After a year in Brazil, Adrian "Trymbi" Trybus is ready to take on the 2025 League of Legends World Championship stage with Vivo Keyd Stars.

In an interview with Sheep Esports, the European veteran support shares his honest take on the competition, why he believes some teams — even Western ones — aren’t as strong as they seem, and how VKS plans to prove doubters wrong.

How have you been?

Trymbi: Quite all right! It's been quite a struggle lately with everything since we've been quite jetlagged every single one of us. But yet being at Worlds is a really amazing feeling still, I'm happy to be here.

You spent the last year in LTA South. What are the differences that you have noticed in scrims, infrastructure, and even attitude from the other players?

Trymbi: Fans are for sure quite passionate, and you can truly feel it on stage. I think that's quite a big difference, culturally, compared to EU. It can be good and bad, I would say. And it took me quite a long time to adjust, and I would say that till this day I'm not truly adjusted yet, and I don't know if I'm ever going to be fully comfortable with things. But yeah, I think right before we won I would say that in Brazil I felt a bit at home at some point.

When it comes to organizations and everything, things are also different. In EU, I would say things are still a bit, I would say, more professional still? But in the organization I'm in now, I don't feel that much difference. So I'm quite good. But for sure, looking at all the Twitter and some of the stories that you hear [in LTA South], I think of myself of the times when it 2018, 2017, and I was playing in ERL and there were a lot of different things going on. So I guess sometimes maybe that's where the difference is. But honestly, in EU sometimes I hear that stuff too. So maybe there's not that much difference to think about it now truly.

And how is your relationship with your teammates?

Trymbi: The cultural thing is a big part. It's not easy to sometimes get to them and try to understand them, just because of the differences in the backgrounds. I think that things are just different in Brazil, which is something I didn't expect at first, but I'm always trying to get through this. I'm trying to make sure I can be as understandable as I can and try to make sure that they also can understand my points, because it's not easy due to many reasons. Of course, the language barrier, both for them and for me it's not something easy to fully get your thoughts through. But at the end of the day, I have a coach who is trying to make things work. They knew that there were going to be quite a of challenges with me coming here. And I know it's been quite difficult throughout most of the year, but lately we've been doing better and better each week. So I'm just hoping that we can make things work for the upcoming Worlds.

And speaking of, this year we have Fearless Drafts for the first time. Do you think supports are more vulnerable or empowered by it?

Trymbi: I'm not sure if for this meta is going to be like this, but I generally always thought that supports have quite a lot of room to experiment, just because of the fact that in the support role, it just feels like you can basically play way more champs than in any other role if you truly want to. So I think that's one good thing, at least for me. I really like to experiment a lot, so whenever I get to pick a weird chimp that I know I'm going to make things work, I just feel really delighted to play. So I hope that for this Worlds, I can make it work too.

But of course, since the Swiss stage is going to be in best of one, I don't think there's going to be many angles for different and various picks. So I think for now the meta is going to be quite stale. But I do hope by the time the Playoffs arrive, and even for best of three, that maybe, we're going to see some crazy picks or some diversity for sure. I think the meta has been even during the Fearless Draft, I feel like most of the games, even to game five, have been quite similar play style of support. So I hope that this year, maybe it's going to be a bit different with things.

What is one champion in support that you'll be really, really surprised to see?

Trymbi: Not sure, but I would like to see somebody playing Ivern support. I think it's really nice. I think the champion is a bit busted, and it has a lot of nice stats that you can use on support. So I would like to see somebody pulling it out, pulling it off. I'm not sure if that will happen. I hope I can, but if not me, then I hope somebody else for sure.

Yeah, I mean I can see it.

Trymbi: Don't think many can see it, but I like it a lot. I talked to my team a bit about it and I tried it myself even in some scrims before coming here and it just looked good to me. So I hope that maybe I can spread the word out a little bit, but I'm not sure if I'll get to play for now. I think it's more important to actually win some games rather than trying to pull off champions.

Is there anyone in particular that you would like to face?

Trymbi: I would for sure like to play the weakest teams so we can get some wins off first. That would be something I would truly like to have. That would be nice. We are looking — on paper — probably one of the weakest teams right now. So it would be nice to match somebody that is also not so strong, but looking at the teams, the player I would truly like to face right now, I think I would like to face Duro. Just because of the fact I watch Duro gameplay, and I think he improved so much, and throughout the last two, three years, it just feels like he's been evolving every split. So I want to try to see how I can match up against that because I think it's going to be quite a hard task. But I would like the challenge and possibility.

You mentioned that VKS on paper might not look the strongest. Which other teams do you consider weakest?

Trymbi: I think 100 Thieves is probably the weakest team at Worlds. I think they're way weaker than us, at least. And then it depends. I do think all of the Western teams are just not that strong. I wish I could say that G2 or FlyQuest are extremely strong, and they're able to go to Finals, but that's just not true. That's just not realistic. So I do think most of the Western teams are just not that strong, and I hope we can match off against them.

How do you build up your confidence with the team coming into Worlds?

Trymbi: For us, it really works when we can actually get some good scrims. The training is quite important for us, so we can actually feel like we're confident and ready to play before the stage. Yeah, that's not going to be easy. Definitely, it's for sure an obstacle. But yeah, I think just understanding the fact that we just have to play our game and if we're going to play against better teams — which is almost a lot of other teams — we just need to showcase that we actually can match them, and we cannot just let them do whatever they want on the map. Cause if we do that, I think we're going to get lost very easily. Playing their game, the whole game will not help us at all. And for every Western team, I hope they're not going to play their game. They'll actually try to play their game, but this will be our game. I just want to play my game, and if thanks to it we get some wins, I'm going to be extremely happy.

Do you have any taunts for your opponents?

Trymbi: Taunts? I don’t know. I think any team that's going to match us are going to be the happiest they've ever been because they'll think it's a free win. So I hope they'll think this way, and we'll be able to win against them. I actually want to show that people underestimate us. I really want to face an NA team and smash it just because I want to show that I still got it.

And even though I went to a region that people find weaker on paper, I still can make them look convincingly stronger. And that's something that I really hope will happen. We'll see if we'll get to, cause I still believe that teams like G2 or FlyQuest are strong, and you can never underestimate those teams due to their history or the players they have. But if I get to match them, I really want to — especially in best of one, when anything can happen — show that we can be the superior team.