Zeka LoL: Career, Champions and Worlds 2026

Zeka, real name Kim Geon-woo, is a South Korean League of Legends (LoL) mid laner who plays for Hanwha Life Esports in the LCK. He won Worlds 2022 with DRX and MSI 2026 with Hanwha. He built his name on aggressive, mechanically demanding champions such as Akali, Sylas, Yone and Ahri.

In recent seasons he has added control mages like Ryze and Orianna to that core, which makes him much harder to target in draft. Born on 28 November 2002, he turned pro with Rare Atom in 2020 and has played mid on every team he has joined since.

Zeka’s 2026 has been a more efficient season than his 2025, even though his win rate sits just under last year’s 64.5%. His KDA is clearly up on the 4.48 he posted in 2025. He dies less often and picks up more kills per game, and his CS/min and damage/min have both risen.

The interesting split is in how he shares the map. His kill participation is higher than last year, but his share of Hanwha’s damage has dipped slightly. That fits a pool that leans on Orianna, Ryze and Twisted Fate as much as on carries: he is in more of his team’s fights without routing every one of them through his own damage.

Volume is lower so far, with fewer games than in 2025, and the season is not finished. Whatever he plays at Worlds still counts toward the 2026 line. He has also used a slightly narrower pool than the 24 champions he played in 2025, so Hanwha has settled on a clearer set of mid answers.

Ryze is Zeka’s most played champion of 2026. The top of his pool mixes control and pick mages: Ryze, Ahri, Aurora and Orianna make up the bulk of his games. All four win more often than they lose, so the core of his season is stable rather than carried by one comfort champion.

Cassiopeia and Orianna give the best results on a real sample. Cassiopeia stands out most. He plays her less often than the big four, but she has the best record of any champion he has used more than a handful of times. Viktor deserves a mention too: on a modest sample he holds the cleanest KDA in the pool, the sign of a scaling mage played almost without mistakes.

Yone and Akali, two of his signature champions, appear less often than in past years. They still win at high rates when Hanwha lets him play them. They are the threats that force opponents to spend bans or counter-picks on the mid lane, which opens the rest of the draft for his teammates.

Two champions have not worked this year. Annie and Azir both carry losing records, and Azir’s slide stands out because it is the most played champion of his whole career. The rest of the list, from Twisted Fate and Locke to Syndra, Sylas and Taliyah, sits on samples too small to judge. Treat them as pocket answers to specific drafts, not a trend.

Across his career, Zeka’s staples are Azir, Ahri, Yone, Sylas and Akali, and Yone and Akali hold the strongest records of that group.

Zeka’s builds favor scaling and sustained fights over one-shot burst. On Ryze he builds Rod of Ages into Seraph’s Embrace every game, usually followed by Actualizer. That path commits him to a mana-heavy, long-game plan in which Ryze grows more dangerous with every minute the game lasts.

The Ryze rune page is unusual. He runs Deathfire Touch in Sorcery with Resolve as the secondary tree, and takes Ghost with Flash instead of Teleport. Ghost gives Ryze the movement to reposition in long teamfights and rotate between side lanes, which fits a map-wide threat more than a lane bully. The rune data comes from only a few recorded games, so read it as a snapshot.

Ahri opens with Malignance and adds Hextech Rocketbelt in almost every game, with Spellslinger’s Shoes as his usual boots. The Rocketbelt dash gives Ahri a second way to land a pick, and Mejai’s Soulstealer shows up in games where he can snowball a lead. Electrocute with Taste of Blood, plus Flash and Teleport, marks this as a lane-first setup that still lets him join fights on the other side of the map.

Aurora is his burst build. Hextech Rocketbelt, Spellslinger’s Shoes and Shadowflame form the core, with Rabadon’s Deathcap or Stormsurge after. His Electrocute page swaps Taste of Blood for Sudden Impact. It is a small change, and it rewards him for diving onto a target rather than trading from range.

Zeka’s latest games come from two places. In the LCK 2026 Season Playoffs, Hanwha met T1 and Gen.G. In the Korea Pre Evaluation for 2026 Asian Games, he played for the South Korea national team against the United States.

The champion spread is wide, from Viktor, Yone and Orianna to Twisted Fate, Locke and Ryze, which shows how many different drafts he can fit into late in the year. Every game in the table links to its VOD, and more LCK and international coverage lives on our esports hub.

Watch his best Ryze, Ahri and Aurora games of the 2026 season below.

Zeka turned professional with Rare Atom, the organization formerly known as Vici Gaming, on 13 January 2020. He moved to Bilibili Gaming on 9 January 2021. Each of those stints lasted a single season, and he played mid on both teams.

The breakout came at DRX, which he joined on 12 January 2022. He ended that year as a world champion: DRX won Worlds 2022 on 5 November 2022, the same day his time with the organization ends in the record.

He joined Hanwha Life Esports on 18 January 2023 and has stayed there since, his longest spell with any team. The trophies at Hanwha started with the LCK 2024 Summer Playoffs. They peaked in 2026 with a domestic run that carried into an international title.

Zeka’s résumé rests on two top-tier international titles won with two different organizations: Worlds 2022 with DRX and MSI 2026 with Hanwha. Winning at that level with different rosters, years apart, says as much about his longevity as about his peak.

Hanwha’s 2026 is the strongest stretch of his career on paper. He took first place in LCK 2026 Rounds 1–2, then the LCK 2026 Road to MSI, then MSI 2026 on 12 July 2026. Add the LCK Cup 2025 and First Stand 2025 titles, and his Hanwha years have turned a one-time world champion into a consistent winner.

Zeka is at Worlds 2026 with Hanwha Life Esports, who qualified as the Korea #2 seed and arrive as MSI 2026 champions. The team starts in the Main Event’s Swiss stage, which begins on 23 October 2026, with the knockout stage to follow for teams that advance. Follow every stage on the Worlds 2026 hub.