Despite surpassing all expectations in superweek, Team MRN was plagued by roster issues at MLG, and went 0-3. I had a chance to talk to Team MRN's toplane Megazero about his team's performance, their current roster, and their future in the LCS.

After Team MRN qualified, a lot of people questioned your team's ability. Do you think you think people underestimate you or your team?

MegaZero: I think my team is underestimated, maybe not so much after superweek due to our solid performance. As a player though, I feel like I'm respected as one of the best top lanes (or at least I'm told by most people).

As you mentioned, you had a strong showing in superweek. What will it take for you guys to keep improving?

MegaZero:﻿ Currently, I believe we have the potential to beat any team in LCS. We're all solid players and mesh very well as a team. Our biggest issue is our consistency. I believe to keep improving, we'll have to pay more attention to the mistakes we're making and how to fix them. To do this, it could be as easy as just a small talk after each game discussing the faults we had. Of course, replays play a big factor and we will be watching every replay for all our scrims and matches. Once we start fixing these small problems we have during matches, I believe we'll become a very strong, consistent top team.

You said you guys mesh very well. How will the roster changes affect your performance? Do you expect to take a few weeks to return to full strength, or will you guys be even stronger than before?

MegaZero:﻿ This first week with the new roster might be a little rough, but overall I feel like we still work very well with Nien. Our performance against CLG during MLG was actually pretty impressive considering we've never played a game with Nien before, and Nien rarely plays mid lane anymore. So all in all, I believe we will come back just as strong, if not stronger.

With champions like Tristana and Xerath becoming popular in the LCS seemingly out of nowhere, do you expect to see any other Hidden champions to pop up?

Megazero:﻿ I'm not too sure if these champions are "hidden", but I think we'll be seeing a lot more champions like Nasus, Irelia, Trundle, Udyr and maybe even Poppy. With the latest patches, the more popular junglers and top laners have been getting nerfed which allows for these champions that were originally a little bit weaker to really shine.

What is it about Champions like Renekton or Akali that pull you in? What makes them strong?

MegaZero:﻿ Renekton is overall just a really strong champion in the current Meta. Very few, if any top laners can beat him in a one on one scenario and he creates a lot of pressure. This pressure frees up objectives such as dragon, and possibly even a turret dive bot lane. He holds his own in a 1v2 scenario and even has kill potential with jungler ganks. The only weak thing about him is his late game when compared to other top laners.

As for Akali, I've always loved champions that have a very... close call fighting ability. Akali can do so much, even when she's at 10% life. Jumping around everywhere, taking out their carry, and barely escaping out alive by jumping to that last minion with your extra R stack is just extremely exhilarating and I can't get enough of that play style. You may see me on more assassins as LCS goes on.

You attended Carnegie Mellon, correct? What were you studying there?

MegaZero:﻿ Yeah, I was a Freshman at Carnegie Mellon and plan on returning there within the next year unless anything big changes my plans. I was studying Electrical and Computer Engineering and looking into a minor for either computer science, physics, or economics. My first semester there was one of the best 4 months of my life and I met a lot of really cool people, although, playing in the LCS is a once in a lifetime opporunity.

Do you have any Shoutouts to friends/sponsors?

MegaZero:﻿ Shoutout to Madcatz our sponsor! Then shoutout to Carnegie mellon, the best college! And a final shoutout to all my friends and my family for supporting me. After every game, I get so many messages from everyone. My dad even flew out to MLG to watch me play. Thanks everyone!

﻿Thanks MegaZero! You can follow him on his Twitter.