Brollan on Joining HEROIC: "I Needed Something Refreshing"

After a year and a half as MOUZ's in-game leader, Ludvig "Brollan" Brolin is a rifler again — now for HEROIC. At his first LAN with the new team, the 24-year-old Swede gave HLTV his first big interview since the move and laid it all out: how MOUZ broke the news, why HEROIC won out over the other options, and what a single week of practice together actually feels like.

How MOUZ let Brollan go

No drama in the Swede's telling — the club simply presented him with a decision.

"MOUZ basically said they were going to go other ways and wanted to do an announcement around me. I really just accepted it and tried to move on from it," Brollan said.

Then came the market — and it was cooler than you might expect for a player of his name.

"I had some interest from other teams, but they wanted to go for another player, or some teams didn't have the budget for it," the Swede admitted.

The move was part of MOUZ's big summer rebuild: Jimpphat left alongside Brollan, and last week the lineup was completed by the return of academy graduate PR.

Why HEROIC

"When HEROIC came with the offer, I think it was a really good fit for me, and that was what I basically needed: something refreshing," Brollan explained.

Part of that refresh is the role change. At MOUZ the Swede spent eighteen months combining rifling with in-game leadership; at HEROIC, Chr1zN makes the calls and Brollan is back to pure rifling — life without the calling duties, in his own words, is simply more chill.

First LAN: six days of practice and discipline

The HEROIC lineup came together a week before the event — and it shows. Brollan doesn't hide behind excuses, but he is honest about the conditions:

"We have no practice room, basically, so it's pretty hard to adapt and try to come up with new things mid-tournament. And we didn't have a lot of practice at home — we only had six days, or maybe five. But you need to accept that it's like this."

It is Brollan's first tier-two LAN since 2022, and he sees the main challenge within himself rather than across the server:

"I came from a really structured team where we knew exactly how to play things, and now it's maybe a little bit more rusty. I'm trying to have more discipline myself, maybe less frustration in these hectic situations — it's a learning process and we take it game by game."

Despite a scrappy series against Phantom, HEROIC reached the upper bracket final at the event — more than respectable for a team with a week of stage time.

What comes next

On his new captain, the Swede is encouraging but clear-eyed:

"Chr1zN has huge potential, but you can easily see that maybe a little bit is different between tier-one and tier-two. He will just try to learn as much as possible, probably with doto as well," Brollan assessed.

HEROIC's schedule is packed: right after the current event the team heads to BLAST Bounty, where the new lineup faces opposition a tier up. Follow this and the rest of the summer's moves in the esblitz transfer feed.