SaintDeLucaz on the end of his career: “I’ve completely stopped playing Dota seriously and am focusing on business.”

I felt back then that the meta might have required a lot of farming. And that’s exactly when my mechanical skill dropped off significantly. I was also under a lot of stress: I think a new coach had joined the team around that time.

At that point, I was experiencing severe burnout. Even before I was kicked, I’d told the manager that I wanted to leave. In the end, I was kicked, even though I was already planning to leave anyway. I tried to keep going—owljan was cheering me on—and then—bam—I was kicked. Wow, that’s how it goes.

But if you think about it, the reason was the meta, which made me look weaker, plus burnout and accumulated fatigue. Apparently, I really wasn’t playing well back then, and Mikoto came in as my replacement—he was much better.

Anyway, after that came the RRQ streak, and I completely stopped playing Dota seriously and focused on business. I opened a tailor shop and ran it for a few months—maybe half a year—but I found it very difficult to move forward. Around that time, I started trying out other games.