KC Yike on Fixing Comms: “It’s Night and Day” — LEC Versus Week 2 Interview

Karmine Corp take the lead. After a commanding victory against direct rivals NAVI, KC are now at the top of the standings after the end of LEC Versus Week 2 with a 5-1 record. Following the end of the series, we spoke to KC jungler Martin ‘Yike‘ Sundelin to talk about the team’s communication, what he thinks of the jungle meta, and the biggest lesson he learned from the 2025 season.

Davide: First of all, congrats on the victory. It was a little bit rough at the start, a little bit messy, but then you guys managed to get it back.

How was the series and what’s going on in your mind right now?

Yike: Yeah, I think it was a good series. We knew this team was going to be a strong team. They proved it. They were 4-1, so we knew we couldn’t disrespect them. And they played the early game good, right?

They got the first drake, they got the first two skirmishes. And Rhilech got like a triple kill and it was a bit scary when he got his first triple kill. But I think we played good and we had good comms and the decisions we made in-game were very good. So we always knew that with our comp as well, it was an easy game for us to play. So we just played our game and then we won.

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— Karmine Corp (@KarmineCorp) January 26, 2026

Davide: How’s the communication been? One of my colleagues talked to Reapered last week, and he was saying you guys had to fix language barriers as one of the main goals for the split. He didn’t really go into details about that.

Can you walk me through how the communication has been between you guys?

Yike: Yeah, for sure. In the beginning, when we started bootcamping and all you could tell [that] kyeahoo is now just learning English, right? He’s had like two months now, three months where he’s been learning English. So he’s improving very fast, which is very good. And then there’s also Canna, who doesn’t speak fluent English.

So when we do some communication between solo lanes, sometimes it’s very important for them to have good comms, together with me, Caliste, and Busio, I guess, [and] just communicating with each other. That’s the thing that can be awkward sometimes, because sometimes they don’t understand what we say, or sometimes we don’t understand what they want to do, for example.

But I think so far it’s been getting so much better, and yeah, compared to last week, it’s been so much better. I feel like it’s night and day and we’ve been playing much better, and the comms have been good. I don’t see a lot of bad comms or mistakes that we made before. So it’s been improving very fast.

Davide: Speaking of the new players, you had kyeahoo and Busio coming in.

How has that changed compared to last year’s team in terms of dynamics?

Yike: Well, since it’s mid and support that got changed, it’s important for me to have a good relationship with them. Because those lanes are very important for jungle to have good synergy with.

And I’ve been playing so much soloqueue with kyeahoo so far and I feel like we have very good synergy. The way we play the game is very good nowadays, I would say and we know what we want to do usually. He is also very good at communicating what he wants, so it becomes easy for us to just listen to him.

The same [works] with Alan (Busio), I think Alan and I are getting a very strong relationship as well. Playing in-game and outside of the game, we have a very good relationship and it’s going very well right now. So I want to keep it like that and keep improving it. I never like stopping. I want to make sure that we are the best like trio and the best team in the world.

Davide: You mentioned improving.

What’s one thing that you think you kind of want to focus on as a team right now?

Yike: What we talked about with the language barrier, sometimes there are still things to improve on. And then for me, I would say still working on the 3v3s like mid-jungle-supp [synergy] to make sure that they’re as clean as possible, and yeah, making sure we make very small mistakes. For example, today, we lost the 3v3 bot lane and we could have played it better for sure. So these kinds of small mistakes we can do better.

Davide: What’s your kind of take on the meta right now? The new season brought a lot of changes, but the jungle meta in terms of champions is very similar.

What do you think about the jungle meta right now and is there anything that you would like to see changed?

Yike: Yeah, I thought at first, when I saw the changes, they would make jungle look kind of boring, right? [There weren’t] many changes. But the more I played it, it’s been so much better and nicer and I can feel the changes and I feel like going into late game you’re actually very strong as a jungler.

Some teams still play like the normal same champs as before, like Xin Zhao, Wukong, Pantheon, but then now there’s the Aatrox, Ambessa, these kinds of champs that people play more and we’ve seen it recently this week in LEC and I think it’s very fun and very exciting. I’m happy I could play Aatrox one game as well, because sometimes I can’t really play the fun champs. The meta right now is looking very fun for me, so I want to keep seeing how it goes.

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— Karmine Corp (@KarmineCorp) January 27, 2026

Davide: You still have five games left. You’re facing Team Vitality, Fnatic, Shifters, GiantX, and Team Heretics.

Which team do you think can be your biggest threat among these five?

Yike: I would say probably Fnatic. Even though they have some very sloppy games, I feel like this team can still always manage to make it work and play good. And knowing Razork, I know he can always play well.

Anyone can have bad games, but I think Razork can always be the one making the game-deciding plays, for example. So I would always have respect for Fnatic. [It will] probably be the hardest from these ones left, but I still think we should beat all of them.

Davide: Which teams do you think are the best even right now?

Yike: For sure, I would say MKOI. They beat as well. We had a good match against them. The early game went pretty well and all but then we made some mistakes and it was harder. But MKOI right now looks probably the cleanest.

Davide: The last time I got to chat with you was in Korea last year. It’s almost a year since. I like looking at personal development.

Is there anything new that you’ve learned over the past year that helped you become a better player, professional, and person?

Yike: I learned a lot. [The] main thing I would say was to mostly listen to myself and my own decisions because I was a player who always liked to listen and be the one who reacts more. I’m not like the proactive guy. I was more of a reactive guy to plays and everything, especially playing on G2. I had players like BB (BrokenBlade), Hans (Sama), Caps, Mikyx; all of them were very good [at making] decisions and [being] smart in the game, so I was used to listening to them.

Going to KC, I had the same mindset, but there were more rookies, so there was less knowledge than the G2 players. And then that year went pretty badly. So this year, what I’ve been working on a lot on [is] to make sure that I know that my decisions are good. When I make a decision, I will trust myself more.

The biggest goal for me was to trust myself and my own decisions more. I’m playing more for myself, making sure that I am strong, that I can carry games. So far, it’s been looking good. First week, kinda meh but this week I feel like I played good, so I’m very happy with it.

Do you think that has to do with how you build up your own confidence or self-confidence in terms of how you put yourself out there with other people and other players?

Yike: Yeah, I had to build a lot of my confidence, especially in-game. I feel outside of the game, I would say, in discussions I can take more part than what I did before and just give my opinion more to everyone about draft, gameplay, all of this. And I’ve been doing it more and more, which I really like. And [the] same in-game. I make sure that I’m in a good state always so that people can adapt to me and I can adapt to them. Before that, I was just doing what other people wanted, but it didn’t really work, especially for junglers.

Is there anything you want to say to the fans?

Yike: I just want to say thank you for the support. [It’s] always nice to have a 3-0 a week and we want to keep doing that. We want to keep beating every team in the LEC. We want to show and we want to win the first split, go to First Stand and then continue winning from there on.