{"id":9364,"date":"2023-04-16T14:29:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T14:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/league-of-legends\/rich-to-join-dignitas"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:45:02","slug":"rich-to-join-dignitas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/league-of-legends\/rich-to-join-dignitas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Rich Is Set To Replace Armut In Dignitas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/why-does-faker-ban-aatrox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rich<\/a> will replace Armut in the top lane of Dignitas. <\/p>\n<h2>Report: Rich will replace Armut in Dignitas<\/h2>\n<p>According to sources close to BLIX.GG, Lee &#8220;Rich&#8221; Jae-won has reached a verbal agreement with Dignitas and will be the top laner of the LCS team. <\/p>\n<p>The player to be replaced is \u00c4\u00b0rfan Berk &#8220;Armut&#8221; T\u00c3\u00bckek, who competed with MAD Lions the previous two years and won the LEC, as well as he attended Worlds four times as he won several TCL titles. <\/p>\n<h2>Context for Dignitas<\/h2>\n<p>Dignitas are looking to make some changes in the roster after finishing 10th in the LCS 2023 Spring Split, with a total of 3 wins and 15 losses. The team managed to overcome once only CLG, Golden Guardians and EG in the best-of-1 double round-robin meat grinder.<\/p>\n<p>Dignitas have been seeking for success for several years &#8216;\u0093 the last time the team entered top-4 of the regular LCS Curcuit was NA LCS Summer 2017, ending the given split on 4th place (BLIX&#8217;s note: we don&#8217;t take into account pre-season LCS Lock-In 2022, where Dignitas also ended 4th).<\/p>\n<p class=\"_3f4ivU+NDDYIgGWpcriHGw==\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/why-does-faker-ban-aatrox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Why Does Faker Ban Aatrox: Explaining The Solo Queue Ban (blix.gg)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously, Dignitas ended Spring&#8217;s 2022 LCS Split on 7th place and the Summer 2022 one on 10th place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_3f4ivU+NDDYIgGWpcriHGw==\"><em><strong>Our sources confirm that some other Dignitas&#8217; players are also exploring offers in the LCS. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Context for Rich<\/h2>\n<p>Rich is a Korean toplaner who has competed for teams in both China and Korea. <\/p>\n<p>He started his career as the mid laner of Gen.G but quickly moved to the top lane, passing through teams like NS RedForce and Victory Five. <\/p>\n<div class=\"_44tKOV3EvA2Ivv21VkJmnQ==\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/0b7c3953f2e6b75f.jpeg\"> <span>Rich.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Image credit: Riot games<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>His last contract was as a substitute with Ninjas in Pyjamas. <\/p>\n<p>Before entering League Of Legends competitive scene, Jae-won was one of the brightest Heroes of the Storm players. He earned nearly $430,000 USD of prize money in HotS and grabbed more than dozen of titles playing for KSV, MVP Black and Gen.G.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_3f4ivU+NDDYIgGWpcriHGw==\"><em><strong>Rich&#8217;s personality and achievements in Heroes of the Storm are often compared to <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/who-is-faker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Faker<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong> in League of Legends. He&#8217;s being called &#8220;Faker of HotS&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2019 he made a transition from Gen.G Heroes of the Storm team to League of Legends.<\/p>\n<h2>Why is it important?<\/h2>\n<p>With the current situation of Dignitas, the team, frankly speaking, was not looking competitive in the last two LCS Splits winning in total of 6 matches out of 30.<\/p>\n<p>Rich&#8217;s arrival (alongside with couple of more potential changes) to Dignitas camp could rapidly improve the situation for Dignitas and make them fight for LCS play-off.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>With that said, Dignitas&#8217; roster for now will look like:<br \/>*Note: more changes will happen in Dignitas during this off season.<br \/>&#8216;\u00a2 Lucas &#8220;Santorin&#8221; Larsen (Jungle)<br \/>&#8216;\u00a2 Nikolaj &#8220;Jensen&#8221; Jensen (Mid)<br \/>&#8216;\u00a2 Frank &#8220;Tomo&#8221; Lam (Bot)<br \/>&#8216;\u00a2 Vincent &#8220;Biofrost&#8221; Wang (Support)<br \/>&#8216;\u00a2 Lee &#8220;IgNar&#8221; Dong-geun (Support)<br \/>&#8216;\u00a2 Lee &#8220;Rich&#8221; Jae-won (Top)<br \/>&#8216;\u00a2 Ilias &#8220;Enatron&#8221; Theodorou (Head coach).<\/p>\n<p>From BLIX.GG we will keep you informed about the changes in the off season.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Cover image credit: Riot Games<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich will replace Armut in the top lane of Dignitas. Report: Rich will replace Armut in Dignitas According to sources close to BLIX.GG, Lee &#8220;Rich&#8221; Jae-won has reached a verbal agreement with Dignitas and will be the top laner of the LCS team. The player to be replaced is \u00c4\u00b0rfan Berk &#8220;Armut&#8221; T\u00c3\u00bckek, who competed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":9365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-league-of-legends"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}