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After several years in the making and several impressive substitution performances in the LCS, Marcin "Selfie" Wolski has made a name for himself in the mid lane. With the Misfits dominating the European Challenger Series, they find themselves just one BO5 away from qualifying to the LCS in 2017. We sat down with Selfie to talk about his history, and the competition ahead.





What has been your primary motivation for remaining in the scene for so long, and how do you stay focused?

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To be honest, I still love playing the game and competing. After my situation with Echo Fox turned out to not be very good for me I started to look for other opportunities. I had a lot of LCS offers but decided to go for the challenger scene with really good players that i knew once we qualified we can do very well in LCS.

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You had an impressive run through the Challenger Series, and made it through to the Promotion Tournament relatively unchallenged. What was the biggest obstacle in getting to this point?



I'm pretty sure @SelfieMid will carry alone in games vs MIL #EUCS — Marcin Jankowski (@Jankoslol) July 19, 2016

There were no good teams, so there were no obstacles.





How confident are you that you will qualify for the LCS?

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I think it’s about an 80% chance that we will qualify.





Who would you most rather play in the Promotion Tournament? Why?





I would like to face Origen because i don’t feel like their players are very good, and their team play is mediocre at best.





Who in your opinion is the strongest possible opponent? Do you expect any other teams aside from Misfits to qualify?





I think Millenium are weak, and don’t have much of a chance. I don’t think anyone else will qualify.





Is your current team the strongest team you’ve been on? What is it about this roster that seems to mesh so well together?





It’s 100% the best team i ever have been on. The players are really good, the staff is really good, but i really wanna give a shoutout to our owner Ben who is always here for us. Whenever we need something and we type to him he is always kind and always gets what we need. This is the only owner i have seen that is watching scrims and even our solo queue games, haha.

Thanks for kind words everyone, really happy to see my hard work pay off :)

We are not planning on stopping improving so dont worry :D — Marcin Wolski (@SelfieMid) July 19, 2016

You seem to be just fine adapting to whatever the meta may be. Do you enjoy the current mid-lane meta? What is your favorite style of champion to play competitively?





I think every pro player has to adapt to the meta so i try to do so. Midlane right now is more so about roaming and farming for most of the time rather than trying to kill the opposing mid. Also there are a lot of players running teleport mid so it’s really hard to punish someone. That being said, I don't dislike current meta but if I could choose, I would choose the Season 3 meta.





What, if anything would you change about the current meta?





I would change something about teleport, but i don’t know exactly what. Maybe delete it? :D





You’re known as an incredibly strong Yasuo player, how does he fare currently and do you believe he remains a viable pick? What is it about Yasuo that you enjoy so much?





I really love yasuo because he’s a high mechanical champion and you can make a lot of plays with him, but there are some bugs that make it very hard to make him work, especially in the competitive scene, so I don’t play him. Although he is viable in solo queue where i still play him from time to time.





You’ve built a solid reputation for yourself during your time in SHC as well as substituting for H2K and performing quite well against LCS midlaners. Where do you place yourself against the current competition?





I don’t want to rank myself, but i don’t really rank EU mids that highly.





Who in your opinion is the strongest mid laner in the EU LCS? Who are you looking forward to playing against the most?





Febiven and Perkz are the best.