Kino LoL: Career, Champions and Worlds 2026

Kino is a League of Legends (LoL) support from Taiwan who plays for CTBC Flying Oyster in the Asia Pacific region. Born Chu Wu Hsin-Jung (朱吳欣榮) on 12 April 1998, he has played support at every stop of his listed career, from ahq eSports Club in 2018 to his current team, which he joined on 4 April 2026.

He is an engage support first. Nautilus, Alistar, Leona, Rell and Rakan are the champions his career is built on, and his 2026 pool layers enchanters such as Lulu and Milio on top of that base. His team heads to Worlds 2026 as Asia Pacific #2.

Kino’s 2026 is a cleaner season than 2025 on his individual line, but a less successful one in the win column so far. In 2025 he played 83 games at a 59.0% win rate with a 2.84 KDA. This year he is winning less often, yet he dies less per game, holds a better KDA and takes part in a larger share of his team’s kills.

The shape of his game has shifted as well. He deals a smaller share of his team’s damage than last season and less damage per minute, while his vision per minute has gone up. That is the profile of a support spending more of each game on warding, peeling and setting up teammates, and less of it trading in lane or diving for picks.

For anyone comparing supports, the useful reading is that his personal numbers held up better than his team’s results. Fewer deaths and higher kill participation alongside a lower win rate point to outcomes that depend on more than the support slot. He has also played fewer games than in 2025 so far, and the season is still running, so the table will keep moving.

Nautilus is Kino’s most played champion in 2026 and the one that works best on a real sample: he wins more often on him than on anything else he has played five or more times. Alistar sits close behind with a winning record, so the hook-and-headbutt engage that defined his earlier years still anchors his pool.

The enchanter side is split. Milio has been his most efficient pick by KDA, keeping him alive far more often than his tanks do, and he has a winning record on him. Lulu is his second most played champion but has lost more than she has won, and Karma has been the least successful of his regular picks.

Behind those five, the 2026 pool runs wide, with a long tail of champions played only a handful of times. Camille, Rell, Neeko, Nami, Seraphine, Rakan, Bard, Leona, Renata Glasc and Yuumi all sit under five games, so none of those records says much about how strong he is on them. Camille and Neeko stand out as pocket picks: both carry damage numbers well above his tank and enchanter games, which marks them as drafts that add threat from the support slot rather than protect a carry.

Across his career, the signature champions are the engage supports Nautilus, Alistar, Leona, Rell and Rakan, with Alistar, Rell and Rakan holding long-run winning records on large samples and Braum and Tahm Kench as older frontline staples.

On Nautilus, Kino builds for the team fight after the hook. Locket of the Iron Solari is his near-constant first piece, with Protoplasm Harness, Knight’s Vow and Mikael’s Blessing as follow-ups depending on the game. He pairs that with Aftershock in Resolve and Inspiration secondary for Magical Footwear and Cosmic Insight, a setup that lets him engage, survive the response and then shield the four players behind him.

His enchanter builds follow one template. Lulu and Milio both run Summon Aery in Sorcery with Inspiration secondary, and Ardent Censer is the core item on both, which says he wants an attack-speed carry to fight through his buffs. Lulu adds Mikael’s Blessing and Shurelya’s Battlesong for cleanse and speed in fights, while Milio goes into Echoes of Helia; the small rune difference is Scorch on Lulu for lane poke and Waterwalking on Milio for river movement.

One detail runs through all three champions: he takes Flash and Heal. Putting Heal on the support means the lane’s sustain spell sits in his hands rather than his bot laner’s, a duo-lane choice worth noticing when you watch his games.

His latest games come from LCP 2026 Split 3, with late-August series against MVK Esports and Team Secret Whales. Within those series he moved between engage, enchanter and pocket picks, reaching for Nautilus, Lulu, Milio, Neeko, Karma and Renata Glasc rather than settling on one style.

Every game in the table below has a Watch link if you want to see how those drafts played out.

Watch his best Nautilus, Lulu and Milio games of the 2026 season below.

Kino’s listed career starts at ahq eSports Club, where he played support from 23 June 2018 to 31 March 2019. His next stop was Hurricane Gaming, formerly known as Alpha Esports, a short spell that ran from 29 February 2020 to 3 May 2020.

His longest listed stint came at Beyond Gaming, from 19 February 2021 to 9 April 2023. That run is where much of his engage identity took shape on the scoreboards, with the tank supports that still lead his career pool.

The history then picks up with CTBC Flying Oyster, which he joined on 4 April 2026. He has stayed in the support role at every organization, and across several hundred professional games he has won more than he has lost.

For the other players and teams in the region, browse the esports hub.

Kino is at Worlds 2026 with CTBC Flying Oyster, which qualified as Asia Pacific #2. The team goes straight into 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.