VKS Trymbi: “It’s the first time I experienced this much passionate love and hate at the same time.”

To round our round of Media Day interviews, we chatted with the last EU support that made it to a top 8 Worlds finish, VKS Trymbi.

How does it feel to be back here at Worlds this time not through the LEC so but through the LTA?

Trymbi: It feels quite, quite strange at first for sure because I still treat myself as an European representative. So it gets a bit tricky sometimes to think. I already saw a lot of teams around here from EU. Not many remember me, sadly.

I wish I was more friendly to people when I was in EU so I could have more friends. But it’s nice to see all the EU representatives and I’m happy to be here honestly. At first, I thought it would be quite hard and it was really challenging, but we made it at the end of the day and I’m just glad I can be here and try to make things work.

Davide: How’s this preparation been? I know you guys had troubles traveling here.

Have you got the chance to like at least play a few scrims?

Trymbi: We actually got to play two days of scrims in total. We [were] supposed to fly on the 8th evening, but then our flight got cancelled. I don’t know what was going on that day, but quite a few flights got cancelled and we had to wait at the airport for six hours to figure things out. It was midnight at the time.

So basically we were on no sleep traveling the next day and it took us more than 45 to 50 hours of traveling. Instead of having two international flights, we had three of them,plus we had a lot of layover time. They tried to schedule our flights to get them as fast as we can, which basically meant that we had 13 hours of layover time. It was quite drastic, it felt very draining. And the jet lag doesn’t help now too.

Insanely annoyed that the entire year of hard work to get to worlds is rewarded with 2 days of scrims before having to play the best teams in the world.

Going one week earlier was not feasible due to our Chinese visa requirements from Brasil – even if Keyd wanted to pay.…

— Christopher Lee (@coachseeel) October 9, 2025

Davide: Are you still feeling the jet lag?

Trymbi: Yeah, for sure. The sleep has been really hard, you know, even though I think the hotel we got is the best [one] I’ve been [in my four times at Worlds]. It’s getting better each year, which is crazy to think. I think Riot really welcoming.

Even then, I think it’s my first time ever I truly experienced jet lag because when I was in Korea, I didn’t feel it that much. It might be because of the distance between China and Brazil. So, yeah, I guess the Brazilian representatives got a bit demolished, but hopefully we can make things work.

Davide: There are a lot of passionate Brazilian fans out there. As someone who has lived both the LEC and the enthusiasm from the LEC fans and the Brazilian fans, is there any difference?

What do you love about both European but also Brazilian fans?

Trymbi: No, I can definitely see differences… The passion in Brazil, when it comes to how fans view game is way different, but it has its good and bad sides.

This one was pretty extreme for me because that’s first time I experienced like this much passionate love and hate at the same time. For instance, when we went first split, we went eight because we lost [the] first two Best-of-series, but you were out because of the format. I was walking [away from the] stage and the guy was cursing me out and had a VKS jersey on. I couldn’t understand anything because because was in Portuguese but I just looked at him and his face was like full hatred.

So this is scary, but I understand why. It is a lot of passion and they are extremely emotional about how they view things and I understand that. They just want to make sure that their teams [are] on the top and they try to support them as much as they can. I do think throughout the whole year I felt a lot of support from the fans and I do appreciate it, even though there’s going to be bittersweet times and sometimes a bit too much different feelings.

I still think it’s something that I did miss at some point in EU because I felt like things were pretty stale and even though I know a lot of fans who are very passionate, it was because of the teams I played in. [It] felt like I didn’t have this true support that I feel in Brazil. So that is for sure quite a different feeling. There’s connection between player, the team, the organization, and the fans.

Davide: For those who couldn’t follow the LTA much, can you tell us what kind of team is VKS?

How do you guys generally play? What’s like the standout player or playstyle? What’s your identity?

Trymbi: Yeah, we’re still quite of a new team because our core got changed between first and second split. We added Mireu for our mid lane which helped improve a lot of areas massively, especially the carry and the way we wanted to play.

I think one good thing about us is that we’re trying to be quite active with the gameplay. Of course, I feel like we get a bit stun locked in our first game, so I think best-of-ones might be not ideal for us. I think our first games get a bit messy, and we feel very stale. But I think when we’re in our comfort zone, that’s where we are able to truly get leads and try to play off of them because we are a team that likes to play more micro and early game oriented style.

And even though it’s not going to be the best for Worlds because it’s hard to cheese your way out, I don’t want to think that we can only win through cheesing. From what I heard about other teams, I think we’re one of the few teams coming out of Brazil that actually tries to play macro and tries to play advantages through map movement, so I hope we can showcase that too because these teams are going to be hard to face. But I think if we can stay cool and play our game, I think we can show some good League of Legends got it.

Davide: As someone who has played support for a very long time, how do you think is the role currently in this year’s meta? We usually try to highlight jungle-support [synergy] but I feel like jungle-mid has also been very important this year.

How’s the role of the support changed compared to previous year or even during this season?

Trymbi: I think there’s different playstyles of how you want to play support. Trying to impact the game as much as you can, especially throughout early-mid game is something that a lot of supports right now thrive on and that’s something that I’m also trying to help my team through that.

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— Vivo Keyd Stars (@VivoKeyd) October 14, 2025

There’s a lot of good players and I think the support meta hasn’t changed much compared to the previous patches, so support will be probably the most stale, because every other role got quite big changes for their respective roles.

We’ll still see, especially in best-of-one, people choose their comforts. But I think like at Worlds 2023, the meta will drastically change, where people will just start picking ranges and try to actually win lanes heavily, especially with buffs like Caitlyn. I hope we can show that too – that we can change the meta a little bit. But the same picks are going to be picked: Neeko, Alistar, maybe Rell, maybe Rakan. That’s probably going to be the main game.

I want to know your top five supports here at Worlds and explain me the reasons on why you would rank them in that order.

Trymbi: I think Duro is the player that improved so much lately and throughout the year, but I’m not sure if I can put him as a top one support in the world. I think he’s really insane right now. But top one I would put ON and then Duro top two. I just think those two are incredible with the way they play.

I’m really a Keria-based and still think Keria is insane, still. He’s so knowledgeable, it’s a shame to put him less than top three, so I would put him top three and then I’m not sure how to put LPL supports overall because I’m not that familiar with the region much.

I feel like supports play a different game and I really like the way LCK does, so I would put delight on four and fifth, since I’m European, I would put Mikyx. People [would] hate me, but that’s life.

You were among the Rogue lineup that made it to the top 8 at Worlds 2022. Do you consider yourself a lucky charm for EU?

Trymbi: If I’m a lucky charm? I wish I could think like this. I genuinely hope so.

The Rogue one, I mean, I don’t think it was much luck at the tournament. We actually were solid that year but you know, it was my first year as well. It was like really close. Sadly we lost to C9 with Perkz which is quite disgusting if you think about it now.

But I mean Perkz is insane. Don’t get me wrong, he’s in the Worlds [music] video… He has to be insane. I do think I was close many times and even [on] FNC, we lost to Weibo and I think it was 2-1, and we both didn’t go to quarterfinals.

So I do think I’m always almost there. I hope I can it work for this team too. And honestly, if we can get to quarters, I think the Brazilian fans will go mental.

Message to both Brazilian and EU fans?

Trymbi: Sadly, I don’t speak Portuguese. But for the EU fans, and of course Brazilians too, I really appreciate all the support. I know it’s been hard to follow my journey this year because of the change of the regions. But, whoever keeps watching and supporting, I really appreciate every single one of you and I really hope I can make things.

I really hope I can show that I still got it and I can actually play some good League of Legends with my team because that’s the most important for the fans and for myself.