss is to group leaders SK Telecom Т1, which came after a grueling 45-minute slaughterfest, so overall, RNG should be feeling confident going into the second half of group stage play.

After beating Fnatic’s Morgana/Blitzcrank experiment in today’s match, support Shi “Ming” Sen-Ming sat down with members of the Chinese press to discuss the match and what RNG plan to do in the short break leading up to the second set of games.

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Today’s game [against Fnatic] was really important. How does it feel to win it?

I’m pretty happy because it was a tough victory.

Did you expect the Morgana/Blitzcrank bot lane?

During our fourth and fifth picks, I expected that they would pick Blitzcrank. Actually, I thought that they would pick Morgana and Blitzcrank as the bot duo at the beginning because I wanted to pick Karma. But it was a pity that I didn’t tell my teammates my thought at that time.

They had the initiative in mid game with Morgana and Blitzcrank plus the ult protect from Shen. Did it cause any troubles for you?

Morgana and Blitzcrank were really bothering us a lot. If one of us would end up in a bad position, he’d be killed if hit by their spells, so we slowed down the game pace.

It seems that any champions can play bot in the current meta. What are your thoughts about it?

I think it’s OK. Maybe one day Uzi will pick Yasuo…

The last team fight around Baron pit helped you secure the victory. How did you navigate it?

Since we had destroyed one of their inhibitors, we expected that they would rush the Baron, and so they did it. So, we engaged the team fight. We knew that as long as Morgana or Blitzcrank died first, they’d lack initiative. And the team fight was easier for us after Blitzcrank died.

How do you evaluate your opponents at the end of the first round robin?

They are all strong, and we need to improve ourselves for the second round.

Do you have anything else to say to your fans?

Thanks for your support all the time, and we will try to get a better result this year. There isn’t too much pressure on us, so we will go as far as we can this year.

You have a few days to adjust for the second round. What adjustments will you make?

We need to prepare some new line-ups and strategies. We have three days to strengthen our tactics and macro game in the mid/late stage.