Simon "Heaventime" Jeon is the head coach for the Echo Fox League Of Legends team. In the past, Heaventime was a challenger/jungle challenger player who was under organizations like LOL Pro, Vortex and a short stint with Team Impulse where he attempted to break into pro play. During college, he was the head coach for University of British Columbia where he led the team to great succes. Currently, he is using his background as a player and knowledge as a coach to bolster the spirits of an Echo Fox squad that is currently 1-15. So we sat down with him to talk about his start in coaching, Echo Fox' struggles and advice he would give to aspiring coaches.

What is your role as the head coach of Echo Fox? Can you give us a rundown of your daily tasks while working with the team?

Heaventime: As the head coach of Echo Fox, my job is to make sure everyone is on the same page when the players are playing. Also I am there to make sure everyone does right things. We wake up around 10:00 and come to the office around 11:00am and then we have breakfast there. once everyone is done with the breakfast and warm up, we have scrims between 12-3 and 4-7. After scrims are done, we have a meeting with the players again and then some people go to gym.

Was this a routine that was already there when you joined Echo Fox? Or was this created when you joined Echo Fox?

Heaventime: It was already there when I joined Echo Fox and I think it is a good structure to follow.

How did you get started in coaching? Did you start as a player or were you an analyst that worked his way up?

Heaventime: I always wanted to be a coach even when I was a player. My coaching started when I started to coach UBC team which is a college team. Riot hosted an event called NACC and UBC team has won 2 years back to back.

So would you say this is why you were able to land lcd coaching positions like your time on Team Impulse?

Heaventime: Team Impulse was a different case when I tried out for TIP I was a still player but I didn't have a intention to play for a long time even if I made into LCS.

So when you tried out for Team Impulse you told them about this and they asked you to become a coach instead later?

Heaventime: No, I still wanted to play as a player at that time. There were other issues there such as my visa wasn't approved and Riot changed their rules that all the players needed to have visa to play on the stage.

when you came into Echo Fox around week 5, what were the issues that you first noticed needed to be fixed?

Heaventime: Lack of communication between coaching staffs and the players.

Could you possibly expand more on the lack of communication part? Was the lack of communication based around a lot of passive aggressive criticism or not saying what wanted to be said?

Heaventime: Not really even though the structure was there. Players and coaches didn't communicate much so there was no depth about strategies.

Echo Fox is a team that excels at taking the first game of a series. However, when it comes to finishing up the series the team flounders. Why do you believe the team is struggling to finish the series because it is very evident that they can win games against top teams like TSM and Cloud 9?

Heaventime: I would say focus is not there players make individual mistakes and often that leads into bad ways.

Heaventime (top left with glasses) leading a team discussion in between games. Taken from Echo Fox twitter post

How do you keep the spirits up for an Echo Fox squad that is currently struggling? What is the mindset and approach to the final games of the regular season?

Heaventime: Definitely team's moral has gone down but we all know that this is not the end and there are always other ways to improve as a unit and as a team.

What is different about the Echo Fox infrastructure opposed to your previous organizations like Team Impulse or Vortex? Does being apart of Echo Fox make you want to work even harder to help this team improve?

Heaventime: Honestly I didn't have much experience with Team Impulse because it was a last minute call from them and it is not even worth to compare with Vortex they had no structure and yeah being a part of Echo Fox is really great so far the org is great and I have good relationships with the players too.

Are there any teams or regions that you watch to become a better coach and help your team understand macro play?

Heaventime: it is hard to learn to be a better coach since there aren't many ways to learn how to become a good coach but I like to watch LCK and other top teams in each region to see how they play as a team.

Outside of the game, what do you believe is extremely important for a coach to monitor and handle?

Heaventime: I focus on keeping good relationship with the players and I make sure every dissension come through me I believe that players play the best when they have trusts each other.

What is something that you would like to experience before you retire from League of Legends?

Heaventime: If you are talking about my personal goal, I would like to build up structure like a real sport and create new talents for the scene.

What advice would you give to anyone looking to become a coach/analyst in League of Legends? What should one look to improve in order to become a coach?

Heaventime: Dont focus on what Focus on why it happened and how to make it better That will be my advice Most coaches focus on just "what" happened.

Do you have a final statement to all the fans?

Heaventime: Thanks for supporting me and keep watching what I do and how much I get better.

You can follow Heaventime on his twitter https://twitter.com/EF_heavenTime