Puppey: 'Being a Dota captain gives you experience for life'
After his 4th StarLadder StarSeries win, Na'Vi captain Puppey talks about Wisp, personal insight on life and his motivation to play Dota.
Here is an excerpt from the interview:
You told me you wanted to talk about your match preparation. It was a 1 day practice, what was it about?
What was it about? It was one day of practice! There you go guys. Actually we played Wisp the whole day. Now we end up playing Wisp. But before Dreamhack or any other tournament we couldn't play Wisp and everybody was saying 'Why do you pick Wisp, you can't play him!'. Now we trained one day and we now have a bigger pool of heroes we can play with, like Nerubian(/Nyx) Assassin. Anyway, 1 day of practice, win StarLadder *smiles*.
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After TI2, a lot of people have been talking about motivation and whether you still have it. What is your definition of "motivation" in life and Dota?
In Dota, motivation is a bit different for me. If someone says they are much better than we are, even though we are not practicing, I will just want to destroy them, because you don't want to say that. If you say that and I win against you, look at how stupid your faces will look. That is so enjoyable. That is the motivation I get. However, if teams keep being professional, I don't really care. [...]
Source: Na'Vi Gaming on YouTube
Here is an excerpt from the interview:
You told me you wanted to talk about your match preparation. It was a 1 day practice, what was it about?
What was it about? It was one day of practice! There you go guys. Actually we played Wisp the whole day. Now we end up playing Wisp. But before Dreamhack or any other tournament we couldn't play Wisp and everybody was saying 'Why do you pick Wisp, you can't play him!'. Now we trained one day and we now have a bigger pool of heroes we can play with, like Nerubian(/Nyx) Assassin. Anyway, 1 day of practice, win StarLadder *smiles*.
[...]
After TI2, a lot of people have been talking about motivation and whether you still have it. What is your definition of "motivation" in life and Dota?
In Dota, motivation is a bit different for me. If someone says they are much better than we are, even though we are not practicing, I will just want to destroy them, because you don't want to say that. If you say that and I win against you, look at how stupid your faces will look. That is so enjoyable. That is the motivation I get. However, if teams keep being professional, I don't really care. [...]
Source: Na'Vi Gaming on YouTube
