Now that I am back in NA, I decided to let people know more about me

Hello, I am Avalon, the top laner for the NA team Winterfox (previously EG). I didn’t know if I should post this or not, but now that I am back in the USA for NACS I want to share my story since most people don’t know that much about me.



I usually don’t go to other community sites besides Inven, which I frequent quite regularly.



My personality type is such that I am very sensitive about what people around me say or assess about me. Even when just friends would take jabs at me while joking around, I have had times where I have been unable to go to sleep thinking about what they said.



So when I first came to America, I decided that I wouldn’t read anything that the community wrote (about me). However, after returning to Korea and now that relegations are over I wanted to write out my feelings after having read Inven.



A lot of people were curious about, “Why does Winterfox keep using Avalon?” I’ve seen this question come up many times. For starters, our team bootcamped in Korea for about a month last December.



I had originally been playing mid lane, but even though I suddenly switched to the top lane, there were no huge issues with my laning.



However, a lot of unfortunate events occurred during our month long boot camp. We had been practicing with a challenger support player, xxxxx, and not Imagine or Gleeb.



xxxxx had seemed to have a very outgoing and hardworking attitude online, but had a very negative attitude once he joined us at the gaming house we were bootcamping at. With only a few days before leaving Korea, Ixxxx suddenly packed up his belongings and left the gaming house.



Despite having a contract with Winterfox, he had left for another NA challenger team because they had offered him higher pay. I’m not overly familiar with the management of the team, so I don’t know what penalties were levied against him.



I’m not sure whether things didn’t work out between xxxxx and his new team, but a few days later he came back to our gaming house and asked to play for us again. However, since he said told us a day before he had left that he couldn’t play with us any longer, we decided to hurry and look for a new player instead. Furthermore he had asked to play for us again after running away without any word or sense of responsibility.



Our new player was Imagine, who had been brought on by our then-coach, Paragon. However, you need a visa in order to play in the LCS.



You can’t play in the LCS with a traveler’s visa. We had to find a new player in a short amount of time, but we had start the visa process from the beginning, and Imagine joined us in the US to play in the LCS even later than me or Helios.

After that point we played out our matches without any large problems until about Week 4 or Week 5 (I don’t exactly recall when). My performance went down sharply around that time, and there was a lot of criticism that said things like, “Why did Helios bring his younger brother (to WFX)?’



Yes, even I think there were quite a lot of games where I played poorly. However, due to our team’s playstyle, which was to get the bottom lane rolling, I played to not die in lane. Because of that, my ability to impact games hit rock bottom and it was so stressful that I told our manager that I felt like I was holding the team back and asked if I could be subbed out so I could have some time to recharge. The manager asked me to play a little bit more and wait and see and I adamantly refused.



After resting for about two day, Imagine suddenly had to leave our team due to personal reasons. So I had to unfortunately keep playing. That was the game that Paragon had played. We had no other options and Altec had played a lot of games very well as support on Solo Queue, so that move had seemed like the best option left for us.



After Imagine, we brought in Gleeb and continued to play for about 3 weeks without much success.



Around Week 8, I suddenly started making more calls in scrims, and my laning got a lot better, which led to an increase in confidence. We played our last games in LCS in that state, and we finished the season with 2 wins and 0 losses that week, but we were already locked for the promotion tournament.



During the promotion tournament, I was satisfied with my play. In games 1 and 2 I created quite a large CS lead and made solo kills in my lane. Even though we lost in the end, I felt that I had progressed a lot as a player, but when I went onto Inven, a lot people were saying things like, “They’re still using Avalon?” and “Didn’t they lose due to Avalon?” As I personally thought that I had progress quite a bit compared to before, I was extremely disappointed. It seemed like there was no way to fix the way people viewed me, which left me at a loss.



My performance in North America was not good, and while I am I able to take criticism and such, I wish that people would take off their tinted glasses and not just lazily latch onto what others have said in the past while joining the ‘Avalon is bad’ circlejerk.



I hope to do well in the NACS this split with the new roster! I hope you will cheer my team and me this upcoming split!



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