Loona began her competitive career fairly recently after transitioning to PC from console a year ago and playing the last season of Challenger League on InFact. Following this, she joined the Australian Pro League team of Avant Gaming just prior to the start of Season 9. Currently, after eight (of fourteen) maps played, the team sits in the fifth position with a 3-1-4 win-draw-loss record a whole six points off of a LAN qualification spot.
With Goddess currently playing on Elephant Gang in the Challenger League after being dropped from Team Reciprocity at the beginning of the season, this makes Loona the sole female player in R6, with her fellow Australians of Uyen “uyen” Pham (the Mindfreak coach), and Jessica “Jess” Bolden (the PENTA analyst) making up the remaining female Pro League members. As such, and since she was at the Six Invitational in support of her boyfriend, the Fnatic player of Jake "Virtue" Grannan, we caught up with her to ask about her experience in R6 and her opinions on the recently announced balancing changes:
What is your impression of the Six Invitational as an event?
The Six Invitational stage via @mjayx_
So how have you found the first half of the Pro League as a player?
The statistics from Avant Gaming vs 0RGL3SS mentioned above
There’s obviously a lot of issues women face coming into playing games, have you ran into issues as a player either before or after becoming a pro?
We’ve seen some quite remarkable clips from your games, so if you were to pit yourself against Virtue, who wins?
Kaid and Nomad are about to join the Pro League. What do you think about them, and will they be dominant?
In terms of the balancing changes recently announced which ones really stand out to you?
Other than Fnatic which teams stood out to you at this event?
The Fnatic roster via @AcezProduction. From left to right: Lusty, Acez, Virtue, RizRaz and Magnet.
Do you have any messages to any fans for the support you’ve received up to this point?
I don’t think I have any fans yet. I mean, maybe. To people that root for us, thank you, we appreciate it, I especially need it because I need confidence boosts all the time, but that’s it. Thank you for having me!
--- Loona’s next game will be against Mindfreak on March 14th as they aim to secure their spot in Season 10 of the Pro League. Watch the action on the rainbow6anz Twitch account from 7 PM AEDT (GMT+11) onwards. You can check out our interview with her fellow ANZ player and boyfriend, Virtue, below, and be sure to keep an eye out here at SiegeGG for more interviews and Six Invitational content!