m0NESY: "Maybe sometimes kyousuke overthinks and he thinks that he's forced to say something, to always do something"

"The most important thing on this level — it's going to sound weird — but I think to remember the basics that you have learned from the beginning of CS," Ilya "⁠m0NESY⁠" Osipov told HLTV on the media day at IEM Beijing.

It's kind of how to play off your teammate, how to support him. Analyze as fast as you can how to play in the situation: you should either swing here or you should not.

We shouldn't really overthink it too much." The Russian sniper also spoke about Maksim "⁠kyousuke⁠" Lukin 's dip in form, stating that he hasn't seen it dip in practice or on FACEIT.

"And maybe sometimes he overthinks and he thinks that he's forced to say something, to always do something. But everything that he needs, most of the time, is to just focus on his crosshair and be himself." Watch the interview here .

A couple of weeks off for you since Thunderpick, so what's the mentality like coming into this event after your exit over there? Mentality, personally, I always come to the tournament, I would say, very confident.

Obviously, there are a lot of good teams, and there are a lot of teams that we can win and lose against.