Team Liquid look more than solid | LTA Roster Analysis

You can’t discuss North American League of Legends from 2024-2025 without talking about Team Liquid, and the North American elite are running back the exact same roster, making them one of the regions top 2025 prospects.

Team Liquid was, in my opinion, the best League of Legends team in the West for most of the latter half of 2024 (FlyQuest at LCS Finals and Worlds excluded). Taking the lane swapping torch from G2, who were stuck in an incarnation of LEC with, candidly, no real competition, and sharpened against FlyQuest, this team was really good. No changes have been made to their top-tier team, with the minor exception of Head Coach Jake “Spawn” Tiberi spending a bit more time back home, down under, with Assistant Coach Simon “Swiffer” Papamarkos taking more in-person, on-stage, duties.

And, transparently, that’s not nearly enough to budge Team Liquid from where they ended 2024 in my power evaluations.

“Top Die”, TL Lives

Put simply, there’s no top laner in the LTA that gets anywhere near Jeong “Impact” Eon-young. The years come and go, rookies rise and fall, teams prosper and implode, but Impact remains. The World Champion is, in my opinion, the best top laner in the league, bar none, and likely has been for years.

Impact is beyond rock solid for TL. He can thrive if given resources, pull advantages with zero help, and otherwise play his role in a game for Team Liquid near-perfectly. Impact’s low-resource, high-payoff playstyle is a cornerstone for the team’s reliability, and the return of the once-SKT T1 World Champion to the roster should bolster TL fans’ hope.

In Jungle, Eom “UmTi” Seong-hyeon returns to the rift. Some fans, come All-Pro time, were down on UmTi, feeling that his playstyle was relatively low-agency. However, all you need to do is listen how Team Liquid spoke about UmTi in 2024 – the jungle is a central part of their strategy. UmTi’s selfless play and team-oriented playstyle is a huge aspect of what allowed them so much synergy last year. UmTi won’t be making as many highlight plays as Robert “Blaber” Huang, or Kacper “Inspired” Solma, but he will be just as vital to Team Liquid’s efforts as the others are to their teams.

Always Plan Ahead, Never Fall Behind

Eain “APA” Stearns was one of the breakout talents of 2025, following his sudden arrival to Team Liquid at the end of 2025, amid a floundering roster desperate for identity. NA fans, myself included, were not ready for the level of individual play that APA would reach. The community has long commented on the perceived lack of NA-native talent that teams invest in, no such complaints can be made here. APA, despite his occasional limit-testing at inopportune moments, is everything Team Liquid needs in the center of the map. And god forbid Corki be meta again, then LTA rosters are in serious danger.

In the bottom lane come Sean “Yeon” Sung, and Jo “CoreJJ” Yong-in. Yeon, another NA-native talent, burned his mark on LoL Esports last year when his Samira pick, his concoction, lead to one of the most explosive (nearly victorious) performances we’ve seen, against eventual two-time World Champions T1. Yeon is another young, explosive talent with exactly the kind of hunger and mechanical skill that TL need from their carries.

The Core(JJ) Of Their Competence

We can go on at length, about what makes CoreJJ so great, but here’s the simple truth – CoreJJ continues to prove himself as the absolute best support in North America time and time again. He’s a leader for his team, a vocal strategic leader, mechanically excellent, and bears with him mountains of experience from the biggest stages in the world (as well as a Worlds trophy of his own). Team Liquid would not be Team Liquid, as we know them, without CoreJJ, and he’s one of the most valuable superstar talents in the entire region.

Look for Team Liquid to continue to innovate and pioneer the lane swap meta that’s still around, not just NA but in the wider world. This team made clear in 2024 that they weren’t just the best macro team in the west, they were one of the best innovative macro teams in the entire world. While FlyQuest had their number at the end of the year, it’s hard not to rank Team Liquid as functional equals with FlyQuest until we see that first game.

In short, Team Liquid’s only real competition, if everything pans out close to expectations, is FlyQuest. If you’re interested in seeing their rivals that also ran back their roster, check out our breakdown.