The Swede Martin “Rekkles” Larsson is considered one of the best ADC players in League of Legends, that Europe has ever produced. He joined the French LoL team “Karmine Corp” in November 2021, which won the EU Masters for the third time with him. However, in the summer of 2022, the team failed in the 1st round of the French league LFL. The head coach speaks of a disastrous season.
Who is this?
- Rekkles was considered the franchise player for Fnatic in LoL for five and a half years: an exceptionally strong ADC player, who could decide matches for his team with his consistent and calm demeanor, a true star who has been playing LoL for 10 years now.
- In 2020 he went to Fnatic’s long-time rivals G2 but could not lead the team to victory and left G2 after just one year.
- Rekkles surprisingly transferred to Karmine Corp in 2021, a strong team in the French league that had already won the EU Masters 2 times at that point. With Rekkles, they secured the 3rd title in spring 2022.
- It was thought that with Rekkles on the team, Karmine Corp would soon try to buy into the professional league LEC. But now everything went wrong.
Karmine Corp wins 3 seasons in a row the EU Championship, now nothing is working
What has caused the team’s failure now? Karmine Corp had just scraped into the LFL playoffs with a mixed 9-9 in the regular season and had to face GameWard in the first series, the number 4 in France.
This series was lost 1-3.
Karmine Corp is thus out of the French playoffs and has no chance to qualify for the EU Masters, which they had won the last 3 seasons.
The team’s head coach, Striker, said on Twitter:
Disastrous split, I regret a lot, I take full responsibility for the failure in the summer splits.
After prosperous years, 2022 marked the downturn
What was the reason? Karmine Corp is criticized on reddit for being extremely unbalanced:
- with “Rekkles” they have an outstanding ADC
- Toplaner “Cabochard” is also excellent
- but the Turk “113” is considered one of the worst junglers in the league
- Midlaner “Saken” apparently has a motivation problem
- Supporter “Hantera” is also said not to be very strong
The second leagues in League of Legends are much more exciting in 2022 than before. This is also due to teams like Eintracht Spandau:
Ultimately, it is believed on reddit that the LFL has become too strong to dominate solely with the sidelanes. Without a strong central duo in mid and jungle, teams cannot win the LFL anymore. The level of the LFL has risen in recent months and Karmine Corp apparently saw a drop in performance.
The fans of Karmine Corp, who already saw their team in the professional league LEC, are now feeling down: after the very successful last years, the summer of 2022 is a low point.
Rekkles must chalk up the next year of his LoL career as a failure.
The LFL and the German LoL league “Prime” benefit from changes in the League of Legends system:
