Xiaohu

Xiaohu
Xiaohu
Background Information
Name	Li Yuan-Hao (李元浩)
Country of Birth	; China
Birthday	January 28, 1998 (age 26)
Residency	CNChina
Competitive
Team	⁠⁠Weibo Gaming
Contract Expires	2025-11-18
Role	; Mid Laner
Favorite Champs	; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Competitive IDs	AngelBeats
Soloqueue IDs	KR: mashushu; EUW: SuperMochi
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Overview

Tournament Results

Stats

Match History

Li "Xiaohu" (▶️ listen) Yuan-Hao (Hanzi: 李元浩) is a League of Legends esports player, currently mid laner for Weibo Gaming. He was previously known as AngelBeats.

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team	Start	End
CN	⁠⁠MD E-sports Club	Feb 20142014-02-12	Dec 20142014-12-17^[1]	10mo 5d ejel
CN	⁠⁠Gamtee	Dec 20142014-12-17^[3]	May 20152015-05-16^[2]	4mo 30d ejel
CN	⁠⁠RNG	May 20152015-05-16^[5]	Dec 20222022-12-14^[4]	7yr 6mo ejel
CN	⁠⁠Weibo Gaming	Dec 20222022-12-14^[6]	Present	2yr 30d ej

	Team	Start	End
CN	⁠⁠MD E-sports Club	Feb 20142014-02-12	Dec 20142014-12-17^[1]	10mo 5d ejel
CN	⁠⁠Gamtee	Dec 20142014-12-17^[3]	May 20152015-05-16^[2]	4mo 30d ejel
CN	⁠⁠RNG	May 20152015-05-16^[5]	Dec 20202020-12-17^[7]	5yr 7mo ejel
CN	⁠⁠RNG	Dec 20202020-12-17^[7]	Dec 20212021-12-13^[8]	1yr 27d ejel
CN	⁠⁠RNG	Dec 20212021-12-13^[8]	Dec 20222022-12-14^[4]	1yr 1d ejel
CN	⁠⁠Weibo Gaming	Dec 20222022-12-14^[6]	Present	2yr 30d ej

News

2014
2015
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024

CN	⁠⁠MD	February 12, Brando, 怡小怡, 李元浩, XiaoAo, and Xixi join. e
CN	⁠⁠MD	June 9, 李元浩 renames to AngelBeats. e
CN	⁠⁠MD	December 17, ⁠⁠MD E-sports Club is disbanded. Brando, qixiaoyin, AngelBeats, Pun1shment, and Rely leave.^[1] e
CN	⁠⁠GT	December 17, AngelBeats joins. Brando, Pun1shment, and Rely join as substitutes. Leo (Mid to Sub/Mid/Coach) changes position.^[3] AngelBeats renames to xiaohu. e

CN	⁠⁠GT	May 16, Gamtee transfers its LPL spot to Royal Never Give Up and disbands. LetMe, hu1, xiaohu, Tale, SinkDream, and Danger leave.^[2] e
CN	⁠⁠RNG	May 16, Royal Never Give Up acquires the LPL spot of Gamtee. LetMe, Skye, MLXG, xiaohu, NoHeart, and LeY join. Godlike joins as substitute from academy roster.^[5] e

CN

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⁠RNG

November 19,
Letme's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 1 August 2020.
Zz1tai,
Able, and
Ming's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 18 November 2019.
Karsa's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 17 November 2019.
Mlxg's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 1 June 2020.
Xiaohu's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 7 February 2019.
Uzi's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 24 February 2019.^[11]

e

CN	⁠⁠RNG	April 3, Xiaohu and Uzi's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 19 November 2019.^[12] e
CN	⁠⁠RNG	December 14, Xiaohu, Uzi, and Ming's contracts are extended.^[13] e

CN	⁠⁠RNG	January 6, XLB and Xiaohu's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 22 November 2022.^[14] e
CN	⁠⁠RNG	December 17, Poppy (Assistant Coach) joins from academy roster. Xiaohu (Mid to Top) and Tabe (Analyst to Head Coach) change positions. Cryin moves to starting roster. Mata (Head Coach) and Sereno (Coach) leave. S1xu leaves for academy roster.^[7] e

CN

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⁠RNG

December 13, Xiaobai (Assistant Coach) rejoins from academy roster. Xiaohu (Top to Mid) changes position.
Ming's contract is extended.^[8]^[9]^[10]

e

CN	⁠⁠RNG	December 14, Xiaohu leaves.^[4] e
CN	⁠⁠WBG	December 14, Xiaohu joins.^[6] e

CN	⁠⁠WBG	February 17, TheShy and Karsa's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 21 November 2023. Xiaohu and KennyChan's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 18 November 2025. Light and Crisp's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 19 November 2024.^[15] e
CN	⁠⁠WBG	December 18, Juni (Assistant Coach to Translator) changes position. Xiaohu, Light, Crisp, Rui (Coach), Tselin (Coach), Medusa (Analyst), Cy (Manager), Ahuo (Leader), and HuangXin (Supervisor) will remain with the team for 2024. fly (Assistant Coach) and Godm (Translator) leave.^[16] e

CN

⁠

⁠WBG

December 12,
Breathe,
Xiaohu, and
Light's contracts are extended.^[17]^[18]^[19]

e

Biography[]

2015 Season[]

Xiaohu joined Gamtee in December of 2014. He played for them in the 2015 LPL Spring Season but the team finished 11th with 1 win, 12 draws and 9 losses. They re-qualified for the Summer Split but the roster was acquired by Royal Never Give Up and Xiaohu joined RNG. During the 2015 LPL Summer Season RNG had a tough time and finished 9th with 3 wins, 12 draws and 7 losses. This forced RNG to play in the 2016 LPL Spring Promotion Tournament where they re-qualified for the LPL after getting wins against Young Glory and 2144 Danmu Gaming. RNG also won 2015 NESO in November with a 2-1 win against Snake Esports in the finals.

2016 Season[]

With their new rejuvenated roster, RNG started off the regular season of the 2016 LPL Spring Season strong and midway through the season, earned an invite to the IEM X World Championship. This was their first international tournament as a team. They were able to perform well and defeated Origen and then Ever but losing to Fnatic 1-2 in the Semifinals. After they returned to China, RNG finished the regular season in 1st place with a 13-3 record. In the 2016 LPL Spring Playoffs, RNG was placed in the semifinals due to their 1st place finish in Group B. Their first opponent was Team WE and despite WE putting up a good fight, RNG was able to defeat them 3-2 to advance to the finals. Their final opponent was EDward Gaming and despite EDG being the favorite, RNG was able to silence their critics and won the series 3-1. They became the LPL Spring Split Champions and earned a trip to the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational.

RNG dominated the group stage at MSI and only lost a game to Counter Logic Gaming and then SK Telecom T1. With an 8-2 record, RNG finished the group in 1st place. Despite their amazing performance in groups, they were defeated 1-3 by SKT in the Semifinals and earned a respectable 3rd-4th place finish at the event.

RNG's Summer Split did not go as well as expected. While they were able to get 1st place in Group B with 13 wins and 3 losses, their performance in the playoffs dropped and they lost convincingly to EDward Gaming in the Summer Finals. They still qualified for the 2016 Season World Championship through championship points. At Worlds Royal Never Give Up was drawn in Group D with Team SoloMid, Samsung Galaxy and Splyce. After winning twice against TSM, Royal was able to advance to the Quarterfinals as 2nd place in their group due to their head to head record against TSM. In the Quarterfinals they faced off against SK Telecom T1 and lost 1-3. Post-worlds they had a few tournament appearances. First at the 2016 Demacia Cup where they finished 3rd/4th after they lost 1-3 to EDward Gaming in the semifinals and then at NEST 2016 where they finished 4th after two consecutive series losses against Invictus Gaming and Snake Esports.

2017 Season[]

After Mata and Looper's departures, Royal Never Give Up picked up LetMe for the top lane and Ming as their new support. They would finish 1st place in Group A of the 2017 LPL Spring Season with a 12-4 regular season record. In the playoffs although they made it to the finals, they lost 0-3 in dominating fashion to Team WE. The 2017 LPL Summer Season was very similar as RNG finished again in 1st place with the same 12-4 regular season record, only this time in Group B. The playoffs went similarly to the spring playoffs for the team. They made it all the way to the finals again but lost 2-3 to EDward Gaming in a reverse sweep this time. Although RNG failed to win a domestic title in 2017, Xiaohu was very impressive individually and earned an MVP of the split award for himself.

At the 2017 Season World Championship RNG was placed into Group C along with eventual tournament winners Samsung Galaxy, as well as G2 Esports and 1907 Fenerbahçe Esports. The team performed incredibly well in their group and went 5-1. They only dropped one game to G2 Esports. In the Quarterfinals their opponent was Fnatic and they defeated them 3-1 in convincing fashion. RNG's Worlds run ended in the Semifinals after a 2-3 loss to SK Telecom T1 in a very close series.

Trivia[]

His ID xiaohu (小虎) means "Little Tiger".
- He was born on January 1st of lunar calendar of year tiger.
Once mentioned in an interview. His first ID AngelBeats was based on the anime Angel Beats!. He picked the anime title as his ID because it is one of the few things that can make him cry.
MVP of 2017 LPL Summer Regular Season.
Known for his game as Corki in 2017 LPL Summer Playoffs, where he did 90k damage in total and breaks the LPL record for highest damage/gold rate as 340%.
- This record got surpassed by FoFo's Hwei in 2024 LPL Spring Playoffs as 376%.
Due to outstanding performances in competitions held in spring, he was nicknamed 春之虎帝, meaning The Tiger King of the Spring.
During group stage of 2019 Season World Championship, when playing against Fnatic on day 8, his Ryze only dealt an total damage of 2200 throughout the game.
Roleswapped from mid lane to top lane at the start of 2021. He was voted 1st All Pro top laner for LPL/2021 Season/Spring Season in his first split as a top laner.
- Is the first and only player to win two international titles playing on two different roles: MSI 2018 as a mid laner and MSI 2021 as a top laner.
Before his defeat against EDward Gaming in the 2021 Season World Championship quarterfinals, his Lucian had a 100% win rate in the 2021 season, winning all 16 matches.
One of the only players to win three MSI titles (2018, 2021 and 2022), alongside Ming.
Before Worlds 2024, he posted a video of him dancing to Vietnamese music called Body Shaming performed by Choco Trúc Phương on Douyin (Chinese TikTok). Later, TheShy watched that video on stream and it became famous, leading to many players, coach, team staff covers of his dance at Worlds 2024 and it became a trend of that year's Worlds.

Statistics[]

Reached 1000 Kills in the LPL in August, 2017.
- The 13th player to reach 1000 Kills in the LPL, after Uzi, Cool, Kid, NaMei, Zz1tai, Clearlove, Deft, GodV, Rookie, imp, Smlz, and Mystic.
Reached 1500 Kills in the LPL on March 10, 2019.
- The 6th player to reach 1500 Kills in the LPL, after Uzi, Rookie, Cool, Smlz, and Mystic.
- His 1500th kill was on Snake Esports' AD Carry Asura in the LPL 2019 Spring Season with Zoe.
Reached 2000 Kills in the LPL on January 14, 2021.
- The 4th player to reach 2000 Kills in the LPL, after Uzi, Rookie, and Smlz.
- His 2000th kill was on Suning's Jungler SofM in the LPL 2021 Spring Season with Gnar.
Reached 2500 Kills in the LPL on March 19, 2022.
- The 3rd player to reach 2500 Kills in the LPL, after Uzi and Rookie.
Reached 3000 Kills in the LPL on July 09, 2023.
- The 2nd player to reach 3000 Kills in the LPL after Rookie.
Reached 3000 assists in the LPL on August 25, 2019.
- Was the 4th player to reach 3000 assists in the LPL after Clearlove, Pyl, and meiko.
Reached 4000 assists in the LPL on July 10, 2021.
- The 4th player to reach 4000 assists in the LPL, after meiko, Pyl, and Ming.
Reached 5000 assists in the LPL on March 7, 2023.
- The 3rd player to reach 5000 assists in the LPL after meiko and Ming.
Reached 300 wins in the LPL on April 1, 2020.
- Was the 4th player to reach 300 wins in the LPL after Clearlove, meiko, and Uzi.
Reached 400 wins in the LPL on January 23, 2022.
- Was the 2nd player to reach 400 wins in the LPL after meiko.
Reached 500 wins in the LPL on July 7, 2023.
- Was the 2nd player to reach 500 wins in the LPL after meiko.
Reached 500 games in the LPL on April 5, 2020
- The 4th player to reach 500 games in the LPL, after Uzi, meiko, and Rookie.
Reached 600 games in the LPL on April 13, 2021
- The 3rd player to reach 600 games in the LPL after Rookie and meiko.
Reached 700 games in the LPL on April 23, 2022
- The 2nd player to reach 700 games in the LPL after meiko.
Reached 800 games in the LPL on June 11, 2023
- The 2nd player to reach 800 games in the LPL after meiko.
Reached 100 international wins during Worlds 2022 in game 2 against DFM of the Qualification Round, becoming the 2nd player to achieve this milestone after Faker.

Individual Awards[]

LPL MVP (Summer 2017)
LPL 1st All-Pro Team x3 (Spring 2021, Summer 2021, Summer 2022)
LPL 2nd All-Pro Team x1 (Spring 2022)
LPL 3rd All-Pro Team x2 (Summer 2018, Summer 2019)

Pentakills

Date	Region	Tournament	Team	Vs	Champion	Pos	W/L	KDA	SB	VOD
2018-12-21	CN China	Demacia Cup 2018 Winter			Galio	Mid	L	7/5/2	Link	Link
2018-01-23	CN China	LPL 2018 Spring			Azir	Mid	W	5/0/2	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.

Xiaohu Tournament Results
Date	Pl	Event	Last Result	Team	Roster
2024-12-26	3 - 4	Demacia Cup 2024	1 : 3⁠⁠AL	⁠⁠WBG	Breathe, Tian, Xiaohu, Light, Hang, NoFe, Tselin
2024-10-26	3 - 4	Worlds 2024	0 : 3⁠⁠BLG	⁠⁠WBG	Breathe, Tarzan, Xiaohu, Light, Crisp, Daeny, Tselin
2024-09-02	2	LPL 2024 Regional Finals	3 : 2⁠⁠JDG	⁠⁠WBG	Breathe, Tarzan, Xiaohu, Light, Crisp, Daeny, Tselin
2024-08-30	2	LPL 2024 Summer Playoffs	0 : 3⁠⁠BLG	⁠⁠WBG	Breathe, Tarzan, Xiaohu, Light, Crisp, Daeny, Tselin
2024-07-31	4	LPL 2024 Summer - Higher Group	5 - 3⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠WBG	Breathe, Tarzan, Xiaohu, Light, Crisp, Daeny, Tselin
2024-06-29	Q	LPL 2024 Summer Placements	3 - 5⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠WBG	Breathe, Tarzan, Xiaohu, Light, Crisp, XBear, Daeny, Tselin
2024-04-05	5 - 6	LPL 2024 Spring Playoffs	0 : 3⁠⁠JDG	⁠⁠WBG	Zdz, Xiaohao, Xiaohu, Light, Crisp, Daeny, Tselin
2024-03-27	7	LPL 2024 Spring	8 - 8⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠WBG	Zdz, Xiaohao, Youdang, Xiaohu, Light, Crisp, Daeny, Tselin
2023-12-01	5 - 8	NEST 2023	1 : 2⁠⁠RNG	⁠⁠WBG	xiaoyu, Youdang, forse, Xiaohu, ZJJ, XBear, Ash
2023-11-19	2	Worlds 2023	0 : 3⁠⁠T1	⁠⁠WBG	TheShy, Weiwei, Xiaohu, Light, Crisp, Daeny, Tselin

Media[]

2016
2017
2018
2019
2021
2023
2024

April 13, Royal's xiaohu: 'I think I have become a more stable player' with , and on The Score
e
May 5, Xiaohu on facing off against Faker and Maple, earning RNG fans at MSI with Travis Gafford on Yahoo Esports
e
May 8, Xiaohu on SK Telecom T1's strengths and the silver lining in RNG's loss to CLG with Marcel Feldkamp on The Score
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August 4, The absence of gods: Gauging xiaohu and xiye's ability to finally meet expectations by Kelsey Moser on The Score
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October 10, XiaoHu on TSM, China’s redemption and staying healthy with , and on Slingshot Esports
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August 30, LPL MVP xiaohu faces his greatest challenge yet: carrying Uzi to his first LPL championship by , and on Kelsey Moser for Slingshot Esports
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September 16, Chase Your Legend - Xiaohu - Worlds 2017 by , and on LoL Esports
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October 5, RNG Xiaohu: "All the mid laners are fairly similar... I won't lose against them" with , and on Inven Global
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October 5, RNG Xiaohu on G2: 'I think they're going to learn from their mistakes and do much better at Worlds' with , and on Travis Gafford
e
October 21, RNG Xiaohu: "I think it is normal for Faker to carry because he is Faker" with , and on Inven Global
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May 11, RNG Xiaohu: "We still have a lot to work on. Our chance of winning MSI is probably less than 50%." with Kyeongbeom "Its" Kim and Woo "Ready" Hyun on Inven Global
e
May 13, Xiaohu on MSI mids: 'I'm familiar with BDD and Maple... but Caps from Fnatic is pretty good' with , and on Travis Gafford
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May 15, Xiaohu: "When you win too much, you sometimes loose up... The biggest enemy is actually ourselves." with Woo "Ready" Hyun on Inven Global
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May 20, Interview With RNG Xiaohu and Letme: "2018 is the year of RNG" with Woo "Ready" Hyun on Inven Global
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August 20, RNG Xiaohu: "Karsa listens to me really well, so when I play with him, I feel like we're sharing one body." with Byungho "Haao" Kim and Woo "Ready" Hyun on Inven Global
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October 10, RNG Xiaohu on the Team's Ultimate Goal: "I’d like to win titles nonstop like SKT." with Joonkyu "Lasso" Seok and Yudae "Akiin" Oak on Inven Global
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October 13, Worlds Group Stage 2018 top 30 players: 10-6 by Thomas Baker on The Game Haus
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October 12, [Worlds 2019] RNG Xiaohu on Uzi's Condition: "Obviously, I’m worried about him... The only thing I can do to help him is carrying the team." with Viion on Inven Global
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May 7, RNG Xiaohu on switching from Mid to Top, RNG's 2021 comeback, and a review of C9 Fudge with Travis Gafford on YouTube
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May 15, Xiaohu on RNG's INSANE backdoor against C9 at MSI with Ashley Kang on YouTube
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January 4, Ranking the 5 best League of Legends mid laners of 2022 by John Popko on Inven Global
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October 26, "BLG had a very good plan against us" - WBG Xiaohu with Pedro Romero on YouTube
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Post-Match Interviews

Date	Tournament	Match	Link
2025-01-12	LPL 2025 Split 1	WBG vs OMG
2024-10-12	Worlds 2024 Main Event	WBG vs FNC	Link
2023-11-11	Worlds 2023 Main Event	BLG vs WBG	Link
2023-10-29	Worlds 2023 Main Event	FNC vs WBG	Link
2023-07-09	LPL 2023 Summer	AL vs WBG	Link
2023-06-01	LPL 2023 Summer	WBG vs JDG	Link
2023-02-21	LPL 2023 Spring	WBG vs iG	Link
2023-02-11	LPL 2023 Spring	JDG vs WBG	Link
2022-10-11	Worlds 2022 Main Event	100 vs RNG	Link
2022-10-01	Worlds 2022 Play-In	IW vs DRX	Link
2022-09-04	LPL 2022 Regional Finals	RNG vs LNG	Link
2022-05-29	MSI 2022	RNG vs T1	Link
2022-05-23	MSI 2022	SGB vs RNG	Link
2022-05-20	MSI 2022	EG vs RNG	Link
2022-05-13	MSI 2022	PSG vs RNG	Link
2022-04-23	LPL 2022 Spring Playoffs	RNG vs TES	Link
2022-02-20	LPL 2022 Spring	LNG vs RNG	Link
2022-01-21	LPL 2022 Spring	RNG vs AL	Link
2021-10-12	Worlds 2021 Main Event	RNG vs FNC	Link
2021-06-24	LPL 2021 Summer	RNG vs RW	Link
2021-05-23	MSI 2021	DK vs RNG	Link
2021-05-21	MSI 2021	RNG vs PSG	Link
2021-05-14	MSI 2021	RNG vs C9	Link
2021-05-06	MSI 2021	PGG vs RNG	Link
2021-04-18	LPL 2021 Spring Playoffs	FPX vs RNG	Link
2021-03-06	LPL 2021 Spring	RNG vs EDG	Link
2021-02-07	LPL 2021 Spring	iG vs RNG	Link
2021-01-14	LPL 2021 Spring	RNG vs SN	Link
2019-12-29	Demacia Cup 2019	EDG vs RNG	Link
2018-10-11	Worlds 2018 Main Event	GEN vs RNG	Link