FLY Cryogen: “I get a lot of comments about how much of a normie I am.”
Interview conducted after FLY’s Swiss Stage loss to C9, Feb 8th, 2026.
Q: Despite how competitive the first two games were, Game 3 looked pretty miserable. It seemed really tilting, from the outside — how frustrating is a loss like that?
Cryogen: Don’t know. I can’t really get to that point — I played pretty bad in that series. You get tilted when you play good and lose, but you can’t be tilted [after that]. I didn’t really have a good showing, so I can’t really get mad at anyone but myself.
Q: Do you count that feeling as tilt, or is that something different?
Cryogen: I count that as tilt, but other than that … It’s nothing you can’t fix. It’s not out of my control. It’s definitely in my control, how I perform, so it’s not something I’m super tilted about. But, obviously, I’m pretty upset.
Q: FLY is obviously doing a lot better, right now, than most expected. At this point, are we aiming for the title already?
Cryogen: Yeah. I mean, definitely going for the title’s in the back of my mind. I’d say personally, I need to brush up a lot on a lot of talking to Gryffinn in-game, and how we run the map. As a jungle-support, I think that’s something I can definitely work on.
But, going into playoffs, the loss wasn’t really … It was, I guess, the most reasonable loss we could’ve had —against C9. I’d say Vulcan is probably the best support right now. If we do play against him again, I want to get back before then and clean up a lot of the mistakes we had today.
Q: Do you feel like your aggressive, enchanter-focused style emulates Keria? It feels very reminiscent.
Cryogen: Um, I think a lot of it depends on the situation. Sometimes [I’m inting], but I’d say for the most part, I know my limits pretty well when I’m playing enchanter champions. Obviously, the second game, I kind of overstepped that one Dragon fight against Azir when he shuffled us.
I wouldn’t say I mimic Keria, but I feel like knowing your limits on your champion is something I’m pretty good at.
Q: The reason it comes to mind, honestly, is the shared champion pool. Even in Tier 2 and 3, engage support players are far more common.
Cryogen: Yeah, I mean, I’d say there is a bit of a lack of supports being able to play enchanters. A lot of professional supports just play a lot of the melee’s, like Nautilus, Alistar — I’d say Vulcan is a lot more comfortable on his melee champs as well, this series. But yeah, I think I’m very comfortable on enchanters, and I definitely need to work on my melee supports.
Q: How do you actually practice getting better at those characters? How do you decide when to use scrim time on melees vs enchanters?
Cryogen: I think it just depends, like, on the comp, but yeah, in scrims you can always opt into certain champions if you want to practice. Also, you can practice a lot of solo queue [to learn] champion interactions and stuff like that.
I think it comes down, a lot, to how much effort you really want to put in. I prioritize — when it comes to learning a champion — I think it’s a good idea to prioritize the quality that you put in, rather than the amount of games you actually put in.
Q: Are you trying to stream primarily games of melee supports? I saw you playing Alistar on stream yesterday.
Cryogen: Not exactly, but I am pretty conscious of what I want to play in solo queue, especially recently — just trying to get better at the champions that I want to get better at.
Q: How has the roommate experience been with Massu and Gryffinn?
Cryogen: I mean, it’s pretty chill. Massu has his own master bedroom. He doesn’t really bother anyone at night. He’s a pretty good roommate.
Gryffinn and I share a bathroom, and it’s pretty chill — for the most part. And then, you know, sometimes at night I’ll just hear him screaming to himself, or talking to himself, about some — I don’t even know.
Either to himself, or he’s on the phone with someone — or, I remember, one time he was reading his old DMs with a girl and he was cringing, and he started screaming in his room. To himself.
Q: Like, on a call?
Cryogen: No, [just] to himself.
Q: It feels like he’s running a bit at all times, but it seems like that’s his actual personality.
Cryogen: Just who he is. I think he’s a very charismatic person. He just kinda lacks a filter sometimes. You saw the interview today.
Q: Yeah, and he keeps trying to grab the mic — and it’s always the weirdest way to hold a mic.
Cryogen: Yeah, I remember — dude, before the interview started, I was like, “Gryffinn, make sure you don’t hold the filter. Hold the actual handle.” He was like, “What do you mean?” And I was like, “You did it last time, too.”
And then I watched the interview, and he did it again. It’s just like, “Dude…”
Q: Since you share a bathroom, is one of you cleaner than the other?
Cryogen: I mean, we’re pretty clean, for the most part. We’re good at taking turns, you know? There’s not really a point where we’re fighting over the bathroom, but I think we’re pretty clean for the most part. I’d say I’m probably a bit cleaner, but it’s not a big deal.
Q: You seem like a really normal guy. Have you ever heard this?
Cryogen: I get that a lot actually, especially after I [went pro]. In my free time? I don’t really play video games. I just go out a lot.
Q: What do you do when you go out?
Cryogen: Usually I’ll hang out with friends or we’ll go — like, I was in Vietnam last month, before I came to LA. So I was going every single night. We were going karaoke, there was clubbing. There’s like a lot of stuff you can do in Vietnam.
Q: With family or with friends?
Cryogen: It was family and friends.
I used to play a lot of games [when I was younger] — I’d say I used to be a really big home person, just staying inside. But, eventually, I just got bored of every single game, and the only game I play now is League.
So, in my free time, I try to not just [sit inside] — well, obviously sometimes, I can’t control it — but I try not to stare at my screen all day in my free time.
I like going out a lot. I get — especially from other FLY people, when we’re in the office — I get a lot of comments about how much of a normie I am compared to other people.
Q: What did you do in high school?
Cryogen: No, I was, until my senior year, running track and cross country. And then, we also had an esports team at my high school, so I was kinda leading that one too.
Also, during high school, I was really studious. I was studying a lot — I’d say every single night. I had, like, a 3.9, 3.8ish in high school. So I did a lot of extracurriculars in terms of sports, and then in my free time, I studied a lot. I didn’t really have much time for anything else.
Q: What did you run on the track team?
Cryogen: Yeah. I ran the 3200 [meters]. I don’t even remember my time, but my one mile time was like seven or eight. I wasn’t that fast, but I used to be a really fat kid — so it was pretty good for how fat I was in high school.
When I was younger, in high school, I was pretty chunky. I lost like 30 pounds running.
Q: Any final message for fans?
Cryogen: I think today was a good learning experience and it wasn’t really a good representation of what we’re capable of. We’re going to use this day [to learn], and we’re going to come back in playoffs, stronger.
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