PerkZ: “In scrims, Zven rewards me with a candy if I gank bot.”

After a slow start to the season, G2 Esports finally won a three game series against one of the top teams in the European League of Legends Championship Series (EU LCS): H2K Gaming. Following the set, mid laner Luka “PerkZ” Perković talked to Slingshot’s Kelsey Moser about his complicated history with Taliyah, G2’s improved team atmosphere post-Rift Rivals, and looking forward to playing against Team Vitality’s Erlend “Nukeduck” Våtevik Holm.

Kelsey Moser: The blind pick Taliyah is really common, and you guys were doing it in this series, but Taliyah does have some counters, so what makes you feel confident to pick it blind?

Luka “Perkz” Perković: So Taliyah is a really long story with me. I never liked Taliyah before because it was like a roaming champ, and I was always playing for my lane, like before, you know? I was playing for my lane, and I just didn’t like the champ. I thought the champ loses every lane after Level 6 — at some point loses every lane. I just had not so good theory about Taliyah, even though I could play her fine. I just chose to spam a lot more games on her and try different builds (just take MR runes for early game and stuff like that). I just became really good on this champ, and I play it a lot in scrims, and I have a lot of confidence on it.