After failing to win its first seven games of the League of Legends European Championship (LEC) 2020 season, Team Vitality will sub in academy support Pierre "Steeelback" Medjaldi ahead of the organisations Week 4 match against Misfits.

Steelback debuted back in 2015 as an ADC when he took on the difficult task of replacing Martin “Rekkles” Larrson at Fnatic. When the Swedish bot-laner eventually returned, Steelback’s career stalled with fruitless spells across multiple European and North American organisations. Consequently, the Frenchman made the brave decision to role-swap to support last season.

It was a change that worked wonders as he dominated France’s regional league the LFL, helping Team LDLC dominate the league all year round though the squad couldn’t transition that success into an EU Masters trophy. Steelback will have no problem synergising with Vitality’s 18-year-old ADC Markos "Comp" Stamkopoulos as the duo played together all of last season.

The news was first announced on Twitter by Vitality’s first-choice support Jakub "Jactroll" Skurzyński who revealed the change not long after the team’s gutsy but unsuccessful performance against Fnatic. The Polish support explained that he had been sharing scrim time with his French counterpart since the start of the week and the pair will now play one game apiece every week from now on.