KC Busio on the LEC's best support debate: "I consider myself the best, of course"

At the end of the EWC, Caliste told us how important it was to snowball the form you'd built there. Have you managed that, or is there still big work to do?

It's hard to say — I don't think any team has ever reached a peak in their own eyes, there are always things to improve.

But we're definitely taking the learnings from the EWC and keeping them. I think that's why we're winning so much in the regular season

Because even if something goes wrong in a game, all of us are pretty mentally resilient now and we'll find a way to come back, or find a situation where we can get the advantage back. That was our main takeaway at the EWC: we had many games we were hard losing, but we found a way to come back. It's about adapting, all of us being flexible, and trusting the vision.

G2 and KC have both been experimenting with their scrims — Perkz talking to players mid-game, and Zeph told us you run sessions with no voice comms, pings only. How do you approach that method personally?

I like it. The no-communication is nice because it forces each player to take responsibility for their own game. They need to be able to communicate what they need through pings — and if they can't, they have to solve the situation themselves. Even if it's a small loss, you're not going to lose the game over it. So that's the purpose: it builds independence within the game. Then when we start comming again, what it creates is everybody being focused on themselves. And when five people are all focused on themselves, nothing bad will happen, because people aren't relying on others, they're relying on themselves. It works very well, it's a good method.

Have you tried the G2 method, or anything else that breaks from traditional scrimming?

Not really. Sometimes we pause and discuss something as a team if we want to try something we're unsure about, but in terms of coaches stepping in, no. I clearly believe it works, though — I don't even think it's that big a deal or something foreign. And I bet so many teams do that. I've been on teams in the past where the coach pauses and says, "what are you guys doing?" or "do you want to try this?" Scrims are a way to practise, and they don't have to simulate stage all the time — sometimes they can be there to test out different situations. It creates this atmosphere of "we're in a practice game, let's try something and see what happens together," rather than the same stakes as a stage match where we must win no matter what and do what we know works. So it's a great method to learn, for sure.

You and Caliste have faced the best bot lanes in the world. Which one shocked you the most, and why?

It's hard to say — they're all different. T1

On Peyz and Keria — having beaten them, does that break the image you had of them? Do they feel more reachable than expected?

I watch a lot of their LCK VODs, and I know they're both insane players — but they're both human, and I've seen them make many mistakes, so I never had that image that they're unbeatable. I just knew they were better than us most of the time, but that doesn't mean they can't make mistakes or that we can't challenge them. Beating them definitely gave me and the team a lot of confidence, because we weren't playing perfectly that series, and neither were they. It's just a good experience.

In the LEC you get compared to Labrov a lot. Do you consider yourself the best support in the league, especially in this meta?

I consider myself the best, of course — and I think Labrov should consider himself the best.

You're a competitor, and deep down you have to believe you have something intangible the other person doesn't. It's also important to understand that you're not going to show your absolute best every day. So of course I believe I'm the best, but I also believe that when I play badly, it means I had a bad day, or I played badly, or I still have more to learn. I don't really feel the rivalry with Labrov — I honestly respect G2

Since the start of the season, You've lost every final you've played. Do you feel the team has grown enough from those defeats to get it right this time?

We've grown a lot from the defeats — but not just from the defeats, from our time as a team in general. They're [G2] a team that's been playing together longer than we have. So we've been improving and improving, but it's important to remember that being on an upward trajectory all year doesn't magically mean it's destiny for us to win finals. What matters is how you play on the day. A worse team can beat a better team, and a better team can lose to a worse team. So even though we're improving so much, that doesn't mean we have a guaranteed win — we still need to be very good on the day.

Last one. Imagine the best-case scenario: you qualify for Worlds. How far could this team actually go?

I think we can win the World final. Of course.