Who Is Peyz? Why T1 Signed Former Gen.G ADC for the 2026 Season
November 28, 2025
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After T1 secured the 2025 Worlds title, the team made a bold decision.
They ended their contract with their starting ADC, Gumayusi, and signed a new three-year deal with Peyz.
With the Red Bull League of Its Own event coming up on November 29, it is the perfect time to take a closer look at who Peyz is and why this signing is generating so much excitement.
Peyz first began attracting attention in the 2022 LCK Challengers League.
He debuted as soon as the minimum age requirement of sixteen was lifted and became the youngest ADC in the league. Even before that debut, academy coaches and scouts had consistently described him as a top-tier talent.
In prospect scouting reports written by former and current academy coaches, Peyz was ranked first among all ADC players and even placed first across every position.
It is rare in LCK history for a player to receive evaluations at this level before even reaching the main roster.
(Source: https://www.thisisgame.com/articles/137058)
The report highlighted several strengths that set Peyz apart.
First, his fundamentals were exceptional. His champion mastery, lane pressure patterns, and sense for identifying solo kill opportunities were all evaluated as being close to main-roster level. Analysts noted that his fundamentals showed a level of maturity that is rarely seen in the Challengers League.
Second, his skirmishing sense and positioning stood out. His control of vision during fights, the angles he chose to engage or disengage, and the way he identified the right timing were clearly ahead of players in his age group. Analysts noted that he created advantages not through mechanics alone but through superior situational judgment.
Third, he showed remarkable late-game carry potential. Although his champion pool was not the widest, his ability to focus and deal damage to the very end of late-game teamfights was rated highly even within his own team. Some Challengers staff even said that if a game went late, Peyz would be the one to finish it.
Because of these evaluations, Peyz was viewed as the number one next-generation LCK ADC prospect from the moment he debuted. In November 2022, Gen.G’s general manager publicly stated that if Ruler did not re-sign, the team would promote Peyz instead of seeking an external ADC. This decision reflected how strong the internal evaluations of Peyz already were.
Peyz’s main-roster career was exceptional from the moment it began.
He made his official LCK debut in the 2023 Spring Split, and in his very first season, he led Gen.G to a championship and earned the title of Royal Roader. It is already something extraordinary for a rookie to win the league in his debut split, but his performance in the finals made the achievement even more meaningful. Throughout the series, he maintained stable positioning and relentless focus in teamfights, serving as the team’s core source of damage. His impact earned him the Finals MVP award.
The momentum continued into the summer. Gen.G once again finished at the top of the league in the 2023 Summer Split, and Peyz secured back-to-back championships in his debut year. He also won the LCK Rookie of the Year award at the end of the season, firmly establishing himself not just as a highly rated prospect but as a next-generation ADC who had already proven himself through results.
Peyz’s explosive growth continued in 2024.
He claimed another LCK title in the 2024 Spring Split and then helped Gen.G win its first international trophy at MSI in the same year. In just a year and a half since debuting, he had already collected three LCK championships and an MSI title. The pace and intensity of his career growth fully justified calling him a true elite ADC who conquered both domestic and international stages.
For Peyz, who had been known as Gen.G’s crown prince, the move to JDG in 2025 was the first overseas challenge of his career.
It is common for players who excel in the LCK to experience growing pains when transitioning to a foreign league, and Peyz was no exception. Because expectations were so high, his overall performance throughout the season felt somewhat underwhelming compared to his time in the LCK.
Even so, the year was not without its gains.He secured the first pentakill of his career and was selected as the second All-Pro ADC in the league, showing clear indicators of individual growth.
It was not a perfect season, but it was a year that showed how Peyz expanded his playstyle and adapted within a new environment.
In professional play, the ADC position is the core role that often decides the outcome of teamfights in the mid and late game. Because an ADC must survive until the final moments of a fight and deliver consistent damage, the overall flow of a match can shift dramatically depending on the ADC’s performance.
Many amateur prospects hit a wall at this stage. Even players who show explosive mechanics in solo queue often become hesitant once they reach the professional stage and face opponents who match or exceed their skill level. As they learn pro-level macro and feedback systems, it is natural for their play to become more cautious and centered around safe, calculated decisions.
Peyz, however, is different. As seen in the clips, he does not hesitate to take aggressive teamfight angles even at the professional level. His plays are not reckless dives but precise offensive decisions based on instant damage calculations and awareness of enemy skill timings. On top of his overwhelming mechanics, his ability to quickly read the positions and timings he needs during a fight is already close to fully developed.
Surviving as long as possible while dealing consistent damage is a basic responsibility for any ADC. However, the ideal form of an ADC is a player who can dodge enemy abilities even from risky positions and still push out damage until the very end. The clip showed a perfect example of this kind of bold positioning that can completely shift the flow of a fight.
For most professional ADCs, this situation would likely not have turned into an advantage. Many would not have even attempted such an angle in the first place. In most cases, they would have given a modest follow-up to their support’s slightly overzealous engage, ended up dying one-sidedly, and simply recalled afterward with the mindset that the lane had been pushed far enough. Peyz, however, instinctively recognized the one winning angle that existed in that moment and executed it successfully.
This moment comes from the final teamfight of Game 5 in the 2024 LCK Spring Finals between Gen.G and T1. Even if you watch the clip several times, most viewers would struggle to understand exactly what happened on the first try.
Before the remake, Corki used his passive to start the fight, and K'Sante followed by absorbing damage on the frontline. At that moment, T1 Faker’s Orianna hid the ball inside Annie’s Tibbers and then used his ultimate toward Gen.G Peyz’s Zeri. You can see the timing of the Orianna ultimate by looking at the left side of the HUD.
At the professional level, players constantly track abilities that can threaten them, which means they often respond as soon as anything looks dangerous. Faker took advantage of this by intentionally hiding the ball, and the activation of the ultimate is so subtle that even the video makes it hard to catch the exact moment. But after the match, Peyz said that he avoided it by reacting with Flash after visually confirming the skill.
In lower tiers, you sometimes see players preparing in advance and reacting to abilities like Malphite’s ultimate when they expect it to come. However, reacting to a skill only after seeing it with your own eyes, and doing so while maintaining your position and maximizing your damage output, is a level of play reserved for only the very top players in professional League of Legends.
Peyz’s ability to squeeze out maximum damage and secure crucial kills is already backed by data, and it is something many LCK viewers have consistently recognized. Of course, some in the community and a few analysts have argued that while his mid and late-game teamfighting is exceptional, his laning is not dominant and his stability can be inconsistent.
So how will he perform on T1? Can he truly succeed there?
T1 is a team that has set an unprecedented record with three consecutive Worlds titles. At the center of that success is Keria, widely considered one of the greatest supports in League of Legends history. For years, T1 has built its identity around establishing bot lane priority and using that advantage to snowball the game. Opponents knew this and still failed to stop it because of the level of control and lane dominance Keria provided.
Within this team environment, Peyz may shine even brighter. Concerns about his laning stability are likely to be softened significantly when paired with Keria, and his unique teamfighting instincts, mechanical talent, and ability to find decisive angles should fit naturally into T1’s existing playstyle.
In the end, everything comes down to one question.
How seamlessly can T1’s strong laning identity blend with Peyz’s exceptional teamfighting abilities? If the two elements come together as expected, Peyz has the potential to be far more than just a new signing. He could become the next franchise ace who marks the beginning of a new era for T1.
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