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Some stuff (pertaining to things referencing me) are inaccurate. I wasn't the one who contacted the consulate, there was a person involved I believe her name was Genie Kim (she did a lot of foreigner visa's in Korea for the past 10years). After making her aware of everything I believe she was the one who personally called. The GenG streamer pitch came after T1 was no longer possible and I was trying to figure out another way. That initial call w/ Arnold took place when I was still living at T1 HQ and I believe it was in the cafeteria the call took place initially. A group call with them was then later setup on Kakao Talk. The sponsorship part yes, Nemesis was brought under the same agency as me but not many sponsors were "given" or cut to him the way the video says. Some of my much larger sponsorships I did siphon money from my own contract in order to get him his own contract made and integrate him into the contracts (the super major one the siphon-contract happened with was Mobalytics, followed by what would have been ProGuides, and Skillcapped. A lot of sponsors we had were similar as we had the same agency). Some people might wonder "why do that", but as I stated multiple times on stream I was making hand-over-fist each month and Nemesis was my absolute best friend who I wanted to succeed and feel more comfortable in streaming/getting "brand" reputation (this is a thing where your agency can constantly reference that you've worked with X brands before and thus are more reputable as a brand sponsor). A lot of people constantly ask what happened between us between the obvious public information that we don't talk, and obviously I've stood by I won't discuss things publicly. At one point in my life he was my greatest friend. Despite being my greatest friend we certainly had arguments and disagreements as many friendships can have, and I was also less capable and equipped to handle situations like that compared to the current me of today. In my pursuit of certain things I would lose track of other important characteristics of friendship and there were many things I should've done differently/better in many isolated incidents. Couple this with the 2021 summer where a lot of personal hardships (several people very close to me unexpectedly died in a very short time span to one another) and my mental state lead to me leaving the Incheon house to move over an hour away to be w/ my S/O and "get away" from daily-LoL stuff further adding to my mental stress at that time. I would also say during this time period my unhealthy anxiety relationship w/ money matters lead to some other stickler situations that were certainly just stress inducing for anyone involved (that I can now after 1.5yrs of therapy and finding out I'm an autistic and how that means I quite literally don't perceive emotional situations the same way, allows me to help compartmentalize and handle better). I obviously won't talk about details or anything, nor will I elaborate further on anything that I wrote above. I've firmly stood by my stance that Nemesis is neither a toxic teammate from everything that I witnessed first hand as I was quite literally directly involved with Fnatic at several points in 2020, nor do I think a lot of negativity surrounding his reputation is accurate. He has been and will continue to likely be one of the best players the game has seen and it's very evident to anyone who watches him play. Despite our estrangement to one another now adays I have nothing but respect for him as a player and have only contrition remaining for my inability and ill-equippedness as a person to have been a better friend/person during that timeframe, I still detest anyone who would attempt to smear or undermine his achievements/skill in the game or how he is as a teammate etc. As always "actions over a prolonged period of time are infinitely most honest than any words a human can speak." This will ring true for all matters in life and if people ever want measure something. Scape-goating Nemesis the way he was done by FNC and FNC fans/socials etc is one of the most disturbing things that has happened to an elite player in western league. Edit - The FlyQuest thing would've never had me and Nemesis on the same roster(for aforementioned reasons), the pursuits happened at different times and I believe FlyQuest continued to try to pursue him even after I had declined.

wow respect to LS for doing so much to help others in this weird ass esports environment

I never liked Nemesis much, but after watching a lot of his hot takes on league meta and seeing how high he's been climbing in Korea, you can't help but respect the guy.

He's an amazing player if not phenomenal, but the team never seemed to have gotten along, the only one who seemed to be the most professional with Nemesis was Rekkles, Hyli and Bwipo who spoke well of him. The system they had at the time wasn't grounded either due to the egos of the players and extremely different opinions.

Nemesis was so obviously scapegoated and sacked for the overall bad performances and lack of player synergy. The signs were clear back then, he was literally bullied out of pro-play, yet he keeps showing everyone that he is a brilliant player. I am happy that the guy found recognition elsewhere and was able to hold his own even in such unfavourable circumstances. Respect.

21:20 ish. Nemesis and Bwipo played some games together in Korea and talked about this a little. Bwipo said he regretted not caring more about Nemesis' well being and mentioned he did not eat properly at all. I'm not sure if there was more going on than that, but having an eating disorder myself I can tell you that not eating properly alone can hinder your well being and performance by quite a lot.

to be honest the missed oppertunities and his apparantly ( as it sometimes looks like it) growing dislike of game changes are probably from him being disillusioned about the pro scene. the dude wanted to be a pro, looked up to faker, tried to have the same mentality. gets signed for arguably the most well known EU team for what? to be treat like shit. to pretty much have your dream torn apart in front of you and then be made out to the world that you're a shit player and toxic. can you blame him for not instantly jumping at the chance to rejoin the pro scene

I respect Nemesis a ton and FNC for sure have a rep for being a shithole internally (especially for the past few years) but FNC didn't ruin his pro career. In fact I don't even think it's ruined to this day. If he wants to compete he can, he just needs to finally accept an offer (which he is still getting multiples of every year btw). If he never ends up in pro play again there is only one person to blame and that's himself.

excited to watch this through, appreciate the work you do mate 👍

What's interesting is that Nemesis, Bwipo and Hylli wanted to play together this year. Would've been sick to see them in the LEC

Props to Bwipo though for apologising and saying he regrets what he said. I think the way he said it was very sincere.

I think for me the craziest thing about the Nemesis narratives is that the same rules seemingly dont apply for the Fnatic iterations after. Supposedly better rosters (especially the Upset dickriding) produced no international results and reached 2 LEC finals in 3 years. Nemesis had to deal with arguably worse circumstances but produced better results. Curious.

This is such a very well made video tbh. as someone that cbf watching long videos, this had me real hooked. Simple, easy to understand, and POV's from all those involved really helped. Good work mate!

Lol did not expect the Destiny clip at the end. Really pertinent to the video. Great job sir, this was well researched and balanced as you did not stray from placing responsibility on Nemesis when appropriate.

Bwipo being classified as red is a federal crime, the man is the most open minded player I have ever seen

i loved wathcing him playing DUS, it was like a meet again with his passion, i hope he goes to any LEC team, where midlaners are underperforming rn with a few exceptions, he would help EU and maybe redeem himself, he is an insane player and any team would be lucky to have him

During Covid I really got into League and the Esport scene. I watched those fanatic G2 games and almost all the games from all different regions. I distinctly remember nemesis going toe to toe with Caps without any issue. Self made was always taunted as this amazing jungler but I have yet to see any proof of that. Didn’t work out in Vitality, I watched Nemesis stream here and there and every time he is always playing against the best players in Korea. I want nemesis to go join a pro team (not NA) and give it another go. His steaming career is in a good enough spot he can always come back to it full time. But he might regret not trying again in the future

I really hope he somehow goes back to pro. I've always liked him and was a fan of him. He even got so much better. I'd love to see him compete again, although I know it's unlikely. Just such a tragedy

Just starting this video but i'm really glad to see someone finally covering this topic.

i just have the biggest sympathy for people like nemesis, it is this kind of person, that i would allways stand up for

Thank you for your time and effort in making this video :)

Waaw i knew of this situation... But not in this detail. Amazing video

great documentary man! Hope to see Nemesis flourish in a fitting team for him one day

1:23 nice attention to detail, that's why we watch your videos. Keep it up 👍

They should have let the cook, cook. Sounds like that was the kind of guy you wanted as a coach.

2:03 Did you really just call his hometown a "slovakian" city? 💀You do realize Slovakia and Slovenia are 2 different countries right? Nemesis is from Slovenia, not Slovakia. Edit: Just finished watching the video, it was really great and there had to be a lot of research done for sure. Keep up the great work!

I wished Neme learns enough Korean to play on a LCK team tbh. Most eastern jgs are willing to play selflessly at times if their teammates prove worthy and many Korean pros all expressed approval for his play. Idk tho, league's in a rly bad spot for the past few yrs when worlds/msi isn't happening

Jesus christ, I have never seen so much misinformation in a single video....incredible

another great video keep up the good work brother!

Number One problem with Nemisis is that he acts entitled to a good team, instead of earning his way back, That i cannot respect.

Most people would rather work with a 9/10 they get along with then a 10/10 that is insufferable. There are a lot of extremely smart and talented people who torpedo themselves because they don't understand this. Nemesis could play 1 years on a decent team show everyone how good he is then swap to a great team but because he thinks that step is beneath him chooses to sit and home and complain instead. His ego is what killed his career.

Very well made video, keep up the good research and commentary!

Dang that's a good vid. U could do a Bwipo or Jankos leaving g2 or reckless vid next I think it would click well

How nemesis ruined nemesis's career if we are honest. You know the video is biased when it said he is arguably top 4 in lck...even asked us to throw any preconceptions about nemesis and starts off the video like that. One word to describe all that delulu

I think everyone is entitled to their opinions and whether or not the information in this video is true or not. No one should ever criticise ex players and cause opinionated debates on reddit like. Nemesis is or was one of the best midlaners from what I recall when he was playing and how players like Rekkles says he was the same level as Caps (apparently the best EU midlaner) should say something to everyone. I personally sad to see Nemesis in this way atm, especially if this Vel Koz pick claim is true in how Nemesis was forced to play it despite better champs in his pool. Overall, League is a team game and is obvious that FNC in 2020 were not a team, despite them being the top 4 best performing EU teams in 2020. We as fans will never know the truth and thats how it should be. Mistakes were made and if I was Nemesis during 2020 worlds, I might not bother playing to win if I knew I was going to be replaced based off how my team think I am the problem to their failures. Also, LEC was declining and still is to this day considering how G2 is playing shit and with the mass changes to FNC since 2020 is not improving to them at all. I pray that teams like KCorps or even XL at this rate can make it to worlds this year to prove a point. And i hope Nemesis can return back to pro play because EU needs a new team or a new player to hype for and to be that shining light for EU at MSI and worlds. Anyway, everyone is entitled to their own opinions and I respect Nemesis since he was a good player but I do think miscommunication was the cause to his demise in FNC and how Bwipo, Selfmade and Hyli were all playing badly, they had to have someone to blame and blame the quietest team member. League is a team game and need everyone to be on the same page, especially against LPL and LCK teams.

Can anyone let me know if nemesis reacts to this on stream?

his history is tragic for me i never blame nemises what happend at fnatic at that time idk what people think about blame him for all that but i hope that he will return someday back on stage but i cant blame him if he wont is tragic that fnatic and lec burned one of the best mid player we coud have. Hope we will se him agian at pro play like i sad but i cant blame him.

A 40 MINUTE HAZMAT BANGER

Hearing all this about Mithy makes me understand now why LS brings up the C9 structure so much

I’m sure there’s both sides and then there is the truth, but I can’t help feeling sorry for nemesis

the LS clip with the morellos on azir, it wasnt that there was no need for anti heal, in fact anti heals pretty god damn good against a comp like that. it was more the fact it was purchased as first item completion

2:00 Slovakian? It's Slovenia my friend

Hope to see him rise and dominate!! Come on Nemesis do it for you!

During FNC videos he seemed like a mute only thing saying being "One Plus"

Everyday I pray for LS and Nemesis to become friends again

Fnc did not ruin nemesis' career. He himself decided to not play anymore

so basically if he was a better midlaner there would never be a problem

Humans are social, if you fail to be social, thats on you. If youre not actually just a menace in game, no team has to put up with you nor do they want to. Nemesis is a good player but i cant stand his personality, kinda the same situation as with crownshot. If you are good but replacable, you cant also have a problematic personality. Rekkles gets away with all the criticism he gets because of his brand and skill, nemesis isnt even close to that and crownshot is lucky to even be in the same conversation

How Fnatic ruined Nemesis career or how his teammates "mobbing" him?? Few days ago, Dardo said the problem with Nemesis was them team mates didn't want to play with him... and the rest of the team said it as well... So, how Fnatic could manages the situation if 4 teammates didn't want to play with you? I think is not as simple as say "Fnatic ruined his career". Dardo also said Nemesis "realized" he will not gonna be on the team after worlds because someone said it in a podcast before worlds. That people of the podcast said they didn't said it as a new or because they had that info but as an opinion because they knew Fnatic was making scrims with another midlaner because Nemesis teammates didn't want to play with him... but Nemesis knew that too! Probably Fnatic was partly on blame as organization but Nemesis and the rest of the team too.

The weirdo ruined it all on his own

How does the best lol content creator on YT still only have 15k subs? Give hazmat some love lads

I wanna see him on stage again :c

how do you pump out such long videos so often?

Would love to see him hop on to T1 academy with Rekkles since he was one of the only players on that Fnatic team that Nemesis actually got along with

i keep on reminding people that fnc released nft. so im really not shocked to find out that management is the main issue. i quite liked nemesis and would love to see him play again in an enviroment where he can thrive.

yo the like, Tenet music right off the bat got me on edge lmao

ending part was a worry for Nem. It seems like he just didn't believe in himself and had MASSIVE trust issues with anyone after 2020. He had multiply chance to go back into the scene but because he was backstabbed by fnatic, he just lost trust in everyone. Kept on second guessing everything and never tried to move on from his scars.

In the start of background chapter you meantioned correctly that he comes from Slovenia. However then you mention Ivana Trump who was not born and raised there but she was born in Gottwaldov (today's Zlín) in Czechia and then you mentioned that the town is based in Slovakia instead of Slovenia. 😁😁

how does this defend nemesis being a ”good player” coz rekkles said he is? he has mechanics but any soloQ player over master has those. and i havent seen this ”emotionless” nemesis he is a crybaby and makes every excuse possible to not have to do work on himself. only excuses its everyone elses fault but not his own incompitance. hope i never see him in proplay. lackluster at best

I think there was a really harsh silverlining in all this, Nemesis was getting replaced anyway, so Mithy thought he would be fine just abusing the shit out of Nemesis. Except Nemesis went to KR and actually became a much better player. 😂 without that push off the cliff, Nemesis couldn’t have spread his wings and flew up the KR ladder.

great video, watched nemesis react to it

Love your videos ❤

I remember watching worlds 2020 live and all I remember thinking from the fanatic game was "wow that was the most disconnected games I have ever seen" like idk how many times they would set up a gank and one of them just does literally nothing. I genuinely thought they were a good team but they just didn't play together at all

After the Thorin video about Leakers on Twitter I wouldnt take anything Wooloo says for granted as source in this video.

2:04, minor correction: Slovakia is not Slovenia. But other than that, very cool and informative video

It seems to me like Nemesis is miserable playing League but is stuck playing this game since his livelihood depends on it. Any time anything changes in the game he sounds like he would rather not have to learn anything new and risk losing his position as one of the most skilled midlane players.

Nemesis was a mid level Mid laner on a good team. He was never great, just hyped up. He plays Korean solo queue and people think that he is now a top 4 mid in the world…he isn’t. There is a reason why he doesn’t play professionally and it’s because that’ll get exposed and he won’t have a podium to stand on to get views anymore.

ls is the friend we all need

good video man!

The thing people dont understand about team sports is that systems can make or break individuals. You can have the raw skill to be a master class player but if the system of the team doesnt take advantage of your skills. You are way less efficient than you could be. Just because a skilled player doesnt perform on a team most of the time doesnt mean the player magically lost their skills. Most of the time, its just the system not using them properly.

"contesting top 4 mid laners in the lck" UAHSUHAUSUASHUAHSUHASUHAUSH

At this point I don't know whether we'll ever see Nemesis on a pro team again. He's supposedly not taking "bottom/mid tier" offers and I don't think any well established and well performing team would ever gamble on Nemesis after him not having played professionally for many years. He's probably in a rough spot where accepting any offer he gets probably cuts his salary, just for the chance of playing for a mid tier team that at best can contest for a worlds spot and if that isn't good enough for him, we'll likely never see him in pro play ever again. (all assumption bases on rumors/info and general consensus)

how did you get the clips from the deleted crackdown podcast episode ?

He ruined his own career with his big mouth and idiotic choices

I mean to say he had some bad games in the TES reverse sweep series feels like an understatement. He got gapped pretty fucking hard by Knight. That said I also don't think one series should define someone's entire career.

i thought it was just going to be clickbait. Glad i clicked it anyway. I wonder if we will ever see him in a professional team again. Maybe t1 acedamy has a spot XD

lmaooo dude hasnt been on a team since, maybe fnatic had issues sure, but his personality and ego is why no other team has signed him lmao

Yea, they ruined him. It's not like he's just been sitting out because he only wants to join a top team that already has a midlaner. He's had multiple opportunities to play again, and he chooses not to. He had 1 decent year and because he likes to talk about pro play, he keeps himself relevant

Loving the ads every 5 minutes, very cool

Lets be real. He was in bad situation for sure. I hate selfmade even more. Honestly worst player in Fnatic ever

I don't think Nemesis's overall dislikeablilty has much to do with the whole FNC thing or because people think that he's a "bad" player. Think a lot people (from the ones I've talked--> 40ish) plainly don't find him likeable at first sight/entertaining and find him very passive as a streamer/player (not that he necessarily IS a passive person (only his friends can know that), just that he might come off that way) and in the streaming world, that's enough for people to be "offput" to watch his stream and change the channel. Not trying to connect with viewers on somewhat of a personal level is also not a good streamer characteristic. Even though streamers aren't viewers' friends and will never be, there needs to be something for viewers to latch and hold on to and Nemesis seems to lack that or at least, not show it/not know what it is/what it could be. However, I can understand why people think he's toxic but I don't think it all stems from his pro player days but from his stream/overall appearance. It took me 20ish streams and talking to 40ish people to realize why I don't like him and that's when I stopped watching. Apart from the fact I couldn't find one thing to connect to (unlike when I started watching other league streamers (LS, Jankos, Dom, Rat, Pianta etc.)), it's just constant negativity on his stream. Don't get me wrong, I do think he's a great player but I'd rather watch a youtube vod of his gameplay than his stream because the only thing I've ever seen on his stream is talking shit about the game and how everyone's bad at it EXCEPT Him and if I wanted that, I'd just go play a ranked game with unmuted chat and get the exact same experience with a possibility of getting LP and achieving something/getting experience while playing which his stream doesn't provide. I understand everyone has a huge ego in this game and that most of the streamers are toxic, but when you combine the following things: he doesn't share anything about himself + when he does talk, it's just constant negativity + he's very passive, he comes off as an "egotistical bratty kid on a high horse that needs to be disciplined by his parents" and not a fun person to "hang out/be around/"spend time with"", certainly not an entertaining streamer you can relate to (at the veeeery least to a miniscule extent). Sure, other streamers like RatIRL talk shit too but you still know something about them non-game wise and "talking shit" is not their ENTIRE stream, it's like a periodical burst and there's always something in between those bursts that separates the shit talking and gives some breathing room from it. If I was Nemesis and I experienced drastic viewer loss (not sure where he currently stands), I would try streaming with some good music and no cam and maybe I'd have a better outcome and my awesome gameplay would shine instead of the toxicity/negativity.

regardless of how others viewed nemesis from personal experience he is imo one of the most talented league midlaners to play against.

I knew LS was a contoversial guy, but come on now he helped Nemesis and so many other. Don't think people understand the commitment and the emotional and financal sacrifice/risk LS made for Nemesis, he literaly went all out to show Nemesis-es full potencial but Nemesis didn't see it that way and didn't take the opportunitie. Btw I am Slovenian and I have played high elo Master-Challenger league of legends for 8 years now, so I'm not just a random talking, could of tried going pro, around the same time Nemesis did, but currently making more money in a stable business. This is just what I think. I don't have insides on everything that happend behind the scenes and we don't realy know Nemesis or LS or anyone else in thier personal lives so its hard to realy say who is to blame.

Great video

Loved how you start the video by saying facts in the first half, opinions in the second. Then 8 minutes in we begin to label players as "open-minded" and "narrow-minded" source: this is my opinion 😅. Great effort on the video! Did you see the interview with Dardo and Thorin that came out recently?

there's a lot of mistakes with the numbers, FNC lost to OG in spring. And their 2019 worlds run was top 8 instead of 6...

So many X players allegedly were handled wrong by X orgs but you don't see most players sit back and not trying to get on a team again. He's not competing because he chose it and not because of FNC. Just look at Perkz and Rekkles at G2, they ain't sitting around crying about it. FNC is such a shithole that if it wasn't for Perkzs contract which G2 fucked him over, he would have joined FNC back then and let's not forget that Rekkles was happy to go back to Fnatic TWICE. Nemesis got fucked by his weak mentality.

Hey! I love the effort you put in the video and as a slovenien i understand that there will be mistakes in speaking out the name of the city/village. But it is very important that you do not mix Slovenia with Slovakia, they are 2 completely different countries.

Good video, would love more source management though. A lot of your big statements felt like they weren't backed up with a source. Also, you might want to reconsider saying "I don't know" or "I don't remember" when making a video like this. You had the time to find the information, or if you didn't you can just say so. I'm personally having a hard time forming opinions after this video simply because a lot of the things you said were not backed by sources. GL in the future!

is this guy nemesis's lawyer? Top tier advocate, top tier spinning of a story.

Wow i havent heard the name travian in so long i grew up playing that shortly before i came across League in season 2...forgot all about that game

LS and the Cook, greatest goats of all time. That Cook must've had some fucking psychology degree or someshit ong

Fantastic video

I never got why so many people were and are flaming Nemesis, i always thought he was a relativly good player when he was on the team even making some insane calls and outplays. Of course we never truelly know what goes on inside the Orgs. but its not something i wanted for him

Maybe this will finally convince everyone and nemesis to give pro scene another try

I watch Broxah's content and he is always upbeat, anti-toxic, and very positive streamer/gamer. Whenever I see Nemesis talking about anything he is negative, cynical and critical.

22:26 excuse me? Sylas, Nidallie, Renekton? All have massive healing.

Would love to see Rekkles and Nemesis reunite in T1 Challenger lol

He might be this insane play every champ guy now but,back then he definetly wasn't.He had champion pool issues and he always chose to play the safe scaling mids. He was not the guy that would lock in Sylas or Akali and 1v9 like Caps. Also climbing korean soloq doesn't mean hes top 4 LCK mid cmon,soloq is a different thing. But he would for sure be top 3 mid in the current LEC so, it sucks that hes not there when he actually seems to have expanded his champ pool a lot.