Creme LoL: Career, Champions and Worlds 2026

Creme, born Lin Jian (林坚) on 14 December 2003, is the mid laner for Top Esports, one of the leading organizations in China’s LPL. In League of Legends he is known for a wide mid pool that runs from control mages like Azir and Ryze to playmakers like Ahri and Akali. He was also the mid laner of the Top Esports roster that won all three LPL splits in 2025. He joined the organization on 25 December 2023 after two years with Oh My God, and he heads into Worlds 2026 with the team.

Creme’s 2026 has been a less dominant year than his 2025, even though his individual output has held up. In 2025 he played 183 games and won 62.3% of them on the way to three domestic titles. This season his win rate is lower, and with Worlds still ahead he has played fewer games so far.

His share of the work has barely changed. His damage share sits almost exactly where it was in 2025, when it was 26.3%, and his damage and gold per minute are in the same place too. Top Esports still route a similar slice of every game through mid, so the drop in results is not a story of Creme fading out of games.

What has moved is how he spends his time on the map. He takes slightly more farm per minute than last year and joins a smaller share of his team’s kills than in 2025, when his kill participation was 68.5%. That profile fits a mid laner who holds waves and side lanes more often instead of following every skirmish, and his KDA has dipped only a little from last year’s 4.14.

Creme’s 2026 pool is wide, close to the size of his 2025 one, and its most played champions are not its most successful. Azir and Ryze top the games column, yet both carry losing records this season. They are draft picks first: safe early options that scale and fit a team plan, which is why Top Esports keep returning to them even when the results lag.

The champions that actually win for him are the ones with lane pressure and pick potential. Ahri is the standout on a real sample, with the best win rate and KDA among the champions he plays most, and Aurora also holds a clear winning record. Cassiopeia and Annie have smaller samples but have won most of their games, and Annie has come back into his hands in the most recent series.

The weak spots are just as clear. Orianna sits below even despite steady use, and Hwei, one of his best champions in earlier years, has gone badly in 2026. Locke, Sylas and Galio have only a handful of games each this year, too few to read anything into.

Across his career, his staples are Ahri, Akali, Azir, Sylas and Ryze, with Ahri both his most played champion and his most reliable one over the long run. Tristana and Corki, big parts of his earlier pool, have not been played since spring 2025, a reminder of how much of any mid pool the meta decides.

Creme’s builds say he wants his control mages to win long games and his Ahri to win short ones. Each of his three most played champions this season has a clear identity, and the item panels show how fixed or flexible each one is.

His Azir is built around Nashor’s Tooth, the constant across his Azir games, paired with Lethal Tempo from Precision and a Resolve secondary. That is an attack-speed Azir that wins by standing behind soldiers and auto-attacking through fights. Rabadon’s Deathcap and Zhonya’s Hourglass are its most frequent partners, with Liandry’s Torment, Rylai’s Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame and Hextech Rocketbelt as situational options, and Flash plus Teleport keep him linked to side-lane plays.

Ryze is his most settled build. Rod of Ages and Seraph’s Embrace appear in every one of his Ryze games, the mana-stacking core that turns Ryze into a late-game damage engine, with Actualizer as the common follow-up. The rune page pairs Deathfire Touch from Sorcery with Resolve, and he takes Ghost instead of Teleport, a choice that favors running down fights and moving between side lanes over cross-map plays.

Ahri is where he plays for tempo. Malignance and Hextech Rocketbelt form the core, Electrocute from Domination is the keystone, and Mejai’s Soulstealer shows up in a good share of his Ahri games. Mejai’s is a statement: he expects to get ahead and stay ahead, and his Ahri results this season back that up.

The rune pages come from a smaller set of games than the item panels, so read them as his recent preference rather than a fixed rule. Items change between patches, so check the latest patch notes before you copy a pro build into ranked, and use our guides for the solo queue version of each champion.

His latest games come from the LPL 2026 Grand Finals, against LGD Gaming and then Invictus Gaming, and from the LPL 2026 Regional Finals, again against Invictus Gaming. Across those series he cycled through Ryze, Viktor, Azir, Akali and Hwei, then turned to Annie, Locke and Orianna in the Regional Finals, the last games he played before Worlds.

Watch his best Ahri game of the season below, a win from MSI 2026.

Creme came up through Oh My God, where he played mid from 7 June 2021 to 5 August 2023. Those two seasons gave him his start in the LPL, and every achievement on his record comes from the period after it.

He joined Top Esports on 25 December 2023, and the move put him on a contender straight away. In his first year with the organization he reached the final of the Esports World Cup 2024, finishing 2nd, and in 2025 Top Esports swept the LPL. He has played mid for his whole career, and in 2026 he remains the team’s mid laner.

The shape of his career is one of steady growth rather than a sudden breakout: a long apprenticeship at Oh My God, a first international final within months of joining Top Esports, then a domestic sweep. Follow the rest of the LPL and international scene in our esports coverage.

Creme’s 2025 is the high point of his career so far. Top Esports won the LPL 2025 Split 1 Playoffs, LPL 2025 Split 2 and LPL 2025 Split 3, a clean sweep of the domestic year, and he finished 3rd–4th at both First Stand 2025 and Worlds 2025.

Those results place him among the top mid laners in China, but the list has no international title yet. His best international result is the Esports World Cup 2024 final, where Top Esports finished 2nd, and a Worlds semifinal in 2025 shows he has already played at the very top of the event.

Creme is at Worlds 2026 with Top Esports, who qualified as China #3. The team is in the Main Event and starts in the Swiss stage on 23 October 2026, with the knockout stage to follow for the teams that advance. Follow every stage on the Worlds 2026 hub.