Top Esports Roster: Players, Titles and Worlds 2026

Top Esports (TES) is an LPL organization from China that heads to Worlds 2026 as China’s third seed. It booked that spot by winning the LPL 2026 Regional Finals, after two narrow defeats in the Grand Finals. The current Top Esports roster is built around a veteran bot laner and a mid laner who played every game of the season, and it arrives with a recent history of deep international runs.

The lineup is a standard five: 369 in the top lane, Tian in the jungle, Creme in mid, JackeyLove on bot and Zhuo at support. Poppy, BoBo and Leo make up the coaching staff, and none of them plays a role on the Rift.

The shape of the team is experience on the carry side and stability in the middle of the map. JackeyLove and Tian bring years of top-level play, while Creme is the fixed point the rest of the lineup rotated around this season.

Top Esports finished the 2026 season with a winning record, but a narrow one. The series ledger sits only a little above even, and the game record tells the same story: a team that wins more than it loses without ever pulling clear of the LPL’s top tier. That is a step down from 2025, when the organization dominated domestically.

The clearest split is by side. TES is noticeably stronger on blue side, where first pick lets it secure a priority champion before the opponent can deny it. On red side the results drift toward a coin flip, and the team has played more of its games there, which drags the overall record down. Games run to a fairly typical length for the LPL, so this is not a team that relies on stomps or on dragging matches into the late game.

Creme is the constant. He is the only player present for every game of the season, and his line is the cleanest of the regular starters: low deaths, steady kill participation and a mid lane that rarely gives the game away. Tian’s line leans heavily on assists, which fits a jungler who plays for his lanes rather than for his own farm, and JackeyLove carries the damage-dealing load you expect from the bot lane.

Zhuo has the best KDA on the team, though over a smaller number of games than the regular starters, so treat it as a promising sample rather than a settled fact. The stats table also lists ZUIAN, naiyou, JiaQi and fengyue, who all played for TES this season. The 2026 numbers therefore mix more than one combination of players, and individual win rates should be read with that in mind.

The Top Esports pick list says this team drafts for early skirmishing and jungle pressure. Pantheon and Ambessa lead the way, with Xin Zhao and Vi close behind: champions that want to fight around the first objectives and punish mistakes before the 15-minute mark. Seraphine and Ashe add utility and engage from range, which gives the team a way to start fights without committing its frontline.

The results inside that pool are uneven. Rumble, Ashe, Vi and Ezreal have been among the most reliable picks, while Azir and Ryze, both frequent picks for the mid lane, have converted far less often. Pantheon, the most picked champion of all, also sits below even. In short, the comfort picks are not always the winning ones, and TES has done better when it leans on its bottom side and jungle than when it builds around a scaling mid laner.

The ban list is led by Orianna, with Bard, Naafiri, Neeko and Jayce close behind. Rumble shows up on both lists: it is one of the team’s best-performing picks and one of the champions most often removed in its games. Expect Worlds opponents to keep testing whether TES can win once Rumble is off the table. For a refresher on what each of these champions does, browse the champion pages.

The late season was a rough stretch followed by a strong finish. Through August, TES traded wins over ThunderTalk Gaming, EDward Gaming and Anyone’s Legend for losses to LGD Gaming, Team WE, Bilibili Gaming and JD Gaming, and it closed Split 3 with back-to-back defeats.

The Grand Finals brought two best-of-five series that both went the full distance, first against LGD Gaming on 29 August 2026 and then against Invictus Gaming on 5 September 2026, and TES lost both. The rematch with Invictus Gaming in the Regional Finals on 17 September 2026 went the other way, and that win sent the team to Worlds. It is the most encouraging result of the year: TES beat the same opponent that had just ended its Grand Finals run, which suggests the staff adjusted between series.

Every game of that closing stretch with a recording is linked from the results below, which is the best way to see how the drafts above play out in practice.

Top Esports’ first great era came in 2020. The team won the Mid-Season Cup 2020, took both the LPL 2020 Summer regular season and the LPL 2020 Summer Playoffs, and reached the semifinals of Worlds 2020 with a 3rd–4th finish. It added the Demacia Cup in both 2020 and 2021, then claimed another domestic title in LPL 2022 Summer.

The second peak was 2025, the best domestic year in the organization’s history. TES won the LPL 2025 Split 1 Playoffs, LPL 2025 Split 2 and LPL 2025 Split 3, finished 3rd–4th at First Stand 2025 and again reached the last four at Worlds 2025. Before that, a runner-up finish at the Esports World Cup 2024 had already shown the team could compete with the best internationally.

The pattern is consistent: TES has repeatedly been among the last four teams standing at Worlds, but a world title has not yet come. The 2026 lineup carries that history into the event, with a weaker domestic record than the 2025 team but a strong finish to the qualification run.

Top Esports qualified for Worlds 2026 as China’s third seed and goes straight into the Main Event. Its first stage is the Swiss stage, which starts on 23 October 2026, with the Knockouts to follow for the teams that advance. Follow every stage, standing and result on the Worlds 2026 hub.