knight (Zhuo Ding)

knight
knight
Background Information
Name	Zhuo Ding (卓定)
Country of Birth	; China
Birthday	May 22, 2000 (age 22)
Residency	CNChina
Competitive
Team	⁠⁠Top Esports
Contract Expires	2022-11-22
Role	; Mid Laner
Favorite Champs	; ; ; ; ;
Soloqueue IDs	CN: 2020karsa; KR: knightt; xbtb;
Social Media & Links

Overview

Tournament Results

Stats

Match History

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team	Start	End		Notes
CN	⁠⁠Young Miracles	Feb 20172017-02-06	Dec 20172017-12-25^[1]	10mo 19d	ejel
CN	⁠⁠Suning	Dec 20172017-12-25^[3]	Nov 20182018-11-20^[2]	10mo 26d	Inactive ejel
CN	⁠⁠Topsports Gaming	Nov 20182018-11-20^[4]	May 20192019-05-15	5mo 25d	ejel
CN	⁠⁠Top Esports	May 20192019-05-15	Present	3yr 1mo	ej

	Team	Start	End		Notes
CN	⁠⁠Young Miracles	Feb 20172017-02-06	Dec 20172017-12-25^[1]	10mo 19d	ejel
CN	⁠⁠Suning	Dec 20172017-12-25^[3]	≈Jun 2018≈2018-06-??^[5]	≈5mo 16d	ejel
CN	⁠⁠Suning	≈Jun 2018≈2018-06-??^[5]	Nov 20182018-11-20^[2]	≈5mo 10d	Inactive ejel
CN	⁠⁠Topsports Gaming	Nov 20182018-11-20^[4]	May 20192019-05-15	5mo 25d	ejel
CN	⁠⁠Top Esports	May 20192019-05-15	Present	3yr 1mo	ej

News

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022

CN	⁠⁠YM	February 6, Knight joins. e
CN	⁠⁠YM	December 25, Tian and Knight leave.^[1] e
CN	⁠⁠SN	December 25, Tian and Knight join. Fury rejoins. fenfen moves to substitute. Avoidless and Lz leave. dian and Bananafish leave for academy roster.^[3] e

CN	⁠⁠SN	June (approx.), fenfen moves to starting roster. Knight becomes inactive.^[5]^[6]^[7] e
CN	⁠⁠SN	November 20, Knight leaves.^[2] e
CN	⁠⁠TOP	November 20, Knight joins.^[4] e
CN	⁠⁠TOP	December 21, 369 and Knight9's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 16 November 2021. Moyu, Xx, and LokeN's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 17 November 2020. Ben's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 16 November 2020. Cat's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 18 November 2019.^[8] e

CN	⁠⁠TOP	May 15, 369, Xx, Knight, LokeN, Ben, Moyu, QiuQiu, Cat, and BSYY (Head Coach) leave. e
CN	⁠⁠TES	May 15, 369, Xx, Knight, LokeN, Ben, and BSYY (Head Coach) join. Moyu, QiuQiu, and Cat join as substitutes. e
CN	⁠⁠TES	June 11, 369, Knight9, and AKi's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 16 November 2021.^[9] e

CN

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⁠TES

December 14,
knight's contract is extended.
Karsa and
yuyanjia leave.^[10]^[11]^[12]

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⁠TES

February 22,
Zoom,
Tian,
Xiaopeng, and
knight's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 22 November 2022.
Mark and
Qingtian's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 21 November 2023.^[13]

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Biography[]

Trivia[]

Regarded as one of the best Midlanders in the whole world since 2019, also known for his constant 1v9 performances.
Held Rank 1 in the Korean solo queue several times.
Uses his left hand to control the mouse and his right hand for the keyboard.
- Nicknamed Golden Left Hand by Chinese casters.
Good friends with YaGao. They are from the same city (Pingxiang) and met in an internet cafe before they became professional players.
- YaGao beat him to become the #1 mid of Pingxiang.
Known for his Ekko and Zoe. Holds a high win rate with these champions.
Known for building
Mejai's Soulstealer constantly, which led to the LPL's English cast to measure up other Midlanders in the league based on this habit.
His ID Knight is actually K-Night. He wanted the name Night but it was taken by another account. He randomly added a K to the start of the word, not knowing that knight is also a word in English.^[14]
Reached 1000 kills in the LPL on August 8, 2020.
- The 24th player to reach 1000 kills in the LPL.
Reached 1500 kills in the LPL on January 15, 2022.
- The 15th player to reach 1500 kills in the LPL.
- Needed the 2nd fewest games to reach 1500 kills after Uzi
Holds the record for the most solo kills in a single regular split. He recorded 35 solo kills in LPL 2021 Summer.

Individual Awards[]

LPL 1st All-Pro Team x2 (Summer 2019, Summer 2020)
LPL 2nd All-Pro Team x2 (Spring 2019, Summer 2021)
LPL 3rd All-Pro Team x2 (Spring 2020, Spring 2021)

Pentakills

Date	Region	Tournament	Team	Vs	Champion	Pos	W/L	KDA	SB	VOD
2017-08-02	CN China	LSPL 2017 Summer			Orianna	Mid	W	7/0/8	Link	Link

Click here for a full list of pentakills by all players.

Tournament Results[]

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

Knight (Zhuo Ding) Tournament Results
Date	Pl	Event	Last Result	Team	Roster
2022-04-23	2	LPL 2022 Spring Playoffs	2 : 3⁠⁠RNG	⁠⁠TES	Wayward, Tian, knight, JackeyLove, Mark, Crescent, byg97
2022-03-25	5	LPL 2022 Spring	11 - 5⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠TES	Zoom, Wayward, Tian, Xiaopeng, knight, JackeyLove, Zhuo, Mark, Crescent, byg97
2021-12-26	1	Demacia Cup 2021	3 : 2⁠⁠FPX	⁠⁠TES	Qingtian, Zoom, Wayward, Xiaopeng, Tian, knight, JackeyLove, Zhuo, Crescent
2021-08-14	7 - 8	LPL 2021 Summer Playoffs	1 : 3⁠⁠LNG	⁠⁠TES	369, Karsa, knight, JackeyLove, Zhuo, WarHorse, Tselin
2021-08-08	5	LPL 2021 Summer	10 - 6⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠TES	Qingtian, 369, Karsa, knight, JackeyLove, Zhuo, yuyanjia, WarHorse, Tselin
2021-04-10	4	LPL 2021 Spring Playoffs	2 : 3⁠⁠RNG	⁠⁠TES	369, Karsa, knight, JackeyLove, Zhuo, WarHorse, Tselin
2021-03-28	3	LPL 2021 Spring	12 - 4⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠TES	369, Karsa, knight, JackeyLove, Zhuo, WarHorse, Tselin
2020-12-27	1	Demacia Cup 2020	3 : 0⁠⁠WE	⁠⁠TES	369, Karsa, knight, JackeyLove, Zhuo, WarHorse
2020-10-25	3 - 4	Worlds 2020	1 : 3⁠⁠SN	⁠⁠TES	369, Karsa, knight, JackeyLove, yuyanjia, Crescent
2020-08-27	1	LPL 2020 Summer Playoffs	3 : 2⁠⁠JDG	⁠⁠TES	369, Karsa, knight, JackeyLove, yuyanjia, Crescent

Media[]

2020
2021
2022

September 11, The Golden Left Hand: Knight’s rise to becoming a top-tier mid laner by Cristian Lupasco on Dot Esports
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September 21, Fiery showstoppers: The best mid laners at the 2020 League of Legends World Championship by Tyler Esguerra on Dot Esports
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December 31, [LPL Hot Topic] New Rosters and Demacia Cup Winner! by Patty on PentaQ
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January 20, [LPL Player Story] TES knight: The Unexpected Answer by Qing ci and Patty Yu on PentaQ
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Post-Match Interviews

Date	Tournament	Match	Link
2022-03-01	LPL 2022 Spring	BLG vs TES	Link
2022-01-15	LPL 2022 Spring	UP vs TES	Link
2021-12-26	Demacia Cup 2021	FPX vs TES
2021-12-22	Demacia Cup 2021	TES vs RNG
2021-12-18	Demacia Cup 2021	TES vs BLG
2021-08-03	LPL 2021 Summer	TES vs OMG	Link
2021-07-08	LPL 2021 Summer	TES vs V5	Link
2021-06-17	LPL 2021 Summer	TT vs TES	Link
2021-03-13	LPL 2021 Spring	EDG vs TES	Link
2021-03-04	LPL 2021 Spring	OMG vs TES	Link
2021-01-15	LPL 2021 Spring	TES vs RA	Link
2020-12-27	Demacia Cup 2020	WE vs TES
2020-12-26	Demacia Cup 2020	TES vs VG
2020-10-05	Worlds 2020 Main Event	TES vs DRX	Link
2020-05-31	Mid-Season Cup 2020	FPX vs TES	Link
2020-05-28	Mid-Season Cup 2020	DWG vs TES	Link
2019-12-22	Demacia Cup 2019	TES vs V5	Link
2019-07-06	Rift Rivals 2019 LCK-LPL-LMS-VCS	TES vs MAD	Link