Team Vitality Fleshy: “We are playing good… but sometimes someone just wakes up bad”
Team Vitality are contiuning their campaign to qualify for the LEC Versus Playoffs following a strong week of performances.
The team are in fine form following impressive wins over Playoffs-qualified Karmine Corp and GIANTX and almost making a comeback versus G2.
Now they face a tough test with LEC Playoff contenders Los Ratones and Movistar KOI.
ENUK spoke exclusively with Vitality support Kadir ‘Fleshy’ Kemiksiz about the team’s evolution.
Unfortunate result against G2, but that was a really fun game to watch. At least from my end, I’m sure it might have been stressful to be in it. Walk me through the match, how are you feeling?
I’m feeling good.
It was a loss, but still, we know that we are improving every day. So it still feels good, even though it’s a loss.
The game was looking really tough. When Caps is 6-1, it’s never a good sign, but you guys managed to hold really well. How did you manage to claw your way back into the game?
We didn’t think about this guy is 6-1 or this guy is hard to kill or something.
We tried to play our game and adapt to the situations in-game, and we tried to execute it.
There were some timers that we couldn’t, but it’s fine. We are at least trying, we are not doing anything and waiting to win.
We are trying to do something and execute things.
You’ve talked a lot about the team atmosphere. I heard you say to Troubleinc how it looks like you guys are trolling, but you’re actually always tryharding in the LEC, always putting in a lot of effort. Was the atmosphere still light and jokey during that game?
It’s only in the start, and after we win a teamfight maybe sometimes. Besides that, it’s just normal the way it comes.
Do you think that being able to laugh through those difficult situations puts you in, and that game as well, nearly coming back, gives you good preparation if you do make it into the LEC Playoffs?
Yeah, these games are for sure good info for us, from ourselves. We are learning about each other as well.
We have a new midlaner as well, and it’s like new dynamics and stuff.
People sometimes forget this. They just look at the names and they say, yeah, you should do better.
But from inside, it’s just much harder to do these things if you are new.
Even though you scrim and stuff, sometimes you need some time still.
Second week, I think we realised that some things aren’t right. So we were trying to fix on those, the drafts or the gameplay, the voice comms.
And I think we are doing a good step on those.
Yeah, you guys had an amazing week with still some really huge wins. I mean, it feels obvious to say, but are you really happy with how the team is progressing overall?
Yeah, I’m happy.
It’s a good atmosphere still. Even though we lose or something in second week, it wasn’t a full depressed or something.
People were maybe sad a bit, but we were just focused on the next week. It wasn’t like, okay, yeah, it’s over. We lost to Team Heretics or whatever. Nobody thinks about that.
For sure. And you guys said you’ve been working on issues. What do you think it is that stops Vitality from being consistent? Because you guys have shown some really high highs in LEC last Summer and this year. So what’s the missing ingredient?
Sometimes, when it’s like Fearless, we can go bad on drafts. I mean, that was the missing thing as well.
Maybe, I mean, it can happen this split as well. We are just learning ourselves too.
So you can’t just say, yeah, we fixed this already. Because you don’t know the best of threes, best of fives looks like right now.
We are playing good League of Legends, when we have the conditions for it, but sometimes someone just wakes up bad, you know? These things happen.
Honestly, that’s how it goes. You kept a lot of the core team from last year and, as I say, you guys had some really great moments last summer. With Humanoid and new dynamics, how are the team evolving? And what have you kind of learned from last split?
Last year we were trying to more play for the map and the other advantages of the game.
Like when we had an advantage from bottom or top, we tried to translate it into the map or some other thing.
But right now, we are trying to be more around mid, because Humanoid has a good voice to talk about this.
He’s pulling numbers, you know, and he’s a really good laner. So we want to abuse this and play around this.
For this, we need to be around. So we are like legit learning this because we didn’t have this with Czajek.
Czajek would be the guy that moves to you, but Marek is the opposite. You have to go to him, you have to give him access to abuse his matchup or any 1v1s.
Like if enemy support is there, you have to be there. Things like this, you know. And we are learning these things still.
We are trying to do it constantly more. But sometimes we can do a mistake as well, you know. Like this game, he had some mistakes.
Everybody had some mistakes. But yeah. I’m happy to play like this.
It’s what LEC Winter Split is for, right? In general, were you happy that you get to stick around with the same guys and grow more together?
Yeah.I think if we change like 2 or 3 people, I think it will be really different. And challenging maybe. Like these weeks.
Like being with Lyncas and Carzzy is good for me. Because we already know each other from Summer Split. We already played like one split, I would say.
And we know what we like. We know how we play. We know what he wants.
And these are like good advantages to have if you are a support. So you are adapting faster.
And on the topic of Carzzy, I feel like he is a big personality and because of that people are then more vocal against him online and he gets more hate. How is it playing with him and how highly do you rate him?
The thing about Carzzy is that he gets some hate when he loses most of the time, because he is making it look like he doesn’t give a f**k. But in reality, it’s not like this.
People in Vitality know this, but he is not showing this to the outside.
Like when Ice got the double penta, we just tweet funny stuff and people will hate it. But he is just having fun. And he is just thinking about next game already.
After the double penta, I asked Carzzy. I was sad for you. We didn’t get this advantage.
And he said, I don’t give a f**k. I know I am better than him. So this is his mentality.
And whatever happens in game, if he is responsible, he will take responsibility. He will talk for it. He will try hard.
But he is not showing this side to the fans. And people know him as a slacker, troller and stuff like this. I mean, he is sometimes slack, but not much.
There is a reason that he has been around in the LEC for so long. Personally for you, I saw that Naak Nako said that the top lane pool is boring and I have had players tell me that mid lane is boring. What is it like being a support in 2026?
I think the support pool is fun, to be honest. It has not changed much.
But I like the support pool. There is enchanters you can play, melees you can play. It did not change too much, but you still have a lot of options, so that is good.
It is not like Rumble, K’Sante every game. So that is a good thing. I am happy with the support champion pool right now.
For sure. And did you feel happier playing Bard again today? Because I know you said you had not scrimmed with it, but you ended up picking it twice this week. And that is always a fun champ to play.
Yeah, we did not scrim one week, but before that we played a lot. Especially last split, we played a lot. And I was ready for this.
I play in solo queue, I play in scrims sometimes. When you do not play for one scrim week, it does not mean that you do not pick this champ. If it is an angle, you go for it.
You are a pro player and you should be ready for this moment. So I think two games in a row it was the moment. And I just took the angle opportunity.
Again, you guys had some amazing wins this week, especially against KCorp. What is the identity of this Team Vitality team? You kind of already hinted about playing around Humanoid more, but what are you hoping is eventually the Vitality playstyle?
Yeah. I think it is clean, calm, and collected. I would say.
Good drafts and good preparations. There is no f**k-ups or something in laning.
If things go as it is supposed to go in-game, if people do not f**k up for no reason, and we play like we planned, if we can do this at the end of the split or for playoffs. I think it will change a lot of things.
Because we watch a lot of games, we watch a lot of our games as well, and we scrim as much as we can as well.
We are basically working on every part of the game, like early game, mid game, late game, drafts, scouting, preparation and stuff.
And if we can put this all in a game. If we can translate these into scrims, into official games. I think it will look a lot better and a lot cleaner
Like against KC we played good but there was a lot of draft gap as well.
With that draft gap, even if we would f**k up sometimes, it would cover us you know?
So yeah, starting from drafts and preparations, it’s just playing the good League of Legends basically.
You have MKOI and Los Ratones next week. How do you feel about matching up against those two?
I think nothing has changed for us.
Los Ratones, I think they are just a different team. I think they can be really strong and MKOI is already a strong team, I might say.
We will just work on our game.
We are not going to treat people, okay this is MKOI we need to be more tryhard or this is Los Ratones, maybe we can chill a bit, you know.
We are not in this mentality. So we will just scrim. We will do our preparation.
And we will try to play our best. And I hope we can do it cleanly.
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