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How Perkz's role swap helped G2 Esports to LEC glory
Perkz's mid lane experience gave him an edge but he insists it's not as easy as it looks.
Nobody expected one of the best mid laners in Europe to role swap to AD Carry but that’s exactly what Luka ‘Perkz’ Perkovic did before the start of the League of Legends European Championship.
Perkz’ move was to accommodate the arrival of Rasmus ‘Caps’ Winther and now with the spring split trophy in hand, G2 Esports have managed to silence those who doubted their decision.
But Perkz didn’t actually get to play any ADC champions in the bot lane in their 3-0 stomp over Origen and the 20-year-old admits he would have liked to have had more of a chance to show off his bot lane skills.
Perkz paired up with Mikyx as G2’s bot lane this split
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“We had some kind of plan going into the games but I expected to play at least one ADC bot game but the way we were adapting it didn’t really allow me to.” He told us.
“I would have actually preferred to play on the ADC champs because in scrims we were mostly practising on the AD Carries and I wanted to show off my skills.”
Perkz also revealed that the initial move from mid lane to ADC was largely his idea.
“I had all the input when it came to the role swap – it’d not make sense to force someone to do it.
“I wanted to have the highest chance of winning for my team so I just had to put myself on bot lane and bring Caps in.
Caps moved from Fnatic to G2 in the beginning of the split
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“In my opinion, we upgraded the G2 bot lane and at the same time brought in someone who had the same if not better skills mid. I trust Caps and I trusted myself too.”
With the role swap also came some unorthodox bot lane picks for the veteran G2 player such as Yasuo and Zoe and for Perkz, being able to play with these champions gave him a huge advantage.
“It’s really different to still play the champions I play but doing it in a different lane. It’s actually so much easier.
“Bot laners are so much worse than mid laners – this is just a fact.
“I’ve been playing mid for so long and mid laners actually give you a challenge. They know how to deal with pretty much every champion in the game whereas bot lane play with the same 15 champions for the past five years.
Perkz’s mid lane experiences has helped his transition
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“They don’t really know how to react to the champions I play and it’s bit of an advantage for me so in that sense it’s been easy to transition to bot but it is actually much more difficult in terms of mindset.
“I’ve really had to change my mindset throughout the split in order to be able to perform ADC at the highest level. Bot lane is about working together as one – not about one AD and one support.”
Despite their near flawless spring split performances and Perkz’s relatively smooth transition, he admits that it isn’t something that just anyone can do.
“Honestly, it’s not actually as easy as it looks. I’ve had a lot of experience playing at the highest level so I know how every role works in the game.
“If I really wanted to, I could have done the same thing with any other role and still performed but ADC suited me the best and luckily, we had someone like Caps come to make the team better.”
