Flakked joins GIANTX for the 2026 season

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 08/12/2025

GIANTX have signed Spanish League of Legends botlaner Víctor ‘Flakked’ Lirola Tortosa from Team Heretics.

It was expected that GIANTX would be one of the few LEC teams to keep their entire roster for next year.

And that is still the case with Oh ‘Noah’ Hyeon-taek remaining the starting ADC alongside long-term duo Yoon ‘Jun’ Se-jun.

Though there was reported interest in support Jun by Fnatic, but the team has instead signed Korean rookie Park ‘Lospa’ Joon-hyeong.

Flakked will instead drop down from LEC into Spain’s SuperLiga with GIANTX Pride.

Spain’s Superliga is now being run by Last Lap and Cabal Esports next year, with Riot making big ERL changes in 2026.

After joining GIANTX Pride and returning to Spain’s ERL, Flakked said:

“Absolutely thrilled and super excited to kick off 2026 alongside GIANTX.

“I hope you all love everything that’s coming because 2026 looks set to be an epic year, and this is just the beginning.”

Flakked competed in the LEC with Team Heretics for the previous two years and performed pretty well during that time.

Flakked got a penta kill in the LEC Summer 2025 Playoffs, but that couldn’t save Team Heretics from elimination against Team Vitality.

And according to Sheep Esports, Flakked could be joined at GIANTX by a surpirse name in the bot lane.

Allegedly, former Team Vitality botlaner Amadeu ‘Attila’ Dias de Carvalho is being considered to join the team as a roleswapped support.

Attila previously played at Worlds with Vitality but hasn’t competed in the LEC since 2020.

Another report by Sheep Esports claims that Team Heretics are replacing Flakked with South Korean botlaner Yoon ‘Ice’ Sang-hoon.

Ice has played in the LEC for a couple of years after joining Team BDS at the end of 2023.

Team Heretics LEC 2026 roster

While GIANTX are maintaining the same five-man roster, Team Heretics will look pretty different in 2026.

Though Flakked has left, Team Heretics have seemingly kept hold of jungler Theo ‘Sheo’ Borile and support Paul ‘Stend’ Lardin.

Heretics have also made changes in the top and mid lanes, as well as signing Ice for ADC.

Team Heretics have already confirmed that they are promoting Sebastian ‘Tracyn’ Wojtoń.

The top laner showed a lot of promise as he helped Los Heretics reach the EMEA Masters Summer finals last year.

And according to reports, Heretics midlaner will be 23-year-old Turkish pro Tolga ‘Serin’ Ölmez.

Serin previously competed at MSI twice and Worlds once with Istanbul Wildcats back when Turkey’s TCL wasn’t an ERL.

Serin also had impressive performances in France’s LFL last year with Galions.

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

In my seven years of esports writing, I've introduced esports coverage to newspapers, interviewed some of the biggest names in the industry, and driven viewers mad with the puns in my YouTube scripts. I'm most proud of the latter.

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