FOX Rush on the “Sunday Rush” Meme: “I think I’m really good at taking feedback after Saturday, so if I lose Saturday I try not to make the same mistake, but I forget it the next week, so I’ll make the same mistake as last Saturday” (laughs) Izento Follow Jun 6, 2019 · 4 min read

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Echo Fox are not a repeat sound of their former selves as they’ve made changes for the first week of the 2019 LCS Summer Split in Yusui for the mid lane and Lost in the bot lane position. FOX were taken down by a rising Golden Guardians but more surprisingly took down the titans of Team Liquid.

I spoke with FOX jungler Rush about their game against TL, the bot lane disaster, the TP nerf, Skarner, differences between Yusui and FeniX, Scuttle Crab, and superstitions.

Tell us about that bot lane gank at the beginning of the game against TL. It seemed like that was the moment things started to go down south for Echo Fox.

We were pretty confident going into it but it’s not like it was 100% guaranteed, but we were comfortable doing the play because there was a high likelihood we get something, but even if we don’t we lose nothing. I feel like they were prepared and it’s hard to prepare when you’re on the defensive side rather than the offensive side, but they were already prepared. The must have thought, “they might be looking for bot lane so we need to play like this, and jungler is sitting behind with top laner ready for TP”. I’m pretty sure if we had enough setup we could have made the play better. I think it was well played from them and for us it just wasn’t perfectly planned.

What are your thoughts on the TP changes? Previously you could cancel, so I think that play wouldn’t have been as bad as it was if you could cancel.

LoL is not only about mechanics but it’s also about decisions. Before, even if you make a poor decision by casting TP on the wrong spot or using TP where it’s not needed, you could cancel and it’s less of a risk. Now the game has become high-risk high-reward and it makes the game more interesting, so I think it’s a good change.

There seems to be a decent amount of Skarner being played. Why do you think that is? What makes him good in this current meta?

I think it’s not about the meta but it’s about competitive play. It’s good for the jungler to have CC or tank abilities and Skarner has both. Usually tanks have a weak early game, but Skarner is really strong if he fights around his crystal. Even Sejuani or Zac have more potential mid/late game, but Skarner has better early game in comparison to them so that’s why he’s being picked.

So it’s about more early game pressure?

It’s not about pressure, it’s about having a tank but you don’t hard lose early game.

How’s it working with your new mid laner Yusui? How is he different from FeniX when it comes to play style?

I think they both have a similar play style, both kind of play for lane, but FeniX was pretty vocal about what he wants and what he wants to do and if he needed something he would tell me, “I need your help”, kind of strongly or forcing, but Yusui, he wants the same stuff but he’s maybe better at expressing it. I don’t know why but I try not to put pressure on him, but he’s even bad at asking for blue buff, so I try to fix the issue because I feel like he’s feeling down (laughs).

What are your thoughts on the Scuttle Crab changes? Now it spawns at 3 minutes and 15 seconds.

It’s whatever. The change is about making level 2 ganks more unlikely and making the game more stable, but I think it’s mostly for solo queue. Maybe it’s for competitive because you want to freshen up the game by changing the game pace but I don’t think it affected the competitive scene that much. I think it makes games more predictable because your jungle is going to do a full clear or three camps or gank then Scuttle Crab, so it’s more predictable than earlier. I think having Scuttle Crab at 2 minutes was harder to play.

I want to touch on the whole Sunday Rush meme. Are you superstitious?

No.

(Laughs). So do you think that there’s some kind of luck with you and Sunday? What is it with Sunday then?

Skipping the luck, I think I’m really good at taking feedback after Saturday, so if I lose Saturday I try not to make the same mistake, but I forget it the next week, so I’ll make the same mistake as last Saturday (laughs), get feedback and play better Sunday. This might be the reason, that’s the only thing I can guess if we don’t contribute it to luck (laughs).