World Champions Invictus Gaming wins the opening match against Suning's new lineup on Day 1 of the Demacia Cup! JackeyLove was interviewed after their victory where he was playing against Suning's Smlz and SwordArt.









Q: Welcome JackeyLove, the audience seems very excited! As far as I remember, IG has played many opening matches. Today was your opening match as well, how is the atmosphere, how do you feel?

JackeyLove: I haven't played for a while, ever since Worlds. I think the stage is great. Since we were the first team to play, we had to wake up pretty early so I am a bit sleepy.

Q: Since you took off about a week, how are you and your team's current state?

JackeyLove: I think our team’s current state is, we can win or lose. It's hard to say because our state is kind of weird right now.

Q: Botlane’s not exactly the most useful in this current patch since it's hard to survive right now. So why did you guys play through the botlane in the early game?

JackeyLove: It's probably because our solo champions were not early game champions. Botlane was the only lane to go. We then give it to them during the mid and late game.

Q: There were a lot of fights that broke out in the botlane that was not too favorable, however you guys took it back during the fights in mid-game. How did you coordinate this?

JackeyLove: With our team composition, as long as our botlane can scale into mid game and we got initiations, we’d win for sure.

Q: This is the debut of Suning's new botlane, Smlz and SwordArt, how was it laning against them.

JackeyLove: We totally got destroyed in the first 10 minutes, good thing our teammates picked up the slack.

Q: Since you guys won Worlds 2018, what are you expectations going in to the Demacia Cup?

JackeyLove: We don’t have too much expectations, we'll just go one step at a time.





Translated by: Benson Cheng @1337sn1per