Hizto LoL: Career, Champions and Worlds 2026

Hizto, real name Lê Văn Hoàng Hải, is a Vietnamese LoL jungler who plays for Team Secret Whales, the organization representing Asia Pacific at Worlds 2026. He is known for a fight-first style built on engage champions such as Jarvan IV, Vi and Xin Zhao. He is also known for a 2026 season in which his team won LCP 2026 Split 1, Split 2 and Split 3, plus the Split 1 and Split 2 playoffs.

He joined Team Secret Whales on 17 January 2025 and has spent his whole listed career there. The card below holds his role, team and country. Every table on the page is built from pro scoreboards and refreshes after each game he plays.

Hizto’s 2026 is a clear step up from his first year. He has played far more pro games than in 2025, when he finished 45–37 over 82 games, and his team has won a much larger share of them. Playoff runs and international events added games on top of the regular splits, so the bigger workload comes with a better record.

The individual numbers moved with the results. His KDA has risen from 3.82 in 2025, largely because he dies less often. His damage share has climbed above last year’s 15.5%. His farm and gold per minute are up too, which tells you Team Secret Whales now routes more of the map’s resources through the jungle instead of treating him as a pure enabler.

Kill participation is the one figure that stayed roughly flat, and that is a good sign rather than a warning. He is taking more farm and dealing more damage without drifting away from his team’s fights. The extra resources get spent in skirmishes, not in a lonely clear on the far side of the map. For junglers reading this, that is the balance to copy: farm more when the map allows it, but keep showing up when your lanes move.

Jarvan IV is the center of Hizto’s 2026 pool: his most played champion of the year and one he wins with consistently. Xin Zhao sits right behind it with a similar winning record. Together they show what he wants from a jungler: early pressure, a reliable engage and enough durability to stay in the fight after going in.

Vi is the standout on a real sample. Across a double-digit number of games he has been close to unbeaten on her, with the best KDA of any champion he plays regularly this year. Lee Sin gives him a winning playmaker option. Qiyana, a less common jungle pick, has returned a strong record over a smaller but still meaningful set of games.

Naafiri is the interesting outlier. It deals more damage per minute than any of his other main picks, yet it is the only champion in his top group with a losing record. It still shows up in his recent drafts, so read it as a deliberate carry option that Team Secret Whales trusts in specific compositions, not a comfort pick it wins with by default.

Trundle and Wukong fill out the regular rotation, with Wukong the weaker of the two on results. Everything under five games is a pocket pick, not a sample you can judge. That covers Pantheon, Dr. Mundo, Olaf, Nocturne, Jayce, Ambessa and Graves, which serve as counters and draft answers rather than core picks.

Across his career, his signature champions are Jarvan IV, Vi, Xin Zhao, Wukong and Naafiri. Most of his Wukong games came in 2025, and Nidalee, Viego and Poppy appear only in his career pool.

Hizto builds like a fighter, not an assassin or a tank. On Jarvan IV he goes Sundered Sky into Black Cleaver and adds Guardian Angel as the game goes on. He runs the same core on Xin Zhao, where Titanic Hydra comes in as an extra damage option. Both builds aim for extended skirmishes: Sundered Sky rewards trading hits, Black Cleaver shreds the frontline he dives, and Guardian Angel lets him commit first without losing the fight by dying.

Naafiri gets a hybrid build. Black Cleaver and Spear of Shojin give it staying power, while Voltaic Cyclosword and Serpent’s Fang add the lethality that makes it a pick-off threat. Death’s Dance comes in as the defensive slot when he needs to survive a dive. The mix explains the champion’s high damage output: he plays it as a skirmisher that can still burst a carry.

The runes barely change across the three. Conqueror sits in Precision with Triumph, then a Legend rune (Haste on Jarvan IV and Naafiri, Alacrity on Xin Zhao) and Cut Down, swapped for Last Stand on Xin Zhao. The secondary tree is Inspiration for Magical Footwear and Cosmic Insight, with Flash and Smite every time. Free boots and extra haste suit a jungler who expects to fight often and wants his abilities and Summoner spells back sooner.

Hizto’s latest games came on 20 September 2026 at the Korea Pre Evaluation for 2026 Asian Games. He played for Vietnam (National Team) against South Korea on Trundle, Naafiri, Jarvan IV and Qiyana. Before that, his most recent club games were the LCP 2026 Split 3 matches against CTBC Flying Oyster in late August, where he rotated Vi, Lee Sin, Jarvan IV and Graves.

The national-team series is a useful preview of his Worlds drafts: his staples mixed with the Naafiri and Qiyana carry options, tested against a strong region. Results from every league and event are on the esports hub.

Watch his best Jarvan IV, Xin Zhao and Naafiri games of the season below.

Hizto has played for only one organization. He joined Team Secret Whales as its jungler on 17 January 2025, and every split since has been with the same team. Born on 15 September 2007, he reached the World Championship early in his pro career.

His first season was a solid base rather than a breakout. He finished 2025 with a 45–37 record across 82 games, playing champions such as Wukong, Viego and Nidalee alongside the Jarvan IV and Vi picks that would define his next year.

The 2026 season is when it came together. Team Secret Whales won every LCP split, and the year took Hizto abroad to MSI 2026 and the Esports World Cup 2026, where the organization played as Team Secret (Vietnamese Team). He also represented Vietnam (National Team) at the Korea Pre Evaluation for 2026 Asian Games.

Hizto’s titles all come from 2026, and they form an unbroken run in the LCP. Team Secret Whales won LCP 2026 Split 1 on 8 February 2026 and the Split 1 Playoffs on 1 March 2026. The team then repeated the double with LCP 2026 Split 2 and the Split 2 Playoffs, the latter on 7 June 2026. LCP 2026 Split 3, won on 30 August 2026, closed the domestic year.

The weight of the record is in its consistency. Winning both the split and its playoffs means Team Secret Whales topped the region in the regular season and in the knockout format, and Hizto is credited with every one of those titles. That run is the reason his organization goes to Worlds with a top seed.

Hizto is at Worlds 2026 with Team Secret Whales, which qualified as Asia Pacific #1. The team goes straight into the Main Event and starts in the Swiss stage, which begins on 23 October 2026.

The Swiss stage and the Knockouts are both still to come, so there is no result to report yet. Follow every stage on the Worlds 2026 hub.