NAVI.Paladins team changes

Yaroslav "NightEnd" Klochko

"I understand very well that the decision to replace Unbelivable looks very ambiguous, especially in light of our victory in the tournament just a few days ago. But since the World Cup, the team wasn’t going through the best times. With each patch the game changes, someone quickly adapts to the changes, and someone does not. For 5 months we tried to find our game, but we could not achieve the optimal shape with the current meta.

The core of our recent success, first of all, lies in the fact that we left everything personal outside the team, focused on the game, closed our eyes, tried to keep the most friendly and positive atmosphere, so that players did not feel the pressure of failure, even if the last months of teamwork weren’t exactly positive. We adapted to the opponents throughout all 3 tournaments very well, we had good drafts, we hit our stride at Paladins Masters, but it's not enough to be the best team in the world.

Leaving the team in its original form meant returning to the same problems that the team experienced a month ago. These problems were not solved then and cannot be resolved in a short period of time, and most likely, will lead the roster into an even more deplorable state.

Making a substitution in the lineup a week before the start of the online league is definitely a risky deed, but each player consciously accepted those risks. With the addition of Laizy, we get the opportunity to look at the game from a different angle, the ability to change our strategies, change the drafts.

We want to always win teams of the Fnatic level, and having Laizy is definitely going to be an asset for that in the long term.

Those were, definitely, interesting 9 months, full of ups and downs; thanks to Kevin for the track he left in the history of NAVI".