LoL Worlds 2023 Casters and On-Air Talent

Apart from the followers and the gang on the venues, the League of Legends (LoL) Worlds Championship wouldn’t really feel the identical with out the joy and the hype introduced by the casters.

Riot Video games lastly introduced the official on-air expertise for Worlds 2023, let’s check out the most well-liked skills that may cowl League this 12 months. Right here is the breakdown of all of them by area.

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LoL Worlds Casters – Full record

Let’s break down your entire on-air English broadcast expertise lineup at Worlds 2023. Loads of huge names are returning to the printed, with just a few additions to the lineup this 12 months. Apart from the English casters, there will likely be many others commentating the video games in different languages to ensure probably the most immersive watching expertise.

English

• Eefje ‘Sjokz’ Depoortere – LEC
• Maxwell ‘Atlus’ Anderson – LCK
• Laure Valée – LEC
• Trevor ‘Quickshot’ Henry – LEC
• Samuel ‘Kobe’ Hartman-Kenzler – LCS
• Andrew ‘Vedius’ Day – LEC
• Clayton ‘CaptainFlowers’ Raines – LCS
• Daniel ‘Drakos’ Drakos – LEC
• Barento ‘Raz’ Mohammed – LCS
• Joseph ‘Munchables’ Fenny – LPL
• Christy ‘Ender’ Frierson – LEC
• Oisín Molloy – LPL
• Mikkel ‘Guldborg’ Nielsen – LEC
• Isaac ‘Azael’ Cummings-Bentley – LCS
• Mark ‘MarkZ’ Zimmerman – LCS
• Emily Rand – LCS
• Maurits ‘Chronicler’ Jan Meeusen – LCK
• Robert ‘Dagda’ Value – LEC
• Wolf Schröder – LCK
• Joshua ‘Jatt’ Leesman – LCS
• Aaron ‘Medic’ Chamberlain – LEC
• Brendan ‘Valdes’ Valdes – LCK
• Jake ‘Hysterics’ Osypenko – LPL

Korean

• Yong June ‘Caster Jun’ Jeon
• Seungheon ‘SeongCa’ Seong
• Hyun Woo ‘CloudTemplar’ Lee
• Nocheor ‘NoFe’ Jeong
• Juwan ‘Pony’ Lim
• Sujin ‘Ggoggo’ Ko
• Seunghoon ‘Huni’ Heo
• Hyung Woo ‘Cpt Jack’ Kang
• Dong Jin ‘Helios’ Shin
• Jeesun Park
• Soobin Youn
• Hye Ji Bae
• Yejin Ham

Mandarin

• Millie 米勒
• Teddy 泽元
• wAwa
• QianYuan 王多多
• 957 TXQQ 瞳夕
• MaoMao 毛毛
• Rita
• PYL
• MacT
• San 小伞
• Fireloli 赵志铭
• Gugu 鼓鼓
• Jun 俊日
• Jack 彭彭
• ShuoShuo 硕硕
• Mage
• Kris
• Sam 怀南
• Suki
• CF2 乘风儿
• Tune 王淞
• TianShu 天舒
• Zonic
• Mi 小米
• KinKo
• Candice 余霜
• Cling 刘航
• Yu 小钰
• Iris 希然
• Luo 骆歆
• Wendy 夏安
• Christina 松琪

Spanish

• Ainhoa ‘Noa’ Campos
• Victor ‘Wolk’ Fernández
• Sergio ‘Tesh’ Cerdán
• David ‘Champi’ Pérez
• Carlos ‘Bebé’ Bahlsen
• Jaime ‘Mellado’ Mellado
• Fernando Cardenete
• Javier ‘Toad’ Cepero

Spanish LATAM

• Magalí ‘Magui Sunshine’ Sanyán
• Daniel ‘Jirall’ Del Castillo
• Abdiel ‘Abdiel Tyrone’ Estrada
• Ignacio ‘Nachittus’ Santamarina
• Oscar ‘Corsario’ Aliste
• Rafael ‘Rafamaik’ Jert
• Juliana ‘Lenore’ Ardila
• Lauriane ‘LauAgnolin’ Agnolin
• Andrés ‘AndresX’ Jamit

Portuguese

• Brunno ‘Colosimus’ Colosimo
• Hugo ‘Dioud’ Padioleau
• Eduardo ‘Dudu’ Souza
• Gustavo ‘GSTV’ Cima
• Diniz ‘Gruntar’ Albieri
• Maria ‘Fogueta’ Junqueira
• Layze ‘Lahgolas’ Brandão
• Caio ‘Loop’ Almeida
• Carlos ‘Nappon’ Rucker
• Matheus ‘Professor’ Leirião
• Tácio ‘Schaeppi’ Schaeppi
• Alexandre ‘Skeat’ Trevisan
• Tábata ‘Tabs’ Gomes
• Murilo ‘Takeshi’ Alves
• Rafaela ‘Rafa’ Tomasi
• Arthur ‘Vecet’ Nogueira
• Ravena ‘Ravena’ Dutra

Japanese

• Kota ‘Jaeger’ Horie
• Tatsuya ‘katsudion’ Yamamoto
• Wataru ‘Wataneko’ Kaneko
• Koji ‘eyes’ Mitarai
• Ryosuke ‘Revol’ Kakizaki
• Keisuke ‘Nemoh’ Koresawa
• Satoshi ‘Recruit’ Horikawa

Vietnamese

• Linh ‘Remind’ Du Phong
• Mai ‘Mai Dora’ Truong Vu Quynh
• Nghi ‘Minh Nghi’ Tran Nguyen Minh
• Tri ‘YoungDK’ Pham Nguyen Minh
• Thien ‘Ngoc Thien’ Dang Ngoc
• Lam ‘Tung Lam’ Hoang Tung
• Hao ‘Minh Hao’ Nguyen Minh
• Duong ‘HD’ Nguyen Hai
• Trung ‘Huu Trung’ Bui Huu
• Dien ‘Dexni’ Nguyen Ba
• Tung ‘Van Tung’ Le Van
• Luan ‘Hoang Luan’ Huynh Hai Hoang

German

• David ‘Kernus’ Kratz
• Anika ‘Ryxcales’ Wolter
• Bastian ‘Basti’ Lilienthal
• Nico ‘Pixavis’ Timmermann
• René ‘Masterplay’ Geigenberger
• Oskar ‘Alanio’ van Elsberg
• Maurice ‘Mori’ Lange
• Christian ‘EisOhneWaffel’ Thamm
• Lothar ‘KXNG’ Schadrin
• Christoph ‘Mositing’ Würger
• Tom ‘Rulfchen’ Ruckh
• Fabian ‘Sheepy’ Mallant

Italian:

• Roberto ‘Kenrhen’ Prampolini
• Emiliano ‘Moonboy’ Marini
• Andrea ‘Juannetti’ Giovannetti
• Carlotta ‘Charlie_Yay’ de Simon
• Gabriele ‘Wolcat’ Catterin

Turkish

• Aykut ‘Euphony’ Özgan
• Caner ‘Jhonnie’ Güngörür
• Oğuz ‘NoelDayı’ Avcı
• Can ‘Scarlet’ Çaldıran
• Bahadır ‘Japone’ Çolak
• Berk ‘Farfetch’ Badur
• Tankut ‘Hoca’ Eraslan
• Sinan ‘Mehitra’ Süsler
• Alican ‘Karahan’ Karahan
• Ahmet ‘Nova’ Yılmaz
• Ali ‘Midali’ Tekel
• Bahadır ‘GeneralBaho’ Van
• Baturhan ‘Zetsu’ Bahadır
• Reha ‘Rehaer’ Domaniç

Polish

• Mikołaj ‘Silv4n’ Sinacki
• Tomasz ‘Magvayer’ Filipino
• Tomasz ‘TheFakeOne’ Milaniuk
• Wojciech ‘Bezi’ Wróbel
• Piotr ‘CzarnyPiotruś’ Barański
• Piotr ‘DevilPiotr’ Zaborowski
• Michał ‘Myha’ Francuz
• Michał ‘Bialito’ Biały
• Kasper ‘Kaspersky’ Gutkowski

Greek

• Kosmas ‘LivingDead’ Baxevanidis
• Konstantinos ‘Ner0’ Perperidis
• Antonis ‘TonyB’ Baladimas
• Antonis ‘Rev’ Stepchenko
• Labros ‘Labokop’ Tegos
• Vasilis ‘TheRock7’ Voltis
• Dimitris “IceBreaker” Hatzitsompanis

Serbian

• Miloš ‘Sa1na’ Šainović
• Nikola ‘Scarhead’ Milićević
• Rastko ‘Ralla’ Kojić
• Ognjen ‘Ogee’ Pejić
• Aleksa ‘Redulj’ Radojković
• Aleksa ‘Ljuba’ Šurlan
• Minja ‘Njami’ Kefer
• Nemanja ‘Glisha’ Glišić

Hungarian

• Máté ‘Livius’ Koncz
• Bence ‘Atreus’ Loksa
• Márk ‘Makaria’ Makaria
• Zalán ‘Mentsvar’ Mihály
• Márton ‘AsdElek’ Nagy
• Ákos ‘Pierce’ Német
• Márton ‘Darcigh’ Zelenik
• Balogh ‘Rka’ Réka
• Huzsvári ‘Anniewhere’ Patrik

Czech

• Tomáš ‘Mortsche’ Anděl
• Jan ‘Kangae’ Sekanina
• Filip ‘Fortanu’ Růžička
• Petr ‘Xnapy’ Jirák
• Dominik ‘Murde’ Dvořák

LEC expertise at Worlds ’23

• Eefje ‘Sjokz’ Depoortere – Arguably probably the most infamous presenter/caster in League of Legends historical past. Many followers must be conversant in Sjokz as she has been on the printed desk because the begin of the EU LCS again in 2013. As one of many longest-serving members, Sjokz began out as an interviewer and journalist in European competitions, however her nice persona and expertise made her one if not an important hosts within the esports scene. Not solely did she host a few of the main worldwide tournaments inside the League ecosystem (equivalent to Worlds and MSI), however she additionally labored for different esports competitions. Sjokz’s recognition and nice casting allowed her to win the “Best Esports Host” award for three consecutive years, from 2018 to 2020.

• Laure Valée – Laure began working because the interviewer for the EU LCS 2017 Summer time Playoffs earlier than changing into formally a part of the broadcasting group for the next 12 months. Earlier than she started her broadcasting profession, Laure hosted numerous occasions and was additionally a author for Lolesports.com’s french web page. She’s thought of one of the well-known french specialists on the earth of gaming and esports, as she has appeared on numerous tv packages equivalent to Canal Esports Membership. Her following significantly elevated through the years and he or she’s now internet hosting additionally independently on her personal Youtube and Twitch channels.
• Trevor “Quickshot” Henry – When you observe the League of Legends scene for lengthy, you’ll probably bear in mind Quickshot’s “Flash, Bear, Slap” and “Are you not entartained?”. He’s presently a play-by-play commentator for the European League and has been working for Riot since 2013 when he joined as a Neighborhood Coordinator. Shortly after, he began casting full-time, taking part at yearly’s Worlds till 2021, when he determined to take a break on account of burnout which impacted his private {and professional} life. After in search of psychological professionals and coming into a psychological well being program, he returned to the broadcasting desk this 12 months and will likely be among the many LEC casters for this 12 months’s Worlds.

• Daniel ‘Drakos’ Drakos Beforehand generally known as ‘Tsepha’, Drakos took half in numerous League occasions each as a play-by-play and shade caster, together with overlaying the LMS Summer time Playoffs, the LoL KeSPA Cup, and IEM San Jose in 2015. He then joined the EU broadcast group in 2016 and has by no means left the LEC since then. Apart from his nice and energetic casting, Drakos loves music and writing content material. These two passions have mixed with the esports world, as he and Vedius (which we’ll see subsequent) have pulled off numerous rap battles across the LEC groups. Evidently that these have been tremendous profitable and have turn out to be a ‘custom’ for each LEC playoffs.
• Andrew ‘Vedius’ Day – Working as a shade caster for the LEC, Vedius can be the opposite ‘rap god’. Andrew rose to recognition for creating a number of alter egos which have appeared on broadcast. (‘Flexius, Foldius, Chefius and Explainius’) As a Welsh native, Vedius has tremendous fluent communication expertise as he began newbie casting for tournaments within the UK. What’s spectacular about him is that he’s tremendous educated concerning the recreation, having reached Grasp tier in Season 5. Vedius can be recognized for being a giant Nocturne fanatic in solo lanes and his personal collection referred to as Vedius’ Picks to Watch, the place he defined which champions he thought would turn out to be meta on a given patch.
• Robert ‘Dagda’ Value – The LPL doesn’t have just one Irish man. Dagda additionally comes from the Republic of Eire and is presently working with Oisín for the Chinese language League as a shade caster. And identical to him, Dagda can be a part of the EU Masters broadcast line-up. The 2 have additionally labored collectively up to now on different broadcasts, which makes them a really gratifying casting duo with nice synergy.
• Mikkel ‘Guldborg’ Nielsen
• Aaron ‘Medic’ Chamberlain – UK has many casting personalities inside the esports scene, certainly one of which is Medic. Aaron started casting full-time in the summertime of 2016 and earned himself a casting supply for the 2017 EU Challenger Collection. In lower than a 12 months, Medic made his method to the LEC broadcast desk due to his spirited and hyped casting type. What’s spectacular about him is that he went to medical college and even labored as a health care provider for one 12 months, earlier than changing into a play-by-play caster. To not point out that he additionally performs League at a fairly excessive degree, as you may in all probability discover him in Diamond elo.
• Christy ‘Ender’ Frierson – 

LPL and LCK casters at LoL Worlds 2022

• Oisín ‘Oisín’ Molloy – Beforehand generally known as Penguin and BP, Molloy comes from the Republic of Eire. He’s a play-by-play caster for the English LPL and the LEC broadcast. He’s additionally on the printed desk of the Amazon EU Masters which he began in 2019. Earlier than becoming a member of the LPL, he forged within the ESL Premiership and the previous Forge of Champions by LVP.
• Maurits ‘Chronicler’ Jan Meeusen – Initially from the Netherlands, Chronicler began casting League of Legends for the Dutch and Belgian Leagues in 2020. He additionally did the play-by-play for the EU Masters in the identical 12 months and lots of different ERL tournaments, together with the NLC, UKLC, NUEL and others. Now, Chronicler is in South Korea, working for the English broadcast of the LCK.
• Max ‘Atlus’ Anderson – began commentating League of Legends in 2013 in Australia, as quickly because the Oceanic server was launched. He started with native tournaments and have become a commentator in 2014 for Riot Oceania. Within the following years, Atlus has forged all kinds of competitions, together with the LPL, MSI and Worlds. That was till 2017 when he moved to South Korea to hitch the printed group of the LCK. He has additionally hosted “the Pog State”, a podcast only for the Korean league, much like the EUphoria model for the LEC.
• Joseph ‘Munchables’ Fenny – Munchables is without doubt one of the newest additions to the Worlds 2023 lineup, taking part for the primary time this 12 months. He started casting full time in July of 2015 when he joined the ESL UK crew as a full-time caster, engaged on primarily LoL within the UK scene casting with different well-known casters equivalent to Medic and Excoundrel. After spending three years at ESL, he started engaged on the cellular recreation Vainglory because the desk host of the VG8 from the California workplace. In 2019, Munchables moved to Las Vegas to hitch ESP Gaming to work primarily as a produce whereas nonetheless casting and internet hosting cellular gaming productions. After that, he need again to the UK and began casting UKLC and EU Masters, earlier than becoming a member of the English broadcast for the LPL. Since then, he has turn out to be a Play by Play caster for the Chinese language league.
• Brendan ‘Valdes’ Valdes – He received his first alternative to forged in 2012 by successful a raffle run by Azubu (the sponsor of seasons 1+2 of the Champions) to return to Korea for OGN the Champions season 1 finals, beginning to work for Azubu, after which being requested by OGN to fill in as an evaluation caster for season 2 of The Champions. He centered on studying Korean in 2013, and returned to full time casting Starcraft 2 Proleague in 2014. He started casting League of Legends as soon as once more in 2017 for SPOTV LCK. He’s presently casting the LCK for Riot Video games.
• Wolf Schröder – He’s a shade commentator who presently works on the LCK broadcast. He has lived in Korea since transferring there in 2011 to commentate StarCraft II. He has since commentated high Korean esports leagues in Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch and most lately labored on the Overwatch League.
• Jake ‘Hysterics’ Osypenko – Present LPL Caster. He has been working full-time because the begin of 2019, practically 5 years in complete. Earlier than that, he labored as a caster within the Oceanic Challenger Collection. He additionally occurs to be a efficiency coach and assistant coach for PCS group Vertex Esports Membership. Will probably be the primary look at Worlds for him as effectively, alongside his colleague Munchables.

Checklist of all of the LCS expertise that may forged at Worlds

• David ‘Phreak’ Turley – One of the well-liked faces of League of Legends casting, Phreak is without doubt one of the most beloved personalities inside the League neighborhood. When you ever questioned, he’s additionally the voice behind the Champion Spotlights and Patch Previews you see pop round Youtube. Not solely that, however he additionally goes over the patches on his personal Youtube channel and analyses the nerfs and buffs on a numerical foundation, providing you with an important concept of how impactful a change may be.
• Isaac ‘Azael’ Cummings Bentley – Whereas a few of you may not know, however Azael was world champion materials when he performed World of Warcraft professionally for Evil Geniuses in 2007. After his gaming profession, he transitioned to casting for numerous Blizzard titles, together with Starcraft 2 and Hearthstone. He joined Riot Video games in 2015 as a play tester, earlier than changing into a part of the casting crew within the following 12 months. Since then, he has taken each the roles of shade caster and analyst on the printed desk. He’s now one of many most important shade casters of the LCS.
• James ‘Sprint’ Patterson – began off in 2014 as an esports coordinator and joined the group because the desk host just a few months later. James has additionally earned a Bachelor of Superb Arts in Drama from NYU, and you may clearly see that based mostly on how good he’s in a position to create interplay and hold followers engaged. In 2021, he has additionally hosted the Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) Masters, making him an important all-rounder relating to internet hosting tournaments.
• Mark ‘MarkZ’ Zimmerman was the unique analyst and recreation guru, somewhat than a caster. He began his analyst profession on Staff Curse, which rebranded later to Staff Liquid, earlier than working with Delta Fox in the summertime of 2017. Since then, MarkZ has moved to the on-air expertise group for the academy leagues in addition to the principle broadcast. He has appeared a number of occasions on the LCS official podcast “The DIVE”.
• Sam ‘Kobe’ Hartman-Kenzler – Beforehand generally known as Kobe24, an omage to the nice Kobe Bryant, Sam has been working with Riot Video games for greater than 10 years. He began taking part in League when it first got here out. That’s when he first met HotShotGG, who later helped Kobe climb the ladder and take him in because the beginning jungler for Counter Logic Gaming. Whereas his skilled profession as a participant ended prematurely on account of him specializing in his research and pursuing a profession in engineering, he returned to the esports scene in 2012 as a shoutcaster for on-line tournaments and was later employed by Riot for the NA LCS. Like Phreak, he’s been with the LCS since its early days and continues to be a mainstay for each the American League and worldwide occasions.

LCS has a few of longest serving LoL Worlds Casters

• Barento ‘Raz’ Mohammed – was once a part of the teaching workers in skilled groups. He first joined Chiefs Esports Membership in OCE, earlier than switching to Dignitas first as an analyst after which as the top coach. In June 2016, although, Raz left Dignitas and have become a commentator for the English broadcast of the LPL. Since then, he labored his means by means of the ranks, representing and telling the world about LPL groups at huge worldwide occasions. He had a small stint because the Head Coach for Golden Guardians Academy for the 2020 season, earlier than becoming a member of the LCS broadcast as a shade caster.
• Julian ‘Pastrytime’ Carr is an Australian League of Legends caster and a really acquainted face on the LCS broadcast. Earlier than beginning in 2010, he used to commentate and write technique articles for the Warcraft 3 esports scene. He labored with a number of organizations, together with ESL Australia and Gamestah. He has additionally forged the OPL (Oceanic Professional League) in addition to the LPL. Presently, he seems sometimes on the printed desk of the LCS as a play-by-play, primarily working with MarkZ and Jatt.
• Joshua “Jatt” Leesman – Alongside Phreak and Kobe, Jatt is without doubt one of the most well-known esports personalities on the earth. Joshua started his casting profession in 2012, a place he maintained for nearly 7 years. He had a small stint engaged on the steadiness group in 2019, earlier than returning to the casting group till mid-2020, when he obtained a head coach supply from Staff Liquid. Jatt maintained the place for greater than a 12 months earlier than he returned to the analyst desk. He’s now casting the LCS and we’ll probably see him on the worldwide occasions.
• Emily Rand – Analyst for the LCS. Emily Rand has been a key addition to the North American broadcasting expertise, bringing insightful details about the sport. This will likely be her third consecutive look at Worlds, after becoming a member of first again in 2021. She has been a gradual presence within the LCS lineup up to now two years.
• Barento ‘Raz’ Mohammed – Raz is a Canadian caster and analyst for the LCS. Earlier than this 12 months, Raz was once a caster for the LPL. The man, who was beforehand generally known as Razleplasm, began by becoming a member of The Chiefs eSports Membership as a coach, again in 2015, earlier than becoming a member of Staff Dignitas as an analyst. In 2016, Raz moved from analyst to the top coach position for Staff Dignitas previous to the 2016 NA LCS Spring Season, however later grew to become a commentator for the English-language forged of the Chinese language LPL. That was till the beginning of 2020 when he grew to become the brand new Head Coach for Golden Guardians Academy for the 2020 season. His stint was quick, nonetheless, and he solely lasted a 12 months. Since then, he returned to the casting position and is now engaged on the LCS desk.

Whereas the ultimate lineup for Worlds is ready, we now have not but absolutely confirmed all of the expertise current or if any cancellations happen. Regulate your favorites and hope that they get to attend the most important event of the 12 months.

Casters not attending Worlds ’23 as a part of the on-air group

• Marc Robert ‘Caedrel’ Lamont