LoL Worlds 2026 Team Scores (0–10): Pick'Ems & Crystal Ball Guide

Anyone can copy the summer standings into their League of Legends Pick'Ems and call it a day. That works right up until a third seed that spent August surviving five-game bloodbaths runs into a first seed that hasn't been punched in the mouth since April. To give your LoL Worlds 2026 bracket and Crystal Ball picks a real edge, we graded all 19 teams from 0 to 10 based on how hard their trophies were to win and how cleanly they closed out the map. Lifting the Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) trophy or surviving a full LCK or LPL season counts for far more than cruising through a developing league, and sweeping a playoff bracket 9–1 in games tells us much more than scraping through three Silver Scrapes thrillers.

We also dug into the story behind every roster move. Did an off-season blockbuster or an emergency mid-year academy call-up actually make the five players on stage stronger than they were at the end of 2025? Use these scores to anchor your title contenders and spot live underdogs without treating them as a fixed script. We'll tell you who looks ready to lift the Summoner's Cup, yet we never predict exact placements, because a five-point dark horse catching fire or a fearless 18-year-old rookie turning into the next Faker is the whole reason we watch October League of Legends.

• 9.5/10 · Gen.G (LCK #1, Swiss) · LCK Cup & LCK Season champions, 20–4 combined domestic playoff games.
• 9.4/10 · Bilibili Gaming (LPL #2, Swiss) · First Stand, LPL Split 1 & Split 2 champions, MSI runner-up.
• 9.3/10 · Hanwha Life Esports (LCK #2, Swiss) · MSI 2026 champions, 32–11 LCK Rounds 1–2 map record.
• 8.8/10 · Anyone’s Legend (LPL #1, Swiss) · LPL Split 3 champions after adding carry top laner Breathe.
• 8.5/10 · Dplus KIA (LCK #4, Swiss) · EWC 2026 champions, 6–2 in LCK Legend Group Rounds 3–4.
• 8.4/10 · T1 (LCK #3, Swiss) · 2025 World Champions, 14–4 in LCK Rounds 1–2 with new ADC Peyz.
• 8.2/10 · G2 Esports (LEC #1, Swiss) · Three-split LEC sweep (10–0 in domestic Bo5s), First Stand finalist.
• 8.0/10 · LYON (LCS #2, Swiss) · LCS Lock-In & Spring champions, 3rd at MSI 2026, 13–2 Summer games.
• 7.9/10 · Team Liquid (LCS #1, Swiss) · LCS Summer champions (9–2 playoff games) with rebuilt top side.
• 7.7/10 · Top Esports (LPL #3, Swiss) · LPL Split 2 finalist & Regional Finals Upper Bracket winner.
• 7.5/10 · Invictus Gaming (LPL #4, Swiss) · Five-Bo5 late-summer surge after TheShy returned to top lane.
• 7.4/10 · Karmine Corp (LEC #3, Play-In) · 24–5 LEC regular seasons (9–0 Summer) and EWC 2026 finalist.
• 7.2/10 · Team Secret Whales (LCP #1, Swiss) · Three-split LCP sweep, beat Top Esports 3–1 at MSI 2026.
• 7.0/10 · Movistar KOI (LEC #2, Swiss) · Swept undefeated Karmine Corp 3–0 in LEC Summer lower bracket.
• 6.8/10 · Cloud9 (LCS #3, Play-In) · 15–2 regular-season record, stabilized by seven-man roster swaps.
• 6.3/10 · CTBC Flying Oyster (LCP #2, Swiss) · Rebuilt four starters, surged in Split 3 with rookie mid POUT.
• 6.1/10 · LOS (CBLOL #1, Swiss) · CBLOL Split 2 champions after a 3–2 Rio Grand Final victory.
• 5.8/10 · MVK Esports (LCP #3, Play-In) · Coach SofM promoted three rookies to upset GAM Esports 3–2.
• 5.7/10 · FURIA (CBLOL #2, Play-In) · CBLOL Split 1 champions, five-man Brazilian continuity.

Anything above 9.0 is a heavyweight built to win the whole tournament, while the 7.0 to 8.8 pack is loaded with dangerous rosters that can blow up a lazy Crystal Ball ticket in a single afternoon.

Gen.G (9.5/10) takes the top spot on our board because they did the hardest thing in modern League: they kept all five starters from 2025 (Kiin, Canyon, Chovy, Ruler, and Duro) and somehow got even meaner. Last year, former FearX support Duro was the one player critics circled as a question mark; in 2026, he blossomed into a fearless engage partner for Ruler. Gen.G treated domestic Korea like a private scrim block, winning the LCK Cup with an 11–2 playoff map count (sweeping HLE and BNK FearX 3–0 behind Canyon's Finals MVP jungle pathing) and cruising through the unified LCK Season at 19–7 in series (44–19 in games) before beating HLE 3–1 twice to claim the autumn crown. Only two international stumbles keep them from a 10: a stunner of a 0–3 loss to G2 at First Stand and a 2–3 Road to MSI defeat to T1. Even with those bruises, Gen.G is a premier candidate to win LoL Worlds 2026.

Hanwha Life Esports (9.3/10) could have imploded when Peanut retired and Viper packed his bags for China. Instead, HLE swung for the fences, signing former JDG and TES carry jungler Kanavi and luring three-time World Champion Gumayusi away from T1 to join Zeus, Zeka, and Delight. Sure, January was a disaster, as they crashed out of the LCK Cup in tenth place while figuring out who should take the farm. Once Delight and Kanavi synced up their river invades, though, HLE became a buzzsaw, tearing through LCK Rounds 1–2 at 15–3 (32–11 in games) and knocking off T1 3–1 to reach MSI. In Daejeon, they went all the way, sweeping TSW and G2 3–0 and outlasting LYON and BLG in back-to-back 3–2 thrillers behind tournament MVP Zeus. Dropping two 1–3 playoff series to Gen.G in September nudges them to Korea's second seed, but the reigning MSI kings can beat anyone on the planet.

Dplus KIA (8.5/10) is what happens when a proud org stops recycling veterans and lets the kids loose. After missing Worlds in 2025, coach cvMax parted ways with Aiming and BeryL and handed the bot lane to former T1 Challengers prodigy Smash and 2025 LCK CL Finals MVP rookie support Career alongside Siwoo, Lucid, and ShowMaker. Smash plays every trade like he's allergic to backing off, and Career's snap engages finally gave ShowMaker the fast map tempo he's been begging for. After taking third in the LCK Cup and losing a 2–3 heartbreaker to KT in Road to MSI, DK caught fire in July to win the Esports World Cup in Paris, beating BLG 2–1, Gen.G 2–1, and Karmine Corp 3–0 with Smash taking MVP before posting a league-best 6–2 record in LCK Legend Group Rounds 3–4. If these rookies don't blink under the arena lights, DK is a live title threat.

T1 (8.4/10) walks into October as the three-time defending World Champion, yet this isn't the exact same five-man miracle machine. When Gumayusi left in the off-season, T1 handed the keys to 20-year-old mechanical phenom Peyz (fresh off stints with Gen.G and JD Gaming) alongside Doran, Oner, Faker, and Keria. Peyz's razor-sharp teamfight cleanup looked unstoppable in spring as T1 went 14–4 (30–10 in games) in Rounds 1–2 and beat Gen.G 3–2 to grab an MSI ticket. By mid-summer, however, elite opponents started punishing T1's lighter weak-side bot stability in deep Fearless Draft series, sending them home fifth-sixth at MSI (after losing 2–3 to BLG and 1–3 to G2), fourth at EWC, and 3–5 in the LCK Legend Group before two playoff losses to HLE. Those summer map losses explain the 8.4, but leaving Faker and Keria off your Crystal Ball shortlist in October is a mistake you only make once.

Bilibili Gaming (9.4/10) took their 2025 Worlds Swiss exit personally. They brought back tempo jungler Xun from JDG, signed 2021 World Champion bot laner Viper from HLE to join Bin, Knight, and ON under coach Daeny, and immediately looked like a superteam that actually likes playing together. Xun gave ON his early-game compass back, while Viper gave BLG late-game insurance that never needs babysitting, and a brief January rotation with academy top laner Wenbo only made Bin play angrier. BLG won LPL Split 1 (3–1 over JDG), conquered First Stand in São Paulo by beating BNK FearX and G2 3–1 with Bin as Finals MVP, and won five straight lower-bracket best-of-fives to sweep Top Esports 3–0 for the Split 2 title. They came within a single map of the MSI trophy in a 2–3 classic against HLE and went 12–2 in Split 3 before splitting two series with Anyone's Legend. BLG has everything required to win Worlds.

Anyone’s Legend (8.8/10) spent the first half of the year as China's nearly-men. Keeping their 2025 Worlds quarterfinal five of Flandre, Split 1 MVP Tarzan, Shanks, Hope, and Kael got them fourth in both Split 1 and Split 2, close enough to hurt, not close enough for an international flight. Realizing that Fearless Draft series demanded a nastier side-lane duelist, AL signed veteran carry top laner Breathe (formerly of Weibo and IG) in July. That single move opened up the whole map for Tarzan and Shanks. Even after BLG swept them 3–0 in the Split 3 Upper Bracket Final, AL didn't flinch: they outlasted Invictus Gaming 3–2 in the lower final and stunned BLG 3–1 in the Grand Final for the org's first LPL crown. Winning China's hardest split makes AL a genuine contender for the Summoner's Cup.

Top Esports (7.7/10) lived through enough soap-opera drama in 2026 to fill three seasons. After Kanavi left for Korea, TES opened Split 1 without star ADC JackeyLove while he treated tinnitus (academy call-up JiaQi held the fort), only to watch Split 1 jungler naiyou get hit with a lifetime match-fixing ban in March. Management hit the emergency button for Split 2: they brought back 2019 Worlds Finals MVP Tian alongside a healthy JackeyLove, rotated challenger top ZUIAN behind 369, and signed veteran support Zhuo in July. That battle-hardened lineup made the Split 2 Final (losing 0–3 to BLG) and shook off an ugly 0–2 MSI trip and two 2–3 Split 3 playoff heartbreakers by beating IG 3–1 in the Regional Finals Upper Bracket. With Tian and JackeyLove healthy, TES is the ultimate high-variance Pick'Ems wildcard.

Invictus Gaming (7.5/10) has no business being a fourth seed, and whoever draws them in Swiss is going to be miserable. While iconic top laner TheShy took Splits 1 and 2 off and 2025 ADC GALA departed, IG cycled through Soboro and Breathe top, rotated Jwei with Meiko at support, and promoted TES Challengers rookie JiaQi to replace Photic, sinking all the way into the lower-tier Group Nirvana after a 0–3 Play-In loss to ThunderTalk. Then TheShy walked back through the door for Split 3 alongside Wei, Rookie, JiaQi, and Meiko. JiaQi played like a fearless ten-year vet in late-game fights, and IG caught lightning in a bottle, ripping through five best-of-fives across playoffs and the regional gauntlet (beating TES 3–2, WE 3–1, LGD 3–0, and JDG 3–1, while pushing champion AL to 2–3). This is a legacy monster disguised as a #4 seed.

G2 Esports (8.2/10) didn't touch a single starter after 2025, and that faith paid off in spades. Sticking with BrokenBlade, SkewMond, Caps, Hans Sama, and Labrov let second-year French jungler SkewMond and support Labrov turn G2's early-game setups into clockwork. Domestic Europe couldn't even take a series off them: G2 won all three LEC splits (Versus, Spring, and Summer), going a spotless 10–0 in domestic best-of-fives and crushing the Summer playoffs 9–1 in games. Better yet, their international resume isn't built on moral victories. They swept Gen.G 3–0 to reach the First Stand Final and knocked out both Top Esports (3–2) and T1 (3–1) on their way to fourth place at MSI. Getting swept by HLE and LYON at MSI keeps them just shy of the 9.0 tier, but Caps finally has a roster that can beat Eastern heavyweights in a five-game series.

Karmine Corp (7.4/10) is a terrifying draw to find lurking in the Play-In stage. Reapered kept Canna, Yike, and teenage phenom Caliste while upgrading the spine of the team with 20-year-old Korean mid laner kyeahoo (a Fearless Draft pocket-pick wizard from DRX Challengers) and former FlyQuest support Busio, whose Polish-American dual citizenship saved an import slot. For nine months, KC looked like Europe's best regular-season machine, going 24–5 across three splits (including an unbeaten 9–0, 18–2 Summer run) and marching to the Esports World Cup Final in Paris by beating Anyone's Legend 2–0 and T1 2–1. They sit at 7.4 only because elimination best-of-fives haunted them, with two 2–3 final losses to G2 and 0–3 series defeats to Team Liquid and Movistar KOI. If kyeahoo and Caliste settle their nerves, KC can wreck the Swiss stage.

Movistar KOI (7.0/10) spent most of the year testing how much patience one fanbase can handle. Keeping Myrwn, Elyoya, Jojopyun, Supa, and Alvaro together for a second year looked shaky when MKOI finished third in Versus and Spring to miss both international events, then limped to a 4–5 (10–12 map) sixth-place finish in the Summer regular season. Then the lower bracket started, and MKOI remembered how much fun it is to make games ugly. Behind Myrwn's weird top-lane counterpicks and Jojopyun's ruthless laning, they outlasted Vitality 3–2, handled Natus Vincere 3–1, and detonated Europe's bracket by sweeping previously unbeaten Karmine Corp 3–0 to steal a direct Swiss seed. They're streaky, loud, and love dragging disciplined favorites into a street fight.

LYON (8.0/10) crashed North America's party in their debut LCS season and walked away with the region's best international run in years. Coach Reignover built a bruiser around returning Korean mid laner Saint by signing two-time MVP jungler Inspired, 2023 LCS MVP bot laner Berserker, support Isles, and veteran top laner Dhokla, who took over full-time after Canadian rookie Zamudo ran into visa trouble. Dhokla's relentless side-lane pressure and Inspired's tempo control powered LYON to the Lock-In trophy, a 6–0 playoff sweep of C9 and Team Liquid in Spring, and a jaw-dropping third-place finish at MSI 2026, where they swept FURIA, TSW, and G2 3–0 before taking eventual champion HLE all the way to Game 5 (2–3). A 1–3 Summer Final loss to Team Liquid after a 6–1 (13–2 map) regular season costs them the #1 seed, but LYON fears nobody.

Team Liquid (7.9/10) took one look at their 2025 failure to make Worlds and blew up the entire top half of the map around Yeon and CoreJJ. Signing LCK weak-side rock Morgan (ex-BRION), Argentine crowd-favorite jungler Josedeodo (ex-Estral), and 2024 LCS MVP mid laner Quid (ex-100 Thieves) cured every mid-game collapse that used to plague TL. Morgan happily soaked pressure on an island while Josedeodo and Quid turned river crab fights into highlight reels. After climbing from fourth in Lock-In to second in Spring and sweeping Karmine Corp 3–0 in MSI Play-Ins, Liquid owned the LCS Summer split at 6–1 (12–3 in games) and ripped through playoffs 9–2 in maps, beating C9 3–1 and LYON 3–1 behind Finals MVP Josedeodo. They hit October playing their sharpest League of the year.

Cloud9 (6.8/10) treated their 2026 roster like a chess board around Thanatos, Blaber, and Vulcan. With outspoken mid laner APA and Zven starting in Lock-In and Spring, C9 went an absurd 10–0 across best-of-three regular seasons (3–0 Lock-In, 7–0 Spring), only to hit a brick wall in Fearless Draft best-of-fives whenever opponents pinched APA's champion pool. Rather than stubbornly hoping Summer would be different, C9 expanded to a seven-man squad, bringing back mechanical Korean mid laner Loki and veteran ADC Tactical to play 32 of their 36 Summer games (18–14 map count). That pivot helped C9 go 5–2 in Summer and ambush LYON 3–1 in the Upper Bracket Semifinals to punch their Worlds ticket, making them a genuinely tricky Play-In puzzle to scout.

Team Secret Whales (7.2/10) ushered in a new era for the Asia-Pacific region under 2019 World Champion coach WarHorse. By surrounding veteran VCS shotcaller Bie with fearless teenage Vietnamese mechanics (18-year-old two-time Split MVP jungler Hizto, Split 1 Finals MVP mid laner Dire, and ADC Eddie) and locking in Pun as the full-time top laner over Hiro02, TSW cured the mid-game Baron throws that used to haunt young Pacific squads. Winning all three 2026 LCP splits, they went 7–0 in Split 2 series and crushed CTBC Flying Oyster 6–0 across the Split 3 Upper and Grand Finals. Even better, after going 0–6 in maps at First Stand, these kids walked into MSI 2026 and knocked out the LPL's Top Esports 3–1 in a best-of-five. If you want a minor-region giant-killer for your Pick'Ems, start right here.

CTBC Flying Oyster (6.3/10) had to rebuild the plane while flying it after four starters from their historic 2025 Worlds Quarterfinal run (JunJia, HongQ, Kaiwing, and Driver) left in the off-season, leaving only veteran top laner Rest and star ADC Doggo. Early experiments with jungler Shad0w and rotating rookies Pungyeon, Orca, and 2274 were rough, dropping CFO to fifth-sixth in Splits 1 and 2 and leaving them with a 40–47 full-year map count. Then July arrived, and CFO promoted 18-year-old Korean academy mid laner POUT alongside veteran support Kino. POUT played without a hint of fear, sparking a 3–1 Swiss stage and three straight best-of-five wins over MVK Esports (3–2, 3–0, and 3–1) to grab LCP's second Swiss seed. Maybe POUT is the unknown rookie who catches fire and turns into a bracket legend.

MVK Esports (5.8/10), rebranded from MGN Vikings Esports and coached by 2020 Worlds finalist SofM, is the best feel-good underdog story in the tournament. When veteran carries Kati, Shogun, and Elio stumbled to seventh place in LCP Split 1, SofM made a gutsy call in April: he benched the vets and promoted three unproven academy rookies at once, slotting in Chika at mid, Harky at ADC, and SiuLoong at support next to top-jungle duo Kratos and Gury. Guided by SofM's signature jungle-first macro, the rookies leaped to fourth in Split 2 (upsetting CFO 3–2) and third in Split 3, where they took down regional giant GAM Esports 3–2 in a five-game nail-biter to reach Worlds for the first time. A team this young plays with house money and zero fear.

LOS (6.1/10) claimed Brazil's lone direct Swiss ticket on October 10 after a year-long climb under Korean coach Enatron. Rebuilding from scratch after 2025, LOS paired former Gen.G Challengers top laner Zest and former WE Academy mid laner Feisty with 2025 CBLOL Rookie of the Year Duduhh and LATAM veteran support Ackerman, then found their missing piece in April by signing hyper-aggressive Korean jungler Curse to replace Drakehero. After dropping the Split 1 Final 1–3 to FURIA while still learning each other's tendencies, Curse supercharged their early game in Split 2. LOS went 6–1 (13–3 in games) in the regular season, beat FURIA 3–1 and LOUD 3–2 in the upper bracket, and outlasted FURIA 3–2 in front of a roaring Rio de Janeiro arena with Curse taking Finals MVP. Brazil's champ hits Swiss riding a massive wave of momentum.

FURIA (5.7/10) rounds out the 19-team field as the ultimate battle-tested brawler. While every domestic rival blew up their roster, FURIA kept all five Brazilian starters from 2025 (Guigo, Tatu, Tutsz, Ayu, and JoJo) and rode that five-man chemistry to the CBLOL Split 1 title (3–1 over LOS) and a trip to MSI 2026, where 0–3 losses to LYON and T1 gave them a crash course in international speed. Their Split 2 repeat bid nearly derailed when star jungler Tatu served two Riot disciplinary suspensions, forcing coach Luuukz and retired veteran Shini into the jungle during a 1–3 upper-bracket loss to LOS. The moment Tatu returned, FURIA swept LOUD 3–0 in the Lower Bracket Final and pushed LOS to Game 5 (2–3) in Rio. With their full five back together for Play-Ins, FURIA lives to drag polite teams into pure chaos.

• Worlds 2026: Dates, Format and All 19 Qualified Teams
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• LoL Esports: Official Worlds 2026 qualified teams and overview
• Leaguepedia: 2026 Mid-Season Invitational results and bracket
• Leaguepedia: 2026 First Stand Tournament results
• Leaguepedia: 2026 LCK Season and Playoff results
• Leaguepedia: 2026 LPL Split 3 Playoffs and Regional Finals
• Leaguepedia: 2026 LEC Summer Playoffs
• Leaguepedia: 2026 LCS Summer Playoffs
• Leaguepedia: 2026 LCP Season Finals
• Leaguepedia: 2026 CBLOL Split 2 Playoffs