Blaber LoL: Career, Champions and Worlds 2026

Blaber is Robert Huang, an American jungler who has played for Cloud9 in North America since 16 June 2018. His whole listed career has been with one organization. Over that time he has collected LCS titles from 2020 through LCS 2026 Spring and finished 3rd–4th at Worlds 2018 in his first year.

His Leaguepedia signature champions are Kindred, Lee Sin, Nidalee and Elise, a list that points to the style he built his name on: proactive junglers who look for early skirmishes, invades and counter-ganks. In 2026 he plays a more frontline-heavy pool led by Jarvan IV, and Cloud9 heads to Worlds 2026 through the Play-Ins.

Blaber’s 2026 has been busier but less dominant than 2025. He has already played well past the 75 games of last season, a sign of a long calendar and deep playoff runs, but his win rate sits below the 64% he posted in 2025. Cloud9 still wins more than it loses with him in the jungle, just by a slimmer margin.

The shape of his games has shifted too. His KDA is down from 4.25 last season, and the dip comes from fewer assists per game rather than more deaths: he is actually dying slightly less often. He farms and earns gold at a higher rate, places more vision per minute and takes part in a slightly larger share of his team’s kills, while his damage and share of team damage have both dropped a little.

Read together, those lines describe a jungler who has moved toward a resource-and-control role. He is spending more time on camps and vision and less as a damage threat, which fits the tank and engage champions that now lead his pool.

Jarvan IV is Blaber’s main champion in 2026, and it has paid off: it is his most played pick and carries a clear winning record across a real sample. Sejuani is the other standout. On nine games it holds the best win rate among his regular picks and the cleanest KDA in the pool, which suits a champion built to engage and survive rather than chase kills.

Wukong and Nocturne sit right behind in games played, both at an even record. Nocturne deals far more damage per minute than Jarvan IV or Wukong, so it is the pick he reaches for when Cloud9 needs the jungler to threaten a carry directly. Vi and Xin Zhao have been the weak spots, each below even on a sample large enough to take seriously.

Pantheon was a spring weapon. It won five of its six games before dropping out of the pool after 15 April 2026. The pool is also wider than 2025’s 18 champions, with late additions such as Naafiri, Poppy, Ambessa and Skarner. Each has fewer than five games, so read those records as early signals, not verdicts.

Across his career, Lee Sin and Sejuani are his most played champions, with Xin Zhao, Wukong and Jarvan IV completing his staples, while older picks such as Olaf, Gragas and Maokai hold some of the best records he has ever posted.

Blaber’s builds say he wants long fights where his jungler stays alive in the middle of the enemy team. On Jarvan IV he pairs Black Cleaver with Sundered Sky as his core, then often adds Guardian Angel. The rune page is Conqueror in Precision with Inspiration secondary, taking Magical Footwear and Cosmic Insight, a setup that saves gold on boots and trims cooldowns for repeated engages.

Wukong follows the same logic. Trinity Force is his first item every time, Sundered Sky usually follows, and he runs the identical Conqueror page he uses on Jarvan IV. Black Cleaver, Guardian Angel and Maw of Malmortius rotate in later depending on what the enemy team threatens.

Nocturne is the one build aimed at picking off a target. Experimental Hexplate and Stridebreaker form the core, Guardian Angel again covers the dive, and the rune page swaps to Lethal Tempo with a Domination secondary of Sixth Sense and Ultimate Hunter. Ultimate Hunter lowers the cooldown on his ultimate, so Nocturne can threaten a dive more often across the game.

Blaber’s latest games come from the LCS 2026 Summer Playoffs, in series against LYON and Team Liquid. Under playoff pressure he went beyond his Jarvan IV and Nocturne core, drafting Naafiri, Skarner, Poppy and Vi as Cloud9 adjusted its approach from game to game.

Watch his best Jarvan IV, Wukong and Nocturne games of 2026 below; each one has a Watch link to the full game.

Blaber’s career is a single-organization story. He joined Cloud9 as its jungler on 16 June 2018 and has held that role ever since. His rookie year was a big one: Cloud9 won the NA Regional Finals 2018 on 16 September 2018, then reached the 3rd–4th place at Worlds 2018, decided on 3 November 2018.

The years that followed turned him into one of the faces of the Cloud9 roster. After a 2nd place at Rift Rivals 2019 NA-EU, the trophies came regularly from 2020 to 2023, with titles in each of those seasons. The run paused after LCS 2023 Summer, and his next title came at LCS 2026 Spring on 17 May 2026.

His champion history tracks the same arc. Early staples such as Olaf and Gragas were last played in 2022 and 2023, Kindred last appeared in March 2024, and today’s pool leans on Jarvan IV, Sejuani and Wukong. Few junglers have adapted across that many metas without changing team.

Worlds 2018 remains the high point on the international stage. A 3rd–4th finish in his first year set the bar for every Cloud9 roster that followed. Domestically, his strongest stretch is 2023, when Cloud9 won LCS 2023 Spring, the LCS 2023 Spring Playoffs and LCS 2023 Summer.

The LCS 2022 Championship and the LCS 2021 Mid-Season Showdown sit alongside the 2020 Spring titles as proof that his success was not tied to one roster or one meta. The LCS 2026 Spring title matters most for his current standing: it shows that, years into his career, he is still winning trophies in North America.

Blaber is at Worlds 2026 with Cloud9, which qualified as North America #3. The team starts in the Play-Ins, which begin on 15 October 2026, with the Swiss stage and the Knockouts ahead for teams that advance. Follow every stage on the Worlds 2026 hub, and find more teams and players across our esports coverage.