Freddy "KRiMZ" Johansson is the support player and clutch master for Fnatic. The Swedes had a rough journey since the reformation of their late-2015 roster, but have benefited from a recent resurgence after qualifying for ESL Pro League Season 5.

Ahead of his games in Dallas, Texas, KRiMZ spoke to theScore esports about the team's mental game and the current meta.

It’s been about three months since the late-2015 Fnatic roster reunited. You guys have struggled to get your bearings early on, but most recently advanced to the playoffs at SL i-League Season 3. The team seems to be on a tear in your online (EPL, ECS) matches with a 16-6 record, with one of those losses being a 16-1 loss to Astralis.

What are your thoughts on the last three months? Would you say the team has good momentum, or was that somewhat spoiled by the 16-1 loss?

It's never fun to lose a match, whether it's offline or online, and a 16-1 loss at that. However, we knew we were 99% qualified and overall had a good season in ECS, so it didn't affect us much. It was easily shook off.

You guys are pretty well known for your aggressive style, but has the team’s gameplan changed at all? Can that playstyle flourish in the current playing field?

We will always give ourselves a lot of freedom and work the map individually as well as in pairs. We have however put a lot of time into having more to fall back on if we don't get things rolling, which is something that we didn't have that much last year. So overall, we will continue do what we do best, but with a wider playbook.

How’s the team’s mental game going into the ESL Pro League Finals? I asked Jesper "JW" Wecksell a little while back about the idea of a sports psychologist and at the time he wanted to try to solve issues without one, how has that been going? How would you rate the team’s mental fortitude, compared to before?

I think we are making progress in a lot of areas every day that goes by and that shows in the results. We are starting gain a solid form.

Just landed in NY. Next Dallas, Texas 😈✌️ — Freddy Johansson (@krimzCSGO) May 28, 2017

On a similar note, JW described Jimmy "Jumpy" Berndtsson as a more tactical coach, and Viktor "vuggo" Jendeby as a motivational one. Is that morale factor something you guys miss in your games? Is there another primary motivator on the team during games?

Yeah, they both have their strengths and weaknesses. Right now, we don't have any issues mentally and as mentioned before we've been working hard on widening our gameplan, so Jumpy adds a lot to that.

What are your thoughts on how Valve has been attempting to balance the game by apparently trying to make all the guns competitively viable? Do you believe there should have been more changes in the recent patch?

There's a lot of changes, nerfs/buffs, remakes that should be done to balance the game more. Pistols are still too good and how well you can manipulate economy with the UMP, etc.

How are things going in your personal life, anything you’d like the fans to know about? Plan on getting any new tattoos?

We're starting to perform again, summer is coming, life is great!

Nothing is planned yet but most of my tattoos have been quite spontaneous so you never know.

Where it all started! #roots#namnam#krimz#drunktattoo A post shared by The King. (@freddykrimz) on Mar 31, 2016 at 6:19am PDT

Me personally, as well as the team, is super thankful for all the support from the fans that follow us, even though it was a long time ago we were seriously competitive in every tournament we attend.

We will rise again, together!

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.