VIT Fleshy on Humanoid: "I just couldn’t see the fire inside him anymore"

With only two matches left in the LEC 2026 Summer Split, are once again sitting in the upper half of the standings. Nearly locked in for the top four, the French organization could find itself just one best-of-five away from qualifying for Worlds 2026. However, the memories of their previous playoff run still linger. The question now is whether the team can continue improving and finally show up when it matters most.

In an exclusive interview, Team Vitality support sat down with Sheep Esports to discuss the team’s current position, why this lineup is more motivated than ever, and how they have changed the way they practice.

Kadir "Fleshy" Kemiksiz: “We’re not quite locked in the top four yet, so for now, we don’t really care. It doesn’t matter. Of course, being in the top four is a nice thing, but we are focused on our own development. Still, I do have to say it is exciting when I think about being only one best-of-five away from going to Worlds.

Fleshy: Honestly, it was just difficult to play due to the draft. NAVI likes to play with bot priority, and we were getting pressured. That’s their game dynamic—they get bot prio, play around mid, and then go into side lanes with their midlaner. We gave them everything they wanted, and then came the blue buff disaster. Everything went wrong in that second game, so it was hard to recover, even though I think we put up a lot of good fights. Things were relatively even until they started just beating us down with their wallets and items.

For myself, I’m happy mostly about the series, aside from this game two and the mistake I made in game three where I died. That was not cool. Still, we recovered that one with TP, so it didn’t matter too much, even if it was within 50 seconds of drake.

But yeah, overall, I’m happy with our development, especially after what we showed in Paris at the Roadtrip in Week 1. We kind of got stomped there, aside from the latter two games against MKOI. Carzzy took a lot of responsibility there in the second and third games.

Fleshy: Fiesta is a really good player. We’re still trying to figure out how to activate him—even more than we currently are. That comes down to drafts, our gameplay, and more. He’s really good in 1v1s, and he’s aggressive, which is a great quality to have. He’s constantly skill-checking midlaners in lane.

He’s been improving a lot in terms of shotcalling and talking with us as well while in-game. So that really adds up to him shaping up into a great player.

He makes some mistakes sometimes, but it’s kind of whatever. I can count his mistakes on one hand alone. We’ll keep trying to cut out the bad parts like that and improve, especially our support-jungle synergy around enabling him.

Fleshy: Even though the regular season hasn’t ended, whenever we scrim KC or G2, we play best-of-five blocks. It’s a bit harder to set up with other teams, though, as no one else is locked in playoffs yet. It’s more useful to the rest of the LEC to play best-of-three blocks, you know? Hopefully, we can look for more best-of-fives now that the season is coming to an end.

Regardless, though, we are taking every match seriously. We won’t underestimate Shifters next week. We’re not going in thinking they are just a bad team that can’t beat us. We saw what they did against G2; they were just not good enough to close it out.

It would be bad for us to just assume we are better than MKOI or the other teams competing for playoffs because of our standings. We’re not thinking this way. Still, when we play League at our usual level, I feel like we are a better team than them.

I don’t want to get too excited about the regular season. We’ve learned our lesson—9-1 regular season into a 0-6 playoffs; I was there. We need to be more humble and play consistently.

Fleshy: No one can predict what will happen in the playoffs, but I know for sure that we are way more motivated to win the LEC than we were in the last two splits. I’d even say more than the last three, since I was there last summer.

This is the most motivated I’ve seen our team since I was promoted to the LEC. Even though we sometimes get fisted in scrims, we are putting more work into making sure that we have more “human scrims.” We put in work in a more coherent manner and with more motivation than before.

Still, only time will tell what will happen in the playoffs. Maybe someone won’t deliver; maybe someone will break their hands in the playoffs. Still, I have full trust in my teammates—everybody is trying to be better.

Fleshy: maybe has aspects of the game he’s better at, like controlling jungle-support synergy and macro, but I just couldn’t see the fire inside him anymore, you know?

You need to have passion and patience when you’re a pro. You’ll have to wait around in scrims, in pauses, when your enemy is late, and more. Marek just did not have this patience—unless he was joking. But regardless, when you have this attitude, it just spreads and changes the way everyone on the team acts. People start calling for FFs and get tilted—there was just no real passion or fire. When we started losing, it felt like there was no way to come back and everything was doomed—both in scrims and officials.

Today, people are actually playing for comebacks. Even if we get fucked jungle, the enemy has double our CS, and we have a rough early game, we’re talking about how to make a comeback and win. That was just not the case before. I feel way more confident in this environment. There isn’t someone that will call to end the day so that we can get it over with. People want to fix mistakes and become better on a gameplay level and micro-wise.”