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Greatness in League of Legends resists a clean formula. A World title is the loudest claim a player can stake — but it has never been the whole story, and naming the ten greatest is where the agreement ends. This list weighs three things: international pedigree, longevity, and the mark a player left on how the game is played...

10 - Kim "Canyon" Geon-bu

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Two MSIs, one World Championship and a Finals MVP to go with it. Canyon won 2020 with DAMWON as the most mechanically gifted jungler of his generation, the carry-jungle archetype taken to its ceiling. No player has ever dominated the role with that kind of margin.

9 - Cho "Mata" Se-hyeong

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One World Championship — and the shotcaller who turned support into a headline role. Mata broke in as a Royal Roader, winning his debut split with MVP Ozone in 2013, then claimed with Samsung White and got MVP from the support seat — a feat almost no one in the position has matched. He won titles in both the LCK and the LPL. The finest shotcaller the role has produced.