100 Thieves' Support Aphromoo joined us in an interview after a shocking 0-2 start to the start of the split.





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Q: Sorry about your loss today. So now 100T is 0-2 now which is not a great start for the new season. What is the reason for today's loss? Did the team make many mistakes from your perspective?





A: We just lost the game as a team. Definitely a little bit of communication issue about where to go and a little hesitant on stage I suppose. We are not really fully jelled together. We are not in right spots for the right time.





Q: There were many great engages like multiple men knock up from your Alistar. However, but the team seems didn't follow up very well. Is the team still in the process of building synergy?





A: Kind of. I think we take more wrong fights than right ones. I think people are not confident or not on the same page. But we don't want to sit back and not contesting. We definitely need to practice more about contesting and get DIRTY.





Q: In many teams, the support is the shot-caller. Is this the case with 100T. Are you still the shot-caller or is someone else doing this job?





A: I think being a shot caller is something grown naturally. You don't just become a shot caller. When you go through a new roster or iteration, first you have to on the page about what we are fighting, what we are looking for, get everyone's opinion and figure it out what is the best thing to do. I think we are still in the process of figuring those things out. Eventually shot calls are made. We will figure these out.

Q: With the join of Bang, the two-time world champion, do you have high hopes for this spring split?





A: Oh yea. There are a lot of high expectations coming in for this season because of Bang and Huhi. Bang generally play very consistently, disciplined and it is enjoyable to work with him. He always wants to work things out and improve. We have spammed a lot of solo queues with him. For laning on the big stage, it is natural or not too hard to lane against C9 and TSM. For those two games, we didn't really push that hard and didn't overextend. Similar to Korea meta, we just want to chill and farm. We may play a lot more aggressive in the future.





Q: NALCS has many good supports, like Biofrost and obviously you. There is also some new competitor from another league like CoreJJ. Do you still consider you as one of the best support in NA?





A: Individually, yes. As a team, if the support integrates well with the team, you will have more opportunities to engage, set up picks, tower fights, dragon fights, tower dive to how you wanted. CoreJJ is doing well on that as expected, and Zeyzal as well. They are able to get to the right spot at right time. So if you are able to be on the same page with the team, that is what a great support to me. If you are not doing that, usually I can tell the communication is broken down for enemy team if the support is not roaming, being in the wrong spot and not contesting me when I go ward.





Q: Some supports in Asian league uses off meta support like Zilean and even Lissandra. What do you think of those non-traditional supports? Do you expect we will see them in NA one day?





A: I think lissandra is pretty good. I definitely played her a lot in solo queue with 100% win rate. But solo queue champions in scrims and stage stuff like that, I don't think she is gonna be that viable unless there is a tank top or tank jungler. Melee supports right now is still the goto. Zilean will have a really hard time at bot lane plus the removal of flat HP, armor runes made this harder to play. But there are situations you can bring him up.





Q: Will you recommend people play those supports in soloQ since many people think traditional supports are boring to play?





A: In solo queues, don't play melee supports. Just play mage champions or "hook" champions to work better with the team. It is a lot easier to win.









Interview by Lijie

Edited by Caramelized, @iced_caramel11