Perkziva: ‘Gusto Ko Ma-Experience Na Ako Naman’

There is a silence reserved for substitutes.

It’s the thunderous silence that lingers long after you win a championship, gnawing at your core, asking whether you’ve truly become something… or if you were only there to fill the space.

For two seasons, this was Perkziva’s world on Team Liquid. The team kept winning: Season 15, MSC, Season 16. The meta shifted. The league moved forward. And he remained on the bench. Present, professional, patient.

He says he was happy. But there was always that soft and persistent question: When is it my turn?

“Para sa akin, parang iyon po yung lowest point ng career ko,” Perkziva tells ALL-STAR. But it wasn’t because they were losing. It was the cruel math of success: a winning roster rarely changes.

And he understood that.

“Gumana po kasi yung roster… understandable kasi gumana po yung team eh.”

Every time Team Liquid won, this editor would look for Perkziva to congratulate him. There was always a hesitation in his smile, as if he wasn’t quite sure he deserved it.

So he decided to leave the world’s most decorated MLBB esports team at the end of M7. 

“Sobrang saya ko kasi sobrang dali kausap ni Ate Mitch,” he says, referring to Mitch Liwanag, Team Liquid’s head of esports. 

“Nung sinabi kong gusto ko maghanap ng teams after M7, tinulungan talaga niya ako makahanap ng team, at nakalipat agad ako. Sobrang dali.”

Perkziva Finally Leaves the Bench

After M7, he made a decision familiar to many players but heavy every time: pack up, move forward, try again somewhere else.

He says Ate Mitch was easy to talk to. He already had plans to look for a new team. And then suddenly, the future stopped being abstract. He had somewhere to go. A new beginning waiting.

At Smart Omega, he is no longer the reserve, no longer the extra name on the roster, no longer the contingency plan.

Main five.

But beneath that happiness is something deeper than relief. He doesn’t want to prove anything. 

“More on ayaw ko pong may papatunayan,” he explains.

“Gusto ko po ma-experience na ako naman yung naglalaro,” he says. “Gusto ko ma-experience kung paano makapag qualify sa MSC at makapag-champion sa MSC. Sobrang na-motivate ako sa mga kakampi ko.”

It’s not even validation he’s after. 

He just wants to experience being the one actually playing, fighting to qualify for MSC, being part of a championship run, drawing motivation from the teammates beside him.

Sometimes the biggest dream isn’t to silence critics. It’s simply to finally take the stage.

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