KaKAO

KaKAO
Retired as Player
KaKAO
Background Information
Name	Lee Byung-kwon (이병권)
Country of Birth	; South Korea
Birthday	December 7, 1995 (age 29)
Residency	KRKorea
Competitive
Role	; Analyst
Favorite Champs	; ; ;
Soloqueue IDs	EUW: ıaöçcı, Zafer Bayram; KR: MSF KaKAO xXz, 케이티 KaKAO, KT KaKAO, KT KaKAO, 병권좌
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Overview

Tournament Results

Stats

Match History

Lee "KaKAO" Byung-kwon (Hangul: 이병권) is a League of Legends esports player, previously analyst for Riot Games Inc.. His name was previously stylized Kakao, KAKAO, and KaKA0.

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team	Start	End
KR	⁠⁠KT Rolster B	Oct 20122012-10-10^[2]	Feb 20132013-02-27^[1]	4mo 17d ejel
KR	⁠⁠KT Rolster A	Feb 20132013-02-27^[4]	May 20132013-05-31^[3]	3mo 4d ejel
KR	⁠⁠KT Rolster Bullets	May 20132013-05-31^[6]	Feb 20142014-02-11^[5]	8mo 11d ejel
KR	⁠⁠KT Rolster Arrows	Feb 20142014-02-11^[8]	Oct 20142014-10-06^[7]	7mo 23d ejel
CN	⁠⁠Invictus Gaming	Dec 20142014-12-18^[10]	Dec 20152015-12-29^[9]	1yr 11d ejel
CN	⁠⁠Wan Yoo	Jan 20162016-01-25^[12]	May 20162016-05-18^[11]	3mo 24d ejel
CN	⁠⁠WYDream	May 20162016-05-18^[14]	Dec 20162016-12-13^[13]	6mo 26d ejel
EU	⁠⁠Misfits Gaming	Dec 20162016-12-13^[18]	May 20172017-05-09^[16]	4mo 27d ejel
TR	⁠⁠Dark Passage	Dec 20172017-12-22^[20]	May 20182018-05-08^[19]	4mo 17d ejel
KR	⁠⁠Jin Air Green Wings	May 20182018-05-08^[22]	Nov 20182018-11-19^[21]	6mo 11d ejel
KR	⁠⁠APK Prince	Dec 20182018-12-11^[24]	Nov 20192019-11-19^[23]	11mo 8d ejel
KR	⁠⁠Seorabeol Gaming	Jan 20202020-01-27^[26]	Apr 20202020-04-30^[25]	3mo 3d ejel
TR	⁠⁠Papara SuperMassive	Jun 20202020-06-14^[28]	Nov 20202020-11-20^[27]	5mo 6d ejel
KR	⁠⁠Riot Games Inc.	Jun 20232023-06-04	Jan 20242024-01-13^[29]	7mo 9d ejel

	Team	Start	End		Notes
KR	⁠⁠KT Rolster B	Oct 20122012-10-10^[2]	Feb 20132013-02-27^[1]	4mo 17d	ejel
KR	⁠⁠KT Rolster A	Feb 20132013-02-27^[4]	May 20132013-05-31^[3]	3mo 4d	ejel
KR	⁠⁠KT Rolster B	May 20132013-05-31^[6]	Jun 20132013-06-20^[30]	20d	ejel
KR	⁠⁠KT Rolster Bullets	Jun 20132013-06-20^[30]	Feb 20142014-02-11^[5]	7mo 21d	ejel
KR	⁠⁠KT Rolster Arrows	Feb 20142014-02-11^[8]	Oct 20142014-10-06^[7]	7mo 23d	ejel
CN	⁠⁠Invictus Gaming	Dec 20142014-12-18^[10]	Dec 20152015-12-29^[9]	1yr 11d	ejel
CN	⁠⁠Wan Yoo	Jan 20162016-01-25^[12]	May 20162016-05-18^[11]	3mo 24d	ejel
CN	⁠⁠WYDream	May 20162016-05-18^[14]	Dec 20162016-12-13^[13]	6mo 26d	ejel
EU	⁠⁠Misfits Gaming	Dec 20162016-12-13^[18]	May 20172017-05-09^[16]	4mo 27d	ejel
TR	⁠⁠Dark Passage	Dec 20172017-12-22^[20]	Apr 20182018-04-18^[31]	3mo 27d	ejel
TR	⁠⁠Dark Passage	Apr 20182018-04-18^[31]	May 20182018-05-08^[19]	20d	ejel
KR	⁠⁠Jin Air Green Wings	May 20182018-05-08^[22]	Nov 20182018-11-19^[21]	6mo 11d	ejel
KR	⁠⁠APK Prince	Dec 20182018-12-11^[24]	Jun 20192019-06-05	5mo 25d	ejel
KR	⁠⁠APK Prince	Jun 20192019-06-05	Jul 20192019-07-12	1mo 7d	Inactive ejel
KR	⁠⁠APK Prince	Jul 20192019-07-12	Nov 20192019-11-19^[23]	4mo 7d	ejel
KR	⁠⁠Seorabeol Gaming	Jan 20202020-01-27^[26]	Apr 20202020-04-30^[25]	3mo 3d	ejel
TR	⁠⁠Papara SuperMassive	Jun 20202020-06-14^[28]	Nov 20202020-11-20^[27]	5mo 6d	ejel
KR	⁠⁠Riot Games Inc.	Jun 20232023-06-04	Jan 20242024-01-13^[29]	7mo 9d	ejel

News

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2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2023
2024

KR

⁠

⁠KT B

October 10, ⁠

⁠KT Rolster B is formed and acquires the slot of ⁠

⁠StarTale.
Ragan,
KaKAO,
Ryu,
Score,
Mafa, Lee Ji-hoon (Head Coach), and Oh Chang-jong (Coach) join.^[2]

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KR	⁠⁠KT B	February 27, ssumday and inSec join. Ragan and KaKAO leave.^[1] e
KR	⁠⁠KT A	February 27, KaKAO and Me5 join.^[4] e
KR	⁠⁠KT A	May 31, MakNooN, Lira, Sonstar, and Olleh join. Vitamin, KaKAO, Hiro, and Me5 leave.^[3] e
KR	⁠⁠KT B	May 31, KaKAO rejoins.^[6] e
KR	⁠⁠KT.B	June 20, ⁠⁠KT Rolster B renames to ⁠⁠KT Rolster Bullets.^[30] e

KR	⁠⁠KT.A	February 11, KaKAO rejoins. Zero leaves.^[8] e
KR	⁠⁠KT.B	February 11, Zero joins. KaKAO leaves.^[5] e
KR	⁠⁠KT.A	October 6, KaKAO and RooKie leave.^[7] e
CN	⁠⁠iG	December 18, KaKAO, RooKie, MaFa (Coach), and PoohManDu (Coach) join.^[10] e

CN

⁠

⁠iG

December 29, Kid (Bot to Jungle) and YongSoo (Sub/Top to Sub/Jungle) change positions.
Time moves to starting roster.
KaKAO leaves.
Pokemon moves to trainee.^[9]

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CN	⁠⁠WY	January 25, KaKAO and Poems join. sixsix9 and Seok1 move to substitutes.^[12] e
CN	⁠⁠WY	May 18, yueyueyue, KaKAO, Nagne, Poems, SLEEK, Maps9, Aggro, z1hao, sixsix9, Seok1, and Destiny leave.^[11] e
CN	⁠⁠WYD	May 18, Zoom, KaKA0, Nagne, mushroom, xintai, and PanDa (Head Coach) join. 0ri and Xu join as substitutes.^[14]^[15] e
CN	⁠⁠WYD	December 13, KaKA0 leaves.^[13] e
EU	⁠⁠MSF	December 13, KaKAO joins.^[18] e

EU	⁠⁠MSF	May 9, Maxlore and InnerFlame (General Manager) join. KaKAO leaves.^[16]^[17] e
TR	⁠⁠DP	December 22, KaKAO joins.^[20] e

TR	⁠⁠DP	April 18, Marshall, KaKAO, and Ruvelius move to substitutes.^[31] e
TR	⁠⁠DP	May 8, KaKAO leaves.^[19] e
KR	⁠⁠JAG	May 8, KaKAO and Nova join.^[22] e
KR	⁠⁠JAG	November 19, SoHwan, KaKAO, Justice, Teddy, and Fly (Coach) leave.^[21] e
KR	⁠⁠APK	December 11, erssu, KaKAO, and X join. Troy rejoins.^[24] e

KR	⁠⁠APK	June 5, Kuma and Haeseong join. KaKAO becomes inactive. e
KR	⁠⁠APK	July 12, KaKAO becomes active. Kuma moves to substitute. Paladin becomes inactive. e
KR	⁠⁠APK	November 19, Kuma moves to starting roster. KaKAO leaves.^[23] e

KR	⁠⁠SRB	January 27, KaKAO joins. Lira leaves.^[26] e
KR	⁠⁠SRB	April 30, KaKAO, DanChung, Sangyoon, and Nova leave.^[25] e
TR	⁠⁠SUP	June 14, KaKAO joins. SnowFlower and GBM (Coach) rejoin.^[28] e
TR	⁠⁠SUP	June 15, KakaO, SnowFlower, and GBM (Coach)'s contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 16 November 2020.^[32] e
TR	⁠⁠SUP	October 13, KaKAO, GBM (Coach), and Pades (Coach) are allowed to look for opportunities with other teams.^[33]^[34]^[35] e
TR	⁠⁠SUP	November 20, KaKAO leaves.^[27] e

KR

⁠

⁠Riot

June 4, Easyhoon (Analyst), KaKAO (Analyst), MaRin (Analyst), and Mata (Analyst) join.

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KR

⁠

⁠Riot

January 13, Ambition (Analyst) and CuVee (Analyst) join. MadLife (Analyst) rejoins. KaKAO (Analyst) and MaRin (Analyst) leave.^[29]

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Biography[]

Season 3[]

Lee "KaKAO" Byung-kwon joined the newly formed KT Rolster B roster alongside Ragan, Ryu, Mafa, and Score. KaKAO and KTB played their first tournament as a team during OLYMPUS Champions Winter 2012-2013. The team actually found quite a bit of success, placing third after losing two best of 5s, 3-1 and 3-0, to NaJin Sword but beating Azubu Blaze 3-0. KaKAO was moved to KTB's sister team, KT Rolster A. KTA played in OLYMPUS Champions Spring 2013 but they failed to make it past the group stage. KaKAO left the team to join the newly named KT Rolster Bullets. The Bullets made it all the way to the finals of HOT6iX Champions Summer 2013 and played what's considered to be the best series of all time against SK Telecom T1. Unfortunately, the Bullets lost 3-2 and placed second. KTB attended the Season 3 Korea Regional Finals and met SKT in the finals. Once again they lost, this time 3-1.

2014 Season[]

The new season began for KaKAO and his team at PANDORA.TV Champions Winter 2013-2014. The Bullets placed third after losing to SKT K 3-0 in the semifinals but beating NaJin White Shield 3-1 in the third place match. KaKAO was moved to the KT Rolster Arrows shortly afterwards as their new jungler. This new KTA team played their inaugural OGN in HOT6iX Champions Spring 2014. They managed to upset SKT K in the group stage and made it to the quarterfinals but they lost 3-1 to CJ Entus Blaze. HOT6iX Champions Summer 2014 was KTA's breakthrough season, upsetting Samsung Blue 3-2 in the finals to win the OGN Championship. KTA managed to qualify for the 2014 Season Korea Regional Finals but they lost 3-0 to NaJin White Shield in the second round. KaKAO left the Arrows in October to join Invictus Gaming in December alongside his teammate from KTA, RooKie.

2015 Season[]

KaKAO played in his first full tournament with the team during the 2015 Demacia Cup Spring Season where they managed to make the finals but lost 3-0 to EDward Gaming. IG placed fifth in the 2015 LPL Spring Regular Season but placed third in the 2015 LPL Spring Playoffs after losing 3-0 to EDG in the semifinals but beating Snake eSports 3-1 in the third place match. In the 2015 Demacia Cup Summer Season, IG placed fourth by making it to the semifinals but losing 3-1 to EDG and then 3-2 to Snake. IG placed third in the 2015 LPL Summer Regular Season and managed to play third in the 2015 LPL Summer Playoffs by losing 3-2 to the Qiao Gu Reapers but beating EDG 3-1. IG qualified for the 2015 Season China Regional Finals and placed second by beating Qiao Gu 3-0 to take the third and final Chinese seed for the 2015 Season World Championship. IG was placed in a group alongside Cloud9, Fnatic, and AHQ e-Sports Club. Unfortunately, they ended with a 2-4 record and were knocked out of the tournament in last place.

2016 Preseason[]

KaKAO left iG in December 2015.

Trivia[]

Only plays in windowed mode.
Known for his peculiar laugh.
Known for his very relaxed body language on stage.
Known for his Leopard-print glasses.
Regarded as one of the best Lee Sin jungler in Korea.
Had excellent synergy with Ryu and inSec allowing for well coordinated tower dives.
Known for his trademarked Kakackle.
MVP of HOT6iX Champions Summer 2014, winning $9,766.
Dislikes sparkling water.

Individual Awards[]

1x EU 3rd All Pro Team (Spring 2017)

Tournament Results[]

This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.

KaKAO Tournament Results
Date	Pl	Event	Last Result	Team	Roster
2024-12-08	2	Legend Cup Season 2	2 : 3⁠⁠BL	⁠⁠SG	Langx, Kakao, xiaocaobao, Puff, Heart, X1ri
2024-06-18	1	Game Not Over 2024	3 : 2⁠⁠GEN.SC	⁠⁠하오골	MaRin, KaKAO, Easyhoon, Ggoggo, Fury, H Dragon
2020-09-30	17 - 18	Worlds 2020	0 : 3⁠⁠UOL	⁠⁠SUP	Armut, KaKAO, Bolulu, Zeitnot, SnowFlower, GBM, Pades
2020-09-05	1	TCL 2020 Summer Playoffs	3 : 2⁠⁠5R	⁠⁠SUP	Armut, KaKAO, Bolulu, Zeitnot, SnowFlower, Pades, GBM
2020-08-02	3	TCL 2020 Summer	11 - 7⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠SUP	Skewer, Armut, Kituruken, KaKAO, Rhemio, Bolulu, Coldraa, Zeitnot, Fastlegged, SnowFlower, Pades, Tacocat, GBM
2020-04-30	NQ	LCK 2020 Summer Promotion	0 : 3⁠⁠SB	⁠⁠SRB	Thal, KaKAO, DanChung, Sangyoon, Nova, Kage, GiZMO
2020-04-17	1	CK 2020 Spring	11 - 3⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠SRB	Thal, KaKAO, DanChung, Sangyoon, Nova, GiZMO, Saint
2019-09-10	Q	LCK 2020 Spring Promotion	3 : 1⁠⁠JAG	⁠⁠APK	ikssu, KaKAO, Cover, Trigger, Secret, Sickness, Arora
2019-08-29	1	CK 2019 Summer Playoffs	3 : 2⁠⁠VSG	⁠⁠APK	ikssu, KaKAO, Cover, Trigger, Secret, Sickness, Arora
2019-08-12	4	CK 2019 Summer	9 - 5⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠APK	ikssu, Kuma, KaKAO, HaeSeong, Cover, Trigger, Secret, Sickness, Arora