In an interview with Esports Insider, SK Gaming high laner Martin ‘Wunder‘ Nordahl Hansen mirrored on his win over Karmine Corp Blue in LEC Versus 2026 and the staff’s present place.
The victory strikes SK Gaming to a 2-4 document within the LEC Versus rankings, putting it alongside three different groups within the competitors. Within the interview, Wunder shared why securing this win was essential after a difficult begin to the cut up, whereas additionally highlighting areas the staff should enhance — communication, macro choices, and consistency.
Wunder additionally shared his ideas on adapting to frequent gameplay modifications, his obligations as a veteran participant, and the way groups normally put together for the shifting metas.
Learn the complete interview beneath.
Esports Insider: Congratulations in your win in opposition to Karmine Corp Blue. What are your ideas concerning the recreation?
Wunder: There was a number of motion. I performed effectively. I used to be enjoying with an ignite versus ignite high lane, and it’s a really explosive matchup. You’ll be able to type of 100-to-0 somebody in the event that they make a misstep, so it was a enjoyable recreation to play.
I believe we bought just a little bit too overexcited, overeager to try to shut the sport, and it wasn’t a clear finish. However I believe we have been simply up to now forward that we had room for a few errors. I imply, I’m simply joyful that I suppose we bought a win. It could’ve been actually miserable to be 1-5 after this match— 2-4, it’s manageable. Nonetheless have some groups that may be crushed left.
ESI: What do you’re feeling are the issues that you simply and your staff have to enhance on earlier than your subsequent matches?
Wunder: I believe simply usually our communication, planning forward… I believe there are a number of issues we are able to get higher at, however from the start, we simply should plan forward first.
Both we contest sure issues and battle, or we give it up and do one thing else. I believe we’re simply very hesitant more often than not to surrender on a play and do one thing else, or simply go for it and commit. And I believe that’s principally the beginning basis of our video games, after which all the things else will type of fall into place just a little bit simpler. So I’d say that’s what we have now to work on.
ESI: You’ve been a professional participant for 12 years now, and also you’ve performed for fairly a couple of groups, so how do you handle to attach virtually instantly with a staff that has been collectively for only a few weeks?
Wunder: I’d say I can slot into a number of groups. I really feel like I can gel effectively with a number of completely different individuals, and I’ve gotten sufficiently old to the place I don’t actually have something that’s going to carry me again in that sense.
In relation to enjoying good collectively, I don’t assume we’re. Since we’re 2-4 proper now, we aren’t enjoying very effectively. However yeah, I’d say usually, so long as we type of repair the issues I simply talked about and follow, issues will grow to be just a little bit extra secure. We had a number of deal with drafting, for instance, that was a giant subject for us.
I imply, it’s regular once you be a part of a staff and you haven’t had a number of time. However I believe we are able to hopefully get previous that time now, and this win goes to perhaps increase our morale just a little bit in that sense as effectively. Hopefully, we are able to begin engaged on larger and higher issues.
ESI: How a lot do the gameplay modifications from one season to a different, and Patches, influence how a staff and participant have to arrange forward of a match day?
Wunder: For so long as I can bear in mind, perhaps just a little bit extra just lately, however there’s at all times been very large modifications coming from 12 months to 12 months that each professional participant, particularly in League of Legends, has to adapt to as in comparison with different esports or simply regular sports activities, the place they don’t change as regularly.
So it’s positively an enormous workload and lots, a few of it’s team-based, but additionally a number of it’s on your self. I don’t count on, for instance, my teaching workers or my different teammates to know as a lot about what modified in my very own function as I’m imagined to. I simply should determine all the things out. I’ve to, effectively, I suppose be the innovator just a little bit and take into consideration how I can ‘abuse this function’ or how I can educate that to my teammates. After which after all there’s the staff points of the sport, that are targets lots after which additionally all the different stuff that modifications on a regular basis.
I believe that’s simply one thing it’s important to come collectively and be taught very quick. I believe most groups bootcamp. So although we’re solely enjoying 4 weeks of standard cut up in LEC, we nonetheless had, most groups nonetheless had, at the least 4 weeks of follow beforehand to try to get into form.
So it’s not like we’re simply thrown into this patch. We did have some preparation that, I believe, helped us hit some issues, and we have now missed some issues, however I believe each staff goes by that.
ESI: I might’ve imagined that coaches would help every participant of their particular person preparation. However you mentioned that it’s important to focus in your lane and be the one who is aware of probably the most about your lane. Is that one thing that you simply needed to be taught all through the years, or is that this simply a typical for each professional?
Wunder: Some groups in LEC proper now have high lane positional coaches. It’s not one thing I’ve, and I’ve by no means actually labored with a high lane positional coach. So I suppose for me, I’ve at all times been answerable for how I put together, and I’ve at all times preferred developing with new stuff.
I’ve famously performed a number of champions and tried a number of completely different methods. However you additionally should type of work on each points. You’ll be able to’t simply be the man who pulls out the bizarre stuff. You additionally should be the man who performs the standard stuff, and effectively. And for that, I suppose you put together by both watching what different gamers do, scrimming, and extra.
Let’s say in the event you assume Zeus is one of the best high participant on this planet, you possibly can perhaps take some inspiration from what he does, you possibly can be taught from him in his matchups. Everybody goes by the identical strategy of discovering out what’s going to be one of the best on the patch. You’ll be able to have a look at SoloQ to some extent, like win charge stats, objects and builds. However I believe for many of it, it’s positively one thing I’m answerable for in terms of my lane, as I mentioned.
Then we type of simply all slotted collectively, after which one thing comes off it. So if we’d like a tank within the high lane, perhaps I’m like ‘wow, I didn’t actually assume tanks have been going to be that op,’ however perhaps my ADC is like ‘that is actually op with a tank,’ after which I’ve to choose the tank. In order that stuff comes collectively in a team-based follow.
ESI: When patches change the sport each couple of weeks after which yearly we have now huge modifications, does it truly matter whether or not a participant is a veteran? Or is expertise and information of the sport what provides you the benefit?
Wunder: I believe being a veteran most likely doesn’t assist as a lot in that. I imply, it helps in that you determine what’s the easiest way so that you can follow and put together. I’m most likely higher at understanding what works for me than I used to be 10 years in the past, for instance.
However I believe in terms of, perhaps in some circumstances matchups, like let’s say in high lane, perhaps there’s a matchup 10 years in the past that I performed and I realised ‘wow, there’s this cool interplay on this matchup,’ however that’s very, very uncommon. It’s one thing that individuals can be taught in a day. It’s not one thing that’s going to present me a giant head begin in any approach.
So I’d say for brand new patches and stuff, it doesn’t assist as a lot to be a veteran. It’s extra about how you propose your follow, like nerves on stage, for instance, or all this normal stuff like the way you’re imagined to work in a staff. That’s the place I believe being a veteran helps, however perhaps not as a lot for innovation. I imply, a younger, hungry participant spams the sport lots, and although I believe all of us play our good bit, perhaps that may assist extra in determining and developing with new stats.
