Yike LoL: Career, Champions and Worlds 2026

Yike is the Swedish jungler for Karmine Corp and one of the most decorated players in the LEC. Born Martin Sundelin, he won league titles throughout his two seasons with G2 Esports, joined Karmine Corp in January 2025 and kept collecting trophies there, including LEC 2026 Versus and LEC 2026 Summer. He is known as a fighting jungler: Vi, Jarvan IV and Wukong do most of his work, with assassins such as Qiyana, Naafiri and Kha’Zix as the pocket picks that give his drafts a second threat.

He goes into Worlds 2026 with Karmine Corp, who start in the Play-In stage. Away from pro play he streams on Twitch under the name yikelol.

The 2026 season is busier and more successful than 2025. Last year he finished with 108 games at a 59.3% win rate; this year he has already played more games than that and is winning a higher share of them. Karmine Corp’s long runs through LEC playoffs and the Esports World Cup account for the extra volume.

The bigger change is in how he plays. In 2025 he was a setup jungler: low farm, high assists, and a 73.0% kill participation that showed how often he was involved in his team’s kills. In 2026 he farms more per minute, takes more kills himself, deals more damage and holds a slightly larger share of his team’s damage, while his kill participation and assists have come down. His KDA is marginally lower than last year, with deaths per game roughly flat.

Read together, those numbers describe a jungler who has moved from enabling his laners to being one of the carries. That fits the champions he plays: Vi, Wukong and Jarvan IV built as Conqueror bruisers want gold and fights, while the tanks that fill much of his career pool, such as Maokai and Sejuani, sit outside his most-played list this year. He has also drawn on more champions than in 2025, which gives Karmine Corp more room in draft.

Vi is the center of his 2026 pool. She is his most played champion this year and the one he wins most with on a meaningful sample, which makes her the pick opponents have to plan around. Jarvan IV is the other comfort pick that clearly works: a strong record and the best KDA among his regular champions, driven by heavy assist numbers rather than kills.

Wukong is his second most played champion and wins more often than not, the reliable third option when Vi and Jarvan IV are banned or taken. Xin Zhao and Pantheon sit a step lower, with records close to even. Naafiri is the one regular pick with a losing record this season, even though she produces some of his highest damage numbers; she is a high-variance assassin pick that wins fights early or loses its value.

The rest of the list is pocket picks. Qiyana and Lee Sin have smaller samples but positive records, and both are playmaking champions he draws when the draft calls for picks and flanks. Kha’Zix and Nocturne have perfect records on only a handful of games, too small a sample to call. Skarner, Dr. Mundo and Trundle appeared late in the summer playoffs, a sign that Karmine Corp reached for counter-picks and tankier profiles as the bracket went on.

Across his career, his staples are Vi, Xin Zhao, Maokai, Viego and Jarvan IV, with Kha’Zix holding the standout record among the champions he has played often.

His three most played champions share one plan. Vi and Jarvan IV both build Sundered Sky and Black Cleaver into Guardian Angel, while Wukong opens with Trinity Force and then follows the same Sundered Sky path. Every one of them runs Conqueror in Precision with an Inspiration secondary, and every one takes Flash and Smite.

The item choices say he expects to be first into fights. Black Cleaver shreds armor for his carries, Sundered Sky rewards trading into multiple targets, and Guardian Angel buys a second life for a jungler who has to dive the backline. The later slots are reactive: Abyssal Mask, Randuin’s Omen, Zeke’s Convergence, Sterak’s Gage, Death’s Dance, Spirit Visage and Maw of Malmortius show up when the enemy composition calls for them.

The rune page is the same across all three champions: Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Cut Down in Precision, with Magical Footwear and Cosmic Insight in Inspiration. Inspiration over Resolve or Domination means he values free boots and extra haste over early damage or durability runes, a choice that suits long, tempo-based games rather than level 3 all-ins. Check the patch notes before copying it, since item and rune balance shifts between patches.

Karmine Corp’s LEC 2026 Summer Playoffs run, through series against GIANTX, G2 Esports and Movistar KOI, showed how wide he will draft under pressure. Across those series he played Vi, Wukong, Pantheon, Naafiri, Lee Sin, Qiyana, Trundle, Skarner and Dr. Mundo, so do not expect a single answer from him at Worlds.

Watch his best Vi, Wukong and Jarvan IV games from the 2026 season below.

Yike’s career in the facts starts with G2 Esports, where he played jungle from 21 January 2023 to 2 November 2024. His first season there was a domestic sweep: G2 won LEC 2023 Winter Playoffs, the Summer Season, the Summer Playoffs and the Season Finals. In 2024 he repeated the pattern, adding LEC 2024 Winter, the Winter, Spring and Summer Playoffs and the Season Finals.

Internationally, the G2 years produced a 4th place at MSI 2024 and a 3rd–4th finish at Esports World Cup 2024. He left G2 at the start of November 2024 and joined Karmine Corp on 18 January 2025.

The move did not slow him down. Karmine Corp won LEC 2025 Winter Playoffs in his first split, reached the final of First Stand 2025 and then won LEC 2025 Spring. In 2026 the organization added LEC 2026 Versus and LEC 2026 Summer, with a second place at Esports World Cup 2026 in between. You can follow the wider league picture on our esports hub.

His trophy record makes him one of the most successful junglers of the current LEC era. Few players win domestic titles with two different organizations in back-to-back seasons, and Yike did it with G2 Esports in 2023 and 2024 and then again with Karmine Corp in 2025 and 2026.

The gap is on the international stage. His best results there are second place at First Stand 2025 and at Esports World Cup 2026, plus 4th at MSI 2024. A deep run at Worlds 2026 is the result missing from an otherwise complete domestic record.

Yike is at Worlds 2026 with Karmine Corp, who qualified as EMEA #3 and start in the Play-Ins on 15 October 2026. The Swiss stage and Knockouts follow for the teams that advance. Follow every stage on the Worlds 2026 hub.