TOP 10 League players earn the most prize money in the world

League of Legends is not the biggest prize-winning game in Esport history, but there are still plenty of professional gamers who have earned over $500,000 during their careers.

Unlike other games, like Dota 2 that holds a major tournament – ​​The International 7 with a huge prize pool of up to 24.7 million USD in prize money this year – League of Legends can offer professional players a steady income, especially when it comes to wages.

League of Legends pro gamers can earn $80,000 in “hard” salaries per year, and even much higher for the top gamers.

However, the salary is always a mysterious number and is not made public by the teams, so we can only use the prize money from the tournament to compare the income of professional gamers.

Here are the TOP 10 players who have won the most prize money League of Legends as of September 10, 2017 according to statistics from Esportearnings.com

10) Jang “Looper” Hyeong-seok – $346,307

Looper is best known for his career in the Samsung White shirt when they won the 2014 world championship – a huge source of income for Looper at the moment.

Samsung White was later dissolved due to Riot adding rules on organizations owning more than one team in a region. Samsung White and Samsung Blue ceased to exist, replaced by a single team – Samsung Galaxy.

Looper is currently Echo Fox’s top top laner, making him the highest-earning player on the list of NA LCS players.

9) Ming “ClearLove” Kai – $388,320

ClearLove is a member of EDward Gaming, one of the LPL’s most successful teams – and he’s also the only Chinese on this list.

ClearLove has been with EDG since 2013 and has helped the team carry out multiple domestic championships as well as the 2015 MSI Championship. LPL will tweak the transfer system in 2018, ClearLove and multiplayer. Others of the LPL are expected to make more progress.

8) For “Mata” Se-hyeong – $391,453

Since winning the World Championship with Samsung White in 2014, Mata has been a part of two other teams before joining “Super Team” – KT Rolster in December 2016.

A large chunk of Mata’s income comes from winning this famous world championship, with a small portion of it coming from regional performances.

Mata spent two not so successful years in the LPL. Having failed in the colors of Vici Gaming and Royal Never Give Up, Mata decided to return to Korea to side with his former teammate, PawN.

7) Pig “PawN” Won-seok – $412,345

PawN is the highest earner among former Samsung White members and he is also the best performer since the team was disbanded.

PawN has been with EDG since December 2014, and he has been with EDG for almost two years. Pawn won multiple regional titles and made a lot of money after his impressive performance at Worlds. 2014.

However, after a stint with EDward Gaming, he finally returned to his home country of Korea and joined KT Rolster in December 2016.

6) Kang “Blank” Sun-gu – $441,313

6th place again belongs to an SKT member in the top 10 who is also one of the team’s junglers. Blank is a member of SKT and he helped the team win major tournaments around the world.

Blank has been primarily SKT’s jungler since he joined in December 2015.

5) Lee “Duke” Ho-seong – $456,127

Most of Duke’s profits came from the SKT team’s season 6 accolades as he helped the team win the 2016 Spring Championship and World Championship.

After winning Worlds with SKT, Duke moved to the LPL to join Invictus Gaming. But Duke was unable to make it back to the world finals due to his defeat to Team WE in the Summer Qualifiers.

4) Bae “Bang” Jun-sik – $790,284

A two-time world champion, Bang has enjoyed a fantastic career since joining SK Telecom in October 2013. He joined SKT’s main roster in 2014 and has since helped the team win. won many regional and international titles.

His major income comes from a string of consecutive world championships, MSI titles and regional success.

3) Lee “Wolf” Jae-wan – $794,785

Wolf almost became the second highest earner in League of Legends history after Worlds 2017 due to Bengi’s temporary absence.

Like Bang, Wolf has been instrumental in SKT’s global domination over the past few years, and he’s been a long-time champion of the world’s outstanding support.

His synergies with Bang are second to none and they are considered the best bot lane duo.

2) Bae “Bengi” Seong-woong – $810,683

Bengi, a former member of SKT, has been a big part of SKT’s success over the years due to his stickiness. The three-time world champion left SKT at the start of the year to join Chinese team Vici Gaming – but he was unsuccessful with his debut.

1) Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok – $1,056,863

The highest income of League of Legends is none other than the best gamer in the world – Faker.

Faker is the only player to earn over $1 million, thanks in part to three world championships, two MSI titles, and numerous LCK regional titles won under SK Telecom T1.

There is really no stopping the king of League of Legends.