‘Reflections’ with Alex Ich

Alexey 'Alex Ich' Ichetovkin, former Mid laner of Gambit Gaming and current Top laner of Ninjas in Pyjamas, is the star of the 29th episode of 'Reflections'.

Time line of topics discussed:

• 00:35 Alex's past playing other roles
• 02:05 What role did Alex play in teaching some of the others the game?
• 03:28 How much was M5 designed to be focused around Alex?
• 05:11 Did M5 get along as people?
• 06:37 M5/Gambit's ability to win late game team-fights and come from behind.
• 08:00 Did they put enough focus into the tactical side?
• 08:24 Does Alex prefer a style involving more fighting?
• 10:24 Could Alex play a different style in another team?
• 12:00 Were Darien and Genja hard to work with?
• 13:40 Genja's position within the team.
• 14:59 Evaluating Genja over the last year or so.
• 16:53 Wasn't Alex the leader of Gambit?
• 18:12 Why didn't M5 attend MLG and IPL events in S2?
• 19:50 Should M5 have won the S2WC?
• 21:40 M5 not respecting Nidalee
• 22:53 Playing WE in a showmatch before that team's rampage in late 2012.
• 24:40 Misaya's role in WE.
• 25:50 The criteria Alex judges Mid laners by.
• 26:55 Famous S2 Mid laners compared to their hype.
• 28:38 Thoughts on Faker
• 30:30 The scouting report: Froggen
• 33:35 xPeke
• 36:55 Who is Gambit?
• 37:54 Why Edward left Gambit in S3.
• 39:14 The S3WC for Gambit
• 40:36 If Gambit could live in Germany would it have solved their problems?
• 42:00 Was there no way for Riot to help Gambit get visas through a German company?
• 44:00 The Gambit bootcamp
• 46:40 The original Superteam
• 47:45 Did him going top lane mean he acknowledged Froggen as a better Mid laner?
• 49:00 Edward as a person.
• 50:07 His in-game relationship with Diamondprox
• 51:30 What made their jungler-mid synergy work?
• 52:30 Thoughts on k0u
• 55:00 Facing KT B in classic series.
• 55:58 Why he called nukeduck a strange player in an old AMA
• 57:13 Darien and Diamondprox
• 58:30 Will Alex roam to mid like Zorozero used to for nukeduck?
• 59:15 Will Alex use Ryze?
• 1:00:00 Thoughts on playing the Top lane champions.
• 1:00:30 Freeze
• 1:01:20 mithy
• 1:02:40 Is this the last attempt at being a top pro for Alex Ich?
• 1:03:45 Did he ever get a really good offer from an NA team in his career?
• 1:04:31 Aliens come to Earth, kill the rest of NiP and force Alex to pick a new team.
• 1:05:30 Final words