Sheep Esports – LoL: GALA joins JD Gaming

JD Gaming will enter 2026 with an virtually solely rebuilt roster. After a number of adjustments over the previous few days, the organisation has now introduced the ultimate addition to its lineup on social media. AD Carry Chen “GALA” Wei will be a part of JDG, turning into the fourth main roster transfer made throughout this offseason.

One 12 months after becoming a member of Invictus Gaming, GALA will as soon as once more change environments and transfer to a different top-tier LPL organisation—one looking for to reclaim its former glory with a renewed undertaking. It is an ambition he shares, as his final LPL title dates again to Spring 2022.

With this new reinforcement, JDG seems well-prepared to as soon as once more dream of LPL titles—one thing the organisation has not achieved because the 2023 Summer Split, the identical 12 months the staff got here near finishing the Golden Road. With the arrival of the mid-jungle duo from CTBC Flying Oysters, Tsai “hongQ” Ming-hong and Yu “JunJia” Chun-chia, together with Zhao “Vampire” Zhecan, who will help GALA, JDG might lastly be capable to transfer previous two disappointing seasons.

The staff can be led by Wong “Tabe” Pak-kan, a coach famend within the LPL for elevating each roster he leads—and somebody with whom GALA beforehand labored at Royal Never Give Up between 2020 and 2022. For his half, GALA joins a undertaking designed to disrupt the established order on the high of the league. This 12 months with Invictus Gaming, he as soon as once more demonstrated his prowess on hyper carries, asserting himself as arguably the most effective in his function all through the league.

He secured two pentakills inside a matter of days throughout Split 3, together with one of many first recorded on the brand new champion Yunara. Yet regardless of a powerful common season, IG collapsed on the finish of the cut up. Although GALA certified for Worlds for the fifth consecutive 12 months, IG was eradicated by T1 within the play-ins and went no additional. GALA due to this fact components methods together with his former staff and units off for a brand new problem with JDG.