The Hall of Legends began in 2024 with a difficult promise: choose one professional player each year whose achievements and influence deserve a permanent place in League of Legends history. Faker was the obvious first name. Uzi followed in 2025. On August 16, 2026, Riot announced Caps as the third inductee and the first from the Western professional scene.
Read together, those choices show that this is not a trophy table with ceremonial lighting. Faker owns the game’s greatest competitive record. Uzi changed how an entire role was played and watched. Caps carried Europe’s modern international ambitions further than any Western peer. The hall is defining greatness broadly, but not loosely.
What is the Hall of Legends?
LoL Esports describes the Hall of Legends as an annual honor for players who mastered the game, inspired fans and made a lasting contribution to the sport. An independent panel of veterans and experts from every competitive region weighs international appearances, regional and international titles, role-specific statistics and the player’s wider impact.
Each inductee receives an official trophy and a dedicated in-game celebration built around moments from the player’s career. The player and the player’s team also receive a share of revenue from the associated pass and cosmetic bundles. That commercial layer is visible, but the selection itself is meant to become League of Legends’ permanent historical record.
The three Hall of Legends inductees
The list is short enough to read as an argument. These profiles explain what each player added to it:
Three models of greatness
Faker represents the most complete case: an early mechanical peak, leadership through changing rosters, domestic control and six World Championships won across 13 seasons. His induction set the ceiling. No later candidate needs to match that record, because nobody else can.
Uzi and Caps show why the hall cannot be reduced to Worlds rings. Uzi’s 2013 and 2014 finals, 2018 MSI title and influence on bot-lane play made him central to China’s esports rise. Caps won MSI 2019, reached consecutive Worlds finals with two organizations and collected 17 LEC titles by June 2026. One changed the global standard for his role; the other changed what a region believed it could do.
What the first three choices establish
The annual limit forces the panel to make editorial choices instead of admitting an entire generation at once. After Faker, Uzi and Caps, the precedent is clear: trophies matter, international performance matters, and cultural influence matters. A candidate does not need all three in equal measure, but the career must have changed the history around it.