Name: Lee “Wolf” Jae-wan

Date of Birth: September 9, 1996 

Country: Korea

Game: League of Legends

Tournament Winnings: $913,084.70 From 35 Tournaments

 

 

 

Lee “Wolf” Jae-wan is a League of Legends player from Korea, currently playing as a support for SK Telecom T1. Besides his compatriots Bae “Bengi” Seong-woong and Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok, Lee is the most successful LoL player in the world, in terms of Worlds Champion titles and earned money from tournaments.

eSports Discipline

Wolf is competing in the most popular game in the world – League of Legends. As we mentioned before, he is playing the role of the support on bot lane, helping the AD carry. Lee is well-known for his incredible skills with Nami, Karma, and Miss Fortune.

In the 2017 World finals, he had a perfect winning score with the protective support Janna and Braum, but a not so good winning rate with Taric and Lulu.

Results and Earnings

With $794,785.34 from 29 Tournaments, Wolf is #3 in Korea and #57 in the world ranking in terms of money earned by tournament’s prize funds.

2016 was the most successful year for him so far, since he won $420,169.33 in that period. Of course, since the World finals 2017 are not over yet, we believe that this year has the potential to surpass 2016, and become even better for the player in terms of money earned by the competitions.

 

2017 Best Winnings

1st	Mid-Season Invitational 2017	$135,200.00
1st	LCK Spring 2017	$12,795.86

 

2016 Best Winnings

1st	LoL 2016 World Championship	$338,000.00
1st	Mid-Season Invitational 2016	$50,000.00
1st	LCK Spring 2016	$14,633.33

 

 

2015 Total Winnings

$203,688.54 from 7 Tournaments

2014 Total Winnings

$7,748.48 from 5 Tournaments

eSports Career of Lee “Wolf” Jae-wan

Lee “Wolf” Jae-wan began his competitive career on December 21st, 2012, when he joined NaJin Shield as their new support player.

Wolf then played for Chunnam Techno University but left in October 2013 to join the newly reformed roster of SK Telecom T1 1. A few months later, the were renamed SK Telecom T1 S. They participated in the PANDORA TV Champions Winter 2013-2014. Unfortunately for Wolf and his teammates, they failed to make it out of the groups.

2015 brought changes to the OGN rules and Team S and their sister team SK Telecom T1 K were forced to merge to form SK Telecom T1. After the departure of Lee “PoohManDu” Jeong-hyeon, Wolf became the main starting support for the team.

With incredible play, SK Telecom T1 qualified for the World Championship as the top seed from Korea. SKT was placed in a group at Worlds alongside EDG, Bangkok Titans, and H2k Gaming. They went undefeated all the way to the finals, beating AHQ e-Sports Club and Origen in the playoffs along the way. They met the KOO Tigers in the finals and beat them 3-1 to give the organization its second World Championship.

 

2016 Season

SKT played in the 2015 LoL KeSPA Cup where they lost 2-0 in the semifinals to Ever. This series was widely considered to be one of the greatest upsets in League history but also continued a streak of World Champions being eliminated early on in their first tournaments after Worlds. In March, SK Telecom attended IEM Katowice despite being only the sixth-place LCK team at the time. They brought substitute jungler Kang “Blank” Sun-gu in place of bengi and swept through the tournament, winning the title after only seven games. After their international success, they returned to Korea and placed third in the regular season, earning themselves a spot in the playoffs. SKT won the playoffs, winning their third championship in a row and giving them a seed to the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational.

 

Their first-place finish in the spring season earned them a spot in the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational. Notably, SK Telecom T1 was the only team to return to 2016 MSI from 2015 MSI. As the reigning domestic champions of Korea, SK Telecom T1 came into the tournament as massive favorites to win. However, their group stage performances were very lackluster as they dropped games to China’s Royal Never Give Up, NA’s Counter Logic Gaming, and two games to the LMS Flash Wolves. They ended their group stage with a 6-4 record, seeding them into the bracket stage at fourth place. Matched up against Royal Never Give Up in the semifinals, SK Telecom started to regain their form, beating them 3-1. They then proceeded to beat Counter Logic Gaming 3-0 to win the event and give them the trophy that barely escaped them last year.

 

During the 2016 LCK Summer Split, SK Telecom started the season strong with a 5-0 score in series and 10-0 game score. However, they started dropping sets to lower ranked teams, notably the Afreeca Freecs, who they failed to win even a single game against the entire season. With a 13-5 scoreline in series, SKT placed second in the round robin, beating KT Rolster via game score tiebreaker. However, during the 2016 LCK Summer Playoffs, they met KT Rolster in the semifinals, where they were reverse swept 3-2 after going up 2-0 in the first two games. This gave them third place for the summer split. Combined with their first place spring finish, as well as the victory of the ROX Tigers over KT Rolster, SKT qualified to the 2016 Season World Championship on points as Korea’s second seed.

At the 2016 Season World Championship, SK Telecom T1 was placed into Group B, along with LMS’s Flash Wolves, NA’s Cloud 9, and China’s I May.