G2 BrokenBlade: “We are still G2. We still want to collect every single trophy there is”

G2 Esports looked extremely dominant in the LEC Summer Split Week 3, taking down BDS and FNC without dropping a single game. Hotspawn sat down with team captain BrokenBlade to talk about his Dr. Mundo performance, his rollercoaster international journey, his creative approach to drafting, and the team’s adaptation to newcomers in key roles.

How are you feeling after this Week?

BrokenBlade: I feel pretty good. We started off the series [against BDS] a bit slow. But I think we found our footing quite fast. So I’m happy with today’s performance.

Ethan: You also got a quadra kill on Dr. Mundo today. Playing against a Blitzcrank, a Jax, being 5/0 against two carries that are 0/2. I can’t imagine the fun you had…

Was it the best Mundo game you could ask for?

BrokenBlade: In the last team fight where Blitzcrank hooked me, I was like “Please hook me,” and I could only do it because they were behind. Aphelios is one of the ADCs that can actually kill Mundo so I was a bit scared. I was like, ‘Oh should I actually pick Mundo…’ but our botlane did a good job of putting him behind. And yes, Viktor, Sejuani, Jax, Blitzcrank: all good champs for Mundo. I got to scale for free. It was a very nice game for me to play. For the quadrakill, it was just given to me. It looked funny, but I was still happy with the game. It was very fun to play.

QUADRA FOR @BROKENBLADE'S MUNDO! #LEC pic.twitter.com/fx0XGlYqml

— LEC (@LEC) August 18, 2025

Ethan: So I wanted to go back on your international campaign a bit.

First, did you get to try the new WASD bindings at MSI?

BrokenBlade: No, I didn’t.

Do you think this change might have a huge impact on the game and especially on the esports landscape?

BrokenBlade: I’m not sure. I will probably not change because I’ve played for so long with QWER, but I could see newer players when someone starts the game. Maybe in the next 10 years, there’s going to be a pro player playing with these.

Ethan: You think it won’t happen before that?

BrokenBlade: I don’t think so. I could see maybe in the next 2-3 years. I just think it’s like a project that you need to really get used to. Because it changes everything, right? You use your spells usually with your left hand. I think if you play with WASD, if you’re right-handed, you’ll probably use your spells with your right hand. Now, for me, it would be a bit weird. But I’ll probably try. Sometimes I like to 1v1 against my brothers and I always handicap myself. So maybe I will handicap myself with that.

Ethan: To focus on your transition from MSI to EWC. It’s no secret that you didn’t look that good at MSI. But you looked at EWC on a completely different level.

So what happened for your form to totally shift in such a short period of time?

BrokenBlade: My game wasn’t great. I feel like I didn’t play good League of Legends individually. I was very low on confidence, and I’ve never actually felt like this in my life, in any competition I was in. I’m usually the type of player who comes in with a lot of confidence. I’ve had a really, really bad series against Furia, and it stuck with me. Usually, these things don’t stick with me. I took a lot of responsibility from it and I learned a lot from it. Even after all these years, I can still learn a lot from these experiences and I’m very grateful for that. I took a lot with me to EWC, where I think I performed a lot better. If you remove the name plates, you would say these are two different players… And I’m happy that I can keep, and even do better than what I have been doing in EWC.

I’m happy with where I am. I’m not satisfied because I still know where I need to be, to be the best in the world.

Ethan: You came back from a rough MSI where your pocket picks didn’t work that much, especially the Warwick. And you came back playing some Rumble, some Jayce — which are some of the meta picks you don’t play that often. Now you come back to LEC against weaker teams and you play some Rek’Sai and Kled… Can you help me and many viewers understand which way to turn this time?

Are we about to see the creative topfather or the meta topfather this split?

BrokenBlade: A lot of people know me. I’ve been counter picking my whole life. At MSI, I just didn’t understand the meta very well with counter picking because the game transitioned in a way where it’s not just 1v1 anymore. I see the enemy ADC in my lane at minute four. I’m not just counter picking the enemy top laner anymore. I need to pick to be good in the game, for the whole game. That is also a reason why I stopped going barrier on Warwick. The first game I played Warwick, I went barrier. People can see that I transitioned going into TP because I realized it’s not playable in the meta. The AD Carry just goes to my lane, [but] I’m not counter picking the ADC, I’m counter picking the enemy top laner! I learned this.

So, I will still do whatever people want to call “the funny picks”, whatever. For me it’s the best pick in that scenario. I’m not picking it for fun. I’m not picking it because I want to be funny. I’m picking it because I’ve put in the effort in counter picking the meta champions. And I will still play the meta champions.

Obviously, my K’Santé is very good, my Jax, etc. The biggest difference is [during internationals] I didn’t figure out the meta very well and which counter picks are the best. Now, I do.

How do you come up with these pocket picks? And why does it feel that you’re one of the only players in the world trying to innovate and reshape the meta?

BrokenBlade: I do think some people like to look for other stuff. Myrwn, for example. But there’s totally no problem with someone… Let’s take Canna as an example. When he picks a champ, you know he will perform on that champ, whether he is getting counter picked or not. So for a player like me, who likes to counter pick, I have to think twice: ‘Ok, do I want to counter pick him or do I just like… what do I do?’ Then there are players like me or Myrwn who want to create advantages through playing champions that are just good against the enemy champion.

That is what I believe in as a player, and what I think is good. It doesn’t mean it’s always going to be good. It doesn’t mean it’s always going to be bad. For example, today I played Mundo and I just 1v9’d the game because of the resources I’ve got and because I knew it was going to be good in the game. Also, because of where the meta is right now. Mundo will be fine against the enemy AD carry. I laned against the enemy ADC for a bit. But, for example, at MSI, Warwick wasn’t able to do that. That is also a reason why you’re not seeing champions like Vayne top, as you did  one year ago when people were playing it against K’Santé. Now if you play Vayne top, you’re probably not going to lane against K’Santé for very long…

It’s really just about for me, that I like to put in the effort in counterpicking. But what I’ve learned from transitioning from MSI to EWC is that I need to be good at meta champions.

Whether it is a champion that I don’t play a lot, whether it’s a champion that I just need to be good at. And a lot of people know that, after I came back from MSI, I spent some time playing Rumble and Jayce.

G2 BrokenBlade 🇩🇪🇹🇷 has only played Jayce and Rumble in soloQ since his return from NA ⚡️ pic.twitter.com/IcxObcCeLo

— DPM.LOL (@dpmlol) July 10, 2025

In the case where I need to pick it, so I can be ready to. I want to be that type of player who is reliable on these champions, and can still perform at a good level when I have to do it.

Ethan: To focus on the collective side, G2 and you won every trophy but one in 2023 and 2024. This year, you failed to win a single one. And more globally, you had many more ups and downs as a team, I feel like. Obviously, when we talk about synergy and the macro in a team, support and jungle are very important.

Do you think it all comes down to the change you had in these two key positions?

BrokenBlade: It’s a good question. Obviously, for me, it’s also a different thing. By this time of the year, I’ve usually won a trophy. But it’s just a new project. Before this roster, we played with the same roster for two years. So not only do we need to understand how the other people work on the team, in this case, Skewmond and Labrov, but also, at the same time, we need to start from zero again. Because we’ve been so used to some players. Two years with the same team for an esports organisation, it’s a very, very long time. And for us, we needed a bit more time to get used to each other and also to understand that not everything will be the same. Not everything is the same. Everyone works differently and how we go into the team in general [is different]. We’ve changed a little bit of stuff internally and ever since then, I feel like we’ve been doing quite well. If you look from the outside perspective, finishing top 2 twice is not a bad achievement, right? But for us, obviously, we want to win.

We are still G2. We still want to collect every single trophy there is.

For now, at least, we took down BLG internationally, which we couldn’t do with the older roster, for example. So I’m happy that we came to, at least, that achievement.