Pun LoL: Career, Champions and Worlds 2026

Pun, real name Nguyễn Đăng Khoa, is a Vietnamese LoL top laner who plays for Team Secret Whales in the LCP, the Asia Pacific league. He is known for a deep pool of bruisers and tanks, from Renekton and Jax to Ornn and Sion, and for a 2026 season in which his team collected five LCP titles.

Born on 29 July 2002, he joined Team Secret Whales on 26 July 2025 and now heads to Worlds 2026 as the starting top laner of the region’s most successful organization this year. More teams and players are covered in our esports hub.

Pun’s 2026 is a busier and far more successful year than 2025, when he finished with a 51.6% win rate. Winning splits and playoffs means playing deep into every bracket, so his higher game count reflects results as much as volume.

His individual numbers moved with the team’s results. His KDA is up from 2.46 in 2025, he deals more damage per minute, and he takes a larger share of his team’s damage than the 21.6% he held last year.

The rest of the line points the same way: slightly more CS/min, more gold per minute, more vision and a small rise in kill participation. None of those shifts is dramatic on its own. Together they describe a top laner who has become a bigger part of how his team wins, not just a stable side lane that holds while the bot side carries.

He has also played more champions this year than last. For a top laner, that matters most in international drafts, where opponents study comfort picks and ban them out.

Renekton is Pun’s most played champion of 2026, but it is not where he wins most. His Renekton record sits only a little above even, while Olaf, Rumble, Jax and Volibear, each played on a real sample, carry clearly winning records.

Olaf stands out. It has the best results among his most played champions this season, and it pairs high kills with heavy damage, so his team drafts it when it wants the top laner to be a threat rather than a wall. Rumble fills a similar slot with even more damage per minute, a damage-first choice for teamfight compositions.

Ornn and Sion sit at the utility end of the pool. Ornn shows the lowest damage of his main picks and among the most assists, which is exactly what the champion is drafted for: front line and engage for the carries. Sion is the one regular champion with a losing record this year, so read it as a draft answer rather than a comfort choice.

Further down, Yorick and Gwen have both delivered on five games each, and Cho’Gath has become a recent go-to. Shen, Sett and Malphite are unbeaten but on too few games to judge. These are pocket picks, valuable because opponents cannot ban all of them in one draft.

Across his career, his signature champions are Renekton, Jax, Sion, Ornn and K’Sante, the core he has drafted most often. Gwen is the quiet outlier with one of his best career records on a smaller sample, and Olaf has turned into a reliable winner across more than one season. For your own top lane play, start with the guides hub.

His builds lean on Teleport and fighter items, and they show a top laner who wants to join fights across the map rather than live on an island. All three of his most played champions run Flash and Teleport.

On Renekton he builds around Black Cleaver, then picks from Sterak’s Gage, Spear of Shojin and Stridebreaker depending on the game. The runes are Conqueror in Precision with a Resolve secondary of Second Wind and Unflinching, a setup for extended trades and drawn-out teamfights rather than a single all-in.

Olaf is built around Stridebreaker, with Experimental Hexplate and Death’s Dance as the usual follow-ups. Conqueror with Triumph and Legend: Alacrity, plus Biscuit Delivery and Approach Velocity from Inspiration, is a chase setup: the build wants him reaching the backline and staying alive there long enough to matter.

Jax is the surprise. Pun runs Grasp of the Undying in Resolve with Demolish and Second Wind, a page built for lane sustain and turret pressure, and pairs Trinity Force and Sundered Sky with Zeke’s Convergence. That team item says he plays Jax as a front-line partner for his carries as much as a duelist.

His latest games came in two settings: the LCP 2026 Split 3 run with Team Secret Whales against CTBC Flying Oyster and GAM Esports, and a Korea pre-evaluation series for the 2026 Asian Games, where he played for Vietnam’s national team against South Korea. The champions he reached for show his flexibility, from Cho’Gath, Shen and Urgot to Gnar and Yorick, plus Galio in top lane in both series against CTBC Flying Oyster.

Every game in the table has a Watch link, which makes it a good place to study how a pro top laner plays tanks and bruisers in high-stakes series.

Watch his best Renekton, Olaf and Jax games of the 2026 season below.

Pun’s recorded team history starts with Dashing Buffalo, where he played top from 31 January 2020 to 5 April 2020. His next listed team is Team Secret Whales, which he joined on 26 July 2025 and still plays for.

The step change came after that move. His 2025 season ended with a record just above even, while 2026 turned into a run of LCP titles, an international appearance at MSI 2026 and a place at Worlds 2026.

That arc, from a short early stint to starting top laner for the LCP’s dominant organization of 2026, makes him a central figure in the region’s season. His growing damage share and widening champion pool are the on-paper version of the same story.

All of Pun’s listed titles come from 2026, and every one of them is a first place in the LCP. Team Secret Whales won LCP 2026 Split 1 on 8 February 2026 and the Split 1 Playoffs on 1 March 2026, then repeated the double in Split 2 with the regular split on 17 May 2026 and the playoffs on 7 June 2026.

LCP 2026 Split 3, won on 30 August 2026, made it five titles in one year. For a top laner, that kind of consistency across three splits means the team could build drafts around him through changing patches, which is exactly what his wide champion pool shows.

Pun is at Worlds 2026 with Team Secret Whales, seeded Asia Pacific #1. The team goes straight to the Main Event and starts in the Swiss stage, which begins on 23 October 2026. Follow every stage on the Worlds 2026 hub.