For most of the LPL Split 2 2026 regular season, no one was paying attention to Team WE. They were 1-13, dead last in the Ascend group, and a Knight's Rivals loss away from relegation. Two weeks later, they have sent Bilibili Gaming to the lower bracket, swept Anyone's Legend, and are one BO5 (best-of-five) away from a place at the MSI in Daejeon. The face — and the brain — of that turnaround is a 22-year-old jungler named Wang "Monki" Meng-Qi .
Three BO5s, three series MVPs
The numbers tell the story on their own. Across WE's three playoff series — against LNG Esports at Knight's Rivals, then against BLG and Anyone's Legend in the Knockout Stage— Monki has been named MVP of every single one. Even more telling: he has been Player of the Game in six of the nine games WE have won.
His individual peaks against the LPL's most respected junglers have been striking. Against BLG's Peng "Xun" Li-xun and Anyone's Legend's Lee "Tarzan" Seung-yong — arguably two of the most reputed names at the position in China in recent years, both built on aggression and instinct — Monki did not just hold his own.
He made the LPL playoff so hype by himself, someone to watch out for in the next years definitely