Vitality drops League of Legends veteran, Selfmade, ahead of LEC Summer Split
League of Legends LEC regulars, Team Vitality, have benched their jungle starter Oskar ‘Selfmade’ Boderek, just one week before the Summer Split.
June 6 saw the French team announce the bring-in of Kang ‘Haru’ Min-seung, and Zhou ‘Bo’ Yang-Bo as jungle replacements for Selfmade. They also officially announced the appointment of their new assistant coach Đorđe ‘Spale’ Spasić.
Haru, a 24-year-old South Korean jungler, previously played for top League of Legends teams all over the world like T1, Gen.G, and Hanwha Life. In June 2022, he joined Vitality from the British team X7 Esports after competing in the last NLC split. Haru will be accompanied by his substitute Chinese jungler, Bo, who came in from FunPlus Phoenix this summer as a promising young prospect.
The team will be aiming towards performing well in the upcoming Summer Split with a decent roster behind the screens.
In their announcement, Vitality officials quoted a change in approach to the team's gameplan in the upcoming competitive scene as the key reason for dropping Selfmade from the squad. The team's head coach Louis-Victor ‘Mephisto’ Legendre stated,
Vitality signed Selfmade last year, on May 26, after his long and successful Fnatic journey. The French side had also roped-in other big League of Legends names in the likes of Matyáš ‘Carzzy’ Orság, Luka ‘Perkz’ Perković and Barney ‘Alphari’ Morris in 2021, but unfortunately, did not live up to the fans' expectations.
In the 2022 LEC Spring Split, Vitality finished 5th in the regular season after losing 9 out of 18 games. They ended their season at 5th, after losng 3-0 to G2 in the lower-bracket playoffs.
Mephisto ended his farewell greetings to Selfmade by stating,
Selfmade played his last international tournament
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