Liu “Westdoor” Shu-wei is one of the most famous players in not only the LoL Masters Series, but the whole world. Despite not starting for ahq eSports Club for most of the year, Westdoor was voted to the All-Star game by his loyal fans along with Huang “Maple” Yi-tang.

We had the chance to chat with Westdoor about his situation with ahq eSports Club, Tandem Mode, and becoming a family man.

You were streaming most of the year and mostly a sub for ahq this year. What does it mean for you to still be able to come out to the All-Star game?

First of all, I am very thankful to the fans that allowed me to get here and play in the event. But also when I started out as a sub, I didn’t perform that well in the jungle even though when we first started to play in scrims, I was doing fine. But once we realized that the team wasn’t doing that great, the coaches decided that I wasn’t going to play as much. It wasn’t my choice.

What was the transition like for you?

When I first played mid, I was delegating advice and strategy to the team, basically telling everyone what to do. But once I switched to jungle, it was more like… what can I do to make things easier for you or make the team better. Since I talk to my teammates a lot and watch a lot of the games, I still contribute to coming up with different team comps and things like that.

Here at All-Star, you just played Tandem mode… What was it like communicating with your partner, Broken Blade?

Broken Blade is really good, we had pretty good chemistry. Early on, we thought we were going to play top so we were practicing Sion and all these combos and then we got notified we were actually playing support in the end. We went with it… and even though I’m really good at starting teamfights, I was pretty bad with skillshots and my ultimate. I dragged Broken Blade down and it was my fault, but otherwise it was a pretty good experience.

More onto your personal life now… You’re a family man now, Westdoor. How has it been raising a child?

It’s a wonderful feeling that’s really hard to describe because when you first have a baby grow up, they’re starting to crawl, starting to walk, starting to talk, it’s very wholesome.

Obviously since you’re very talented, would you want your child to be a pro gamer too?

It really depends if they have the talent. If they’re talented and are good enough, then yeah, of course I would support them! But if they’re not that good, probably not.

Lastly, two important LMS players in SwordArT and Maple just went over to Suning Gaming. What are your thoughts on that? For them as players and the league?

For these two, it should definitely be a new challenge in their careers. I think they got inspired by Karsa going to Royal Never Give Up and winning things like the Mid-Season Invitational. They’ve been trying with Flash Wolves for a while and couldn’t get too far so I guess they’re looking for a new platform to do better down the road and start winning Worlds.

To their team, it might be harder because those two are world class players and it’s hard to replace them right away, but I guess they can work on new recruits and see if they can bring up new talents through the farm. It’s not going to be easy so of course the skill level of LMS will suffer a little bit, but maybe give the new Flash Wolves to practice and come together as a team… maybe they’ll surprise.