London-headquartered esports organisation Fnatic have announced Jonas ‘Hidon’ Vraa as a new League of Legends esports coach.
The Danish coach’s announcement comes ahead of LEC Spring 2024 Playoffs, with Fnatic set to play against Hidon’s former team, GiantX, later today (March 30th 2024) from 4pm GMT.
He’s working alongside Fnatic LoL head coach Tomáš ‘Nightshare’ Kněžínek.
Hidon has experience in the UK, Ireland and Nordics EMEA Regional League, the NLC, having been on teams such as Dusty, Tricked and Ruddy Esports in the past.
He joined UK org Excel Esports last year in the LEC, before the org merged with Giants Gaming and rebranded to GiantX and let him go earlier this month.
Fnatic then snapped him up, saying he’s been working on helping the team adapt to the meta and with positional coaching and itemization. They said:
“Working with the team, Hidon has helped throughout the split already, bringing huge impact remotely, guiding us to bring a new level of innovation in adapting to the meta, assisting in individual positional coaching, and improving the team’s overall itemization.”
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“His contributions have helped us finish the regular split first and guide us to start head strong into playoffs, and we’re excited to see what we can accomplish for the rest of Spring.”
Hidon added he is happy to join Fnatic, saying: “To be in a team that knows what success looks like. To work with players that play to win. Happy with first in regular split, but not happy with the how. Appreciate the support from everyone, it’s heartwarming. Time to stomp GX again.”
As Hidon stated, Fnatic have finished first in the LEC Spring 2024 regular season.
However, three other teams also had six wins and three losses, like them: Vitality, G2 and Heretics.
In the other playoffs matches this weekend, G2 face Mad Lions Koi, Vitality will go up against SK Gaming and Heretics will play Team BDS.
Earlier this year, G2 won the LEC Winter 2024 playoffs as Yike secured a Pentakill and Riot’s stream crashed.
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