New team: FPX/BLG/TOP/FPX ; Gone team: Newbee/IMay/DAN
FanPlusX
won the spot bidding
official announcement(in Chinese)
| BSYY | head coach | transfer from DAN,veteran player&coach from season 2 |
| Gimgoon | Top | transfer from GT (LSPL) |
| Pepper | Jungler | transfer from RNG, was RNG.Y1HAN |
| bing | Mid | former SAT mid in 2017 spring, SAT disbanded after relegated from LSPL |
| lwx | ADC | transfer from Newbee |
| Crisp | Support | transfer from Newbee |
| Disappear | Support | transfer from Royal (LSPL), was RYL. Despa1r |
VG
official announcement(in Chinese)
| HooN | head coach | former Team WE assistant coach |
| Rui | head coach | |
| Loong | Top | |
| Crash | Jungler | |
| Easyhoon | Mid | |
| Martin | ADC | |
| Caveman | Support | |
| Meow | Top | |
| Snow | ADC | former ME (LSPL) |
| Bright | Mid |
RW
won the spot bidding
official announcement(in Chinese)
| Steak | head coach | transfer from FW |
| Mouse | Top | transfer from EDG |
| Flawless | Jungler | transfer from IMay |
| Doinb | Mid | transfer from JDG |
| Smlz | ADC | transfer from OMG |
| Killua | Support | transfer from YM (LSPL) |
SNG
unofficial announcement(in Chinese by media wanplus)
| XiaoAL | Top | |
| H4cker | Jungler | |
| Tian | Jungler | transfer from YM (LSPL) |
| fenfen | Mid | |
| Knight | Mid | transfer from YM (LSPL), landed #1 in Korean server multipy times |
| Fury | ADC | |
| Yoon | Support | |
| Brain | Support |
BLG
bought IMay’s spot
official announcement(in Chinese)
| Maokai | head coach | former EDG analyst |
| AmazingJ | Top | former IMay top |
| Freecss | Top | transfer from EDG, was EDG. Audi |
| SKS | Jungler | former IMay jungler |
| Chieftain | Jungler | transfer from EDG acadamy |
| Athena | Mid | former IMay Mid |
| Mole | Mid | former IMay acadamy |
| Jinjiao | ADC | former IMay ADC |
| Road | Support | former IMay Support |
TOP
bought DAN’s spot
official announcement(in Chinese)
| Slythe | head coach | former support player in 2144(BSYY as coach), 2144 rebranded as DAN after they join LPL in 2017 summer |
| Moyu | Top | former DAN |
| Lies | Top | former DAN |
| Xx | Jungler | |
| Karin | Jungler | former DAN |
| Ggoong | Mid | former DAN |
| qi | Mid | former DAN |
| QiuQiu | ADC | former DAN |
| Cat | Support | former DAN |
| Fage | Support | former DAN |
WE
unofficial announcement(in Chinese)
Team WE’s CEO SmallOrc chatted a bit about their future roster in his stream:
- main roster of 957/Condi/xiye/Mystic/Ben won’t change
- still debating about whether Zero changes his role into coach, most likely won’t
- still trying to get a veteran player to come to play for Team WE, but he kept declining
As of Dec. 21st 8:00pm, the transfer window of LPL officially closed (extended 5 hours longer than other regions). That being said, the roster still has wiggle room because free agents can still be signed after transfer window closed.
LPL is a region infamously known for its chaotic style and not willing to do announcements before they absolutely have to. Starting this afternoon (Beijing time), OMG began by announcing their official roster for 2018. EDG, RNG, JDG, LGD, Snake, and IG all announced theirs shortly afte., here’s the official line up for those 7 teams in 2018 LPL Spring split.
EDG
official announcement(in Chinese)
| NoFe | head coach | |
| Hermes | analyst | |
| Ray | Top | transfer from Cloud9 |
| Clearlove | Jungler | |
| Haro | Jungler | joined EDG acadamy team in 2017 |
| Scout | Mid | |
| iBoy | ADC | |
| Hope | ADC | joined EDG acadamy team in 2017 |
| Meiko | Support |
RNG
official announcement(in Chinese)
| Heart | head coach | promoted from assistant coach |
| doG8 | assistant coach | |
| xiaoxuan | assistant coach | |
| Letme | Top | |
| tianCi | Top | transfer from Royal (LSPL) |
| Mlxg | Jungler | |
| Karsa | Jungler | transfer from FW |
| Xiaohu | Mid | |
| Uzi | ADC | |
| y4 | ADC | |
| Able | ADC | known to many as “Zhanqisusu” |
| PiPiXuAn | ADC | transfer from Royal (LSPL), former VG. Xuan |
| Ming | Support |
JDG
official announcement(in Chinese)
| UDJ | head coach | |
| Vu5So | analyst | |
| Zoom | Top | transfer from DS (LSPL) |
| Clid | Jungler | |
| Xiaohan | Jungler | transfer from LD (LSPL) |
| Yagao | Mid | transfer from MSC (LSPL) |
| LokeN | ADC | |
| RD | ADC | transfer from LD (LSPL) |
| LvMao | Support |
IG
official announcement(in Chinese)
| Duke | Top | |
| TheShy | Top | |
| Ning | Jungler | |
| kidkid | Jungler | |
| Rookie | Mid | |
| JackeyLove | ADC | being hyped since 2016 NEST |
| West | ADC | |
| Baolan | Support |
Snake
official announcement(in Chinese)
| Zhu Kai | head coach | |
| Flandre | Top | |
| SofM | Jungler | |
| Zzr | Jungler | |
| Guoguo | Mid | was subbing in 2017 for Zz1tai |
| KRYST4L | ADC | |
| hudie | Support |
LGD
official announcement(in Chinese)
| Acorn | head coach | |
| DP | assistant coach | |
| Jinoo | Top | |
| Banana | Top | |
| Eimy | Jungler | |
| Yuuki | Mid | TGA (city league) player |
| Nanzhu | Mid | EDG acadamy |
| Imp | ADC | |
| Fdy | ADC | LGD acadamy |
| pyl | Support | also LGD’s team captain |
OMG
official announcement(in Chinese)
| Mingzhe | head coach | |
| Xiyang | analyst | |
| Casual | Top | transfer from OMD (LSPL) |
| world6 | Jungler | |
| jiekou | Jungler | |
| Fireloli | Jungler | transfer from EDG |
| ICON | Mid | |
| Chelly | ADC | transfer from GT (LSPL) |
| Five | Support | |
| Maestro | Support | had a fallout with OMG in 2017 |
LPL 2018 will have 14 teams. The remaining teams who still haven’t announced their rosters are VG, WE, SNG, and four new members of LPL —— RogueWarriors (ASUS’s ROG, won the spot bidding), BLG (bought IMay), FunPlusX (bought Newbee’s spot) and TOP (bought DAN’s spot). VG announced they signed WE’s former assistant coach HooN, and WE’s CEO announced that the player roster won’t change (957, Condi, xiye, Mystic, Ben and Zero). RogueWarriors announced that they hired former EDG’s manager as their manager.
LPL returns the week of January 15th, 2018 on twitch.tv/lpl1 with its english broadcast live from the venue in Shanghai.