Team Ocean on how they chose their roles and what they’ve learned at Scouting Grounds
The North American Scouting Grounds are well underway, with amateur players from around the region invited to Riot Headquarters for a short tournament. On Thursday, Nov. 17, the round robin stage wrapped up with Team Ocean and Team Cloud at the top of the standings. These two teams will play each other in the Scouting Grounds final.
theScore sat down with four members of Team Ocean to chat about the Scouting Grounds event, their expectations, and what they hope to learn.
Tell us a bit about yourself.
MaxTrobo: I’m just a young player trying to go pro. The classic gamer. I quit [high] school because I wanted play games all day and go pro.
Wiggily: I’m Ray Griffin, known as Wiggily and I’m from Minnesota. I’m 19. I’ve been playing League since Season 3 and I’ve been high elo since Season 4 but I haven’t actually been playing a lot until this season.
Vex: I am Bradley Miller. Challenger AD carry, and I made it to Scouting Grounds. I was on Xbox before and one of my friends on Xbox told me, “Hey, I found this new computer game.” I decided to try it out and at that time I had a really bad computer but I just started playing with him. Really enjoyed the game and just never stopped.
Whyin: I just started playing when a friend invited me in Season 2. I didn’t start taking it too serious because I was just playing with friends but I started to get better. Got to Challenger this season for pretty much the entire year and that’s just how it worked out.
What do you think of the event so far?
MaxTrobo: It’s really nice. He tells us the things we need to do and a coach needs to do that. A coach can’t be like, “Oh, you maybe could have done something better.” He just tells us what we need to do.
Vex: It’s really really fun actually. Meeting all the new people, playing with pros I’ve been playing online with for so long. It’s just fun and well-organized. I’m recently high-elo so I’m not really good friends with all of them but I knew a few of them.
Whyin: The whole place is really nice. You can talk and meet some of the other challenger players in person. Some of them act a bit different than they do in game. Some are a little bit nicer in real life apparently. And you get to play in the same room as the LCS people do before they go onstage.
Why did you choose your position in League of Legends?
MaxTrobo: I think it was at the end of Season 3, at the start of Season 4 I was a mid lane main but somehow I ended up as the top laner for my team with my friends. I was actually good at top lane so I actually wanted to stay top because the meta was the carry meta so I just decided to stay top.
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Vex: I’ve always wanted to be a carry so I started mid, but then I realized that late-game carries, the best champs for that in the game are AD carries. I want to be the late-game carry.
Whyin: It’s just the role I’m best at. I tried all the different ones and I dunno, it’s just what I was best at. I’m just able to control a lot in the game. Support’s the role that controls vision and the map the most. It’s not that my mechanics aren’t good for other roles, I just wasn’t really good at playing the solo lanes, and then jungle I was never good at jungle either. I can play other roles just fine in solo queue but in competitive I’m not good at them.
What have you learned so far?
MaxTrobo: Right now I’m learning to communicate with others, lane allocation, just talking in general. Knowing how to communicate with the rest of my team. Sometimes it’s a bit difficult because I want to focus on the game and I also need to think of what I have to say. So it’s a bit harder for me but I think I’m doing fine for [English as] my second language.
Wiggily: I think the most important thing is just working with your mid laner and how important communication is. I always knew that communication was important but you can really tell the difference between top level teams and us … there’s so much I’ve learned and there’s so many things you can learn from an LCS coach in three days.
Vex: The solo queue meta is like, you play whatever AD carry, but the meta in competitive is just like a few AD carry champs. Just learning how to lane phase and what bot lane means in a competitive scenario is really what I’ve learned the most here.
Whyin: How to improve my macro and just communication in general. I’m better at the other supports in mechanics but if I don’t have macro it doesn’t really matter, so if I can improve my macro and communication I’ll be better than the other support players here.
What do you think coaches and teams could be looking for in a player? What do you want them to see?
MaxTrobo: I think the only thing they’re looking for is honestly the attitude. If you’re always positive and communication is consistent. I think consistency is the best thing. Even if a guy is not the best mechanical player, you can practice that in solo queue and everything, macro they can teach you that. Attitude and consistency.
Wiggily: I want them to see the way that I communicate with the team and work with the team. Not necessarily that I make the flashiest plays but the most important thing is how I communicate with my team and how I work with others, and how I treat my teammates.
Vex: I want them to see a consistent player that doesn’t feed very often, is consistently super-high in CS, and consistently gets damage out. A good overall AD carry player is what I want them to see.
Source: The Score eSports