Natus Vincere announce LEC Versus 2026 roster

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 17/12/2025

Natus Vincere (NAVI) have announced their LEC roster for 2026 as the organisation prepares for its first full LoL season.

NAVI joined the LEC by buying Rogue’s slot last Summer but finished the season dead last in tenth place.

Now the Ukrainian esports organisation has unveiled a brand new roster made up of mostly new players in

• Volodymyr ‘Maynter’ Sorokin (Top)
• Enes ‘Rhilech’ Uçan (Jungle)
• Sung-won ‘Poby’ Yun (Mid)
• Jae-hoon ‘Hans SamD’ Lee (ADC)
• Polat Furkan ‘Parus’ Çiçek (Support)

Ukrainian toplaner Maynter is, of course, a good move for the organisation’s brand as they look to establish themselves in the LoL community.

But he’s also an excellent prospect. He was part of the Karmine Corp Blue team that embarrassed Los Ratones 3-0 at EMEA Masters.

However, the most hyped prospect on the team is Turkish jungler Rhilech.

So much so that the organisation signed him in advance for 2026 as soon as NAVI joined the league.

That mixed with NAVI’s poor results meant jungler Francisco ‘Thayger’ Mazo Sánchez’s LEC stint only lasted three weeks.

The only player that has stayed is botlaner Hams SamD, another solid prospect who spent a lot of time competing in the ERLs.

He will be joined by Turkish support Parus who played for Team BDS in the LEC last year after winning EMEA Masters with BDS Academy in 2024.

Finishing off the line-up is Korean midlaner Poby, who was previously an understudy to Lee ‘Faker’ Sangy-hyeok in T1 academy.

Poby helped Fnatic qualify for LoL Worlds after joining in the Summer and replacing Marek ‘Humanoid’ Brázda, who has now joined Team Vitality.

Meanwhile, Poby has been replaced on Fnatic by Vladimiros ‘Vladi’ Kourtidis for the LEC 2026 season.

NAVI’s first LEC Versus matches in 2026

The schedule for the first week of LEC Versus has been revealed by Riot Games.

The new event will invite Los Ratones and Karmine Corp Blue into the competition for the duration of the tournament.

However, NAVI have managed to avoid any of the ERL teams in their first three games.

Their first match will be with Team Heretics, another team expected to be middle of the road, along with NAVI.

Then, we’ll get to see if Poby really was an upgrade on Humanoid in NAVI’s second match versus Team Vitality.

And all eyes will be on Poby again in NAVI’s third match as they take on his former team, Fnatic.

All three matches will be best-of-ones, meaning NAVI’s new roster won’t have many stage games to adapt from.

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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