TLAW Yeon: "I'm going into this year as if it's going to be my last."

TL;DR

Team Liquid Alienware botlaner Yeon approaches the 2026 Spring Split with a mindset of urgency, treating this year as potentially his last. He continues to be a key player for Team Liquid, known for his consistent performance and All-Pro accolades.

Key points

Yeon plays for Team Liquid Alienware.
He is a prominent botlaner in the LCS.
Yeon has multiple All-Pro appearances.
He approaches the 2026 Spring Split with urgency.
Yeon reviews VODs daily for practice.

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Team Liquid Alienware Yeon competing in the LCS 2026 Spring Split.

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Team Liquid Alienware botlaner Yeon walks into the Team Liquid Alienware facility before instantly making his way over to the League of Legends practice room. He takes his seat in the chair, reviews his VODs before gearing up for a day of practice.

This has been the routine that Yeon has done every single day to become one of North America’s premier League of Legends talents. For years, Yeon has been a reliable carry option for Team Liquid Alienware. He has collected numerous All-Pro appearances alongside the respect of his peers.

However, the LCS 2026 season marked a newfound mindset for Yeon that has shaped the way he has been trying to evolve his game while also starting to think about what it means to be a true competitor.

Improvements one step at a time

Developing his own voice as a League of Legends pro has been a tough adjustment for Yeon, who admitted to the challenges of balancing both communication and his in-game mechanics. It wasn’t until a conversation with his coaches about communication and its importance that Yeon placed it as a priority in practices.

“These days, I’m a carry so I have to be very vocal about when we should fight and when I need to fight,” Yeon said. “I think carries have a lot of responsibility during the game when they are strong enough to actually say when to fight. That’s the one thing I’ve been improving on this split compared to other splits.”

When Yeon was promoted to the main Team Liquid roster full-time at the start of the LCS 2023 season, he had a team of veterans who were decisive in their “own theory” of how they wanted to win games. He would watch how his veteran teammates would have a certainty about what fit within their scope of controlling a game. That same cadence followed him in 2024 and 2025.

“I knew how to do my own thing and play well, but I wasn’t really actively thinking about how to push a game,” Yeon said. “I was letting other people do it like Umti, Impact, and Core.”