Team Liquid is looking to build an all-Korean speaking League of Legends roster for the upcoming LCS 2023 season with three World Champions.

Edited December 2, 2022: Team Liquid has officially revealed their whole roster for 2023.

Team Liquid LoL LCS 2023 Roster

Top Lane

Park “Summit” Woo-tae is Liquid's top laner for 2023. The Korean laner will be returning to the LCS after departing to play for FunPlus Phoenix in the LPL earlier this year. Initially, he played in the LCK before he was imported to play for Cloud9 during the LCS 2022 Spring Split. During his brief stint in the LCS, he was touted as one of the best top laners that split, but unfortunately the squad failed to show results. Nonetheless, he led the region in Group Stage MVPs at 7 and was also the Spring Split MVP.

FlyQuest as well as LEC team MAD Lions were among the Western teams interested in picking up the top laner for this season.

Gabriël “Bwipo” Rau is still signed, but Team Liquid has apparently allowed him to explore other options as of three weeks ago. Liquid was Bwipo's first home in the LCS after four years playing for Fnatic over in the LEC. He has confirmed that

Jungle

According to League of Legends interviewer and personality Travis Gafford, Team Liquid will be employing the help of a Korean import to be their jungler, and to fit their agenda of having an all-Korean speaking team.

Other sources suggest that this spot will be taken by Kang “Haru” Min-seung, who will be coming from Team Vitality. This information checks out, as Vitality will be playing with Zhou “Bo” Yangbo for LEC 2023.

Haru only joined VIT earlier this year, but with Bo taking up his spot, his buyout should not have been that high. Nevertheless, Haru is still technically a World Champion, a title he earned back in 2017 during his time in Samsung Galaxy.

However, Team Liquid decided to push forward with a different World Champion, one much more recent: Hong “Pyosik” Chang-hyeon. ClutchPoints previously reported on this possibility and has been confirmed by TL in their recent announcement. This is a big move not only because of the obviously massive pickup for TL, but because Pyosik has only historically played for DRX his whole career.

After graduating from the training program of the org then-known as DragonX, he made his debut in the 2019 KeSPA Cup. The jungler stayed as a part of the organization throughout their rebrand and multiple roster shuffles.

Lucas “Santorin” Tao Kilmer Larsen, whose spot will be taken up by Pyosik, is rumored to join Dignitas.

Mid Lane

Harry “Haeri” Kang will be promoted to the main LCS team in the 2023 season. He has been Team Liquid Academy's mid laner since 2021, and after the org parted ways with Søren “Bjergsen” Bjerg, it's now Haeri's time to shine on the main stage.

TL wanted to show their support to developing professional League of Legends players from the grassroots level and promoting someone like Haeri is in line of this message. If Haeri, who is being promoted from TLA, does well in the stage with the guidance of several veterans and World Champions, TL's vision of developing young players would be very much supported.

Bot Lane

Coming along with his mid laner is Sean “Yeon” Sung, who is also getting promoted from Team Liquid Academy. While his professional career so far has been short, he has proven his skill time and time again, winning the LCS Academy League, Proving Grounds, and even Lock-In when he was subbed in during his two-year stint in the org.

He takes the place of Steven “Hans sama” Liv, who has been confirmed to have departed with the org a few months back.

Hans sama will be going back home to the LEC, as he is rumored to be playing for G2 Esports in 2023.

Support

TL held onto one single player from their 2022 roster, and it was Jo “CoreJJ” Yong-In. To many, he has been the pillar of every team that Liquid has formed, and for good reason. Since he was imported over into the LCS in 2019, he has only known Team Liquid, and it seems this year will not be any different.

Coaching Staff

Of course, if you have a Korean-speaking team, you need a Korean-speaking coach.

TL has already welcomed Hang “MaRin” Gyeong-hwan as their new head coach. MaRin was part of the SKT T1 roster that won the World Championship of that year. He then moved back and forth in the LPL and LCK, before retiring after the 2018 season. This time, we see him for the first time in the LCS after four years of being out of the professional stage.

André “Guilhoto” Pereira Guilhoto, TL's previous head coach, left the org soon after the LCS season ended and will be joining Giants Gaming as their Head Coach for this season. Guilhoto had a brief stint with Giants back in the 2017 EU Challenger Series Summer Split. Giants topped the season for that split. Now, the Giants compete in the LVP Superliga. In the past two splits, they have managed a Runner-Up and a First-place finish, and a top-tier coach will surely help them keep their form.

TL is also enlisting the help of Kim “Reignover” Yeu-jin. He participated in the 2022 season over in the LEC as MAD Lions' Positional Coach and is returning to the LCS as Team Liquid's Assistant Coach. Before he left for MAD, he had been part of Cloud9 for multiple years, either as the LCS Assistant Coach or the Academy Team's Head Coach. As a player, Reignover's career began in Korea as a jungler. He went on to play for Fnatic in 2015, then moved to NA and played for several teams.