If you are looking up the Worlds Finals MVP list, this page covers every League of Legends World Championship Finals MVP from 2014 to 2025: twelve Finals MVP awards (11 players), each with the year, the player, his role and the team he played for at the time.
The 2022 Finals MVP was DRX top laner Kingen, and the 2023 award went to T1 top laner Zeus. The list starts in 2014, and some sources label the 2014 and 2015 awards as Worlds MVP (tournament MVP) rather than Finals MVP.
Winners, runners up and final scores already live in our Worlds winners list, so this article sticks to one question: who took Finals MVP that year. As of November 10, 2026, the Worlds 2026 final is set as Gen.G vs Bilibili Gaming (BLG). Riot names the Finals MVP after the series ends, and we will add the 2026 line here once it is official.
The short version: top, jungle and mid have three awards each, and only Faker has won twice
Split the twelve awards from 2014 to 2025 by role and you get top three (MaRin, Kingen, Zeus), jungle three (Ning, Tian, Canyon), mid three (Faker twice, plus Scout), bot two (Ruler, Gumayusi) and support one (Mata).
Faker is the only two time Finals MVP, in 2016 and 2024; his full trophy record is in how many Worlds Faker has won. By league, players on LCK teams won it nine times and players on LPL teams three times (Ning with iG in 2018, Tian with FPX in 2019, Scout with EDG in 2021).
Region here means the league of the team, not nationality: Scout is South Korean but won the award with EDG in the LPL, so he counts for the LPL. No Finals MVP record could be confirmed for 2011 to 2013, so those years are left out.
Some sources label the 2014 and 2015 awards as Worlds MVP (tournament MVP) rather than Finals MVP; both players were on that year's champion, so they are included here. Here is how the 2026 final was set. In the semifinals in Allen, Texas, Gen.G swept Invictus Gaming 3:0 and BLG beat T1 3:1.
The final is on Saturday, November 14 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, scheduled for 2 p.m. ET (11 a.m. PT) as of November 10, 2026. Start times by region and the opening ceremony are in our Worlds 2026 final guide. We do not predict the result or the MVP.
Every Worlds Finals MVP, year by year (2014 to 2025)
- 12014 and 2015: Mata and MaRinSamsung White support Mata (Cho Se-hyeong) was the 2014 Finals MVP after beating China's Royal Club at Seoul World Cup Stadium. He is the only support on this list. In 2015, SK Telecom T1 top laner MaRin (Jang Gyeong-hwan) took the award at the final in Berlin against fellow Korean team KOO Tigers.
- 22016 and 2017: Faker and RulerAt Staples Center in Los Angeles in 2016, SK Telecom T1 mid laner Faker (Lee Sang-hyeok) won his first Finals MVP against Samsung Galaxy. The same two teams met again in 2017 at Beijing National Stadium. This time Samsung Galaxy won, and bot laner Ruler (Park Jae-hyuk) became the first ADC on this list.
- 32018 and 2019: Ning and TianInvictus Gaming beat Fnatic at Incheon Munhak Stadium in 2018 for the first Worlds title by an LPL team, with jungler Ning (Gao Zhenning) as Finals MVP. In Paris in 2019, FunPlus Phoenix beat G2 Esports and jungler Tian (Gao Tianliang) took the award, two years in a row for an LPL jungler.
- 42020 and 2021: Canyon and ScoutDAMWON Gaming beat Suning at Pudong Football Stadium in Shanghai in 2020, and jungler Canyon (Kim Geon-bu) made it three straight years for the jungle role. In Reykjavik in 2021, EDward Gaming beat DWG KIA and mid laner Scout (Lee Ye-chan) was Finals MVP, a South Korean player winning it on an LPL team.
- 52022 and 2023: Kingen and ZeusDRX beat T1 at Chase Center in San Francisco in 2022, and the Finals MVP was top laner Kingen (Hwang Seong-hoon). In 2023 at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, T1 beat Weibo Gaming and top laner Zeus (Choi Woo-je) took the award. That is two years in a row for a top laner.
- 62024 and 2025: Faker and GumayusiT1 beat BLG at The O2 Arena in London in 2024, and Faker won his second Finals MVP eight years after his first. In Chengdu in 2025, T1 beat KT Rolster to complete a three peat, with bot laner Gumayusi (Lee Min-hyeong) as Finals MVP. BLG, now in the 2026 final, is the team T1 beat in that 2024 final.
Worlds Finals MVPs by role (2014 to 2025)
| Role | Finals MVP (year, team at the time) | Awards |
|---|---|---|
| Top | MaRin (2015, SK Telecom T1), Kingen (2022, DRX), Zeus (2023, T1) | 3 |
| Jungle | Ning (2018, Invictus Gaming), Tian (2019, FunPlus Phoenix), Canyon (2020, DAMWON Gaming) | 3 |
| Mid | Faker (2016, SK Telecom T1), Scout (2021, EDward Gaming), Faker (2024, T1) | 3 (Faker twice) |
| Bot (ADC) | Ruler (2017, Samsung Galaxy), Gumayusi (2025, T1) | 2 |
| Support | Mata (2014, Samsung White) | 1 |
| Total (by team league) | LCK teams 9, LPL teams 3 (iG, FPX, EDG) | 12 |
Finals MVP records worth knowing
- Two time winner: only Faker (2016 and 2024), eight years apart.
- Longest streak by role: jungle, three years in a row (Ning 2018, Tian 2019, Canyon 2020).
- By organization, T1 players, counting the SK Telecom T1 years, have won it five times (2015, 2016, 2023, 2024, 2025), including three straight from 2023 to 2025.
- All twelve Finals MVP awards (11 players) from 2014 to 2025 went to players on that year's champion.
- Top lane back to back: the 2022 Finals MVP was Kingen of DRX and the 2023 Finals MVP was Zeus of T1.
Keep your own Finals MVP moments with DOR
Watching a Worlds final makes you want to keep your own best plays too. DOR is a free Windows game recorder. Leave it running, start League of Legends, and it detects the game and records the whole match.
Kills, multikills and objectives like dragons and Baron are also cut into highlight clips and collected in My Clips in the app; see how to save a LoL pentakill clip for how that works. For any other moment, find it in the full match recording and cut it yourself.
Replay and spectator recording is on by default for League, so when you play back a .rofl replay, that playback is recorded too, which lets you rewatch your own game next to what you saw in the final, like how pros set up vision or time a teamfight engage.
Cut your pick to 9:16 in the app, then add effect templates like punch zoom, text and music in DOR Studio (dor.gg/studio), and export an mp4 or share a dor.gg link. The full walkthrough is in how to make LoL Shorts, and everything DOR does for League is on the League of Legends game page.
