‘Reflections’ with Freeze
Aleš 'Freeze' Kněžínek, AD Carry of Ninjas in Pyjamas, is the star of the 32nd episode of 'Reflections'. This episode was recorded on May 10th.
Time line of topics discussed:
- 00:08 Intro
- 00:17 Competitive history before Samurais in Jeans
- 01:13 How good was he back then?
- 01:50 Playing with SuperAZE
- 02:47 Playing with Unlimited
- 04:01 Playing with mithy
- 04:58 mithy in Heimerdinger's Colossi and Lemondogs
- 06:41 Understanding mithy's confidence levels
- 08:15 mithy's reputation of teaching or adapting his ADCs to his style.
- 10:13 The style mithy brought from Lemondogs
- 11:23 Riot's Promotion system
- 13:50 Playing with Deficio in NiP
- 15:24 Does he secretly want to play aggressively?
- 16:27 Deficio as a Support player.
- 18:10 Lemondogs saying their botlane crushed everyone
- 19:33 The NiP team of the first half of the Summer split, with extinkt
- 23:11 His thoughts on Tabzz's play with mithy in Lemondogs
- 25:47 The Freeze-mithy botlane never having played in LCS.
- 27:14 His opinion of Rekkles.
- 28:40 Biggest strengths of Rekkles
- 29:42 Rekkles' "safe" play style
- 32:50 Where Rekkles would stack up against the top Asian ADCs
- 35:11 He thinks Sneaky is better than Rekkles
- 36:55 Freeze's favourite ADC player.
- 38:40 Freeze's reputation as a Draven only player in the past.
- 41:45 A champion who has a similar style to how Draven should be played.
- 42:38 The best player at the following ADC champions: Vayne
- 43:25 Caitlyn
- 44:12 Ezreal
- 45:19 Draven
- 45:36 Losing all of the Promotion series in his career
- 49:13 Does he get nervous in Promotion series?
- 50:24 Stories of NiP dominating scrims.
- 51:37 Problems with scrimming
- 53:10 VandeR saying Freeze and mithy are "arrogant without any reason".
- 56:47 The reputation of NiP players being cocky.
- 56:11 Perceptions of pros being toxic on solo q.
- 1:01:20 Why Freeze has been the second option for some of his teams.
- 1:03:52 The original superteam he was going to be a part of.
- 1:05:23 Alex Ich as a Top laner.
- 1:06:45 extinkt
- 1:08:36 Explaining the motivations of himself and nukeduck remaining in Challenger.
- 1:10:47 Aliens come to Earth, kill the old NiP line-up and let Freeze make a new team.
- 1:13:50 Thoughts on how Edward will take playing against NiP the first time.
- 1:15:00 Final words.
