Rasmus “Caps” Borregaard has added another feather to his cap, as the famous pro LoL player has just been announced as the first EU representative to be inducted into the Hall of Legends.
Caps has assembled one of the most notable resumes in professional League of Legends play, consistently contending for trophies year after year over the course of his lengthy pro career. He has specifically been at the forefront of European contention, with his keying of perennial contender G2 Esports being a major factor in the squad having playing in multiple international finals.
Caps joins legends of the game Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok and Jian “Uzi” Zi-Hao in the Hall of Legends, Riot Games’ hall of fame home for the greatest and most popular names in League of Legends’ extensive competitive history.
Leading the way for G2, Caps joins Hall of Legends
Caps has charted a lengthy and prolific career for himself already at the age 26, and is best known as the star mid laner of a G2 Esports roster that has repeatedly proven itself a threat at international competitions. But Caps was notching accomplishments on his belt even before he arrived at G2.
Caps began his time at the highest levels of European LoL competition as a member of Fnatic, G2’s long-time rival. It was with Fnatic that Caps had has breakthrough both domestically and internationally in 2018, when Fnatic won both splits of the EU LCS before finishing as runner-up at the 2018 League of Legends World Championship.
It was after his two-year stint at Fnatic that Caps chose to move to G2, and his success immediately followed him there. G2 claimed a European championship in 2019, and Caps again found himself in the finals of the World Championship. Though again, the result was a 0-3 loss.
While coming up short at the finish line in two consecutive years was surely frustrating, Caps and G2 did manage to win the one and only international trophy captured by a European team in modern League of Legends history at that year’s Mid-Season Invitational, defeating North America’s Team Liquid in the game’s only all-Western final to date.
While Caps and G2 have struggled to return to those particularly lofty heights since, the side has remained a dominant force in the European region, where Caps has now accrued an incredible 17 domestic titles.
The team has at times struggled in 2026, but Caps again found himself in an international final when G2 made the grand finals at First Stand. It was ultimately another losing effort, this time to BLG of China’s LPL, but it was a reminder that Caps still has time to add more accomplishments to his Hall of Legends career.
How do pro LoL players make the Hall of Legends?
While there isn’t necessarily a formal rubric used for inducting pro LoL players into the Hall of Legends, it’s clear that players are evaluated based on a mix of their professional accomplishments, impact on the game, and general popularity.
Faker was an easy first induction for Riot Games, given that the T1 mid laner is an international star and the most accomplished professional player in League of Legends history, with a reputation that extends even beyond LoL esports.
The choice of Uzi as the Hall of Legends’ second inductee showed that trophies and accomplishments wouldn’t be the sole deciding factor. While Uzi did capture one international trophy at the 2018 Mid-Season Invitational and won a pair of LPL splits sandwiched around that event, the Chinese bot laner was infamous for coming up just short of victory in his many domestic finals appearances, and for his teams often failing to meet expectations at their World Championship showings.
But Uzi was also an incredibly popular player worldwide, arguably the most popular ever to play at his position, and his style of play influenced an entire generation of ADCs. His impact was unquestioned, and that proved more important to his induction than any trophy case.
It’s worth noting that a place in the Hall of Legend also comes with the creation of expensive cosmetic items meant to bring in significant revenue for Riot Games. So popularity is an essential component to a player’s induction.
Attention now turns to next year’s potential inductees, with many predicting that the next representative will hail from North America in order to give each of the four major regions a player in the Hall of Legends. Former teammates Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng and Soren “Bjergsen” Bjerg are both popular potential choices.
