Each confirmed LPL roster for 2026

China’s premier League of Legends competitors, the LPL, is ready to endure a significant restructuring in 2026.

The reformatted competitors follows a difficult 2025 marketing campaign for China, with LPL representatives falling brief at worldwide occasions and failing to win the world championship for a fourth consecutive yr.

In response to those disappointing outcomes, groups throughout the league are trying to make sweeping modifications but once more, together with a number of the 2025’s powerhouses. 

Many massive names have modified groups as some organisations opted for full rebuilds. With such a significant shakeup and the renewed urgency to revive China’s standing on the worldwide stage, Esports Insider has outlined all confirmed rosters forward of the LPL 2026 season.

Editor’s observe: This text will likely be repeatedly up to date as extra roster strikes are confirmed.

Beginning off this listing is Anybody’s Legend, probably the most constant LPL crew through the 2025 season.

After a robust season, which noticed Anybody’s Legend end within the prime eight at Worlds 2025, the organisation was capable of retain all 5 members for yet one more season.

That mentioned, the LPL 2025 Break up 2 champion had to herald a brand new head coach following Wong ‘Tabe’ Pak Kan’s departure. The brand new head coach is Kwon ‘Helper’ Yeong-jae, previously of Gen.G, and he will likely be supported by Jiang ‘Teacherma’ Chen.

If there’s one crew that’s anticipated to dominate the LPL within the 2026 season, it’s BiliBili Gaming.

With head coach Yang ‘Daeny’ Dae-in additionally becoming a member of, BiliBili Gaming is the undisputed largest winner of the LPL low season. 

Whereas EDward Gaming is years away from the golden period when it lifted the Summoner’s Cup again in 2021, the crew’s roster for the 2026 season has some potential.

Notably, prime laner Zhu ‘Zdz’ De-Zhang, jungler Peng ‘Xiaohao’ Hao, help Wang ‘Parukia’ Ping-Yang, and mid laner Xiang ‘Angel’ Tao are all staying for one more season. 

The crew solely modified one member, changing ADC An ‘Ahn’ Shan-Ye with Hu ‘Go away’ Hong-Chao, who performed for Ninjas in Pyjamas this yr. With LPL Rookie of the 12 months Parukia alongside him, the EDG bot lane might do some harm.

As the preferred crew within the LPL, many followers had been questioning whether or not Invictus Gaming would run its 2025 roster for one more yr. Sadly, that isn’t going to occur, as ADC Chen ‘GALA’ Wei left and prime laner Kang ‘TheShy’ Seung-lok has determined to take a brief break from professional play. 

Nevertheless, the crew was capable of lengthen the contracts for jungler Yan ‘Wei’ Yang-Wei, mid laner Track ‘Rookie’ Eun-jin, and Tian ‘Meiko’ Ye.

Within the prime lane, TheShy will likely be changed by former BNK FearX academy participant Lim ‘Soboro’ Seong-min, whereas the brand new ADC will likely be Ying ‘Photic’ Qi-Shen. Moreover, IG additionally added two further substitute gamers for mid lane and help, bringing in former Anybody’s Legend academy participant Zhang ‘Renard’ Xing-Che and Solar ‘Jwei’ Jun-Wei, beforehand of FunPlus Phoenix.

After failing to qualify for Worlds this yr, JD Gaming has gone for a significant rebuild within the low season, solely retaining prime laner Xu ‘Xiaoxu’ Xing-Zu.

The jungle-mid duo of Peng ‘Xun’ Li-xun and Lee ‘Scout’ Ye-chan has been changed by Yu ‘JunJia’ Chun-Chia and Tsai ‘HongQ’ Ming-Hong, after their standout yr on LCP crew CTBC Flying Oyster.

The brand new bot lane will likely be shaped by former Invictus Gaming ADC Chen ‘GALA’ Wei and Workforce WE help Zhao ‘Vampire’ Zhe-Can. The largest pickup for JDG, nevertheless, comes from the teaching employees, because the crew was in a position to herald Wong ‘Tabe’ Pak Kan from Anybody’s Legend. The top coach is considered top-of-the-line coaches within the scene, and has constantly led LPL groups to worldwide tournaments over the previous years. 

LGD Gaming has made two modifications in mid and jungle, choosing up Lin ‘Tangyuan’ Yu-Hong from Royal By no means Give Up and jungler Yang ‘Heng’ Cui-Heng from Oh My God (OMG).

The opposite three gamers, Yan ‘sasi’ Rui, Qiu ‘Shaoye’ Guo-Bin, and help Zhao ‘Ycx’ Wen-Hao are all staying for the 2026 LPL season. 

LNG Esports is likely one of the LPL groups which have opted to import Korean gamers to finish their line-ups. For 2026, the organisation has introduced in Lee ‘BuLLDog’ Tae-young from DN Freecs within the LCK, in addition to Kim ‘Croco’ Dong-beom, who performed for OK BRION.

The three remaining gamers are prime laner Xu ‘sheer’ WenJie, becoming a member of from FunPlusPhoenix, ADC Li ‘1xn’ Xiu-Nan and Lou ‘MISSING’ Yun-Feng. The latter returns to the aggressive scene after taking a break from professional play, whereas 1xn joins from ThunderTalk Gaming.

Ninjas in Pyjamas is one other crew that dropped its 2025 roster and has rebuilt from scratch through the use of two Korean gamers. High laner Yoon ‘HOYA’ Yong-ho joins after three years with ThunderTalk Gaming and can play alongside former T1 Esports Academy jungler Koo ‘Guwon’ Kwan-mo.

The opposite three gamers are Yang ‘Care’ Jie, Zou ‘Assum’ Wei, and Wang ‘Zhuo’ Xu-Zhuo. Care and Assum beforehand performed for FunPlusPhoenix, whereas Zhuo had a brief stint on JDG.

OMG has retained its bot lane of Lei ‘Starry’ Ming and Jeong ‘Moham’ Jae-hun and promoted jungler Xu ‘re0’ Han-Yang from the academy.

The brand new gamers becoming a member of OMG are prime laner Wang ‘Hery’ He-Yong and mid laner Zhang ‘haichao’ Hai-Chao. Hery rejoins OMG after leaving in Might earlier this yr, whereas haichao performed for LNG in 2025. 

High Esports’ largest loss through the low season was the departure of jungler Search engine marketing ‘Kanavi’ Jin-hyeok, as he went on to affix Hanwha Life Esports within the LCK. In consequence, High Esports changed him with Yang ‘naiyou’ Zi-Jian, one in every of High Esports’ former academy gamers who not too long ago performed for NIP. 

The remainder of the roster is anticipated to be the identical as its 2025 line-up, with Bai ‘369’ Jia-Hao, Lin ‘Creme’ Jian and Yu ‘JackeyLove’ Wen-Bo all extending contracts. Having mentioned that, JackeyLove may sit out in the beginning of the season as a consequence of his worsening well being situations and is perhaps briefly substituted by Zi ‘JiaQi’ Jia-Qi.

The crew has two helps as effectively. In consequence, Fu ‘Cling’ Ming-Cling and Wang ‘fengyue’ Run-Lai may share some stage time within the new season.

With most of its gamers leaving the crew, ThunderTalk Gaming has made drastic modifications to its 2026 line-up. Except for help participant Wang ‘Feather’ Tian-Ci-Fu, who bought retained, ThunderTalk Gaming could have 4 new gamers.

The bot lane will likely be stuffed by Chen ‘Ryan3’ Qi-Hong, promoted from ThunderTalk Gaming’s academy crew, whereas prime laner Li ‘Keshi’ Qing-Hua, jungler Luo ‘JunHao’ Jun-Hao, and mid laners Kim ‘Heru’ Min-Seong, and Shi ‘xlun’ Jia-Lun have been signed. The latter is from LNG’s academy crew. Heru and Keshi performed for BiliBili Gaming’s academy crew in 2025, whereas Junhao represented Extremely Prime previously season. 

Two new gamers have joined Extremely Prime for 2026, with the crew retaining its mid laner Track ‘Saber’ Dai-Lin and the bot lane of Liu ‘Baiye’ Wen-Xue and Xia ‘Xiaoxia’ Jing-Yao.

The highest lane will likely be cut up between Chen ‘1Jiang’ Yi-Chin and Zhang ‘Liangchen’ Liang-Chen, whereas the jungler will likely be Shi ‘luoyiyu’ Jia-Jun. Each Liangchen and luoyiyu had been beforehand of BiliBili Gaming’s academy crew.

Weibo Gaming are set to be one other main contender for the upcoming season, having picked up ADC Zhao ‘Elk’ Jia-Hao from BLG, former IG and FPX jungler Zhao ‘jiejie’ Li-Jie, and LNG prime laner Tang ‘Zika’ Hua Yu.

The latter is probably going going to separate stage time with Chen ‘Breathe‘ Chen, and the identical is anticipated to occur within the help function between Shi ‘Erha‘ Xu-Ye and Liu ‘Crisp‘ Qing-Track.

Crisp, nevertheless, is ready to take a break within the first cut up of the 2026 season, leaving Erha the beginning participant for now.

Following a robust 2025 marketing campaign by Workforce WE, the crew needed to make two roster modifications after Kim ‘Taeyoon‘ Tae-yoon went again to the LCK, and help Zhao ‘Vampire‘ Zhe-Can moved to JD Gaming.

To interchange them, the organisation went with yet one more pair of unexpectedsignings, ADC Moon ‘About‘ Hyeong-seok and help Bi ‘yaoyao‘ Haotian. About beforehand performed for Gen.G’s academy crew, whereas former ThunderTalk Gaming participant yaoyao returns to aggressive play after taking a hiatus in 2025.

The brand new LPL season will kick off someday subsequent month, though no beginning date has been confirmed as of but. Earlier than that, the groups are presently competing within the Demacia Cup, that includes the LPL squads in addition to two streamer groups.

The primary cut up of the LPL 2026 season will see the highest two groups symbolize the area on the first worldwide event of the yr, First Stand, which can happen in São Paulo, Brazil.