FLY Massu on Worlds 2025 and why it felt like "walking on eggshells" in the team

For the past two years, Massu has been a bright spot in the North American League of Legends. After making his LCS debut at the start of the LCS 2024 season, he has already achieved results that many pro players never come close to reaching. With three domestic trophies and a quarterfinal finish at Worlds 2024 under his belt, Massu is a well-established presence in the LCS.

Yet, despite all of his accomplishments in League of Legends, Massu recognizes that there is so much more to being great at the game.

What Goes Up Must Come Down

FlyQuest LTA Championship 2025

In Massu’s rookie season, he and FlyQuest established themselves as top contenders in the North American region, where they represented the LCS well with a remarkable top-eight finish at Worlds 2024.

Heading into 2025, the team made zero changes to its lineup. Domestically, the team was able to maintain their spot atop North America, followed by a strong 5th-6th place showing at MSI 2025. However, Worlds 2025 saw FlyQuest look like a shell of its former self.

For Massu a big part of the team’s struggles at the end of the LoL 2025 season came from “a lack of initiative” on his part.

“At Worlds, I feel like that lacked and I feel like a big part of that was definitely on me, as well as all of us on the team,” Massu said. “My big takeaway for this year in general is to take more initiative in and out of the game to make sure everyone on the team could trust each other.”

He shared that there were moments when taking initiative as a teammate, both in and out of the game, was a key factor in maintaining a strong team's overall health. While FlyQuest was winning against its North American competition, problems began to develop internally, leading to an environment where it felt like “walking on eggshells”.

“It’s important to have conversations with your team when you feel things are tensing up or too emotional early on,” Massu said. “That buildup over time made it feel like you are walking on eggshells in the team. I feel that if I had taken more responsibility to talk with everyone and let everyone voice their opinions, the tension would have at least disappeared a bit.”

For Massu, being a great teammate means communicating your thoughts to your team. Outside of the game, it is fleshing out important conversations before they become something bigger. Inside Summoner’s Rift, it’s all about asserting what he needs from the team to perform.

“In-game, whenever I’m in a position to carry or when I’m in a position to make a difference in the game, I should tell my team what I need from them and what I can do with the advantages I have to carry to the game,” Massu said.

Going into the LCS 2026 season, there are only two members from the 2025 iteration of FlyQuest returning. As a result, expectations will be “different” at the start compared to their LCS-winning lineup the past two years. Yet, the silver lining in all of this change lies in the ability to “assert himself” more within a new team.

“I think it’s easier to be assertive and have these conversations with a new team because everything is more malleable,” Massu said. “They are not as set in stone with their ideas.”

Becoming a Leader for FlyQuest

The new core philosophy of FlyQuest is centered around developing up-and-coming talent at the LCS level. As a result, Massu’s goals going into his third year of the LCS are different compared to those in the past. Instead of solely focusing on his own game, the responsibility of becoming a leader within the team is something that really excited him about the 2026 season.

“I learned that you need to kind of lead rookies in a direction and let them develop their ideas to really understand why they are doing what they are doing, and go from there,” Massu said. “That’s what I want to try and do for this team and the responsibility I want to take on.”

Just a few years ago, Massu was in the same exact shoes as his new teammates on FlyQuest. He was an up-and-coming talent looking to prove that he belonged at the top of North America. Now, after establishing himself as one of the league’s top botlaners, he is ready to use that experience and help rebuild another era of greatness at FlyQuest.

“I’m really looking forward to this year,” Massu said. “I hope a lot of people know that this will be a very different team from the last two years, but I think we have a lot of great pieces and we can do a lot.”

FlyQuest’s first match of the LCS 2026 season will be against Shopify Rebellion on January 24, 2026. It will be interesting to see if this new iteration of FlyQuest can find similar success to last year despite all the changes.

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