Keria
Overview
Keria (케리아; real name Ryu Min-seok, born October 14, 2002) is a South Korean League of Legends (LoL) professional player and a support-position player for T1. He debuted with DRX in 2020 and won the LCK Rookie of the Year award; after transferring to T1 in 2021, he won the League of Legends World Championship twice (2023 and 2024), multiple LCK titles, and a gold medal at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. He is regarded as the 'world's best support' (세체폿) for his wide champion pool, unconventional picks, and precise vision control.
Key Details
Profile and Debut
Born in 2002, Ryu Min-seok stood out in solo queue from his high school years and drew attention as an aspiring professional. He joined DragonX (now DRX) in 2020 and made his debut in the LCK Spring Split, quickly securing a starting position with stable macro play and bold initiation that belied his rookie status. In his debut season, he contributed to the team's runner-up finish in the 2020 LCK Summer and won the LCK Rookie of the Year award the same year, establishing himself as a next-generation support. At the 2020 World Championship, he ended the season with a quarterfinal loss to DAMWON Gaming.
Playstyle
Keria's most distinctive trait is his champion versatility, which breaks stereotypes about the support position. He has a broad command of traditional initiators such as Thresh, Nautilus, and Leona, as well as utility and playmaking champions such as Rell, Bard, Pyke, Senna, Rakan, and Renata Glasc. In particular, during the laning phase he deftly combines ranged harassment with roaming timing to help other lanes grow, and in the mid-to-late game he serves as the team's brain in vision battles and objective management. With bold decisions during matches and experimental picks, he is evaluated as a 'player who creates the meta' and is cited as a variable that disrupts opposing teams' draft planning.
Major Career
After joining T1 in 2021, Keria played as the team's starting support from his first season and led the team to a Summer runner-up finish and a World Championship semifinal appearance. In the 2022 season, he won the LCK Spring with dominant performances close to an undefeated spring regular season, and at MSI he reached the final but lost 2-3 to RNG, finishing as runner-up. He also finished runner-up in the Summer and at the World Championship (losing 2-3 to DRX) that year. In the 2023 season, he added a Spring title and defeated Weibo Gaming 3-0 at the 2023 World Championship to claim his first world champion title. In the 2024 season, he won the Esports World Cup (EWC) and defeated BLG 3-2 in the 2024 World Championship final to become world champion for the second consecutive year. In the 2025 season as well, he competed in the LCK and international tournaments as T1's starting support, maintaining consistent performance.
National Team and Awards
He competed as the support for the South Korean national team in the League of Legends event at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games (held in 2023), won a gold medal, and received military service exemption benefits. Individually, he holds major records including the LCK Rookie of the Year award (2020), multiple selections to the LCK All-Pro Team in the support position, and two World Championship titles.
Recent Developments
Through the 2024-2025 season, the LCK introduced a new tournament structure running the regular season and cup competitions in parallel, and Keria continued to play as a central pillar of the team amid T1's roster changes. In the support position, the balanced use of initiators and utility champions such as Rell, Rakan, and Nautilus is becoming increasingly important, and Keria maintains his influence through his champion pool even amid these meta changes. Ahead of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, where esports has been adopted as an official event, he is mentioned as a candidate for the national team, and he is expected to maintain top-tier skill even in the later stages of his career. In addition, T1 has established itself as a world-class esports organization in terms of brand value and fandom size, and Keria is one of the pillars of that symbolic significance.
Related Topics
- [[T1]]
- [[리그 오브 레전드]]
- [[리그 오브 레전드 월드 챔피언십]]
- [[이상혁]]
- [[이스포츠]]