SK Wunder on Top Lane Meta: “There’s Always a Counter Pick that can Stomp You in Lane.” – LEC Spring 2026 Interview

SK Gaming is on the board. After a tough first week in the LEC Spring Split, SK picked up a needed win against Shifters. After the series, we talked to top laner Martin “Wunder” Nordahl Hansen to hear his impressions and how the team has been looking to level up to snatch playoffs.

Davide: Finally, we’re getting a victory on the board. I would say that was a good series overall, although there were some moments in the second game; overall, a great turnaround considering what happened last week.

What happened between week one and week two?

Wunder: Yeah, I mean, not to sugarcoat it, today was obviously a must-win and a very needed win for us. Because we have played three teams that we kind of need to beat to make playoffs and we lost two of them, so it’s not the greatest start. In general, I think Shifters changed a bit because we played against them and I think they weren’t playing fights as well as maybe Navi did.

Our front-to-back [in] game 1, fighting and how we set up for our objectives, were a lot better. Today we got a lot of the first drakes and played the game [with] high tempo jungler and lanes picked appropriately. I was blind picking, but on bot lane, we picked a good combo; we picked a fast [clearing] jungler. We played around that well. We had a lot of issues, though; we almost threw the game and we played our flanking badly. We were too impatient and went too fast. We had some improvements… the team we played against was not as good, but we still had a good game 1 and game 2 was shaky for sure.

TRIPLE for @ADCJopa to defend the base! #LEC pic.twitter.com/EBVqXTv7L5

— LEC (@LEC) April 4, 2026

Davide: About being impatient. Does someone call it? Is it just someone on the team who feels like it’s a good fight and then just goes? Can you elaborate on that?

Wunder: Ideally, everyone knows exactly when we turn and how to turn. I think that’s one of the issues we have, which is that we don’t always know, and sometimes people see it differently, and then communicating that in the game at the moment is very hard.

Normally, the flankers see the flank opportunities; they decide when it’s time to flank and they communicate it well. And if the core, which was Mundo-Rakan-Xayah this game, they say ‘No, we can just play with them. We are really strong here. You guys can just make sure they have to be scared of you on the flank.’ You can communicate like that.

We are not the greatest team right now, so we struggle with that. I think sometimes LIDER went too quickly. Sometimes, we didn’t go quick enough and got poked out, or we were not in the right positions. So, yeah, I mean, ideally, it should be like a joint effort, but obviously, if you’re flanking and you see a good angle, there’s more agency on who has the flank.

LIDER saves the fight for SK! #LEC pic.twitter.com/2JNUYqNN8X

— LEC (@LEC) April 4, 2026

Davide: I think it was very visible, especially in the early phases of the game, where you guys constantly set up vision around the Drakes. How do you guys go through that setup?

How do you guys spend the time in scrims and practice to make sure that this can be pulled off consistently in every game? Is there a lot more theory or practice?

Wunder: I mean, it’s a big focus point for us. Coming into the split, it has been setting the objectives up and fighting properly around them. This is something we have worked on. I would say scrims have been kind of low quality, so we get to practice that to a varying degree.

But at the end of the day, when it comes to like early Drakes and stuff, it comes down to the matchups that can actually get the priority and can you move together? Do you have a strong support alone? [In] this meta, you pick enchanter support and you have a strong jungler with the enchanter. And in today’s games, we had Xin Zhao and Mundo, who are like two junglers that are very good at running first with an enchanter behind them.

In the second game, we didn’t have an enchanter, but yeah, the point anyway still stands. Mundo’s fast-clearing jungler. We had a good bot lane combination, pretty good 3v3s. We picked mid lane counter pick. So Akali can probably fight a lot better than most mages at level six around Drake. We had a good early game to set us up for success. We can probably get the first Drake or two unless something horrible happens in lanes. So I think it was easier for us today. But yeah, I mean, if the lanes go well, which they don’t always do in SK Gaming, then that’s something we can play for.

Davide: Speaking of the meta, blind picks and counter picks are becoming more and more important on both sides, I would say.

How do you feel about the meta right now and what kind of evolution do you think we will have moving on to BO5s?

Wunder: I think for top lane in particular, there are a lot of top laners that don’t really know what to blind pick because everything has counters in a way.

So they’re starting to pick like Jayce, for example. You see a lot of like game 1 Jayce in the eastern leagues nowadays because you can counter pick Jayce, but the lane is [still] going to be probably be winning for Jayce in the early game and you can get rolled over by jungle mid roaming to you. And if you die, okay, it can be gg. You know, the game explodes.

But at least you have a blind pick that will always be strong. I mean, there’s probably always a counter pick that can stomp you in lane. But I think it’s not tank meta necessarily. I mean you. You pick Sion-K’Sante… Two good tanks, but there’s like Gnar-Gwen. We even saw at First Stand Shen and stuff like that. I think there’s a lot that can be played.

Davide: You mentioned First Stand. G2 had a really strong showing. We finally got a Western team to an international final. The last time we had an international final, you were there with G2. Even though these are two different teams with their own dynamics,

What was the greatest thing you loved about the team that you played on in 2019 and 2020?

Wunder: I think in 2019, we were a lot more creative. we all had our pocket picks. We all had our ways of playing the game; that was our way of exploiting the game in a way that a lot of teams didn’t have. Tempo trapping, sitting and getting random picks. or playing output comps and just showing up, playing TP’s on bot lane. Not a lot of people did that at the time.

We had a lot of creative things that just worked out for us. And that’s probably also the difference to the current G2 lineup. I’d say they play more conventionally. They still have some cheese picks sometimes, but I think they just played conventionally well. I don’t think they even played like comps that most other teams didn’t play. So I think they just had a pretty good, pretty good tournament. Besides getting knocked out by China as per usual, that was also something that happened when I played there. The LPL got the better of us a lot. I guess they picked up the torch again, kicked out the LCK teams, which was the tradition back then as well. So kudos to them.

Davide: You will face GIANTX tomorrow.

What do you think of GX and what do you think will be the key to getting another win on the board?

Wunder: GX are always good in scrims, which is what everyone says. When you scrim against them, they play good and then somehow, on stage, it’s just different. I don’t think they have insane laners in particular anyway. I think they just play pretty well together, and when they pick champions, they usually like to follow the game plan pretty strictly.

I remember last split, they played a lot of Caitlyn lanes on bot lane like Caitlyn-Elise, stuff like that. And they got pretty good snowballs going off and winning against good teams as well with it. The game we played against them last split, I think we were really far ahead. I was playing Ryze top into Rumble, we were maybe 7, 8k ahead or something, and then we threw the game.

So hopefully that doesn’t repeat itself because we could really, I mean, I guess we have three games to play. It’s not Bo1 anymore, but we could really use the win.