Fnatic ADC Martin “Rekkles” Larsson has offered advice to League of Legends players about the value of winning games.
Speaking to eSports News UK at the launch of new Fnatic Gear products last week, Rekkles said: “I think if we lost [in the EU LCS] last year, instead of going 18-0, we would have grown much more than we did. I think when we beat Origen 3-2 in the EU LCS finals in 2015, that was the key point of us getting to the semi-finals of Worlds.
“I think if we hadn’t had that series with Origen, and we clean sweeped them 3-0 instead, we would have been so overconfident going into Worlds that we wouldn’t have been able to bounce back in week 1, week 2.
“So I think losing in most cases is better than winning. Obviously if you lose every game in the LCS that’s never going to get you onto the world stage, but if you talk about scrims and solo queue, you shouldn’t take a loss any worse than you take a win. You should be the same, but if anything you should really think twice as to why you lost the game.
“On a personal level, you obviously can’t influence what’s going on in the game to every extent, but at least what you did in the game is something you can consider. And if you’re able to have that state of mind where you don’t allow yourself to get frustrated about it, you can actually improve so much faster than the people around you.”
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Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
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