Dallas Fuel Star Taimou Reveals His Recent Mentality Struggles
By Zac Cameron ·
With the recent roster adjustments for the Dallas Fuel hitting the streets, one of their more popular stars has come clean about his mental struggles.
One of the more popular and well known figures in the Overwatch League, Timo “Taimou” Kettunen has recently come out on Twitter to talk about his struggles with maintaining a positive attitude in the face of his team’s recent issues.
2. I finally realized that I'm just letting negativity destroy my life. I am a very pessimistic persona and super self critical, so on stream and on stage these days especially I feel like every time I'm about to mess up or make a bad play I already feel so bad
— Timo Kettunen (@DF_Taimou) April 16, 2018
4. I know I can fix it. I just need to stop thinking about these things and focus what's more important. Most importantly it's for me to enjoy the game and have fun in it sometimes, I feel like that makes me a much better player. Being scared to make mistakes fucked me up.
— Timo Kettunen (@DF_Taimou) April 16, 2018
6. I think if I enjoy game, stop caring about being washed up. Yea I might be washed up but it doesn't mean I'm gone or helpless. I have my 2 hands that used to be so fucking good at communicating with my brain and I know they can still be.
— Timo Kettunen (@DF_Taimou) April 16, 2018
7. I think I want to say that I am very sorry to all of my fans for performance issues, how I've appeared in public and how I've treated you since the start of OWL.
— Timo Kettunen (@DF_Taimou) April 16, 2018
You deserve better, I deserve better.
Taimou was a hugely anticipated player in the Overwatch League, due to his incredible skill at the game. His personal skill was so high that he was often accused of hacking, something which took quite a while and a lot of evidence to disprove. When it came time to perform on the main stage, however, the Taimou that was so feared did not seem to show up, instead struggling to maintain pace with the other DPS mains of the league, and ultimately making the decision to role-swap to the main tank position during stage 2. With the recent news that the Dallas Fuel have removed Kim “Rascal” Dong-jun from the squad, and Brandon “Seagull” Larned stepping up to the off-tank position, it seems that Taimou will be getting his time to shine in the DPS spotlight once more.
With the Dallas Fuel’s record sitting so low, it will take a lot of work for the team to reclaim the heights of their glory days, when they were Team Envy, but if Taimou can regain his form, then nothing is impossible for the team that has already faced so many hardships.
For more Overwatch League news, check out our coverage of the Dallas Fuels decision to part ways with their main DPS and Head Coach, here, and for more on when the teams of the Overwatch League face off again, check out the Official Schedule page, here.
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