Qualifying as 2nd seed of Group A, G2 Hjarnan tells Score.gg about his Brand and Heimer picks, challenge with Heisendong, ADC meta at worlds, KR solo queue and the recent Perkz controversy.

Q: Please introduce yourself

Hello Score.gg this is Petter Freyschuss aka Hjarnan from G2 Esports and I play ADC.

Q: Congratulations, it’s not your first time at Worlds but it’s your first time advancing to the Knockout Stage, how are you feeling right now?

I am feeling tired, we played 4 games, it’s been a really long day. I think tomorrow I will be a lot happier because I will actually realizing we have made it out of Groups. It’s our first goal as a team, the first step we have to take is to get out of Groups.

Q: It’s hard to not talk about your brand pick. What advantage does it have over a traditional ADC?

I think we went for the Brand pick because it worked out in scrims and we thought it could snowball a lot harder than it could. We ended up having a 5v5 fight at botlane which did not go to our advantage. 3 of us died and they could basically stall out the game in order to get to the late-game with a traditional ADC which is always stronger in the late-game. Our game didn’t go as planned and it turned out to be a hard game.

Q: Sivir and Lucian are being picked more often it seems, would you say the ADC role is quite versatile at worlds?

Yea, I think you can pick any ADC except for Vayne, she’s a bit weak in lane. People play Sivir against Xayah and Kai’sa because she also has good scaling. You can also win lane because you have perma push with this champion. Lucian is a bit more snowball, and he’s good in lane. If you don’t snowball and fall behind, this champion is very hard to play from behind.

Q: Did you expect FW to leave Heimerdinger open?

In the first game we played today they left it opened, but we went for the Brand pick instead. We wanted to try something new I guess, it didn’t really work out. It was potentially our last game at Worlds, so no regrets this is what we’ve been playing the whole year and it’s what we have the most comfort on. So we decided to just play it and see what they have since we thought they obviously have some kind of counter to it. They then picked Mordekaiser, which Heimer is good against so we were very shocked. Mordekaiser doesn’t counter Heimerdinger so I was really confused and thought we would probably win the game from champ select.

Q: Betty’s pocket pick is actually Mordekaiser

Ohh, I see.

Q: You had lane pressure in the botlane, how did you manage this while denying Morde 3 drakes?

Mordekaiser really need to snowball early game and look for bot turret, drakes to open up the map to win the game. We played it ourselves in the beginning of the year so we know that if you deny him the drakes with TP (he also took for exhaust) so we could basically recall and tp to lane so we had 10 seconds advantage over them. We knew if we used TP well, they would have no chance to get the Drake nor punish us by getting the turret.

Q: It was said that you challenged Heisendong to a Heimer 1v1, and he accepted. Will this actually happen?

Haha, the thing is he plays on NA and I play on EU so I don’t know how to make it happen. Maybe if I can beat him on NA server with 100 ping, I don’t know if it could work otherwise. It wouldn’t be worth it for me to play at All-Stars to play 1 game vs Heisendong because it’s such a long trip.

Q: Many EU ADCs including Forgiven and Zven have praised you for your abilities and the world underrating you, what are you thoughts regarding this?

I think Wadid and I have been underrated for the whole year, I think we’ve brought a lot to the team especially when we played around top and mid and we have just been surviving bot lane. We were being called bad, and I don’t know why since we were doing fine. I think Riot likes to have this storyline on how the team is doing, and because we didn’t stomp lane for a long time, so they just kept the storyline. The fans also have the same opinion of what they hear from Production.

Q: Any teams you would want to avoid playing in the next round?

I would like to avoid RNG because Uzi is looking pretty dominant, he’s pretty crazy. Even if he’s just a bit ahead he will push his advantage and he doesn’t make many mistakes in the game. I’m not exactly sure who I want to face the most, I will take whoever except RNG

Q; Do you think your Heimerdinger will have a chance to beat Uzi?

My Heimer will beat Uzi, that’s for sure. I will win it. But ADC vs ADC, I need to get a really good matchup.

Q: How is solo queue compared to EU?

It’s toxic in a way where you don’t know what to say because they are passive-aggressive. They will spam ping you so it’s a bit different because in EU they will just flame you. Here they will be passive-aggressive and troll you, like buy tears and run it down mid. There are more talent in solo queue here and players are better mechanically.

Q: Perkz has sparked some controversy on Twitter yesterday, what do you think of the whole situation?

I think he did it mainly as a joke. He didn’t really mean it was leaked, I think. Like “aha how did they know?” He was trolling, he didn’t actually mean it. He was just doing it for fun, but then it escalated a bit. And then he thought it wasn’t worth it as a joke so he took it down. I thought the joke was pretty stupid to make

Q: Anything you want to say to your Chinese fans?

Thanks for watching and I hope you are all having a nice day!





Interviewed : Yunming Chen @Gypsophila1123

Transcribed by: Benson Cheng @1337sn1per



