Caliste LoL: Career, Champions and Worlds 2026

Caliste, real name Caliste Henry-Hennebert, is a French bot laner who plays League of Legends (LoL) for Karmine Corp in EMEA. He joined the organization on 18 January 2025 and has spent his entire pro career there, finishing first in LEC events in both 2025 and 2026. He is a marksman player with a wide pool, comfortable on lane bullies like Caitlyn and Lucian, utility carries like Ashe and Varus, and scaling picks like Zeri.

Born on 28 August 2006, he reached his first international podium within months of his debut, finishing second at First Stand 2025. He also streams on Twitch, which is linked from his player card.

Caliste’s 2026 is a busier and more productive year than his rookie season. He has already played more pro games than the 108 he logged in 2025, and he is winning a higher share of them than the 59.3% he finished 2025 with. Deep playoff runs and an international final account for the extra volume.

His economy numbers all moved the same way. CS/min, gold/min and damage/min are up on last year, and he now deals a larger share of Karmine Corp’s damage. That profile points to a team that plays more through its bot lane: more farm goes to him, and more of the fight damage comes from him.

Two numbers went the other way. His KDA sits a little below 2025’s 5.43, and his kill participation is down from the 70% he posted last season. Both read as the cost of a more farm-heavy role rather than a dip in form: a carry who spends more time catching side waves joins fewer skirmishes, and the extra damage he deals comes with slightly more exposure.

Ezreal is Caliste’s most played champion of 2026, but he is not the pick that wins him the most games. His Ezreal record sits around even, while Caitlyn and Ashe, both played often, run well above his overall win rate. Yunara sits close behind them on a sample large enough to trust.

Caitlyn and Ashe do two different jobs for him. Caitlyn is the lane-pressure pick that takes turret plating and sieges from range, while Ashe brings engage and picks with her arrow and slows, which is why her assist numbers stand out in the table. Yunara gives him a third reliable carry when the draft takes the other two away.

The weaker spots are Corki and Jhin, both played enough to judge and both below even this year. Corki has not appeared since 7 June 2026, so it looks like a pick that left with the meta. Jhin is still in rotation, and it is the champion in his pool that has the hardest time turning games into wins.

The edges of the pool are where it gets interesting. Viktor in the bot lane has been a winning pocket pick, Zeri and Xayah have barely lost, and Ziggs, Kai’Sa and Kalista show up as occasional answers to specific drafts. Those samples are small, so read them as proof he can play the champion when asked, not as proof the pick beats his staples.

Across his career, Ezreal, Zeri, Varus, Ashe and Kai’Sa are the staples he returns to most, with Xayah and Kalista holding some of his best career win rates; Leaguepedia still lists Draven as a signature champion, though he has not played him in a pro game since 2 June 2025.

Caliste’s builds share one spine: Lethal Tempo in Precision, Inspiration as the secondary tree with Cash Back, and Flash paired with either Barrier or Ghost. It is a setup for long fights where sustained damage and a defensive or chase Summoner spell decide the outcome. The item paths then split by champion, and each one says something about how he wants the game to go.

His Ezreal opens Muramana into Trinity Force, then usually adds Spear of Shojin, Endless Hunger or Serylda’s Grudge. That is a spell-weaving build: Ezreal wins by landing Q after Q and kiting, not by standing still and auto-attacking. Legend: Haste in the runes points the same way, toward more casts per fight.

Caitlyn runs a crit build of Infinity Edge, Rapid Firecannon, Hexoptics C44 and Lord Dominik’s Regards. Rapid Firecannon stretches her already long range for sieges, and Lord Dominik’s Regards answers tanky frontlines. He swaps to Legend: Bloodline and Triple Tonic here, choosing sustain over the ability haste he takes on Ezreal.

Ashe is the one build that drops Barrier for Ghost, and it opens Phantom Dancer into Kraken Slayer and Infinity Edge. Ghost plus Approach Velocity is a chase package: once Ashe’s slows land, he wants to stay on top of the target and finish it. That matches the pick-and-follow-up role she plays in Karmine Corp’s drafts.

Item and rune values move with every patch, so check the latest patch notes before copying a pro order straight into Ranked Solo/Duo. For the fundamentals behind these marksmen, such as spacing and wave control, our champion and role guides cover each step.

At the time of writing, his latest games come from the LEC 2026 Summer Playoffs, in series against GIANTX, G2 Esports and Movistar KOI. Across those series he rotated through most of his pool, from Ezreal, Varus and Yunara to Caitlyn, Ashe, Lucian, Jhin and Zeri, a sign that Karmine Corp drafts him flexibly rather than around one comfort pick. Each game with a recorded video has a Watch link in the table.

Watch his best Ezreal, Caitlyn and Ashe games of the 2026 season below.

Caliste has played for one team. He joined Karmine Corp as its bot laner on 18 January 2025 and has held the role since, so his entire pro record belongs to a single organization and a single lane.

His first season set the tone quickly. Karmine Corp won the LEC 2025 Winter Playoffs on 2 March 2025, finished second at First Stand 2025 on 16 March 2025, and took LEC 2025 Spring on 13 May 2025. For a debuting bot laner, that is a domestic title, an international final and a second title inside his first few months.

In 2026 he has kept the same team and grown into a larger share of its resources, as the season stats show. Karmine Corp opened the year by winning LEC 2026 Versus on 8 February 2026, then added the international and domestic results listed below.

Caliste’s record is unusually full for a player who debuted in 2025. He has first places in LEC events in both of his seasons, most recently LEC 2026 Summer on 30 August 2026, and runner-up finishes at First Stand 2025 and the Esports World Cup 2026.

Those runner-up finishes are the one gap in his record. Domestically, the results show a bot laner who wins LEC events with Karmine Corp; internationally, the trophy has so far stopped one step short. Worlds 2026 is his next chance to close that gap.

Caliste is at Worlds 2026 with Karmine Corp, which qualified as EMEA #3. The team starts in the Play-Ins, which begin on 15 October 2026, with the Swiss stage and the Knockouts still ahead. Follow every stage on the Worlds 2026 hub.