Sheep Esports – Sources: Mikyx set to hitch SK Gaming within the LEC

Mihael “Mikyx” Mehle is ready to hitch SK Gaming within the League of Legends EMEA Championship. The 26-year-old Slovenian assist will due to this fact start his tenth yr as knowledgeable participant with the German group, which not too long ago relocated its headquarters to Cologne, as beforehand reported by Sheep Esports. While his transfer to SK gaming may come to a shock, particulars shared by sources with Sheep Esports attempt to clarify the transfer on this report.

Mikyx spent a full 2025 yr with Fnatic, throughout which he secured two podium finishes, a top-four placement, and a Worlds look in China, earlier than his departure was introduced this Friday by the group.

Mikyx was nonetheless beneath contract with Fnatic till the tip of 2026, however they won’t have to pay a buyout to the British group to accumulate the assist participant, who was their prime precedence. In case they didn’t safe Mikyx, SK’s second possibility was GIANTX Pride’s assist, South Korean participant Park “Lospa” Joon-hyeong.

The German workforce was contemplating two totally different tasks: one centered round creating rookies, and the opposite constructed round Mikyx. SK was certainly additionally Mikyx’s primary precedence throughout this offseason, in order that he may have his personal roster venture. Mikyx believes the roster he’s serving to to construct at SK Gaming has very excessive potential. The assist, due to this fact, didn’t entertain different gives and rapidly joined SK Gaming after Worlds. Despite many LEC groups presently on the assist market, Mikyx didn’t contemplate speaking with different groups a lot, as they might not fulfill his roster needs.

Founded in 2010, the workforce has endured by the years and throughout a number of eras of European League of Legends however has by no means really reached the highest, making it to a regional ultimate solely as soon as in its historical past — throughout the 2014 EU LCS Spring Split. More not too long ago, in 2025, they completed backside tier of the LEC thrice. The arrival of such a extremely regarded and emblematic assist participant may mark the start of a brand new period for the group, one which now aligns its sources with its ambitions.

Mikyx will due to this fact be becoming a member of the fifth workforce of his lengthy profession. In 2016, he started with Splyce, with whom he participated within the Worlds throughout his very first yr as a professional. He then joined Misfits Gaming, the place he first fashioned a botlane with Steven “Hans Sama” Liv, although it wasn’t a completely satisfying partnership.

In 2019, he joined G2 Esports, forming arguably the strongest and best roster Europe has ever fielded: LEC champions in each Spring and Summer, the one non-Korean or non-Chinese workforce to win the Mid-Season Invitational, and a legendary Worlds run the place they eradicated DWG Gaming within the quarterfinals and SKT T1 within the semifinals earlier than falling to FunPlus Phoenix within the grand ultimate.

The following yr, the workforce once more gained each splits and reached the Worlds semifinals, earlier than having a much less profitable 2021, coinciding with the arrival of Martin “Rekkles” Larsson. Mikyx then joined Excel Esports for a short yr earlier than returning to G2 alongside Hans Sama this time, profitable seven out of eight doable LEC titles in two years, although failing to make it out of the Swiss stage at Worlds in each editions.

At the beginning of the yr, he joined Fnatic on a contract operating till 2026 to accomplice with Elias “Upset” Lipp within the botlane. While the yr wasn’t nice for the membership general, the botlane was clearly the roster’s strongest level. Mikyx delivered a really stable yr general and stays top-of-the-line, if not the perfect, assist within the league.

Toplane: TBD
Jungle: Duncan “Skeanz” Marquet
Midlane: TBD
Botlane: TBD
Support: Mihael “Mikyx” Mehle

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