[HLTV] NIKO: "I FEEL LIKE THE MOST COMPLETE PLAYER IN MY CAREER
Nikola "NiKo" Kovač feels he has reached his career-peak as a player, and is proud of it.
When all is said and done and we have moved on to CS2, NiKo may well go down as the greatest rifler CS:GO ever saw. Despite his immense talent and superlative ability, he hasn't always been able to win the trophies his individual level may have deserved.
当csgo的赛事即将结束，cs2即将开始的时候，NiKo很可能会成为csgo有史以来最伟大的步枪。尽管他有惊人的天赋和卓越的能力，但他并不总是能够赢得他个人应得的奖杯。
In recent times G2 have managed to bulk out NiKo's resume with some impressive tournament wins, and now, having secured IEM Cologne to go with the Katowice trophy they won earlier in the year, the Bosnian rifler has added one more title to his cabinet.
最近，G2设法以一些令人印象深刻的胜利来充实Niko的简历，现在在确保了IEM科隆的和年初的卡托维兹奖杯之后，这位波斯尼亚的步枪手在他的展柜上又增加了一个冠军。
Fresh from securing a trophy that eluded him for so long, NiKo sat down with HLTV to give his thoughts on the historic victory, his development as a player, and his opinions on his AWPer and IGL.
NiKo刚刚获得了一个与他失之交臂很久的奖杯，他与HLTV坐下来谈了他对这场历史性胜利的看法，他作为一名选手的发展，以及他对自己的AWPer和IGL的看法。
just tell me how you’re feeling after winning that one?
能先告诉我在赢得了科隆冠军之后的感觉吗？
Feeling amazing. Winning the last IEM Cologne in CS:GO is going to have a big place in my heart, I’m really happy that we managed to do this. It took me quite some time to win both Katowice and Cologne, and I’m happy it happened in the end.
感觉很神奇。在csgo中赢得最后一个IEM科隆将会在我心中占据重要的位置，我真的很高兴我们能做到。我花了相当长的时间赢得卡托维兹和科隆，我很高兴最终拿下了。
Tell me a little bit about the journey from Katowice to here. Obviously you had the Major and things like that, how impressed are you that you managed to stick together and come through that period?
告诉我一点关于从卡托到这边的旅程吧，很明显你经过了Major和一些低迷的时期，你对团队一起度过的那个时期有多深刻的印象？
It hasn’t been easy. After the Paris Major we definitely were in a down period, and we all felt… no one was happy and satisfied obviously with the results, there’s no doubt, but I think we just have created a system that can win us the championships.
那个时候并不容易，在巴黎Major之后我们确实低迷了一段时间，那时候我们感觉……很明显没人会对那样的结果感到开心，但我认为我们只是创造了一个可以为我们赢得冠军的体系。
To be honest coming to this tournament, we did not come thinking we were going to go to the final and win in such a fashion, but we took it one game at a time and one round at a time, we just kept improving from each game. Every game was us doing better and better, building up the confidence, and being there for each other. By every game that we won we believed in ourselves even more, you believe in your teammate next to you.
老实说，来到这个锦标赛，我们并没有想到我们会以这样的方式进入决赛并获胜，但我们一场一场地比赛，一轮一轮地比赛，我们只是从每场比赛中不断进步。每一场比赛都使我们做得越来越好，建立信心，并互相支持。通过每一场我们赢得的比赛，我们更加相信我们自己，相信旁边的队友。
I’m really proud of everyone in the team for this event, and I don’t care if we go to Riyad and lose in groups the next event, or even Pro League. Winning Katowice and Cologne is something that not many players have managed to achieve, in one year at least, so I’m happy for the whole team and really proud, including the whole staff behind us, not just the players. Everyone has put a lot of effort and work in, and yeah I’m happy that we are here today laughing and celebrating.
我真的为这个队伍中的每个人感到骄傲，我不在乎我们是否会在利或者是EPL输掉比赛。至少在一年内赢得卡托维兹和科隆是没有多少选手能够做到的事情，所以我为整个团队感到高兴和自豪，包括我们背后的所有工作人员。每个人都付出了很多努力和工作。
Winning an MVP is a great thing, but I'm just much more proud of myself, how I finally developed as a player
Nikola "NiKo" Kovač
What about individually, as well? I think it’s your first HLTV LAN MVP for like 1300 days, something crazy, how much importance to you give to this MVP?
那么关于你自己呢？我觉得这是你应该是这1300天来的第一个HLTV LAN MVP，这有点疯狂，对于你来说拿到这个MVP有多重要？
It’s been a long time since I managed to achieve this. It was just hard, ever since I joined G2 we had hard times against NAVI, s1mple was in his prime, so it was always hard to play versus them, but I never really thought about how to win an MVP, rather just how to win a trophy for the team, for the players, for the organization. That was the same today, the goal was just for me to help the team as much as I can, share my experience from the past that I have. I think that now I probably feel like the most complete player in my career in this moment, so I'm really happy and proud of myself for it. Winning an MVP is a great thing, but I'm just much more proud of myself, how I finally developed as a player.
我已经很久没有拿到MVP了，这很难，从我加入G2开始，我们经历了与NAVI的艰难对抗，那时候s1mple正值巅峰，所以那时候总是很难与他们对抗，不过我真的从没有想过去怎么拿下一个MVP，只是想着要怎么为了队伍，为了我的队友们，为了这个团队拿下奖杯，今天也是一样，我的目标只是尽我所能帮助队伍，分享我过去的经验。我想现在我可能觉得自己是职业生涯中最完美的选手之一，所以我真的很开心，也为自己感到骄傲。赢得MVP是一件很棒的事情，但是我更为自己我是如何最终成长为一名这样的选手而感到骄傲。
Tell me a bit about how your role has developed. This aggressive rifler role is easy to be inconsistent in, how did you get into such a flow state this tournament? I think you had the same deaths-per-round as m0NESY, which in your role is crazy. Tell me about that.
告诉我一点你的定位是如何发展的。这种侵略性的步枪角色很容易不稳定，你在这场比赛中是如何进入这样一种流畅状态的？我认为你和m0NESY有同样的每回合死亡数，这在你的职能里是很疯狂的。跟我说说。
It’s very tough, it’s hard for me to stay consistent in this role because a lot depends on the maps. On some maps I'm not in the position to shine, on some maps I have to sacrifice more, on some maps the team are playing more around me. It's hard to keep up the same numbers right now, but I think that I kinda mastered my role, mastered the positions that I am playing in. Obviously there is always room for improvement, but I'm now just really happy with how consistent I am as a player as well. The past six-seven months haven’t been that good for me, so I just started thinking about improvements, how I can be a better player and teammate.
这很难，对我来说很难在比赛里保持一致的角色定位，因为这取决于我们玩的是什么图，在一些地图上，我不在闪耀的位置上，在一些地图上，我不得不牺牲更多，在一些地图上，队伍围绕着我进行对战。现在很难保持同样的数字，但我认为我有点掌握了我的角色，掌握了我所扮演的位置。显然总有提高的空间，但我现在真的很高兴自己作为一名选手也能保持稳定。过去的六七个月对我来说并不好，所以我开始思考如何改进，如何成为一名更好的选手和队友。
This season at least, or the last two events, I am definitely doing much better, I feel much better individually. I think that mostly comes from my calmness, I think I am very calm right now and probably that’s why I have maybe less deaths, I don’t try to force things sometimes, I am just taking it a bit more… passive maybe, sometimes if I got two or three kills I would go for four, but now I rather maybe sit back, chill a bit, breathe. I think that's the biggest difference that I have made in this off-season.
这个赛季至少，或者说最近的两个比赛内，我确实做得比以前更好，我感觉这样子很好，我认为这主要来自于我的冷静，我认为我现在非常冷静，可能这就是为什么我的死亡可能更少，我有时不试图强迫自己做更多事情，我现在就有些……循序渐进的感觉吧，有时如果我杀了两三个，我会去试着杀第四个，但现在我宁愿坐下来，放松一下，深呼吸。我认为这是我在这个休赛期中最大的改变。
Sometimes m0NESY tries to play a bit passive and play for the team, but he needs to take responsibility and show the world, and we need to play around him
Nikola "NiKo" Kovač
What about in the arena itself? hunter- got the MVP at Katowice, m0NESY got the MVP at BLAST, and it was kind of the playoffs where you lost that MVP. What was different this time round in the arena.
For me, I don’t feel like that I played worse in the playoffs because of the crowd or anything like that, there also hasn’t been too many playoffs that I struggled in, right? There’s no doubt that my performance hasn’t been up to the expectations in playoffs, but I think that was just something temporary. If you look at my past events in my career, like three, four, five years ago, I never struggled in playoffs, maybe sometimes I might struggle in the final. Sometimes its very hard to perform in such important games in the roles I am playing in. Overall I don’t think too much about playoffs or anything, I think it was just something temporary. I think now with doing really good at Cologne, and also I think I did fine in Dallas, Washington, all these events, I’m not too worried about it. I’m looking forward to getting back onto stage again.
对我来说，我并不觉得我在季后赛中表现得很差，我也没有太多的季后赛经历，对吧？毫无疑问，我在季后赛中的表现没有达到预期，但我认为这只是暂时的。如果你看看我职业生涯中过去的事件，比如三年、四年、五年前，我从来没有在季后赛中挣扎过，也许有时候我可能会在决赛中挣扎。有时候很难在重要的比赛中扮演我所扮演的角色。总的来说，我不会过多考虑季后赛或其他的，我认为这只是暂时的。我认为现在我在科隆做得很好，我也认为我在达拉斯、华盛顿做得很好，所有的比赛我都不会对自己的发挥过于担忧。我只是期待着可以再次回到舞台上。
What about m0NESY, it was obviously very close in terms of the MVP race, what was it like playing with him this event?
那么m0NESY呢，从MVP的角度来看，你们之间的差距十分微小，和他一起比赛是什么感觉？
He has been amazing. He won us the Ancient game, if it wasn’t for him maybe we would be playing Vertigo now, the map that I hate the most, so he has been amazing. It’s crazy that he can display such a performance in such an arena whilst being 18 years old, he has a lot to prove to everyone, he’s way better than his numbers are showing right now and he just needs more experience and trust in himself, that he can always go for the moves and crazy plays, that’s where he shines. Sometimes he tries to play a bit passive and play for the team, but he needs to take responsibility and show the world, and we need to play around him. I think that’s what he did really good this event on most of the maps, and this event should definitely help him develop more as a player, and as a person as well. I think you can see the development and how he has evolved as a player ever since he joined G2. I think here’s no stopping him.
他太棒了。他为我们赢得了 Ancient，如果不是他，也许我们现在正在玩我最讨厌的地图Vertigo了，所以他一直很棒。18岁的他能在这样一个舞台上展示这样的表现真是太疯狂了，他有很多东西要向每个人证明，他比现在他的数据显示的要好得多，他只是需要更多的经验和对自己的信任，他总是可以采取行动和疯狂的打法，这就是他引人注目的地方。有时候他试图打得更团队一些，但是他需要承担责任，我们也需要陪着他。我认为这就是他在大部分地图上做得非常好的原因，这个比赛肯定可以帮助他成长为一个好的选手，成长为一个好人（）。我想你可以看到自从他加入G2以来，作为一名选手的发展和进步。我想没有什么能阻止他。
Everyone should look up to HooXi that wants to become an IGL, he’s a great captain overall and great player that everyone should respect now
Nikola "NiKo" Kovač
On HooXi – it feels like he’s got his mojo back, would you describe it the same?
对于HooXi——感觉他重新找回了他的魔力，你也会这样形容他吗？
Yeah, he has been really amazing this event, he has proved a lot of people wrong. I think he is a leader that a lot of IGLs should look up to, he is doing a lot of things for the team and doing a lot of the right things. Really happy and proud of him, and as I said everyone should look up to him that wants to become an IGL, he’s a great captain overall and great player that everyone should respect now.
是的，他在这个比赛上真的很了不起，他已经证明了很多人是错的。我认为他是一个领导者，许多igl都应该尊敬他，他为队伍做了很多事情，做了很多正确的事情。我真的为他感到高兴和骄傲，正如我所说的，每个想成为IGL人的人都应该尊敬他，他是一个伟大的队长和选手，现在每个人都应该尊敬他。
