League of Legends content creator Dumbs announces NLC roster

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 12/01/2026

Finnish League of Legends YouTuber Dumbs has created his own esports roster, ‘Deer Gaming’, for the upcoming NLC season.

The EMEA regional league (ERL) for the UK and Nordic countries was expected to struggle after Los Ratones NLC departure.

Various streamers seem to have seen an opportunity and are now trying to follow on from Marc ‘Caedrel’ Lamont’s success.

The team is called Deer Gaming due to Dumbs’ love for LoL champion Lillia.

The roster is:

• Top – Magnus ‘Virtuso’ Bonde
• Jungle – Andrei ‘Exile1’ Popa
• Mid – Max ‘Scuffed’ Løwe Skovfoged Scherer
• ADC – Darius ‘Yakkey’ Eduard Bistrian
• Support – Patryk ‘uden’ Czerniawski

The team will also feature Edijs ‘Ediz’ Mezits as substitute ADC and Lasse ‘Fykling’ Sleby as Head Coach after he built the roster.

Dumbs, who is best known for his edited montages of funny moments from LoL Worlds tournaments, confirmed he will co-stream the team’s games.

He was one of the guest stars in the farcical £50k content creator LoL tournament at the controversial To The Moon expo in Birmingham last year.

Speaking about his first esports team, Dumbs joked:

“Los Ratones dropped out from NLC to play in the LEC. So naturally, of course, I Dumbs am the second best option to Caedrel.”

Meanwhile, the team’s toplaner Virtuso added:

“My team is looking very good so far, so I’m very excited. I think the split, from looking at the other teams, will be pretty easy.

“I think the only thing that could go wrong is if Forsen’s Briar randomly shows up and f**ks us.”

Other NLC Winter 2026 teams

The new NLC season will kick off on Thursday, January 15th, with various new teams joining the league.

There are four new teams in the NLC this year, including Deer Gaming, after various teams left.

As well as Los Ratones, NORD Esports also left to help build the new G2 Nord academy roster of the LEC’s G2 Esports.

The only non-streamer team of the new quartet is Artic Pandas, a team coached by former LEC support Aleksi ‘Hiiva’ Kaikkonen.

Meanwhile, La BOMBAS is a team created by LoL streamer Tim ‘Sloppy Walrus’ Mager, who will be playing as the team’s mid laner.

And fellow creator Maksymilian ‘Drututt’ Przychodzień will also play on his team, 4 Swines and a Bum.

The fascinating NLC roster features former pros and a Platinum-ranked streamer in Forsen.

Meanwhile, returning organisation Bulldog Esports have signed British ex-LEC support Raymond ‘Kasing’ Tsang.

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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