One week after Licorice's transfer, Kumo spoke to Inven Global about his 7-0 week 6 on FlyQuest and FLY Academy, returning to the LCS, and his growth as a player.
With three weeks left in the 2021 League of Legends Championship Series Summer Split, Counter Logic Gaming is making a roster change.
Cloud9 support Philippe "Vulcan" Laflamme spoke to Inven Global about his recent opponents, his perspective on his role within the team, and C9's current level in comparison to the peaks of their performance at the 2021 Mid-Season Invitational.
FlyQuest support David "Diamond" Bérubé spoke to Inven Global about the FLY Academy squad's promotion to the LCS, what caused him to struggle in his LCS debut in spring, and what has made the Academy squad the superior of FLY's two rosters.
UPDATE 7/9: Immortals has signed Dardoch has its new assistant coach 11 days after Dardoch signed a management contract with UK-based ICM Stellar Esports.
"One day I woke up on FlyQuest and I had no plans of moving," Licorice told Inven Global the evening after his transfer. "The next day, I woke up and went to scrim at the Golden Guardians office."
Jonas "Kold" Anderson, Team Liquid's strategic-coach-turned-interim-head-coach following Jatt's resignation, spoke to Inven Global about the team's recent changes and his perspective on coaching as a whole.
After Cloud9's shellacking of Team Liquid, Zven spoke to Inven Global about returning to the LCS, C9's current power level after qualifying for playoffs when compared to its form at the 2021 Mid-Season Invitational, and the team's strength relative to the other top teams in the league.
After Evil Geniuses' perfect weekend, support Lee "IgNar" Dong-geun spoke about his team's improvements that led to its recent win streak, his AD carry Kyle "Danny" Sakamaki's debut LCS split thus far, and his former team FC Schalke 04 Esports' sale of its spot in the League of Legends European Championship.
After defeating Immortals, TSM mid laner Tristan "PowerOfEvil" Schrage spoke to Inven Global about the new mid lane meta, how TSM adapted to it to start the Summer Split strong, and the trajectory of his LCS career since coming to North America to play for OpTic Gaming in 2018.
In week 4 of the 2021 LCS Summer Split, Inven Global spoke to former LCS teammates of Dardoch to get their thoughts on his recent split with Dignitas.
Counter Logic Gaming support Andy "Smoothie" Ta spoke to Inven Global about the team finding its style, his current level of play in context of his career, and the importance of having a player who is not afraid to be direct about feedback for the sake of progress.
After week 4 of the 2021 LCS Summer Split, Akaadian joined Inven Global to discuss taking over for Dardoch, integrating himself into Dignitas' starting roster, and how the organization has emboldened him to grow into a position of leadership.
In FlyQuest's last match of week 4 of the 2021 League of Legends Championship Series Summer Split, the team's roster will be sporting a different look.
Mid laner Nicolaj "Jensen" Jensen joined Inven Global to share his thoughts on Team Liquid's recent changes.
Following TSM's most recent match, top laner Heo "Huni" Seung-hoon shared his thoughts with Inven Global on DWG KIA's recent roleswaps.
Riot Games has released a series of changes to Irelia to the League of Legends PBE, and to detail these changes, game designer Phlox posted some thoughts to the official League of Legends website regarding Irelia's changes and how they intend to affect her gameplay to make her a more healthy, well-balanced champion than any previous iterations of the post-rework Will of the Blades.
TSM and Counter Logic Gaming were the only teams to go 3-0 last week in the 2021 League of Legends Championship Summer Split, and both of those teams share something else in common, too.
Zven was benched in favor of Cloud9 Academy AD carry Calvin "k1ng" Truong a few days before the start of the 2021 LCS Summer Split and has been starting for C9 Academy in k1ng's place ever since, but the organization tagged the LCS official Twitter account and Zven in a tweet with a photo of the AD carry saying, "He's back."
Let's rank the 10 best western mid laners competing in North America's League of Legends Championship Series and Europe's League of Legends European Championship.
