Every confirmed LPL roster for 2026

China’s premier League of Legends competition, the LPL, is set to undergo a major restructuring in 2026.

The reformatted competition follows a challenging 2025 campaign for China, with LPL representatives falling short at international events and failing to win the world championship for a fourth consecutive year.

In response to these disappointing results, teams across the league are attempting to make sweeping changes yet again, including some of the 2025’s powerhouses. 

Many big names have changed teams as some organisations opted for full rebuilds. With such a major shakeup and the renewed urgency to restore China’s status on the international stage, Esports Insider has outlined all confirmed rosters ahead of the LPL 2026 season.

Editor’s note: This article will be regularly updated as additional roster moves are confirmed.

Starting off this list is Anyone’s Legend, the most consistent LPL team during the 2025 season.

After a strong season, which saw Anyone’s Legend finish in the top eight at Worlds 2025, the organisation was able to retain all five members for yet another season.

That said, the LPL 2025 Split 2 champion had to bring in a new head coach following Wong ‘Tabe’ Pak Kan’s departure. The new head coach is Kwon ‘Helper’ Yeong-jae, formerly of Gen.G, and he will be supported by Jiang ‘Teacherma’ Chen.

If there is one team that is expected to dominate the LPL in the 2026 season, it’s BiliBili Gaming.

After a disastrous end to its 2025 Worlds run, which saw the team eliminated in the Swiss Stage, BLG has had an incredible off-season. The LPL Split 3 champion has brought back jungler Peng ‘Xun’ Lixun and imported Korean ADC Park ‘Viper’ Do-Hyeon from the LCK.

With head coach Yang ‘Daeny’ Dae-in also joining, BiliBili Gaming is the undisputed biggest winner of the LPL off-season. 

While EDward Gaming is years away from the golden era when it lifted the Summoner’s Cup back in 2021, the team’s roster for the 2026 season has some potential.

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

The team only changed one member, replacing ADC An ‘Ahn’ Shan-Ye with Hu ‘Leave’ Hong-Chao, who played for Ninjas in Pyjamas this year. With LPL Rookie of the Year Parukia alongside him, the EDG bot lane could do some damage.

As the most popular team in the LPL, many fans were wondering whether Invictus Gaming would run its 2025 roster for another year. Unfortunately, that isn’t going to happen, as ADC Chen ‘GALA’ Wei left and top laner Kang ‘TheShy’ Seung-lok has decided to take a temporary break from pro play. 

However, the team was able to extend the contracts for jungler Yan ‘Wei’ Yang-Wei, mid laner Song ‘Rookie’ Eun-jin, and Tian ‘Meiko’ Ye.

In the top lane, TheShy will be replaced by former BNK FearX academy player Lim ‘Soboro’ Seong-min, while the new ADC will be Ying ‘Photic’ Qi-Shen. Additionally, IG also added two extra substitute players for mid lane and support, bringing in former Anyone’s Legend academy player Zhang ‘Renard’ Xing-Che and Sun ‘Jwei’ Jun-Wei, previously of FunPlus Phoenix.

After failing to qualify for Worlds this year, JD Gaming has gone for a major rebuild in the off-season, only retaining top laner Xu ‘Xiaoxu’ Xing-Zu.

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

The new bot lane will be formed by former Invictus Gaming ADC Chen ‘GALA’ Wei and Team WE support Zhao ‘Vampire’ Zhe-Can. The biggest pickup for JDG, however, comes from the coaching staff, as the team was able to bring in Wong ‘Tabe’ Pak Kan from Anyone’s Legend. The head coach is regarded as one of the best coaches in the scene, and has consistently led LPL teams to international tournaments over the past years. 

LGD Gaming has made two changes in mid and jungle, picking up Lin ‘Tangyuan’ Yu-Hong from Royal Never Give Up and jungler Yang ‘Heng’ Cui-Heng from Oh My God (OMG).

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

LNG Esports is one of the LPL teams that have opted to import Korean players to complete their line-ups. For 2026, the organisation has brought in Lee ‘BuLLDog’ Tae-young from DN Freecs in the LCK, as well as Kim ‘Croco’ Dong-beom, who played for OK BRION.

The three remaining players are top laner Xu ‘sheer’ WenJie, joining from FunPlusPhoenix, ADC Li ‘1xn’ Xiu-Nan and Lou ‘MISSING’ Yun-Feng. The latter returns to the competitive scene after taking a break from pro play, while 1xn joins from ThunderTalk Gaming.

Ninjas in Pyjamas is another team that dropped its 2025 roster and has rebuilt from scratch by using two Korean players. Top laner Yoon ‘HOYA’ Yong-ho joins after three years with ThunderTalk Gaming and will play alongside former T1 Esports Academy jungler Koo ‘Guwon’ Kwan-mo.

The other three players are Yang ‘Care’ Jie, Zou ‘Assum’ Wei, and Wang ‘Zhuo’ Xu-Zhuo. Care and Assum previously played for FunPlusPhoenix, while Zhuo had a short 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 new players joining OMG are top laner Wang ‘Hery’ He-Yong and mid laner Zhang ‘haichao’ Hai-Chao. Hery rejoins OMG after leaving in May earlier this year, while haichao played for LNG in 2025. 

Top Esports’ biggest loss during the off-season was the departure of jungler Seo ‘Kanavi’ Jin-hyeok, as he went on to join Hanwha Life Esports in the LCK. As a result, Top Esports replaced him with Yang ‘naiyou’ Zi-Jian, one of Top Esports’ former academy players who recently played for NIP. 

The rest of the roster is expected to be the same as its 2025 line-up, with Bai ‘369’ Jia-Hao, Lin ‘Creme’ Jian and Yu ‘JackeyLove’ Wen-Bo all extending contracts. Having said that, JackeyLove might sit out at the start of the season due to his worsening health conditions and might be temporarily substituted by Zi ‘JiaQi’ Jia-Qi.

The team has two supports as well. As a result, Fu ‘Hang’ Ming-Hang and Wang ‘fengyue’ Run-Lai might share some stage time in the new season.

With most of its players leaving the team, ThunderTalk Gaming has made drastic changes to its 2026 line-up. Aside from support player Wang ‘Feather’ Tian-Ci-Fu, who got retained, ThunderTalk Gaming will have four new players.

The bot lane will be filled by Chen ‘Ryan3’ Qi-Hong, promoted from ThunderTalk Gaming’s academy team, while top 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 team. Heru and Keshi played for BiliBili Gaming’s academy team in 2025, while Junhao represented Ultra Prime in the past season. 

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

The top lane will be split between Chen ‘1Jiang’ Yi-Chin and Zhang ‘Liangchen’ Liang-Chen, while the jungler will be Shi ‘luoyiyu’ Jia-Jun. Both Liangchen and luoyiyu were previously of BiliBili Gaming’s academy team.

Weibo Gaming are set to be another major 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 top laner Tang ‘Zika’ Hua Yu.

The latter is likely going to split stage time with Chen ‘Breathe‘ Chen, and the same is expected to happen in the support role between Shi ‘Erha‘ Xu-Ye and Liu ‘Crisp‘ Qing-Song.

Crisp, however, is set to take a break in the first split of the 2026 season, leaving Erha the starting player for now.

Following a strong 2025 campaign by Team WE, the team had to make two roster changes after Kim ‘Taeyoon‘ Tae-yoon went back to the LCK, and support Zhao ‘Vampire‘ Zhe-Can moved to JD Gaming.

To replace them, the organisation went with yet another pair of unexpectedsignings, ADC Moon ‘About‘ Hyeong-seok and support Bi ‘yaoyao‘ Haotian. About previously played for Gen.G’s academy team, while former ThunderTalk Gaming player yaoyao returns to competitive play after taking a hiatus in 2025.

The new LPL season will kick off sometime next month, although no starting date has been confirmed as of yet. Before that, the teams are currently competing in the Demacia Cup, featuring the LPL squads as well as two streamer teams.

The first split of the LPL 2026 season will see the top two teams represent the region at the first international tournament of the year, First Stand, which will take place in São Paulo, Brazil.