T1 Roster, History and Worlds 2026

The T1 roster for 2026 is Doran in the top lane, Oner in the jungle, Faker in mid, Peyz on bot and Keria at support. T1 is a Korean LCK organization, the reigning world champion after winning Worlds 2025, and it has qualified for Worlds 2026 after a winning domestic season that ended against Hanwha Life Esports in the playoffs.

T1 runs a settled starting five, and the same players started almost every game of the season. Doran holds the top lane, Oner the jungle and Faker the mid lane, while Peyz and Keria form the bot lane.

The coaching staff is Mata, Easyhoon and Tom. They are coaches, not players, and none of them appears in the lineup or the stats table. For more pro and streamer profiles, see our streamers and pro players page.

T1’s 2026 season is a clear winning one without being dominant. They won comfortably more series than they lost, but the game record shows plenty of series that went the distance rather than clean sweeps. That pattern fits a team that adapts mid-series and wins on adjustments instead of steamrolling from game one.

Side selection matters less for T1 than for most teams. They win on both sides, with a slight edge on blue side, so opponents gain little by handing them red. Game length and the full side split sit in the table below.

The bot lane carries the cleanest numbers. Keria posts the best KDA on the team at 4.51, built on heavy assist totals, and Peyz takes the largest kill share while dying the least, which tells you T1 funnels its resources toward the carry on bot. Faker and Oner sit just behind them, and Doran’s line is the most modest, consistent with a top laner who plays for the team rather than for kills.

A few games went to other players. Painter covered a small block of jungle games, and Haetae, Guti, Cypher and Cloud each played a handful of games in their roles. Those lines are in the table, but the season belongs to the starting five.

T1 drafts around its jungler. Vi, Xin Zhao, Jarvan IV and Nocturne all sit in their most-picked list, which points to a pool of engage and dive junglers who set up early fights for the lanes. Vi is the standout: their most picked champion and one they have almost never lost on.

Jayce and Ambessa anchor the top-side picks, and Jayce has been one of their most reliable wins. In mid, Ryze, Anivia and Orianna give Faker a control-mage pool, though Ryze and Ambessa return near coin-flip results despite heavy usage. Jhin is the only bot-lane champion in the top ten, which suggests T1 flexes its bot picks rather than leaning on one comfort carry.

Orianna and Varus are banned most often in T1’s games. The overlap between the two lists is the real story: Orianna, Vi, Jayce and Jarvan IV appear on both, so these are contested champions that T1 either secures or loses in the first phase. You can check how these picks perform in solo queue on our champion pages.

T1 heads to Worlds on uneven form. The back half of LCK Rounds 3–4 went badly, with losses to Gen.G, Dplus Kia and Hanwha Life Esports, and a KeSPA Cup 2026 defeat to DN SOOPers sat in the same stretch. A narrow win over KT Rolster was the lone bright spot.

The playoffs showed the response. T1 beat BNK FEARX in a full five-game series and then Dplus Kia, but Hanwha Life Esports beat them in every meeting of this stretch, including twice in the playoffs. HLE is the matchup T1 has not solved in 2026, and every game of the playoff run is linked below if you want to study how those series turned.

T1’s history comes in distinct eras, each built around world titles. The first came in 2013, when the team won the Korea Regional Finals Season 3 and then Worlds 2013. The second era ran from 2015 to 2017: Champions 2015 Spring and Summer titles, Worlds 2015, the IEM Season 10 World Championship, MSI 2016 and Worlds 2016, then LCK 2017 Spring and MSI 2017 before a runner-up finish at Worlds 2017.

The years between were strong domestically. T1 won both LCK 2019 playoffs and the LCK 2020 Spring playoffs, reached the Worlds semifinal stage in 2019 and 2021, and in 2022 swept LCK Spring before finishing second at both MSI 2022 and Worlds 2022.

The current era is the most successful stretch at the World Championship: T1 won Worlds in 2023, 2024 and 2025 in a row. Along the way came LCK 2023 Spring, the Esports World Cup 2024 and the KeSPA Cup 2025, plus a second place at MSI 2025. In 2026 so far, the best international result is fourth at the Esports World Cup 2026.

T1 qualified for Worlds 2026 as Korea’s third seed and starts directly in the Main Event. Their campaign opens in the Swiss stage, which begins on 23 October 2026, with the Knockouts to follow for teams that advance. They arrive as the defending champion from Worlds 2025. Follow every stage on the Worlds 2026 hub.