Movistar KOI faced SK Gaming on Matchday 5 of the LEC Summer Split 2026. In the interview afterward, ADC Supa spoke openly about his own tempo control in decisive moments, the outlook on the playoffs, the current jungle-support meta – and also answered our question of why Xayah and Rakan against Lucian and Millio is played noticeably more often in the LCK and LPL than in the LEC.
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Not a good day for Movistar KOI: 0-2 against SK Gaming, after MKOI took itself out of the game from two promising positions. ADC Supa explains what happened.
"We were too emotional in that moment"
RunItDown: Today was obviously rough – you lost from two promising positions. In hindsight, it's always easy to pinpoint exactly where things went wrong.
Can you instead walk us through the communication around, say, getting caught by Rumble's ultimate at Raptors in Game 1? Was that being caught by surprise, or a wrong decision? What went wrong at its core?
Supa: I think more than communication, it was about being conscious of the tempo for teammates. We made too many plays today, we didn't need to take that many risks – and in a lot of situations we just wanted to get more out of it than necessary.
Once you slip up, you keep going instead of calming down. I think that's what snowballed for us. So it was less about communication, more about calming the game and ourselves down – we were still ahead, after all.
RunItDown: So in essence: once you're in the lead, you need to simplify things more than you currently do?
Supa: Yeah, I think we were just too emotional in that moment.
"Now we need to look at sixth place"
RunItDown: Even so, there's still a whole range of scenarios left in which you make the playoffs by the end of this matchday – thanks to the tiebreaker rules, and because you beat Fnatic and NAVI recently.
Let's assume you actually make the playoffs: how much of a reset would that be for you – a new best-of-five round to work toward, instead of just staying stuck here?
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Supa: It's obviously bitter that we most likely won't make the top four. But now we need to look at sixth place. Right now we just need to focus on the last game, work well, and fix what isn't working.
After that I can say more, but right now I just want to think about the next match and the next days of practice – the way we're performing right now isn't acceptable for the club we play for. If we manage that, I still believe we can be really good – we're a really good team. But the first goal is recovering from this.
"In terms of League of Legends, we're really good"
RunItDown: You're saying yourself that this level hasn't been your best. Elyoya told me something similar two weeks ago.
Since then, you've at least beaten Shifters, Fnatic and NAVI. Despite today's loss, how would you assess MKOI's development since that really bad first week?
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Supa: I think we've improved a lot – in terms of League of Legends, we're really good. It's more a question of how we close out games.
We're only improving slowly there. But in terms of gameplay, we're really strong when we get the chance. I just think we need to put more energy into the emotional side.
"I really like this meta"
RunItDown: Let's zoom out a bit and talk about League of Legends in general. In that same interview, Elyoya said jungle-support control makes up about ninety percent of the game.
How does that look from your perspective? Do you agree with that ninety percent, and do you think that's the right way for it to be? Do you prefer it that way, or would you rather have more shared lane time?
Supa: I think it depends a lot on the team composition. If you have a hypercarry, jungle and support control a lot through bot lane – and that's good for the team, because it opens up a lot of chances for invades, diving the enemy bot lane, looking for ganks.
Other times, when you need to play weak side, you need to learn that role too. But I think it's actually always been good this way: if you have a strong jungle-support pairing and they move well, the team just takes over the early and mid game. And as an ADC you need to help them with that – that's why you see so many mage or control ADCs these days. If you push first, if you win the fight around them, you win the game.
So yeah, I agree – and as an ADC you have to help them too: creating priority, supporting, moving first, all of that.
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RunItDown: But doesn't it feel to you like this isn't quite what we used to know – Season 2, Season 3, when the hypercarry was still "that's me, I do that"? Sometimes it feels like the shift is a bit too much. Or are you fine with it?
Supa: I actually find it fun, because you get a lot of teamfights out of it. The downside is you don't get to dominate lane or play for lane as much.
But at the end of the day it's just a different playstyle – it changes a bit, or a lot, every year. I still think it's fun, I really like this meta.
"Xayah is probably Rakan's best pair"
RunItDown: There's one specific matchup I've been thinking about these past few days, since I discussed it with some colleagues and we're not quite sure why it's so popular: Xayah/Rakan into Lucian/Millio. Can you walk us through a pro's perspective on why Xayah/Rakan – especially in the LCK and LPL – seems to be such a big answer to that popular duo?
Supa: Sure, happy to. Lucian/Millio is a really strong duo in general, and outside of a handful of workarounds there's really no true counter to it – everyone knows that. So what you want with Rakan is to send it directly onto Millio. And Xayah is probably Rakan's best pair for that.
That gives you a bot lane that can hold the two of them in the fight while you go in. Another option would be an enchanter matchup – a skill matchup, since Lucian is really strong right now. The current meta revolves a lot around drake fights – and with Xayah/Rakan you have one of the strongest teamfighting duos there is. Even if you lose lane, you still come out with better teamfighting.
RunItDown: So it's less about Xayah versus Lucian directly, and more about Rakan easily getting onto Millio – with Xayah simply being his best pair for it.
Supa: Yeah, I think so.
RunItDown: Any idea why there's such a difference between the LCK/LPL and the LEC on this? I think you played it yourselves once, two or three weeks ago against Vitality – but other than that, not too many teams in the LEC go for it, while the LCK and LPL love it.
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Supa: I think it's partly down to the bans too. Lucian is almost a permanent ban for us in series. I think the other regions just set different priorities. I don't think we're better or worse – I think we're just different players. But we'll definitely see it in a best-of-five.
"I trust myself"
RunItDown: Then to wrap up: as things stand, your contract with MKOI expires after this season. More generally speaking – is an expiring contract like this something you talk about over the course of a split? Or is it more like: you know it's coming, and you sit down once everything's over?
Supa: I have my agent, who's probably handling things like that. For me the mentality stays the same: whether it ends this year or the next, if you play badly you get benched, if you play well you get another year.
So it doesn't really bother me, I just focus on the present, work hard, do my best. And if by the end of the year I don't have the level – or I do really well – that's just how it goes, there's nothing more I can do. I trust myself that I can be the best, but you have to prove that over time.
RunItDown: Let's assume this really is your last split for MKOI: what's the one thing you want to be able to say about your time here once the season is over?
Supa: I'm really proud that we've made it to Worlds every year and won the LEC – my first championship was here, and I'll always keep that in mind.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.