Our guide to all League of Legends (LoL) world champions provides you with details on the team and their victory.

1. League Of Legends Worlds Winner Prize
2. Who Won Lol Worlds 2018

The League of Legends Worlds Championship is the biggest event in the LoL competitive scene and perhaps in all of esports. Each championship event crowns a team as LoL World Champion, which means they are the game’s best players.

Gamepedia's League of Legends Esports wiki covers tournaments, teams, players, and personalities in League of Legends. Pages that were modified between April 2014 and June 2016 are adapted from information taken from Esportspedia.com. Pages modified between June 2016 and September 2017 are adapted from information taken from EsportsWikis.com. The League of Legends World Championship ('LoL Worlds' for short) is the annual professional League of Legends world championship tournament operated by Riot Games. It is the largest tournament in LoL esports and is held at the end of the season in October.

In anticipation of this year’s League of Legends Worlds Championship, scheduled to start on the 25th of September, let’s look at past LoL Worlds Champions.

Past League of Legends Worlds Champions

Fnatic

Fnatic is technically the first League of Legends Worlds Champions, having won the Season 1 event. The event took place from June 18, 2011, and ran until June 20, 2011.

The Season 1 Championship was not on the same scale as later seasons were, nor was it marketed as such. Nevertheless, fans and pundits consider Fnatic an honorary world champion. Fnatic defeated Against All Authority in the final with a 2-1 score. Fnatic got to take home a $99,500 prize pool. The MVP of the game was Shushei.

Taipei Assassins

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The Taipei Assassins were the second LoL World Champions crowned when they won the Season 2 championship. The event took place on October 4, 2012, and ran until October 13, 2012.

The Taipei Assassins are the only team from what is now considered a minor or wild card region to win a World Championship. Their victory is the biggest underdog success story at any Worlds event. They defeated Azubu Frost in the final with a 3-1 score. The team was rewarded with a $2,000,000 prize pool. No MVP was officially signed.

SK Telecom T1

SK Telecom T1 (SKT) was crowned LoL Worlds Champions the most times out of any team in the scene. They won the Season 3, 2015, and 2016 World Champions. They defeated Royal Club, KOO Tigers, and Samsung Galaxy to become champions for those three years.

For all three titles, SKT fielded the same mid-laner and jungler: Sang-hyeok “Faker” Lee, heralded as the greatest of all time, and Seong-woong “Bengi” Bae, Faker’s longtime sidekick. The 2013 bottom-lane duo was bot-laner Gwang-jin “Piglet” Chae and support Jeong-hyeon “PoohManDu” Lee. For 2015-2016, the more familiar Jun-sik “Bang” Bae and Jae-wan “Wolf” Lee competed in the bottom lane.

Each championship line-up featured a different top laner. For 2013, it was Eon-young “Impact” Jung. For 2015, it was Gyeong-hwan “MaRin” Jang. For 2016, it was Ho-seong “Duke” Lee.

SK Telecom T1 took home a $2,050,000, $2,130,000, and $5,070,000 prize pool respectively, making them the top-earning team at worlds. At the 2015 and 2016 matches, the MVPs were MaRin and Faker; there was no MVP at Season 3.

Samsung White

Samsung White are the winners of the 2014 World Championship. The event ran from September 18, 2014, to October 19, 2014.

Samsung White (SSW) and sister team Samsung Blue (SSB) was the World Championship’s heavy favorites. 2014 was the height of the Korean dominance in the LoL professional scene.

For most pundits, Samsung Blue was the stronger team and the more likely team to win. It was thus a massive surprise when SSW upset SSB in the semi-finals. This came mainly from the two teams’ constant practice against each other, allowing SSW to craft specific strategies tailored to overcoming what most considered the superior Samsung team.

Samsung White defeated Star Horn Royal Club in the final with a 3-1 score. The team took home a $2,130,000 prize pool. The MVP of the event was Mata.

Samsung Galaxy

Samsung Galaxy (SSG) are the winners of the 2017 World Championship. The event ran from September 23, 2017, to November 4, 2017.

SSG was not expected to succeed as much as they did. Considered the weakest of the three LCK representative teams going into Worlds, SSG benefited greatly from the balance changes around the Ardent Censer support item. This pushed the metagame towards slow, bottom-lane-focused compositions that relied on scaling and late-game teamfighting: a perfect fit for SSG’s playstyle.

SSG defeated SK Telecom T1 with a 3-0 score in the final. The team took home a $4,596,591 prize pool. The MVP of the event was Ruler.

Invictus Gaming

Invictus Gaming (IG) are the winners of the 2018 World Championships. The event ran from October 1, 2018, to November 3, 2018.

IG was a wild card team in the most real sense. The team was famously aggressive with top mechanical talent in all three lanes. The team’s relentless need to fight was a double-edged sword and often cost the team as often as they succeeded.

The metagame at Worlds 2018 favored strong solo laners; IG had the best mid-laner and top-laner in Eui-jin “Rookie” Song and Seung-lok “TheShy” Kang. Coupled with the talented bot-laner Wen-bo “JackeyLove” Yu and an unusually strong performance from jungler Zhen-ning “Ning” Gao, IG took the playoffs by storm.

After an intense best-of-five series against tournament favorite kt Rolster in the quarter-finals, IG summarily stomped all opposition to the trophy. IG defeated Fnatic with a 3-0 score in the final. Thus, substitute top-laner Duke became the fifth player to win two World Championships (after former SKT teammates Faker, Bengi, Bang, and Wolf), although Duke did not play for IG in most of their games.
Invictus Gaming took home a $6,450,000 prize pool. The MVP of the game was Ning.

FunPlus Phoenix

FunPlus Phoenix (FPX) are the winners of the 2019 World Champions. The event ran from October 2, 2019, to November 10, 2019.

FPX is similar to Samsung Galaxy in that they won with a particular style that happened to fit the metagame. The metagame for Worlds 2019 favored strong team-fighting and objective control to secure victories.

FPX star mid-laner Tae-sang “Doinb” Kim is famous for his unconventional approach to the game. Comparatively lackluster in mechanical skill, Doinb instead relied on his in-depth game knowledge to gain lane pressure with unconventional picks and strategies. These tactics, nicknamed Doinb’s “dark technology,” allowed him to roam around the map and bolster his more mechanically talented teammates to get ahead. In the case of 2019 Worlds, Doinb operated alongside jungler Tian-liang “Tian” Gao.

FPX defeated G2 Esports with a 3-0 score in the final. The team took home a $2,200,000 prize pool. The MVP of the game was Tian.

You should now better understand the history of previous editions of the LoL Worlds and how the winning teams managed to claim their victories. If, on the other hand, you are also looking for more information about the latest LoL Standings for the 2020 LoL Worlds edition, then we’ve got you covered with our LoL Worlds Power Rankings.

The League of Legends World Championship countdown is officially on, and the groups for this year's tournament held in Europe have been drawn.

The play-in round, which begins in Berlin on Oct. 2, was determined before matters turned to the main event, where the favorites to hoist the Summoner's Cup learned their fates.

The top four teams from the play-in stage will advance to the main event, with the only caveat being that teams from the same region cannot be drawn in the same group. This means some play-in teams are already locked into where they will end up in the main event depending on who advances from the opening stage of the tournament.

Here are the official groups for both the play-in round and the main-event group stage:

Play-ins

Group A

• Clutch Gaming

• Unicorns of Love

• MAMMOTH

Group B

• Splyce

• Isurus Gaming

• Detonation FocusMe

Group C

• Hong Kong Attitude

• Lowkey Esports

• MEGA

Group D

• Damwon Gaming

• Royal Youth

• Flamengo Esports

Main Event

Group A

• G2 Esports

• Griffin

• Cloud9

• TBD

Group B

• FunPlus Phoenix

• J Team

• GAM Esports

• TBD

Group C

• SK Telecom T1

• Fnatic

• Royal Never Give Up

• TBD

Group D

• Team Liquid

• ahq eSports

• Invictus Gaming

• TBD

Now, let's get to the winners and losers of today's group draw.

Winner: Splyce

They might be rebranding after this worlds is over, but maybe OverActive Media should keep the Splyce name depending on how deep the team gets this tournament. While I think Splyce is just alongside Clutch Gaming as the No. 2 team in the play-in stage, the European underdog might have had the best day during the group draw.

Their play-in group might be one of the toughest, but does that really matter? Regardless of how tough a play-in group is, a team from Europe should still make it to the main event. After that, Splyce have a 50/50, a coin flip, of landing in the two easiest groups, either Group B or Group D.

If they land in Group B, they might be favored to make it out in second place. If it's Group D, they could match up well with the top team in Team Liquid and could catch a deflated reigning champion in Invictus Gaming.

Before Monday, I didn't expect to talk about Splyce being a potential quarterfinalist, but here we are. Every year there is a play-in team that gets a good roll, and this year it's Splyce.

Loser: Clutch Gaming

When one team cashes in with the group draw, another rolls skulls and crossbones.

In a different world, Clutch Gaming are the team that has the chance to get into Group B and make it to the quarterfinals, but alas, it was not meant to be. If everything goes to plan in the play-ins, then Clutch Gaming will join Group C, possibly the most stacked group in worlds history.

Clutch, the North American team that was never supposed to make it here, is probably rolling up into a group with the winningest franchise of all-time in SKT, last year's world finalists in Fnatic and last year's Mid-Season Invitational winners in RNG.

Clutch's chances of getting out of that group? Non-existent. On the positive end, though, Clutch have all the makings of a quick-paced spoiler with the knockout power to upend one of these legendary franchises. There's a strong possibility Clutch exit Group C with a 1-5 or 2-4 record, but those one or two victories might be the sweetest of the entire tournament.

Winner: FunPlus Phoenix

One of my hesitations with betting on FunPlus as a team was that they were going straight into the main event group stages with a starting five that doesn't have a single game of worlds experience between them. How do you rectify that? You give them a cupcake group devoid of any top challengers. This narrative might shift a bit of South Korea's Damwon Gaming becomes the fourth team drawn into the group (50/50 with Splyce if play-ins are chalk) but even then, FunPlus should make it to the knockout rounds in pretty good shape.

Truth be told, if Splyce rolls into Group B, then there's an argument that the entirety of Group B for the main event are winners. It would truly be the group of life, where FunPlus are expected to finish first and three teams that before the tournament were longshots to make the knockout rounds now all believe they're going to the quarterfinals. If Damwon gets in this group, though, then it should be a straightforward FunPlus and Damwon one-two finish (or vice versa).

Losers: Fnatic, SKT, RNG

Similar to how everyone who gets into Group B is a winner, everyone who is in Group C is a loser today.

Clutch might be drawing dead if they make it through play-ins, but it's mind-boggling to think that one of Fnatic, SKT and RNG won't be making it to the quarterfinals. All three teams would have been favored to make it to the knockout rounds if they were separated, but now at least one of these legendary squads will see their 2019 end prematurely. Coming into worlds, I wouldn't be surprised if the Group C trio thought they'd all be making deep runs in the tournament. They're now in a fight for their lives to even survive the group stage.

If SKT lose, then it's the first time they ever failed to make a final when qualifying for worlds. Huge failure.

If Fnatic lose, then Europe's most famous and popular team fails to make the quarterfinals in front of their home fans. Huge failure.

If RNG lose, then China's golden franchise that upgraded its roster to make up for last year's disappointment will do even worse than their meltdown in 2018. Huge failure.

One of these storylines is confirmed to be happening. How wild is that?

Winner: Team Liquid

This was one of the best preliminary groups the North American champs could ask for: ahq eSports are probably the weakest main event team at worlds, so Team Liquid should take care of business there. Invictus Gaming are a threat as the reigning world champs and will want revenge for Liquid starting their slump when they eliminated them from MSI earlier this year, but they were also one of the better options on the board.

Team Liquid have already shown they can beat iG, and this is a weaker iG than the team they faced in Taiwan all those months ago.

The fourth team could be the game-changer, however. If it's Splyce, then Liquid should prove to be the superior of the two similar teams and get out of the group in a breezy place. If it's Damwon, then Liquid will have more problems on their hands. Although I believe TL's bottom lane can definitely exploit Damwon's and withstand the South Korean team's monstrous solo lanes, I don't see Damwon being an easy out for any team in this tournament.

Either way, Team Liquid should make it out of this group. They're MSI finalists, four-time domestic champions and the best roster ever built in North America. If Yiliang 'Doublelift' Peng & Co. don't get out of this group after drawing ahq eSports and a struggling iG, then no matter how matter domestic titles they win, they'll never hear the end of it.

Winner: The fans

Yes, this is cheesy.

Do I care? No.

These are great groups. Although Group B seems pretty soft currently, there is no way of knowing what GAM Esports are cooking up in their mad-scientist kitchen for this group. GAM always bring excitement, and the same can be said for FunPlus. If Damwon get in that group, then you might have the three most fun teams of the tournament excluding G2 Esports off in Group A.

Speaking of Group A, how isn't that going to be a barnburner? G2 are wacky and will have the pressure of being the best team in front of their home fans. Griffin have the ceiling of winning worlds without dropping a game but the floor of bombing out in the group stages. Cloud9, while the odd man out at first glance, are a good team with some of the best coaching at the tournament and the pedigree of turning impossible groups into memorable conquests.

Group C, as we've already talked, about is going to be one for the ages. And Group D has the delicious Team Liquid and Invictus Gaming storyline where we might see these two giant organizations truly become heated rivals in front of our eyes.

Who Won Lol Worlds 2018

Let the fun begin.